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Grants & Funding Opportunities for Early career

Real grants & funding opportunities for early career — verified, not scraped junk. 32 real opportunities right now.

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Early Career

Genetics Society of America DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development

Genetics Society of America

Provides funding for early-career geneticists to attend a conference or training course.

📍 International (US-based society)PaidEasy
#grant#genetics#professional-development
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Early Career

BES Early Career Project Grant

British Ecological Society

Larger project grants supporting outstanding early-career ecologists.

📍 International (UK-based)PaidHard
#grant#ecology#early-career
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Early Career

BES Small Research Grant

British Ecological Society

Funds innovative ecological science projects lasting up to twelve months.

📍 International (UK-based)PaidMedium
#grant#ecology#early-career
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Early Career

Explorers Club Exploration Fund Grant

The Explorers Club

Funds fieldwork for graduate and postgraduate students and early-career field scientists across disciplines including botany, earth sciences, marine research, and paleontology.

📍 InternationalPaidMedium
#grant#fieldwork#exploration
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Early Career

Points North Fellowship

Points North Institute

Supports early-to-mid-career nonfiction filmmakers, including an unrestricted grant for a feature documentary in post-production.

📍 United States (international projects)PaidHard
#fellowship#documentary#film
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Early Career

AXS Film Fund

AXS Film Fund

Supports documentary and nonfiction media creators with disabilities and from underserved communities.

📍 United States (international applicants)PaidMedium
#grant#documentary#disability
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Early Career

Diversify Photo Eyewitness Photojournalism Grant

Diversify Photo & Pulitzer Center

Supports projects by independent photojournalists from backgrounds historically underrepresented in global media.

📍 GlobalPaidMedium
#grant#photojournalism#diversity
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Early Career

Earth Journalism Network Biodiversity Story Grant

Internews (Earth Journalism Network)

Story grants expanding the quality and quantity of biodiversity journalism coverage worldwide.

📍 GlobalPaidEasy
#grant#journalism#biodiversity
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Early Career

Foundation for Physical Therapy Research Grants

Foundation for Physical Therapy Research

Funds physical therapy and rehabilitation research across specialty tracks including geriatric, pediatric, orthopedic, and cardiovascular/pulmonary care.

📍 United StatesPaidMedium
#grant#physical-therapy#rehabilitation
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Early Career

IASP Early Career Research Grant

International Association for the Study of Pain

Funds young researchers beginning independent pain-research careers worldwide.

📍 InternationalPaidMedium
#grant#pain-research#medical
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Early Career

EHA Research Mobility Grant

European Hematology Association

Funds short research visits or mobility periods to another institution's research group for young hematology scientists, up to three months.

📍 EuropePaidMedium
#grant#hematology#mobility
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Early Career

EHA Kick-off Grant

European Hematology Association

Funds high-risk, high-potential novel concepts in basic or translational hematology research proposed by early-career scientists.

📍 EuropePaidHard
#grant#hematology#research
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Early Career

EHA Junior Research Grant

European Hematology Association

Supports Europe-based early-career hematology researchers transitioning from trainee to independent investigator.

📍 EuropePaidHard
#grant#hematology#research
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Early Career

Thrasher Research Fund Early Career Award

Thrasher Research Fund

Funds new investigators researching children's health topics to help them establish an independent research career, awarding up to 32 grants a year across two cycles.

📍 Global (US-based fund)PaidMedium
#grant#pediatrics#research
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Early Career

Alkermes Pathways Research Award

Alkermes

Supports junior-investigator research into schizophrenia, bipolar I disorder, and associated sleep and circadian disturbances, now in its eighth year.

📍 United States (international host institutions considered)PaidHard
#grant#psychiatry#research
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Early Career

Angelman Syndrome Alliance Scientific Research Grant

Angelman Syndrome Alliance

Funds basic science research into Angelman syndrome, open to research teams across Europe and worldwide.

📍 Europe / worldwidePaidMedium
#grant#rare-disease#neuroscience
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Early Career

Angelman Syndrome Foundation Innovation Seed Grants

Angelman Syndrome Foundation

Funds research on Angelman syndrome, including studies of the UBE3A gene mechanism and symptomatic therapies, through an open annual call for proposals.

