American
Association of University Women: Bev
Morrison is Calvin's campus liaison.
The AAUW Educational Foundation, the largest source of funding exclusively
for graduate women in the world, supports aspiring scholars around
the globe, teachers and activists in local communities, women at critical
stages of their careers, and those pursuing professions where women
are underrepresented. |
| American
Council of Learned Societies (ACLS): The mission of the
ACLS is "the advancement of humanistic studies in all fields
of learning in the humanities and the social sciences and the maintenance
and strengthening of relations among the national societies devoted
to such studies." |
| American
Political Science Association: (resource for sabbatical
funding) The Association brings together political scientists
from all fields of inquiry, regions, and occupational endeavors in
order to expand awareness and understanding of political life. |
| American
Psychological Foundation: (Part of the American Psychological
Association) The Foundation has focused on advancing psychology through
fostering the best and the brightest students, supporting cutting-edge
research, and recognizing those psychologists whose excellent projects,
research, and careers light the way for what can be done to benefit
humanity. |
| American
Sociological Association: The American Sociological Association
provides funding
opportunities to graduate students of sociology and sociologists
with doctorates. |
| Aspen
Institute: The Aspen Institute is a global forum for
leveraging the power of leaders to improve the human condition. |
| Association
for Institutional Research: Grants and scholarships supported
by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and the National
Science Foundation (NSF) are available to staff and faculty of
post-secondary education institutions. The goals of the grant and
scholarship program are to provide opportunities for professional
development, to foster the use of federal databases in postsecondary
education decision-making, and to foster the use of the federal databases
to inform research on issues in postsecondary education. |
| AT&T
Foundation: invests globally in projects that are at
the intersection of community needs and AT&T's business interests.
Emphasis is placed on programs that serve the needs of people in communities
where AT&T has a significant business presence, initiatives that
use technology in innovative ways, and programs in which AT&T
employees are actively involved as contributors or volunteers. |
| Bunting
Institute of Radcliffe College: The Mary Ingraham Bunting
Institute of Radcliffe College, a multidisciplinary residential research
center, offers fellowships for women scholars, scientists, artists,
and writers. |
| Campus
Compact: Campus Compact is a national coalition of more
than 740 college and university presidents committed to the civic
purposes of higher education. To support this civic mission, Campus
Compact promotes community service that develops students' citizenship
skills and values, encourages partnerships between campuses and communities,
and assists faculty who seek to integrate public and community engagement
into their teaching and research. Steve
Timmermans, Gail Zandee, Peggy Bendroth |
| Annie
E. Casey Foundation: Their mission is to foster public
policies, human service reforms, and community supports that more
effectively meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families.
Working with neighborhoods and state and local governments, the Foundation
provides grants to public and nonprofit organizations to strengthen
the support services, social networks, physical infrastructure, employment,
self-determination, and economic vitality of distressed communities. |
| CCCU
Initiative Grants to Network Christian Scholars. The
purpose of this program is to enable small groups of Christian scholars
to network in ways that will lead to individual and collaborative
scholarship on focused themes of keen interest to the larger academy.
