A foundation is a type of non-profit organization or a charitable trust that is designed to fund organizations, institutions, and individuals to make advancements across various disciplines. Foundations can be either private foundations or grantmaking public charities. But either way, foundations help researchers to create change, by bringing ideas into reality.
- Fulbright US Student Program
- The Fulbright U.S. Student Program offers research, study and teaching opportunities in over 140 countries to recent graduates and graduate students.
- Conduct research in an international setting
- Grantsmanship Center
- Learn about foundation, government, and corporate funding
- Provides training and tools for writing grants
- Broken down by state https://www.tgci.com/funding-sources/nevada
- Nevada Top Giving Foundations
- Community and Corporations
- Spencer Foundation
- Invests in education research in the research settings, in the field, and for training
- For an example of the necessary pieces to receive funding for a small scale education research project read these requirements https://www.spencer.org/grant_types/small-research-grant.pdf
- Candid
- A list of current grant opportunities, fellowships and awards. https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/
- Provides a search engine to research and verify non-profits Guidestar https://www.guidestar.org/search?_ga=2.193750565.960368110.1598112726-1530088034.1598112726
- Explore current issues to provide insight into potential topics https://candid.org/explore-issues
- Find funding through grants on Foundation Directory Online (Paid Service) https://candid.org/find-funding
- Grantwatch
- A search engine of over 20,000 grants accepting applications (Paid Service)
- Research tools, training, and support
- Society for Women’s Health Research
- Research grants for improving Women’s health through science, policy, and education.
- Tinker Foundation
- Since 1979, the Tinker Field Research Grant (FRG) program has provided support to graduate students in U.S. universities to conduct pre-dissertation or master’s thesis research in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries of Latin America.
- Humboldt Foundation
- International researchers can find research and teaching opportunities in Germany through this foundation
