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Societies and Foundations Offering Scholarships for Africans and the African Diaspora

Organizations Offering Scholarships and Grants for Research

Societies and Foundations Offering Scholarships and Aids for the Physically Challenged

Scholars who have received a terminal advanced degree within the past seven years in the humanities, social sciences or in a professional field such as architecture or law are eligible. Exceptions may be made for individuals without continuous academic careers. Applicants may be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals. Upon selection, foreign nationals will be assisted in obtaining the appropriate visa. To meet the minimum eligibility requirements, the degree must be formally awarded by the deadline date.

The Fogarty International Research Collaboration Award for HIV-AIDS (AIDS FIRCA) facilitates collaborative research between U.S. scientists supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and foreign scientists through small individual research grants.

"Addressing Sectarian, Ethnic and Cultural Conflict within and across National Borders". Numerous intrastate and interstate locales can be identified around the world where sectarianism, ethnicity and culture have, wittingly or unwittingly, played a major role in violence, riots, civil war, and the attendant disruption of society and displacement of populations. Such areas fall on the high end of the continuum of ethnic conflict. In other locales, however, where similar factors have created tensions, even violence in the recent past, the current situation...

The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) and the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health (NIH), reannounce opportunities to apply for funding for the Bridges to the Future Program. The mission of the Bridges to the Future Program, established in 1992, is to make available to the biomedical science research enterprise and to the nation the intellectual talents of an increasing number of underrepresented minority students...

The BP Conservation Programme aims to support and encourage long term conservation projects which address global conservation priorities at a local level. This initiative is the result of a unique collaboration between two leading conservation organisations, BirdLife International and Fauna & Flora International (FFI), and BP. The Programme is now in its 17th year, and has supported a total of 175 projects in 55 countries.

The pursuit of new scientific and engineering knowledge and its use in service to society requires the talent, perspectives and insight that can only be assured by increasing diversity in the science, engineering and technological workforce. Despite advances made in the proportion of women choosing to pursue science and engineering careers, women continue to be significantly underrepresented in almost all science and engineering fields, constituting only approximately 22% of the science and engineering workforce at large, and less than 20% of ...

The Sasakawa Peace Foundation welcomes for innovative projects aimed at promoting international understanding exchange or cooperation. Eligibility requirements and grant application procedures

Unsolicited grants are offered across a broad range of relevant disciplines, skills, and approaches. Topic areas of interest to the Institute include, but are not restricted to: international conflict resolution; diplomacy; negotiation theory; functionalism and "track two" diplomacy; methods of third-party dispute settlement; international law; international organizations and collective security; deterrence and balance of power; arms control; psychological theories about international conflict; the role of nonviolence and nonviolent sanctions; moral and ethical thought about conflict and conflict resolution; and theories about relationships among political institutions, human rights, and conflict.

The Jennings Randolph Program for International Peace awards Senior Fellowships and Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowships to enable outstanding scholars, policymakers, journalists, and other professionals to conduct research on important issues concerning international conflict and peace. The program disseminates knowledge from these projects within the Institute and among policymakers, and it works closely with the Institute's Press to publish the products of fellows' research. Named for the former United States Senator from West Virginia, whose efforts over four decades helped establish the Institute, the Jennings Randolph Program has awarded over 200 fellowships since 1987.

Programs to Encourage Middle School Girls in Engineering conducted by engineering educators and others that encourage them to prepare for and undertake careers in engineering. The Foundation is particularly interested in innovative programs, which, if they are found to be effective, will be continued within the applying institution(s). These programs supported by the Foundation are expected to test their effectiveness, to examine program impact on participant educational and careers plans and on their SMET participation and achievement...

Our grant activity supports developmental projects, instructional projects, and training programs in engineering education and research that fit our fields of interest. These currently include the availability and use of published information, women in engineering, and information access in developing countries...

