1. Finding Funding: databases and the funding schedules
GradGrants Center
Sept. 12, 2018
Finding Funding: databases and the funding schedules

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Our goal at the grad grant is to support students at every stage of the grant application process:
From helping you find the right grant for your research or project
To preparing the different components of your application
And helping you think ahead for types of funding you might need in the future.
So, one of the first things you can do is do a search for funding on one of the databases I will introduce today.
We also offer various types of resources
So, once you have found that grant and you have started to prepare your application…
- perspective from people perhaps outside of your discipline, why?
Weekly office hours:
Every Thursday 12-2pm
Spring SSRC Dates:
Weds 1/27 2-3pm Weds 2/10 2-3pm Weds 2/24 2-3pm Weds 4/6 2-3pm Tues 3/8 10am-12pm Tues 4/19 10am-12pm
Spring 2016 Workshops:
Weds 1/27 1-2pm: Intro to funding databases
Weds 2/10 1-2pm: The art of proposal writing
Weds 2/24 1-2pm: The art of writing a personal statement
Weds 4/6 1-2pm: TBA
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3. Key Components Start early Use online funding databases
Make grant search habitual
Application cycles close 9 or more months before funding period begins
Use online funding databases
Use your department’s resources
profs, more advanced students
(It starts with an idea)
people in your department are your allies, and their advice, feedback and letters of recommendation are invaluable in this process.
5: go through several drafts

4. Start Planning Make a funding schedule Built-in deadlines Milestones
Structure is your friend
Focus on process, not product
As you identify funding sources, have a calendar by your side—a daytimer, outlook, whatever…put in the deadlines and then work back from that, making note of when and whom to contact for recommendations, set deadlines for yourself for drafts. The more structure you can give yourself, the more likely you are to have enough time to get things done effectively.

5. Funding schedule What types of funding will you need?
Conference travel
Preliminary fieldwork
Language Acquisition
Feasibility fieldwork
Dissertation fieldwork
Dissertation completion fellowship
Know your research questions!

6. Internal funding
Funds made available by IU or one of its institutions:
Herman B. Wells Fellowship
Edwards Fellowship
GPSG
Research Grant
Conference Grant
College of Arts and Sciences
Travel Grant
OVPIA grants
Pre-dissertation fieldwork grants
International Enhancement Grants
Region-specific Grants
CAHI Travel grants
Area Studies Centers

7. External funding Funds made available by outside (non-IU) sources:
National Science Foundation
GRFP or DDRIG
Fulbright IIE
Boren Awards
Ford Foundation Grants
Predoctoral and Dissertation grants
AAUW
Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant:
Social Science Research Council:
DPDF & IDRF
FLAS
DAAD
The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship – New Americans
Does the donor have research or study preferences:
mission--region—language—discipline—level of study—different kinds of committee readers (does your app need to be broad or technical)
For example:
L&C: Applications are invited from disciplines with a large dependence on field studies, such as archeology, anthropology, biology, ecology, geography, geology, linguistics, paleontology, and population genetics, but grants will not be restricted to these fields.
1: (Wenner-Gren) The Foundation supports research that demonstrates a clear link to anthropological theory and debates, and promises to make a solid contribution to advancing these ideas. There is no preference for any methodology, research location, or subfield. The Foundation particularly welcomes proposals that employ a comparative perspective, can generate innovative approaches or ideas, and/or integrate two or more subfields.
DPDF/specialized fields for selection: : Ecological History, Gender Justice in the Era of Human Rights, Governing Global Production, Mediated Futures: Globalization and Historical Territories, and New Approaches to Transnationalism and Migratory Circulation. (varies every year)
Stipulations: cannot apply for DPDF if you are awaiting notification on IDRF, or if you’ve ever applied.
NSF: new Data Management Plan requirement (data stewardship/preservation, where data will be housed…

8. Online Funding Databases:
Some guidelines for database searches:
Cast a wide net
Consider the priorities of the funder
Maintain multiple searches
Two databases the GGC uses:
Fellowship Finder (University of Illinois)
Community of Science Pivot (COS)
These are useful, but also keep your ear to the ground about potential grants in your department. Talk to your colleagues and fellow students about how they’ve funded their research interests.