Funding

List of various options to obtain funding, grants, awards, etc. If you know any, please add it and open a ticket.

We can currently apply as individuals, as informal group, or through UC Berkeley.

Calls

XPrize Global Learning

• http://www.xprize.org/grand-challenges/learning
• registration: http://learning.xprize.org/about/registration

Research Coordination Networks

• https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11691

Scientific Library Services and Information Systems

• http://www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/programmes/infrastructure/lis/funding_opportunities/index.html

Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest

• http://www.tides.org/impact/awards-prizes/pizzigati-prize/
• deadline: December 15 2014

TED Prize

• http://www.ted.com/participate/ted-prize/nominate
• nomination opens: January 1 2015

Horizon 2020

• http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/

Foundations and other funding organizations

• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: In progress
• MacArthur Foundation
• Open Society Foundations
• Wellcome Trust
• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
• Ford Foundation
• Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
• Center for Open Science
• Simons Foundation: In progress
• Wikimedia Project and Event Grants
• Instructions for events
• The Michelson Twenty Million Minds Foundation
• Laura and John Arnold Foundation
• The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Global Libraries: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Development/Global-Libraries#bodyregion_0_interiorarticle_0
• The Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation
• Google.org

potential funding sources...let's look into these further

• https://www.ashoka.org/nominate
• http://www.challenge.gov/list/
• http://www.omidyar.com/
• https://ga.berkeley.edu/funding/application-process
• http://www.skollfoundation.org/about/skoll-awards/
• http://globalchallenge.mit.edu/competition/how-to-enter
• https://unltd.org.uk/see-change-current-opportunities/
• https://unltd.org.uk/2013/07/26/leading-the-change/
• http://www.dellchallenge.org/#/home
• http://vodafone-us.com/wireless-innovation-project/
• http://startl.org/blog/2011/10/21/2012-milken-penngse-education-business-plan-competition-now-accepting-submissions/
• http://www.socialimpactexchange.org/exchange/our-initiatives/business-plan-competition
• http://studentcompetitions.com/competitions/nokia%E2%80%99s-calling-all-innovators
• http://www.hamiltonproject.org/
• http://kaporcenter.org - Mitch Kapor is very interested in education, particularly science education. He also happens to be just down the street from Cal.