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Grant Opportunities
The BRCC Office of Institutional
Research and Effectiveness (OIRE) is available to assist faculty and
staff with finding and applying for grants. Information regarding
those foundations or agencies that do not have an active link below may be
obtained through the OIRE. This list is by no means a complete list
and those interested in seeking grant funding should investigate
additional sources.
Foundations:
This is a list of private, independent foundations that support
grant programs in higher education.
Many of these foundations make their areas of focus and
guidelines available on the Internet. A brief description of each is
provided; however, to fully investigate
whether your project matches the interest of a given foundation, you
will need to follow the appropriate link below.
Arnold and Mabel
Beckman Foundation : The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
makes grants to non-profit research institutions to promote research
in chemistry and the life sciences, broadly interpreted, and
particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments, and
materials that will open up new avenues of research in science.
BellSouth Foundation:
Special
Initiatives provide an opportunity for the Foundation to work
directly on an education issue as a partner with grantees and other
educators. For each initiative, the Foundation convenes the partners
regularly, secures technical assistance as needed, provides an
online electronic forum for sharing and discussion, and disseminates
the initiative results to bring greater attention to the issue.
Burroughs-Wellcome
Fund: BWF's emphasis is on the career development of biomedical
scientists and on advancing areas in the basic medical sciences that
are under funded or that have a shortage of qualified researchers.
Carnegie Corporation
of New York:
In the coming year, the Corporation's concern for the liberal arts
will be explored through the development of a comprehensive
strategy. The foundation's goals include strengthening the central
purposes of the liberal arts and their delivery for an emerging
world of mass higher education where highly mobile students transfer
from institution to institution, where credits and credentials are
portable and there is an increasing demand for utility and
convenience. Particular attention will be given to projects that
strengthen core liberal arts requirements in community colleges;
that promote coherent articulation of the liberal arts between
two-year and four-year institutions; that commit four-year B.A. or
B.S. degree-granting institutions to assume greater authority over
their liberal arts requirements; that facilitate international
engagement within liberal arts requirements; that promote the
teaching of science and technology as general and liberal education;
that explore the teaching of liberal arts via distance learning
technologies; and that elevate the teaching of liberal education,
general education and the liberal arts within four-year B.A. or B.S.
degree curricula.
Christian A. Johnson Foundation: This
Foundation has funded projects related to liberal-arts and
interdisciplinary studies. (1060 Park Avenue, New York, New York,
10128-1033. phone - 212.534.6620)
Ford Foundation: In
education reform we seek to enhance the capacity of schools and
higher education institutions to broaden access while pursuing
higher levels of student achievement, especially for historically
underserved groups. In this way, we help reduce poverty and
inequality by promoting better educational practices for all
students.
In higher education and scholarship our goal is to expand
knowledge and deepen scholarship, curriculum and public
understanding of pluralism and identity. We support social science
training as a means of educating a new generation of leaders and
scholars who can be more effective in their civic roles, helping to
chart the future of their societies.
Freeman Foundation:
Asian studies (60 Wall Street, 36th Floor,
New York, New York 10260-0060, phone - 212.648.9673)
Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation: Most of their recent support for
postsecondary education has been in the area of K-12 leadership
development.
J. Paul Getty Trust:
The Getty provides grants to institutions and inividuals throughout
the world for projects that promote the understanding of art and its
history and the conservation of cultural heritage. We seek projects
that set high standards and provide opportunities for collaboration.
William
and Flora Hewlett Foundation: The Foundation gives priority to
inquiries that address the following issues. Apart from
exceptional circumstances the Foundation does not provide grants for
endowment, scholarships, or fellowships.
Liberal
Arts and Diversity. Over the past few years the Foundation
has solicited letters of intent and proposals for three programs in
higher education, Liberal Arts, Pluralism and Unity, and General
Education. The Foundation is assessing its experience in these
program areas as part of its planning effort and will not solicit
letters or proposals until planning is completed.
