Arts Division Funding Opportunities: September-November 2015
Important information regarding internal deadlines: If the grant requires that
you submit under the auspices of a 501(c)(3) organization (including fiscal
sponsorship), UCSC now requires that you comply with internal deadlines that I
note on this list. Contact your Research Grant Coordinator (scmoore@ucsc.edu) and
the Office of Sponsored Project (kwisuri@ucsc.edu and sziegler@ucsc.edu) prior to
the listed internal deadline to ensure compliance.
Art
The Clark Hulings Fund for Visual Artist: Business Accelerator Grant: Due
September 30, 2015. The fund offers targeted financial assistance and business
support to professional visual artists to help them boost their careers and succeed
as managers of their art businesses. Applicants must detail exactly how the grant
would help them undertake, improve, or expand a specific project. Applicants must
be professional painters, artists working on paper, and/or sculptors who employ
traditional media (not including photography, film, or video). Amount: $5,000.
Aftermath Project Photography Grant: Due November 2, 2015. The Aftermath
Project’s mission is to support photographic projects that tell the other half of the
story of conflict — the story of what it takes for individuals to learn to live again, to
rebuild destroyed lives and homes, to restore civil societies, to address the lingering
wounds of war while struggling to create new avenues for peace. Grant proposals
should reflect an understanding of this mission. Proposals may relate to the
aftermath of numerous kinds of conflict, not just international wars. Amount:
$20,000.
HAVC
Kress Foundation Art History, Preservation, and Digital Resources Grants:
Internal deadline has passed. Contact me ASAP if you are interested! Through
its Grant Programs, the Kress Foundation supports scholarly projects that promote
the appreciation, interpretation, preservation, study and teaching of European art
from antiquity to the early 19th century. The Digital Resources program is intended
to foster new forms of research and collaboration as well as new approaches to
teaching and learning. Support will also be offered for the digitization of important
visual resources (especially art history photographic archives) in the area of premodern European art history; of primary textual sources (especially the literary and
documentary sources of European art history); for promising initiatives in online
publishing; and for innovative experiments in the field of digital art history. These
competitive grants are awarded to institutions only. External deadline: October 1,
2015 (receipt via postal delivery). Amount: Variable.
Getty Scholar Grants: Due October 1, 2015. Getty Scholar Grants are for
established scholars, or writers who have attained distinction in their fields.
Recipients are in residence at the Getty Research Institute or Getty Villa, where they
pursue their own projects free from academic obligations, make use of Getty
collections, join their colleagues in a weekly meeting devoted to an annual research
theme, and participate in the intellectual life of the Getty. Applications are welcome
from researchers of all nationalities who are working in the arts, humanities, or
social sciences. Amount: $65,000 for one year, although may be in residence a
minimum of three months.
The Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design: Due October 9, 2015. Exhibition
Research and Project Grants will be awarded to support research projects relating
to the goals of the Craft Research Fund. (To support innovative research on critical
issues in craft theory and history; To explore the inter-relationship among craft, art,
design and contemporary culture; To foster new cross-disciplinary approaches to
scholarship in the craft field in the United States; To advance investigation of
neglected questions on craft history and criticism in the United States.) Grant funds
may be used for research related expenses such as travel, honoraria for
contributors, salary for independent researchers, and/or support documentation
such as images or rights to use images or text, as part of the research yet to be
completed. The grant awards are not for the printing or dissemination of already
completed research. (Travel Awards, $1000, applications due October 30, 2015).
Amount: $15,000.
Getty Foundation Library Research Fellowships: Due October 15, 2015. Getty
Library Research Grants provide partial, short-term support for costs relating to
travel and living expenses for scholars whose research requires use of specific
collections housed in the Getty Research Institute. Amount: $500 to $2,500.
Dumbarton Oaks Fellowships: Due November 1, 2015. Dumbarton Oaks offers
residential fellowships in three areas of study: Byzantine Studies (including related
aspects of late Roman, early Christian, Western medieval, Slavic, and Near Eastern
studies), Pre-Columbian Studies (of Mexico, Central America, and Andean South
America), and Garden and Landscape Studies. Fellowships are for scholars who hold
a doctorate or appropriate final degree or have established themselves in their field
and wish to pursue their own research. Amount: $35,000 for a full academic year.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Fellowship: Due November 6, 2015. Multiple
fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum are an opportunity for a community of
scholars from around the world to use the Museum as a place for exchange,
research, and professional advancement. PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers,
and senior scholars are eligible to apply. Amount: $42,000 to 52,000.
