NSF's Eddie Bernice Johnson Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES) Initiative
Federal funding opportunity 22-622 from U.S. National Science Foundation.
Apply on Grants.gov →Application closes October 27, 2026
- Posted
- May 23, 2025
- Closes
- October 27, 2026
- Program funding
- $5,500,000
- Expected awards
- 15
- Cost sharing
- No
- Instrument
- Grant
- Assistance listing
- 47.074, 47.050, 47.079, 47.075, 47.076, 47.084, 47.083, 47.041, 47.049, 47.070
- Archives
- November 25, 2027
Program funding history
Awards made under Assistance Listing 47.074 across FY2024–FY2026, from public federal spending records.
- FY2024 obligated
- $829.7M
- FY2025 obligated
- $805.2M
- FY2026 (to date) obligated
- $219.2M
- Awards in window
- 3,882
Top recipients: Battelle Memorial Institute, Arizona State University, The Pennsylvania State University, University of Florida, University of Illinois
Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed July 2026
Synopsis
The INCLUDESInitiative is a comprehensive, national effort to enhance U.S. leadership in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) discovery and innovation, focused on NSF’s commitment to ensuring accessibility and inclusivity in STEM fields, as communicated in the NSF Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years (FY) 2022 - 2026. The vision of the INCLUDES Initiative is to catalyze the STEM enterprise to work collaboratively for inclusive change, resulting in a STEM workforce that reflects the Nation’s population. More specifically, the INCLUDES Initiative seeks to motivate and accelerate collaborative infrastructure building to sustain systemic change to broaden participation in STEM fields at scale.Significant advancement of the INCLUDES Initiative's goalswill result in a new generation of STEM talent and leadership to secure the Nation’s future and long-term economic competitiveness.
With this solicitation, NSF offers support for five types of projects that connect and contribute to the National Network: (1) Design and Development Launch Pilots, (2) Collaborative Change Consortia, (3) Alliances, (4) Network Connectors, and (5) Conferences. The INCLUDES National Network is a multifaceted collaboration of agencies, organizations, and individuals working collectively to broaden participation in STEM. The INCLUDES National Network serves as a testbed for designing, implementing, studying, refining, and scaling collaborative change modelsand is composed of:
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INCLUDES funded projects
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Other NSF funded projects
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Subcommittee on Federal Coordination in STEM Education (FC-STEM) agencies
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Scholars engaged in broadening participation research and evaluation, and
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Organizations that support the development of talent from all sectors of society to build an inclusive STEM workforce.
All INCLUDES funded projects must operationalize five design elements of collaborative infrastructure - (1) shared vision, (2) partnerships, (3) goals and metrics, (4) leadership and communication, and (5) expansion, sustainability, and scale- to create systemic change that broadens participation in STEM.
Who can apply
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
*Who May Submit Proposals: Proposals may only be submitted by the following: -For-profit organizations: U.S.-based commercial organizations, including small businesses, with strong capabilities in scientific or engineering research or education and a passion for innovation. -Non-profit, non-academic organizations: Independent museums, observatories, research laboratories, professional societies and similar organizations located in the U.S. that are directly associated with educational or research activities. -State and Local Governments -Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs): Two- and four-year IHEs (including community colleges) accredited in, and having a campus located in the US, acting on behalf of their faculty members. Special Instructions for International Branch Campuses of US IHEs: If the proposal includes funding to be provided to an international branch campus of a US institution of higher education (including through use of sub-awards and consultant arrangements), the proposer must explain the benefit(s) to the project of performance at the international branch campus, and justify why the project activities cannot be performed at the US campus. -Tribal Nations: An American Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, or community that the Secretary of the Interior acknowledges as a federally recognized tribe pursuant to the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994, 25 U.S.C. §§ 5130-5131.
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