Funding Opportunities

Grant and fellowship opportunities for graduate students in the College of Communications.

ADVERTISING/PUBLIC RELATIONS,
MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
Marketing Science Institute
Supports marketing research via two programs. Standard Grants (no deadline) provide up to $20,000 to faculty members or doctoral students working with faculty advisors for research in marketing. Most grants are made to cover researchers' out-of-pocket costs for data collection, respondent fees, computer time, research assistants, travel, & similar expenses. Alden G. Clayton Doctoral
Dissertation Competition (7/31/04) provides up to five awards of $5,000 each for dissertation proposals on marketing. Special competitions are sometimes offered but deadlines vary.
http://www.msi.org/msi/research.cfm

UFVA, Kodak Scholar Awards for Faculty and Students
Agency: University Film and Video Association (UFVA)
UFVA Grants (deadline: 1/1/04) provide awards to undergraduate/graduate students whose research & production projects meet high standards of scholarship. Up to $4,000 is available for film, video, & multimedia production, & $1,000 for research in historical, critical, theoretical, & experimental studies of film & video. Sponsor must be a UFVA member. IHEs may nominate one faculty member each year for the Kodak Faculty Scholar Awards (5/31/04) of up to $5,000. Eastman Scholarships (tentative deadline, Spring 04) also provide student awards of $5,000.
See http://www.ufva.org/ for "publications & programs."

Residential Fellowships in the Creative Arts
Annual Deadlines of January 15, May 15, and September 15
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts is a working retreat for writers, visual artists, and composers. It is located at Mt. San Angelo, a 450 acre estate in Amherst County, Virginia, approximately 160 miles southwest of Washington D.C. The VCCA provides residential Fellowships of two weeks to two months in a rural setting where artists may work, free from the distractions and responsibilities of day-to-day life. Please note that our area code has been changed to 434. New phone number: 434-946-7236.
http://www.vcca.com/

COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE
Rockefeller Archive Center
http://www.rockefeller.edu/archive.ctr/
The Rockefeller Archive Center was established in 1974 to assemble, process, and make available for scholarly research the papers of the Rockefeller family and the records of various philanthropic and educational institutions founded by the Rockefeller family. The Center has recently begun to collect non-Rockefeller philanthropic records, including the archives of the Commonwealth Fund, the Culpeper Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the John and Mary Markle Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council.

Sociology Program: Dissertation Proposals
Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Target Dates: February 15 and October 15
The Sociology Program supports research on problems of human social organization, demography, and processes of individual and institutional change. The Program encourages theoretically focused empirical investigations aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social processes. Included is research on organizations and organizational behavior, population dynamics, social movements, social groups, labor force participation, stratification and mobility, family, social networks, socialization, gender roles, and the sociology of science and technology.
http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/ses/sociol/start.htm

A . L. Mailman Family Foundation
A. L. Mailman Family Foundation Grants Program
Makes grants focusing on early childhood in three program areas: early care and education, family support, and moral education and social responsibility.
See: http://www.mailman.org/national/moral/object.htm

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Research on Children Exposed to Violence
The sponsoring Institutes and Agencies invite research grant applications in response to this Program Announcement with Set-aside (PAS) that will enhance our understanding of children exposed to domestic violence, community violence, and war/terrorism. This PA is designed to develop new knowledge in these areas and in the definition, identification, epidemiology, prevention, etiology, effects, early intervention, and mechanisms of violence exposure.
See: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-03-096.html

Social and Demographic Studies of Race and Ethnicity in the United States (NIH)
The goal of this program announcement is to encourage research that will improve understanding of race and ethnicity in social science and demographic research. Demographic and social aspects of race and ethnicity include issues related to understanding how the changing composition and conceptualization of race and ethnicity are affecting the U.S. socially, economically, and demographically, including how increasing racial and ethnic diversity are affecting population health and health disparities; issues related to the development of racial and ethnic identity and to interactions between racial/ethnic identification and demographic, health, and other outcomes; and issues related to the measurement of race and ethnicity, including racial and ethnic self-identification.
See: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-03-057.html

Radcliffe Institute
Henry A. Murray Dissertation Award
The Henry A. Murray Dissertation Award Program offers grants of up to $5,000 to doctoral students. Projects should focus on some aspect of "the study of lives," concentrating on issues in human development or personality. Projects drawing on the center's data will be given priority, although use of the center's resources is not a requirement.
See: http://www.radcliffe.edu/murray/grants/diss-hamurray.php

