Note: The current year's grant recipients can be found on the Faculty Accolades page of our website.
Brandeis faculty receive prestigious grants from many sources to support their scholarship, creative activity, and teaching. Additionally, Brandeis faculty can also review sample proposals from their colleagues, search related grant databases, and review profiles of Brandeis researchers and their research.
Art Matters considers applications by invitation only. Through our current program, Art Matters provides 7,500 USD fellowships to individual artists and collective teams working in contemporary art and performance. Priority is given to artists working with social issues and experimenting with form. Our funds can be used for any and all aspects of artistic practice – from early research and development of ideas, to travel costs, to production and presentation expenses, to day-to-day material or space needs.
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Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP) Arts and Culture Community Impact Grants help individuals and collaborative groups make their artistic visions a reality. Together, we can explore and appreciate the beauty of Jewish arts and culture.
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The German Academic Exchange Service, or DAAD, was founded in 1925 and is the largest German support organisation in the field of international academic co-operation.
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Mass Cultural Council receives an annual appropriation from the state Legislature and funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, and others. Details on our budget are available online. In turn, Mass Cultural Council makes thousands of grants directly to non-profit cultural organizations, schools, communities, and individual artists, through funding programs that use arts, science, and the humanities to build strong, diverse, livable communities. The beneficiaries of these programs comprise a cross-section of the population and citizens in each Massachusetts city and town.
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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation believes that the arts and humanities are where we express our complex humanity, and we believe that everyone deserves the beauty, transcendence and freedom to be found there. Through our grants, we seek to build just communities enriched by meaning and empowered by critical thinking, where ideas and imagination can thrive.
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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is one of the largest funders of humanities programs in the United States and regularly awards grants to Brandeis faculty.
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The New England Humanities Consortium (NEHC) is a network of seventeen colleges and universities across New England that was established in 2018. NEHC promotes intellectual collaboration, interdisciplinary exchange and innovative educational programming for faculty, students and the regional, national and global communities they serve.
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The Pollock-Krasner Foundation provides financial resources to emerging and established artists so they may focus on their work. Funding can be used to create new work, acquire supplies, rent studio space, prepare for exhibitions, attend a residency and offset living expenses.
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The John Templeton Foundation serves as a philanthropic catalyst for discoveries relating to the deepest and most perplexing questions facing humankind. They support research on subjects ranging from complexity, evolution, and emergence to creativity, forgiveness, and free will.
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The Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation provides targeted support for writers, scholars, and the stewards of humanity's shared cultural heritage.
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United States Artists is a national arts funding organization based in Chicago. USA is dedicated to supporting living artists and cultural practitioners across the United States by granting unrestricted awards.
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The American Cancer Society has a mission to improve the lives of people with cancer and their families by combating cancer through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.
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The American Chemical Society is one of the world's largest scientific society and the premier home of chemistry professionals.
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Brain Research Foundation exists to accelerate discoveries of the human brain by funding pioneering neuroscience research.
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Brookhaven National Laboratory is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory located in Upton, Long Island with a mission to "advance fundamental research in nuclear and particle physics to gain a deeper understanding of matter, energy, space, and time; apply photon sciences and nanomaterials research to energy challenges of critical importance to the nation; and perform cross-disciplinary research on computation, sustainable energy, national security and Earth's ecosystems."
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The Harvard/MIT Joint Research Grants Program in Basic Neuroscience provides funding for a team of two basic neuroscience tenure-track investigators to work collaboratively to advance our understanding of brain development and function.
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute is a science philanthropy whose mission is to advance basic biomedical research and science education for the benefit of humanity.
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The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) promotes international collaboration in basic research focused on the elucidation of the sophisticated and complex mechanisms of living organisms.
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MassVentures is a strategic venture capital team that finds, funds, and fosters early-stage deep tech that fuels economic growth across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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The National Institute on Aging offers various grants and funding for research being done on aging.
Search for Brandeis recipientsThe National Institute of Health is a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the nation’s medical research agency, making important discoveries that improve health and save lives.
Search for Brandeis recipientsThe National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science, to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare, and to secure the national defense. They are the funding source for approximately 25 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America's colleges and universities."
Search for Brandeis recipientsThe Pew Charitable Trusts is an independent non-profit, non-governmental organization, founded in 1948. With over US$6 billion in assets, its stated mission is to serve the public interest by "improving public policy, informing the public, and invigorating civic life".
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Raytheon Technologies accelerates ideas to solve some of the world's biggest challenges by bringing together the brightest, most innovative minds across aviation, space and defense.
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Grantmaking through the Simons Foundation focuses on mathematical and physical sciences, life sciences and autism research.
Search Simons WebsiteThe U.S. Department of Energy supports many research through their Office of Science Funding Opportunities.
Search U.S. DOE WebsiteAlphawood Foundation is a Chicago-based, grant-making private foundation working for an equitable, just, and humane society. Each year we award grants to organizations, primarily in the areas of advocacy, architecture and preservation, the arts and arts education, promotion and protection of the rights of LGBTQ persons and people living with HIV/AIDS, and other human and civil rights.
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Russell Berrie Foundation was created to express the values and passions of Russell Berrie through social investments in innovative ideas designed to: promote the continuity and enrichment of Jewish communal life; support advances in medicine, focusing on diabetes and humanism in medicine; foster the spirit of religious understanding and pluralism; recognize individuals who have made a significant difference in the lives of others; elevate the profession of sales.
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The Center for Independent Documentary "is one of only a handful of organizations in the country committed to helping producers who work outside the industry mainstream. They have remained dedicated to the mission of helping filmmakers bring important and influential documentaries to audiences across the country."
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Cummings Foundation has awarded more than $320 million in grants to Greater Boston nonprofits alone. Its giving is concentrated in Middlesex, Essex, and Suffolk counties and benefits a broad range of causes, including human services, education, healthcare, and social justice.
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The Fetzer Institute has a mission of "helping build the spiritual foundation for a loving world." Inspired by founder John E. Fetzer, the Institute encourages discovery of new ways of knowing the sacred world and exploring each person's spiritual journey in working toward transformed communities and societies in which all people can flourish.
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people's health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people — especially those with the fewest resources — have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life.
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The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation sponsors scholarly research on problems of violence, aggression and dominance.
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The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is a nonpartisan, private charitable foundation that supports efforts to advance education for all, preserve the environment, support vibrant performing arts, strengthen Bay Area communities, make the philanthropy sector more effective, and foster gender equity and responsive governance around the world.
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science, to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare, and to secure the national defense. They are the funding source for approximately 25% of all federally supported basic research conducted by America's colleges and universities."
search for Brandeis recipientsThe Charles H. Revson Foundation operates grant programs in Urban Affairs, Jewish Life, Biomedical Research, and Education.
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The Ruderman Family Foundation believes that inclusion and understanding of all people is essential to a fair and flourishing community. Guided by Jewish values, they advocate for and advance the inclusion of people with disabilities throughout society; strengthen the relationship between Israel and the American Jewish Community; and model the practice of strategic philanthropy worldwide. They operate as a non-partisan strategic catalyst in cooperation with government, private sectors, civil society and philanthropies.
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The Russell Sage Foundation is dedicated to strengthening the methods, data, and theoretical core of the social sciences in order to better understand societal problems and develop informed responses.
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The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funds research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and economics. It supports high quality, impartial scientific research; fosters a robust, diverse scientific workforce; strengthens public understanding and engagement with science; and promotes the health of the institutions of scientific endeavor.
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