Using
Technology Effectively. The Foundation supports
innovative, technology-based projects that explore ways of
substantially increasing the effectiveness and quality of content
and instruction, both on campus and via distance learning.
California
Community Colleges. Over the next few years, California is
expected to experience a dramatic expansion of community college
enrollment. The Foundation is interested in funding creative
responses to this expansion that maximize opportunities for
California’s diverse population.
Historically
Black Private Colleges and Universities. In partnership
with the Bush Foundation, the Foundation supports an ongoing program
of grants for capital needs and faculty and administrator
development at private black colleges and universities. The
Bush Foundation administers this program.
Robert Wood Johnson: About
three-quarters of our grants are awarded under the Foundation's
various national programs. In these programs, multiple organizations
around the country receive grants to implement proven strategies or
develop new approaches to defined health problems. A small staff of
experts oversees these grantees' efforts, usually from a National
Program Office. We also make grants to organizations that send us
proposals from the field, whether unsolicited or at the Foundation's
initiation.
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation: Ewing Kauffman advised his associates to invest in people and be
willing to take risks as we look for opportunities to promote
positive youth development and accelerate entrepreneurship in
America. We consider our grants to be investments, and we look for a
return on the grant investments we make. Ultimately, the return we
seek will come when the following five outcomes are achieved:
- Children enter school prepared to succeed.
- Children and youth make a successful transition through
childhood and adolescence to responsible adulthood.
- Youth and adults have the knowledge, skills and values to make
entrepreneurship a choice for the future.
- Entrepreneurs have the knowledge, skills and values to
accelerate job and wealth creation in America.
- Nonprofit leaders have entrepreneurial knowledge, skills and
values to advance their organizations' social missions.
These five outcomes provide a strategic filter through which we
evaluate all grant proposals and potential investments. These
outcomes consistently guide our grant decisions, our day-to-day
priorities and the allocation of human and technical resources
throughout the Foundation.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation: The
focal initiative for strategy 2 is called New Options for Youth
Through Engaged Institutions. This initiative will support
partnerships between communities and post-secondary education
institutions to create innovative learning alternatives for
vulnerable adolescents, ages 14-20, who do not succeed in
traditional environments. The initiative is designed to find bold,
new ways to help young people achieve higher levels of learning and
prepare for meaningful work or post-secondary education.
Lilly Endowment
The Henry Luce Foundation: Support
for higher education permeates much of the Luce Foundation’s work,
and occasionally it makes grants for special projects that fall
outside the boundaries of its other programs. These grants may
address issues of shared concern for American higher education or
may be compelling for intellectual or institutional reasons.
Some Higher Education grants reflect the foundation’s interest
in interdisciplinary studies. For example, Duke University is
pursuing a project on the interactions between economics, art, and
art history and Pennsylvania State University is examining shared
interests among the fields of anthropology, biology, and economics.
Lumina
Foundation For Education: To ensure that Lumina
Foundation serves its
mission, we will initiate grant programs and solicit proposals
for them. We encourage prospective grantees to reflect on the
dimensions of the Foundation’s
three
main themes: financial access to postsecondary education,
student retention and goal attainment, and nontraditional learners
and learning. Proposals should address areas of common interest
between the grant seeker and the Foundation.
John and Catherine MacArthur:
The objectives of the Research and Writing Grants competition are to
support projects that explore the development of improved
understandings of key topics in global security and sustainability,
and to broaden and strengthen the community of writers and scholars
engaged in work on these issues.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation:
The Foundation’s program in Teaching and Technology supports
promising research on university level online learning and distance
education. The program
focuses on evaluative research on the uses of instructional
technology, with limited support for development of such
technologies (as accompanied by well-designed assessments).