Any discipline is encouraged to submit a proposal which demonstrates
potential for Christian perspectives on the theme to make an important
contribution to conversations in the academy. |
| Coca-Cola
Foundation: Their mission is to improve the quality of
life in the community and to enhance individual opportunity through
education. They support educational programs primarily within three
main areas: higher education, classroom teaching and learning, and
international education. |
| Cummings
Fund The Cummings Fund supports entrepreneurial
solutions to social problems, eliminating dependence on governmental
programs by actively aiding groups with measurable and sustainable
long-term gains for individuals in need. |
| Arthur
Vining Davis Foundation: Programs include Private Higher
Education, Secondary Education, Religion (Graduate Theological Education),
Health Care (Caring Attitudes), and Public Television. Lois
Konyndyk |
|
Department of Education (US):
Fund
for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE): FIPSE's
mandate is to "improve postsecondary educational opportunities"
across a broad range of concerns. Steve
Vander Leest, Lois Konyndyk |
|
Department of Education (State
of Michigan):
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
for Mathematics & Science: ENC's mission is to identify
effective curriculum resources, create high-quality professional
development materials, and disseminate useful information and products
to improve K-12 mathematics and science teaching and learning. |
|
Department of Career Development
(Michigan)
4-S Program:
The Select Student Support Services (4-S) Program is a competitive
grant program that supports universities in the development and
institutionalization of innovative retention programs for academically
and economically disadvantaged students. Jacque
Rhodes, Steve Timmermans, Karen Hollebeek, Jane Hendriksma
|
| Earhart
Foundation Fellowship Research Grants are awarded, upon
direct application, to individuals who have established themselves
professionally. |
| Erasmus
Institute: The Erasmus Institute was founded to foster
research grounded in Catholic intellectual traditions and focused
on significant issues in contemporary scholarship. Its mission is
not to advance study of the church or theology as such but, rather,
to bring resources from two millennia of Catholic thought to bear
on problems in the humanities, social sciences, and arts. John
Hare, Ruth Groenhout |
| Fetzer
Institute: The Fetzer Institute is a nonprofit
private operating foundation that supports research, education, and
service programs exploring the integral relationships among body,
mind, and spirit. Our current program focus includes the areas of
science, leadership, integral practice, and philanthropy. |
| Freedom
Forum: The Freedom Forum is a nonpartisan, international
foundation dedicated to free press, free speech, and free spirit for
all people. The foundation focuses on four main priorities: the Newseum,
First Amendment freedoms, newsroom diversity, and world press freedom.
|
|
Fulbright: Fulbright grants
are made to U.S. citizens and nationals of other countries for a
variety of educational activities, primarily university lecturing,
advanced research, graduate study, and teaching in elementary and
secondary schools. Dave
Van Baak, Joel Adams
Traditional
Program
Scholar-in-Residence
The Occasional
Lecturer Program
Student Awards
|
| Ford
Foundation (NY):The Ford Foundation is a resource for
innovative people and institutions worldwide. Its goals are to strengthen
democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international
cooperation, and advance human achievement. Steve
Timmermans, Randal Jelks |
| German
Academic Service (DAAD): The activities of the German
Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)—today one of the world's largest
and most respected intermediary organizations in its field—illustrate
the terms of reference within which academic exchange and international
cooperation in science and art progress as part of the essential creative
forces of the modern world. Their development is determined by individuals
and their study and research projects, by the scientific community,
and by the expectations and views of society, as well as and also
by what is technically possible, coupled with economic interests and
political goals. Lambert
Zuidervaart |
| Wm
T Grant Foundation: The goal of the William T. Grant
Foundation is to create a society that values young people and enables
them to reach their full potential. The Foundation supports basic
and applied research on youth development, program evaluations, policy
analyses, research sysntheses, and communications research. Priority
areas for research are youth development; programs, policies, and
institutions affecting young people; and adults' attitudes about and
perceptions of young people, focusing on young people age 8 - 25. |
| William
Randolph Hearst Foundation: The charitable goals of the
two Foundations are essentially the same, and reflect the philanthropic
interests of William Randolph Hearst -- Education, Health, Social
Service and Culture. Within these four areas, the Foundations assist
institutions in providing opportunities to underserved and underrepresented
populations. Lois
Konyndyk |
| William
and Flora Hewlett Foundation: The Foundation concentrates
its resources on activities in conflict resolution, education, environment,
family and community development, performing arts, population, and
U.S.-Latin American relations. |
| Housing
& Urban Development: - COPC
Lois Konyndyk, Steve
Timmermans, Carol Rienstra |
| Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation: concentrated grantmaking in
four areas: to ensure that all Americans have access to basic health
care at reasonable cost; to improve care and support for people with
chronic health conditions; to promote healthy communities and lifestyles;
and to reduce the personal, social and economic harm caused by substance
abuse—tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs. |
| W.
