FAS Research Development is dedicated to helping faculty find grant and fellowship funding to support their research and scholarship. The team provides assistance for research projects, equipment acquisition, conference participation, travel expenses, sabbatical support, exhibitions, digital projects, publications, and much more. Please contact FAS Research Development if you have questions about funding opportunities or if you would like support developing your proposal.
The following resources are available to assist in identifying relevant funding opportunities:
PIVOT Curated Funding Opportunity Lists
Harvard affiliates can search for opportunities and set up alerts using Pivot, a searchable database of federal and private funding opportunities across all disciplines. Information on Pivot, including a one-page user guide, as well as other funding opportunity databases available to the Harvard community, can be found at research.fas.harvard.edu/funding-databases.
Curated funding opportunity lists are funding search topics of broad interest. The following curated lists can be viewed as a search and further refined based on your funding needs. To view the results, you must be on a Harvard network or logged in to your Pivot account.
Other Funding Opportunity Resources
Research Development maintains several targeted lists of funding opportunities, including sabbatical, diversity, and internal opportunities, which can be found on the navigation menu. Additionally, the following resources are available:
Early Career Research Grants
This is a curated list of major early career awards, including limited submission opportunities, with internal and external deadlines. It includes a graph with eligibility information and a list of previous award winners.
Science Division Funding Spotlight
The Funding Spotlight provides information on current notable opportunities for faculty in the sciences and engineering.
Funding Announcement Archive
FAS Research Development newsletters are currently on pause. Information related to limited submission opportunities and other notable opportunities will continue to be disseminated on a one-off basis.