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Emergent Ventures

Mercatus Center, George Mason University

NontraditionalRapid-response fund

Small fast grants to individuals with an unusual idea, decided in weeks with a short application and no institutional overhead. Useful precisely where a conventional grant cycle is too slow to matter.

Indicative award
$1k–$100k (total award)Small individual grants and fellowships; the application is deliberately short.
Timing
Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Rolling, with decisions in weeks rather than months.
Who can apply
Master's / undergraduate, Doctoral candidate, Postdoctoral, Early-career faculty, Practitioner
Eligibility
Applications come from individuals, not institutions. Funds may reach you personally, which has tax and university disclosure consequences worth checking first.
SSWR clusters
Special Interest Groups
Topics
fast grants · individual applicant · no overhead · unconventional
Apply at
https://www.mercatus.org/emergent-ventures
This entry
Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.

Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.

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