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On this page, you'll find direct links to state of Minnesota and federal websites. You'll also find links and brief descriptions of Foundations, Corporations, and other sources of funding outside of the University of Minnesota system.
- American Association of University Women
Since 1881 the American Association of University Women has been the nation's leading voice promoting education and equity for women and girls. AAUW is composed of three corporations: the Association, which advocates education and equity; the AAUW Educational Foundation , which is the world's largest source of funding exclusively for graduate women, and the AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund , which is the nation's largest legal fund focused solely on sex discrimination in higher education.
- American Astronomical Society
Grants awards to Ph.D. astronomers for research or for international observational astronomy.
- American Chemical Society
Offers several programs including educational scholarships and grants for disadvantaged students, and grants for research in agricultural chemistry and advanced scientific education and fundamental research in the petroleum field.
- American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund
The Petroleum Research Fund was established in 1944 by seven major oil companies. ACS must use the income "for advanced scientific education and fundamental research in the 'petroleum field', which may include any field of pure science which ... may afford a basis for subsequent research directly connected with the petroleum field". Grants are made to nonprofit academic institutions in the United States and other countries in response to proposals.
- American Council of Learned Societies
The American Council of Learned Societies is a private non-profit federation of sixty-four national scholarly organizations. The mission of the ACLS, as set forth in its Constitution, is "the advancement of humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and the social sciences and the maintenance and strengthening of relations among the national societies devoted to such studies."
- American Express Philanthropic Grants Program
American Express supports hundreds of nonprofit organizations each year through its foundation and corporate giving activities. Grants are made under three program themes that reflect our company values and complement our business priorities. These three themes are: Community Service, Cultural Heritage, and Economic Independence
- American Geological Institute
Sponsors scholarships for geoscience majors from ethnic minority groups that are underrepresented in the sciences.
- American Philosophical Society
The APS promotes useful knowledge in the sciences and humanities through excellence in scholarly research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach. The APS sponsors five research grant programs. A large general program is complemented by specialized ones for jurisprudence, clinical medicine, North American Indians, and the history of science.
- American Political Science Association (APSA)
APSA offers a number of grants, including the Congressional Fellowship Program, Small Research Grant Program, Minority Fellows Program, and the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute.
- American Society for Microbiology
Offers undergraduate research fellowships for research with ASM member faculty mentors.
- Ameritech Foundation
The foundation supports multistate (including Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin) and national programs in education, regional economic development, and public policy. Areas of interest include health and human services, civic and community, elementary and secondary education, higher education, and arts and culture. Priority is given to grant requests that advance the applications of technology in ways that improve these program areas.
- Annenberg Foundation
The Annenberg Foundation focuses primarily on pre-collegiate education, specifically on public school restructuring and reform, grades K through 12. The areas of particular interest are Public Education K-12, Early Childhood Education in relation to public education at the primary level, and Child Development and Youth Services.
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Arts Midwest
The Performing Arts Fund of Arts Midwest supports the touring of professional performing artists specializing in the fine arts of dance, theater, music, youth and family entertainment, and other meaningful performing arts forms appropriate for communities throughout Arts Midwest's nine-state region. These engagements include public performances and in-depth educational activities reaching audiences that lack access to the performing arts. Performing Arts Fund grants are applied for by and made directly to presenting organizations in our nine-state region (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin).
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Asian Cultural Council
The Asian Cultural Council is a foundation supporting cultural exchange in the visual and performing arts between the United States and Asia.
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AT&T Foundation
AT&T supports a variety of comprehensive programs through direct grants and employee-directed contributions. We want our grants to serve as enablers in helping organizations fulfill their missions and expand their services into the community. Bringing the benefits of technology and employee engagement to the customer and the local communities where we have a presence is what we're all about. Therefore, it should be no surprise that many of the programs we fund are tied to inventive use of technology and the spirit of volunteerism. Our focus of support is in the following program areas at the intersection of society's needs and our corporate expertise and interests: Education, Arts and Cultures, and Civic and Community Service.
- Australian Research Council
The Australian Research Council (ARC) plays a key role in the Australian Government's investment in the future prosperity and well-being of the Australian community. The ARC's mission is to advance Australia's capacity to undertake quality research that brings economic, social and cultural benefit to the Australian community.
