Graduate Student & Faculty Fellowship & Grant Resources

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Funders' Proposal Deadlines

• UC-Berkeley Research Advocate: http://www.spo.berkeley.edu/#Funding (and click on Research Advocate)
• Just Grants! Arizona: http://www.azgrants.com/home.cfm
• Grantseeking in Minnesota: http://www.mcf.org/mcf/grant/deadlines.html

General Information Sources

• Amherst College Funding Opportunities: http://www.amherst.edu/~develop/funding/
• Colorado State Research Bookmarks: http://www.research.colostate.edu/preaward/
• Cornell Graduate Fellowship Notebook : http://cuinfo.cornell.edu/Student/GRFN
• The Funding Exchange: http://www.fex.org/home.html
• Fundsnet: http://www.fundsnetservices.com/main.htm
• Grant Makers in Health: http://www.gih.org/
• GrantsNet: http://www.grantsnet.org/
• Internet Prospector: http://www.internet-prospector.org/
• Michigan State University Grants for Individuals: http://www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/grants/3subject.htm
• Society of Research Administrators International Grants Web Resources: http://www.srainternational.org/newweb/grantsweb/index.cfm
• Texas Research Funding Opportunities & Administrative Funding: http://tram.east.asu.edu/
• UC-Riverside Office of Research Affairs: http://www.ora.ucr.edu/ORA/Sponsors/SponsoringAgencies.htm#Funding%20Agencies
• UMass Grantscape: http://www.umass.edu/research/gsgs/gscape.html
• University of Florida Funding Opportunities: http://www.research.fsu.edu/contractsgrants/resources.html
• Virginia Tech Research Division: http://www.research.vt.edu/funding/
• Women's Funding Network: http://www.wfnet.org/

Other Useful Resources

• Action without Borders: http://www.idealist.org/
• Council on Foundations: http://www.cof.org/
• The Foundation Center: http://fdncenter.org/
• The Online Newsletter of the Nonprofit Management Support Community: http://www.allianceonline.org/Pulse/past_issues.html
• Philanthropy News Digest Home Page: http://fdncenter.org/pnd/

Proposal Writing Guides

• University of Michigan Proposal Writer's Guide, by Don Thackrey: http://www.research.umich.edu/proposals/PWG/pwgcontents.html
• Tips for Writing A Grant Proposal: http://www.amherst.edu/~develop/tips/proposalwriting.html
• University of Southern California General Proposal Guidelines: http://www.usc.edu/dept/contracts/gg.html
• National Science Foundation Grant Proposal Guide: http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?gpg
• The Art of Writing Proposals (SSRC): http://www.ssrc.org/programs/publications_editors/publications/art_of_writing_proposals.page
• Funding for Grad Students: http://people.ucsc.edu/~rlipsch/Research%20Funding/grad%20funds.doc

Sample Proposals (these were all written for the same project; some were funded, some not):

• Assessing the Impacts of Corporate Self-Regulation on Labor Rights and Union Organizing around the Pacific Rim (conference proposal, pending): http://people.ucsc.edu/~rlipsch/Research%20Funding/Proposals/PacRim%20conference.pdf
• Corporate Self-Regulation and Labor Rights around the Pacific Rim: Japanese and American Perspectives on the Role of Transitional Civil Society in Social Regulation (conference proposal, not funded): http://people.ucsc.edu/~rlipsch/Research%20Funding/Proposals/CGP%20conference.pdf
• Assessing the Impacts of Corporate Self-Regulation on Labor Rights and Union Organizing around the Pacific Rim (conference proposal, not funded): http://people.ucsc.edu/~rlipsch/Research%20Funding/Proposals/ILE%20conference.pdf
• Globalization, Social Regulation, and Transnational Campaigns: Innovation in International Cooperation or More of the Same? (research proposal, funded): http://people.ucsc.edu/~rlipsch/Research%20Funding/Proposals/IGCC%202002-2003.pdf
• Activist Campaigns, Codes of Conduct, and "Corporate Responsibility": Impacts on Working Conditions and Labor Rights in the California and the Pacific Rim Apparel Industry (research proposal, funded): http://people.ucsc.edu/~rlipsch/Research%20Funding/Proposals/ILE%20proposal.pdf
• "Regulation for the Rest of Us" Global Civil Society and Global Social Regulation (research proposal, funded): http://people.ucsc.edu/~rlipsch/Research%20Funding/Proposals/Aspen%20proposal.pdf
• Global Civil Society and Emerging Patterns of Social Regulation in the Pacific Basin Region (research proposal, funded): http://people.ucsc.edu/~rlipsch/Research%20Funding/Proposals/PBRC%20proposal.pdf