GENDER ISSUES
Drug Abuse Dissertation Research: Epidemiology, Prevention, Treatment, Services, and Women and Gender Differences
Application Deadlines: Feb. 1, June 1 and Oct. 1
Small grants (R03) to support drug abuse doctoral dissertation research in epidemiology, prevention, treatment, services and women and gender differences where there is a significant need for new investigators. Grant support is designed to aid the research of new investigators and to encourage doctoral candidates from a variety of academic disciplines and programs to conduct research in these areas of interest to NIDA. It is hoped that this program will ultimately facilitate the entry of promising new investigators into the field of drug abuse research.
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-02-055.html

Women's Mental Health and Sex/Gender Differences Research (NIH)
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) invites research grant applications on women's mental health and sex/gender differences in mental health across the lifespan.
See: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-03-143.html

Radcliffe Institute
Jeanne Humphrey Block Dissertation Award
Application Deadline: April 1
The Jeanne Humphrey Block Dissertation Award Program offers a grant of up to $5,000 to a woman doctoral student. Proposals should focus on sex and gender differences or some developmental issue of particular concern to girls or women. Projects drawing on the center's data will be given priority, although use of the center's resources is not a requirement.
See: http://www.radcliffe.edu/murray/grants/diss-jhblock.php

HUMANITIES
HEALTHAHRQ Grants for Health Services Research Dissertation
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announces its continued interest in supporting the health services dissertation research small grant program. This program supports research undertaken as part of an academic program to qualify for a doctorate. The AHRQ dissertation award R36 supports dissertation research costs of students in accredited research doctoral programs in the United States (including Puerto Rico, and other U.S. Territories or possessions). The dissertation will focus on areas relevant to health services research, with emphasis placed on methodological and research topics that address the mission of AHRQ. The total direct costs for applications submitted under this PA must not exceed $30,000 for the entire project period, which is expected to range from a minimum of 9 months to a maximum of 17 months. AHRQ will return without review any application that exceeds this amount.
See: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-04-039.html

Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation
Grants for Alcohol Research
Application Deadlines: February 1 and September 1
The Foundation accepts applications for grants to conduct research on important aspects of alcohol consumption and its effects. Overall, the following areas are more directly related to the mission of the Foundation, and therefore, are of greater interest: *Factors influencing transitions in drinking patterns and behavior, *Effects of moderate use of alcohol on health and well-being, *Mechanisms underlying the behavioral and biomedical effects of alcohol, *Biobehavioral/interdisciplinary research on the etiology of alcohol misuse.
See: http://www.abmrf.org/grants.htm

Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health (NIH)
The goal of this announcement is to (a) elucidate basic social and cultural constructs and processes used in health research, (b) clarify social and cultural factors in the etiology and consequences of health and illness, (c) link basic research to practice for improving prevention, treatment, health services, and dissemination, and (d) explore ethical issues in social and cultural research. The goal of this program announcement is to encourage further development of health-related social sciences research relevant to the missions of the NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs). Application deadlines: February 1, June 1,
October 1. See: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-02-043.html

Research on HIV/STD Prevention Messages (NIH)
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) invite qualified researchers to submit applications to study the creation, dissemination and consumption of messages created to deter the spread of HIV.
See: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-01-139.html

Behavioral Sciences Research
Agency: National Institutes of Health
NIMH supports ongoing research on the biobehavioral, cognitive, personality, emotional & social processes that underlie behavioral functioning & development across the lifespan. Specific programs: Affect & Biobehavioral Regulation Program (basic mechanisms of behavioral regulation & homeostasis); Cognitive Science Program (fundamental principles & mechanisms of cognition); & Personality & Social Cognition (basic research on personality processes). Applications are accepted even when relevant RFAs & PAs do not exist. See http://www.nimh.nih.gov/be/beindex.cfm for details & links to RFAs & PAs.

