Deadline Note

This award is bestowed every two years.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides funding to recognize outstanding scholarly achivement over the course of a folklore career.

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The sponsor provides modest grants to support research in the history of Europe, Africa, and Asia. Only members of the sponsor's organization are eligible.

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The sponsor offers grants to support research in the history of the Western hemisphere (United States, Canada and Latin America). Applicants must be members of the sponsor's organization.

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The sponsor offers a grant to recognize the most deserving proposal relating to work in progress on a research project in American Colonial history, with particular references to the intercultural aspects of American and European relations. Applicants must be members of the sponsor organization.

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The sponsor offers support for research in U.S. legal history and in the general field of law and society. Applicants must be members of the sponsor organization.

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The sponsor gives an award to recognize significant contributions to chemical engineering through publications.

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The sponsor awards a plaque and $5,000, plus a $500 travel allowance, to encourage excellence in contributions to chemical engineering literature. Nominees must be the author or co-author of an outstanding work in chemical engineering.

Deadline Note

Applicants should first submit a brief inquiry. Inquiries may be submitted at any time, and applications will be provided on a rolling basis as soon as an inquiry is approved. Upcoming deadlines for full applications are November 15, 2009 and February 15, 2010.

Synopsis

The Site Preservation Grant Program supports the conservation of ancient monuments and the preparation of management plans for long-term maintenance of the cultural and physical landscapes of sites.

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The purpose of the David E. Sopher New Scholar Award is to promote intellectual enquiry from new scholars into geographies of religions and belief systems through the presentation of papers at the AAG meeting. Papers will be judged on potential contribution to the field of Geography of Religions and Belief Systems, organization, and written composition.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides support to writers, journalists, educators, and historians of science, technology, or business whose projects will advance public understanding of the chemical industries and sciences.

Synopsis

The Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) offers several short-term fellowships for researchers studying the history and sociology of the chemical and molecular sciences, technologies, and industries. Short-term fellows are in residence at CHF for periods ranging from one to six months, according to their allocated fellowship.

Synopsis

The sponsor offers several long-term fellowships for scholars studying the history and sociology of the chemical and molecular sciences, technologies, and industries. Long-term fellows are in residence at CHF for the entire academic year (September–May). All long-term fellows are provided with a private office, a computer, and a direct telephone line.

Deadline Note

Applications should be filed before the given deadline date for conferences to be held during the following six-month period.

Synopsis

Support is provided to institutions for conferences and workshops related to Chinese studies in the humanities and the social sciences. Budgets for conferences should not exceed $25,000.

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Innovation is a key objective of the competition, which encourages designers to hone their skills and develop new techniques and uses for aluminum extrusions. Individuals or companies are eligible to enter the professional competition.

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The sponsor provides a one to two week-long fellowship with stipend allowing applicants to make use of the sponsor's research libraries.

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Sponsor provides a one-month fellowship allowing a postdoctoral applicant access to its research libraries.

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The sponsor will provide mini grants of up to $2,000 for a project relating to the humanities.

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The sponsor provides grants of up to $1,000, as available, for the purpose of developing continuing education workshops for conservation professionals and other interested individuals.

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The sponsor provides scholarships up to $1000 to help defray professional development costs for individual members of AIC who are Professional Associates or Fellows.

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The sponsor provides offers scholarships of up to $1000 to help defray professional development costs for individual members of AIC who are U.S. residents. Proposed projects are limited to expenses related to attending FAIC workshops supported by the NEH

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The sponsor provides support to public institutions and nonprofit organizations in Michigan. The sponsor's grantmaking focuses on six interrelated aspects of community life: Nurturing Community Arts, Community Capital Projects, Enhancing the Lives of Children and Their Families, Encouraging Civic Progress, Protecting the Environment; and Strengthening Philanthropy. Funding is primarily limited to the greater Grand Rapids area, plus Emmet and Charlevoix counties of Michigan. Some statewide Michigan grants are also made.

Synopsis

This program is designed to support humanities programs, including community education on historical, cultural and ethical topics and traditions.

