Funding

On-Campus Funding Resources

Annual Allocations
Each RSO can apply for funds for the following academic year. The funds can be used for projects done every year, events that are expected to take place in early fall before the Student Government Finance Committee meets, and events that are already planned for the following academic year. Annual Allocations are administered by a separate committee of Student Government. They are due at the beginning of May of each year. RSOs should talk to their ORCSA Advisor to find out schedule for mandatory AnnAl meetings.

Student Government Finance Committee
Provides small grants for upcoming RSO projects. Budgets are due by noon Friday of each week to the ORCSA Advisor via email, and are defended Tuesday at SGFC meetings.

Norman Wait Harris Fund
Administered by the Center for International Studies; will provide $1000 co-sponsorship grants.

The Women’s Board
Funds from $3,000 to $20,000 for projects that improve the quality of life at the University. Have to be approved by Bill Michel–only a few RSOs can do it, but several working collaboratively have a better shot.

Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture

Human Rights Internships
The Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago offers 20-25 returning undergraduate or graduate students $5000 grants to do 10 weeks of human rights work with an organization anywhere in the world. Applications are due in early November.

Summer Links
Summer Links is an 11-week, intensive internship program coordinated by the University Community Service Center. Summer Links pairs 30 undergraduate and graduate students with full-time positions in non-profit and public sector agencies throughout the Chicago area. Interns also participate in weekly training sessions examining issues impacting their communities. This internship includes a $4000 stipend and subsidized housing. Students from all divisions of the University welcome!

For more information, please contact Terri.

Richter Grants
The Richter Fund supports research under the guidance of faculty members. The maximum award for each component is $1,000. Forty to sixty awards are made annually. The Fund also provides grants to students who wish to pursue internships with not-for-profit organizations.

University of Chicago Arts Council 2004 Summer Fellowships
These fellowships are designed to support students undertaking original creative projects over the summer. (Such projects might involve adaptation, choreography, sculpture, painting, drawing, multi-media, music composition, script-writing, or translation.) Generally, projects should be intended for production or performance during the following academic year. Stipend $1,500.

Student Fine Arts Fund
We are looking for original ideas for the creation and presentation of all sorts of visual and performing arts, for proposals that bring the arts to more of the campus community, for programs that leverage partnerships among student groups, academic departments, and/or cultural organizations. The Student Fine Arts Fund will assist in the implementation of imaginative projects with grants up to $1,500.

University of Chicago Arts Council
We are looking for original ideas for the creation and presentation of all sorts of visual and performing arts, for proposals that bring the arts to more of the campus community, for programs that leverage partnerships among student groups, academic departments, and/or cultural organizations, whether on campus or off. UChicagoArts will assist in the implementation of imaginative projects with grants normally ranging between $1,500 and $15,000. (Students seeking support for smaller arts projects should inquire about the Student Fine Arts Fund.)

Summer Research Opportunities Program/McNair Scholars Program
The Summer Research Opportunities Program is an early intervention program designed to prepare undergraduate students for graduate-level research, strengthen knowledge and interest in applying to doctoral programs toward the end of increasing the representation of minority faculty in higher education. Stipend:$3000.

Thanks to Angels of Def for their work in compiling these resources!
Retrieved from “http://www.angelofdef.org/defknowledge/Grant_opportunities“

Off-Campus Resources

Grants.gov

Idealist.org

Midwest Academy
The Midwest Academy offers on site training and consulting as well as five day training sessions for leaders and staff of citizen and community groups. The Academy is one of the nation’s oldest and best known schools for community organizations, citizen organizations and individuals committed to progressive social change. They also have summer internships in Chicago. Applications are available for summer internships in Chicago after January 1st at http://www.midwestacademy.com/Intern/app.html.

Questions? After reviewing the website, email Judy Hertz.

Davis-Putter Scholarship
The Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund provides grants to students actively working for peace and justice. These need-based scholarships are awarded to those able to do academic work at the university level and who are part of the progressive movement on the campus and in the community. Early recipients worked for civil rights, against McCarthyism, and for peace in Vietnam. Recent grantees have been active in the struggle against racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of oppression; building the movement for economic justice; and creating peace through international anti-imperialist solidarity.

Environmental Leadership Program

Center for Integrating Statistical and Environmental Science

EPA Star Fellowship

Henry Luce Foundation Funding Opportunities

McKnight Foundation

Advanced Research Cooperation for Environmental Health

National Science Foundation

Environmental Funding Opportunity Database

Jewish Council on Urban Affairs

JCUA has been a catalyst for change since its inception in 1964. Founded by Rabbi Robert J. Marx and Lew Kreinberg, JCUA has consistently provided leadership on issues that affect low-income and minority communities in Chicago.

New Voices/AED
The two-year grants offer support for salary, fringe benefits, financial assistance, mentoring, and a professional development account for a promising new leader. The host nonprofit organizations receives a computer to support the work of the Fellow. A defining feature of the program is that the applying nonprofit and its prospective Fellow prepare the application together as a team.