Making a Difference Grants
The Greenwall Foundation’s Making a Difference Grants support research producing actionable bioethics solutions for real-world clinical, biomedical, or public health challenges.
Funder: Greenwall Foundation
Due Dates: June 23, 2025 (LOI, Fall 2025) | January 5, 2026 (LOI, Spring 2026) | June 22, 2026 (LOI, Fall 2026) | September 8, 2026 (Full application, Fall 2026)
Funding Amounts: No formal budget or duration limit; typical awards are project-based, with smaller budgets and shorter timelines prioritized. 10% indirect costs (salary/benefits only); PI salary capped at 1.5x NIH cap.
Summary: Supports innovative bioethics research addressing real-world clinical, biomedical, or public health dilemmas with practical impact.
Key Information: Only U.S. tax-exempt institutions (or equivalent) may apply; PI must hold a doctoral-level degree.
Description
The Greenwall Foundation’s Making a Difference Grants program funds research that addresses pressing, unresolved bioethics issues in clinical, biomedical, or public health contexts. The goal is to support projects that generate actionable recommendations or interventions with tangible, real-world impact—moving beyond theoretical analysis to practical solutions.
Projects may be empirical, conceptual, or normative, and collaborative teams that include both bioethics scholars and practitioners with direct experience of the ethical dilemma are encouraged. Priority is given to proposals that address current topics such as trust in science and medicine, bias and discrimination in healthcare, public health crises (including mental health impacts), healthcare access and resource allocation, and recent shifts in health policy.
The program is open to a wide range of project types, including mentored research for early-career faculty, pilot studies, and feasibility projects. Dissemination to audiences beyond academia—including stakeholders, institutional leaders, and policymakers—is expected. The Foundation encourages applications that advance broad, inclusive bioethics and increase the field’s impact on policy.
