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Funding for Supporting Adoptive Families
- Funder: Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children And Families
- Due date: September 8, 2025
- Award range: up to $1.8 million
- Expected number of awards: 1
- Cost sharing required? No
- Eligibility: Nonprofits, housing authorities, tribal organizations, small businesses, institutions of higher education, independent school districts, and city, state, and county governments
Summary: This funding opportunity focuses on partnerships between researchers, Title IV-E agencies, and community entities with experience working with adopted children, foster children or children in kinship care. The evaluation will focus on mental health, substance abuse prevention and treatment, in-home parent skill-based, or kinship navigator programs or services. The award recipient must conduct a randomized control trial or a similar evaluation that meets the Title IV-E Prevention Services Clearinghouse (the Clearinghouse) Design and Execution Standards for Moderate or High Support of Causal Evidence. To be considered eligible, the program or service being evaluated must already be prepared for rigorous research, such as having completed earlier evaluations.
To read the full DHHS RFP, click here.
Funding for AI Research
- Funder: National Endowment for the Humanities
- Due date: October 1, 2025
- Expected number of awards: 5
- Award range: up to $750,000
- Cost sharing required? No
- Eligibility: Nonprofits, institutions of higher education, and city, tribal, and special district governments.
Summary: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Research is accepting applications for the Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence program. The purpose of this program is to support the establishment of new collaborative humanities research centers focused on gaining a clearer understanding of AI and its implications for the United States. A center is a sustained collaboration among multiple scholars focused on exploring the humanities implications of AI through two or more related scholarly activities.
To read the full NEH RFP, click here.