Eligible Student Participants: Students must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Undergraduate students must have completed their sophomore year and graduate students must be within the first two years of entry into their graduate education program. An undergraduate student is a student enrolled in a degree program (part-time or full-time) leading to a baccalaureate. Students who have received associates degree and are transferring from one institution to another but are enrolled at neither institution during the intervening summer are eligible to participate.

WCS-International conserves wildlife and ecosystems by generating and applying innovative scientific and field-based solutions to critical problems. WCS-International addresses these problems by focusing on landscape and seascape species whose conservation has the greatest positive impact on biodiversity as a whole and on large, threatened, wild ecosystems. The Wildlife Conservation Society conducts more than 320 field projects in 50 countries throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America and North America...

The purpose of The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans is to provide opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished New Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields and to partake of the American dream. Fellows must have shown potential in the fields for which they seek further education; the capacity for creativity, persistence and work; and the commitment to the values of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights, which protect the American dream...

...We especially encourage distinctive projects where the organization is making a difference nationally or internationally. We are interested in programs that are supported by the local community and meet the needs of people with disabilities in that community. It is our vision to join with our grantees to “Change the Face of Disability on the Planet”, through the implementation of “cutting edge” programs and projects....

This program supports students from minority groups underrepresented in graduate physics programs. Students considered for the graduate program must be accepted at a Universities Research Association, Inc. (URA) university and be pursuing their Ph.D. degree. Under the terms of the fellowship, Fermilab and the URA institution collaborate to provide tuition and a stipend similar to that of other first year students...

The Fellowship is designed to offer outstanding economists the opportunity to pursue their own independent research on applied and policy issues in economics over the course of a year at Brookings. The program provides Fellows with the unique opportunity to pursue their research, free of other responsibilities, in a policy environment in Washington, DC. Fellows will be in an excellent position to draw on the resources of scholars at Brookings as well as the extended policy community in Washington, DC. Fellows will also be able to participate in workshops and conferences at Brookings. Fellows will spend up to one year at Brookings. Brookings will provide salary and partial support for staff and research assistance...

The fellowship allows representatives from three non-governmental, community-based organizations to spend a month at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. There, Price Fellows explore with CDC professionals the latest, most effective ways to stop the spread of HIV. They learn how the agency’s research, funding and communication systems work from the inside...

Please Note WREI Fellowships require you take eight months away from your studies and come to Washington! We do not offer scholarships for you to study at your home university! We are a non-profit organization with no scholarships for students to continue studies at their current institutions! The Women's Research and Education Institute (WREI) is an independent, national public policy research and education center whose mission is to inform and help shape the public policy debate on issues affecting women in their roles in the family, the workplace, and the public arena...

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), in partnership with South Africa's National Research Foundation (NRF) and the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), is pleased to announce this year's program for research and training on African Youth in a Global Age. The theme for this year is African Youth, Civil Society and the NGO Sector. The SSRC is inviting applications from junior researchers, whether academics,practitioners, or independent researchers. This...

The reentry scholarships were established to assist women in obtaining the credentials necessary to reenter the workforce as engineers. Eligibility is restricted to women who have been out of the engineering workforce as well as out of school for a minimum of two years prior to reentry. There is no minimum GPA requirement for students entering their first year of reentry. A minimum 3.0/4.0 GPA is required for subsequent years. Recipients may be entering any undergraduate or graduate year, including doctoral programs, as full or part time...

The makers of the TYLENOL® Family of Products will award 10 $10,000 scholarships and 150 $1,000 scholarships for higher education to students who demonstrate leadership in community activities and school activities and who intend to major in areas that will lead to careers in health-related fields. You may apply to the TYLENOL Brand Scholarship Fund if you will be attending an undergraduate course of study in the fall of 2002 at an accredited two- or four-year college, university or vocational-technical school...

Links to seven research programs for all pre-doctoral students...

