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Postdoctoral fellowships are available for candidates interested in research at the Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research (BIDR) for a period of one to two years.

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The sponsor provides a postdoctoral fellowship for candidates interested in conducting research at the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research for a period of one to two years.

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The sponsor invites U.S. nonprofit groups and education organizations to apply for funding to launch new community news ventures and to cooperate with the sponsor in spotlighting best practices and lessons learned. Each project may receive as much as $25,000. Eight projects will be selected this year.

Deadline Note

The deadline for receipt of letters of intent is February 15, 2010 by 12 noon EST. Full proposals, if invited, will be due by April 5, 2010 by 12 noon EST.

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The mission of the sponsor is to be a catalyst for improving the management of pension systems and organizations around the world. This mission is achieved through funding relevant research projects, organizing discussion forums, and publishing the Rotman International Journal of Pension Management. ICPM takes both macro and micro perspectives. Relevant macro issues include optimal pension system design, regulation, and collaboration. Micro issues include agency costs, governance and organization design, investment beliefs, risk measurement and management, and strategy implementation.

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The sponsor invites four to eight scholars to join as IRW Global Scholars for four to nine months at the The Institute for Research on Women (IRW). The 2010-2011 interdisciplinary seminar theme is "The Art and Science of Happiness."

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The sponsor offers a Summer Residency Program. Summer Residents, in the fields of philology, history and archaeology will come to Cincinnati for a minimum of one month and a maximum of three during the summer. Apart from residence in Cincinnati during term, the only obligation of Summer Fellows is to pursue their own research

Deadline Note

To be considered for the 2011 award, the nomination letter must be received by February 15, 2010. All supporting materials for the nomination (including the signed nominee form, three copies of the work, and three copies of the nominee's curriculum vitae) must be received by must be received by April 5, 2010.

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The sponsor supports a $200,000 prize to highlight outstanding ideas in the science of psychology and to make them available to a wide audience.

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Applications are invited for fellowships tenable at the University of Windsor in the 2010-2011 academic year.

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The IRCHSS Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme is intended to support early stage postdoctoral researchers pursuing or intending to pursue research in the Humanities and Social Sciences including Business and Law.

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Each summer during its annual season, the sponsor offers internships in all areas of arts administration. Administrative internships are intended to give hands-on experience to those interested in a career in arts management. All interns work as integral parts of the ADF staff in an invigorating arts environment and play an important role in carrying out the ADF’s mission to serve dance, dancers, choreographers and artists in related fields.

Deadline Note

Optional draft applications (recommended) are due January 25, 2010. Final applications are due February 22, 2010.

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The sponsor provides project support for larger and ongoing arts projects. In FY10 the sponsor will fund literature, electronic media arts, multidiscipline and music (vocal and instrumental).

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This unique program provides an opportunity for individuals of all ages, ethnic backgrounds and experiences to directly participate in the legislative process. Each year, 18 individuals are selected to participate in the program. The 11-month fellowship provides an introduction to public policy formation and adoption in the California Legislature through full-time work as a professional legislative staff member.

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This program provides an experiential learning opportunity in California state government. Fellows work full-time in high levels of the executive branch and meet weekly for graduate seminars. This ten-month program uniquely integrates work experience with academic and professional development.

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This program offers college graduates a paid, full-time legislative staff position in the State Capitol for 11 months. The fellowship program's primary goals include exposing people with diverse life experiences and backgrounds to the legislative process by providing research and other professional staff assistance to the Senate.

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This grant program supports the development, implementation, creative utilization, application and evaluation of distance education opportunities for maternal and child health (MCH) professionals. Up to $300,000 is available to fund up to 3 grants.

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The sponsor provides funding to organizations that are committed to putting more people on bicycles more often.

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The sponsor provides short-term fellowships to support scholarly use of the Library's research collections.

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The sponsor offers a one-year resident fellowship at the postdoctoral level from July 2010 to June 2011. Fellows will work at Harvard University and are expected to engage in independent projects that are related to the program’s focus.

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The sponsor provides funding to enhance the quality and quantity of gambling related research and contribute to the development of gambling policy in Queensland.

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The Visiting Fellowship program will provide funding (travel to Canberra and accommodation for up to 12 weeks) to support scholars to work within the larger Research School environment. The nominated theme for 2011 is The World and World-Making in Humanities and the Arts.