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION
Travel Grant Program
Harvard-Yenching Institute
Deadline: Continuous. No deadline exists.
The purpose of the Harvard-Yenching Library travel grant is to assist scholars from outside the metropolitan Boston area in their use of the Harvard-Yenching Library's collections for research. Priority consideration will be given to those at institutions where there are no or few library resources in the East Asian languages, and no major East Asian library collections are available nearby.
Contact: Susan P. Sessler (617) 495-3327 / sessler@fas.harvard.edu.
http://hcl.harvard.edu/harvard-yenching/travel_grants.html

Fulbright Grant Applications
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides future American leaders with the opportunity to study and conduct research in other nations. Fulbright student grants aim to increase mutual understanding among nations through educational and cultural exchange while serving as a catalyst for long-term leadership development.
The program awards approximately 1,000 grants annually and currently operates in over 140 countries worldwide. Fulbright grants generally provide funding for roundtrip travel, maintenance for one academic year, health and
accident insurance, and full or partial tuition. Fulbright travel-only grants are also available to limited countries.
http://www.iie.org/FulbrightTemplate.cfm?Section=U_S__Student_Program

Boren Graduate Fellowships: National Security Education Program
Agency: Academy for Educational Development
Provides up to $28,000 for U.S. graduate students to pursue overseas and/or domestic study of languages, cultures, & world regions that are critical to U.S. national security but are not frequently considered. Regions may include areas other than Western Europe, Canada, Australia, & New Zealand. Past award recipients have come from fields such as engineering & applied sciences, public health, business, economics, history, anthropology, sociology, law, political science, trans-regional, & multi-disciplinary studies. http://www.aed.org/nsep

Visiting Faculty Fellowship Program
Agency: Civic Education Project
Supports faculty & advanced graduate students for one-year teaching assignments in Central & South-East Europe & Eurasia. University faculty and advanced graduate students are eligible to apply. Eligible disciplines include: media studies; environmental studies; anthropology; art history; economics; history; international relations; journalism; law; library science; political science; public administration; & sociology & other social sciences. Lecturers receive a salary, airfare & housing from their host university. See
http://www.cep.org.hu E-mail: cepdc@jhu.edu

Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
Research Grants
Scholars at academic institutions are eligible to apply for research grants. Researchers focusing on the political, social, economic, and cultural development of Taiwan over the past few decades are especially encouraged to apply. Priority will be given to collaborative projects with scholars in Taiwan.
See: http://www.cckf.org/amprogram/rg.html

Fellowships Program
Agency: American Institute of Indian Studies
Supports scholars from all disciplines to conduct research in India. Junior Fellowships focus on doctoral candidates for dissertation research. Senior Long-Term (6 to 9 months) & Short-Term (4 months or less) fellowships support Ph.D. scholars. Performing & Creative Arts Fellowships & Professional Development Fellowships are for scholars & professionals who have not worked in India. Applicants may include U.S. citizens & citizens of other countries who are college students & faculty members at U.S. colleges.
See http://www.indiastudies.org

Intellectual Exchange Programs
Agency: Center for Global Partnership
Supports projects involving research & dialogue that harness the collective insight of the world's scholarly communities, building multilateral initiatives around a core collaboration between the US & Japan, & in turn with other countries. Interests include: civil society; health care & the aging; international economics; international security; & sustainable development. Optional concept papers are due at least two months in advance of annual deadlines of 7/1 & 12/1. See http://www.cgp.org/cgplink/programs/programs.html

JOURNALISM
Grants for Research in Broadcasting
Agency: National Association of Broadcasters
Funds research on economic, business, social, & policy issues important to station managers & other decision-makers in the U.S. commercial broadcast industry. Interests include: radio industry's conversion to digital broadcasting;
impact of new technologies, training tomorrow's broadcasters; & practical applications for media research. Competition is open to all academic personnel, including graduate & senior undergraduate students. $25,000 in available each
year to fund four to six grants
http://www.nab.org/Research/Grants/grants.asp

POLICY
William T. Grant Foundation
Research Grants
The Foundation funds high-quality basic and applied research on youth development, program evaluations, policy analyses, research syntheses, and communications research.
See: http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org

Carnegie Scholars Program
Established in 1999, the Carnegie Scholars Program supports innovative individuals as they pursue research that holds the promise of advancing knowledge, informing the public, and shaping policy in areas of the Corporation’s programmatic interest—Education, International Development, Strengthening U.S. Democracy, and International Peace and Security. The Corporation seeks to encourage scholars of vision who can extend and deepen the examination of issues associated with the program priorities rather than replicate or duplicate work conducted under the grants program. Recognizing that in order for ideas to influence society they must be widely communicated to a variety of audiences, the fellowship emphasizes the communication of scholarly research beyond the academic community to policymakers and the public. The program annually awards up to 20 fellowships for a period of one to two years and for a maximum amount of $100,000. At the end of the fellowship period, Scholars will submit a written report along with books or manuscripts prepared as a result of the Corporation’s support.
Funding Agencies: - Carnegie Corporation of New York
http://www.carnegie.org/sub/program/scholars.html