This program encourages students from underrepresented minority groups to seek graduate degrees in the biomedical and behavioral sciences to help increase the number of well-trained minority scientists. The fellowship provides up to 5 years of support for research training leading to the Ph.D. or equivalent research degree, the combined M.D./Ph.D. degree, or other combined degrees in the biomedical or behavioral sciences...

The Fogarty International Center (FIC) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), together with eight NIH partners, announces a new Global Health Research Initiative Program (GRIP) for New Foreign Investigators to promote the productive re-entry of young NIH-trained foreign investigators from the developing world to their home countries...

As part of the effort to invest in the next generation of scholars, and with financial support from the Ford Foundation, ACUNS has established a competitive award program for a social scientist or the equivalent for legal scholars. This award can be used independently or in conjunction with another fellowship...Most candidates for this award would be from the fields of political science or international law, but other individuals are encouraged ...

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Minority Medical Faculty Development Program offers four-year, postdoctoral research fellowships to minority physicians who have demonstrated superior academic and clinical skills and who are committed to careers in academic medicine. Each of the Fellows selected (up to 12 each year) will receive an annual stipend up to $65,000, complemented by a $26,350 annual grant toward support of research activities. Each Fellow will study and conduct research in association with a senior faculty member located at an academic medical center ...

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), and the Fogarty International Center (FIC) invite applications for resource-related grants in support of behavioral and social science research relevant to the critical and expanding prevention and care needs of women, children, and families affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa...

The Yerby Postdoctoral Fellowship Program aims to expand the number of under-represented minorities entering academia. Each fellow in the program is given the opportunity to develop as a scholar and as an independent researcher. The program seeks, at the end of the fellowship, to position minority scientists and policy analysts in roles of leadership, teaching, research, public service, and national health policy...

The Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS), funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was established in 1999 to provide outstanding African American, American Indian/Alaska Natives, Asian Pacific Islander Americans*, and Hispanic American students with an opportunity to complete an undergraduate college education, in all discipline areas and a graduate education for those students pursuing studies in mathematics, science, engineering, education, or library science. The goal of GMS is to promote academic excellence and to provide an opportunity for thousands of outstanding students with significant financial need to reach their fullest potential...

This program offers doctoral fellowships to enhance the competitiveness of outstanding minority scholars for academic appointments at major research universities by supporting them conducting research and by providing mentoring and guidance towards completion of their doctoral studies...

This program is for U.S. postdoctoral biomedical and behavioral scientists, in the formative stages of their careers, who seek an opportunity to continue research in, or extend their research experience into, developing countries. It provides the successful candidate with a period of mentored research as part of a strong, established collaboration between a U.S. sponsor and a leading developing country scientist at an internationally recognized research institution...

Students pursuing a career in nursing can apply for AORN Foundation Student Nurse Scholarships. They must be pursuing a degree in nursing and be enrolled in a nursing program accredited by the NLNAC or CCNE. Deadline is May 1, 2002...

Fellows spend one year, beginning in September 2002, working either in one of several bureaus of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. Department of State (State), in the National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center (FIC) or in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Individuals will be selected whose scientific and technical backgrounds can contribute to international affairs, foreign policy or international development. The program includes an orientation on international affairs and executive branch and congressional operations, and a year-long seminar program on issues involving science, technology and public policy...

The NIH, in collaboration with the Molecular and Cell Biology (MOCB) Program at the University of Maryland, has established a predoctoral training program for foreign students enrolled in doctoral programs in non-US universities. Interested students may apply to spend a period of at least 1 year at the University of Maryland as Advanced Special Students while participating in research at the NIH. Scientists at the NIH will participate in teaching, advising, and mentoring students who will also be conducting research in the NIH laboratories. Those accepted into the program will receive a stipend.

In general, female students who are high school seniors and plan to study science in the next academic year may apply. Applicants must be U.S. citizens who plan to attend a college or university in the United States. Applicants must have a 3.25 high school grade point average (on a 4.0 scale). Eligible fields include the behavioral, life, and physical sciences and engineering. See the detailed list in the application instructions to confirm eligibility of your field. Applicants must plan a career in research and/or teaching. Eligibility criteria are subject to change.

About 5-10 AWIS graduate fellowships in the amount of $1,000 are awarded each year, including four memorial awards: (1) Amy Lutz Rechel Award, for an outstanding graduate student in the field of plant biology, (2) Luise Meyer-Schutzmeister Award, for an outstanding graduate student in physics (see note below), (3) Ruth Satter Award, for an outstanding graduate student who interrupted her education for at least three years to raise a family, and (4) the Diane H. Russell Award, for an outstanding graduate student in the field of biochemistry or pharmacology. In addition, Gail Naughton has established an award for an outstanding graduate student. AWIS may also award Citations of Merit ($300).

The ASM Undergraduate Research Fellowship is aimed at highly competitive students who wish to pursue graduate careers (Ph.D. or MD/Ph.D) in microbiology. Students will have the opportunity to conduct full time research at their home institution with an ASM member and present research results at the ASM General Meeting the following year.

To increase the presence of underrepresented minorities on the nation's college and university faculties, to enhance diversity on campuses, and to address the persisting effects of past discrimination, the Ford Foundation offers predoctoral fellowships to members of six minority groups whose underrepresentation in the professoriate has been severe and long-standing.

1. The AMS/Industry Minority Scholarships will award funding to minority students who have been traditionally underrepresented in the sciences, especially Hispanic, Native American, and Black/African American students. Funding for the scholarships is provided by industry and through donations made by members to the AMS Programs in Support of Science and Education... 2. The AMS/Industry Undergraduate Scholarships are sponsored by leading environmental science and service corporations and one government agency and are designed to encourage outstanding undergraduate students to pursue careers in the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences...

In order to improve the quality and diversity of university faculty and to encourage outstanding minority doctoral degree holders to pursue academic careers and careers in educational research, in 1991 the Council of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) established the AERA Minority Fellowship Program. This program offers doctoral fellowships to enhance the competitiveness of outstanding minority scholars for academic appointments at major research universities by supporting them conducting research and...

Fellowship application deadline: December 3, 2001-The Fellowships on Conflict, Peace, and Social Transformations are designed to support research on the causes and conditions of international conflict and insecurity. We are looking to attract applications from NGO professionals, activists, government and multilateral organization officials, journalists, doctors, lawyers, and others.opics of interest include (but are not limited to) the human security implications of human rights; inequality; religious, national, and ethnic revivalism; miltary affairs; weapons proliferation and arms control; peace-keeping and peace-building; the spread of disease; ecosystem degradation; international migration; international crime; trafficking in humans; food supplies; and global finance and trade.

The Social Science Research Council is pleased to announce summer fellowships for innovative research on issues concerning information technology (IT), international cooperation and global security. PhD students and faculty from any academic discipline may apply.

The program is open to full-time graduate students in the social sciences and humanities -- regardless of citizenship -- enrolled in doctoral programs in the United States...

The Program on International Migration of the Social Science Research Council announces fellowship competitions for the study of international migration to the United States. With funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the program offers fellowships for dissertation and postdoctoral research and for participation in a minority summer dissertation workshop.

...the Ford Foundation offers predoctoral fellowships to members of six minority groups whose underrepresentation in the professoriate has been severe and long-standing. The fellowship program identifies individuals with demonstrated ability and provides them the opportunity to engage in graduate study leading to a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) or Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) degree. These successful scholars then inspire other students of color to pursue an academic career in teaching and research.

A competition is conducted for Graduate Research Fellowships, with additional awards offered for women in engineering and computer and information science. NSF Graduate Fellowships offer recognition and three years of support for advanced study to approximately 900 outstanding graduate students in the mathematical, physical, biological,engineering, and behavioral and social sciences, including the history of science and the philosophy of science, and to research-based PhD degrees in science education. Approximately 90 awards will be in the Women in Engineering (WENG) and Women in Computer and Information Science (WICS) components. Awards made in March 2002 will carry a stipend for each fellow of $20,500 for...