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The Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme offers two fellowship positions each year for a period of ten months. The Fellowship Programme has four core aims: to provide young scholars at the postdoctoral level, particularly from developing countries, with an opportunity to experience the unique international academic environment of UNU/IAS; to provide these young scholars with an opportunity to participate in and contribute to the research activities of UNU/IAS in regard to issues of pressing global importance; to provide an opportunity for young scholars from developing countries to interact with the Japanese academic community and, in doing so, provide a conduit between the host country and developing country academia and also the host country and the UN system; and to provide UNU/IAS and its academic community with an opportunity to benefit from the diverse knowledge, background, and experience offered by high caliber young scholars from around the world.

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The fellowship program is designed to provide opportunities for promising, highly qualified, young researchers to conduct cooperative research under the leadership of their host researchers of Japanese universities and research institutions especially in the fields relevant to the main thematic focus of UNU-IAS, located in Yokohama, and UNU Centre, located in Tokyo.

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The sponsor offers two research grants for researchers utilizing the outstanding resources of the Special Collections and Rare Books and University Archives and Manuscripts Department. The goal of the research grants is to promote scholarly research utilizing the resources of this Department. Collections include the Woman’s Collection, Rare Book Collection, Cello Music Collections, Manuscripts Collection, Women Veterans Historical Collection, and University Archives.

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The sponsor shall award a maximum of £2,500 to support any younger member of the sponsor's organisation to travel to international meetings, and/or laboratories and/or clinics, to further their training. This amount will be awarded twice a year, in March and October.

Deadline Note

Postdoctoral research applications are open twice yearly. The first round applications are open between 1st August and 1st September. The second round between 15th January and 1st March.

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Each year, the sponsor offers a favourable research opportunity for both domestic and international postdoctoral researchers. Candidates can easily find their fields of interests in versatile areas of mathematics and physical sciences, life sciences, humanities and social sciences at AS.

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The sponsor provides research grants to encourage and support research on Ukrainian Canadian and Ukrainian subjects in the Humanities, history, literature, language, education, women's studies, law, and library sciences.

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Individuals receiving research stipends will be responsible for producing a 30- to 40-page research report.

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The sponsor provides challenge grants to assist public and other 501(c)(3) agencies in the efforts to serve community needs.

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One award of $6,000 is available for a summer or sabbatical residency of six continuous weeks to utilize the resources available from the college and the Cornell University Library.

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The sponsor offers resident research fellowships in the study of American history and culture, circa 1750-1800.

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Project Support grants assist in the growth of a vibrant cultural environment by supporting increased access to high-quality arts activities presented by community-based organizations throughout the state.

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The sponsor provides a small number of grants of $3,200 to cover tuition, travel and room and board during the Faculty Summer Seminar at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York June 14 - July 30, 2010.

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The sponsor offers a fellowship to researchers who need to use the collections to complete a major project.

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The sponsor offers a fellowship to researchers who need to use the collections to complete a major project.

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The sponsor offers a fellowship to researchers who need to use the collections to complete a major project.

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The fellowship program is intended for scholars with a Ph.D. in any field related to architecture, including architectural and urban history, design, technology, computation, urban planning, anthropology, and archaeology, who are engaged in research on an Islamic topic. One to three fellowships will be granted for the year.

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An award is available for research in residence at the Archives and Special Collections on Women in Medicine. This is a competitive annual fellowship.

Deadline Note

The deadline for scholars from outside the Netherlands is 1 March 2010. For scholars from the Netherlands the deadline is 1 July 2010.

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The sponsor provides support for prominent researchers and senior scholars in the humanities and social sciences who have already made a contribution to scholarship and who are able to continue their research and to advance knowledge in their particular fields during their stay at NIAS.

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The program was launched to promote interdisciplinary research that bridges the gap between the humanities and/or the social sciences on the one hand and the natural sciences on the other. Lorentz Fellowships are awarded by the sponsor to scholars whose research projects cross the boundaries of the humanities, the social sciences and the natural sciences.

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Fellowships provide funding for scholars working outside the academy to use the Newberry Library collections. Preference is given to scholars working on historical issues related to social justice or reform.

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Short-term fellowships help provide access to the sponsor's resources for individuals who live beyond commuting distance of the sponsor's collection.

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The sponsor supports a member of the South Central Modern Language Association to work in-residence at the Newberry Library.

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The sponsor provides fellowships for scholars to research the period 1660-1815 at the Newberry Library. Applicants must be members of the ASECS at the time of the award.

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Fellowships support work on historical editing projects based on Newberry Library materials.

