Other Funding Opportunities
ASUC Academic Opportunity Fund
http://callink.berkeley.edu/Community?action=getOrgHome&orgID=19929
Award Amount: Up to $500
Deadline: Rolling
Jewish Family and Children's Services Students Loans, Grants, and Scholarships
Award Amount: Up to $6,000
Deadline: Rolling
The Jewish Family and Children’s Service offers Bay Area Jewish students awards on a rolling basis. Funds are prioritized for people who demonstrate financial need; however, they also make some merit based awards.
Samuel Huntington Public Service Fellowship Award
http://www.nationalgridus.com/Masselectric/about_us/award.asp
Award Amount: $10,000
Deadline: January 18, 2012
This award is to allow recipients to engage in a meaningful public service activity for one year before proceeding on to graduate school or career.
Carl Rosberg and Judith Geist Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program
http://africa.berkeley.edu/Fellowships/RosbergGeistFellowship.php
Award Amount: $3,000
Deadline: February 7, 2011
For any Berkeley undergraduate travel to Africa for research and study who will return to campus as a registered student following the research trip. Students with training in African studies and foreign languages, particularly African languages, will be given priority.
Donald A. Strauss Public Service Scholarship
http://www.straussfoundation.org/index.php
Award Amount: $10,000
Deadline: February 14, 2011
For all junior UC undergraduate students who undertake a high-impact public service project their senior year. Students must submit application to UC Berkeley’s representative (identified on the Strauss Foundation website).
American Pubic Power Association DEED Project
http://www.appanet.org/research/index.cfm?ItemNumber=16257
Award Amount: $4,000
Deadline: February 15, 2012 and October 15, 2012
Only students studying in energy-related disciplines from accredited colleges or universities in the U.S. or Canada are eligible for student research grants/internships. The DEED technical design project is intended to promote the involvement of students studying in energy-related disciplines in the public power industry. One $5,000 TDP is awarded each year to a student or group of students conducting research on an energy-related project. The award recipient(s) also receive travel reimbursement up to $3000 to present their project during the annual APPA Engineering and Operations Technical Conference.
http://research.berkeley.edu/haas_scholars/
Award Amount: $5,000
Deadline: February 14, 2012
For academically talented, financial-aid-eligible undergraduates IN ALL MAJORS to engage in a sustained research, field-study or creative project -- often their senior honors thesis/project -- in the summer before and during their final year or semester at UC Berkeley. Please note you will be set with a faculty mentor and be expected to attend a retreat and conference.
The Judith Lee Stronach Baccalaureate Prize
http://ls.berkeley.edu/?q=about-college/l-s-divisions/judith-lee-stronach-baccalaureate-prize
Award Amount: Up to $25,000
Deadline: March 1, 2011
The Prize is open to Berkeley graduates who are awarded an undergraduate degree in the Fall of the year before or the Spring or Summer of the year in which the Prize is awarded in any area of study. The Stronach Prize gives students the opportunity to extend and reflect upon their undergraduate work at Berkeley by undertaking a special project after graduation. Winning projects are creative in the broadest sense, explore themes of significant interest to holders of the Prize, and strive to further understand what constitutes humane and effective participation in our worldwide community. Proposals for humanistic research or social service projects involving the arts, humanities and social or natural sciences are welcome. The Prize cannot be used to support graduate study or any credit-granting courses.
The Leslie Lipson Program (Essay Prize, Scholarship, and Research Grant)
http://students.berkeley.edu/finaid/undergraduates/lipsonscholprize.htm
For Berkeley freshmen or sophomores from any field of study with a minimum GPA of 3.5. The Leslie Lipson Program is intended to encourage undergraduate students to study humanistic values and their practical application for individuals, societies, and states. The Program consists of three components: (1) the Essay Prize, (2) the Scholarship, which is available to Essay Prize winners, and (3) the Research Grant, which is optional for Scholarship winners. Eligible freshmen and sophomores are invited to submit an original, unpublished piece to the Lipson Program essay contest on one of the Essay Topics related to humanistic values. The essay topics for each year are selected by the Lipson Committee and are available on the website.
Award Amount: $2,000 for the Essay Prize; up to $10,000 per year for two years for the Scholarship; up to $4,000 for the Research Grant
Deadline: March 9, 2012
J.W. Saxe Memorial Prize for Public Service
Award Amount: $2,000
Deadline: March 15, 2012
For any undergraduate or graduate seeking support for an internship in public service. The award is meant to enable the student to gain practical experience in public service by taking a no-pay or low-pay job or internship during a summer or other term. Preference will be given to those who have already found a position and require additional funds.
Award Amount: $10,000
Deadline: April 1, 2012
The Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund provides grants to students actively working for peace and justice. 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.
Go! Volunteer Abroad Scholarship
http://www.go-volunteerabroad.com/volunteer-abroad-scholarship
Award Amount: $1,000
Deadline: September 15, 2011
The GO! Volunteer Abroad Scholarship program supports people participanting in volunteer programs abroad. The scholarship is awarded based on the creativity and analytical thinking displayed through writing samples and/or video submissions.
http://www.igs.berkeley.edu/programs/gardner/
Award Amount: $27,500 stipend
Deadline: February 15, 2012
The John Gardner Fellowship places three graduating seniors from UC Berkeley with a distinguished mentor in a public service, non-profit, or government organization of their choosing within the continental United States. Applicants are encouraged from any major field of study and from a wide variety of service experiences; they need only to have a strong commitment to public service.