Film & Digital Media
California Documentary Project Production and Research and Development
Grants: Internal deadline has passed. Contact me ASAP if you are interested!
CDP is a competitive grants program that supports documentary film, radio, and
new media productions that enhance our understanding of California and its
cultures, peoples, and histories. Projects must use the humanities to provide
context, depth, and perspective and be suitable for California and national audiences
through broadcast and/or distribution. Since 2003, we have awarded approximately
$4 million to projects that document the California experience and explore issues of
significance to Californians. CDP grants support projects at the research and
development, production, and public engagement stages. External deadline: October
15, 2015 (5 p.m.). Amount: $10,000 - $50,000.
Center for Asian American Media Grants: Draft budget due to OSP by October
1, 2015. With support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), CAAM
provides production funding to independent producers for national public
television. CAAM ia dedicated to presenting stories that convey the richness and
diversity of Asian American experiences to the broadest audience possible. External
deadline: October 15, 2015. Amount: $50,000.
Bertha BRITDOC Connect Fund: Due October 5, 2015. The Connect Fund, a joint
initiative between Bertha Foundation and BRITDOC, is the first European-based
outreach and engagement fund, and is open to filmmakers from around the world.
The fund is looking to support strategic outreach campaigns for completed or
almost completed documentary feature films with a social issue at their core; films
which have the ability to achieve real change on a local, regional or global level.
Maximum Funding: $74,000.
ITVS Diversity Development Fund: Draft budget due to OSP by October 9,
2015. Provides research and development funding to producers of color to develop
single documentary programs for public television. Producers must be U.S. citizens
or legal residents. External deadline: November 6, 2015. Amount: $15,000.
[Awaiting more detailed guidelines when application period opens on October 5.]
Fledgling Fund: Rolling application period open; Draft budget due (internal)
to OSP 10 days prior to application. Grants support outreach and engagement for
social issue documentary film and other storytelling projects that have the potential
to inspire positive social change around issues that affect the most vulnerable.
Fledgling has an open rolling grant application process. Amount: $25,000.
Tribeca Film Institute: Due November 4, 2015. Tribeca All Access (Scripted
and Documentary) seeks feature-length narrative and documentary submissions
in development from established and emerging filmmakers whose team includes a
director, producer, screenwriter or developer from a community that is statistically
underrepresented in the film industry. Projects may be in any stage of development,
from treatment/screenplay to post-production. Projects of any genre and or budget
range are welcome to apply. Plus eligibility for our on-going alumni grants. Amount:
Variable.
Tribeca Film Institute Sloan Filmmaker Fund: Due November 4, 2015. Provides
grants and professional guidance in support of innovative and compelling narrative
features that offer a fresh take on scientific, mathematic and technological themes.
Project Status: For films in any stage, based anywhere. Amount: $75,000. Also due
November 4: TFI/ESPN Prize will award one annual grant of $30,000 to a featurelength work-in-progress documentary that presents sports, competition and
athleticism as a backdrop within a character-driven story.
Music
GRAMMY Foundation Grant Program: Letter of Inquiry Due October 1, 2015.
The Research Program awards grants to organizations and individuals to support
research on the impact of music on the human condition. Examples might include
the study of the effects of music on mood, cognition and healing, as well as the
medical and occupational well-being of music professionals and the creative process
underlying music. Priority is given to projects with strong methodological design as
well those addressing an important research question. The Archiving and
Preservation Program awards grants to organizations and individuals to support
efforts that advance the archiving and preservation of the music and recorded
sound heritage of the Americas. Amount: Up to $20,000. Please note that if you are
interested in applying through UCSC, contact the Research Grants Coordinator at least
20 working days in advance of the deadline.
Chamber Music Association Presenter Consortium for Jazz: Draft budget due
to OSP by October 1, 2015. Presenter Consortium for Jazz provides support to
consortiums of three U. S. presenters that collectively engage up to three
professional U.S. jazz ensembles (consisting of 2-10 musicians each) to perform at
each presenter’s venue. Incentives are offered to encourage presentations of CMA’s
New Jazz Works commissions. Amount: $30,000. Grant will provide up to 75% of
the budget. External deadline: October 30, 2015.
