Funding
Global Poverty and Practice Minor Fellowship
Open to Global Poverty and Practice Minor Students only.
The Global Poverty and Practice Minor offers a fellowship to support GPP Minor students’ U.S. and international Practice Experiences. Applications are evaluated on the proposed practice experience and the financial need of the student. The current application for Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 Practice Experiences can be submitted by the following deadline:
Deadline: September 29, 2025, 11:59PM
Application for Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 Practice Experiences
* Thanks to the Bruce Pray Undergraduate Fellowship for South Asia, funding is available to support select GPP Minor students completing practice experiences in South Asia. Applicants for the GPP Fellowship completing a South Asia practice experience will be automatically considered for this funding.
GPP Practice Experience Funding
Award Amount: $2,000 in Scholarships; $4,000 for Internships and Grants, plus up to $1,000 in travel funds to attend applicable conference; and $5,000 for Technical Design Projects (TDP), plus up to $3000 in travel funds.
Deadline: February 15 and October 15 each year
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.
Award Amount: Varies
Deadline: Varies
Students studying on CIEE’s college study abroad programs can apply for CIEE scholarships and grants. Provides both need-based grants and merit-based grants.
Award Amount: Up to $3000.
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.
Award Amount: up to $8000* stipend.
Deadline: Typically February of each year
The student fellowship program is the longest legacy of the Human Rights Center. The fellowships provide opportunities for students to pursue meaningful human rights work domestically and internationally. Selected fellows will carry out clearly defined fieldwork with organizations working on human rights issues related to a student’s area of interest. Applicants must plan to spend at least 8 weeks full time or its equivalent part-time working with a partner organization to qualify for the fellowship.
Award Amount: Varies
Deadline: Varies
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) provides grants and other support for students, faculty, and visiting scholars; hosts lectures, film series, conferences, and innovative workshops; and partners with local educational and non-profit institutions and businesses to provide accessible public programs related to the Middle East.
Award Amount: $100 – $750
Deadline: November 15, 2025 and April 15, 2025
The Center for Race and Gender (CRG) at the University of California Berkeley, announces the availability of grants of $100 to $1,000 to fund undergraduates for research or creative projects that address issues of race and gender. Topics should be consonant with CRG’s mandate to support critical student research on race, gender, and their intersections in a wide variety of social, cultural, and institutional contexts, especially on the Berkeley campus and its neighboring communities, but also in California, the nation, or the world. Grants will be awarded for periods of up to six months from the start date.
Award Amount: $15,000
Deadline: February 9th, 2025
For all sophomore and junior UC undergraduate students who are engaged in year-long projects related to social change, public service, and/or social entrepreneurship. Students must submit application to UC Berkeley’s representative (identified on the Strauss Foundation website).
Award Amount: Varies
Deadline: Typically early May of every year.
The E4C Program is a 4-month Summer Research Fellowship that grants 10 $5k grants to engineering students engaged in global development, supported by a grant from the United Engineering Foundation (UEF). The Fellowship is a new offering from E4C’s Innovation Lab, which supports the development of knowledge tools for designers, manufacturers and implementers of poverty‐alleviating products and services. Fellows will deepen their understanding of development engineering through research, analysis and normalization of solutions. This program is open to senior undergraduate, graduate and post-graduates in engineering with a focus and/or specialization in global development aligned to E4C’s target sectors (i.e. Energy, Health, Water, Agriculture, Housing, Transport and Information Systems). Graduating students are eligible.
Award Amount: Approx. $15,000 – $25,000
Deadline: September 1st for Fall Portal and February 15th for Spring Portal
The Cabot Trust awards grants to support persons with projects that promote the good of others. These projects may be in the realm of art, science, social service, education – almost any significant human endeavor – so long as they are embodied in the elastic medium of some individual creative personality. Applicants can visit the website for general application deadlines and more information.
Award Amount: Varies
The GO! Volunteer Abroad Scholarship program supports people participating in volunteer programs abroad. The scholarship is awarded based on the creativity and analytical thinking displayed through writing samples and/or video submissions.
Award Amount: Varies
Deadline: Check back early 2026
The Greater Good Science Center offers annual fellowships to UC Berkeley Undergraduate (up to $5,000) and Graduate students (up to $15,000) whose research relates to our mission. The fellowship program aims to attract scholars from across a broad spectrum of academic disciplines, with an emphasis on the social-behavioral sciences.
