The Office of Corporate Engagement and Foundation Relations (CEFR) advances Brown’s mission of education, research, and service by cultivating strategic collaborations with corporations and foundations.
The Office of Corporate Engagement and Foundation Relations (CEFR) advances Brown’s mission of education, research, and service by cultivating strategic collaborations with corporations and foundations.
Our team connects external partners and Brown’s leading-edge research and world-class talent. CEFR facilitates high-impact institutional collaborations to enrich learning and research, accelerate innovation, and drive economic and societal impact.
Brown faculty and staff are invited to contact CEFR for support in working with institutional partners, including developing competitive proposals, coordinating campus engagement, navigating the submission process, and stewarding awards.
Nearly half of the world’s population lives in cities. Public services shape those residents’ everyday lives. They affect whether they can get health care, find meaningful work, live safely, and have a voice in local decisions. City governments and their partners are on the front lines of delivering these public services.
Artificial intelligence now offers new ways to meet these needs. AI can help residents access services, anticipate problems before they become crises, and respond to resident needs more effectively. Putting these capabilities to work requires solutions built around residents’ needs and developed in partnership with city governments.
The Rockefeller Foundation and OpenAI Foundation are committing $50 million to Cities Deliver to support this work. The initiative will provide grants of $500,000 to $2 million to organizations working with city governments to improve public services through AI, especially for underserved communities. Together, these projects will aim to reach up to 100 million city residents worldwide.
The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) is launching a new competition, the Margaret Olivia Sage (MOS) Grants, to support research by multi- or inter-disciplinary teams on social, economic, and political challenges with generational consequences for social and living conditions in the United States. Such challenges are typically national in scope, involve both systemic and individual factors, and the questions they raise are as urgent for policymakers and communities as they are for researchers. Exemplifying the scope and ambition of MOS projects, we have identified four current priority areas for support: (1) democracy, (2) the societal impacts of artificial intelligence, (3) inequality and affordability, and (4) data infrastructure for social science research.
This program funds research studies that examine programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5–25 in the United States, along dimensions of race, ethnicity, economic standing, sexual or gender minority status (e.g., LGBTQ+ youth), language minority status, or immigrant origins.
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The program is intended to support high-risk theoretical mathematics, physics and computer science projects of exceptional promise and scientific importance on a case-by-case basis. PIs and co-Investigators (co-Is) must hold a tenured or tenure-track faculty, or equivalent, position at said eligible institutions or centers, outlined below, at the time of application and for the duration of the award. There are no restrictions on the department and/or discipline of the PIs/co-Is. PIs and co-Is may be from non-U.S. institutions. A co-I must be employed by or be affiliated with a PI institution or another organization participating in the project under a consortium agreement.