Research and Creative Activities Funding
The Research and Creative Activities vision of the UC San Diego School of Arts and Humanities is to be a leader in innovative, interdisciplinary, and collaborative scholarship and art practice promoting the foundational, transferable and enduring values of the humanities and arts in an increasingly technological and global society.
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA): Grants for Arts Projects
Program Description:
The NEA is seeking proposals for the Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) program, which enable Americans throughout the nation to experience the arts, foster and celebrate America’s artistic heritage and cultural legacy, and benefit from arts education at all stages of life. The program also support arts and health programs, including creative arts therapies, that advance the well-being of people and communities.
The funder strongly encourages applications for arts projects that focus on one or more agency funding priorities. Click Here to see the NEA's funding priorities.
Funding for art projects in the following disciplines is available:
Arts Education, Challenge America, Dance, Design & Our Town, Folk & Traditional Arts, Literary Arts, Local Arts Agencies, Museums, Music, Opera, Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works, Theater & Musical Theater, and Visual & Media Arts.
Funding Organization's Deadline: Thursday, July 9, 2026
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Campus support and opportunities
Researcher funding - Office of Research Affairs
Funding Resources for Researchers (link): Resources and services across campus support investigators seeking funding for research activities.
Based in the Office of Research Affairs, the Research Development team supports investigators throughout campus in developing large, interdisciplinary, and/or strategic proposals.
The team provides curated resources to support a variety of common funding pursuits, such as recurring early-career programs.
Research Growth and Strategic Initiatives
Called Research Growth and Strategic Initiatives, the Office of Research and Innovation leads a range of programs and initiatives to promote strategic growth of UC San Diego's high-impact research portfolio, enabling a collaborative culture of scholarship and discovery that extends the frontiers of knowledge and improves lives
Resources include:
- Faculty Ambassadors
- Funding programs, like the Chancellor's Interdisciplinary Team Catalyst award, and the Strategic Convene and Influence award
- Consultations
- Events and workshops
- Research Leadership Development
Research Development Library
Research Development's Resource Library is a SharePoint site serving as a password-protected central resource hub for UC San Diego faculty, researchers, and administrators seeking support and guidance on research development-related topics. On this site, you will find resources like:
- Trainings, videos, and event recordings
- Templates, example proposals/documents, and tailored guidance
- Curated funding opportunities lists and funding guides
- Limited Submission program information
- Subscription information and archive of the Research Development newsletters
Corporate and Foundation Relations
Working with the UC San Diego Corporate and Foundation Relations team is a partnership focused on building strong, solid and long-lasting relationships between UC San Diego investigators and the philanthropic organizations that share your vision for your field of study.
Their expertise:
Their expertise:
- Relationships are the basis for success
- Serve as content ambassadors
- Strategic direction is provided
- Track and maintain the pulse of the philanthropic organization landscape
- Advise on written proposals, providing edits and guidance
Corporate and Foundation Relations is your campus partner in securing private corporation and foundation support. They offer several pages with funding opportunities: Big Ideas, upcoming corporate and foundation deadlines, young investigators, postdoctoral opportunities and awards.
Subscribe to the Corporate and Foundations Relations newsletter, request a one-on-one virtual meeting with a CFR team member, or quickly let them know who you are so they can include you in communications: Fill out the Faculty Questionnaire, with your name, title, department, start date and research key words.
The Corporate and Foundation Relations team continually adds new funding opportunities from corporate and private foundation funders that are available to the UC San Diego community. The database at the Corporate and Foundation Relations website reflects opportunities with a deadline within the next six months or with a rolling deadline.
Funding opportunity mailing lists
Research Development distributes selected research funding opportunity announcements, including those for limited-submission programs, through two campus-wide lists. To subscribe to listservs, log in at the links below with your SSO (@ucsd.edu) credentials:
- The UC San Diego Funding List announces funding and limited-submission opportunities relevant primarily to investigators on the General Campus and at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
- The Biomedical Limited Submissions List distributes funding and limited-submission opportunities relevant to investigators engaged in biomedical and health-related research.
Subscribe to the Corporate and Foundations Relations newsletter, request a one-on-one virtual meeting with a CFR team member, or quickly let them know who you are so they can include you in communications: Fill out the Faculty Questionnaire, with your name, title, department, start date and research key words.
Limited Submission Programs
Limited-submission funding opportunities are those for which the sponsor limits the number of proposals UC San Diego may submit. Opportunities are posted through an internal application portal (InfoReady Review) and distributed via the two opt-in mail list.
When the number of internal applications for a given funding opportunity exceeds the allowable number of external submissions, internal review is conducted by one or more of four standing faculty committees, members of which are appointed by the Academic Senate. Recommendations on the most competitive applications are provided to the Vice Chancellor for Research. All applicants are notified of the outcome and provided reviewer comments, if any, on their applications.
- Limited Submission Programs guidance (AD login required)
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Internal Funding & Limited Submissions portal (InfoReady Review)
- For questions, contact limitedsub@ucsd.edu
Building a Diversified Research Funding Portfolio
Watch: Building a Diversified Research Funding Portfolio webinar, recorded February 2025
Learn resources and insights to guide development of a diversified research funding portfolio. Resources include Corporate and Foundation Relations, Research Development, and The Conafay Group. Researchers share perspectives on corporate, foundation, and federal funding in the context of Health Sciences and Marine Sciences.
Note: UC San Diego employees must be signed in to their Microsoft account via SSO to view.
External opportunities
Upcoming Deadlines
The Corporate and Foundation Relations team continually adds new funding opportunities that are available to the UC San Diego community. Please reach out to CFR@ucsd.edu with any questions about an opportunity or if there is an RFP that should be shared with the campus research community.
Click "View larger version" in the lower right corner of the boxes below to view the lists in a browser window. Click "Filter" in the top left to customize the list.
The database below reflects all funding opportunities coming up in the next six months.
The database below reflects funding opportunities with rolling or quarterly deadlines.
Sponsor websites and email lists
To find and stay updated on external funding opportunities, you can:
- Review sponsor websites, for example:
- University of California Office of the President (UCOP) Research Grant Programs Office
- Grants.gov, includes funding opportunities from a range of federal agencies
- NIH Funding Opportunities
- NASA
- NSF Find Funding
- DARPA Funding Opportunities
- Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- ARPA-H
- California Grants Portal, includes funding opportunities from a range of California agencies
- Philanthropic Organizations with Upcoming Deadlines
- Subscribe to e-mail lists, for example:
- Grants.gov
- NIH Guide Announcements
- NSF E-mail Updates
- Department of Energy E-mail Updates
- ARPA-E Newsletter
- DARPA Newsletter
- ARPA-H Vitals Newsletter
- California Grants Portal
- Candid/Philanthropy News Digest, private foundation opportunities (most-recent RFPs listed below)
- American Council of Learned Societies
- National Endowment for the Humanities
Research Development & Grant Writing News
UC San Diego subscribes to a monthly newsletter, Research Development & Grant Writing News, that provides information and advice for faculty, researchers, staff and graduate students on how to compete successfully for research and education funding from federal agencies and foundations.
The newsletter is published by Academic Research Funding Strategies, LLC, and our institutional subscription limits distribution to within UC San Diego. Access the most-recent editions (login required).
To receive the newsletter directly, please subscribe to the Funding Announcements listserv using the @ucsd.edu form of your email.
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