Award Amount: $15,000 – $500,000
Deadline: Varies
Provides a list of grants for innovators with promising but unproven approaches to important social problems. Grants are one-time, no more than two years, with stipends between $15,000 and $500,000
Award Amount: Varies
Deadline: Varies
Scholarship Connection is UC Berkeley’s clearinghouse for information on scholarships that are funded by sources outside the University. The Scholarship Connection website is run by the Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarships (OURS). We receive hundreds of scholarship notices each year. Competition for these awards may be local, national, or international in scope, and scholarship deadlines and requirements vary.
Award Amount: $5,000
This Award is intended for UC Berkeley undergraduates in Middle Eastern Studies or other relevant majors, or graduate students in Master’s or Ph.D. programs whose work focuses on the Middle East and North Africa. Grants are awarded to defray the cost of international travel to conduct research.
Award Amount: $1200 (undergraduate); $4,000-$10,000 (graduate); and $18,000 (visiting scholars); and up to $5,000 for other scholarly initiatives
Deadline: January 31, 2026
The Sultan Program supports teaching, research, and public outreach on topics related to the Arab and Arab-Islamic world, with the overarching goal of promoting a deeper understanding of this important region at UC Berkeley and beyond. Grants are awarded for Visiting Scholars, Graduates, Undergraduates, and other scholarly initiatives taken upon by UC Berkeley faculty, students, and affiliates for collaborative and public outreach activities related to the Arab world.
Additional Funding Opportunities
Acumen Global, Regional, and Acumen+ Fellows Programs
Award Amount: Varies.
Deadline: Varies regarding which region (Colombia, India, East Africa, Southeast Asia, Pakistan, Spain, UK, West Africa)
The 12-month fellowship for individuals is dedicated to serving the poor and who have the business, leadership, and operational expertise. The fellowship begins with an eight-week training program in New York that culminates in a nine-month fieldwork with a company in the US or abroad, and long-term connection opportunities post-program.
Ashoka Fellows Program
Award Amount: Varies.
Deadline: Rolling.
Ashoka actively searches for social entrepreneurs with new, innovative solutions to solve society’s pressing problems. Fellows are eligible to receive a tailored stipend for up to three years, if needed, for the Fellow to dedicate themselves full time to the advancement of their idea. Fellows receive lifetime network support and stipends that support their research.
Echoing Green Fellowship
Award Amount: Up to $80,000 for individuals (or $90,000 for two-person partnerships) over 2 years.
Deadline: October 8th, 2025
Echoing Green Fellowships provides a $80,000 stipend for individuals and $90,000 stipend for two-person partnerships 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. A full time student in a degree program can apply; however, you must have completed your studies by July at the beginning of your fellowship period.
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship
Award Amount: registration fees $10,000 and stipend $5,000
Deadline: Check back early 2026
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide funding to students to encourage the study of critical and less commonly taught foreign languages in combination with area studies, international studies or international aspects of professional studies. These fellowships are funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Education under Title VI of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, and the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008. The purpose of the FLAS program is to promote the training of students who intend to make their careers in college or university teaching, government service, or other employment where knowledge of foreign languages and cultures is essential.
At UC Berkeley, funding for FLAS Fellowships is provided by seven Title VI National Resource Centers representing various world areas, including: East Asia, Eastern Europe/Russia/Eurasia, Latin America, Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Western Europe.
Institute of Current World Affairs Fellowships
Award Amount: Full Financial Support
Deadline: Check back early 2026.
The ICWA Fellowship represents a generous investment in the future of a Fellow. The ultimate aim of the ICWA Fellowship program is to cultivate deep expertise in foreign countries and cultures. The Fellowship supports a Fellow over a two year period, during which she or he carries out an immersive program of self-designed, independent study abroad. The goal is to learn about other societies, not to change them. Please note that Fellows are required to write monthly newsletters. Applicants must have a good command of written and spoken English.
John Gardner Fellowship
Award Amount: $32,000 stipend
Deadline: October 20th, 2025
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.
Moore Foundation Grants
Award Amount: Varies.
Deadline: Varies.
Provides a list of grants available since 2001 concerning scientific discovery, environmental conservation, patient care improvements, and preservation of the special character of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Samuel Huntington Public Service Fellowship Award
Award Amount: $15,000
Deadline: January 9th, 2026
The Samuel Huntington Public Service Award provides $30,000 stipends to graduating college seniors to pursue public service anywhere in the world. The Award allows recipients to engage in a meaningful public service activity for one year before proceeding on to graduate school or a career.