New Music USA Grants: Due October 1, 2015. We are open to a huge range of new
music projects. A “project” to us mean any activity that involves new music getting
out into the world through a live performance or recording. We’re especially
interested in having our funds go towards paying artists directly for their work;
whether that’s creating, engaging, performing, or something else. We place special
emphasis on funds towards: • The creation of new musical work • New live music
for dance • Recording costs The most competitive projects are those that include
specified living composers and recent music. Amount: $250 to $15,000. (Biannual
call. Anticipated second call in April 2016.)
Kurt Weill Foundation, multiple grants: Draft Budget to OSP by October 2,
2015. Musical and theater productions, outreach, engagement, reasearch, travel and
publication topics must be related to Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya, and/or Marc Blitzstein.
External deadline: November 1, 2015. Amount: Variable.
Chamber Music Association Residency Partnership Grant: Draft budget due to
OSP by October 9, 2015. The Residency Partnership Program supports ensembles
and presenters in building audiences for classical/contemporary, jazz, and world
chamber music through residency projects. Funding is intended for activities that
take place in community settings and that are not part of a regular concert series.
Activities may include, but are not limited to, interactive or audience engagement
programs in classrooms (preschool through high school), libraries, hospitals, senior
centers, or other community venues. The program does not support music activities
intended for college- or conservatory-level music students. Projects must take place
in the U.S. or its territories. External deadline: November 6, 2015. Amount: $12,000.
Institute for Advanced Study (IAS, Princeton) Fellowships: Due November 1,
2015. The IAS is an independent private institution founded in 1930 to create a
community of scholars focused on intellectual inquiry, free from teaching and other
university obligations. Chosen scholars are offered a membership for a semester or
full academic year. Members receive access to the extensive resources of the
Institute, including offices, access to libraries, subsidized restaurant and housing
facilities, and some secretarial services. THE SCHOOL OF HISTORICAL STUDIES
supports scholarship in all fields of historical research, but is concerned principally
with the history of western, near eastern and Asian civilizations, with particular
emphasis upon Greek and Roman civilization, the history of Europe (medieval, early
modern, and modern), the Islamic world, East Asian studies, art history, the history
of science and philosophy, and modern international relations. The School also
offers the Edward T. Cone Membership in Music Studies and the Mellon
Fellowship for scholars at the rank of Assistant Professor. Amount: $75,000 for one
academic year.
Yale Institute of Sacred Music Fellowships: Due November 1, 2015. ISM Senior
Fellows / Postdoctoral Fellows are scholars, religious leaders, and artists at all
career stages whose work is in or is moving to the fields of sacred music,
liturgical/ritual studies, or religion and the arts. Amount: $52,000 for one academic
year.
ASCAP Rudolf Nissim Prize: Due November 15, 2015. The Award honors Dr.
Rudolf Nissim’s dedication to concert music and concert music creators was an
inspiration to his colleagues, and his generous bequest to the Foundation is a
reminder of his legacy in perpetuity. Open only to ASCAP members. The award will
be based on the significance and overall artistry and compositional elements of the
musical work or composition. Amount: $5,000.
Theater Arts
Zellerbach Foundation Community Arts Program: Due September 25, 2015.
This program supports Bay Area artists who are creating new and innovative work
that is representative of the diverse cultures and communities of the Bay Area.
Grants will be awarded for projects in the areas of dance, theater, visual arts, music,
festivals, poetry, literature, and publications. Film, craft, painting, and photography
projects not eligible. Priority will be given to performance-oriented, contemporary
projects. Only nonprofit arts-serving organizations and fiscal sponsors located in and
doing their work in San Francisco, Contra Costa, and Alameda counties (west of the
Caldecott Tunnels) are eligible to apply. UCSC cannot be the applicant organization.
Amount: $7,500.
MAP Fund: Letter of Inquiry due September 28, 2015. The MAP Fund is founded
on the principle that exploration drives human progress, no less in art than in
science or medicine. MAP supports live performance projects that embody a spirit of
deep inquiry. MAP is particularly interested in supporting artists that question,
disrupt, complicate, and challenge inherited notions of social and cultural hierarchy
across the current American landscape. Amount: $10,000 to 45,000.