- The Blandin Foundation
The mission of the Blandin Foundation is to strengthen rural Minnesota communities. Blandin grants, outside of Itasca County, are restricted to these focus areas: Education (mainly k-12), Cultural Opportunities, Community Leadership Training, Environmental Stewardship, Safe Communities, and Economic Opportunity.
- The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
The Bradley Foundation aims to encourage projects that focus on cultivating a renewed, healthier, and more vigorous sense of citizenship among the American people and peoples of other nations. Projects likely to be supported by the Foundation will treat free men and women as genuinely self-governing, personally responsible citizens, aim to restore the intellectual and cultural legitimacy of citizenly common sense, seek to reinvigorate and reempower the traditional, local institutions, and will encourage decentralization of power away from centralized, bureaucratic, national institutions. Community and state projects in the areas of Milwaukee and Wisconsin will receive special consideration.
- Otto Bremer Foundation
The Otto Bremer Foundation is to be an accessible and responsible financial resource to aid in the development and cohesion of communities within the states of Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, and Montana. The foundation makes grants in four areas: Eliminating Racism, Communities, St. Paul, and Non-Geographic.
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is a foundation established to advance the medical sciences by supporting research and other scientific and educational activities. Specific interests include: Career Development of Scientists, Pharmacology/Toxicology/Experimental Therapeutics, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Reproductive Science, Interfaces Between the Physical/Chemical/Computational Sciences and the Biological Sciences, Science Education, and Environment for Science.
- Carnegie Corporation
The Carnegie Corporation of New York was created in 1911 to promote "the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding". Grants must benefit the people of the United States, although up to 7.4 percent of fund may be used for the same purpose on countries that are or have been members of the British Commonwealth, with a current emphasis on Commonwealth Africa. As a grantmaking foundation, the corporation seeks to carry out Carnegie's vision of philanthropy, which he said should aim "to do real and permanent good in this world".
- Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
DIMACS is a collaborative effort of scientists, industry, and colleges nationwide, working together to play a national leadership role in the development, application and dissemination of discrete mathematics (dm) and theoretical computer science (tcs) by supporting Research, Application of methods and results from these fields to other areas, and Promoting the incorporation of contemporary mathematical ideas and techniques into classrooms at all levels.
- Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
The Foundation is a private organization whose purpose is to promote the study of Chinese culture and society. Grants are available under the categories of institutional enhancement, research, conference and seminars, and subsidies for publication. There are also fellowships available for graduate students, and post-doctoral research.
- The Coca-Cola Foundation
The Coca-Cola Foundation aims to provide youth with the educational opportunities and support systems they need to become knowledgeable about the world in which they live and better able to give back to their communities. It offers support to public and private colleges and universities, elementary and secondary schools, teacher-training programs, educational programs for minority students and global educational programs. The Coca-Cola Foundation devotes much of its efforts to partnership in three main areas: 1)higher education, 2)classroom teaching and learning, and 3)global education.
- Community of Science Funding Opportunities
The Community of Science World Wide Web server contains information about scientific Expertise, funded scientific research, and funding opportunities for research.
- Council for International Exchange of Scholars
CIES works in cooperation with the U.S. government in the administration of the Fulbright Scholar Program. CIES is affiliated administratively with the Institute of International Education (IIE). CIES publicizes the annual competition, oversees the peer review process and recommendation of American scholars for lecturing and postdoctoral research awards abroad, and arranges for the academic affiliation and programs of visiting scholars in the United States. In addition to the Fulbright Scholar Program, CIES administers the NATO Advanced Research Fellowships and Institutional Grants Program.
- Charles E. Culpeper Foundation (Merged with Rockefeller Brothers Fund)
The Culpeper foundation is a private non-profit foundation which makes grants in the following areas: Health, Education, Arts & Culture, and Administration of Justice.
- Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
The Foundation's main purpose is "to advance the science of chemistry, chemical engineering and related sciences as a means of improving human relations and circumstances around the world." Programs include Faculty Award programs, Scholar/Fellow programs for Undergraduate Institutions, and grants for Environmental Chemistry and other chemical research.
- Energy Foundation
The foundation's mission is to assist in the nation's transition to a sustainable energy future by promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy.
- The Foundation Center
The Center's mission is to foster public understanding of the foundation field by collecting, organizing, analyzing, and disseminating information on foundations, corporate giving, and related subjects. The Center also maintains a list of nearly 200 grant making foundations and charities, with descriptions of the types of awards each makes.
