Grant Development Services

The Humanities Grant Development Office stimulates external grant and fellowship activities and enhances the quality of applications by KU humanities scholars.

Grant Development Links

Databases and Search Engines
Foundations
Government Agencies
Humanities Funding Agencies
Humanities Research Centers
Humanities Research Libraries and Museums
In-Residence Opportunities for All Scholarly Ranks
In-Residence Opportunities for Junior Scholars
KU Funding Opportunities
Major Arts Funding Agencies
Opportunities for Graduate Students
Proposal Development Advice
Useful Information Sources

Databases and Search Engines

About.com

(Advice for grant seekers and proposal writers)

Alliance of Artists Communities
Art Deadlines List

(Links to funding opportunities and juried competitions, exhibitions, etc.)

Arts Over America
Ask.com
CharityChannel
Community of Science (COS) Funding Opportunities Database
Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI)
Council on Foundations
Eduzone
Foundation Center
Foundations On-Line

(Corporate and private funding)

Google Scholar

(Focuses on academic materials)

Grant Money, Fellowships, and Foundations that Fund Artists
Grants.gov -- Find Federal Grant Opportunities
Guidestar
H-Net Announcements
H-Net Discussion Networks
H-Net Job Guide
LibWeb--Library Servers Via the WWW
Lycos
Non-Profit Charitable Organizations
Non-Profit Gateway
Non-Profit Guides
NYFA Source -- Opportunities for Artists
Philanthropy News Network
Student Aid on the Web
The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Federal Register
The Foundation Center RFP Bulletin
The Grantsmanship Center
TheNonProfitTimes/NOZASEARCH

(Search engine for corporate giving)

Voice of the Shuttle
Yahoo Grant Sources

Foundations

American Association of University Women (AAUW) Educational Foundation
Asian Cultural Council
Ford Foundation
Getty Grant Program
Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
National Geographic Society
Russell Sage Foundation
Smith Richardson Foundation
Smithsonian Institution
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
The Henry Luce Foundation
The Japan Foundation
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Spencer Foundation
The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Government Agencies

Institute of Museum and Library Services
Kansas Arts Commission
Kansas Humanities Council
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Science Foundation
The National Archives and Records Administration
United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
US Department of State, Fulbright Program

(The KU contact for Fulbright applications is Hodgie Bricke, Office of International Programs, 785/864-6161.)

US Agency for International Development (USAID)
US Department of Education, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE)
US Department of Education, Grants and Contracts Information
US Department of Education, International Education and Graduate Programs (IEGPS)
US Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education
US Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education, Fulbright-Hays Program

(The KU contact for Fulbright-Hays applications is Charles A.S. Bankart, Office of International Programs, 785/864-7244.)

US Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs

Humanities Funding Agencies

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
American Councils for International Education (ACTR/ACCELS)
American Philosophical Society (APS)
Council of American Overseas Reseach Centers
Fulbright Program (Council for International Exchange of Scholars)

(The KU contact for Fulbright applications is Hodgie Bricke, Office of International Programs, 785/864-6161.)

International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX)
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
National Endowment for the Humanities
Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
The German Marshall Fund of the United States
The National Academies of Science

Humanities Research Centers

American Academy in Rome
American Overseas Research Centers
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (at Stanford)
National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
National Humanities Center
Oregon State University, The Center for the Humanities
Princeton University, University Center for Human Values
Radcliffe Institute (Bunting Fellowship Program)
Stanford Humanities Center
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens
The British School at Athens
The British School at Rome
The Getty Research Institute
The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress
The New York Public Library, The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers
The Rockefeller Foundation, The Bellagio Study and Conference Center
The University of Utah, Tanner Humanities Center
University of Colorado at Boulder, Center for Humanities and the Arts
University of Wisconsin Institute for Research in the Humanities
Villa I Tatti
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Humanities Research Libraries and Museums

American Antiquarian Society
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Boston Athenaeum
Brown University, The John Carter Brown Library
Duke University, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
Folger Shakespeare Library
Hagley Museum and Library
Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
Harvard University, Houghton Library
Library of Congress
National Gallery of Art
Princeton University Library
Smithsonian Institution
Southern Methodist University, DeGolyer Library
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library
The British Library
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Museum of Modern Art
The National Archives and Records Administration
The National Archives and Records, Presidential Libraries
The Newberry Library
The New York Public Library
The New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The University of Kansas, Kenneth Spencer Research Library
The University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library
The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center
UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Whatcom Museum of History and Art
Winterthur Museum & Country Estate
Yale Center for British Art
Yale University, Beinecke Library

In-Residence Opportunities for All Scholarly Ranks

Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
Harvard University, The Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History
Institute for Advanced Study (in Princeton)
Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies
Southern Methodist University, Clements Center for Soutwest Studies
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
The Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities
The Rockefeller Foundation, The Bellagio Study and Conference Center
The UCLA Center for Seventeenth- & Eighteenth-Century Studies
The University of Calgary, Calgary Institute for the Humanities
University of Connecticut, Humanities Institute
University of Maryland, College Park, The Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

In-Residence Opportunities for Junior Scholars

American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Visiting Scholars Program
Cornell University, Society for the Humanities
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships, Postdoctoral Awards

(Administered by the National Academies of Science)