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The sponsor provides fellowships for work on projects related to the history of cartography and focused on cartographic materials in the Library's collection.

Deadline Note

The January 11 deadline is for the long-term linked fellowship and the March 1 deadline is for the short-term linked fellowship.

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Fellowships support both long- and short-term studies in residence sequentially at the Newberry Library and in Wolfenbuttel, Germany. The proposed project should link the collections of both libraries.

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This fellowship for Ph.D. candidates and postdoctoral scholars of American Indian heritage supports up to two months of residential research in any field in the humanities, using the collections of the Newberry Library, and provides a stipend of $1600 per month.

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The sponsor provides fellowships for Ph.D. candidates or postdoctoral scholars for work in residence at the Newberry.

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Fellowships are awarded to Ph.D. candidates or post-doctoral scholars offers up to one month's support for work in residence at the Newberry Library.

Deadline Note

The deadlines for receipt of pre-applications are: March 1, July 1 and November 1. The corresponding deadlines for full applicaitons, if invited, are: April 1, August 1 and December 1.

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The sponsor provides support for high-quality, high-impact, novel research that has a high likelihood of success and of resulting in methods or products that will advance the anti-doping field and ensure integrity in sport.

Deadline Note

Application to the fellowship program should be initiated by a brief project description accompanied by a list of manuscripts or other archival materials the applicant wishes to consult in the course of his or her research in order that the presence of these materials in the collections and their suitability for the proposed research may be determined. Confirmation of the presence or absence of these materials and their appropriateness for the proposed topic will be sent shortly thereafter. A formal application should then be submitted.

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The sponsor provides fellowships to assist scholars wishing to conduct research in the manuscript collections in the Vatican Film Library. Travel expenses and a living allowance are provided for a period of two to eight weeks. Applicants may be post-doctoral scholars or graduate students formally admitted to Ph.D. granting program working on their dissertations.

Deadline Note

The March 1 deadline is for visits beginning in the fall term; the June 1 deadline is for visits beginning in the winter term.

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The sponsor supports scholars interested in being in residence at the Center for the Education of Women (CEW) to pursue research projects, of one to twelve months, relevant to women. Eligible applicants are scholars who hold the Ph.D. Scholars are eligible for stipends of up to $7,500.

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The sponsor awards a fellowship so that journalists can spend two weeks in Vermont during the summer learning environmental law.

Deadline Note

Draft applications may be submitted by March 1, 2010. The final application is due by March 15, 2010.

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This grant category supports the production of arts programs, projects and events in local communities in almost every county. These grants promote artistic excellence and a breadth of artistic experience for audiences of all ages and abilities.

Deadline Note

Applications are due March 1 of even numbered years.

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The AEB program supports: 1) making the arts a basic component of curriculum, 2) developing and strengthening arts education curricula, 3) providing opportunities for professional artists to work in schools, institutions and community settings, 4) providing arts learning experiences for all ages, and 5) obtaining expertise to help design new arts curricula, strengthen current programs or train teachers and administrators.

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The purpose of the Library Travel Grants is to enable faculty researchers from other U.S. universities to use the extensive resources of the Latin American Collection in the University of Florida Libraries, thereby enhancing its value as a national resource. Six or more travel grants will be available for 2010.

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The Sir John M. Templeton Fellowships Essay Contest encourages college students and young college professors around the world to study the meaning and significance of economic and personal liberty.

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The sponsor provides awards which celebrate and support outstanding individuals 60 or older who are already producing significant social innovation and accomplishing work of great importance. The Purpose Prize is focused on funding efforts of researchers in the second half of their lives that are aiming to find solutions to challenges in our communities, country and world.

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The sponsor provides support to fund group opportunities for young people residing in the Connecticut Community Foundation’s twenty-one town service area. These opportunities should promote peace, justice and understanding of the people of this nation and people of other nations through educational experiences for persons in their intellectually formative years.

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The Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism honor distinguished news and feature reporting on children and families in the United States, particularly the disadvantaged.

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This year the sponsor will award up to $75,000 in grants of $1,000 to $25,000 to scholars and professionals in all career stages to study integrity in public communication.

Deadline Note

There are multiple contacts, depending on location. Please consult this web address to determine appropriate contact person: http://www.lfg.com/LincolnPageServer?LFGPage=/lfg/lfgclient/abt/fingrp/hta/index.html

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Grants are made to expose people (regardless of age and physical/mental abilities or limitations) to educational enrichment and advancement opportunities.