- William H. Gates Foundation
The William H. Gates Foundation supports initiatives in education, world health and population, and community giving in the Pacific Northwest.
- Gill Foundation
The mission of the Gill Foundation is to secure equal opportunity for all people, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
- the Goethe Institut
The Goethe Institut is a worldwide, non-profit, semi-private organization promoting the German language and culture. It is partially funded by the Foreign Ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany. The Goethe Institut offers German language courses, cultural programs, information resources, and The Goethe Medal.
- Guggenheim Foundation
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation provides fellowships for advanced professionals in all fields (natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, creative arts) except the performing arts.
- Heartland Arts Fund
The Heartland Arts Fund is now the Performing Arts Fund, sponsored by Arts Midwest.
- Herb Society of America
The Herb Society of America issues grants to further the knowledge and use of herbs and contribute the results of the study and research to the records of horticulture, science, literature, history, art, and/or economics. Eligible to persons with a proposed program of scientific, academic, or artistic investigation of herbal plants.
- George A. and Eliza Howard Foundation Fellowships
The Foundation awards a limited number of fellowships each year for independent projects in fields selected on a rotational basis. Ten fellowships will be offered for the 2004-2005 fellowship year to support persons engaged in independent projects in the following fields: 2004-2005: Creative Writing in English including Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Creative Non-Fiction The Foundation will make future awards in a sequence which represents a two-year cycle devoted to the Arts followed by a year devoted to the Social Sciences. Future awards are anticipated in the following fields: 2005-2006: Literary Criticism, Film Criticism and Translation 2006-2007: Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy 2007-2008: Painting, Sculpture and Art History Stipends for one year are normally $20,000. There are no residency requirements.
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grants research fellowships and research awards to highly qualified scholars and scientists of all nationalities not resident in Germany, enabling them to undertake periods of research in Germany as well as research fellowships to German scholars. Programs include a 2-year post-doc fellowship or summer fellowship for U.S. scientists and scholars, the German Chancellor scholarship for prospective leaders in academic, economic, political, and social fields, and the Transcoop program which supports research cooperation among German, American, and/or Canadian scholars in humanities, social sciences, economics and law.
- Independent Television Service
The Independent Television Service funds public television projects (including documentaries) that result in single programs of standard broadcast length (56:40 and 26:40). Proposals are accepted March 15 and Sept. 15 annually. You can download application guidelines in PDF format at www.itvs.org.
- Jerome Foundation
The Jerome Foundation supports programs in dance, literature, media arts, music, theater, performance art, the visual arts, multidisciplinary work and arts criticism. The Foundation is concerned with providing financial assistance to emerging creative artists of promise, most often assisted through programs operated by nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations. The Foundation focuses on artists who are living and working in Minnesota and New York City.
- Joyce Foundation
The Joyce Foundation supports efforts to strengthen public policies in ways that improve the quality of life in the Great Lakes region. Its program areas are Education, Employment, Environment, Gun Violence, Money and Politics, and Culture.
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
The W. K. Kellogg Foundation's mission is to apply knowledge to solve the problems of people. Their main interests are in Health; Food Systems and Rural Development; Youth and Education, and Higher Education; and Philanthropy and Volunteerism. Funding for Leadership; Information Systems/Technology; Capitalizing on Diversity; and Social and Economic Community Development is woven throughout the above interests.
- Leakey Foundation
The Leakey Foundation was formed to further research into human origins, behavior, and survival. Recent priorities include research into the environments, archeology, and human paleontology of the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene; into the behavior, morphology, and ecology of the great apes and other primate species; and into the behavioral ecology of contemporary hunter gatherers. Other areas of study have been funded occasionally.
- Lindbergh Foundation
These grants primarily support projects geared to addressing the balance of technological growth with the preservation of the human and natural environment. Areas of study include agriculture, biomedical research, conservation of natural resources, health and population sciences, oceanography, waste disposal management, and wildlife preservation.
- 3M
3M supports: 1. Education, targeted to higher education in science, technology, and business. 2. Health and human services targeted to agencies/programs that improve quality and address gaps in service delivery systems. Special interests are in youth development, parenting and strengthening families. Special consideration is given to charities that serve disadvantaged communities. 3. Enhancing creative and cultural life in 3M communities through grants to major arts organizations. Special consideration is given to organizations that collaborate with others and partner with education. 4. Efforts targeting economic and community development and job training, making 3M communities a better place to live. Fund programs in trade, economics and law that foster a free-enterprise system.