Synopsis

The sponsor gives planning grants for humanities projects for the general public that are planned and conducted by non-profit groups.

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A preservation grant is an award of up to $5,000 to help a non-profit group to preserve resources that could be used in future humanities programs for the public or to enhance the overall value of such groups as a museum, historical society, archives, library or ethnic heritage group as an humanities resource for the community.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides an award of up to $2,500 to help a non-profit group publish a book, monograph or other writing that is in the humanities and responds to the intellectual needs of a non-academic, general audience. The grant-supported publication must be introduced and presented to the public and discussed in terms of its humanities themes, issues, value and availability to the general community.

Synopsis

A research assistance grant is an award of up to $2,500 to an individual humanities scholar or researcher to conduct research in the humanities.

Deadline Note

Letters of inquiry are due on February 15, 2010, and June 14, 2010. Draft proposals, if invited are due by March 16, 2010, and July 13, 2010. Full proposals, are due by March 29, 2010 and August 2, 2010.

Synopsis

The sponsor makes grants in five program areas: arts and humanities; Catholic activities; education (Catholic and nonsectarian private schools); health care; and human services. Applications are accepted from organizations in Baltimore City and in Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Garrett, Harford, Howard and Washington Counties in Maryland.

Synopsis

Research grants are limited exclusively to research projects conducted by an individual U.S-based post-doctoral scholar or individuals with comparable research or professional skills.

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Research Contracts are limited exclusively to collaborative research projects conducted by multiple post-doctoral scholars or individuals with comparable research or professional skills who do not hold Ph.Ds, including at least one scholar/researcher based in the U.S.

Synopsis

The sponsor funds projects that: are designed and implemented by women and girls; reflect the diversity of the community served; promote building community power; and promote racial, social, economic and environmental justice; and have limited financial access or have encountered obstacles in their search for funding.

Deadline Note

Applications are reviewed at quarterly meetings. Applications are due November 15 for the January meeting, February 15 for the April meeting, May 15 for the July meeting, and August 15 for the October meeting.

Synopsis

The sponsor makes grants to charitable and governmental organizations for charitable purposes and to provide financial resources and assistance for community-wide projects and programs in healthcare, education, and the betterment of cultural, environmental and economic conditions for the people of Meridian and Lauderdale County, MS.

Deadline Note

The sponsor is currently only accepting application from organizations located in and/or providing services in Greenwood County, although the guidelines on the website specify otherwise.

Synopsis

The sponsor will support organizations that help people rebuild their communities from the inside out by focusing on assets and mobilizing relationships between local institutions, businesses and residents.

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This year-long internship is for people considering a career in arts administration. The intern will work alongside WSW's administrative staff attending to the myriad of details that keep an arts organization functioning smoothly.

Deadline Note

Proposals for summer projects, including those for children and youth, must be submitted during grant cycles I and III only.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides funding to non-profit, tax-exempt organizations in Greater Greensboro, North Carolina. Grants are awarded to meet a variety of community needs and opportunities and generally, priority is given to proposals in the areas of arts & humanities, education, housing, building capacity of nonprofits, and building social capital (projects that help build and sustain connections among people and groups). Grants range from a few hundred dollars up to $10,000.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides funding to support new or exemplary arts projects by individuals or organizations.

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These prizes will be awarded each year to individuals and institutions - or partnerships between the two - that have developed innovative means of creating and sustaining a lifelong love of reading.

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The sponsor provides up to $1,500 to encourage research in its collection of books, journals, manuscripts, prints and instruments. The Bakken Museum´s world-renowned collection consists of 11,000 books and 2,000 scientific instruments.

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The sponsor provides up to $500 (domestic travel) and $750 (foreign travel) to encourage research in its collection of books, journals, manuscripts, prints and instruments. The Bakken Museum´s world-renowned collection consists of 11,000 books and 2,000 scientific instruments.

Synopsis

Humanities Montana grants support several different types of projects: conferences, exhibits, lectures, media distribution, museum assistance, planning, oral history, workshop, and “other” (to encourage innovation).

