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Funding SourcesSponsor: Dirksen (Everett M.) Cong. Leadership Res. Ctr.
Deadline(s):5/1, 10/1 annually
Objectives:
Funding will be provided for the projects that include but are not limited
to: lesson plans or student activities based on civic education Web
sites; projects that incorporate historical materials about Congress, or
the federal government more broadly, and instructional technology to
enhance civic instruction; activities that identify additional resources
for the teaching of civics; multi-disciplinary strategies for education in
civics; simulation exercises that convey the sense of civic responsibility
or engagement; curricular reform efforts designed to bring instruction in
line with state or national standards for education in civics; the design
of a university-level methods curriculum for preparing teachers to teach
about Congress or civics more broadly.
The Center will give priority to projects that involve teaching about Congress, that have reach beyond a single classroom or school (i.e., that show promise as a model and include plans to disseminate the product produced by the grant), that demonstrate innovation in teaching, and that have a practical as opposed to a theoretical application.
Eligibility:
Eligible applicants are teachers (4th through 12th grades), community and
junior college faculty, and college and university faculty, teacher-led
student teams and individuals who develop curriculum. Institutions and
organizations are eligible under certain conditions. Inter-institutional
consortia and other groups of individuals may apply, for example, but
grant funds may not be used to defray indirect costs or overhead
expenses. The funds are intended solely to produce "deliverable" of use to
classroom teachers.
Sponsor: Compton Foundation, Inc.
Deadline(s):2/15, 9/15 annually
Objectives:
Other concerns of the Foundation include Equal Educational Opportunity,
Community Welfare and Social Justice, and Culture & the Arts. The
Foundation is concerned first and foremost with the prevention of war, and
the amelioration of world conditions that tend to cause conflict. Primary
among these conditions are the increasing pressures and destabilizing
effects of excessive population growth, the depletion of the earth's
natural resources, the steady deterioration of the world's environment and
the tenuous status of human rights. The sponsor focuses most of its
grant-making in the areas of Peace and World Order, Population, and the
Environment, with special emphasis on projects that explore the
interconnections between these three categories. The Foundation believes
that prevention is a more effective strategy than remediation, that
research and activism should inform each other, and that both perspectives
are needed for productive public debate. In order to demonstrate what can
be done to bring about the necessary societal transformations, the
Foundation seeks to encourage positive models of change. Grants are made
for the following kinds of activities: education of the public; education
of policy makers; education of the media; advocacy and public
activism; demonstration projects; fellowship support to selected
institutions for promising young scholars; scholarly research in selected
academic centers of excellence, with special priority given to projects
which are interdisciplinary, are policy related, and lead to action.
Eligibility:
The Foundation primarily funds U.S. based organizations. The sponsor
actively encourages collaboration between agencies, institutions and/or
foundations, and projects that connect theory, research and
practice. Applicants must have demonstrated strong leadership and
management capability; have a proposed project with a specific focus in an
area not presently supported adequately by other sources of funding; have
a project that is responsive to the local population, involves local
people in the planning and implementation process, and takes into account
the cultural and economic impact of the project on the local
population; and have a project that requires a relatively modest
investment in order to make a significant impact. Priority is given to
projects which have more than local application, are replicable, and are
likely to be taken over and managed by a long-term funding source. In all
program areas, the Foundation has a special interest in providing support
for minorities. The Board will only consider one proposal from each
organization per year.
Sponsor: Hewlett (William & Flora) Foundation
Deadline(s):Open
Objectives:
The program works to redress four specific infrastructural problems in the
field: key institutions (particularly in Latin America) are not optimally
robust; human resources remain underdeveloped; essential information is
poor or nonexistent; and there exists a pervasive lack of understanding
about the societies and economies in Latin America region in the United
States, along with a reciprocal lack of understanding about the United
States in Latin America. Grants in the U.S.- Latin American Relations
program seek to overcome these obstacles primarily by building and
strengthening human and social capital. specifically, the program focuses
its efforts on providing grants of general support to increase
institutional capacity, particularly in Latin America, for policy-relevant
research, for the exchange of ideas and people, for advanced education and
training, and for outreach to and interaction with the policymaking
community. The program emphasizes collaboration among institutions --
most importantly between U.S. and Latin American institutions and among
Latin American institutions -- with the aim of strengthening the
institutional grassroots of current and future inter-American
relations.
Eligibility:
The program makes grants to the following four types of institutions and
programs: institutions that combine policy studies, exchange, fellowship
and training activities; policy studies; programs that enhance human
resources through graduate student and faculty exchange and visitor
programs, throughsupport of fellowships for foreign study ans through
specialized technical training; and organizations, especially professional
associations, that advance or enhance U.S.-Latin American
relations. Applicants must also be tax-exempt.
Sponsor: Bremer (Otto) Foundation
Deadline(s):Open
Objectives:
The sponsor provides support to promote human rights and create
opportunities for economic and social justice in Minnesota, Montana, North
Dakota, and Wisconsin.
Eligibility:
Eligible applicants are private nonprofit or public tax-exempt
organizations located in Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, or
Wisconsin.
Sponsor: Rockefeller Archive Center
Deadline(s):11/30 annually
Objectives:
The sponsor offers grants to promote and support periods of graduate and
postdoctoral research in its archival collections of members of the
Rockefeller family and of various philanthropic and educational
institutions founded by members of the Rockefeller family. Major subjects
at the Center include agriculture, the arts, African-American history,
education, international relations and economic development, labor,
medicine, philanthropy, politics, population, religion, science, social
welfare and the social sciences, and women's history.
