2010 Funding Priorities
For the current grantmaking year, the Foundation has designed several funding opportunities that ask researchers and other project leaders to focus their attention on a group of particularly compelling topics. These 2010 Funding Priorities challenge grant-seekers to develop proposals that specifically address one or more of the Big Questions under the headings below.
Please note that there are different Funding Priorities for each of our two submission windows. Forthcoming Funding Priorities, for the second half of 2010, are listed in order to give potential grantees an opportunity to begin thinking about their projects, but Online Funding Inquiries for these Funding Priorities will not be accepted until August 1.
Active Funding Priorities
Online Funding Inquiry submission window:
February 1 to April 15, 2010
Quantum Physics and the Nature of Reality
Foundational Questions in the Mathematical Sciences
Culture, Biology, and Human Uniqueness
How Does Spirituality Promote Health?
Finding Free Will
Moral Formation
Private Gain and the Public Good
Forthcoming Funding Priorities
Online Funding Inquiry submission window:
August 1 to October 15, 2010
The Science and Significance of Complexity
What Sparks Cognitive Creativity?
From Beliefs to Behavior
Religious Leadership in an Age of Science
Thrift and Thriving
Understanding Awe and Wonder
Can GM Crops Feed the World?
