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Research Office
Ongoing Funding Opportunities
The GGSE Research Office compiles this partial list of ongoing funding opportunities. The list is presented alphabetically by sponsor name. If you plan to apply for an opportunity listed here or elsewhere, or if you would like to have a custom funding search conducted, GGSE faculty, researchers, and students are encouraged to contact Heather Philips.
Click here for a more comprehensive list of private and government funding agencies.
AT&T Foundation Grants Program/AT&T Learning Network
Grants
Web site: http://www.att.com/foundation/
ACTIVITIES SUPPORTED: Provision of Training Programs, Teaching or
Curriculum/Program Development.
The AT&T Foundation supports education programs that focus on
the use of technology to enhance teaching and learning.
Association for Institutional Research/AIR Grant Program
Improving Institutional Research in Postsecondary Educational Institutions
Web site: http://www.airweb.org/?page=818
AIR, with support from the National Center for Education Statistics
(NCES) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), has developed
a program titled: Improving Institutional Research in Postsecondary
Educational Institutions. The goals of this program are to provide
professional development opportunities to doctoral students, institutional
researchers, educators and administrators, and to foster the use
of federal databases for institutional research in postsecondary
education.
Citigroup Foundation
Web site: http://www.citigroup.com/citigroup/corporate/foundation/
ACTIVITIES SUPPORTED: Operating or General Support
Early Childhood Education Grants are made to programs that promote
affordable, high-quality, early childhood learning experiences that
prepare children to be school-ready. K-12 Education Grants are made
to strengthen primary and secondary education in low-income neighborhoods.
Higher Education Grants are made to increase access to higher education
and representation within the workplace for minorities and women
to raise global awareness and understanding of changing economies.
Coca-Cola Foundation
Web site: http://www2.coca-cola.com/citizenship/foundation_coke.html
ACTIVITIES SUPPORTED: Provision of Training Programs, Teaching or
Curriculum/Program Development, Operating or General Support, Collaborative
Activity The Coca-Cola Foundation aims to provide youth with the
educational opportunities and support systems they need to become
knowledgeable about the world in which they live and better able
to give back to their communities.
Council for International Exchange of Scholars
Fulbright Scholar Program/Fulbright Senior Specialist Program
Web site: http://www.iie.org/cies/specialists/
Fulbright Senior Specialist activities will be designed to provide
U.S. faculty and professionals with opportunities to collaborate
with professional counterparts on curriculum and faculty development,
institutional planning and a variety of other activities.
Davis (The Arthur Vining) Foundations
Web site: http://www.avdfdn.org/programs-secondaryeducation.htm
Grants are made for innovative professional development programs that strengthen teachers and their teaching in grades 9-12.
ExxonMobil Foundation/Grants
Web site: http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/community_ed.aspx
Education grants in a variety of forms are awarded to elementary,
secondary and higher education institutions or networks of institutions.
Ford Foundation
Knowledge, Creativity, and Freedom Program
Web site: http://www.fordfound.org/programs
In Education and Scholarship we seek to increase educational access
and quality for the disadvantaged, to educate new leaders and thinkers
and to foster knowledge and curriculum supportive of inclusion,
development and civic life. Grant making supports policy, research
and reform programs in both schools and higher education institutions,
with particular emphasis on enhancing the performance of educational
systems through improving finance, governance, accountability and
training.
Foundation for Child Development
Web site: www.fcd-us.org
The Foundation has a special interest in children in low-income
working families. FCD has had a particular concern about the availability
of, and access to, early childhood education and care programs and
health care for children.
Grant (William T.) Foundation
Social Science Research Focused on Youth/Adolescents
Web site: http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/
The goal of the William T. Grant Foundation is to help create a
society that values young people and enables them to reach their
full potential. The Foundation pursues this goal primarily by investing
in high-quality basic and applied research on youth development,
program evaluations, policy analyses, research syntheses, and communications
research.
Hewlett (William and Flora) Foundation Education Program
Web site: http://www.hewlett.org/
The Foundation seeks to achieve greater quality and equality of
educational opportunity in the United States and throughout the
world through grants that support the following goals: 1) Increase
student achievement by developing, demonstrating and disseminating
approaches to systematically improve classroom instruction in urban
school systems and community colleges. 2) Improve access to exemplary
educational content for schools, colleges and universities, and
individuals throughout the world by using information technology.
3) Achieve educational excellence in California by using policy
analyses and public information strategies to help create the conditions
and public support for the state's schools and community colleges
to provide a high-quality education to all students over the next
decade, as they face tight budgets and vast increases in enrollment.
International Education Research Foundation Research Grants
Web site: http://www.ierf.org/
The purpose of International Education Research Foundation (IERF)
Research Grants is to encourage and promote research on world educational
systems that supports applied comparative education, specifically,
the evaluation of foreign educational credentials.
Institute of Education Sciences (US Dept. of ED)
Unsolicited Grants
Website: http://www.ed.gov/programs/unsolicited/index.html
Unsolicited applications for research, evaluation, statistics, and
dissemination projects that would make significant contributions
to the institute's mission to provide reliable information about
the condition, practices, and effectiveness of federal and other
education programs will be accepted at any time during the fiscal
year. Awards range from $75,000 to $200,000 (total cost) per year
for 1 to 3 years.
Kellogg (W.K.) Foundation Grants
Web site: http://www.wkkf.org/
Youth and Education: From 2001 through 2008, key Youth and Education
programs will focus on improving learning for young people--especially
those most vulnerable to poor achievement--so children can enter
school ready to learn, more adolescents are able to achieve, and
young adults are prepared for meaningful work or further education.
Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation: Lindbergh Grants
Program
Web site: http://www.lindberghfoundation.org/grants/
The Lindbergh Grants Programs fund a variety of innovative research
and educational projects focusing on the Lindbergh's vision of balance
between the advance of technology and preservation of the natural/human
environment. Grants are available in agriculture; aviation/aerospace;
conservation of natural resources--including animals, plants, water,
and general conservation (land, air, energy, etc.); education--including
humanities/education, the arts, and intercultural communication;
exploration; health--including biomedical research, health and population
sciences, and adaptive technology; and waste minimization and management.
The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation provides grants
of up to $10,580 (a symbolic amount representing the cost of the
"Spirit of St. Louis") annually.
National Council for the Social Studies/FASSE Demonstration
Projects Grant
Web site: http://www.ncss.org/awards/
This award will be made once every two to three years, beginning
in 2000. The purpose of the Fund for the Advancement of Social Studies
Education (FASSE) is to support projects for the improvement of
social studies education, where social studies is defined as the
integrated study of the social sciences and humanities to promote
civic competence.
NEA Foundation for the Improvement of Education (NFIE) Learning
and Leadership Grants
Web site: http://www.neafoundation.org/grants.htm
NFIE's Learning and Leadership Grants underwrite professional development
opportunities for teachers, education support personnel, and higher
education faculty and staff to prepare them for collegial leadership
in teaching and learning.
NSF Directorate for Education and Human Resources
Division of Research, Evaluation, and Communication
Evaluation and Communication Program
Web site: http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=EHR
The Evaluation Program has oversight for the evaluation of the science,
technology, engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education initiatives
of NSF and coordinates the evaluation of corresponding initiatives
in other Federal agencies.
NSF Small Grants for Exploratory Research (SGER)
Web site: http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/publicat/nsf0203/cross/ocpa.html#section8
Proposals for small-scale, exploratory, and high-risk research in
the fields of science, engineering, and education normally supported
by NSF may be submitted to individual programs.
UCSB Office of Instructional Consultation
Instructional Improvement Program
Web site: http://www.oic.id.ucsb.edu/index.html
The Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Programs and the
Academic Senate Council on Research and Instructional Resources
announce the continued availability of grants to improve the quality
of undergraduate instruction at UCSB. The purpose of the Instructional
Improvement Program is to encourage and support faculty efforts
to improve the quality of instruction. The program is supported
largely by Undergraduate Instructional Improvement funds. Grants
are viewed as seed money to encourage experimentation with new ideas,
methods, technologies and content, so that the quality of undergraduate
instruction at the University of California, like the quality of
research, remains "cutting edge."
Pew Charitable Trusts Education Reform
Web site: http://www.pewtrusts.com/
The goal of Higher Education Reform is to highlight higher education
performance in the critical areas of access, affordability, completion,
return on investment and student learning. Objectives of Higher
Education Reform are 1) to educate the general public about the
critical issues that affect higher education performance at the
state and national level; and 2) to improve the quality of information
available to measure higher education performance.
RGK Foundation
Website: http://www.rgkfoundation.org
Grants up to $50,000 are available in the broad areas of education,
community, and medicine/health. The foundation's primary interests
within education include programs that focus on formal K-12 education
(particularly mathematics, science, and reading/literacy), after-school
tutoring and enrichment, integrating technology into curriculum,
teacher development, and higher education. The foundation is particularly
interested in programs that attract female and minority students
into the fields of mathematics, science, and technology. Interested
applicants may want to discuss potential submissions with Janice
Hartoch-Taylor in Development (janice.taylor@ia.ucsb.edu
or ext. 8406) or Carla Whitacre in Research Development (whitacre@omni.ucsb.edu
or ext. 3925). Contact: 512/474-9298 (RGK Foundation)
Sloan (Alfred P.) Foundation General Program Grants
Web site: http://www.sloan.org/
Education and Careers in Science and Technology: education for scientific
and technical careers; increasing PhDs for underrepresented minorities;
pre-tenure leave fellowship program; other programs for women and
minorities; retention; and public understanding of science and technology.
Smith Richardson Foundation Inc. Domestic Public Policy Program
Web site: http://www.srf.org/
Preference will be given to proposals that address policy issues
that have been priority areas for the Foundation's Domestic Public
Policy Program during the past three years: child and youth development,
including child care policy; family environment; school reform;
income support, including research on welfare policy; non-governmental
approaches to social policy; values and attitudes, including the
impact of entertainment media on children; public finance, including
tax and Social Security policies; public management, including crime
and urban policy; regulatory policy, including environmental policy;
and the political process.
Spencer Foundation
Major Grants Program & Small Grants Program
Web site: http://www.spencer.org/
The Spencer Foundation has as its primary mission, by the intent
of its founder, "to investigate ways in which education can
be improved around the world." To achieve this goal, the Foundation
supports research that gives promise of yielding new knowledge about
education, in one or another of its forms, in the United States
and abroad.
Wallace Foundation
Web site: http://www.wallacefoundation.org
In 2003 two separate foundations, the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest
Fund and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund were legally merged
and renamed The Wallace Foundation - a unified foundation whose
The Wallace Foundation is currently active in three focus areas: building appreciation and demand for the arts, education leadership and out-of-school learning. Unsolicited proposals are rarely funded.
Xerox Foundation
Web site: http://www.xerox.com/downloads/usa/en/x/xerox_foundation_policy_guidelines.pdf
The Xerox Foundation maintains a broad commitment in support of
higher education to prepare qualified men and women for careers
in business, government and education; advance knowledge in science
and technology; enhance learning opportunities for minorities and
the disadvantaged.