Multidisciplinary Funding Sources

For highly qualified scholars 40 years of age or younger to carry out a research project of their own choosing in Germany.

Fellowships for women in the humanities, social and natural sciences. 

Several fellowships offered. See website for details.

Offers competitive grants and fellowships in areas broadly related to its scientific and educational objectives including vertebrate zoology, invertebrate zoology, paleozoology, anthropology, astrophysics and earth and planetary sciences.

Provides support in: education and youth, arts and culture, civic and community, and health.

Supports cultural exchange between Asia and the US in the performing and visual arts by providing individual fellowships to Asian scholars, artists, students and specialists for study, research, travel and creative work in the US. Some fellowships are also offered for US citizens to travel to Asia. 

Supports the study of contemplation, not just as a category of religious and cultural practice, but as a method for developing concentration and deeper understanding - in particular, as a means of intellectual and pedagogic revitalization and change.

Grants that further the vision of balance between technology and nature in the following disciplines: agriculture; aviation/aerospace; conservation of natural resources; education; the arts; exploration; health; and waste minimization and management.

Support is given in the following areas: New York City; education, biomedical research policy; and Jewish philanthropy and education. See website for more details.

Fellowships (in humanities, social sciences or a related natural science) of regional or trans-regional significance that require study in at two countries (at least one of which has an American Overseas Research Center).

Currently funds research on altruistic love, compassionate love, and forgiveness; recovering the “heart” of various professions, including teaching, philanthropy, law, and medicine; and exploring the nature of forgiveness, compassion, and love.

Grants to organizations in three major areas: Assett Building and Community Development, Peace and Social Justice and Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom.

Supports scholarly works with the potential for significant contributions to contemporary knowledge of ancient Mesoamerican cultures. Projects can be in  the disciplines of archaeology, art history, epigraphy, linguistics, ethnohistory, ethnography, and sociology. The Foundation encourages interdisciplinary projects, especially those that combine disciplines in novel and potentially productive ways.

See website for programs.

Funds projects that serve women and girls from diverse cultural groups within Israel and the Jewish community in the United States. Promotes fundamental change by addressing the underlying obstacles that impede the full participation of women and girls in society.

Fields of interest include health, education, religion, social services, arts and humanities.

Seeks proposals in the fields of music, music education, neuroscience, psychology, education and/or health to explore the benefits of hands-on music making in various education, health-wellness or therapeutic settings.

Offers various grants for study in Japan (2-12 months) : fellowships and dissertation grants in the humanities and social sciences, exhibition grants (Japanese art and culture), and film and television grants in the performing arts.

Fellowships for advanced professionals in all fields (natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, creative arts) except performing arts.

Grants are funded in the areas of arts and culture, education and literacy, health and human services, and development and enrichment of Jewish life.

Three to nine month fellowships in Israel for professors, postdocs and students in the following fields: agriculture and food sciences, area studies, arts and humanities, business, management and commerce, education, energy sciences, engineering, health and medicine, law, natural and physical sciences, math and technology, social sciences.

In-residence fellowship promoting meaningful, scholarly study of these two important and increasingly interrelated fields.

Core programs include arts and culture; the environment; health; interprogram initiatives for social and economic justice; and the Jewish life and values/contemplative practice programs. 

Cash awards in 16 artistic disciplines for use in career development.

Offers grants, scholarships and fellowships in a variety of areas including: Children and Youth, Education, Health, Human Rights, Media, Arts and Culture and Women.

Makes grants that encourage emerging artists in the fields of art, music, theater, dance, photography, and literature whose works due to their genre and/or social philosophy might have difficulty being funded.

Supports research projects that deepen the understanding of how Henry George's philosophy of economic justice 1-yields practical results in a variety of policy settings or 2-is connected with issues and debates in the social science or humanities disciplines.

Fellowships from 10 weeks to 12 months to conduct research at the Smithsonian. See website for details and research areas.

Funds in three areas: Music, Education  and Grassroots Organizing.

Welcomes proposals of an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary nature.

All proposals given consideration but generally gives in the areas of education, health and human services, art and culture, social welfare, community development and Jewish-related programs and projects.