Mellon: Columbia University, Society of Fellows in the Humanities
Mellon: Cornell Society for the Humanities
Mellon: Folger Shakespeare Library
Mellon: Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies
Mellon: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Mellon: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Mellon: Penn Humanities Forum
Mellon: Rhodes University
Mellon: Rice University, Humanities Reseach Center
Mellon: The John Carter Brown Library
Mellon: The Massachusetts Historical Society
Mellon: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mellon: The Newberry Library
Mellon: The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center
Mellon: University of Notre Dame Medieval Institute
Mellon: University of Southern California
Mellon: Villa I Tatti
Mellon: Washington University, Program in Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Mellon: Wesleyan University, Center for the Americas
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art - UK
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (affiliated with University of Toronto)
Princeton University, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
The Michigan Society of Fellows
The University of Michigan, William L. Clements Library
The University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship
Yale University, Library Fellowship Programs

KU Funding Opportunities

Big XII Faculty Fellowship Program
Center for Teaching Excellence
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Travel Fund
Hall Center for the Humanities Competitions
Instructional Development and Support
KU Center for Research, Inc.
Office of International Programs

(Offers KU faculty international travel grants for research and conference presentations. Hodgie Bricke, 785/864-6161, assists with CIES Fulbright Scholar applications, and Charles A.S. Bankart, 785/864-7244, assists with Fulbright-Hays applications.)

Office of Research & Graduate Studies
Sabbatical Leave Application
Supplemental Salary Fund
Supplemental Salary Fund Pre-Approved Agency List

Major Arts Funding Agencies

American Theatre Wing
Art in General
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
Clews Center for the Arts Artist-In-Residence Program

(Formerly known as "La Napoule Art Foundation")

Creative Capital Foundation
Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation
Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
Franklin Furnace
Fulbright Program (Council for International Exchange of Scholars)

(The KU contact for Fulbright applications is Hodgie Bricke, Office of International Programs, 785/864-6161.)

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Kansas Arts Commission
Michigan University, Writing Grants
Millay Colony for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts
National Museum of Women in the Arts
New York Foundation for the Arts
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
Roswell Museum and Art Center
Studio Museum Harlem
Sundance Institute
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
The Gunk Foundation
The MacDowell Colony
The Playwrights' Center
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.
The Puffin Foundation Ltd.
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Yaddo

Opportunities for Graduate Students

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Dissertation Completion Fellowships
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Dissertation Fellowships in East European Studies
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Fellowships
Council for European Studies at Columbia University
Council on Library and Information Resources, Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research
DePauw University, Consortium for Faculty Diversity in Liberal Arts Colleges
Fast Web

(Tips on financial aid, scholarship and career information)

Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships

(Administered by the National Academies of Science)

Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program
Fulbright Program (Institute for International Education)

(The KU contact for Fulbright applications is Hodgie Bricke, Office of International Programs, 785/864-6161.)

Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX)
KU Office of Graduate Studies Funding

(The website includes both external and KU funding sources.)

National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
National Security Education Program, Boren Graduate Fellowships and The Language Flagship Fellowships
Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
The Rhodes Trust, Scholarships
The Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Program
The University of Wisconsin-Madison: Information on Graduate Funding
University of Pennsylvania, The McNeil Center, Mellon Fellowship in Early American Literature and Material Texts
US Department of Education, Jacob K. Javits Fellowships Program

Proposal Development Advice

A Guide to Proposal Planning and Writing

By Jeremy T. Miner and Lynn E. Miner

CharityChannel
Elements of Grant Writing

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance)

Funding Your Best Ideas: A 12-Step Program

(Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE))

GrantProposal.com
Grant Search & Information

By Anne Farmer, Allen County Community College, and Mary Pat McQueeney, Johnson County Community College

HGDO Advice: Guide to Proposal Development for Graduate Students in the Humanities

Compiled by Beverly Joyce, Bill Moseley, and Kathy Porsch, Humanities Grant Development Office, The University of Kansas

HGDO Advice: Submitting a Grant Proposal: Risks, Benefits and How to Succeed

By Maria Carlson, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, The University of Kansas

How To Get a FIPSE Grant

(Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE))

Linguistics: Guidelines for Writing Grant Proposals

(National Science Foundation)

NLG Project Planning: A Tutorial

(National Institute of Museum and Library Services advice on applications for National Leadership Grants)

Proposal Writing Short Course

(Foundation Center)

Scholarly Pursuits: A Guide to Professional Development During the Graduate Years

By Cynthia Verba, Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Chapter V is dedicated to grant development)

The Art of Writing Proposals: Some Candid Suggestions for Applicants to Social Science Research Council Competitions

By Adam Przeworski and Frank Salomon

Writing Proposals for ACLS Fellowship Competitions

By Christina M. Gillis

Useful Information Sources

Academic Fundraising Web Resources
ACR's International Calling Code Directory
Campus Legal Information Clearinghouse (CLIC)

(How to find topical information and materials on federal higher education legal compliance)

Career: Tomorrow's Professor (SM)
Evaluation: The University of Wisconsin-Extension

(Program development and evaluation using logic model and survey approaches)

Evaluation: W.K. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook

(Provides a framework for thinking about evaluation as a relevant and useful program tool. PDF format.)

Evaluation: W.K. Kellogg Foundation Logic Model Development Guide

(Orientation to the underlying principles of "logic modeling," for use in program planning, implementation, and dissemination activities. PDF format.)