New Music USA Grants: Due October 1, 2015. We are open to a huge range of new
music projects. A “project” to us mean any activity that involves new music getting
out into the world through a live performance or recording. We’re especially
interested in having our funds go towards paying artists directly for their work;
whether that’s creating, engaging, performing, or something else. We place special
emphasis on funds towards: • The creation of new musical work • New live music
for dance • Recording costs The most competitive projects are those that include
specified living composers and recent music. Amount: $250 to $15,000. (Biannual
call. Anticipated second call in April 2016.)
Japan Foundation Performing Arts Grant: The internal deadline has passed.
Please contact me immediately if you are interested in applying! This program is
designed to provide financial assistance for non-profit organizations in the US and
Canada that aim to introduce Japanese performing arts to local audiences. PAJ
Touring Grants help present Japanese performing arts at multiple locations in the
United States and Canada, with an emphasis on locations outside major
metropolitan areas. PAJ Collaboration Grants help Japanese and American/Canadian
artists develop a new work, which will further an appreciation of Japanese culture
when presented to American/Canadian audiences. The grants are made to nonprofit
organizations in the U.S. and Canada only. External deadline (regular mail): October
20, 2015. Amount: Variable (cost share required).
Kurt Weill Foundation, multiple grants: Draft Budget to OSP by October 2,
2015. Musical and theater productions, outreach, engagement, reasearch, travel and
publication topics must be related to Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya, and/or Marc Blitzstein.
External deadline: November 1, 2015. Amount: Variable.
National Dance Project Touring Awards: Due October 13, 2015. NDP Touring
Awards support U.S. tours of dance works by national and international artists.
Eligibility: Be choreographers or companies applying for a project with a planned
U.S. tour during the NDP touring period of: see website. Demonstrate that at least
three U.S. nonprofit organizations (presenters) from at least two states will present
the work on tour. Amount: $35,000.
Association of Performing Arts Presenters Cultural Exchange Fund: Due
October 30, 2015. APAP awards U.S. based presenting organizations, agents,
managers, producers, individual artists, and groups of presenting professionals
traveling outside of the U.S. to see the work of artists and companies or to develop
and advance projects with foreign artists and their collaborators. APAP strongly
encourages but does not limit travel to the following: Africa, Asia, Latin America, and
the Middle East. Must be APAP member. Amount: Variable.
Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship: Due November 1, 2015. Each year, the
Folger Institute awards nine-month residential fellowships. We welcome
applications from scholars holding the PhD, as well as inquiries and applications
from creative artists. A funded fellowship will provide sustained time in the Folger
collections to read, write, and share ideas in our vibrant intellectual community.
Amount: $50,000.
Digital Arts and New Media
Kress Foundation Art History, Preservation, and Digital Resources Grants:
Internal Deadline has passed. Contact me immediately if you’re interested!
Through its Grant Programs, the Kress Foundation supports scholarly projects that
promote the appreciation, interpretation, preservation, study and teaching of
European art from antiquity to the early 19th century. The Digital Resources
program is intended to foster new forms of research and collaboration as well as
new approaches to teaching and learning. Support will also be offered for the
digitization of important visual resources (especially art history photographic
archives) in the area of pre-modern European art history; of primary textual sources
(especially the literary and documentary sources of European art history); for
promising initiatives in online publishing; and for innovative experiments in the
field of digital art history. These competitive grants are awarded to institutions only.
External deadline: October 1, 2015 (receipt via postal delivery). Amount: Variable.
National Science Foundation, Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Science
Research (IBSS): Draft budget due to OSP by October 28, 2015. This competition
promotes the conduct of interdisciplinary research by teams of investigators in the
social and behavioral sciences. Emphasis is placed on support for research that
involves researchers from multiple Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)
disciplinary fields and that integrates scientific theoretical approaches and
methodologies from multiple SBE disciplinary fields. Emphasis also is placed on the
significance of expected intellectual contributions that are likely to yield
generalizable insights and information that will enhance theoretical perspectives
and advance basic knowledge and capabilities across multiple SBE disciplinary
fields. Although the IBSS competition will consider any proposal that addresses a
topic for which the proposal makes a compelling case that the research will enhance
broader theoretical understanding across multiple social and behavioral science
fields, social and behavioral science researchers are especially encouraged to submit
proposals for research on one of the following three broadly defined topics:
Population Change; Sources and Consequences of Disparities; and Technology, New
Media, and Social Networks. External Deadline: December 1, 2015. Estimated
$10,500,000 to support 12-16 awards.
