The Center for Aging, Climate, and Health (CACHE) recently announced seed funding for projects integrating social and environmental data to examine the intersections of aging, climate, and health. CACHE anticipates making 2-3 awards of $20,000 and several smaller awards at $7,500. The deadline to apply is June 20, 2025. Learn more and apply here.

The Gates Foundation recently announced a Grand Challenges request for proposals for a Randomized Controlled Trial on Sexual Transmitted Infections (STIs) and Reproductive Tract Sequelae in Non-Pregnant Women. The goal is to support rigorous clinical research to evaluate the prevention, diagnosis, and management of STIs and their long-term reproductive consequences, such as pelvic inflammatory disease. The submission deadline is Monday, July 7, at 11:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time.

This Grand Challenge is part of our ongoing effort to address the problem of neglect in women’s health research and development, as highlighted by Anita Zaidi, the Gates Foundation’s President of Gender Equality Division, in her keynote speech on the second day of this year’s Grand Challenges Annual Meeting. The annual meeting was held virtually this week, and if you were unable to attend in real time, we encourage you to view videos from the plenary sessions focused on clinical research and trials, women’s health, and regulatory harmonization.

Please review the full details for this opportunity on our Grand Challenges website. We are planning a webinar to provide more information and answer your questions on June 17 from 7:00-8:00 AM Pacific Time. To participate, please register and submit your questions ahead of time.

We are eager to hear from experts around the world. Please forward this email to colleagues who may be interested in applying. If you were forwarded this message, please sign up on the Grand Challenges website to receive emails announcing grant opportunities.

As always, we invite you to read summaries of selected Grand Challenges grants. They are sortable by dropdown menus, so you can quickly find, for example, the 23 awards related to women’s health. You can also explore Grand Challenges projects using this interactive world map.

The Kaiser Permanente Center for Gun Violence Research and Education is pursuing a world free of gun violence, where impacted communities drive the meaningful change needed for a healthy and safe society. Coordinated in collaboration with Health Alliance for Violence Intervention (HAVI), the Center endeavors to transform the gun violence research and education field.

The Center seeks to meet these needs by broadening the field of research to include more researchers and organizations that focus explicitly on healthcare approaches to addressing gun violence and work closely with communities affected by gun violence. The 2025 Funding Opportunity aims to invest in efforts that advance evidence for healthcare interventions that reduce the incidence and impact of community gun violence and firearm suicide and promote well-being and healing where it is needed most.

 Category 1: up to $100,000 across two years

Goal:  Build capacity within the organization, institution, and/or clinical care setting to conduct research on healthcare approaches to addressing community gun violence or firearm suicide

 Category 2: up to $300,000 across two years

Goal: Expand or initiate new research on evidence-informed healthcare practice or clinical care models that address community gun violence or firearm suicide

Eligible Activities include research that:

Advances evidence on effective strategies to reduce community gun violence or firearm suicide in a range of healthcare settings, including hospitals, FQHCs, or other community-based health centers.

Advances knowledge about effective strategies to identify individuals as highest risk of community gun violence or firearm suicide in healthcare settings

Advances understanding about clinical best practice to improve care for survivors of community gun violence or firearm suicide

Pre-Proposal Instructions:

Please submit as one combined pdf labeled with PI’s Lastname, Firstname:

1. A one‐page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach.
2. If the final application requires a statement of broader impacts, please summarize your plans to address the specific requirements on an additional page.
3. CV (not biosketch) of the PI including past grant funding.

to limitedsubs@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Wednesday, July 23, 2025. Proposals are due to the sponsor 9/3/2025 so you will need to have your materials in to the Office of Sponsored Programs by 8/22/2025 if given the go‐ahead by the Limited Submissions review committee.  Other open limited submissions opportunities, as well as the limited submissions review committee review and selection process, are here: http://depts.washington.edu/research/funding/limited-submissions. Please feel free to email us at limitedsubs@uw.edu with questions or information on any limited submission opportunities that should be but are not already listed on that page. If you are interested in other private funding opportunities, visit the Corporate and Foundation funding opportunities page.

Number of applications UW can put forward: 2 in any category or categories

OR internal deadline: 7/23/2025

OSP deadline: 8/22/2025

Sponsor deadline: 9/3/2025

The Bradley Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation that honors the principles and example of its namesakes, Lynde and Harry Bradley, by pursuing a mission to restore, strengthen, and protect the principles and institutions of American exceptionalism. The foundation has a rolling proposal process around grants for its Constitutional Order and Informed Citizens initiatives. Projects should have budgets between $25,000 and $200,000.

Funded projects in the past have focused on original intent and constitutional principles, the role of free markets in democracy, the ethical and moral foundations of capitalism, and American exceptionalism. Since this is a private foundation with a particular substantive orientation, all applications must be coordinated through Andrew Storms in UW Corporate and Foundation Relations. Reach out to Andrew Storms (as89@uw.edu) or Sarah Guthu (guthu@uw.edu) in the Executive Office of the President & Provost, if you have questions about this opportunity.