Thanks everyone for your comments and boosts on my last toot around collecting FOSS support programs for maintainers and contributors. This is very helpful! I went trough the comments and this is what I have so far:
Sovereign Tech Fellowship, Sequoia Open Source Fellowship, NGI Zero Commons Fund, Clojurists Together, PSF Developers in Residence, Django Fellowship Program, eBPF Fellowship.
Update: Research Software Maintenance Fund, Nominet DNS Fund.
"Trump’s #USDA Is Hiding the #Data on #FoodStamp Cuts."
https://www.motherjones.com/food/2026/01/trump-rollins-usda-snap-food-insecurity/
"In normal conditions, said Tufts University food economist Parke Wilde, policymakers and government workers would ask, 'What are the consequences of policy changes…so that we can calibrate and improve the program in the future?’ We won’t be able to do that this year."
#Agriculture #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #SNAP #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
Hier kommen unsere #Job, #Funding und #Event-Schätze von dieser Woche:
Der @sidnfonds in den Niederlanden hat einen Call für Projekte zur Digitalen Autonomie geöffnet: Bis 23. Februar kann sich beworben werden, es winken bis zu 200.000 €:
https://www.sidnfonds.nl/themed-call-the-transition-to-digital-autonomy
Außerdem ist das ganze Jahr über der Pioneer-Call für Projekte im Bereich "Stronger Internet" geöffnet. Hier gibt es bis zu 10.000 €:
https://www.sidnfonds.nl/pioneers
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Hier kommen unsere #Job, #Funding und #Event-Schätze von dieser Woche:
Der @sidnfonds in den Niederlanden hat einen Call für Projekte zur Digitalen Autonomie geöffnet: Bis 23. Februar kann sich beworben werden, es winken bis zu 200.000 €:
https://www.sidnfonds.nl/themed-call-the-transition-to-digital-autonomy
Außerdem ist das ganze Jahr über der Pioneer-Call für Projekte im Bereich "Stronger Internet" geöffnet. Hier gibt es bis zu 10.000 €:
https://www.sidnfonds.nl/pioneers
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Hier kommen unsere #Job, #Funding und #Event-Schätze von dieser Woche:
Der @sidnfonds in den Niederlanden hat einen Call für Projekte zur Digitalen Autonomie geöffnet: Bis 23. Februar kann sich beworben werden, es winken bis zu 200.000 €:
https://www.sidnfonds.nl/themed-call-the-transition-to-digital-autonomy
Außerdem ist das ganze Jahr über der Pioneer-Call für Projekte im Bereich "Stronger Internet" geöffnet. Hier gibt es bis zu 10.000 €:
https://www.sidnfonds.nl/pioneers
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"HHS terminates, then reinstates, thousands of grants for substance use."
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/14/hhs-terminates-grants-substance-use-mental-health-00729433
"The Trump administration reversed course late Wednesday after notifying thousands of organizations across the country that their substance use recovery and Mental Health grants were being terminated."
PS: Another example of slash first, think second.
#DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
From Horizon Malta.
The New European Bauhaus (NEB) Facility is an EU funding instrument supporting projects that make neighbourhoods more sustainable, inclusive, and beautiful.
The Facility is structured around two components:
🔬 Research & Innovation (Horizon Europe)
Around €120 million per year to support research, testing, and demonstration projects that combine sustainability, social inclusion, and design quality.
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Next year’s NEB calls for proposals will open in May 2027 and close on the 15th of September
There will also be another round that closes on the 1st December 2027
🚀 Roll-out Component
Helps scale and deploy innovative solutions using funding from multiple EU programmes, building on nearly 500 NEB-related projects already funded across Europe.
First calls for proposals are already open on the EU Funding & Tenders Portal.
This year’s NEB calls for proposals will close on the 1st December 2026.
Next year’s NEB calls for proposals will open in May 2027 and close on the 15th of September
From Horizon Malta.
The New European Bauhaus (NEB) Facility is an EU funding instrument supporting projects that make neighbourhoods more sustainable, inclusive, and beautiful.
The Facility is structured around two components:
🔬 Research & Innovation (Horizon Europe)
Around €120 million per year to support research, testing, and demonstration projects that combine sustainability, social inclusion, and design quality.