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The sponsor administers a journalism fellowship program to award fellowship grants to working print and online journalists. The winners undertake and complete a one-year project of their choosing, focusing on journalism supportive of American culture and a free society.

Synopsis

The Redding Rancheria Community Fund accepts proposals for funding in the areas of Arts/Culture, Education, Environment, Health, and Social Services.

Deadline Note

The February 25, 2010 deadline is applicable to organizations, and the inquiry form for this deadline will be available January 7, 2010. The September 15, 2010 deadline is applicable to individuals, and the inquiry form for this deadline will be available July 15, 2010.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides support for activities focused on architecture and the built environment and activities that lead to the public dissemination of ideas through publication, exhibition, or educational programming.

Deadline Note

To receive an application for Fellowship, a nomination letter must be submitted to Fellowship Affairs by January 29, 2010. The application is due by February 26, 2010.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides a fellowship for a foreign correspondent or editor which enables the fellow to be in residence for nine months at the Council on Foreign Relations headquarters in New York.

Synopsis

The sponsor offers Visiting Research fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides an award to recognize excellence in reporting and writing in the financing and delivery of health care and the impact of health care policy. The sponsor will award prizes of $10,000 each to the best entries from the following categories: Health Care Article or Series from General Circulation Publications; and Health Care Article or Series from Trade Publications.

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The sponsor's award recognizes excellence in television and radio reporting on health care issues and policy.

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The sponsor provides awards to honor the best in-depth reporting on topics related to religion. There are three contests: writing at large news outlets, writing at small news outlets and opinion writing. For each contest, the first-place winner receives $1,000.

Deadline Note

The February 28 deadline is for Fall Session, and the August 31 deadline is for Spring Session.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides a fellowship designed to bring scholars and specialists working on Germany, Europe, and/or transatlantic relations to AICGS for research stays of two months each.

Synopsis

The Józef Tischner Fellowship has been granted to junior researchers from Poland and young Polish- American scholars since 2003. The fellowship is open to all academic disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences; research proposals related to one of the IWM ’s main fields are strongly encouraged.

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The sponsor provides an award to recognize an archivist, editor, group of individuals, or institution that has increased public awareness of a specific body of documents through compilation, transcription, exhibition, or public presentation of archives or manuscript materials for educational, instructional, or other public purpose.

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The sponsor provides an award to recognize individuals who have made a significant contribution to the field of religious archives. Individual archivists are eligible for this award.

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The award recognizes the author(s) or editor(s) of an outstanding work, published in North America, that advances the theory or the practice of preservation in archival institutions. Eligible publications include audio-visual, electronic, or print; article, report, chapter, and monograph.

Deadline Note

Applicants are required to initiate requets for grants by submitting a letter of intent. Full proposals, if invited, will be due by the listed deadlines.

Synopsis

The sponsor supports organizations and projects which serve the needs of the disadvantaged in the Baltimore, MD community and the region. The sponsor is devoted to: joining others in seeking solutions to pervasive and stubborn social and economic problems; promoting the development of fuller human potential and achievement of self-sufficiency through educational opportunities; and strengthening organizations to provide greater access and more effective services.

Synopsis

To encourage popular writing about acoustical science and engineering, the sponsor provides two annual awards for outstanding science writing. One award is for an article on acoustics written by a journalist and the other is for an article on acoustics written by an acoustics professional.

Deadline Note

Preliminary applications are due approximately six weeks prior to final deadline. The deadlines for final proposals are September 1 and March 1.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides support for Public Discussion Grants. Awards are up to $8,500 in outright funding.

Deadline Note

Preliminary applications are due approximately six weeks prior to final deadline. Final proposal deadlines are March 1 and September 1 annually.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides support for Teacher Grants. Awards are up to $17,500 in outright funds.

Deadline Note

Preliminary applications are due approximately six weeks prior to final deadline.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides support for Exhibition Grants. Awards are up to $10,000 in outright funds.

