Research Funding Opportunities: August 1, 2025

Category: Journalism

First Opportunity

• Agency: McGraw Center for Business Journalism
• Funding Opportunity Title: McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism
• Key words: investigative journalism, business, finance, economics
• Link to RFP:  https://www.mcgrawcenter.org/the-harold-w-mcgraw-jr-business-journalism-fellowships/
• Deadline: 10/13/25 for Spring Fellowships 
• Funding available: maximum of $15,000
• Period of performance: not specified
• Program Objective: The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Center for Business Journalism provides experienced journalists with grants up to $15,000 and the editorial support needed to produce deeply reported enterprise and investigative stories that delve into critical economic, financial or business issues across a wide array of subjects. You don’t need to be a business reporter to apply; many of our previous Fellows have been generalists, or cover beats such as health care, education or the environment. Others have focused on issues such as economic inequality or corporate accountability
• NOTE:
  • Open to anyone with at least five years professional experience
  • No budget is required at time of application

Category: Sports

First Opportunity

• Agency: Olympic Studies Centre
• Funding Opportunity Title: Research grant programmes
• Key words: Olympics, social sciences
• Link to RFP:  https://www.olympics.com/ioc/olympic-studies-centre/research-grant-programmes
• Deadline: 09/22/25 for PhD Students and Early Career Academics Research Grant Programme, Advanced Olympic Research Grant Programme will open 10/25, with deadline TBD
• Funding available: for early career program, Successful applicants will receive a research grant of a maximum of USD 6,000.
• Period of performance: final research report due 12/31/26
• Program Background: The Olympic Studies Centre (OSC) organises an annual research grant programme intended for PhD Students and Early Career Academics engaged in scholarly research on the Olympic Movement, its history and ideals, and the impact of the Olympic Games on the various aspects of contemporary society and culture. 
• Program Objectives:
  • Support PhD Students and Early Career Academics and foster excellence in research on any aspect of the Olympic phenomenon with a humanities and/or social sciences perspective. Project proposals dealing with any aspect related to the Olympic Movement and/or the Olympic Games will be considered. 
  • Facilitate a research and study visit at the Olympic Studies Centre in Lausanne, Switzerland (the Olympic Capital), and the consultation of the OSC’s collections (including primary sources and the IOC historical archives). 
  • Support the next generation of scholars in the field of Olympic studies.
• NOTE: Eligibility notes:
  • Students enrolled in a PhD degree programme with a humanities and/or social sciences perspective with Olympism, the Olympic Movement or the Olympic Games as, at least, one of the research foci.  Candidates can apply if the literature review, theoretical framework and methodology for their study are already clearly defined.  The project presented should demonstrate a clear contribution to the candidate’s doctoral thesis. 
  • Academic staff and postdoctoral fellows who completed their doctorate or equivalent highest degree (including masters, depending on the field) in or after 2023 (named or referred to in this programme as “Early Career Academics” (ECA)). 

Category: Research Funding Opportunities
Tagged: business economics finance investigative journalism olympics social sciences
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