1. Bridge funding, to allow faculty to continue work on previously funded research, scholarship, or creative activity that does not currently have external funding. Faculty who apply in this category should demonstrate that efforts have been made or will be made to obtain new external funding.
2. Seed funding, to encourage faculty to launch exciting new scholarship or research directions that might not yet be ready to compete in traditional funding programs.
3. Enabling subventions, to provide small funds to purchase (or upgrade) critical equipment.

• Senior Faculty: Funded projects must involve more than one country or region of East, South, or Southeast Asia. Applications submitted by faculty members that approach the topic from more than one discipline are strongly encouraged and will receive priority.
• Junior Faculty: Strong preference is given to projects that involve more than one country or region of East, South, or Southeast Asia. Applications submitted by faculty members that approach the topic from more than one discipline are strongly encouraged and will receive priority.

• Elliot Antokoletz Fund - For research in 20th century music
• M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet Fund - For research in France
• Virginia and George Bozarth Fund - For research in Austria
• H. Robert Cohen/RIPM Fund - For research based on the musical press
• Jan LaRue Travel Fund - For European research
• Harold Powers World Travel Fund - For research throughout the world
• Ora Frishberg Saloman Fund - For musicological research
• Eugene K. Wolf Travel Fund - For European research

• History, Language, & Culture
• The interdisciplinary field "Image-Sound-Language"
• State, Economy and Society
• Medicine and the Natural Sciences

• Grants for Libraries: Grant proposals will be considered generally for resource Endowments (for example, print, film, electronic database, speakers/workshops), capital construction and capital equipment. Projects fostering broader public access to global information sources utilizing collaborative efforts, pioneering technologies and equipment are encouraged.
• Grants for Educational Institutions: Grant proposals from universities, colleges and secondary schools will be considered generally for: educational endowments to fund scholarships based solely on educational achievements, leadership and academic ability of the student (note: need-based scholarships are not within the Foundation's mission); endowments to support fellowships and teaching chairs for educators who confine their activities primarily to classroom instruction in the liberal arts, mathematics and the sciences during the academic year; erection or endowment of buildings, wings of or additions to buildings; equipment for educational purposes; and capital equipment for educational purposes.  

The National Film Preservation Foundation invites applications for the spring round of its Basic Preservation Grants. These grants are awarded to nonprofit and public institutions for laboratory work to preserve culturally and historically significant film materials. The grants target orphan films (1) made in the United States or by American citizens abroad and (2) not protected by commercial interests. Materials originally created for television or video are not eligible, including works produced with funds from broadcast or cable television entities. The grant must be used to pay for new laboratory work involving the creation of:

• New film preservation elements (which may include sound tracks) and
• Two new public access copies, one of which must be a film print. 
• Closed captioning for sound films destined for online or television exhibition.

• In Chicago or outside the United States, or
• In the United States and examine American art within an international context, with at least half of the participants coming from outside the United States.