Deadline Note

Preliminary applications are due approximately six weeks prior to the final proposal deadline. The final proposal deadlines are March 1 and September 1.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides support for films, videotapes, slide/tape presentations, as well as television and radio programs which have an Alabama-specific focus. Media Grants provide up to $5,000 in matching funds for the research and development phase, and up to $20,000 in matching funds for the production phase. All Media Grants are in the form of matching funds. Outright funds are not awarded in this category.

Synopsis

The sponsor awards a fellowship that supports one or more researcher(s) wishing to use the collections of the American Jewish Historical Society.

Synopsis

The Harold Powers World Travel Fund is intended to encourage and assist Ph.D. candidates, post-docs, and junior faculty in all fields of musical scholarship to travel anywhere in the world to carry out the necessary work for their dissertation or other research.

Synopsis

The sponsor awards an annual fellowship for the study of Chinese art. The award is conceived to permit the study of Chinese art, with special relation to painting and its reflection of Chinese culture, and to permit the translation into English of works upon the said subject for the purpose of furthering a better understanding of Chinese painting in the United States.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides support for research in Native American linguistics, ethnohistory, and the history of studies of Native Americans in the continental United States and Canada. Eligible applicants are younger scholars who have received the doctorate, and graduate students. Grants average $2,500 for one year.

Synopsis

One $1,500 competitive award funds educational institutions to encourage and support the advancement of professional activities in historic preservation and/or restoration.

Synopsis

One competitive award of $1,000 recognizes academic contributions to interior design through literature or visual communication. Entries should address the needs of the public, designers, and students on such topics as educational research, behavioral science, business practice, design process, theory or other technical subjects.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides financial assistance to individuals or groups engaged in the creation of an educational program(s) or an interior design research project dedicated to health, safety and welfare. One award of $1,000 is available.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides support for subventions in support of new book-length publications in the field of Classical Archaeology (defined as Greek, Roman, and Etruscan archaeology and art history). Particularly welcome are projects that publish the work of first-time authors or represent the publication of final reports of primary data from sites already excavated or surveyed, but are still unpublished.

Synopsis

The sponsor is offering a personal grant to a scholar or professional in an early career stage, e.g. before gaining tenure in an academic institution or its equivalent, whose proposed work would deal with topics within the Leo Baeck Institute’s mission, namely historical or cultural issues of the Jewish experience in German-speaking lands.

Deadline Note

Proposals must be postmarked by December 1 for review in the February meeting, by March 1 for the May meeting, and by September 1 for the November meeting. Proposals must be sent by mail.

Synopsis

Support is provided to nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations for programs in pre-collegiate education, collections care and conservation, conserving biodiversity, music, and programs to support Native Americans. First-time awards typically range from $3,000 to $10,000.

Deadline Note

Grants are awarded three times a year. While proposals may be submitted anytime, applications received between deadline dates will be held until the next deadline date for review.

Synopsis

SYNOPSIS Grants provide up to one year of support for a variety of projects in the arts and humanities, community services, education, and health. Awards are available to nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations operating within the greater metropolitan Washington, DC area.

Deadline Note

The March 1 deadline is for letters of inquiry for projects or fiscal years scheduled to begin no sooner than December 2010.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides support to programs in San Francisco and London that provide opportunities for new artists, and engage new audiences, from diverse cultures, including specific projects for the creation, development, performance or exhibition in the performing (music, opera, dance, theater,) literary, or visual arts; and general support for organizations with annual operating budgets under $500,000.

Deadline Note

The deadline for letters of intent is March 1, 2010. Those invited by the sponsor to submit full proposals must do so by June 1, 2010.

Synopsis

The sponsor is committed to making grants that will have a maximum positive impact on Western New York.

Deadline Note

March 1, 2010 is the deadline for preliminary applications and individual artist applications. The deadline for full applications is June 1, 2010.

Synopsis

The sponsor awards competitive grants to nonprofit organizations serving the citizens of Jacksonville and the surrounding region.

Deadline Note

New applicants should submit a letter of inquiry prior to submitting a proposal. Letters of inquiry may be submitted throughout the year, but must be received at least two weeks prior to the corresponding proposal submission deadline.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides grants to tax-exempt organizations whose purposal supports their vision of a more humane society and more livable world. Although their funding is commonly used to support the state of New Jersey, they are open to the best thinking and models anywhere that may be applied to the challenges faced in their home state.

