Synopsis

The sponsor makes an award to recognize and honor a distinguished scholar for her/his scholarship and service to the sponsor's organization.

Deadline Note

This award is presented biennially.

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The sponsor provides an award to recognize an individual or a group who have made a significant contribution through the use of computing technology.

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The sponsor provides support to scholars working on Africa or the African Diaspora. Consideration will be given to all disciplines including--but not limited to--the humanities, social sciences, physical sciences and professional schools.

Deadline Note

Concept papers are due by November 30, 2009. Full proposals, if invited, will be due in March 2010.

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The sponsor is requesting concept papers for single or multi-year cutting edge, groundbreaking programs that address important, demonstrable needs in the Los Angeles Jewish community. The sponsor seeks to enhance the community-wide impact of its grants by encouraging creative thinkers, social entrepreneurs and innovative organizations to propose significant and transformative projects of high visibility and impact.

Deadline Note

The deadline for receipt of applications for Visiting Professorships at both Technicon and Hebrew University is 30 November 2009.

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Professorships provide support for full or associate professors to teach or conduct research for two to four months at the Hebrew University of Israel or three to nine months at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

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The sponsor provides scholarships for any individual, regardless of country of origin, to train for careers in the rabbinate, Jewish education, social work, or as religious functionaries in Diaspora Jewish communities.

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The sponsor grants equipment to eligible organizations who have developed creative projects that address the sponsor's investment priorities and create partnerships for success. The primary investment priorities are higher education and kindergarten through twelve education.

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The sponsor is a public foundation for the environment. The sponsor raises funds and awards grants to organizations whose work is consistent with the sponsor’s mission to protect the integrity of Alaska’s intact ecosystems and to promote sustainable livelihoods for all Alaskan communities and peoples. A primary goal of the sponsor is to build an active and lasting majority that embraces conservation values.

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The sponsor provides fellowships to place highly qualified scientific, engineering, health and other professionals within the offices of individual Members of Congress or Congressional committees for a one-year assignment.

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The sponsor provides a focused opportunity for a faculty member within a school of pharmacy to develop, research, and analyze public policy on an issue directly related to pharmaceutical education or the pharmacy profession.

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The sponsor provides grants of up to $37,500 per year for a two-year period to support research on suicide from a variety of disciplines, including psychiatry, medicine, psychology, genetics, epidemiology, neurobiology, sociology, nursing, health services administration and many others.

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The sponsor provides fellowships designed to enable young investigators to qualify for independent careers in suicide research.

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Grants are designed to support research by established investigators on suicide from a variety of disciplines, including psychiatry, medicine, psychology, genetics, epidemiology, neurobiology, sociology, nursing, health services administration and many others. The maximum award is $100,000 over two years.

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The sponsor provides up to $37,500 in support for investigators at any academic rank to conduct research on suicide from a variety of disciplines, including psychiatry, medicine, psychology, genetics, epidemiology, neurobiology, sociology, nursing, health services administration and many others.

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The sponor provides fellowships to support two to nine months of research in Sri Lanka by US citizens who already hold a PhD or the equivalent at the time they begin their fellowship tenure. Both scholars with little or no experience in Sri Lanka as well as specialists are encouraged to apply.

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The sponsor provides support for fellowships of up to $80,000 per year for up to two years to enhance the training of nephrologists who desire to pursue an academic career and whose primary professional commitment is to scholarship in the provision of patient care.

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Under this program, grants are made to be used for the development and improvement of public libraries and the services they provide.

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The sponsor provides an award of $1000 for collection development to YALSA members who represent a public library and who work directly with young adults ages 12 to 18.

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This grant of $1,000 is to provide seed money for small scale projects which will encourage research that responds to the YALSA Research Agenda.

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The two grants of $1,000 each are awarded to librarians who work directly with young adults to enable them to attend the Annual Conference for the first time.

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This award honors a YALSA member for developing an outstanding reading or literature program for young adults.

