The lists in the right sidebar are of external scholarship and fellowship programs available to graduate students. The lists are organized according to the programs available at CGU, but students should check all lists and sections for any applicable fellowships or grants. Please be aware that most of the funding opportunities are highly competitive, and that application deadlines vary throughout the year. Most of the listings include hyperlinks for more information. These are not exhaustive lists. Please check with your respective school for funding opportunities that may be available within the department.
The Stephen K. Hall ACWA Water Law and Policy Scholarship was created to honor former ACWA Executive Director Steve Hall upon his retirement. The $7,000 scholarship is presented annually to a qualified graduate student majoring in law, policy or public administration with a focus or concentration in California water resources. For more information: https://www.acwa.com/about/scholarships/stephen-k-hall-acwa-water-law-policy-scholarship/
Charles Koch Institute, Educational Programs
Charles Koch Institute provides professionals and students opportunities to turn their passion for liberty into careers through various educational programs. Roles vary, and include policy research, communications, operations, donor relations, emphasis on Market-Based Management, and more. For more information: http://www.charleskochinstitute.org/educational-programs/
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (March Deadline)
The fellowship is open to doctoral candidates and junior scholars working on topics related to the American Revolution, Early Republic, African American History, or ideas and philosophies of America’s founding fathers. Recipients are expected to be in continuous residence at the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library and to participate in the intellectual life of the foundation’s research and education campus. Fellowships are available for between one and three months and carry a stipend of $2,000 per month. For more information: http://research.history.org/Fellowships.cfm
Foundation for Community Association Research, Byron Hanke Fellowship (May Deadline)
This fellowship is available to graduate students working on topics related to community associations. Community associations govern common-interest communities of any kind—condominiums, cooperatives, townhouse developments, planned unit developments, and other developments where homeowners support an association with mandatory financial assessments, and are subject to use and aesthetic restrictions. For more information: http://www.cairf.org/scholarships/hanke.aspx
The Fulbright Program (October Deadline)
The Fulbright Program offers fellowships for U.S. graduating college seniors, graduate students, and young professionals to study, conduct research, and/or teach in the U.S. or abroad. For more information: http://us.fulbrightonline.org/%23%26panel1-2
The Guttmacher Institute, The Cory L Richards Memorial Scholarship Program (Applications Open in February)
This scholarship seeks to nurture the development of future leaders by providing financial support to excellent students who are seeking advanced degrees in the disciplines of public health or public policy, and who plan to devote their careers to advancing public policy related to sexual and reproductive health and rights. Scholarships are offered each year for full-time graduate study at an accredited institution in the United States. For more information: https://www.guttmacher.org/cory-l-richards-memorial-scholarship
Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) (February Deadline)
The ISI Fellowship Program seeks to uphold the idea of excellence and the role of education in producing unique individuals capable of making reasoned choices. The fellowship is granted to current graduate students who have an intention to teach at the college level. Applicants must sign a declaration of intent to teach and students doing graduate work related to the American Founding. ISI also holds an annual essay contest with a top prize of $5,000 in which participants are invited to reflect on conservatism. For more information: https://home.isi.org/students/fellowships
James Madison Graduate Fellowships (March Deadline)
The fellowship is offered to individuals desiring to become outstanding teachers of the American Constitution at the secondary school level for at least one year. For more information: http://www.jamesmadison.com/eligibility.php
The Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship (September Deadline)
The Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship Programs are a collaborative effort between the United States Department of State and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The Programs provide academic and professional preparation for outstanding candidates to enter the U.S. Department of State Foreign Service, representing America’s interests abroad. Pickering Fellows are undergraduate and graduate students in academic programs relevant to international affairs, political and economic analysis, administration, management, and science policy. For more information: https://pickeringfellowship.org/
Charles Koch Institute provides professionals and students opportunities to turn their passion for liberty into careers through various educational programs. Roles vary, and include policy research, communications, operations, donor relations, emphasis on Market-Based Management, and more. For more information: http://www.charleskochinstitute.org/educational-programs/
Foundation for Community Association Research, Byron Hanke Fellowship (May Deadline)
This fellowship is available to graduate students working on topics related to community associations. Community associations govern common-interest communities of any kind—condominiums, cooperatives, townhouse developments, planned unit developments, and other developments where homeowners support an association with mandatory financial assessments, and are subject to use and aesthetic restrictions. For more information: http://www.cairf.org/scholarships/hanke.aspx
The Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship (September Deadline)
The Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship Programs are a collaborative effort between the United States Department of State and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The Programs provide academic and professional preparation for outstanding candidates to enter the U.S. Department of State Foreign Service, representing America’s interests abroad. Pickering Fellows are undergraduate and graduate students in academic programs relevant to international affairs, political and economic analysis, administration, management, and science policy. For more information: https://pickeringfellowship.org/
List of scholarships, grants, and awards available to graduate students by the APA. For more information: http://www.apa.org/about/awards/index.aspx
American Psychological Foundation (APF), Graduate Scholarships (June Deadline)
The American Psychological Foundation (APF) sponsors a number of programs aimed at helping graduate students further their education in psychology; subjects including: human reproductive behavior, prevention of injury in adolescents, LGBTQ psychology and family therapy, stigma related to mental illness, etc. For more information: http://www.apa.org/apf/funding/scholarships/index.aspx
American Psychological Foundation, Kenneth B. and Mamie P. Clark Fund (June Deadline)
The Kenneth B. and Mamie P. Clark Fund supports research and demonstrative activities that promote the relationship between self-identity and academic achievement with an emphasis on children in grade levels K-8. The Kenneth B. and Mamie P. Clark fund was established in 2003 to honor the Clarks and to perpetuate their work as pioneers in understanding the psychological underpinnings of race relations and in addressing social issues such as segregation and injustice. For more information: https://www.apa.org/apf/funding/clark-fund
American Psychological Foundation, Violet and Cyril Franks Scholarship (May Deadline)
The APF Violet and Cyril Franks Scholarship supports graduate-level scholarly projects that use a psychological perspective to help understand and reduce stigma associated with mental illness. The scholarship helps address research which shows that stigma is a significant barrier to treatment and recovery for many of the 50 million Americans living with mental illness. For more information: https://www.apa.org/apf/funding/franks?tab=1
American Psychological Foundation (APF), Wayne F. Placek Grant (March Deadline)
The Wayne F. Placek Grant encourages research to increase the general public’s understanding of homosexuality and sexual orientation, and to alleviate the stress that lesbian women, gay men, bisexual women, bisexual men and transgender individuals experience in this and future civilization. The Wayne F. Placek Grant encourages research that addresses the following topics: heterosexuals’ attitudes and behaviors toward LGBT people, including prejudice, discrimination and violence, family and workplace issues relevant to LGBT people, and special concerns of sectors of the LGBT population that have historically been underrepresented in scientific research. For more information: https://www.apa.org/apf/funding/placek.aspx
American Psychological Foundation (APF), Steven O. Walfish Grants (September Deadline)
The Steven O. Walfish Grants supported by the Division 42 Next Generation Fund promote and support for next generation of student and early career practitioner psychologists to expand the knowledge base in the practice of psychology. Applicants are required to submit manuscripts on clinical, practical or research innovations that address evolving standards, practices and methods in psychological practice. Topics may include population-based practice issues, procedure or technique-based practice issues, procedure or technique-based practice issues, diagnosis-based practice issues or service delivery models describing a practice innovation. For more information: https://www.apa.org/apf/funding/walfish?tab=1
American Psychological Foundation (APF), Roy Scrivner Memorial Research Grants (November Deadline))
$11,000 grant for empirical and applied research focused on lesbian, gay and bisexual family psychology and LGBT family therapy. This program seeks to encourage the study of LGBT family psychology and therapy through its support of promising young investigators whose graduate research is oriented toward issues in this general area. For more information: http://www.apa.org/apf/funding/scrivner.aspx?tab=1
APA Division 44, Bisexual Foundation Scholarship Award (March Deadline)
The Bisexual Foundation Scholarship is an annual fund awarding up to $1000 per award to selected graduate students to advance research on the psychology of bisexuality. For more information: http://www.apadivision44.org/honors/bisexual.php
The Melanie Foundation Scholarship (June Deadline)
The Melanie Foundation Scholarship is awarded to a candidate pursuing a doctoral or master’s degree in the mental health field. You must be currently enrolled or accepted into a graduate program majoring in the mental health field in the United States and demonstrate experience and interest in one or more of the ideals to which Melanie Merola O’Donnel committed herself. The scholarship will be awarded, in the amount of $2,500, to a candidate for one year. For more information: http://www.themelaniefoundation.com/
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, The Clara Mayo Grants (May & October Deadlines)
The Clara Mayo Grant program was set up to support masters’ theses or pre-dissertation research on aspects of sexism, racism, or prejudice with preference given to students enrolled in a terminal master’s program. Studies of the application of theory or the design of interventions or treatments to address these problems are welcome. For more information: https://www.spssi.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewpage&pageid=727
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Dalmas A. Taylor Memorial Summer Minority Fellowship (March Deadline)
The purpose of this fellowship is to honor the memory of Dalmas A. Taylor, who passed away during his term as president of SPSSI. This fellowship is administered in conjunction with APA and the APA Minority Fellowship Program. It provides an opportunity for a graduate student of color to work on public policy issues in Washington, DC. For more information: https://www.spssi.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewpage&pageid=743