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Following are outside agencies that offer funding opportunities to
individuals and organizations. Agencies are listed alphabetically,
rather than by academic focus, as the majority of grants offered are
multidisciplinary.
Extramural Funding Opportunities
and Grant Proposal Preparation Assistance
are available via the following UCLA websites:
Strategic Research Initiatives for the North Campus (SRI-NC)
UCLA’s Office of Contract and Grant Administration
To
search this page for an agency that supports a specific
discipline, press "Ctrl" and "F" on your keyboard, and enter the key word(s) that
best describes the area you are interested in (i.e. health, art, social
science).
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ)
Provides evidence-based information on health care outcomes;
quality; and cost, use, and access. Information from AHRQ’s research
helps people make more informed decisions and improve the quality of
health care services. (Formerly known as the Agency for Health Care
Policy & Research.
American Council of Learned Societies
A private non-profit federation of sixty-six national
scholarly organizations whose mission 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."
The
Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
A federal agency funding state, local, and tribal organizations to
provide family assistance (welfare), child support, child care, Head
Start, child welfare, and other programs relating to children and
families.
The 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."
California Arts Council
Grant awards help to support artistic programming,
strengthen internal management, assist in the employment of professional
staff and artists, and provide access to the arts for all Californians.
California HealthCare Foundation
An independent philanthropy committed to improving
California's health care delivery and financing systems.
The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
To support and encourage new research and scholarship
about the Holocaust on a national and international basis.
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Seeks to fulfill its mission of supporting efforts that
promote a just, equitable and sustainable society.
Coca-Cola Foundation
Aims to provide youth with the educational opportunities
and support systems they need to become knowledgeable and productive
citizens.
Compton Foundation, Inc.
Founded to address community, national and
international concerns in the fields of Peace & World Order, Population,
and the Environment. Other concerns of the Foundation include Equal
Educational Opportunity, Community Welfare & Social Justice, and Culture
& the Arts.
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES)
U.S. Department of Agriculture grant opportunities.
Council for International
Exchange of Scholars
(The Fulbright Foundation)
Grants are
made to U.S. citizens and nationals of other countries for a variety of
educational activities, primarily university lecturing, advanced
research, graduate study and teaching in elementary and secondary
schools.
Cultural Funding: Federal Opportunities
A National Endowment for the Arts
online resource of Federal funding available for arts initiatives
through national, state and local funding programs.
David and Lucile Packard
Foundation
Provides grants to nonprofit organizations in the
following program areas: Conservation; Population; Science; Children,
Families, and Communities; Arts; and Organizational Effectiveness and
Philanthropy.
The
Ford Foundation
A resource for innovative people and institutions
worldwide seeking to strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and
injustice, promote international cooperation and advance human
achievement.
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Mission: to nurture and enrich an informed and creative
public dialogue concerning architecture and the built environment.
Henry J. Kaiser Family
Foundation
An independent philanthropy focusing on the major health care issues
facing the nation.
IBM
Offers grants in area of Education and
also provides smaller grants in the areas of Adult Education and
Workforce Development, Arts and Culture, Communities in Need, and the
Environment.
Institute for Humane Studies
Devoted to research and education in the
conviction that greater understanding of human affairs and freedom would
foster peace, prosperity, and social harmony.
Institute
of Museum and Library Services
A federal grant-making agency that promotes leadership,
innovation, and a lifetime of learning by supporting the nation's
museums and libraries.
International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX)
US nonprofit organization specializing in higher
education, independent media, Internet development, and civil society
programs in the United States, Europe, Eurasia, the Near East, and Asia.
Awards grants to individuals, collaborative groups, and organizations
through the programs that it administers.
J. Paul Getty Trust
Provides support to institutions and individuals
throughout the world for projects that promote the understanding of art
and its history and the conservation of cultural heritage.
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Fellowships
to Assist Research and Artistic Creation.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
A federally funded resource
offering justice and substance abuse information to support research,
policy, and program development worldwide.
The Nathan Cummings Foundation
Core grant programs include arts and culture; the
environment; health; interprogram initiatives for social and economic
justice; and the Jewish life and values/contemplative practice programs.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
This web site allows immediate access to Research
Opportunities currently being offered by the NASA Offices listed below
at NASA Headquarters.
National Endowment for the Humanities
An independent grant-making agency of the United States
government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation,
and public programs in the humanities.
National Endowment for the Arts
Supports works of artistic excellence, advances
learning in the arts, and strengthens the arts in communities throughout
the country.
National Foundation for Infectious Diseases
To further its objectives in the areas of research and
training, provides fellowship support to qualified physicians and
scientists dedicated to research in infectious diseases.
National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)
Supports a wide range of activities to identify,
preserve, publish, and increase public access to non-Federal sources
that document the history of the United States.
National Institutes of Health
Mission is science
in pursuit of fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of
living systems and the application of that knowledge to extend healthy
life and reduce the burdens of illness and disability.
National Institute of Justice
Solely dedicated to researching crime control
and justice issues.
National Science Foundation
To promote the progress of science; to advance the national health,
prosperity, and welfare; and to secure the national defense.
National Science Foundation/Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
Grants and awards for social, behavioral, and
economic research that builds fundamental knowledge of human behavior,
interaction, and social and economic systems, organizations and
institutions.
National Park Service
Variety of grants offered by the U.S. Department
of the Interior whose mission is to protect and provide access to our
Nation's natural and cultural heritage and honor our trust
responsibilities to tribes.
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Supports nonprofit activities in the areas of culture,
education, the environment, health and human services, public policy and
religion.
The Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation
Devoted to improving the health and health care of all
Americans.
The Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation
is a knowledge-based global foundation with a commitment to enrich and
sustain the lives and livelihoods of poor and excluded people throughout
the world.
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Dedicated to promoting the well-being of all people in
the transition to global interdependence.
SAES/USDA-CSREES National Environmental Initiative
A collaborative project of the State
Agricultural Experiment Stations (SAES) and the USDA-Cooperative State
Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES). A primary goal of
the Initiative is to extend the partnership to other agencies outside
and within USDA that are involved in environmental and natural resource
management programs and research. Provides a variety of granting
opportunities.
Social
Science Research Council
An independent,
nongovernmental, not-for-profit international organization that seeks to
advance social science throughout the world and supports research,
education and scholarly exchange on every continent.
Stuart Foundation
To help the children and youth of California and Washington states
become responsible citizens. The Foundation concentrates on
the following areas: Strengthening the Public School System,
Strengthening the Child Welfare System, Strengthening Communities to
Support Families.
U.S. Department of Education
To support improvements in teaching and learning
and to help meet special needs of schools and students in elementary and
secondary education.
U.S. Department of Energy - Office of Science
In support of the conduct of basic research in the
physical sciences. and makes significant contributions in other major
scientific fields, including advanced computing/mathematics, and life
sciences.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The United States government's principal agency for
protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human
services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.
U.S. Department of Labor
Fosters and promotes the welfare of the job
seekers, wage earners, and retirees of the U.S.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Protecting public health and the environment
through sound business grants management and effective integrity
programs.
United States Institute of Peace
An independent, nonpartisan federal institution created
and funded by
Congress to strengthen the nation's
capacity to promote the peaceful resolution of international conflict.
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
To promote the well-being of humanity
by supporting selected activities of a charitable nature, as well as
organizations or institutions engaged in such activities.
Grants and Related Resources: Federal Funding Tools and Information
Sources
Provided by Michigan State University. A comprehensive
listing of
Federal
Funding Databases and Newsletter and
Agency Web Sites.
Fellowships for Graduate Students
Provided by the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Lists fellowship
opportunities by discipline.
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