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An annual award consisting of $1,000 and a citation of achievement is given to an individual or group for outstanding contribution toward promoting equality in the library profession.

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An award of $1,000 and a citation is given to a librarian for an outstanding contribution to the stimulation and guidance of reading by children and young people.

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The sponsor provides an award of $500 and a citation for a notable contribution to intellectual freedom that demonstrates remarkable personal courage in resisting censorship.

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An award of $1,000 and a citation is given to the most innovative and effective intellectual freedom project covering a state or region.

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An award of $1,000 is provided to honor a library serving a population of 10,000 or less that demonstrates excellence of service to its community as exemplified by an overall service program or a special program of significant accomplishment.

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The W. David Rozkuszka Scholarship provides financial assistance to an individual who is currently working with government documents in a library and is trying to complete a masters degree in library science.

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The sponsor provides an award to recognize an individual who has shown exceptional understanding and support of public library service to children while having general management/supervisory/administrative responsibility that has included public library service to children in its scope.

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The sponsor provides an award of a $3,000 grant to assist a library in conducting exemplary outreach to underserved populations through a new program or an expansion of work already being done.

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The sponsor makes awards to minority faculty pursuing a post-professional doctoral degree (excluding a tansitional DPT [t-DPT]). The award consists of a monetary amount to be determined, plaque, and certificate.

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The sponsor provides a prize of $50,000 to recognize psychologist whose career career has expanded the role of the psychologist as a primary care provider working side-by-side with primary care physicians in the setting of organized systems of healthcare delivery.

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This award recognizes a significant career of contributions of a psychologist who has a proven track record as an exceptional teacher of psychology.

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The Gold Medal Awards for Life Achievement are bestowed in recognition of a distinguished career and enduring contribution to psychology.

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This program will provide grantees with funding over a period of three years, during which time the sponsor will be in frequent contact to help develop plans and to monitor performance. One part of the grant will be structured as a matching program, providing strong incentive for think tanks to develop a base of local supporters.

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The sponsor awards cash prizes to independent nonprofit public policy research organizations for published books, magazines, reports, monographs, or studies that, in the opinion of the judges, made the greatest contribution to public understanding of the free society.

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.

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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.

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The sponsor offers a number of short-term fellowships which support bibliographical inquiry as well as research in the history of the book trades and publishing history.

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The sponsor is now accepting submissions for the 2010 paper competition. All papers must adhere to the symposium theme. Papers must be submitted in MS Word, follow APA guidelines, and must not exceed 25 pages including references, tables, and figures, etc. The cover sheet should be separate and the paper itself should be “blind.” First place paper will receive $300; second place, $200; third place, $100. Winners are expected to register for and attend BEA to present their paper; in the case of multiple authors, at least one must attend.

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The sponsor supports accomplished, motivated individuals who are eager to prepare themselves for greater leadership opportunities and to create positive change in their communities. Applicants are invited to propose academic or self-designed learning experiences that will help them attain goals that they set for themselves. The program encourages applications that will expand fellows' experiences beyond the familiar to learning environments that might be inaccessible without a fellowship.

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Support of $6,000 is provided for full-time, tenured or tenure-track faculty members at U.S. universities to develop or update courses with substantial Canadian content that will be offered as part of their regular teaching load.

Deadline Note

The sponsor has indicated that the current deadline is December 1, 2009, despite the information posted on the website.

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The sponsor provides support to supplement sabbatical allowances provided by the recipients' home institutions. Eligible applicants are psychologists who are faculty members at colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The maximum award is $35,000.

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The sponsor offers the program for business professionals in the U.S. who would like to live and work in Russia and develop a genuine professional expertise in the New Russia. The expectation is that as the program develops, a new generation of American opinion leaders and professionals will be exposed to the professional life and society in post-Soviet Russia.

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The sponsor provides fellowships for scholars to pursue in-residence research and attend a seminar for which the 2010-2011 subject is "Authority and Legitmation." Eligible applicants are postdoctoral scholars in the U.S. and abroad.

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The Asia Pacific Leadership Program (APLP) is the center of excellence for leadership education in the Asia Pacific region and a signature program of the East-West Center. The program links advanced and interdisciplinary analysis of emergent regional issues with experiential leadership training. The purpose of the APLP is to create a network of action, focused on building a peaceful, prosperous and just Asia Pacific community.

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The sponsor provides a grant program to support research in shared medical decision making for post-doctorates and clinical fellows.

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The sponsor provides support to organizations whose chief purpose is to improve health and/or promote education, within Philadelphia, Montgomery, and Bucks Counties in southeastern Pennsylvania. Applicants must be tax-exempt organizations.

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The sponsor provides funding for national programs which have a significant impact on issues facing infants and young children. Accordingly, priority is given to projects that improve infant and young children nutrition, care and development from the first year before birth to three years of age. Programs should support a specific nutrition intervention and have defined outcome parameters. The sponsor gives priority to projects of national or regional impact. Projects should be sufficiently focused to make a felt difference in the field of interest.

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The sponsor funds groups that address the root causes of injustice.

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The sponsor's Community Building Grant Program supports a broad spectrum of projects that help build strong communities on the North Coast.

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The Regional Policy Symposium Program provides scholars and policy-makers with a forum to examine and discuss current policy research on the countries of Eurasia and Central and East Europe from multi-disciplinary and multi-regional approaches.

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The sponsor provides grants which are intended as support and seed funding for new initiatives that offer promising models for replication and address critical issues in international affairs; human rights; public service; and environment and natural resources management.

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Support is provided to scholars and researchers involved in Japanese studies in the fields of the humanities and the social sciences to conduct research in Japan. The duration of the award is two to twelve months.

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The sponsor provides support to exhibitions introducing Japanese art and culture abroad. Eligible applicants are museums and organizations abroad (i.e. located outside of Japan).

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An intensive training course in Japanese is provided to scholars or researchers and postgraduate students majoring in the fields of the social science or the humanities. Two-month and six-month courses are available.

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Support is provided to scholars and researchers involved in Japanese studies in the fields of the humanities and the social sciences to conduct short-term research in Japan.

Deadline Note

Applications may be submitted any time throughout the year. The Board of Directors meets in January, April, July, and October to consider applications submitted by the first day of the month immediately preceding each meeting.

Synopsis

The sponsor supports grants made toward building and facility construction equipment. Generally awards are made on a challenge or conditional basis. Eligible applicants are nonprofit, tax-exempt religious, charitable, and educational organizations in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Deadline Note

The sponsor accepts requests under $50,000 on a rolling basis. For requests over $50,000, grant seekers should submit letters of inquiry no later than December 1 in order to be considered at the February board of directors meeting.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides support for nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations that support its mission to provide initiatives for high school and college age youth (ages 15 to 25) in the Chicago area with a focus on civic education, service and civic leadership.

Deadline Note

Pre-proposals are due December 1, 2009. Full proposals, if invited, will be due by February 1, 2010.

Synopsis

The BBN program seeks projects that initiate partnerships with private landowners, demonstrate successful collaborative efforts, address watershed health issues that would lead to restoring, protecting, and enhancing habitats and are key to restoring, protecting, and enhancing native aquatic species and their migration corridors, promote stewardship on private lands, and that can demonstrate a 2:1 non-federal to federal match.

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The sponsor invites applications for study proposals that focus on programs addressing headache disorders among minorities and medically-underserved United States residents.

Deadline Note

The sponsor will continue to review letters of inquiry throughout the year, but prospective grantees should be aware that the reviewing of proposals and grantmaking will be by issue area. The deadline for letters of inquiry and/or renewal applications for Environmental Justice is December 1, 2009.

Synopsis

The sponsor supports efforts that strengthen the ability of communities to determine their own economic, environmental and social well-being, and that help people control those forces that affect their lives.