- The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
The MacArthur Foundation makes grants primarily through eight programs: Community Initiatives, Education, General, Health, Fellows, Peace, Population, and Environment.
- Markle Foundation
The Markle Foundation initiates and supports research, analysis, programming, and the development of innovative communications, products and services through three active program areas: Media and Political Participation, Interactive Communications Technologies, and Communications Policy. They do NOT fund grants for general support, individuals (scholarships, dissertations, stipends), projects within formal educational institutions (curriculum development, classroom technology, distance learning), equipment purchases, endowments, capital campaigns, and web sites or conferences not integral to specific projects in which they are active.
- The Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation
The foundation provides two major grants programs in the areas of Journalism and Education. They also have programs for Communities and Citizenship.
- McKnight Foundation
The McKnight Foundation strives to help individuals, families, and communities become more productive and self-sufficient. They support nonprofit organizations and public agencies in the following areas and for the following purposes:
Human Services: To assist organizations working with individuals and families whose opportunities are limited by social, institutional, or economic barriers. Communities: To strengthen neighborhoods and communities and enhance their economic vitality. Housing: To help meet the growing need for affordable housing in urban and rural areas. Public Affairs: To advance understanding of important community issues and encourage citizens to participate in public decision-making. Arts: To expand access to the arts, encourage and support excellence, and improve the management of arts organizations. Environment: To maintain and restore the health of the Mississippi River and to encourage energy conservation and the use of alternative energy in Minnesota. International: To support projects enhancing women's economic opportunities in three African countries; to strengthen health services and human development programs in three Southeast Asian countries; and to support international conflict resolution and human rights. Research and Applied Science: To support scientific research related to memory, eating disorders, and plant biology related to food crops important in less developed countries.
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The purpose of the Foundation is to "aid and promote such religious, charitable, scientific, literary, and educational purposes as may be in the furtherance of the public welfare or tend to promote the well-doing or well-being of mankind." The Foundation currently makes grants on a selective basis to institutions in higher education; in cultural affairs and the performing arts; in population; in conservation and the environment; and in public affairs.
- Microsoft Corporation
Driven by the belief that amazing things happen when people get the resources they need, Microsoft has been using technology to spark the potential in individuals and communities since 1983. Last year alone, Microsoft and its employees gave over $246.9 million to help people and communities realize their potential. The Corporation is serious about making the world a better place and strives to make this happen by making significant contributions to broadening access to technology and creating digital opportunities.
- The Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory
Offers research fellowships for both undergraduates and faculty in biological and biomedical sciences.
- Mott Foundation
The Mott Foundation's grantmaking is organized into four programs: Civil Society, Environment, Flint, and Poverty. The mission of the Civil Society program is to strengthen citizen and nonprofit sector engagement in support of free and pluralistic democratic societies, with primary geographic focus on the United States, Central/Eastern Europe and Russia, South Africa, and at the global level. The mission of the Environmental grantmaking is to "support the efforts of an engaged citizenry working to create accountable and responsive institutions, sound public policies, and appropriate models of development that protect the diversity and integrity of selected ecosystems in North America and around the world". The mission of the Flint Area program is to foster a well-functioning, connected community that is capable of meeting the economic, social, and racial challenges ahead. The mission of the Poverty program is to nurture systemic change, create opportunities that empower people and identify new paradigms for alleviating poverty.
- Musser Fund
The Laura Jane Musser Fund was established by the estate of Laura Jane Musser of Little Falls, Minnesota to continue the personal philanthropy which she practiced in her lifetime. The areas of interest are:
- Building a community based approach to solving environmental problems and encouraging environmental stewardship
- Participatory smaller arts programs for underserved children: K-12
- Reducing unacceptable behaviors in the schools: K-12
- Developing leadership in rural communities
- Intercultural harmony
- NEC Foundation of America
The NEC corporate philosophy is reflected in the focus of NEC Foundation of America, which is on organizations and programs with national reach and impact in one or both of the following arenas: science and technology education, principally at the secondary level, and/or the application of technology to assist people with disabilities.