Multiple Departments (Grants)
The Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program: Applications due September 24,
2015. This program is a scholarly community where individuals pursue advanced
work across a wide range of academic disciplines, professions, and creative arts.
Radcliffe Institute fellowships are designed to support scholars, scientists, artists,
and writers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishment who wish to
pursue work in academic and professional fields and in the creative arts. In
recognition of Radcliffe's historic contributions to the education of women and to
the study of issues related to women, the Radcliffe Institute sustains a continuing
commitment to the study of women, gender, and society. Applicants' projects need
not focus on gender, however. Amount: $75,000.
Southern Exposure Alternative Exposure: Application due September 24,
2015. Provides monetary awards to foster the development and presentation of
artist-led projects and programs that are direct, accessible, and open to the public.
Funded activities may include a new exhibition or exhibition series, the ongoing
work of an arts venue or collective, a public art project, a one-time event or
performance, publications directly related to the visual arts, an online project, an
artist residency, a series of film screenings, and more. Must live in San Francisco or
Alameda County. Amount: Up to $5000.
National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works Research Awards: The internal
deadline has passed. Please contact me immediately if you are interested in
applying! Awards to support research that investigates the value and/or impact of
the arts, either as individual components of the U.S. arts ecology or as they interact
with each other and/or with other domains of American life. Matching grants range
from $10,000 to $30,000. External deadline: October 20, 2015.
Japan Foundation Performing Arts Grant: The internal deadline has passed.
Please contact me immediately if you are interested in applying! This program is
designed to provide financial assistance for non-profit organizations in the US and
Canada that aim to introduce Japanese performing arts to local audiences. PAJ
Touring Grants help present Japanese performing arts at multiple locations in the
United States and Canada, with an emphasis on locations outside major
metropolitan areas. PAJ Collaboration Grants help Japanese and American/Canadian
artists develop a new work, which will further an appreciation of Japanese culture
when presented to American/Canadian audiences. The grants are made to nonprofit
organizations in the U.S. and Canada only. External deadline (regular mail): October
20, 2015. Amount: Variable (cost share required).
Zellerbach Foundation Community Arts Program: Due September 25, 2015.
This program supports Bay Area artists who are creating new and innovative work
that is representative of the diverse cultures and communities of the Bay Area.
Grants will be awarded for projects in the areas of dance, theater, visual arts, music,
festivals, poetry, literature, and publications. Film, craft, painting, and photography
projects not eligible. Priority will be given to performance-oriented, contemporary
projects. Only nonprofit arts-serving organizations and fiscal sponsors located in and
doing their work in San Francisco, Contra Costa, and Alameda counties (west of the
Caldecott Tunnels) are eligible to apply. UCSC cannot be the applicant organization.
Amount: $7,500.
National Art Education Association (NAEA) Research Grants: Due October 1,
2015 (by regular mail). Offers major grants supporting research that advances
knowledge in the field of art education and that promulgates the goals outlined in
Creating a Visual Arts Research Agenda Toward the 21st Century. Will be awarded to
selected art educators whose proposals specifically focus on issues relating to one of
the recommendations identified by NAEA’s Commission on Research. Additional
smaller grants available. Must be a member of the NAEA. Amount: Up to $10,000.
Stanford Humanities Center External Faculty Fellowships: Due October 1,
2015. These fellowships are intended primarily for individuals currently teaching in
or affiliated with an academic institution, but independent scholars may apply.
Faculty fellowships are awarded across the spectrum of academic ranks (assistant,
associate, and full professor) and a goal of the selection process is to create a diverse
community of scholars. Applicants who are members of traditionally underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply. There are no citizenship requirements
for these fellowships; non-U.S. nationals are welcome to apply. Amount: $70,000 +
expenses.
