Stanford Impact Labs' new Lab Funding opportunity provides Stanford-led, impact-focused research labs with up to $2.5m of predictable, unrestricted, long-term funding to make progress on a research agenda aimed at addressing a social issue.
Stanford Impact Labs Track 2 funding offers impact-focused research teams between $350k and $650k over three years. It supports individual research projects as well as multi-project agendas focused high scale scientific contribution, impact, and partnership.
Stanford Impact Labs Track 1 funding offers research teams up to $350k over two years. It supports individual research projects as well as multi-project agendas, making it well suited to both early-stage and more mature impact-focused research projects.
This funding opportunity supports novel uses of frontier AI tools to dramatically accelerate social science research, putting it to use for society and demonstrating how AI can shape disciplines and expand social science's public value.
Stage 2: Test Solutions offers $350,000 to $650,000 per lab over a maximum of 36 months to support partnership-based work that involves the design and testing of a concrete solution to a well-defined social problem.
Stage 1: Seed Partnerships offers up to $350,000 to better understand the drivers of a social problem or co-design solutions. This funding is intended to deepen partnerships in a way that creates a clear path to testing solutions and putting those solutions to use at scale.
Stage 1: Seed Partnerships offers up to $350,000 to better understand the drivers of a social problem or co-design solutions. This funding is intended to deepen partnerships in a way that creates a clear path to testing solutions and putting those solutions to use at scale.
Stage 2: Test Solutions offers $350,000 to $800,000 per lab over a maximum of 36 months to support partnership-based work that involves the design and testing of a concrete solution to a well-defined social problem.
A 10-month fellowship for faculty to conceptualize a solutions-oriented partnership project. Includes monthly cohort workshops, one-on-one mentoring from SIL staff, and a $50,000 grant.