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The sponsor provides support to scholars affiliated with Oklahoma colleges, universities and schools. Grants are made for $500 or $1,000.

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The sponsor offers an award to sociologists from the Pacific region in recognition of major intellectual contributions embodied in a recently published book or series of at least three articles on a common theme.

Deadline Note

The deadline for letters of intent is December 1, 2009. The deadline for proposals is February 1, 2010.

Synopsis

This program offer arts organizations the opportunity to apply for one-year grants of up to $75,000 for the design and implementation of programs that build on the findings of the Alliance’s Research into Action: Pathways to New Opportunities report and advance us toward the long-term goal of doubling Greater Philadelphia’s cultural participation by the Year 2020.

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The sponsor provides support for an award to one outstanding faculty advisor who best achieves the sponsor's purpose. The award includes travel expenses to attend the APA National Convention to receive the award, and an engraved plaque. Chapters nominate the faculty advisors.

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The sponsor provides support for an award to a faculty advisor from each region who best achieves the sponsor's purpose. The winning faculty advisor from each region will receive $500 and a plaque. Chapters nominate the faculty advisors.

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The sponsor provides support for awards presented annually to two chapters in each region that best achieve the sponsor's purpose.

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The sponsor provides support for non-profit organization leaders to undertake a sabbatical of three to six months, engaged in activities which offer personal renewal and professional growth. Support of $25,000 is provided. The program is restricted to organization leaders in the state of North Carolina.

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The grant program seeks to develop and support academic research devoted to genre romance novels, writers, and readers. Appropriate fields of specialization include but are not limited to: anthropology, communications, cultural studies, education, English language and literature, gender studies, linguistics, literacy studies, psychology, rhetoric, and sociology. Proposals in interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary studies are welcome. The ultimate goal of proposals should be significant publication in major journals or as a monograph from an academic press.

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The program is designed to encourage research and writing in black history and culture, to facilitate interaction among the participants, including fellows funded by other sources, and to provide for widespread dissemination of findings through lectures, publications, and the sponsor's seminars. Fellowships of $30,000 are available for six months and fellowships of up to $60,000 are available for twelve months.

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The sponsor provides recent PhD recipients and ABDs with opportunities to conduct research in Japan under the leadership of a host researcher. Fellows are encouraged to advance their own research and at the same time closely collaborate with young Japanese researchers and contribute to Japanese research communities.Applications are welcome from all social science and humanities disciplines and need not be explicitly related to the study of Japan.

Deadline Note

Letters of inquiry are due December 1, 2009.

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The sponsor invests in organizations with programs that focus on early childhood development and/or that foster improved care-giving skills.

Deadline Note

Books may be sent at any time during 2009, but must arrive by December 1, 2009.

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The purpose of this award is to recognize and encourage distinguished research and writing by scholars of American foreign relations. The prize of $2,500 is awarded annually to an author for his or her first book on any aspect of the history of American foreign relations.

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This award is provided to acknowledge non-traditional advocates of service-learning. The award recognizes a business leader, community member or public official who has a passion for engaging youth in service-learning.

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In-residence fellowships are provided to faculty affiliated with colleges and universities, and independent scholars, for humanistic research and education at the University of Utah. Fellowships provide stipends of $42,000 paid monthly over the nine-month academic year. Fellows also receive office space, use of a personal computer and library privileges.

Deadline Note

The deadline for receipt of mandatory pre-proposals is 1 December 2009. Full applications, if invited will be due by 1 July 2010.

Synopsis

The sponsor invites applications for projects by a group of researchers, who deal with the modeling of extremes in complex systems.

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Support of up to $15,000 is provided to the organizers of conferences on anthropological and related topics. Priority is given to major conferences sponsored by large international anthropological organizations (e.g., the European Association of Social Anthropologists, European Anthropological Association, Pan African Anthropological Association, and Latin American Anthropological Association) that serve as their annual or periodic meetings.

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Awards of up to $30,000 each are available to assist anthropological research projects undertaken jointly by two or more investigators from different countries.

