Grant Source Web Sites: Liberal and Fine Arts
Tarleton University Organized Research (ORG) Grants -- Objectives: develop the university’s research efforts, improve its research accomplishments, and enhance the university’s and faculty’s visibility within the academic community. Administered by the Tarleton University Research Committee.
Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) – grants, technical assistance and information for arts and music projects
www.arts.state.tx.us
National Endowment for the Arts (fine arts: music, theatre, art, dance, literature)
www.nea.gov/grants/index.html
National Endowment for the Humanities (history, literature, comparative religion, philosophy, and other fields of humanities). NEH awards fellowships to support advanced humanities research, grants to help institutions and organizations secure long-term improvements in their humanities programs and resources, grants for the planning or initial stages of digital initiatives, funding to support research and development projects that advance the nation's capacity to preserve and provide access to humanities resources. and funding to support summer seminars and institutes for professional development of K-12 teachers and post-secondary faculty.
www.neh.gov/grants/index.html
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholars Program - Fellowships awarded to post-doctoral fellows and junior faculty who can demonstrate their work will make a substantial contribution to one or more of the Academy's four major research areas: Science and Global Security, Social Policy and American Institutions, Humanities and Culture, and Education. Deadline: October.
www.amacad.org/visiting.aspx
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) – funding to faculty in disciplines including but not limited to art history, economics, geography, history, languages and literature, musicology, philosophy, political science, psychology and sociology. Specific programs:
(1) American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships intended as salary replacement to help scholars devote 6 to 12 continuous months to full-time research and writing. Deadline: September. www.acls.org/ex-felcomp.htm
(2) Charles Ryskamp Research Fellowships to support advanced assistant professors whose scholarly contributions have advanced their fields and who have well designed and carefully developed plans for new research. Amount: $64,000 plus $2,500 for research and travel plus possible summer support. Deadline: September. www.acls.org/rysguide.htm
(3) Andrew W. Mellon/ACLS Early Career Fellowships to provide support for young scholars to complete their dissertations and, later, to advance their research after being awarded the Ph.D. 65 fellowships awarded for a one year term beginning between June and September. Deadline: November. www.acls.org/ecfguide.htm
(4) New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society awards funds in support of planning meetings, workshops and/or conferences leading to publications of scholarly volumes that bridge disciplinary or geographic boundaries, engage new kinds of information, develop fresh approaches to traditional materials and issues, or otherwise bring innovative perspectives to the study of Chinese culture and society. Proposals concerning pre-modern China are especially encouraged. Deadline: August. www.acls.org/cck.htm
(5) Humanities and Humanities-related Social Science Fellowships are intended as salary replacement to help scholars devote six to twelve continuous months to full-time research and writing. Opportunities for all career levels and for unspecified topics as well as specified topics. www.acls.org/fel-comp.htm
(6) ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships intended to support an academic year dedicated to work on a major scholarly project that takes a digital form. Projects might include but are not limited to digital research archives, new media representations of extant data, innovative databases and digital tools that further humanistic research. Each fellowship carries a stipend of up to $55,000 toward an academic year's leave and provides for project costs of up to $25,000. Applicants must have a Ph.D. Deadline: November. www.acls.org/difguide.htm
American Academy in Rome - Rome Prize Fellowships - Rome Prize winners pursue independent projects varying in content and scope at the Academy in Rome. Fellowships are offered in such areas as: graphic design, literature, musical composition, set design, the visual arts, art history, and post-classical humanistic studies. Awards range from $10,000 to $20,000. Deadline: November.
www.aarome.org/prize.htm
American Philosophical Society – sabbatical fellowship available for mid-career faculty of universities and four-year collects in the U.S. who have been granted a sabbatical or research leave, but for whom financial support from the parent institution is available for only part of the year. Stipend is $30,000 to $40,000; the exact amount is determined by the committee. Payment occurs in either January or July.
www.amphilsoc.org/grants/sabbatical.htm
Carnegie Scholars Program - The Carnegie Corporation supports scholars whose research extends the boundaries of knowledge about Islam and Muslim communities. The overal aim is to build a critical mass of thoughtful and original scholarship in order to add to knowledge about Islam as a religion as well as the cultures and civilizations of Muslim societies, both in the U.S. and abroad. The Corporation is particularly seeking candidates who demonstrate the capacity to communicate their findings beyond the scholarly community to the public and policymakers.
www.carnegie.org/sub/program/scholars.html
Charles A. Dana Foundation – grants for brain research, immunology, and arts education
www.dana.org/grants/
Fulbright Programs - Fulbright programs support graduate student study and research abroad, faculty lecture and research positions abroad, groups of teachers and/or students studying abroad, and bringing visiting scholars and lecturers from abroad to U.S. campuses.
www.cies.org
The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation - The foundation awards a limited number (approximately 10 in the 2008-2009 fellowship year) of fellowships each year for independent projects in fields selected from rotating topics. Stipends are $25,000 and are intended to support mid-career individuals working on specific projects. Support is intended to augment paid sabbatical leaves. The fellowships may not be used for producing, directing, and staging performances and exhibits, and they are not awarded to support institutional programs. 2008-2009 fellowship year topic: music composition, performance, musicology, playwriting (excluding TV and film scripts) and theatre studies. 2009-2010: history and philosophy. 2010-2011: creative writing in English, including novels, short stories and poetry. 2011-2012: literary criticism, film criticism, creative non-fiction. Deadline: November 15, 2007 for the 2008-2009 fellowship year.
http://brown.edu/Divisions/Graduate_School/Howard_Foundation/
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation - welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance. Particular questions that interest HFG concern violence, aggression, and dominance in relation to social change, the socialization of children, intergroup conflict, interstate warfare, crime, family relationships, and investigations of the control of aggression and violence. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems. Award ceiling: $60,000.
www.hfg.org/rg/guidelines.htm
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships to Assist Research and Artistic Creation - provides fellowships for advanced professionals in all fields (natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, creative arts) except the performing arts. Fellowship amounts average $35,000 to $40,000 for one year. The foundation typically receives as many as 4,000 applications and awards about 200 grants. Applicants for artisitic creation funding must submit samples with their application. Deadline: October 1.
www.gf.org
Poets and Writers – the nation’s largest nonprofit literary organization. Grants to organizations (e.g. libraries, colleges, bookstores) to pay fees to writers giving readings or conducting workshops in New York and California and in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, and Seattle
www.pw.org/rw/
Sherwood Anderson Grants for Writers
http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/journalism/comp.html
JUSTNET (Justice Technology Information Network) -- grants for law enforcement research and equipment
www.nlectc.org/virlib/infolist.asp?strType=Funding
Texas Department of State Health Services – reference for federal, state and private grants for subject areas including: criminal justice/corrections, disabilities, health policy research, health professions training, nursing, nutrition/food service, and technology
www.dshs.state.tx.us/fic/search.asp
Department of Health and Human Services
www.hhs.gov/grants/index.shtml
Department of Housing and Urban Development
www.hud.gov/grants/index.cfm
Department of Justice – Office of Justice Programs
www.ojp.usdoj.gov/funding/
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
www.ncjrs.org/fedgrant.html
Ford Foundation – grants to support three program areas: Asset Building and Community Development, Peace and Social Justice, and Knowledge and Creativity
www.fordfound.org/about/guideline.cfm
Social Science Research Council - fellowships for pre-dissertation and dissertation researchers whose work “targets the spaces between disciplines.” Interest areas: global security and cooperation, human migration, knowledge institutions, the public sphere.
www.ssrc.org/fellowships/