Cornell University Society For the Humanities Fellowship: Due October 1,
2015. The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University seeks interdisciplinary
research projects that reflect on philosophical, aesthetic, political, ecological,
religious, psychoanalytical, and cultural understandings of skin. Thinking skin calls
upon cultural horizons, religious traditions, flesh, haptics, signs, texts, images,
biopolitics, screens, sounds, and surfaces. From the earliest writings on medicine
and religion to more recent theories of race, sexuality, gender, class, and ethnicity,
how might thinking or making skin inform the global cultural experience from North
to South, East to West, South to South? We invite research projects across historical
periods, disciplinary boundaries, geographic territories, and social contexts.
Amount: $50,000.
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection One-Month Research
Stipends: Due October 1, 2015. For scholars holding the PhD or other relevant
terminal degree and working on research projects in Byzantine studies, PreColumbian studies, or Garden and Landscape studies. Amount: $3,000.
The Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence (S-I-R) Program: External deadline is
October 15, 2015, but contact me immediately if you are interested in
applying to bring a non-U.S. scholar. Assists U.S. higher education institutions in
expanding programs of academic exchange. By supporting non-U.S. scholars through
grants for teaching at institutions that might not have a strong international
component, both the U.S. institution and the scholar grantee benefit.
Lawrence Foundation Grants: Draft Budget to OSP by October 2, 2015. The
Lawrence Foundation is focused on making grants to support environmental
(including education), human services and other causes although our interests are
fairly diverse and may lead us into other areas on an occasional basis. External
deadline: November 1, 2015. Average grant: $5,000.
National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts: Senior
Fellowships: Due October 15, 2015. Residential fellowships include: The Paul
Mellon and Ailsa Mellon Bruce - history, theory, and criticism of the visual arts
(painting, sculpture, architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism, prints and
drawings, film, photography, decorative arts, industrial design, and other arts); The
Samuel H. Kress - research on European art before the early 19th century; The
William C. Seitz Senior Fellowship- research on modern and contemporary art.
Senior fellowship applications are also solicited from scholars in other disciplines
whose work examines artifacts or has implications for the analysis and criticism of
form. An A.W. Mellon two-year postdoctoral fellowship is also offered for research
on the history, theory, and criticism of the visual arts of any time period or culture.
Amount: $50,000.
National Humanities Center Fellowship: Due October 15, 2015. The Center
(Research Triangle Park, NC) welcomes up to forty scholars from all fields of the
humanities. Individually, the Fellows pursue their own research and writing.
Together, they create a stimulating community of intellectual discourse. Fellowship
applicants must have a PhD or equivalent scholarly credentials along with a strong
record of peer-reviewed work. Emerging scholars as well as senior scholars are
encouraged to apply. In addition to researchers from all fields of the humanities, the
Center invites scholars from the natural and social sciences, the arts, the
professions, and public life who are engaged in humanistic projects to apply.
Amount: Variable (but at least half-salary and travel).
The Clark Art Institute Fellowships: Due October 15, 2015. Scholars may
propose topics that relate to the visual arts, their history, practice, theory, or
interpretation. Any proposal that contributes to understanding the nature of artistic
activity and the intellectual, social, and cultural worlds with which it is connected is
welcome. Located in Williamstown, MA. Amount: $60,000 for one academic year.
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, Junior and
Senior Scholar Grants: Due October 15, 2015. The Foundation's grants provide
support for research on Chinese Studies in the humanities and social sciences.
Grants are for time off for research and writing. Applications should be
accompanied by a letter of recommendation from the chairman of the department,
from the dean of the college or the provost of the university. Amount: $30,000,
$35,000, or $40,000.
Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST): Draft
budget due to OSP by October 15, 2015. ITEST is a program that promotes PreK-
12 student interests and capacities to participate in the science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and information and communications
technology (ICT) workforce of the future. To achieve this objective, ITEST supports
the development, implementation, and selective spread of innovative strategies for
engaging students in experiences that: (1) increase student awareness of STEM and
ICT careers; (2) motivate students to pursue the education necessary to participate
in those careers; and/or (3) provide students with technology-rich experiences that
develop their knowledge of related content and skills (including critical thinking
skills) needed for entering the STEM workforce. ITEST projects may adopt an
interdisciplinary focus on multiple STEM domains, focus on a single domain, or
focus on one or more sub-disciplines within a domain. ITEST projects must involve
students, and may also include teachers. The ITEST program is especially interested
in broadening participation of students from traditionally underrepresented groups
in STEM fields and related education and workforce domains. Projects that actively
engage business and industry partners to better ensure that PreK-12 experiences
foster the knowledge and skill-sets needed for emerging STEM-related occupations
are strongly encouraged. ITEST supports two project types: Strategies projects and
SPrEaD (Successful Project Expansion and Dissemination) projects. Strategies
projects support the design, implementation, and testing of innovative educational
experiences that support the objectives of the ITEST program. SPrEaD projects
support the wider and broader testing and dissemination of promising strategies to
generate evidence and greater understanding of contextual factors that operate to
enhance, moderate, or constrain anticipated project impacts. All ITEST projects may
include activities designed to inform judgments regarding the feasibility of
implementing strategies in typical learning environments associated with formal
classrooms, out-of-school settings, or combinations of such environments. The
ITEST program also invites proposals for an ITEST Resource Center to provide
technical assistance to projects and provide assistance with the outreach activities
of the ITEST program. External deadline is November 13. Amount: Up to $1.2 million
for 3 years and $2 million for 5 years.
DAAD German Academic Exchange Service Grants for Academics, Artists and
Architects: Due October 15, 2015. DAAD offers grants for one to three months in
all academic disciplines to scholars at US and Canadian institutions of higher
education to pursue research at universities, libraries, archives, institutes or
laboratories in Germany. The aim of this particular program is to support shortterm research stays and thus promote the exchange of experience and networking
amongst colleagues. Amount: Up to $2150 euros/month.
Soros Justice Fellowships: Advocacy and Media: Due October 21, 2015. The
Soros Justice Fellowships fund outstanding individuals to undertake projects that
advance reform, spur debate, and catalyze change on a range of issues facing the U.S.
criminal justice system. The Fellowships Program is part of a larger effort within the
Open Society Foundations’ Justice Fund to reduce the destructive impact of current
criminal justice policies on the lives of individuals, families, and communities in the
United States by challenging the overreliance on incarceration and extreme
punishment, and ensuring a fair and accountable system of justice. Amount: Up to
$110,250.
Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholar Program (Cambridge, MA): Due
October 23, 2015. The Academy’s Visiting Scholars Program provides residential
fellowships in for junior faculty members and postdoctoral scholars in the
humanities and social sciences. The Academy seeks proposals in the humanities and
social sciences relating to American history, culture, and public policy from the
founding period to the present. The fellowship program offers scholars a year for
research and writing free from teaching and administrative duties, a collaborative
work environment, and the opportunity to interact with Academy members. It also
creates a national network for these scholars, assisting them in their research and
professional development. Preference will be given to untenured faculty. Amount:
Up to $65,000.
Institute for Advanced Study (IAS, Princeton) Fellowships: Due November 1,
2015. The IAS is an independent private institution founded in 1930 to create a
community of scholars focused on intellectual inquiry, free from teaching and other
university obligations. Chosen scholars are offered a membership for a semester or
full academic year. Members receive access to the extensive resources of the
Institute, including offices, access to libraries, subsidized restaurant and housing
facilities, and some secretarial services. THE SCHOOL OF HISTORICAL STUDIES
supports scholarship in all fields of historical research, but is concerned principally
with the history of western, near eastern and Asian civilizations, with particular
emphasis upon Greek and Roman civilization, the history of Europe (medieval, early
modern, and modern), the Islamic world, East Asian studies, art history, the history
of science and philosophy, and modern international relations. The School also
offers the Edward T. Cone Membership in Music Studies and the Mellon Fellowship
for scholars at the rank of Assistant Professor. Amount: $75,000 for one academic
year.
Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship: Due November 1, 2015. Each year, the
Folger Institute awards nine-month residential fellowships. We welcome
applications from scholars holding the PhD, as well as inquiries and applications
from creative artists. A funded fellowship will provide sustained time in the Folger
collections to read, write, and share ideas in our vibrant intellectual community.
Amount: $50,000.
