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Sponsors & WCAS Research

SPONSORS that have supported Social Science, Mathematics, and Statistics research -- a partial list:

African-American Studies
Anthropology
Economics
History
Linguistics
Mathematics
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology
Statistics

AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

Joyce Foundation
http://www.joycefdn.org/GrantList/HowToApply.aspx

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ANTHROPOLOGY Department

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

http://www.mellon.org/

Council of International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright Scholars)
http://www.cies.org/

L. S. B. Leakey Foundation
http://www.leakeyfoundation.org/

Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml

Department of State
http://www.state.gov/

Heinz Endowments
http://www.heinz.org/

John Templeton Foundation
http://www.templeton.org/funding_areas/

National Endowment for the Humanities
http://www.neh.gov/grants/

National Geographic Society
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/research/grant_application.html

National Science Foundation:Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_list.jsp?org=SBE

The Spencer Foundation
http://www.spencer.org/

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
http://www.wennergren.org/programs/

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ECONOMICS Department

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
http://www.mellon.org/grant_programs/programs

Department of Transportation
http://www.dot.gov/

Joyce Foundation
http://www.joycefdn.org/GrantList/HowToApply.aspx

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/funding/foa/

National Institute on Aging
http://www.nia.nih.gov/GrantsAndTraining/FundingOpportunities/

National Science Foundation: SES Programs
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5437&org=SBE&from=fund

Russell Sage Foundation
http://www.russellsage.org/about/whatwedo/howtoapply/awards/

The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
http://www.mott.org/

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
http://www.macfound.org/

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
http://www.rwjf.org/pr/research.jsp

The Searle Fund for Policy Research (no website)
See instructions for applying to Searle on the Office for Research website

The Spencer Foundation
http://www.spencer.org/

William T. Grant Foundation
http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/

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HISTORY Department

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
http://www.mellon.org/grant_programs/programs

Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml

Ford Foundation
http://www.fordfound.org/about/guideline.cfm

National Endowment for the Humanities
http://www.neh.gov/grants/grants.html

National Science Foundation
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_list.jsp?org=NSF&ord=date

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
http://www.macfound.org/

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LINGUISTICS Department

James S. McDonnell Foundation
http://www.jsmf.org/apply/index.htm

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/funding/

National Science Foundation: Linguistics
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5408&org=NSF&from=fund

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MATHEMATICS Department

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
http://www.sloan.org/main.shtml

Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml

National Science Foundation: Mathematical Sciences
http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=DMS

National Security Agency
http://www.nsa.gov/research/

Office of Naval Research
http://www.onr.navy.mil/02/

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POLITICAL SCIENCE Department

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

http://www.aei.org/home

Committee on Institutional Cooperation
http://www.cic.net/Home.aspx

Council of International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright Scholars)
http://www.cies.org/

Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml

Department of Housing and Urban Development
http://www.hud.gov/

Ford Foundation
http://www.fordfound.org/about/guideline.cfm

Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority
http://www.icjia.state.il.us/public/index.cfm?metasection=grants

Inter-American Foundation
http://www.iaf.gov/index/index_en.asp

National Endowment for the Humanities
http://www.neh.gov/grants/grants.html

National Institute of Justice
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/funding/welcome.htm

National Science Foundation: SES Programs
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5437&org=SBE&from=fund

Office of Community Oriented Policing Services
http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/default.asp?Item=1547

Open Society Institute and Soros Foundation
http://www.soros.org/

The J. M. Kaplan Fund
http://www.jmkfund.org/grantprograms.html

The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP)
http://www.cgp.org/

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
http://www.macfound.org/

The Searle Fund for Policy Research (no website)
See instructions for applying to Searle on the Office for Research website


The Tinker Foundation
http://fdncenter.org/grantmaker/tinker/


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PSYCHOLOGY Department

American Psychological Foundation
http://www.apa.org/apf/

Army Research Office
http://www.arl.army.mil/main/main/default.cfm?Action=29&Page=29

Burroughs Wellcome Fund
http://www.bwfund.org/pages/52/Grant-Programs/

Department of Defense: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
http://www.darpa.mil/

Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/find/edlite-forecast.html

Fetzer Institute
http://www.fetzer.org/

Illinois Department of Public Health
http://www.idph.state.il.us/fundop.htm

National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression
http://www.narsad.org/

National Eye Institute
http://www.nei.nih.gov/funding/

National Geographic Society
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/research/grant_application.html

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/funding/foa/

National Institute of Mental Health
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/researchfunding/index.cfm

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/funding/index.htm

National Institute on Aging
http://www.nia.nih.gov/ResearchInformation/ExtramuralPrograms/

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/funding/

National Research Council
http://www.nationalacademies.org/nrc/

National Science Foundation:BCS Programs
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_list.jsp?org=BCS

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
http://www.nato.int/

Office of Naval Research
http://www.onr.navy.mil/02/

Russell Sage Foundation
http://www.russellsage.org/about/whatwedo/howtoapply/awards/

Scottish Rite Benevolent Foundation (Schizophrenia Research Program)
http://james.psych.umn.edu/scott_rite.html

The Spencer Foundation
http://www.spencer.org/

Whitehall Foundation, Inc.
http://www.whitehall.org/about/

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SOCIOLOGY Department

Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml

Ford Foundation
http://www.fordfound.org/about/guideline.cfm

General Services Administration
http://www.gsa.gov/Portal/gsa/ep/home.do?tabId=0

National Institute of Justice
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/funding/welcome.htm

National Multiple Sclerosis Society
http://www.nationalmssociety.org/research/index.aspx

National Science Foundation: SES Programs
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5437&org=SBE&from=fund

Russell Sage Foundation
http://www.russellsage.org/about/whatwedo/howtoapply/awards/

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
http://www.packard.org/categoryDetails.aspx?RootCatID=4&CategoryID=4

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
http://www.macfound.org/

The Rockefeller Foundation
http://www.rockfound.org/grants/grants.shtml

The Searle Fund for Policy Research (no website)
See instructions for applying to Searle on the Office for Research website


The Spencer Foundation
http://www.spencer.org/

U.S. Army Recruiting Command
http://www.usarec.army.mil/

U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
http://www.hqda.army.mil/ari/

William T. Grant Foundation
http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/


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STATISTICS Department

Bureau of the Census
http://www.census.gov/

DuPont
http://www2.dupont.com/Social_Commitment/en_US/educational/index.html

National Cancer Institute
http://www.cancer.gov/researchandfunding#fundingopportunities

National Center for Education Statistics
http://nces.ed.gov/

National Science Foundation: Mathematical Sciences
http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=DMS

The Searle Fund for Policy Research (no website)
See instructions for applying to Searle on the Office for Research website

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