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- Pivot-RP Search funding opportunities from federal, non-federal, foundation, corporate, and other private sponsors across a wide variety of disciplines.
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Seed Funding
Seed Funding
Campus centers/institutes often offer early-stage funding that can bolster promising research ideas. Discover seed funding opportunities on the InfoReady Review database, in the ORD weekly e-mail digest, and via the UChicago Internal Seed Funding list (found at the bottom of the Limited & Internal Funding page).
Big Ideas Generator (BIG):
ORD offers seed funding that targets the most ambitious nascent ideas and provides proposal development support to secure follow-up federal and/or philanthropic funding. The funding levels vary from $25K Pilot to $80K Vision awards in any field of research and include support for developing education and outreach plans. Past BIG winners awardees have collectively secured follow up funding of 13X the initial investment. To learn more about BIG funding, click here.
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