Synopsis

The sponsor supports research in economic history. Grants are typically in amounts up to $5,000, although higher amounts may be awarded in exceptional cases. Preference is given to recent Ph.D. recipients.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides support for fellowships of one to three months for in-residence research projects appropriate to the sponsor's collections. Stipends are $2,500 per month.

Deadline Note

Questions about how to submit entries should be addressed to Dr. Martin Thomas, Prize Committee Chair at Martin.C.Thomas@ex.ac.uk

Synopsis

The sponsor provides an annual award for the best book published during the previous year dealing with the French colonial experience from the 16th to the 20th century.

Synopsis

The sponsor makes charitable grants in four categories: Education; Arts and Culture; Civic and Community; Health and Human Services/United Way.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides research grants to qualified researchers to encourage scholarly use of the holdings of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library in West Branch, Iowa.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides a fellowship to visiting U.S. and international scholars to explore the theme of "The Humanities and Human Origins."

Synopsis

The sponsor provides support for one month for in-residence research using the sponsor's collections, which include a variety of fields and disciplines relating to the history and culture of America.

Deadline Note

Grant applications must be received by November 1 for Cycle A; March 1 for Cycle B; or July 1 for Cycle C.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides monetary and in-kind support to 501(c)(3) organizations that fit within the sponsor's philanthropic focus of serving women, children and education, and serve the sponsor’s home office communities of Columbus and Kettering, Ohio, New York City, New York and Rio Rancho, New Mexico.

Synopsis

Support is provided to university students who are residents of California.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides funding for a broad range of arts projects (and arts components of larger projects) in Mississippi communities.

Deadline Note

Applications will be accepted between Nov. 1 and March 1.

Synopsis

The sponsor awards grants to further religious, charitable, scientific, literary or educational purposes; foster national or international amateur sports competition; and prevent cruelty to children or animals.

Synopsis

This award is made with the greatest care and only when there is indisputable evidence of superlative achievement in the preservation and interpretation of our cultural, architectural and maritime heritage, including buildings, architecture, districts, archeology, cultural landscapes, and objects of significance in the history and culture of the United States.

Synopsis

This award recognizes an individual who has made extraordinary contributions during the past year toward saving a historic place.

Synopsis

The sponsor's award recognizes a nonprofit organization, large or small, that has demonstrated sustained and superlative achievement in historic preservation.

Synopsis

The sponsor's award honors an individual or organization that has made an outstanding contribution to historic preservation in the field of public policy.

Synopsis

The sponsor's award recognizes organizations and agencies for their success in advancing the goals of historic preservation while providing affordable housing and/or expanded economic opportunities, particularly for low- and moderate-income families and individuals.

Synopsis

The sponsor's award honors outstanding partnerships that advance the preservation of important historic resources.

Synopsis

The sponsor's award honors the efforts of individuals, nonprofit organizations, public agencies, and corporations whose skill and determination have given new meaning to their communities through preservation.

Synopsis

Support is provided for humanities projects in Nebraska. Eligible applicants are non-profit groups. Major Grants are $1,500 or more.

Synopsis

Support is provided for humanities projects. Eligible applicants are non-profit groups. Mini Grants provide up to $1,500.

Synopsis

The sponsor supports projects which enhance public awareness of the important role design plays in our lives, including design service, or projects in the areas of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and interior, industrial, graphic or fashion design. Grants range from $1,000 to $10,000.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides support to nonprofits for performances, readings, and related community activities by artists on the New England States Touring list. Performing and literary artists on the NEST roster represent a range of disciplines, such as music, dance, opera/musical theater, poetry, writing, interdisciplinary work and the folk arts.

Deadline Note

All applications must be received in one of our offices by e-mail or by mail no later than 5 pm on the deadline day.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides support to improve the quality of life in New Hampshire and some adjoining communities in Vermont and Maine by making grants to organizations working in the arts and culture, education, the environment, health and human services, and other public affairs.