Asian Arts Council Grants: Due November 2, 2015. The Asian Cultural Council
supports transformative cultural exchange by awarding grants to artists, scholars,
and arts and humanities professionals, as well as organizations and educational
institutions from the United States and Asia for research, study, and creative work in
the United States and Asia and within the countries of Asia. To apply, you must be an
artist, an arts or humanities professional, a scholar, or a graduate/post-graduate
student in a related field. Your country of permanent residence must be within Asia
or the United States, and your proposed project must take place outside of your
home country, also in either the United States or Asia. If you choose to apply as an
organization rather than as an individual, you must contact OSP at least 10 working
days prior to the deadline. Amount: $10,000.
Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Postdoctoral
Fellowship: Due November 4, 2015. For scholars who are preparing or
augmenting their PhD dissertation research for publication, or who are embarking
on new research projects. Amount: $50,000. See above link for additional Chinese
Studies grants, such as the Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies
Collaborative Reading-Workshop Grants.
Rome Prize: Due November 1, 2015. Each year, the Rome Prize is awarded to
about thirty emerging artists and scholars who represent the highest standard of
excellence and who are in the early or middle stages of their working lives. Eligible
fields include: Architecture, Design, Historic Preservation and Conservation,
Landscape Architecture, Literature (awarded only by nomination through the
American Academy of Arts and Letters), Music Composition, Visual Arts, Ancient
Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, and Modern
Italian Studies. Amount: Variable.
Huntington Library Long and Short-Term Fellowships (multiple): Due
November 15, 2015. Research projects (which can include The Dibner Program in
the History of Science offers historians of science and technology the opportunity to
study in the Burndy Library and to work in the other resources for the history of
science and technology at the Huntingtontravel to British libraries) should align
with the Huntington Library collections: Middle Ages, Renaissance, 19th- and 20thcentury literature, British drama, Colonial America, American Civil War, Western
America, and California. The Art Collections contain notable British and American
paintings, fine prints, photographs, and an art reference library. The Dibner
Program in the History of Science offers historians of science and technology the
opportunity to study in the Burndy Library and to work in the other resources for
the history of science and technology at the Huntington. Amount: Up to $50,000 for
one year; $3000/month for short-term.
American Association of University Women American Fellowships for
untenured professors: Due November 15, 2015. Summer/Short-Term
Research Publication Grants provide funds for women college and university
faculty and independent researchers to prepare research for publication. Time must
be available for eight consecutive weeks of final writing and editing in response to
issues raised in critical reviews. These grants can be awarded to both tenure-track
and part-time faculty, and new and established researchers. The grants are designed
to assist the candidate in obtaining tenure and other promotions. Amount: $6,000
for 8 weeks. The primary purpose of the Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship
is to increase the number of women in tenure-track faculty positions and to
promote equality for women in higher education. This fellowship is designed to
assist the candidate in obtaining tenure and further promotions by enabling her to
spend a year pursuing independent research. Amount: $30,000.
Brown University Howard Fellowship: Due November 15, 2015. Nonresidential
Howard Fellowships are intended primarily to provide artists, scholars, and writers
with time to complete their work. They are not intended for publication subsidies,
for equipment purchase, for preparation of exhibits, or to support institutional
programs. The Foundation targets its support specifically to early mid-career
individuals, those who have achieved recognition for at least one major project.
Fellowships are offered in a five-year sequence of fields. 2016-17 Fields: Creative
Non-Fiction, Literary Translation into English, Film Studies, and Literary Studies.
Amount: $33,000.
American Council of Learned Societies Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation
Program in Buddhist Studies: Due November 17, 2015. Research Fellowships
provide scholars time free from teaching and other responsibilities in order that
they devote full-time to research and writing on the project proposed. A fellowship
period, during which no teaching, commissioned research on other topics, or
administrative duties are allowed, may last up to nine months. It may be separated
into two periods, each of which must be a minimum of three months. See site for
additional fellowships including postdoctoral and collaborative. Amount: $70,000.
A Blade of Grass Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art: Letter of intent due
November 20, 2015. We provide resources to artists who demonstrate artistic
excellence and serve as innovative conduits for social change. We fund socially
engaged projects in which art is a catalyst for social change; projects that feature
artists in leadership roles; dialogue-based projects that emphasize sustainable
partnerships with communities; projects in which artists engage community
members as equal partners; projects in which co-creation with non-artists is part of
the process. Amount: $20,000.