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Announcing the Grantees in the Energy and Environmental Sensors RFP
The Opportunity
Advances in sensor technologies have the potential to revolutionize the analysis and management of energy and environmental systems, providing opportunities for fine-grained monitoring of these systems across multiple scales. These capabilities can give regulators, policymakers, utility managers, and researchers the capacity to understand how these systems are functioning with a degree of precision and detail never before possible. The new understanding d…
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Call for Letters of Inquiry: Creating Equitable Pathways to STEM Graduate Education
Submissions for 2022 are closed
Grants of up to $500,000 will be awarded to U.S. higher education institutions and organizations developing equitable pathways to STEM graduate education for Black, Indigenous, and Latina/o/x Students.
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Overview
The Higher Education Program at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is seeking to invest in Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs)[1] and in the establishment of partnerships between MSIs and graduate p…
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For Current Fellows
For Current Fellows
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For Grantees
Reporting
Refer to your grant agreement for information about when grant reports are due for your grant. Principal Investigators should be cognizant of meeting reporting deadlines to ensure there is no interruption in the flow of grant funds.
SUBSTANTIVE REPORTS
What information should be included in a substantive report will vary depending upon on the natur…
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Call for Letters of Inquiry: Institutional Support for Open Source Software in Research
Submissions of Letters of Inquiry are due no later than February 15, 2023 by 5:00pm ET
Grants of up to $750,000 over two years will be awarded to U.S. higher education institutions to launch university Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs)
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Overview
The Technology program at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation supports research, training, community-building, and technological innovation in order to foster advances in the production and dissem…
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Staff Grantmaking Initiative
About
The Staff Grantmaking Initiative provides small teams of employees inside the Sloan Foundation with the opportunity to make grants of up to $25,000 to local nonprofits that advance the Foundation's mission and values. Each year, staff teams move from strategic development to landscape research and prospect identification to proposal development. The initiative allows staff in non-grantmaking roles to get hands-on experience with the work of grantmaking and in th…
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Sloan Centers for Systemic Change
To catalyze and deepen systemic change activities in STEM doctoral programs nationwide to close persistent equity gaps and see all students thrive
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Announcing the 2021 Equitable Pathways Grantees
Landmark $5M investment in Minority Serving Institutions will support 20 partnerships to build equitable pathways into STEM graduate study for Black, Indigenous, and Latina/o/x students
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Completed Programs
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Anytime, Anyplace Learning
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Barcode of Life
Completed
Biosecurity
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Census of Marine Life
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Grantmaking Strategy
In selecting projects for funding, the Foundation seeks proposals for original initiatives led by outstanding individuals or teams. We are interested in projects that have a high expected return to society, exhibit a high degree of methodological rigor, and for which funding from the private sector, government, or other foundations is not yet widely available.
What We Do Not Fund
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Supported Platforms
Platforms
Except in rare circumstances, supported platforms, protocols, and products are free and open source.
AI Model Share
A hub for deploying and sharing your machine learning models
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ScholarPhi
Augmenting scientific papers with in-document definitions of technical terms and symbols
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NumFOCUS Academy
Teaching the next generation of open source users and de…
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Staff
Sloan Foundation Staff
Angelina Astillero
Investment Analyst
Julia Bellamy
Executive Assistant
Shriya Bhindwale
Program Associate
Ruth I. Brenner
Senior Vice President, Finance & Operations
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Grant: Carnegie Mellon University
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship for Virginia Smith in Computer Science
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Jeffrey Cunningham
Jeffrey Cunningham is Program Coordinator for the Foundation's programs in Small Scale Fundamental Physics and Matter-to-Life. He is responsible for program administration, grant proposal and review m...
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Grant: University of Tennessee
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship for Mahshid Ahmadi in Chemistry
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Joshua M. Greenberg
Joshua Greenberg is a Program Director at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, where he is responsible for overseeing the Technology and New York City programs. He established the Technology program after ...
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Nate Williams
Nate Williams is Communications Director at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He is responsible for overseeing the Foundation’s internal and external communications, including communications strategy de...