K. Kellogg Foundation: A non-profit that focuses on improving
communities' quality of life in the United States, Latin America and
the Caribbean, and Southern Africa through the practical application
of knowledge and resources. Funding is focused toward food systems
and rural development; youth and education and higher education; and
philanthropy and volunteerism. Within these focal areas, funding is
also provided for leadership; information systems/ technology; efforts
to capitalize on diversity; and family, neighborhood, and community
development programming. Steve
Timmermans |
| Knight
Foundation: It is dedicated to service to community,
the highest standards of journalistic excellence and the defense of
a free press. Lois
Konyndyk |
| Kresge
Foundation: The Kresge Foundation Science Initiative
is a challenge grant program to upgrade and endow scientific instrumentation
and laboratories in colleges and universities, teaching hospitals,
medical schools, and research institutions. Lois
Konyndyk |
| Library of
Congress offers Kluge
Center Fellowships for Humanistic and Social Science Research.
The Kluge Center especially encourages humanisitic and social science
research that makes use of the Library's large and varied collections.
Interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, or multilingual research is particularly
welcome. Further information about the Library's collections can be
found at the Library's web site)
|
| Maclellan
Foundation: The purpose of the Maclellan Foundation is
to serve strategic international and national organizations committed
to furthering the Kingdom of Christ and select local organizations
that foster the spiritual welfare of the community. |
| Ronald
McDonald House Children's Charities: Ronald McDonald
House Charities provides comfort and care to children and their families
by supporting Ronald McDonald Houses in communities around the world
and by making grants to other not-for-profit organizations whose programs
help children in need. Lois
Konyndyk |
| Medtronic
Foundation: Focus areas: education, health, and community.
Priority is given to programs that benefit people who are socio-economically
disadvantaged. Provides community grants for programs benefiting Medtronic
communities: Minneapolis, MN; Anaheim, CA; Danvers, MA; Parker, CO;
Humacao, Puerto Rico; Grand Rapids, MI; Tempe, AZ; Irvine, CA; Milaca,
MN; San Diego, CA; Villalba, Puerto Rico Gary
Schmidt, David DeHeer, Lois Konyndyk |
| Andrew
Mellon Foundation: Makes grants to institutions in higher
education, in cultural affairs and the performing arts, in population,
in conservation and the environment, and in public affairs. |
| Michigan
Campus Compact: Michigan Campus Compact promotes the
education and commitment of Michigan college students to be civically
engaged citizens, through creating and expanding academic, co-curricular
and campus-wide opportunities for community service, service-learning,
and civic engagement. |
| Charles
Stewart Mott Foundation: The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
affirms its founder's vision that each of us "is in a partnership
with the rest of the human race"—that each individual's
quality of life is connected to the well-being of the community, both
locally and globally. The C.S. Mott Foundation's program areas are
Civil Society, Environment, Flint Area, and Pathways Out of Poverty.
In addition to these four programs, they also fund Exploratory and
Special Projects that may lead to a program area over time, or unexpected
opportunities that address significant international and/or national
problems. |
| National
Science Foundation: (home
page) Opportunities for research and education funding
in all areas of science and engineering. David
DeHeer, James Turner, Gerard Venema, Joel Adams, Kumar Sinniah, Mike
Stob, James Turner, Matt Walhout, Paul Moes |
| John
M. Olin Foundation: the general purpose of the Foundation
is to provide support for projects that reflect or are intended to
strengthen the economic, political and cultural institutions upon
which the American heritage of constitutional government and private
enterprise is based. The Foundation also seeks to promote a general
understanding of these institutions by encouraging the thoughtful
study of the connections between economic and political freedoms,
and the cultural heritage that sustains them. |
| Open
Society Institute: OSI's US Programs have three broad
aims: to challenge the intrusion of the marketplace into inappropriate
areas; to deal with the inequities in distribution of wealth and social
benefits that arise from "market fundamentalism;" and to
address the adverse unintended consequences of perhaps well-intended
policies. |
| David
& Lucile Packard Foundation: The Foundation provides
grants to nonprofit organizations in the following broad program areas:
conservation; population; science; children, families, and communities;
arts; and organizational effectiveness and philanthropy. The Foundation
provides national and international grants, and also has a special
focus on the Northern California Counties of San Mateo, Santa Clara,
Santa Cruz, and Monterey. |
| Pew
Charitable Trusts: The Pew Charitable Trusts support
nonprofit activities in the areas of culture, education, the environment,
health and human services, public policy and religion. Based in Philadelphia,
the Trusts make strategic investments that encourage and support citizen
participation in addressing critical issues and effecting social change.
