Funding Opportunities
IGS Opportunities
The Mike Synar Graduate Research Fellowship
The Charles H. Percy Undergraduate Grant for Public Policy Research
See the Center for the Study of Representation pages for details and application forms.
National Science Foundation Opportunities
NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants - Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences
Law and Social Science Program
Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide [January 2010]
NSF Funding for Social Scientists on the Gulf Oil Spill and Other Disasters
Catalyzing New International Collaborations
Metadata for Long-standing Large-Scale Social Science Surveys (META-SSS)
Other Opportunities
Bill & Melinda Grates Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now accepting grant proposals for Round 8 of Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to encourage innovative and unconventional global health solutions. Anyone can apply - from any experience level, from any discipline, and from any organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for-profit companies.
Initial grants will be US $100,000 each, and projects showing promise will have the opportunity to receive additional funding of up to US $1 million. See full descriptions of the new topics and application instructions on the Grand Challenges site.
Deadline: November 17, 2011
Haas Diversity Research Center
Request for proposals on LGBT equity, economic disparities & disability studies. http://diversity.berkeley.edu/innovationgrants
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Public Health Law Research Program
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's (RWJF) Public Health Law Research (PHLR) program released its second call for proposals (CFP) for studies that will examine the public health impacts of a broad range of laws and legal practices, including innovative legal approaches and laws and regulations developed at the city or county level.
The new call for proposals is available online.
PHLR funds studies that mainly focus on law and public health. Researchers from other disciplines, such as medicine, economics, sociology, psychology, and public policy and administration can also be involved in these studies.
International Junior Faculty Research Grants
The Smith Richardson Foundation's International Security and Foreign Policy Program is pleased to announce its annual grant competition to support junior faculty research on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history. The Foundation will award at least three research grants of $60,000 each to support tenure-track junior faculty engaged in the research and writing of a scholarly book on an issue or topic of interest to the policy community.
These grants are intended to buy-out up to one year of teaching time and to underwrite research costs (including research assistance and travel). Each grant will be paid directly to, and should be administered by, the academic institution at which the junior faculty member works. Projects in military and diplomatic history are especially encouraged. Group or collaborative projects will not be considered.
To learn more, visit its website: http://www.srf.org/grants/international_junior_faculty.php
World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship Program
The Smith Richardson Foundation is pleased to announce a new annual grant competition to support Ph.D. dissertation research on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, strategic studies, area studies, and diplomatic and military history.
The fellowship's objective is to support the research and writing of policy-relevant dissertations through funding of fieldwork, archival research, and language training. In evaluating applications, the Foundation will accord preference to those projects that could directly inform U.S. policy debates and thinking, rather than dissertations that are principally focused on abstract theory or debates within a scholarly discipline.
The Foundation will award up to twenty grants of $7,500 each.
The deadline is October 17, 2011.
To learn more, visit its website: http://www.srf.org/grants/world_politics.php
Dirksen Congressional Center Congressional Research Awards
The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants to fund research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress. The Center, named for the late Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, is a private, nonpartisan, nonprofit research and educational organization devoted to the study of Congress and its leaders. Since 1978, the Congressional Research Awards (formerly the Congressional Research Grants) program has paid out $680,000 to support over 350 projects.
Further details, application materials, and descriptions of past winning applications are available at the Dirksen Congressional Center website.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy annual Dissertation Fellowship Program invites applications from doctoral students who are writing theses in fields that address the Institute's primary interest areas in valuation and taxation, planning, and development. This fellowship program provides an important link between the Institute's educational mission and its research objectives by supporting scholars early in their careers.
Further details are available from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
American Recovery & Investment Act of 2009 (SPO website)
Final Stimulus Bill Provides $21.5 Billion for Federal R&D (PDF Article from AAAS)
Campus Policy on Late Proposal Submissions to SPO (10/22/08)
Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects (CPHS) eProtocol
"How to Fail in Grant Writing", Chronicle of Higher Education, 12/08/10.