Center for Human Rights Student Fellowship
http://hrc.berkeley.edu/fellowships.html
Award Amount: $4,000
Deadline: February 23, 2012
These awards will enable students to carry out clearly defined fieldwork, domestically or internationally, with human rights organizations related to a student’s area of study. The purpose of the fellowship is to provide students with an opportunity to contribute to the work of human rights organizations while also gaining practical experience that may influence the students' areas of research or academic focus. The fellowship program welcomes multi-disciplinary approaches to human rights fieldwork. Students are encouraged to publish the results of their fieldwork. Preference will be given to graduate students and returning students.
Center for Race and Gender Undergraduate Grants
http://crg.berkeley.edu/programs/grants/undergrad.html
Award Amount: $100 to $1,000
Deadlines: March 3, 2010
Rotary Foundation Academic-Year Ambassadorial Scholarship
Award Amount: Up to $26,000
Deadline: March 6, 2010
This scholarship provides funding for one academic year of study in another country. This award is intended to help cover round-trip transportation, tuition, fees, room and board expenses, and some educational supplies. The purpose of the scholarship is to further international understanding and friendly relations among people of different countries. While abroad, scholars serve as ambassadors of goodwill to the people of the host country and give presentations about their homelands. Upon returning home, scholars share the experiences that led to greater understanding of their host countries. Students may apply through the Berkeley-chapter of Rotary International or the rotary chapter in their hometown. Applications in the 2010 application cycle are for study in the 2011-12 academic year.
For any Berkeley undergraduate students not graduating by the end of the semester. Applications are particularly sought from students majoring in areas where race and gender issues have not previously been of major concern, such as Public Health, Education, Economics, Business, Journalism, Political Science, and Environmental Science, as well as areas where they have been more central.
Berkeley Center for the Development of Peace and Well-being Undergraduate Research Fellowships
http://peacecenter.berkeley.edu/sci-scholars_fellows.html
Award Amount: $3,000
Deadline: March 12, 2010
For junior and senior social-behavioral science undergraduates to support their senior research projects. They in particular are interested in funding research on peace and well-being within individuals (happiness, positive states), relationships (altruism, community mindedness, marital processes, friendship), and communities and cultures (resilient families, values, institutions, and practices that promote peace and well-being).
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) at Berkeley
http://research.berkeley.edu/surf/
Award Amount: $3,250
Deadline: March 15, 2010
For Berkeley undergraduates in the College of Letters and Science to spend the summer doing concentrated research in preparation for a senior thesis or another major capstone research project. If traveling as a SURF fellow, please note that the full amount of airfare is rarely awarded and you are encouraged to investigate other sources of travel funding.
http://www.ciee.org/study/scholarships/index.aspx#bowman
Award Amount: $1,000
Deadline: April 1, 2012 and November 1, 2012
The Bowman Travel Grants provide assistance to students participating in educational programs in non-traditional destinations. Applicants must be undergraduate students participating in a study, work, or volunteer program in a designated country (a complete list is available at the foundation website), preferably where the student significantly interacts with the host population. Applicants should also demonstrate how the activity is related to their future academic and/or career interests. Applicants must be participating in a travel program sponsored by the grant foundation or a similar program at a member institution (UC Berkeley is a member.)
Jewish Community Federation (JCF) College Scholarship
Award Amount: Varied
Deadline: April 30, 2010
The Jewish Community Federation (JCF) College Scholarship program serves primarily Jewish undergraduate students who demonstrate excellence in academic performance, community service, and demonstrate financial need.
Institute of Current World Affairs Fellowships
Institute of Current World Affairs, Inc.
4 West Wheelock Street
HanoverNH 03755
Phone: (603) 643-5548
Email: apply@icwa.org
Award Amount: Full Financial Assistance
Deadline: February 1, 2012 and March 1, 2012
The Institute of Current World Affairs offers fellowships for self-designed independent study in a foreign destination. Applicants must have a good command of written and spoken English.
Ella Lyman Cabot Trust Grants
P. Brooks Thompson, Clerk
Ella Lyman Cabot Trust, Inc.
98 River Street
Dedham, MA 02026
Award Amount: Approx. $7,000-12,000
Deadline: February 15, 2012 and September 15, 2012
The Cabot Trust awards grants to support strategic, meaningful projects that will help others. Applicants should contact the Trust in writing to request application guidelines.
Center for Middle Eastern Studies Undergraduate Research Grant
http://cmes.berkeley.edu/programs/research-travel
Award Amount: $1,000
Deadline: October 2, 2012
For any Berkeley undergraduate students, but priority will be given to students with declared majors or minors in Middle Eastern Studies. Please note this funding only applies for airfare, and all grants will be paid as reimbursements upon completion of travel. You may use funding for winter break, spring semester or summer.
Echoing Green Foundation Public Service Fellowships for Graduating Seniors
Award Amount: $90,000 (in four equal installments)
Deadline: January 9, 2012
Echoing Green Fellowships provide a $90,000 stipend to start a new public service organization or an independent service project that identifies and create visionary solutions to community needs. The Fellowship also provides health care benefits, on-line connectivity, access to a network of social entrepreneurs, training and technical assistance. The proposed project can be domestic or international, in all service areas. It must be the applicant’s original, independent idea, and applicants should have experience with the proposed service and constituency. Research projects and lobbying activities are not eligible.