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation:
The Foundation's Education Program is focusing on funding projects
at the university and graduate level. The program is emphasizing
science and technology to help develop the very best minds, and to
provide individuals with the skills to apply their knowledge to
society's problems. We are especially interested in programs that
will expand and increase the participation of women and minorities
in the sciences.
The Foundation's Environment Program is developing its strategy
based on the Moores' dedication to biodiversity conservation. We are
currently investigating the potential for preserving large
wilderness areas, the role of stewardship, the status of the world's
wild salmon populations and marine ecosystems, climate change and
energy challenges, and collaborative efforts within these subject
matters.
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation:
This site provides detailed information about the C.S. Mott
Foundation's programs - Civil
Society, Environment,
Flint Area and Pathways
Out of Poverty. In addition to our four programs, we also fund Exploratory
and Special Projects that may lead to a program area over time,
or unexpected opportunities that address significant international
and/or national problems.
John M. Olin Foundation
Inc.:
Public Policy Research
The Foundation supports research on the formulation, implementation
and evaluation of public policy in the social and economic fields.
Grants are made to study such areas as: regulation, taxation, fiscal
and monetary policy, education and welfare.
American Institutions
The Foundation seeks to promote understanding of the moral, cultural
and institutional foundations of free government. Under this
program, the Foundation supports studies of the American
Constitution, the operation of American political institutions, and
the moral and cultural principles underlying these institutions.
Law and the Legal System
In this area, the Foundation seeks to deepen understanding of the
American judicial system and to preserve the rule of law as the
bedrock of American constitutional government. The Foundation
supports public interest law and studies related to the judicial
system, jurisprudence, and the relationship between law and
economics.
Strategic and International Studies
The Foundation makes limited grants in this field supporting
projects that address the relationship between American institutions
and the international context in which they operate. Such projects
include studies of national security affairs, strategic issues,
American foreign policy and the international economy.
In each of these four areas, the Foundation attempts to advance
its objectives through support of the following kinds of activities:
Research; institutional support; fellowships; professorships;
lectures and lectures series; books; scholarly journals; journals of
opinion; conferences and seminars; and, on occasion, television and
radio programs.
David
and Lucile Packard Foundation: The Foundation provides grants to nonprofit organizations in the
following program areas: Conservation; Population; Science;
Children, Families, and Communities; Arts; and Organizational
Effectiveness and Philanthropy. The Foundation provides national and
international grants, and also has a special focus on the Northern
California Counties of San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and
Monterey. We do not accept proposals to benefit specific individuals
or that serve religious purposes.
The Pew Charitable Trusts:
Education and training beyond high school used to be one of many
roads Americans could take to social and economic improvement--but
it is becoming the only road. Yet at a time when the importance of
attaining a college degree has never been higher, questions related
to how well higher education is performing are being raised. Despite
the rhetoric that defines the American dream, why is opportunity for
higher education not evenly distributed across the 50 states? Why do
fewer than half the students who begin college in this country
graduate five years later with a bachelor’s degree? When students
do graduate, troubling questions are being asked about how much
students have learned. Employers report that a surprising number of
new graduates do not have the skills needed to compete in today’s
competitive market. Policy makers have been slow to address this
issue because the public embraces higher education and views the
system as highly successful. Systematic change is likely to remain
elusive until higher education is motivated to make the changes
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation:
The Foundation's programs and interests fall into the following
areas:
Surdna Foundation: Our goals
are to prevent irreversible damage to the environment and to promote
more efficient, economically sound, environmentally beneficial and
equitable use of land and natural resources.
TEAGLE, Foundation Inc.:
Has funded projects related to retention,
institutional-research, and alumni networking. (10 Rockefeller
Plaza, Room 920, New York, New York, 10020, phone - 212.373.1970)
Wallace - Readers
Digest Funds: Most of their recent support for postsecondary
education has been in the area of K-12 leadership development.
Whitacker Foundation:
Biomedical
Other Resources for Funding Opportunities:
US Department of Education
The Chronicle for
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