Susan Felch, Steve
Evans, Lois Konyndyk, David Hoekema |
| Retirement
Research Foundation: The Foundation seeks innovative
solutions to the challenges facing older Americans. They support programs
that: improve services and care for the elderly, seek answers to diseases
prevalent in the older population, educate policymakers about the
needs and capacities of America’s seniors, attract and train
skilled professionals to serve older adults, expand employment and
volunteer opportunities for older persons, and identify and address
concerns of older Americans. |
| Rotary
Foundation: The Rotary Foundation is a not-for-profit
corporation that supports the efforts of Rotary International to achieve
world understanding and peace through international humanitarian,
educational, and cultural exchange programs. Evert
VanDerHeide |
| Alfred
P. Sloan Foundation:The Foundation's programs and interests
fall into the following areas: Science and Technology, Standard of
Living and Economic Performance, Education and Careers in Science
and Technology and Selected National Issues and Civic Program |
| SBC
Foundation SBC Foundation places primary emphasis on
supporting initiatives that enhance education and community vitality
through technology. |
| Smithsonian
Institution |
| Spencer
Foundation: The foundation is intended to investigate
ways in which education, broadly conceived, can be improved around
the world. |
| Starr
Foundation: The Starr Foundation funds programs in a
wide range including culture, public policy, human needs, medicine
and healthcare, and education. |
State
of Michigan - Michgian
Community Service Commission:
Volunteer
Investment Grants: VIG is designed to: empower communities
with an ongoing source of funds to create or increase the self-sufficiency
of a local volunteer resource center, build the center's coapacity,
and increase the number of citizen volunteers involved in community
problem-solving. Jeff
Bouman
|
| Supreme
Court Judicial Fellows Commision: Seeking outstanding
individuals from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds who are interested
in the adminstration of justice and making a contribution to the judiciary. |
| Surdna
Foundation: The Foundation has four program areas for
primary attention: biological diversity and the human communities
that depend on it, human systems, transportation and urban/suburban
land use, and energy. |
| Templeton
Foundation: Through its programs, the Foundation seeks
to encourage the world to catch the vision of the tremendous possibilities
for spiritual progress in an open and humble approach to life; encourage
institutions of learning to incorporate training towards excellence
in character in their efforts to prepare the next generation for service;
to encourage growth in appreciating the potential of free societies;
and to promote the understanding of the significant responsibilities
associated with freedom in its several aspects, moral, spiritual,
political and economic. Steve
Evans, Howard VanTill, Susan Felch |
| Towsley
Foundation: While the Foundation's initial goals were
typical of general family foundations, its mission later became focused
on programs promoting education, health care, shelter, and nutrition
for children. As its assets grew, its areas of concentration expanded
into college and university education, medical education, planned
parenthood, and interdisciplinary programs with the schools of law
and social work. Lois
Konyndyk |
| US
Institute of Peace: The United States Institute of Peace
is an independent, nonpartisan federal institution created and funded
by Congress to strengthen the nation's capacity to promote the peaceful
resolution of international conflict. |
| Wabash
Center: The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in
Theology and Religion seeks to strengthen and enhance religion &
theology education in North American theological schools, colleges
and universities through initiating studies, workshops and conferences;
supporting the initiatives that enhance teaching; encouraging reflection
by faculty members on the special contribution of each discipline
within religion & theology; enabling those preparing to become
teachers to reflect upon, clarify and strengthen their sense of vocation;
helping faculty members and institutions to keep abreast of appropriate
technology that will enhance teaching and learning. Kendra
Hotz, Matt Mathews |