- National Initiative for Women in Higher Education
The National Initiative for Women in Higher Education is a grassroots network of feminists and allies who believe that women have created fundamental change in American higher education in the past three decades, and that collectively women have the resources to move the academy to the next stages of inclusive transformation. NIWHE's National Initiative for Women in Higher Education focuses on the principles of Inclusion, Historical Perspective, Critical Thinking, and Democratic Technology. Their website features many different funding opportunities, including the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation awards, the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies, Congressional Fellowships on Women and Public Policy, and many more. See their website for a current listing of these opportunities.
- National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Society (NGS) awards grants for exploration and scientific field-research through its Committee for Research and Exploration (CRE). All proposed projects must have both a geographical dimension, and relevance to other scientific fields. Applications are generally limited to the following disciplines: anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, biology, botany, geography, geology, oceanography, paleontology, and zoology.
- NSF CISE Research Infrastructure Program
The program provides assistance to activities for integration of research and education to stimulate experimental work in CISE (Computer and Information Science and Engineering) research as measured by increased scientific activity and increased participation in research of both faculty and graduate students.
- NSF Environmental Molecular Science Institutes (EMSI) Program
The EMSI program is aimed at increasing understanding of natural processes and processes resulting from human activities in the environment at the molecular level. This program will support cohesive, interdisciplinary group efforts by universities, including partnerships with industry and/or other governmental agencies. This program focuses on basic research on fundamental issues that underpin our understanding of the relationship of molecular scale phenomena in chemistry and geochemistry, and on the prevention and the amelioration of environmental problems caused by societal activities that are energy- and pollution-intensive. An EMSI award typically supports groups of 6 or more investigators with complementary research interests and creates broad educational experiences for students.
- NSF Major Research Instrumentation Program
The MRI program assists in the acquisition or development of major research instrumentation by U.S. institutions that is, in general, too costly for support through other NSF programs. It seeks to improve the quality and expand the scope of research and research training in science and engineering, and to foster the integration of research and education by providing instrumentation for research-intensive learning environments.
- Newberry Library Fellowships in the Humanities
The Newberry Library is one of the world's leading independent research libraries, embracing the history and literature of the civilizations of western Europe and the Americas from the Middle Ages through World War I. The collection numbers 1.5 million books, 5 million manuscript pages, and 300,000 historic maps.
There are a few different types of fellowships available: Long-Term Fellowships extend over a period of 6-11 months with a stipend of $40,000, generally. They are available to post-doctoral scholars. Short-Term Fellowships extend from 1 week to 2 months with a stipend of $1200/month, generally. These fellowships are available to post-doctoral scholars or PhD candidates from outside the Chicago area who have a specific need for the Newberry collection. The general DEADLINE is February 15, 2004. Please note that some fellowships have different deadlines, so please check that carefully.
There are also a number of special scholarships for women of Native American heritage, exchanges to England, France, and Germany, and a publication subsidy.
- Northwest Area Foundation
The Foundation is seeking to help communities most in need create positive futures economically, ecologically, and socially. To implement this mission, the Foundation will help communities work toward a balanced system that will reduce poverty; stimulate economic growth; sustain the natural environment; and develop effective institutions, relationships, and individuals. Individual grants for single projects are no longer being awarded, and the Foundation is no longer accepting grant applications of any type.
- Noyes Foundation
The Noyes Foundation is committed to protecting and restoring Earth's natural systems and promoting a sustainable society by strengthening individuals, institutions and communities pledged to pursuing those goals. The Foundation makes grants primarily in the areas of environment and reproductive rights. The components of our program are: Toxics, sustainable agriculture, sustainable communities, reproductive rights, metro New York environment, and related interests.
- Philanthrofund (PFund)
Pfund is a catalyst in building communities in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest where gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are celebrated and live free from discrimination, violence, invisibility and isolation. PFund has granted more than half a million dollars to an extensive range of GLBT-related causes and organizations including grassroots GLBT organizations that might not otherwise find funding.
- The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
The Foundation provides grants to nonprofit organizations in the following broad program areas: Science, Children, Population, Conservation, Arts and Film Preservation, Education, Community and Special Areas that include Organizational Effectiveness and Philanthropy.
- The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Trusts make grants to nonprofit organizations working in the areas of culture, education, the environment, health and human services, public policy, religion, and several interdisciplinary issues.
- QWest
The Qwest Foundation awards grants that generate high impact and measurable results through community-based programs, including K-12 education and economic development.
- Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is a scholarly community where individuals pursue advanced work across a wide range of academic disciplines, professions, or creative arts. Within this broad purpose, and in recognition of Radcliffe's historic contributions to the education of women and to the study of issues related to women, the Radcliffe Institute sustains a continuing commitment to the study of women, gender, and society.
- Research Corporation
Grants are made for original research in chemistry, physics, and astronomy at colleges and universities throughout the United States and Canada.
- Retirement Research Foundation
The Retirement Research Foundation has been interested in innovative projects which develop and/or demonstrate new approaches to the problems of older Americans and have the potential for national or regional impact. Funding for direct service programs which do not have this potential is limited to Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Wisconsin and Florida. In addition, the Foundation has a special interest in, and commitment to, serving the Chicago Metropolitan area and gives priority to nonprofit organizations serving this geographic area.
- The Rockefeller Brothers Fund
The Fund makes grants in five areas. The first, "One World", is made up of two components, Sustainable Resource Use and World Security, and the major portion of grant funds are applied to this area. Projects are located, for the most part, in East Asia, East Central Europe, or the United States. The other four areas are Nonprofit Sector, Education, New York City, and Special Concerns (South Africa).
- The Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation is a philanthropic organization chartered for the well-being of people throughout the world. The Foundation's work is divided among the following program areas: the arts and humanities, equal opportunity and school reform, agricultural sciences, health sciences, population sciences, global environment, and African initiatives including female education.
- Russell Sage Foundation
The Russell Sage Foundation is an operating foundation dedicated to programs of basic social science research in three program areas: research on the future of work, concerned with the causes and consequences of the decline in demand for low-skill workers in advanced economies; research on current U.S. immigration that focuses on the adaptation of the second generation to American society; and social-psychological research on improving relations among racial and ethnic groups in schools, workplaces, and neighborhood settings.
- Searle Scholars Program
The Searle Scholars Program makes grants to selected universities and research centers to support the independent research of exceptional young faculty who are in the first or second year of their first appointment at the assistant professor level, and whose current appointment is a tenure-track position in the biomedical sciences and chemistry.
- Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
Sigma Xi is an international research society whose programs and activities promote the health of the scientific enterprise and honor scientific achievement. Research awards are made to support scientific investigation in any field.
- The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The main interests and programs of the Foundation are concentrated primarily in these areas: Science and Technology, Standard of Living and Economic Performance, Education and Careers in Science and Technology, Civic Projects.
- Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program
Fellowships are only offered to support research at Smithsonian facilities or field stations.
- Social Science Research Council
The SSRC is devoted to the advancement of interdisciplinary research in the social sciences. The awards cover graduate training, dissertation work, postdoctoral training and research, professional foreign travel, and institutional support.
- Spencer Foundation
The Foundation is intended to investigate ways in which education can be improved around the world. It has been dedicated to the belief that research is necessary to the improvement of education and is thus committed to supporting high-quality investigation of education through its research programs and to strengthening and renewing the educational research community through its fellowship and training programs and related activities.
- Sprint
The Sprint Foundation "serves to extend the community leadership position of the corporation and the active participation of its employees in civic and charitable endeavors". The Foundation makes direct grants and also administers a matching gifts program for Sprint employees and retirees. The Foundation's charitable giving program emphasizes support of local and regional organizations in those communities in which the corporation has a major presence. Support of national organizations with a broad sphere of interest is considered on a case by case basis. Major areas of interest include education, arts and culture, community improvement, and youth development.
- The Turner Foundation
The Turner Foundation supports conservation and preservation issues by offering programs in the following categories: Energy, Water/Toxins, Forests/Habitats, and Population.
- USBancorp
The sponser provides funding to non-profit organizations in their 24-state banking region, focusing on community development.
- W.F. Albright Institute of Archeological Research
The W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research 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.
- The West Central Initiative
The West Central Initiative is a public foundation established to enhance the viability of west central Minnesota. Current programs include: Quality Employment Initiative, Workforce Initiative, Housing Initiative, Community Initiative, Family Initiative, and Economic Development District.
- William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
The Foundation's broad purpose is to promote the well-being of mankind by supporting selected activities of a charitable nature, as well as organizations or institutions engaged in such activities. The Foundation concentrates its resources on activities in education, performing arts, population, environment, conflict resolution, family and community development, and U.S.-Latin American relations. Special projects outside these broad areas may from time to time be approved by the Board of Directors.
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