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🚀 Roll-out Component
Helps scale and deploy innovative solutions using funding from multiple EU programmes, building on nearly 500 NEB-related projects already funded across Europe.
First calls for proposals are already open on the EU Funding & Tenders Portal.
This year’s NEB calls for proposals will close on the 1st December 2026.
From Horizon Malta.
The New European Bauhaus (NEB) Facility is an EU funding instrument supporting projects that make neighbourhoods more sustainable, inclusive, and beautiful.
The Facility is structured around two components:
🔬 Research & Innovation (Horizon Europe)
Around €120 million per year to support research, testing, and demonstration projects that combine sustainability, social inclusion, and design quality.
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_Environmental Health Perspectives_ was a #DiamondOA journal formerly published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ( #NIEHS, within the #NIH). When #Trump slashed the NIH and NIEHS budgets, the journal began the process of laying itself down. But now the American Chemical Society ( #ACS) will adopt it. Under the ACS, it will remain #OpenAccess but start charging #APCs.
See the ACS announcement.
https://www.newswise.com/articles/environmental-health-perspectives-joins-the-acs-publications-portfolio
See the coverage in Chemistry World.
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/leading-environmental-health-journal-defunded-by-trump-administration-has-been-saved/4022745.article
_Environmental Health Perspectives_ was a #DiamondOA journal formerly published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ( #NIEHS, within the #NIH). When #Trump slashed the NIH and NIEHS budgets, the journal began the process of laying itself down. But now the American Chemical Society ( #ACS) will adopt it. Under the ACS, it will remain #OpenAccess but start charging #APCs.
See the ACS announcement.
https://www.newswise.com/articles/environmental-health-perspectives-joins-the-acs-publications-portfolio
See the coverage in Chemistry World.
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/leading-environmental-health-journal-defunded-by-trump-administration-has-been-saved/4022745.article
"Congress set to reject Trump’s major budget cuts to NSF, NASA, and energy science."
https://www.science.org/content/article/congress-set-reject-trump-s-major-budget-cuts-nsf-nasa-and-energy-science
"The U.S. Congress has delivered another rebuke of President Donald Trump’s plans to slash this year’s budgets of several science agencies. Today, lawmakers hammering out final bills covering the National Science Foundation ( #NSF), #NASA science, and Department of Energy ( #DOE) research programs unveiled an agreement to spend very close to current levels."
#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
"Congress Is Reversing Trump’s Steep budget Cuts to Science."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/science/trump-science-budget-cuts-congress.html
"After the White House called for billions of dollars in funding reductions, senators and representatives are rescinding the proposed cuts and even boosting funds for basic research."
#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
"220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/09/upshot/trump-workforce-cuts-table.html
Eye-opening, stomach-turning table of the staff cuts to 500+ federal agencies, Nov 2024 - Nov 2025. Plus a search engine to find the cuts for a given agency. Some examples:
#NASA, down 6%
#NIH, down 18%
#HHS, down 18%
#NOAA, down 20%
#CDC, down 22%
#OSTP, down 26%
#NSF, down 29%
#NEA, down 34%
#IMLS, down 59%
#NEH, down 73%
#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
Corporation for #PublicBroadcasting, a private agency that has steered federal #funding to #PBS, #NPR & hundreds of #public #television & #radio stations across the country, voted Monday to dissolve the organization that was created in 1967.
#CPB had been winding down since #Congress acted last summer to defund its operations under orders from #Trump. Its board of directors chose to shutter CPB completely instead of keeping it as a shell.
#media #FourthEstate #journalism
https://apnews.com/article/public-broadcasting-pbs-npr-b68f441c227ec7e076c038821b4a5931?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-01-05-CPB%27s+final+act
#Trump cannot slash #NIH #research #funding, court rules
A federal appeals court on Monday ruled Trump's admin cannot carry out steep cuts to federal #grant funding provided by the National Institutes of #Health to #universities engaged in #scientific & #medical research.
#law #judiciary #science #medicine #idiocracy #BrainDrain
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-administration-cannot-slash-nih-research-funding-court-rules-2026-01-05/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
Who would have guessed that lottery style distribution of grants leads to a fairer outcome for everyone? Well, except for those friends of the reviewers, anyways.
