Training the leaders... of tomorrow.

FUNDING SOURCES

  1. For Italian Urban Researchers and Practitioners: Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies-Compagnia di San Paolo Fellowship in Urban Studies. For more information, click here.
  2. For Swedish Researchers: Johns Hopkins University-Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Fellowship in Urban Studies. For more information, click here.
  3. Educational Advising Center
    General information on searching for financial assistance can be found at your local Educational Advising Center. To find your closest center, please contact the U.S. Embassy in your country.
  4. International Organization for Migration (IOM)
    For candidates from Latin America, Jamaica, and Africa your local office of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) may be able to give support for international air travel. To find out this address you can contact the IOM in Washington D.C.: International Organization of Migration, 1750 K Street, Suite 1110, Washington, DC 20006 Tel:(202)862-1826 Fax:(202)862-1879 or http://www.iom.ch
  5. Fulbright Scholarship Program
    Addresses for Fulbright commissions may be found at http://www.iie.org/fulbright under Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program. If you do not have access to the internet, please contact the U.S. Embassy to find out information about the Fulbright program
  6. Open Society Fellowships Program (Soros Foundation)
    Grant awards are based on specific projects. For their general guidelines, please look at their web site at http://www.soros.org or write to: OSI Fellowships Program, Open Society Institute, 400 West 59th Street, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10019.
  7. The Commonwealth Fund of New York, The Harkness Fellowships
    Possible funder for citizens of Australia, U.K., New Zealand (deadline August, September, October; one year turn around) For application information, please write to: In Great Britain: 28 Bedford Square London WC1B 3EG. In Australia: Mr. Roger D.B. Beale Department of Transport and Communications GPO Box 594 Canberra ACT 2601. In New Zealand: Mr. R.E.W. Elliott 15 City View Road Habourview Lower Hutt New Zealand.
  8. The Canada Council
    Canada Council Killam Research Fellowships to provide released time to an individual scholar to pursue independent research. Killam Program The Canada Council 99 Metcalfe Street P.O. Box 1047 Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1P 5V8 or http://www.canadacouncil.ca/prizes/killam.
  9. Australian Research Council
    Research Development Section ARC Fellowships Program GPO Box 9880 Canberra ACT 2601, Australia.
  10. American-Scandinavian Foundation
    Denmark-Amerika Foundet, Dr. Tvaergade 44, 1302 Copenhagen K., Denmark Suomi-Amerika Yhdistysten Liitto, Mechelininkatu 10, SF-001 Helsinki, Finland Islenzk-Amerika Felagid, P.O. Box 7051 Reykyavik, Iceland Norse-America Foreningen, Drammensveien 20 C, 0255 Oslo 2, Norway Sverige-Amerika Stiftelsen, Box 5280, S-102 46, Stockholm, Sweden
  11. American Association of University Women
    AAUW International Fellowships 1111 16th Street NW Washington, DC 20036 or http://www.aauw.org
  12. National Foundation for Affordable Housing Solutions
    Travel grants for travel within the U.S. focusing on the issue of housing affordability.
  13. Robert Bosch Foundation Scholars Program in Comparative Public Policy and Institutions One scholarship for one German per year under the age of 45 whose work deals with employment training/workforce studies and healthcare. For further information contact: American Institute for Contemporary German Studies 1400 16th Street, Suite 420 Washington, DC 20036, USA
  14. Abe Fellowship Foundation Open to Japanese citizens. The website address is: http://www.ssrc.org/abefell or contact: Social Science Research Council 810 Seventh Avenue, 31st Fl. New York, NY 10019
  15. Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies Limited. Support for research in urban and regional studies newly graduated researchers or junior colleagues of established researchers who have difficulty in getting funds. Offered only to those in the urban and regional studies field. For further information contact: The Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies Limited, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, UK CO4 3SQ. Email: furs@essex.ac.uk.
  16. Funding Opportunity for Ph.D. Candidates from World Bank-eligible Countries The Robert S. McNamara Fellowships Program provides support to researchers from World Bank-eligible countries who are under the age of 45 and who are working on a doctoral thesis in areas of socioeconomic development, specifically focusing on issues critical to improving the lives of the most vulnerable in society. Fellowships have been awarded to researchers addressing issues such as development economics, health and population, education, environment, agricultural and infrastructure development, conflict resolution, the role of NGOs in development, trade and tax reforms, poverty reduction, and institutional and regulatory reform. The McNamara Fellowships Program would be a useful source of funding for International Fellows in Urban Studies applicants who have been accepted by IPS and are looking for financial support. If you know young researchers who are at this stage in their careers, are focused in one of the areas described above, and would be interested in participating in the Johns Hopkins International Urban Fellows program, please encourage them to write to Marsha Schachtel at mschacht@jhu.edu. Applicants to the McNamara Fellowship program must be invited by a host institution in the country in which they will be studying; we can expedite consideration of International Urban Fellow applications in order to permit successful applicants to include our invitation in their applications for the McNamara Fellowship due March 31, 2008. More information (including a list of eligible countries) is available at www.worldbank.org/scholarships.