Explore curated funding opportunities for UMass Amherst researchers.
Strategy and Policy Fellows
Funder Deadline: 06/22/2026
Amount: $60,000
Focus: To support research and single-author book projects in American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history.
Scientific Innovations Award
Internal Deadline: 04/23/2026
Funder Deadline: 06/02/2026
Amount: $150,000
Focus: Projects that may be too innovative and speculative for traditional funding sources but still have a high likelihood of producing important findings (senior faculty members)
Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grants – Early Career Scholars
Funder Deadline: 05/03/2026
Amount: Up to $2,500
Racial Equity Research Grants
Funder Deadline: 05/04/2026 (LOI); 07/01/2026 (Full Proposal)
Amount: Up to $75,000
Grants Program in Nutrition (Education, Training, and Research)
Funder Deadline: 01/15 (annual deadline)
Amount: Unspecified (recent grants)
Grants Program in Nutrition (Education, Training, and Research)
Funder Deadline: 07/15 (annual deadline)
Amount: Unspecified (recent grants)
AI at Work - 2026 Call for Expressions of Interest
Funder Deadline: 04/10/2026 (EOI); 06/18/2026 (Full Application)
Amount: Up to $200,000
Focus: (1) AI and worker displacement/adjustment, and (2) AI and scientific productivity.
E-Team Program - Pioneer Stage 1
Funder Deadline: 04/28/2026
Amount: $5,000
Focus: Early-stage innovator teams that develop scalable innovations which aim to solve a large social, health, or environmental challenge
Note: Projects must consist of student involvement with university support
McKnight Brain Research Foundation Innovator Awards in Cognitive Aging and Memory Loss
Funder Deadline: 04/15/2026 (LOI)
Amount: $750,000
Dorothy Dillon Eweson Lecture Series
Funder Deadline: Rolling
Amount: Up to $2,000