Funding Opportunities

Internal Funding Opportunities

College of Letters and Science Initiatives

The following internal opportunities can all be accessed in the Faculty Resources folder

L&S Unites Initiative:  Support up to $150,000 over two years to harness the strengths across the college, cultivate multi-disciplinary collaborations, and create the infrastructure to take advantage of upcoming opportunities.

Regeneration Research Program Grants: For Academic Senate faculty to help fill gaps created by the current constrained funding environment.

Dean's Faculty Fellows: Honors and supports outstanding achievements in early career faculty. 

Publication Assistance Program: Publication assistance defrays costs for the author that would not normally be covered by the publisher and/or funding agency. 

Incentives for Large Grant Proposals: Support for up to $80,000 over two years for L&S academic senate faculty to pursue large awards of $1M+ in direct expenses. Instructions for Using InfoReady for the first time

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Campus Opportunities

UC Davis Academic Affairs: Information on funding opportunities available with Academic Affairs.

UC Davis Academic Senate: Information on funding opportunities such as Travel Grants ($800), Small Grants ($2,000) and Large Grants: New Research Initiatives and Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research ($10,000 to $25,000).

UC Davis Global Affairs: Information on funding opportunities and resources for faculty, staff and students.

UC Davis Innovation Institute for Food and Health: Information on funding opportunities available with IIFH.

UC Davis Office of Graduate Studies: Information on funding opportunities and financial support specifically for graduate students.

UC Davis Office of Research: Information on funding opportunities of various kinds for UC Davis faculty, including extramural funding. Sign up for listerv subscriptions to receive weekly updates of relevant funding opportunities.

External Funding Opportunities

Grant Forward: GrantForward seamlessly combines ease-of-use with powerful search features to enable you to easily narrow down thousands of options to the opportunities that provide an exact fit for your research. The database is usable across campus.

Humanities and Social Sciences ONLINE (H-Net): Lists current funding opportunities in the social sciences and humanities.

National Science Foundation: NSF is an independant federal agency that supports science and engineering in all 50 states and U.S. territories.

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Basic Behavioral Social Sciences Research: Funds behavioral and social sciences research throughout NIH.

GRANTS.GOV: For government-sponsored grants.

Philanthropy News Digest: For philanthropic sources of grants.

National Endowment for the Humanities: A variety of grant programs available to individuals and organizations that do the highest quality work to promote the humanities. 

National Endowment for the Arts: Only arts funder in America—public or private—that provides access to the arts in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. Each year, we award thousands of grants to provide all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.

American Council of Learned Society: Funding descriptions and information on new programs and initiatives available from the ACLS.

Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange: Funding and fellowship opportunities available from CCKF.