University of California Intramural Funding Sources

• UC Office of Research: http://www.ucop.edu/research/welcome.html This is the central hub for funding opportunities within the UC system. Some are listed below.
• UCOP Fellowships, Grants, and Awards: http://www.ucop.edu/services/grants.html
• UC Toxic Substances Research and Training Program: http://www.tsrtp.ucdavis.edu
• California Policy Research Center: http://www.ucop.edu/cprc/
• UC Humanities Research Intitute: http://www.hri.uci.edu/
• UC Institute for Labor and Employment: http://www.ucop.edu/ile/
• UC Intitute on Global Conflict and Cooperation: http://www-igcc.ucsd.edu/
• UC Pacific Rim Research Program: http://www.ucop.edu/research/pacrim/
• UC Transnational and Transcolonial Studies: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/transnation/
• UC Committee on Latino Research: http://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/research/ucmex/
• UC Latino Policy Institute: http://www.ucop.edu/cprc/lpi/
• UC Energy Intitute: http://www.ucei.berkeley.edu/
• UC Institute for Mexico and the United States: http://www.ucmexus.ucr.edu/
• All-UC Group in Economic History: http://allucgroup.iga.ucdavis.edu/
• Center for Studies in Higher Education: http://cshe.berkeley.edu/
• UC Biotechnology Research and Education Program:http://ucbrep.ucdavis.edu/
• UC Center for Water Resources: http://www.waterresources.ucr.edu/
• UC Center for German and European Studies (UCB): http://ies.berkeley.edu/cgs/
• Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (UCSD): http://www.ccis-ucsd.org/Programs/fellowships.htm
• Center for Global Security Research (LLNL): http://www.ucop.edu/research/progFrame.html

Government Funding Sources

• U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Extension Service Grants: http://www.reeusda.gov/1700/funding/ourfund.htm
• U.S. Army Research Institute for Behavioral and Social Sciences: http://www.hqda.army.mil/ari/
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: http://www.ofa.noaa.gov/~grants/new/bulletin.html
• U.S. Department of Education Discretionary Grants: http://www.ed.gov/GrantApps/
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: http://www.epa.gov/ogd/
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services GrantsNet: http://www.hhs.gov/grantsnet/
• U.S. Institute of Peace: http://www.usip.org/grants.html
• U.S. Department of State: http://exchanges.state.gov/education/rfgps/menu.htm
• U.S. Department of Justice: http://www.usdoj.gov/10grants/index.html
• U.S. Department of Labor: http://www.dol.gov/oasam/grants/prgms.htm
• U.S. National Archives: http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/
• U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities: http://www.neh.gov/grants/index.html
• U.S. National Science Foundation: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/
• Smithsonian Institution: http://www.si.edu/ofg/
• U.S. Department of Transportation: http://www.dot.gov/ost/m60/grant/
• Woodrow Wilson Center: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=sf.welcome

Other Funding Sources

• American Council of Learned Societies: http://www.acls.org/
• Aspen Institute: http://www.aspeninstitute.org/
• Social Science Research Council: http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/
• IREX: http://www.irex.org/programs/grants.asp
• German Marshall Fund of the U.S.: http://www.gmfus.org

Individual Foundations

Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation, Inc.

437 Madison Ave. , New York, NY 10017; Telephone: (212) 756-3376 ;

Contact: Richard Abrons - Pres.

Type of foundation: Independent; Fiscal Date: 12/31/01; Assets: $37,742,486; Total Giving: $3,909,410