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Grants for amounts up to $15,000 are available to the organizers of workshops. Generally smaller than conferences, workshops focus on defining or developing topical issues in theoretical anthropology.

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Short-term, in-residence research support is available to scholars who have a particular need to utilize the library, archival or other specialized resources of the Washington, DC area. Academic participants must possess either a doctoral degree or have almost completed their dissertations. For non-academics, an equivalent degree of professional achievement is expected. Recipients receive $100 per day for up to one month.

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Scholars who conduct research in the social sciences or humanities focusing on the former Soviet Union (excluding the Baltic States), and who demonstrate a particular need to utilize the library, archival, and other specialized resources of the Washington, D.C., area can apply for the new summer research grants.

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The sponsor provides support for basic and clinical research related to spinal cord injury. Research projects may address all aspects of spinal cord lesions, nerve regeneration, trophic support of lesioned neurons, and functional changes induced by lesions preferentially in mammals.

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The sponsor provides support for basic and clinical research related to spinal cord injury. Research projects may address all aspects of spinal cord lesions, nerve regeneration, trophic support of lesioned neurons, and functional changes induced by lesions preferentially in mammals.

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The sponsor invites scholars whose work focuses on Africa and/or the African Diaspora to apply for a two-year postdoctoral research and teaching fellowship.

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The sponsor offers two-year, full-time Fellowships to emerging, innovative social entrepreneurs with innovative ideas for creating new models for tackling seemingly unsolvable social challenges. These fellowships offer them the opportunity to develop and test their ideas.

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The program provides funding to high-visibility, high-impact limited series and feature length documentaries that offer a definitive take on a subject or break new ground in popular, public service media.

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Support is provided for study pertaining to some aspect of Western European studies, librarianship, or the book trade.

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Awards of $1,000 are given to honor distinguished academic libriarians who have made outstanding contibutions to women's studies through accomplishments and service to the profession.

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These Awards acknowledge the critical role of child care teachers in providing high-quality child care. Award recipients will receive $1,000.

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The sponsor funds projects which promote the principles and practice of nonviolent social change through the International Nonviolence Training Fund (INTF).

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The sponsor provides support to widen opportunities for minority professionals to enter or advance in newspaper management.

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The sponsor provides a grant to recognize inspirational leaders in the field of palliative and end-of-life care within Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Utah.

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The ULI Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition is a graduate-level annual competition that is intended to provide an interdisciplinary learning experience for real estate and design students in the United States and Canada. Self-formed student teams are asked to provide an urban design and a financial feasibility strategy for a large-scale real life site that ULI has identified somewhere in the United States. Through the formation of multidisciplinary teams, the program encourages cooperation and teamwork among future real estate professionals and the many allied professions, such as architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, historic preservation, engineering, real estate development, finance, psychology, law, and others.

Synopsis

This annual award recognizes an academic or law librarian who, through research, service to the profession, or other creative activity, makes distinguished contributions to bibliography and information service in law or political science.

Deadline Note

Books with a 2009 copyright received after the entry deadline may be accepted in the current year's competition if arrangements are made prior to the deadline. Entries that cannot be accomodated will be held over to the following year.

Synopsis

A $1,000 award is presented annually to recognize the best research-based book about journalism and mass communications published during the year.

Deadline Note

The sponsor recommends that applicants submit a letter of inquiry prior to submitting a formal proposal. Letters of inquiry are accepted at any time during the year. Formal proposals are due by the above deadlines.

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The sponsor supports the efforts of Chicago-area cultural institutions to serve and represent the city's diverse populations.

Deadline Note

The sponsor recommends that applicants submit a letter of inquiry prior to submitting a formal proposal. Letters of inquiry are accepted at any time during the year. Formal proposals are due by the above deadlines.

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< Support is provided for organizations in the U.S. Midwest for policy analysis and development, research, and advocacy that helps low-wage, low-skilled individuals connect to the labor market, stay employed, and advance to higher-paying jobs.