Funding Opportunities

New RFPs support technology and expanding markets

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Funding for Responsible Technology

  • Funder: National Science Foundation
  • Award range: up to $1.5M
  • Closing date: July 8, 2025
  • Expected number of awards: 31
  • Cost sharing required? No
  • Eligibility: Nonprofits, tribal organizations, institutes of higher education, small businesses, for-profit organizations

Summary: The Responsible Design, Development, and Deployment of Technologies (ReDDDoT) program invites proposals from multidisciplinary, multi-sector teams that inform, explore, and execute the principles, methodologies, implementations, and impacts associated with responsible design, development, and deployment of technologies, with a focus on artificial intelligence; biotechnology; and/or natural and anthropogenic disaster prevention or mitigation. The program has two primary aims: 1) to support and strengthen collaborations across disciplines and sectors, such as academia, industry, non-profit, and government for technology translation; and 2) to ensure that ethical, legal, and societal considerations and community values are embedded across the design, development, and deployment of use-inspired technology to promote the public’s wellbeing. For full eligibility details and application instructions, read the full RFP here.

Funding for Expanding Markets

  • Funder: Department of Agriculture
  • Award range: $200,000
  • Closing date: June 6, 2025
  • Expected number of awards: 40
  • Cost sharing required? Yes
  • Eligibility: Nonprofits, colleges and universities, agricultural cooperatives, state regional trade groups, and private companies.

Summary: The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service, announces this funding opportunity to support the Emerging Markets Program by issuing new awards. This opportunity is available to U.S. entities to develop, maintain, or expand markets for exports of United States agricultural commodities and to promote cooperation and exchange of information between agricultural institutions and agribusinesses in the United States and emerging markets. For full eligibility details and application instructions, read the full RFP here.

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Alex Dunn

Alex Dunn is the Millionaire Grant Lady and a social worker. Alex is passionate about behavioral health, education, family and social services and helping organizations to help others. With 15 years of experience in grants and $103 million in grant funding, Alex wants your organization to be able to use grants to meet your mission.

She is the creator of the Area of Focus™ and Core Cultivation™ strategies and the Attractiveness Quotient™ survey for nonprofits. Alex has used these strategies to multiply grant funding for organizations, with a total of $103 million in grant funding to date.

Alex is the author of numerous reports, including “Three Ways Mental Health Organizations Can Increase Their Grant Funding” and “Three Mistakes Well Meaning Organizations Make in Grant Funding”. She is a long-time board member and current president of the Grant Professionals Association North Texas chapter.