Have you always wanted to know what it's like to be part of a scientific team in a leading industrial laboratory? If you're a woman or minority student in your third year of college, this could be your opportunity...

The American Physiological Society (APS) has been awarded a conference grant by the NIDDK to provide fellowships for minority students and physiologists to attend either the annual spring meeting, Experimental Biology, or the APS conferences. At these meetings, fellows are assigned a mentor who will introduce them to prominent investigators and help guide them through the maze of symposia, tutorials, workshops, and poster sessions...

The Revelle Fellow will work for one year, beginning in September 2002, in the Congress, an executive branch agency, or elsewhere in the Washington, DC, policy community on domestic or international environmental issues encompassed under the umbrella of "global stewardship." The focus will be on human interaction with ecosystems, which includes, but is not limited to, population, sustainable development, food, oceans, global climate change, and related environmental concerns. The program includes an orientation on congressional and executive branch operations and a year-long seminar program on issues involving science,technology, and public policy...

Improving the health of women and children, particularly in the developing world, is the overriding goal of the Foundation's Global Health Program. Preventing deadly diseases among poor children by expanding access to vaccines, and developing vaccines against malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, are central priorities...

Each year the Endowment offers up to ten one-year fellowships to uniquely qualified graduating seniors and individuals who have graduated during the past academic year. They are selected from a pool of nominees from close to 200 colleges. Carnegie Junior Fellows work as research assistants to the Endowment's senior associates. No one will be considered who has started graduate studies. The Endowment's nomination deadline is January 15 of each year. Colleges generally set an earlier application deadline. See your Career Services/Placement Office to learn more ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is offering, in environmentally related fields of study: (1) Graduate Fellowships for master's and doctoral level students, (2) MAI Graduate Fellowships for master's and doctoral level students, and (3) MAI Undergraduate Fellowships for bachelor level students. The purpose of the fellowship programs is to encourage promising students to obtain undergraduate and graduate degrees and pursue careers in environmentally related fields...

Grants for amounts up to $20,000 are available for basic research in all branches of anthropology. Grants are made to seed innovative approaches and ideas, to cover specific expenses or phases of a project, and/or to encourage aid from other funding agencies. The foundation particularly invites projects employing comparative perspectives or integrating two or more subfields of anthropology. A small number of awards is available for projects designed to develop resources for anthropological research and scholarly exchange....

The fellowship program is funded by the Department of Commerce and administered by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The program provides talented undergraduates with an international and domestic public service education. Professional work study and practical classroom experience in global economic policy train Fellows for successful entry into the Commercial Service as tomorrow's U.S. commercial representatives...

Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships are designed to encourage original and significant study of ethical or religious values in all fields of the humanities and social sciences. In addition to topics in religious studies or in ethics (philosophical or religious), dissertations might consider the ethical implications of foreign policy, the values influencing political decisions, the moral codes of other cultures, and religious or ethical issues reflected in history or literature. ...

International Fellowships are awarded for full-time study or research to women who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Both graduate and postgraduate study at accredited institutions are supported. Applicants must have earned the equivalent of a U.S. bachelor’s degree by Dec. 31, 2001, and must have applied to their proposed institution of study by the time of application (no later than Dec. 15, 2001). Selection criteria include an outstanding academic record, professional potential, and the potential of the field of study to improve lives of women and girls in the country of origin. Preference is given to women residing in their home countries at the time of application...

The Cooperative Research Fellowships (CRFP) are designed to identify and develop scientific and engineering research ability, among members of under-represented minority groups, increasing their representation in scientific and technological fields. Fellowships are awarded to outstanding beginning graduate students working toward doctoral degrees, in the following disciplines: Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Communications, Science, Computer Science / Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Science, Materials Science, Mathematics Mechanical Engineering, Operations Research, Physics...