American
Association of University Women - Offers fellowships
for women in the humanities, social sciences, and natural
sciences.
The
American Educational Research Association - The American
Educational Research Association is concerned with improving
the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry
related to education and by promoting the dissemination
and practical application of research results.
American
Foundation for Suicide Prevention - Supports research
projects that help further the understanding and treatment
of depression and the prevention of suicide.
Bogliasco
Foundation - The Bogliasco Foundation - Liguria Study
Center is located on the Italian Riviera in the small town
of Bogliasco and offers residential fellowhips for artists
and scholars in the Arts and Humanities.
Council
for International Exchange of Scholars - CIES annually
recruits and sends nearly 800 U.S. faculty and professionals
to 140 countries on its traditional program and brings 800
foreign faculty and professionals to the U.S.
Council
on Undergraduate Research - Provides support for a seminal
experience in the life of an undergraduate natural or social
science, mathematics, or engineering student.
Earthwatch, The Center
for Field Research - Supports field work worldwide in
the following areas: endangered ecosystems, oceans, biodiversity,
cultural diversity, folklore and oral history, global change,
world health and archaeology.
The
Greenwall Foundation - Supports research primarily in
bioethics and the arts and humanities.
John Simon Guggenheim
Foundation - Provides fellowships in the natural sciences,
social sciences, humanities and creative arts.
Humboldt
(Alexander Von) Foundation - Offers support to scholars
and scientists to carry out a research project of their
own choice in Germany.
National
Academy of Education - Promotes scholarship on matters
relevant to education in all of its forms.
National Security Agency
- Supports efforts to foster foreign-language training for
Americans.
Spencer
Foundation - Funds projects that investigate ways in
which education can be improved around the world and includes
a wide range of disciplines.
The John Templeton Foundation - Funds research on science
and religion.
U.S. Department of Education
(homepage)
U.S. Department
of Education (funding opportunities)
Woodrow Wilson Foundation
- Supports research on matters relevant to education.
American
Association for the Advancement of Science - Open to
any field of physical, biological or social sciences or
any relevant interdisciplinary field.
American Astronomical Society
- Supports any type of astronomical research.
American Chemical Society
Beckman
Foundation - Supports non-profit research institutions
to promote research in chemistry and the life sciences,
broadly interpreted, and particularly to foster the invention
of methods, instruments, and materials that will open up
new avenues of research in science.
The Camille & Henry
Dreyfus Foundation - Funds research projects in chemistry,
chemical engineering and related sciences.
Environmental Protection Agency
Fred
C. Gloeckner Foundation - The Foundation was organized
as a non-profit, educational corporation in December 1960
by Frederick C. Gloeckner to provide a source of financial
aid for research and educational projects in floriculture
and the supporting and allied fields, such as plant pathology,
plant breeding, agricultural engineering, agricultural economics,
entomology, and plant physiology related to floriculture
and ornamental horticulture.
Hudson
River Foundation - Seeks to elucidate the dynamic interactions
between the physical, chemical and biological processes
of the Hudson River. Prefers work that has a clearly articulated
significance for identified policy issues, and that is conducted
in the context of other ongoing research and monitoring
of the river.
Human Frontier Science Program
- Supports basic research focused on complex mechanisms
of living organisms; fields supported range from brain functions
to biological functions at the molecular level. Particular
emphasis is now placed on bringing scientists from fields
such as physics, mathematics, chemistry, computer science
and engineering together with biologists to open up new
approaches to understanding complex biological systems.
National
Aeronautics and Space Administration - NASA encourages
the submission of unsolicited proposals relevant to its
mission.
National Center for Environmental
Research
National
Geographic Society - Supports scientific field research
and exploration in the following disciplines: anthropology,
archaeology, astronomy, biology, botany, geography, geology,
oceanography, paleontology and zoology.
National Institute of
Mental Health
National Institutes
of Health
National
Research Council - Postdoctoral and senior research
associateship awards are available for researchers in chemistry,
earth and atmospheric sciences, engineering, mathematics
and applied sciences, life and medical sciences, space and
planetary sciences, and the physical sciences.
National Science Foundation
(homepage)
National
Science Foundation (grant proposal guide)
National Science Foundation
FastLane
Naval Research Laboratory
Office
of Science and Technology (Embassy of France in the US)
- (1) aides in strengthening the place of French science
and technology in the United States, and (2) disseminates
in France information on American research and development
policy as well as current events in science and technology.
Research
Corporation - Supports research in astronomy, chemistry
and physics.
Alfred
P. Sloan Foundation - Supports research in chemistry,
physics, mathematics, economics, neuroscience and computer
science.
U.S. Air Force Office
of Scientific Research
U.S.
Department of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Program
U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services
Whitehall
Foundation - A not-for-profit foundation which is focused
exclusively on assisting basic research in vertebrate (excluding
clinical) and invertebrate neurobiology in the United States.
Investigations should specifically concern neural mechanisms
involved in sensory, motor, and other complex functions
of the whole organism as these relate to behavior. The overall
goal should be to better understand behavioral output or
brain mechanisms of behavior.
The
W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (AIAR)
Jerusalem - AIAR provides a base for a broad range of American-led
scholarly research projects in archaeological, art historical,
textual and historical studies of the ancient Near East,
from the prehistoric to the pre-modern periods. Located
in an historic building in Jerusalem, the Albright Institute
provides fellowships to scholars from pre-doctoral to post-doctoral
levels.
American
Academy of Arts and Science - Has served for over 220
years as a major intellectual catalyst in American life.
Today, members from every discipline engage in collaborative,
multidisciplinary studies of complex problems that defy
easy solution: issues ranging from arms control to universal
basic and secondary education to the state of the humanities.
American
Academy in Rome - The Academy is an overseas research
center for study in the School of Arts or the School of
Classical Studies.
American
Council of Learned Societies - Awards fellowships in
the humanities and social sciences, comtemplative practice,
study and research in China, and Eastern European studies.
American
Institute of Indian Studies - Supports the advancement
of knowledge of India, its citizens, society and culture.
American Philosophical
Society - Programs including the General Research
grant program, the Henry Phillips grants in Jurisprudence,
Sabbatical Fellowship for the Humanities and Social Sciences,
and the Mellon Resident Research Fellowships.
American
Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) - Facilitates research
by individuals and American institutions in Egypt. It provides
a permanent base of operations in Cairo for scholars studying
Egypt from prehistory to the present day. More than a dozen
archaeological teams sponsored by leading U.S. and Canadian
museums and universities are assisted annually by the Cairo
Center.
American
Research Institute in Turkey - Promotes American and
Turkish research and exchange related to Turkey in all fields
of the humanities and social sciences. ARIT provides support
for these scholarly endeavors through maintaining research
centers in Istanbul and Ankara and administering a program
of fellowships to support research in Turkey at the doctoral
and post-doctoral levels.
The American-Scandinavian
Foundation - Supports research projects undertaken in
Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and requires
some language facility.
Chiang
Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
- The Foundation's programs encompass four regions: the
Domestic region (the Republic of China, Hong Kong and Macau),
the American Region (the United States, Canada and Mexico),
the European region, and the Asia-Pacific region. Programs
in the Domestic and American regions commenced in 1989,
followed shortly by the European region in 1990 and the
Asia-Pacific region in 1991. Grant programs differ among
the four regions.
Department
of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) - The Department's
mission is to increase homeownership, support community
development and increase access to affordable housing free
from discrimination.
Frederick
Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies
- Established in 1986 to promote the development of African
and African-American studies in undergraduate and graduate
education and through advanced research at the University
of Rochester.
