Grants & Funding Information Service
Funding Resources by Subject Area
General Funding Sites
Science-Oriented Funding Sites
Social Science-Oriented Funding Sites
Education-Oriented Funding Sites
Art-Oriented Funding Sites
Library-Related Funding
General Funding Sites
- Michigan State Unviersity's Grants
for Individuals
Maintained by MSU librarian Jon Harrison. Lists funding opportunities by academic level, population group, and subject.
- Cornell
Graduate Fellowship Notebook
A searchable directory of graduate and postdoc fellowship opportunities developed by Cornell University. Most
useful if you are looking for information on specific programs.
- Graduate
and Postdoctoral Extramural Support Database at UCLA (GRAPES)
Searchable database for graduate fellowships and postdoctoral opportunities.
- UCLA's
Scholarship Resource Center's Free Scholarship Search Service Page
Includes a wide range of online scholarship search services, including
some specifically for graduate students (further down the list).
- Scholarships,
Fellowships & Postdoctoral Awards for College, Graduate School & Postdoctoral
Study
Maintained by Francisco Alberto Tomei Torres, Ph.D. and
includes the categories: Nationally Coveted, Science & Engineering, Human
Health, Women, Minorities, Hodgepodge and Multiple Sources.
- The
Institute for Humane Studies
At George Mason University, a source for
both scholarships and research grants for graduate students with an interest
in ideas of liberty.
- Internet
Prospector Foundations/Grants Directory
Collection of funding opportunities mined from the internet and published monthly.
- The
FinAid Grants Page
Provides grant information for students and links
to federal, private, and other funding opportunities pages.
- Yahoo's
Grants Page
- Pacific
Northwest Scholarship Guide
Maintained by the nonprofit College Planning
Network, serving students of the Pacific Northwest.
- FinAid for Graduate Students
.
- Fastweb
Fill out a short survey to see what funding opportunities are available to you. Lists many corporate opportunities that are not in other databases and directories. Fastweb does not spam its members.
- U.S.
Department of Education Student Guide 2000-2001
Includes information
about federal education grants and loans.
- The
Free Scholarship Searches Page
Provides links to a number of free scholarship
searching tools.
- The
Federal Empolyee Education & Assistance Fund
Provides college scholarship money for federal and postal employees
and their family members. Graduate school scholarships are available.
Science-Oriented Funding
Sites
- GrantsNet
Funding opportunities for training in the biological and medical sciences
(a joint venture of the Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)). Also includes a funding directory
of over 690 programs with contact information.
- International
Grants Finder
From Nature magazine: "...a comprehensive, up to date
and easy to use service offered by Nature for locating postgraduate
and professional grants available in the scientific fields worldwide. Updated
annually, the information offered here has been extracted from Macmillan Reference
Ltd UK's invaluable Grant's Register, which is available in both print and
CD-ROM formats."
- American
Association for the Advancement of Science
The American Association
for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is a nonprofit professional society
dedicated to the advancement of scientific and technological excellence across
all disciplines, and to the public's understanding of science and technology.
- NextWave
Science's NextWave is a weekly online publication that covers scientific
training, career development, and the science job market. The Next Wave is
published by Science magazine and the American Association for the Advancement
of Science. It is a not-for-profit publication. It includes a very useful
Index
of Funding News and Resources and a Grants
for Women in Science page.
- The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
-
Oak
Ridge Institute for Science and Education
- Environmental Fellowships
and Grants
from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
- The National Academies
Their Fellowship Office of Policy and Global Affairs administers predoctoral, dissertation, and postdoctoral fellowship programs in research-based fields of study.
Social Science-Oriented
Funding Sites
Education-Oriented
Funding Sites
Arts-Oriented Funding
Sites
- College Art Association
Professional Development Fellowships for Artists and Art Historians
- Resources
in Art History for Graduate Students
"This continuously updated
newsletter lists grants, fellowships, internships and study abroad opportunities
for graduate students in art history and closely related areas such
as humanities and visual art studies. It also carries listings of art
history conferences and publication opportunities of particular interest
to graduate students. Some listings are also open to undergraduates
or to postdocs."
- Arts Wire, maintained by the New York Foundation
for the Arts, offers access to a comprehensive list of resources for individual artists in the visual, media, performing and literary arts.
- Art
Deadlines List
"A free email newsletter listing art competitions, art
scholarships, art grants, juried exhibitions, art jobs & internships, call
for entries/proposals/papers, writing & photo contests, residencies, design
& architecture competitions, auditions, tryouts, fellowships, festivals, funding,
financial aid, and other opportunities (including some that take place on
the web) for artists, art educators and art students of all ages."
- Artist's
Resource Letter from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Check out the link for the Artist's Resource Center.
- J.
Paul Getty Trust funds scholarship in the history of art, art conservation,
and related fields.
- Arts
International
"Arts International encourages connections between
U.S. artists and audiences and their counterparts around the world through
its grantmaking, capacity-building, exchange and information programs."
- Art History Fellowships
The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers offers resident fellowships to art history majors at both the predoctoral and postdoctoral level. Some fellowships are also available for travel abroad.
- Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Fellowships
Opportunities for study at the National Gallery of Art, Library of Congress and other specialized collections in the Washington D.C. area, as well as lectures, symposia, and information discussions.
Library Science-Related Funding
Sites
Last Modified: 5/08/08