Hall Center Scholar
Brenna Daldorph with Andrei Codrescu

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)

Ask.com
The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
CharityChannel
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Community of Science (COS) Funding Opportunities Database
Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI)
Council on Foundations
Eduzone
European Foundation Information
The Federal Register
Foundation Center
Foundations On-Line

(Corporate and private funding)

FundSource
Google Scholar

(Focuses on academic materials)

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 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
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Asian Cultural Council
Ford Foundation
Getty Grant Program
Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Henry Luce Foundation
Japan Foundation
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
National Geographic Society
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Smith Richardson Foundation
Smithsonian Institution
Spencer Foundation
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

Government Agencies

Institute of Museum and Library Services
Kansas Arts Commission
Kansas Humanities Council
The National Archives and Records Administration
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Science Foundation
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 State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
US Department of State, Fulbright Program

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

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.)

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

(Includes humanities opportunities)

National Endowment for the Humanities
Social Science Research Council (SSRC)

Humanities Research Centers

American Academy in Rome
American Overseas Research Centers
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens
The Rockefeller Foundation, The Bellagio Study and Conference Center
The British School at Athens
The British School at Rome
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (in Stanford)
National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
University of Colorado at Boulder, Center for Humanities and the Arts
Oregon State University, The Center for the Humanities
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
The Getty Research Institute
Institute for Advanced Study (in Princeton)
John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress
National Humanities Center
The New York Public Library, The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers
Radcliffe Institute (Bunting Fellowship Program)
Stanford Humanities Center
The University of Utah, Tanner Humanities Center
Princeton University, University Center for Human Values
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
Yale University, Beinecke Library
The University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Boston Athenaeum
The British Library
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Southern Methodist University, DeGolyer Library
Folger Shakespeare Library
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Hagley Museum and Library
The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center
Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
Harvard University, Houghton Library
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Brown University, The John Carter Brown Library
Library of Congress
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Museum of Modern Art
The National Archives and Records Administration
National Gallery of Art
The New York Public Library
The Newberry Library
Princeton University Library
Duke University, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
The New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Smithsonian Institution
University of Kansas, Kenneth Spencer Research Library
The National Archives and Records, Presidential Libraries
Whatcom Museum of History and Art
UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Winterthur Museum & Country Estate
Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
Yale Center for British Art

In-Residence Opportunities for All Scholarly Ranks

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

In-Residence Opportunities for Junior Scholars

American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Visiting Scholars Program
The Calgary Institute for the Humanities
The University of Michigan, William L. Clements Library
Columbia University, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Columbia University, Society of Fellows in the Humanities
Cornell University, Society for the Humanities
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships, Postdoctoral Awards

(Administered by the National Academies of Science)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship
Mellon: American Antiquarian Society
Mellon: Rice University, Humanities Reseach Center
Mellon: Columbia University, Society of Fellows in the Humanities
Mellon: Cornell Society for the Humanities
Mellon: Folger Shakespeare Library
Mellon: The UCLA Humanities Consortium
Mellon: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Mellon: Emory University, Institute of African Studies
Mellon: Fannie and Alan Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College
Mellon: University of Pennsylvania, The McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Mellon: The Newberry Library
Mellon: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Mellon: Penn Humanities Forum
Mellon: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (affiliated with University of Toronto)
Mellon: The UCLA Center for Seventeenth- & Eighteenth-Century Studies
Mellon: University of Southern California
Mellon: Washington University, Program in Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Mellon: Wesleyan University, Center for the Americas
Mellon: Wesleyan University, Center for the Humanities
Mellon: Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University
Princeton University, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
The University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
The Michigan Society of Fellows
The Millicent McIntosh Fellowships for Recently Tenured Faculty

(Through The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation)

Yale University, Library Fellowship Programs

KU Funding Opportunities

Big XII Faculty Fellowship Program
Hall Center for the Humanities Competitions
KU Center for Research, Inc.
Center for Teaching Excellence
Office of Research & Graduate Studies
Instructional Development and Support
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.)

Sabbatical Leave Application

Major Arts Funding Agencies

Alliance of Artists Communities
American Craft Council
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Art Deadlines List

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

Art in General
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
Yaddo
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.)

Grant Money, Fellowships, and Foundations that Fund Artists
The Gunk Foundation
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation
Kansas Arts Commission
La Napoule Art Foundation Artist-In-Residence Program
The MacDowell Colony
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
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.
The Puffin Foundation Ltd.
Roswell Museum and Art Center
Studio Museum Harlem
Sundance Institute
The Playwrights' Center
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Michigan University, Writing Grants

Opportunities for Graduate Students

American Association of University Women (AAUW) Fellowships
The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies
The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
DePauw University, Consortium for Faculty Diversity in Liberal Arts Colleges
Council on Library and Information Resources, Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research
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.)

International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX)
US Department of Education, Jacob K. Javits Fellowships Program
KU Office of Research & Graduate Studies Funding
KU Office of Research & Graduate Studies Graduate Student Paper Presenter Fund
KU Office of Research & Graduate Studies List of External Funding Opportunities
National Science Foundation Discipline-Specific Dissertation Grants
National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants

(This program offers both coursework and dissertation research funding.)

National Security Education Program, Boren Graduate Fellowships and The Language Flagship Fellowships
The Rhodes Trust, Scholarships
Scholarship Information for Graduate and Undergraduate Students
Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
The Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Program
The University of Wisconsin-Madison: Information on Graduate Funding

Proposal Development Advice

A Guide to Proposal Planning and Writing

By Jeremy T. Miner and Lynn E. Miner

CharityChannel
Developing and Writing Grant Proposals

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance)

Grant Search & Information
Elements of Grant Writing

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

Funding Your Best Ideas: A 12-Step Program

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

GrantProposal.com
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 Writer's Guide

By Don Thackrey

Proposal Writing Short Course

(Foundation Center)

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

By Adam Przeworski and Frank Salomon

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.)