The American Psychological Association
The Society for Consumer Psychology
Fifth Annual SCP-SHETH Dissertation Proposal Competition
SCP announces its Fifth Annual SCP-SHETH Dissertation Proposal Competition. The winner will receive $1000 and will be asked to present their research at the 2004 winter SCP conference. Two runners up will also be selected, will each be awarded $500, and will be asked to present their research at the 2004 SCP conference.
http://www.apa.org/divisions/div46/awards.html

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Mental Health Consequences of Violence and Trauma
Through this Program Announcement (PA), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) seeks to encourage investigator-initiated research to enhance scientific understanding about the etiology of psychopathology related to violence and trauma, as well as studies to develop and test effective treatments, services, and prevention strategies in this area.
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-04-075.html

THE PRESS
Call for Grant Proposals on Media Coverage of India
Deadline: Continuous
The Infinity Foundation is calling for project proposals to undertake a scholarly, journalistic analysis of the coverage of India and Indian religious traditions in the US media. Such an analysis should develop criteria for measuring both the quantity and quality of this coverage relative to other major world regions. Analysis of the quality should take into consideration the authenticity of the portrayal however defined, as well as the degree to which simplistic, stereotyped images or outright misinterpretations occur in major media sources. Such analyses could be historical, focusing on a single media source over a period of time, or wide ranging, looking across a variety of contemporary media. These projects would result in one or more of the following: books, articles, conference presentations, CD-ROMs, internet publications, and audio/video materials.
See: http://infinityfoundation.com/callforgrantproposals.htm

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Graduate Fellowships/Grants for Minorities in Communications/Computers
Agency: AT&T Labs
Supports fellowships & grants for minorities in computer & communications-related fields. Fellowships provide a stipend of $1,400 per month for up to 6 years to outstanding minorities & women who are pursuing Ph.D. studies in computer & communications-related fields. Fellows must attend approved scientific conferences & work with a mentor from AT&T Labs. Grants provide $2,000 per year for up to 6 years for expenses not generally covered by other awards. Each recipient of a grant or fellowship must participate in a research internship the first summer. See
http://www.research.att.com/academic/alfp.html

MISCELLANEOUS FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
Africana Research Center Student Level Funding
The Africana Research Center encourages and supports research and scholarship that (a) enhances the lives of Africans across the Diaspora (i.e., African peoples in the Americas, Africa, Europe and Asia), and (b) serves as a catalyst for promoting an enabling environment where cultural production and discourse on diversity can be nurtured to advance the research, teaching, and outreach mission of Penn State.
Student Level Funding (up to $1000): To provide matching support of Penn State student projects, particularly honor theses, master’s theses, and doctoral dissertations, that reflect the mission of the ARC. Thus, the project must focus on one of the populations representative of the African Diaspora.
http://africanacenter.la.psu.edu/Student_Level_Funding.htm

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Graduate Student Opportunities
* Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Studies
* Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
* The Humanities at Work
* MMUF Dissertation Grants And Travel and Research Grants
* Public Policy and Foreign Affairs Programs
* Schools and Scholars
* Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grants in Women's Studies
* Woodrow Wilson-Johnson & Johnson Dissertation Grants in
Women's & Children's Health
http://www.woodrow.org/students_graduate.html

Kennedy Library Research Grants
Each year in the spring and fall, The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation provides funds for the award of a number of research grants in the range of $500 to $2,500. The purpose of these grants is to help defray living, travel, and related costs incurred while doing research in the textual and non-textual holdings of the library. Scholars and students are invited by the Kennedy Library and Library Foundation to apply for these research grants.
Grant applications are evaluated on the basis of expected utilization of available holdings of the Library, the degree to which they address research needs in Kennedy period studies, and the qualifications of applicants. Preference is given to dissertation research by Ph.D. candidates working in newly opened or relatively unused collections, and to the work of recent Ph.D. recipients who are expanding or revising their dissertations for publication, but all proposals are welcome and will receive careful consideration.
Applications may be submitted at any time, but the postmark deadline is March 15 for spring grants and August 15 for fall grants. Applicants will be promptly notified of their project's eligibility. Awards are announced on April 20 and October 20. Applications received after one deadline will be held for consideration in the next cycle.
To obtain information about the Library's collections, each applicant who has not already conducted research at the library should contact a member of the research room staff at this address to explain the topic and request a copy of Historical Materials in the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library. The telephone number of the research room is 617- 929-4534.
http://www.jfklibrary.org/krg.htm

Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences
Division of Social and Economic Sciences
NSF awards grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research. These grants provide funds for items not normally available through the student’s university. Additionally, these grants allow doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field research in settings away from their campus that would not otherwise be possible. Proposals are judged on the basis of scientific merit, including the theoretical importance of the research question and the appropriateness of the proposed data and methodology to be used in addressing the question.
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2001/nsf01113/nsf01113.htm

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Grants
Deadlines: February 15 and September 15
Small grants in aid available, not to exceed $2,500, in support of research on the Roosevelt years or clearly related subjects. Funds are awarded for the sole purpose of helping to defray living, travel, and related expenses incurred while conducting research at the Roosevelt Library.
http://www.feri.org/programs/default.cfm

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Research Grants
Deadline: Anually on August 1
The HFG Foundation sponsors scholarly research on problems of violence, aggression, and dominance. The foundation provides both research grants to established scholars and dissertation fellowships to graduate students during the dissertation-writing year. The foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase the understanding of the causes, manifestations and control of violence, aggression, and dominance.
http://www.hfg.org/html.pages/dissert.htm

Rockefeller Archive Center
http://www.rockefeller.edu/archive.ctr/
The Rockefeller Archive Center was established in 1974 to assemble, process, and make available for scholarly research the papers of the Rockefeller family and the records of various philanthropic and educational institutions founded by the Rockefeller family. The Center has recently begun to collect non-Rockefeller philanthropic records, including the archives of the Commonwealth Fund, the Culpeper Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the John and Mary Markle Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council.

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Drug Abuse Dissertation Research: Epidemiology, Prevention, Treatment, Services, and Women and Gender Differences
Application Deadlines: February 1, June 1, and October 1.
Small grants (R03) to support drug abuse doctoral dissertation research in epidemiology, prevention, treatment, services and women and gender differences where there is a significant need for new investigators. Grant support is designed to aid the research of new investigators and to encourage doctoral candidates from a variety of academic disciplines and programs to conduct research in these areas of interest to NIDA. It is hoped that this program will ultimately facilitate the entry of promising new investigators into the field of drug abuse research.
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-02-055.html

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (NSF)
Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
The National Science Foundation's Division of Social and Economic Sciences and Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences award grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research. These grants provide funds for items not normally available through the student's university. Additionally, these grants allow doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field and archival research in settings away from their campus that would not otherwise be possible. Funds may be used for valid research expenses which include, but are not limited to, conducting field research in settings away from campus that would not otherwise be possible, data collection and sample survey costs, payments to subjects or informants, specialized research equipment, analysis and services not otherwise available, supplies, travel to archives, travel to specialized collections and facilities or field research locations, and partial living expenses for conducting necessary research away from the student's university.
http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf01113

Truman Library Institute for National & International Affairs
Research Grants
Application deadlines are April 1 and October 1. These grants of up to $2,500 are awarded bi-annually, and are intended to enable graduate students and post-doctoral scholars to come to the Library for one to three weeks to use its collections.
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/institute/research.htm

History of Business, Technology, & Society Fellowships
Hagley Museum and Library
Provides fellowships to utilize Hagley's collections in American economic, business, industrial, & technological history. Du Pont Fellowships (deadlines, 3/31/03, 6/30/03, 10/31/03) support visits to Hagley for research using the
library's imprint, manuscript, pictorial, & artifact collections. Must have completed formal training. Hagley-Winterthur Fellowships in Arts & Industries support research in the historical & cultural relationships between economic life & the arts, including design, architecture, crafts, & the fine arts. Dissertation
Fellowships are also available. Contacts vary.
http://www.hagley.lib.de.us/center.html

Research Fellowship Program
German Marshall Fund of the United States
Supports research to improve the understanding of contemporary economic, political & social developments involving the United States & Europe. Awards of up to $40,000 support Postdoctoral & Advanced Research for an academic term or full year. Dissertation Support is also provided up to $20,000 per year for one year. Pre-Dissertation Research Program offers up to $3,000. http://www.gmfus.org for "fellowships" when updated.

