Grant Funding: Funding Sources

This foundation helps universities to "become more entrepreneurial - not only in what they teach and how they teach it, but how they operate."

Educational initiatives that align with Ford Foundation goals, "to reduce poverty and injustice and to promote democratic values, international cooperation, and human achievement" might apply for grants or fellowships.

"The Henry Luce Foundation seeks to bring important ideas to the center of American life, strengthen international understanding, and foster innovation and leadership in academic, policy, religious and art communities."

This Department of Education research program contributes to "improving access to, persistence in, and completion of post-secondary education," particularly for at-risk students.

"The digital media and learning initiative aims to determine how digital media are changing the way young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. Answers are critical to education and other social institutions that must meet the needs of this and future generations."

This foundation provides funding for initiatives designed to, "increase awareness of the benefits of higher education, improve student access to and preparedness for college, improve student success in college, and increase productivity across the higher education system."

This foundation's mission is to, "investigate ways in which education, broadly conceived, can be improved around the world." It funds grants focusing on several different aspects of higher education.

This foundation is, "committed to promoting and strengthening liberal education." Their programs, "generally encourage collaboration among institutions, seeking to generate new knowledge on issues of importance to higher education."

"Through its programs devoted to teachers and their students, the division strives to cultivate intellectual curiosity, so that students can deepen their reflections on human experience; increase their understanding of different cultures and societies, past and present; and achieve the knowledge and wisdom necessary for democratic citizenship."

"Digital technology has changed the way scholars perform their work. It allows new questions to be raised and has radically changed the ways in which materials can be searched, mined, displayed, taught, and analyzed."

Part of the SSRC's mission is to, "educate and train the next generation of social science researchers." The SSRC sometimes offers fellowships and grants to that end.

These grants are, "For support to develop and/or implement a program as it relates to a category in one or more of the areas of education, information, training, technical assistance, coordination, or evaluation."

This directorate includes the Division of Graduate Education (DGE), Division of Undergraduate Eduation (DUE), and Division of Research and Learning (DRL), all of which offer funding opportunities of potential interest to the Vanderbilt science, engineering, and mathematics community.