Eligibility:
Eligible applicants are usually graduate students or postdoctoral scholars
in any discipline engaged in research that requires use of the collections
at the Center.
Sponsor: Bradley (Lynde and Harry) Foundation
Deadline(s):12/1, 3/1, 7/1, 9/1 annually
Objectives:
Projects likely to be supported will generally share these
assumptions: treat free men and women as genuinely self-governing,
personally responsible citizens, not as victims or clients; aim to restore
the intellectual and cultural legitimacy of citizenly common sense, the
received wisdom of experience, everyday morality, and personal character,
refurbishing their roles as reliable guideposts of everyday life; seek to
reinvigorate and re-empower the traditional, local institutions
--families, schools, churches, and neighborhoods -- that provide training
in and room for the exercise of genuine citizenship, that pass on everyday
morality to the next generation, and that cultivate personal
character; and encourage decentralization of power and accountability away
from centralized, bureaucratic, national institutions back to the states,
localities, and revitalized mediating structures where citizenship is more
fully realized.
Eligibility:
Eligible applicants are tax-exempt organizations and projects which are
not normally financed by public tax funds will be favored. Requests from
religious organizations will be considered only when the impact of the
project is not primarily denominational.
Sponsor: Truman (Harry S.) Library Institute
Deadline(s):4/1, 10/1 annually
Objectives:
The sponsor supports opportunities to conduct research on the career of
Harry S. Truman or the Truman Administration and use the archival
facilities of the Truman Library. Preference will be given to projects
that have application to enduring public policy and foreign policy issues
and that have a high probability of being published or publicly
disseminated in some other way. The potential contribution of a project
to an applicant's development as a scholar will also be considered.
Eligibility:
Eligible applicants are graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and other
researchers.
Sponsor:Independent Institute
Deadline:Open
Objectives:
Through participation in seminars and directed research, interns will
improve their understanding of public poicy issues and, through working
with the sponser's media department, they will see how policy institutes
operate in the world of public debate. Under the direction of Independent
Institute Fellows, interns conduct policy research on such topics as hight
technology and antitrust, environmental policy, crime and security, money
and finance, or health and welfare. They will gain valuable experience by
writing policy-related newspaper op-eds or magazine articles and by giving
radio interviews related to their research, as well as by providing
support for other sponser programs. Those interning in June will also
participate in the sponser's week-long, in-house Summer Seminar in
Political Economy.
Eligibility:
Undergraduate college students-preferably those studying economics, law,
public policy, political science or related social sciences-are eligible
for the summer internship program.
Sponsor:Century Foundation
Deadline: Open
Objectives:
The foundation sponsers and supervises research on significant economic,
social, and political issues. Sponser research projects usually are
designed to produce analytic, book-length manuscripts containing public
policy recommendations. They are aimed at an audience that includes the
informed public, the press, policymakers and the academic community. The
sponser commissions individual scholars to carry out its research
projects, and the book-length manuscripts that result are edited and then
usually placed by the sponser with commercial publishers or university
presses. Please contact the sponser or visit the above website to gain
eligibility information or in regards to any further questions.
Sponsor:RAND
Deadline: Open
Objectives:
The sponser provides a fellowship to enable outstanding new scholars in
education policy to sharpen their analytic skills, learn to communicate
research results effectively, and advance their research agendas. The
program blends formal and informal training and extensive collaboration
with distinguished researchers in a variety of disciplines. Fellows will
spend sixty percent of their time on an appropriate sponser Education
project and forty percent of their time on their own research.
Eligibility:
Fellows must have completed a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline such as
education, psychology, sociology, economics, statistics, anthropology, or
political science within the last five years.
Sponsor:Spencer Foundation
Deadline:Open
Objectives:
The sponsor's mission is to fund activities, anywhere in the world, which
foster new ideas in education and encourage creativity. The sponsor
prefers to fund specific initiatives that conform to the mission
statement.
Eligibility:
The sponsor funds activities from anywhere in the world.
Sponsor:American Association for the Advancement of Science
Deadline: 7/15/2003
Objectives:
The program is designed to increase the participation of women in
international scientific research. Only fields funded by the National
Science Foundation and interdisciplinary research cutting across these
fields are eligible, including archaeology, anthropology, astronomy,
biochemistry, biophysics and genetics, biological sciences, chemistry,
computer science, earth sciences, economics, engineering, environmental
sciences, geography, history and philosophy of science, linguistics,
mathematics, physics, political science, non-clinically oriented
psychology, science and technology policy, science education, and
sociology.
Eligibility:
Men and women scientists who have their Ph.D.s or equivalent research
experience are eligible to apply. They must be U.S. citizens or permanent
residents of the U.S. Applications from male co-PIs must be accompanied by
an application from a female co-PI as part of a US research team, except
as noted below for the Americas. Male and female graduate students
(Ph.D. candidates) are also eligible to apply, if they will be conducting
research in an established Ph.D. program in the US. Male graduate students
still need a female co-PI. Government employees can only apply if they
also are affiliated with another institution eligible to receive NSF
grants. Scientists who have received their doctoral degrees within the
past six years will receive special consideration, as will scientists
applying to work with colleagues in less frequently represented countries
or regions. Where feasible, applications are encouraged with foreign
partners who are women and/or early in their professional careers (within
six years of receiving their Ph.D.).
Sponser:Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc.
Deadline:Open
Objectives:
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