Funding Opportunities
Your Grants Office is enthusiastic about connecting grant-seekers to funding opportunity information! Here are some grant and fellowship opportunities that might support your scholarly or creative projects, and we encourage you to meet with us—one-on-one and at any stage of your grant-seeking—so we can cast a wide net and provide you with a robust and personalized list.
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- Our funding calendar provides information about fellowship and grant opportunities that might be of interest. It can be downloaded into Excel and sorted by discipline.
- Check out this Early Career Opportunities spreadsheet, which highlights programs and opportunities specifically tailored to the early career stage.
- Here is a great external database for researching funding opportunities.
- Your colleagues at Vassar have recently received grant and fellowship funding through these sources:
- NIH R15 – Research Enhancement Award: Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) for Undergraduate-Focused Institutions
- NSF RUI – Facilitating Research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions: Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI)
- NSF Earth Sciences Instrumentation and Facilities (EAR/IF)
- RSCA Cottrell Scholars
Vassar College Internal Awards
- Research Committee Faculty Scholarship Award
- Faculty Conversation Award
- Vassar Manuscript Review Award
- Faculty Success Program Award
- Professional Editing Award
Federal
- Grants.gov - a new, growing on-line clearing house for all federal agencies.
- Department of Education
- Environmental Protection Agency
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Institutes of Health
- National Science Foundation
- National Research Council – Office of International Affairs
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- U.S. Institute of Peace
Non-Federal
- American Philosophical Society
- Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
- CUR Summer Fellowships
- DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
- German Marshall Fund
- IREX – International Research and Exchanges Board
- Lindbergh Foundation
- NATO – Scientific Environmental Affairs
- National Council for Eurasian & East European Research
- Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study
- Petroleum Research Fund
- Research Corporation
- Spencer Foundation