Leadership Studies Grant Opportunitys:

The International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship (IDRF) Program will award up to 50 fellowships in 2003

Reprinted from The Foundation Center's RFP Bulletin
Posted: July 19, 2002
Deadline: November 12, 2002

Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship (IDRF) Program provides support for social scientists and humanists to conduct dissertation field research in all areas and regions of the world. The program will award up to 50 fellowships in 2003.

The IDRF program is designed to help promising scholars launch their careers with substantive knowledge about societies, cultures, economies, and/or polities outside the United States. The program operates on the premise that societies and cultures, from isolated villages to entire world regions, are caught up in processes that link them to events which, though geographically distant, are culturally, economically, strategically, or ecologically quite near.

The fellowships will enable doctoral candidates of proven achievement and outstanding potential to use their knowledge of distinctive areas, cultures, languages, economies, polities, and historical experiences, in combination with their disciplinary training, to address issues that transcend their disciplines or area of specialization.

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 invites proposals for field research on all areas or regions of the world, as well as for research that is comparative, cross-regional, and/or cross-cultural. Applicants must have completed all Ph.D. requirements except the fieldwork component by the time the fellowship begins or by December 2003, whichever comes first. Proposals that identify the U.S. as a case for comparative inquiry are welcome; however, proposals that require no field research outside the United States are not eligible.

Standard fellowships will provide support for nine to twelve months of field research and related expenses but will rarely exceed $17,000. In exceptional circumstances the candidate may propose to do less than nine months of fieldwork, but no award will be given for less than six months of fieldwork. The fellowship must be held for a single continuous period within the eighteen months between July 2003 and December 2004.

Applications can be downloaded at the Social Science Research Council Web site.

Leadership Studies Grant Award:

The Heartland Center for Leadership Development received a grant from Woods Charitable Fund for a leadership program in Lincoln, Nebraska

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GRANTMAKER:
Woods Charitable Fund
P.O. Box 81309
Lincoln, Nebraska 68501
(402) 436-5971
http://www.woodscharitable.org

DESCRIPTION:
For a skills-building and leadership-development program for representatives from Lincoln neighborhoods: $28,000 to Heartland Center for Leadership Development (Lincoln, Nebraska).

Published: June 27, 2002