Fulbright Comprehensive and Travel Grants
Institute of International Education
The Institute of International Education coordinates the activities relevant to the U.S. Department of State's Fulbright graduate student program & conducts an annual competition, usually for 1 year of study or research. Program is designed to give recent BS/BA graduates, master's & doctoral candidates, & young professionals/artists opportunities for personal development & international experience in over140 countries. Most grantees plan their own programs. Awards vary from country to country.
http://www.iie.org/fulbright/us/#overview

Ford Foundation Pre/Post Doctoral & Dissertation Fellowships for Minorities
National Research Council
Administered by NRC on behalf of the Ford Foundation, fellowships support African American, American Indian, Alaskan Native, Mexican American/Chicano, Native Pacific Island, & Puerto Rican to increase presence of under-represented
minorities on college & university faculties. Fellowships awarded in behavioral & social sciences, humanities, engineering, mathematics, physical & biological sciences, or interdisciplinary programs. Cited deadline is for Predoctoral proposals. Dissertation and Postdoctoral, see http://www7.nationalacademies.org/fellowships/

Center for Rural Pennsylvania
Center for Rural Pennsylvania 2005 Grant Program
Targeted topics for the 2004 grant program include: A. An Examination of Mobile Homes in Rural Pennsylvania; B. An Examination of Emergency Food Availability Among Rural Residents; C. Capital Financing in Rural Pennsylvania; D. Economic Development Service Delivery in Rural Pennsylvania; E. Profile of Small Businesses that Provide Employee Healthcare Benefits; F. Biosolids – Cost Comparisons for Various Disposal Methods; G. Examination of Failing Private Septic Systems; H. Public Knowledge of Agriculture; I. Impact of Leadership Development Programs; J. School District Building Needs – Projections for the Next 10 Years; K. Community Colleges: A Solution to Rural Workforce Training Needs?; L. Impact of No Child Left Behind on Rural Schools; and M. School Nurses – Meeting the Need.
Targeted topics for the 2004 Mini Grant program include: A. Demographic Outlook for Rural Pennsylvania in 20 Years; B. Baseline Study of Rural Companies that Export; and C. Impact and Analysis of Act 50.
In addition to the targeted topics listed above, other reasonable and potentially beneficial projects will be considered by the Center for Rural Pennsylvania under the open topics category.
http://www.ruralpa.org/rfp.html

Hispanic Scholarship Fund
College Scholarship Program
The Hispanic Scholarship Fund was founded in 1975 to help Hispanic-American college students complete their education. The scholarships are available on a competitive basis for community college, four-year college, and graduate students of Hispanic heritage. Awards generally range from $1000 to $3,000.
See: http://www.hsf.net/scholarship/CollegeRetention.html

Horowitz Foundation
Horowitz Foundation Grants
Small research grants ($2,000-$5,000) in major areas of the social sciences, including anthropology, area studies, economics, political science, psychology, sociology, and urban studies, as well as newer areas such as evaluation research.
See: http://www.horowitz-foundation.org/Horowitz%20Foundation-Info.htm

Spencer Foundation
Dissertation Fellowships for Research Related to Education
Application Deadline: October (date announced each year)
The Dissertation Fellowship Program seeks to encourage a new generation of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and professional fields to undertake research relevant to the improvement of education. These fellowships support individuals whose dissertations show potential for bringing fresh and constructive perspectives to the history, theory, or practice of formal or informal education anywhere in the world.
See: http://www.spencer.org/programs/

Grants-in-Aid (Postdoc., Grad. & Undergrad. Students)
Agency: Johnson (Lyndon Baines) Foundation
Supports short-term research at the Johnson Library, which houses the papers of LBJ's career. Eligibility is limited to postdoctoral scholars, graduate & undergraduate students. Prior to submitting a proposal, applicants must call to
obtain information about materials available in the library on the proposed research topic. Funding may be used to defray living, travel & related expenses. Grants range from $500 to $2,000. Deadlines are 1/31 & 7/31 annually. Correct
deadlines are listed on the application page. Call for details.
See http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/resinfo.asp

Researching media effects in the Media Effects Research Laboratory.

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