International Grants Database

For 40 years, the MacArthur Foundation been committed to Chicago, its people, its diverse neighborhoods, its strength and vitality. Investments in the Chicago region total more than in any other place around the world: $1.3 billion in more than 1,500 organizations and individuals. These grants support strong organizations, vital communities, influential leaders, and civic partnerships through which leaders align their energies and resources for greater impact. The Foundation's approach reflects advice from conversations with individuals, organizations, and civic leaders across the city and suburbs, sharing a wide array of experience and expertise on local issues. The targeted areas of focus were designed with the priorities of Chicagoans in mind—taking heed of what residents and leaders believe are the most urgent concerns and promising solutions.

The China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies (CIAC) is soliciting applications for awards of up to $2,000. Applications are specifically encouraged in the following areas of Chinese or Inner Asia studies: (1) short research trips for dissertation-level graduate students, and for scholars at non-research institutions, to travel to major libraries and collections or other research sites; (2) short research trips for translators of scholarly books and articles to travel to major libraries and collections or other research sites directly related to the translation project; (3) organization of conferences and seminars—particularly for the organization of small conferences and seminars away from major centers of Chinese studies; (4) specialist or regional newsletters or websites disseminating important information to their respective fields. Applicants must be current AAS members.

The Spencer Fellowship for Education Reporting is open to journalists, educators, and education policy researchers who want to develop an ambitious, long-form journalism project to advance the understanding of education. Four fellows will be selected for this highly competitive program, which combines coursework in residence at Columbia Journalism School and Teachers College with hands-on advising from education writing experts. Grantees will be selected based on their previous and potential work, demonstrated commitment to reporting on education issues, and the importance and originality of their proposed projects. Proposals can take the form of a narrative newspaper story or series, magazine article, or nonfiction book.

The CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is an intensive, three-year training program that offers recent Ph.D. graduates an opportunity to work on projects that forge and strengthen connections among library collections, educational technologies, and current research. Host institutions benefit from fellows’ field-specific expertise by gaining insights into their collections’ potential uses and users, scholarly information behaviors, and current teaching and learning practices. Recipients are awarded $3,000 per year. The application process runs annually from September to January.

ACLS invites proposals in the humanities and related social sciences that adopt an explicitly cross-cultural or comparative perspective. Projects may, for example, compare aspects of Chinese history and culture with those of other nations and civilizations, explore the interaction of these nations and civilizations, or engage in cross-cultural research on the relations among the diverse and dynamic populations of China. Proposals should be empirically grounded, theoretically informed, and methodologically explicit. The program supports collaborative work of three types: Planning Meetings (up to $6,000 for one-day meetings); Workshops ($10,000 to $15,000 for workshops in a collegial, seminar-like setting); and Conferences (up to $25,000 for formal presentation of significant new research). The program promotes interchange among scholars who may not otherwise have the opportunity to work together. Accordingly, there will be no support for activities that include scholars from only one institution, that fall within an institution’s normal range of colloquia, symposia, or seminar series, or that consist of regularly scheduled meetings, conventions, or parts thereof. Activities proposed must include at least one scholar from Taiwan.

Conference and Workshop Grants are for amounts up to $20,000. In accordance with the mission of the Foundation, priority is given to events that foster the creation of an international community of research scholars in anthropology and advance significant and innovative anthropological research. Applications are accepted twice annually, once in June and once in December.

Conference and Workshop Grants are for amounts up to $20,000. In accordance with the mission of the Foundation, priority is given to events that foster the creation of an international community of research scholars in anthropology and advance significant and innovative anthropological research. Applications are accepted twice annually, once in June and once in December.

The Conference Grant Program provides support to scholars to organize small research conferences, focused symposia, or other forms of convenings around important issues in education. This program is intended to bring together researchers, practitioners, policymakers and other important collaborators whose expertise, substantive knowledge and practice, theoretical insight, or methodological expertise can be engaged in ways that help to build upon and advance education research. We encourage applicants to think expansively about how convenings can expand the substantive work and impact of educational research on advancing racial equity. This grant program supports proposals with budgets of $50,000 or less.

The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange offers grants of up to $25,000 for institutions to hold conferences, workshops, or seminars on specific subjects related to the Foundation's goals and objectives. The academic background of the participants and the significance of the meeting will be key factors in the evaluation process. Priority will be given to collaborative projects involving institutions in Taiwan, and projects on Taiwan Studies are especially encouraged. Applications should be filed before September 15 or January 15 for conferences to be held during the following six-month period.

The core mission of Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange involves encouraging scholars at academic institutions throughout the world to undertake research projects in the humanities and social sciences that can shed new light on Chinese culture and society. The Foundation also promotes international contacts and cooperative projects with leading scholarly organizations, in order to enhance the status of Chinese culture and related research efforts. The Foundation will consider applications from institutions for grants to hold conferences, workshops, or seminars on specific subjects related to the Foundation's goals and objectives. The academic background of the participants and the significance of the meeting will be key factors in the evaluation process. Budgets for conferences should not exceed $25,000. Priority will be given to collaborative projects involving institutions in Taiwan. Projects on Taiwan Studies are especially encouraged. Applications should be filed before September 15 or January 15 for conferences to be held during the following six-month period.

A short-term travel grant of $2,000 is awarded once a year to scholars and graduate students pursuing research topics that require the use of the Gennadeion collections, which hold a richly diverse collection of over 120,000 books and rare bindings, archives, manuscripts, and works of art illuminating the Hellenic tradition and neighboring cultures. Grant recipients must reside in Greece for at least one month.

The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program is an intensive overseas language and cultural immersion program for American students enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities. The program includes intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences designed to promote rapid language gains. The Critical Language Scholarship Program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State with funding provided by the U.S. Government and administered by American Councils for International Education. The CLS Program is part of a U.S. government effort to expand dramatically the number of Americans studying and mastering critical foreign languages. Students of diverse disciplines and majors are encouraged to apply. Participants are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship period, and later apply their critical language skills in their future professional careers. Languages available for study include Azerbaijani, Bangla, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Punjabi, Swahili, Turkish, Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian.