Institute of Behavioral Science University of Colorado Boulder Sources for Social Science Funding for Graduate and Post-Graduate Research, Language Training, and Travel Judith McCabe, Ph.D., MPH Grants Coordinator CU Population Center Institute of Behavioral Science University of Colorado Boulder

What do you need funding for? Pre-dissertation travel/site selection Language Training Preliminary Data collection Workshops on Research Design & Methods Statistical Techniques or Courses Field-based Research Data acquisition or collection Dissertation Grants or Fellowships Post-Doc Fellowships

CU Boulder Resources To Help You Search: At the University of Colorado Boulder, Graduate School: http://www.colorado.edu/graduateschool/funding/awards.html   CU Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research – Funding Sources and Grant Writing webpage Includes Colorado sources of funding http://www.colorado.edu/vcr/funding-awards/funding-sources-and-grant-writing SPIN – source for national and international funding, search at this url: https://spin.infoedglobal.com/Home/GridResults

Professional Associations American Anthropological Association, Fellowships and Support http://www.aaanet.org/profdev/fellowships/   Wenner-Gren Foundation, Grant Programs for Anthropological research http://www.wennergren.org/programs/ American Educational Research Association  http://www.aera.net/ProfessionalOpportunitiesFunding/AERAFundingOpportunities/tabid/10241/Default.aspx American Psychological Association Student Travel Award http://www.apa.org/about/awards/scidir-stutrav.aspx Research Funding http://www.apa.org/research/funding/index.aspx American Sociological Association Research Funding http://www.asanet.org/funding/funding_and_grants.cfm Student Forum travel Awards http://www.asanet.org/funding/sfta.cfm

More Professional Associations & Fellowships American Political Science Association Grants & Fellowships (large list) https://www.apsanet.org/content_3125.cfm Linguistic Society of America http://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/grants   The American Economics Association, Resources for Economists http://www.aeaweb.org/RFE/showRes.php?rfe_id=316&cat_id=13 Association of American Geographers Dissertation Research Grants http://www.aag.org/cs/grants/dissertation Population Association of America Fellowship http://www.populationassociation.org/government-affairs/paa-fellowship/ Smithsonian Institute Research Programs http://www.si.edu/ResearchCenters/Research-Programs National Geographic Society http://www.nationalgeographic.com/explorers/be-an-explorer/ Society of Women Geographers Fellowships http://www.iswg.org/fellowships National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships http://www.naeducation.org/NAED_080577.htm

More Fellowships & Scholarships International Scholarships Search http://www.internationalscholarships.com/   Presidential Management Fellows Program http://www.pmf.gov/ McNair’s Scholars Program – Funding Sources http://mcnairscholars.com/funding/ (large list)    Ford Foundation Fellowships http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/FordFellowships/index.htm Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, Post-Bachelor Fellowship http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/education-training/post-bachelor-fellowship Boren Awards for International Study, Language Study and Research Fellowships https://www.borenawards.org/

Federal Sources Grants.gov – source for U.S. federal funding, search the system at this url: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html   National Institutes of Health, Office of Extramural Research http://grants.nih.gov/grants/oer.htm Pre and Post-doctoral Research Training and Research Career Development http://grants.nih.gov/training/index.htm Ruth L Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) http://grants.nih.gov/training/nrsa.htm Fogarty International Center, Non-NIH Funding Opportunities (Large list of U.S. and international funding sources) http://www.fic.nih.gov/FUNDING/NONNIH/Pages/predoctoral-graduate.aspx

National Science Foundation http://www.nsf.gov/funding/ For Graduate Students http://www.nsf.gov/funding/education.jsp?fund_type=2 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=6201&org=NSF  For Post-Doctoral Fellows http://www.nsf.gov/funding/education.jsp?fund_type=3 Cross-cutting Programs http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_list.jsp?type=xcut Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=sbe SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13453&org=NSF SBE’s Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (SMA) http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=SMA Directorate for Education & Human Resources http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_list.jsp?org=EHR  

National Endowment for the Humanities http://www.neh.gov/grants Fellowships http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/fellowships   U.S. Department of Education http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ies/index.html National Center for Education Research http://ies.ed.gov/ncer/ Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Program http://www2.ed.gov/programs/iegpsflasf/index.html Fulbright-Hayes Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad http://www2.ed.gov/programs/iegpsddrap/index.html

Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program http://www.iie.org/fulbright   U.S. Department of State Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program http://www.iie.org/fulbright Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Exchange Programs, Critical Language Scholarships http://exchanges.state.gov/us/program/critical-language-scholarship-program U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, STAR Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/index.cfm/fuseaction/recipients.welcome/displayOption/grants

For Evaluation Research  3ie – International Initiative for Impact Evaluation http://www.3ieimpact.org/ USAID http://www.usaid.gov/work-usaid/get-grant-or-contract/opportunities-funding

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE) http://www.grandchallenges.org/GrantOpportunities/Pages/default.aspx Non-Profit Sector: Foundation Center – online search, trends in foundation funding http://foundationcenter.org/ Looking forward: Rebuilding the Mosaic: Fostering Research in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences at the National Science Foundation in the Next Decade http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11086/nsf11086.pdf