Folger
Shakespeare Library - The Folger Shakespeare Library
is an independent research library located on Capitol Hill
in Washington, DC. A magnet for scholars from around the
globe, the Folger is home to the world's largest collection
of Shakespeare's printed works, as well as magnificent collections
of other rare Renaissance books and manuscripts on all disciplines-history
and politics, theology and exploration, law and the arts.
Ford Foundation
- Limited research and training grants are made in the Foundation's
program areas: Asset Building and Community Development,
Peace and Social Justice, and Education, Media, Arts and
Culture.
Fulbright Scholar Program
- Promotes educational activities, primarily university
lecturing, advanced research, graduate study and teaching
in elementary and secondary schools.
Getty Foundation
- Supports projects in art or art history.
William
T. Grant Foundation - The Foundation's primary focus
areas are Youth Development; Systems Affecting Youth; and
the Public's View of Youth.
International
Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) - Offers research
opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, Ukraine,
Central Asia, the Caucasus, Eurasia and China.
The
Library Company of Philadelphia - The Library Company
of Philadelphia is a non-profit independent research library
with collections documenting every aspect of the history
and background of American culture from the colonial period
to the end of the 19th century. A collection of national
importance, its holdings number approximately half a million
printed volumes in a wide variety of formats.
Louisville
Institute - Its fundamental mission is to enrich the
religious life of American Christians and to encourage the
revitalization of their institutions, by bringing together
those who lead religious institutions with those who study
them, so that the work of each might stimulate and inform
the other.
The
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation - Dedicated
to helping groups and individuals foster lasting improvement
in the human condition.
National
Council for Eurasian and East European Research - Among
national research organizations, NCEEER is the largest provider
of resources to U.S. scholars for postdoctoral research
in these fields. Its support for research on the region
has produced direct benefits for U.S. policymakers, the
academic community, and nonprofit.
National Endowment for the
Humanities
National Institute
of Justice
New York Council for
the Humanities - Funds projects that stimulate public
consideration of the humanities, through several different
kinds of grants.
Omohundro
Institute of Early American History and Culture - Offers
fellowships in any area of early American studies.
Phi
Beta Kappa Society - Fosters and promotes the liberal
arts through the Scholarships and Awards it bestows upon
those who have excelled in the liberal arts and sciences.
This is done through fellowships, service awards and literary
awards.
Radcliffe
Institute Fellowships
Rockefeller Foundation
- Supports study at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center
in Italy and humanities fellowships held at various institutions.
Russell Sage Foundation
- Supports basic social research in four areas: future of
work, immigration, literacy and the social psychology of
cultural contact.
Rutgers
University for Research on Women - Promotes innovative
scholarship on women and gender through interdisciplinary
forums, lectures, and conferences that bring together IRW
affiliates with top visiting scholars from the US and abroad
Smith
Richardson Foundation - Seeks to help ensure the vitality
of our social, economic, and governmental institutions and
to assist with the development of effective policies to
compete internationally and to advance U.S. interests and
values abroad.
Social Science Research Council
- Scholars in the humanities and social sciences may apply
for programs on Germany, Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Japan,
Near and Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Applied
Economics, Sexuality, International Migration, and International
Peace and Security.
Stanford Humanities Center
- Promotes humanistic research and education and Stanford
University and nationally.
Truman
Presidential Museum & Library - The Harry S. Truman
Library Institute for National and International Affairs
is the private, non-profit partner of the Harry S. Truman
Library. The Institute's purpose is to foster the Truman
Library as a center for research and as a provider of educational
and public programs. Applications for funding will be considered
by the Institute's Committee on Research, Scholarship and
Academic Relations. organizations and American business.
The projects it has funded have helped people from all of
these fields gain a better understanding of current developments
and future prospects in the post-communist countries of
Europe and Eurasia.
U.S.
Civilian Research & Development Foundation - Promotes
scientific and technical collaboration between the United
States and the countries of the Former Soviet Union (FSU).
Wenner-Gren
Foundation - Supports basic research in any branch of
anthropology.