📍 Global (US-based foundation)PaidMedium
#grant#rare-disease#neuroscience
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Early Career

Orphan Disease Center CDKL5 Pilot Grant Program

Orphan Disease Center, University of Pennsylvania / Loulou Foundation

One-year pilot grants funding basic and translational research on CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder, a rare neurodevelopmental condition, now in its tenth year.

📍 Global (US-administered)PaidHard
#grant#rare-disease#neuroscience
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Early Career

Translation House Looren Translation Grants

Übersetzerhaus Looren

Grants tied to a one-month residency at Looren or Château de Lavigny in Switzerland, supporting professional literary translators, with a separate track for first-time translators.

📍 Wernetshausen, SwitzerlandStipendMedium
#grant#translation#residency
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Early Career

Nordic Culture Point Mobility Funding

Nordic Culture Point

Travel and stay funding for professional artists and cultural practitioners moving within the Nordic and Baltic countries for work-related stays of up to two weeks.

📍 Nordic and Baltic countriesStipendEasy
#grant#mobility#nordic
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Early Career

Harpo Foundation Grants for Visual Artists

Harpo Foundation

Direct cash grants supporting under-recognized visual artists working across any medium, intended to fund materials, space, or time to make new work.

📍 United StatesPaidMedium
#grant#visual-art#usa
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Early Career

PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant

PEN America

Annual grants supporting the completion of literary translations into English, with preference given to early-career translators and underrepresented languages and authors.

📍 United States (international projects)PaidMedium
#grant#translation#literature
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Early Career

Nagao Wetland Fund

Nagao Natural Environment Foundation / Ramsar Convention Secretariat

Supports small-scale wetland conservation research and action projects advancing Ramsar Strategic Plan goals across Asia and Oceania.

📍 Asia / OceaniaPaidMedium
#grant#wetlands#conservation
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Early Career

ASAP Rapid Action Fund

IUCN SSC Asian Species Action Partnership (ASAP) / Fondation Segré

Urgent small grants for critically endangered Southeast Asian land and freshwater vertebrate species conservation action.

📍 Southeast AsiaPaidMedium
#grant#conservation#southeast-asia
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Early Career

Panthera Small Cat Action Fund

Panthera

Supports in-situ conservation and research on the world's 31 small wild cat species, prioritizing field activities, equipment, and local salaries.

📍 InternationalPaidMedium
#grant#wildlife#conservation
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Early Career

Primate Action Fund

Margot Marsh Biodiversity Foundation / Re:wild

Catalytic small grants for the conservation of endangered nonhuman primates and their habitats across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

📍 Africa, Asia, Latin AmericaPaidMedium
#grant#primates#conservation
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Early Career

Save Our Seas Foundation Small Grant

Save Our Seas Foundation

Funds short twelve- to eighteen-month projects on sharks, rays, skates, sawfishes, and chimaeras.

📍 InternationalPaidMedium
#grant#marine-biology#sharks
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Early Career

100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund

Partners of the Americas / U.S. Department of State

A grant program funding partnerships between universities in the US and Latin America to expand student exchange and study-abroad opportunities across the hemisphere.

📍 United States and Latin AmericaPaidMedium
#exchange#south-america#usa
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Early Career

Miles Morland Writing Scholarship

Miles Morland Foundation

A six-month scholarship supporting African writers to complete a book-length work of fiction or non-fiction, with a stipend covering living costs during the writing period.

📍 Any location (remote writing period)PaidMedium
#grant#africa#writing
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Early Career

International Women's Media Foundation Fund for Women Journalists

International Women's Media Foundation

A grant supporting women journalists' reporting projects or professional development, particularly those covering underreported stories of global importance.

📍 Global (remote application)PaidMedium
#grant#journalism#women
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Early Career

Future for Nature Award

Future for Nature Foundation

An annual award honoring young conservationists worldwide for concrete, measurable contributions to protecting endangered species and ecosystems, with substantial follow-on funding.

📍 Global (ceremony in the Netherlands)PaidHard
#award#conservation#wildlife
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Early Career

UNEP Young Champions of the Earth

United Nations Environment Programme

UNEP's flagship award for environmental entrepreneurship, recognizing young innovators whose ventures address pressing ecological challenges with seed funding and mentorship.

📍 Global (regional finalists)PaidHard
#award#environment#entrepreneurship
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