The Office of Foundations Relations is pleased to share this open call for Letters of Intent from the Greenwall Foundation.
UCSC Contact: Samantha Forde|forde@ucsc.edu
Funder: Greenwall Foundation
Program: 2026 Making a Difference
Deadline: Letters of Intent due January 5, 2026, 8:59pm PT
Overview
The Greenwall Foundation’s vision to make bioethics integral to decisions in health care, policy, and research. Projects funded under the Making a Difference program should promote the Foundation’s vision and mission through innovative bioethics research that will have a real-world, practical impact.
The foundation is particularly interested in proposals that address the ethical issues raised by the following priority topics:
- Trust in science, medicine, and public health;
- Bias and discrimination in health care;
- Public health crises (related to, for example, emerging infectious diseases, climate change, and the opioid epidemic), including their impact on mental health;
- Healthcare access, costs, and resource allocation;
- Recent changes to the federal health and biomedical science policy and funding landscape.
Funding
- There is no formal limit on the budget or duration of a Making a Difference grant, and the Foundation’s budget and duration constraints may vary among application cycles.
- The Greenwall Foundation will fund 10% indirect costs for salary and benefits only. Salaries for investigators are capped at 1.5x the current NIH cap for the basis of the percent effort allocation.
Eligibility
- Successful teams commonly involve a bioethics scholar and persons with on-the-ground experience with the bioethics dilemma, for example, in clinical care; biomedical research; biotechnology, pharmaceutical, big data, and artificial intelligence companies; or public service.
- Applicants are also encouraged to engage with community stakeholders throughout their project.
- The Foundation will support mentored projects in which a postdoctoral fellow or junior faculty member works closely with an experienced bioethics scholar.
- The Foundation will consider pilot or feasibility projects to evaluate an innovative intervention to resolve a bioethics dilemma, with the goal of obtaining funding from other sources for a larger evaluation or demonstration project.
Please also review the Frequently Asked Questions and video sharing tips and best practices for submitting an LOI.
Timeline
- January 5, 2026 LOI due
- March 16, 2026, 8:59 pm PT If invited, full proposal due
- July 1, 2026 Projects commence
Special Requirements
Please notify the Office of Foundation Relations if you are interested in applying to this opportunity (fr@ucsc.edu). For support developing your proposal, please contact the Research Development Specialist or send a request to resdev@ucsc.edu. Within the Division of Social Sciences, please contact Ashlee Tews (ashleeac@ucsc.edu) to initiate notification and proposal support.
Call sent: November 25, 2025
The Office of Foundation Relations is a unit of University Advancement. The FR team creates and maintains mutually beneficial, long-term relationships with private organizations, matching grant initiatives with educational and research programs and centers. FR supports faculty and staff to identify and approach these and other private foundations for funding, to assist in strategic positioning of the grant application, and to facilitate funder campus visits. For a list of recent funding opportunities, please visit the FR website: FR Calls for Funding.