The mindset that “research funding” is all that research enabling organizations do is wrong.

In a world where labs become sustainable by spinning out products, researchers need some way to de-risk their initial work, when they won’t have any new products or technologies to sell. I think this is an effective place for open-ended research grant programs.

Welcome to The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s grants database.  Explore our grantmaking history using the map with filters for program area, amount, date and keywords. 

Applications for New Awards; Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education-Open Textbooks Pilot Program

Writing Science: How to Write Papers That Get Cited and Proposals That Get Funded, Joshua Schimel

Marsh, H. W., Bornmann, L., Mutz, R., Daniel, H. D., & O’Mara, A. (2009). Gender effects in the peerreviews of grant proposals: A comprehensive meta-analysis comparing traditional and multilevelapproaches.Review of Educational Research, 79, 1290–1326

4. Identify Lacunas of Knowledge in Neuroscience Using the NIF Platform Develop a comprehensive web-based interactive meta-analytical map (heat map) of task fMRI activation foci across all human fMRI studies in the literature. Thus create an “activity map” of the human brain based on functional brain imaging by creating a visualization that depicts:

As long as the income was incoming, we were happy to trade funding our institutions with our money (tuition and endowment) for funding it with other people’s money (loans and grants.) And so long as college remained a source of cheap and effective job credentials, our new sources of support—students with loans, governments with research agendas—were happy to let us regard ourselves as priests instead of service workers.