Funding - Gender and Information Technology

Potential Funding Sources

In spring 2002, graduate student researchers compiled this list of foundation and other websites as an overview of funding sources for research on gender, information technology focus, or both.

http://www.aauw.org/7000/aboutef.html
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) Educational Foundation, which is the largest source of funding exclusively for graduate women in the world, supports aspiring scholars around the globe, teachers and activists in local communities, women at critical stages of their careers, and those pursuing professions where women are underrepresented. The Foundation funds groundbreaking research, fellowships and grants for outstanding women from around the globe, special awards, vital community action projects, and symposia, roundtables, and forums.

http://acls.org/
The American Council of Learned Societies is a private, non-profit federation of sixty-four national scholarly organizations. Its mission is the advancement of humanistic and social studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and the social sciences.

http://www.ashoka.org/what_is/mission.cfm
The Ashoka Foundation's mission is to develop the profession of social entrepreneurship around the world. It is a global non-profit organization that searches the world for social entrepreneurs with unprecedented ideas for change in their communities. Ashoka identifies and invests stipends and professional services that allow "Ashoka Fellows" to focus fulltime on their ideas for leading social change in education and youth development, health care, environment, human rights, access to technology and economic development.

http://www.att.com/grants/
AT&T grants for education and technology support initiatives that focus technology and innovation on improving the quality of life in communities served by AT&T. Support covers three primary areas: Education, Civic & Community Service, and Arts & Culture.

http://exchanges.state.gov/education/rfgps/
The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs offers grants and fellowships in different categories - Small Grants Competition for Women's Political Leadership, Girls' Education, Disability Issues, and Women-Led Small Business Development, for Afghanistan, North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula States of the Middle East, and Latin America & the Caribbean.

http://www.carnegie.org/
The Carnegie Corporation of New York's program in "The Strengthening U.S. Democracy" has as its goal to increase civic participation in the United States. It does this by addressing both the structural and attitudinal barriers to full civic/electoral participation in the United States and by building the capacity of the nonprofit sector, which is vital to the social, economic and political welfare of the nation.

http://bcn.boulder.co.us/business/colobpwf/cbpwf_index.html
Colorado Business and Professional Women's Foundation is a non-profit organization that grants scholarships to Colorado women, focusing on those of non- traditional student age striving for self-sufficiency.

http://www.feminist.org/
The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF), which was founded in 1987, is a cutting edge organization dedicated to women's equality, reproductive health, and non-violence. In all spheres, FMF utilizes research and action to empower women economically, socially, and politically.

http://www.fordfound.org/
The Ford Foundation is a resource for innovative people and institutions worldwide. They offer grants and fellowships to different projects that deal with different topics: strengthening democratic values, reducing poverty and injustice, promoting international cooperation and advancing human achievement.

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is dedicated to improving people's lives by sharing advances in health and learning with the global community. The foundation was created in January of 2000, through the merger of the Gates Learning Foundation, which focused on expanding access to technology.

http://www.getty.edu/grants/
The Getty Grant Program provides support to institutions and individuals throughout the world for projects that promote the understanding of art and its history, media, technology, and the conservation of cultural heritage.

http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/
The Global Fund for Women, an international network of women and men committed to a world of equality and social justice, advocates for and defends women's human rights by making grants to support women's groups and projects around the world. They are part of a global women's movement that is rooted in a commitment to justice and an appreciation of the value of women's experience.

http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ibmgives/grant/education/
Through Reinventing Education, IBM has formed partnerships with school districts and states in the U.S. and in countries throughout the world to develop technology solutions designed to help support school reform efforts and raise student achievement.

http://www.wmkeck.org/
W. M. Keck Foundation's grants are focused primarily on the areas of medical research, science, technology, and engineering. The Foundation also maintains a program for liberal arts colleges and a Southern California Grant Program that provides support in the areas of civic and community services, health care and hospitals, precollegiate education, and the arts.

http://macfound.org/
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grant-making institution dedicated to helping groups and individuals foster lasting improvement in the human condition. The current period of rapid technological change is transforming communications, commerce, and entertainment systems and will eventually reshape many other aspects of society. The General Program makes a small number of grants each year to support groups working to ensure that laws and regulations regarding media and communications serve the public interest.

http://www.markle.org/index.stm
The Markle Foundation pursues its goals through a range of activities including analysis, research, public information and the development of innovative media products and services. The Foundation has three active program areas: Policy for a Networked Society, Interactive Media for Children, and Information Technologies for Better Health.

http://www.mediaworkshop.org/
The mission of Media Workshop New York is to support educators through the process of integrating new media and technology into the practice of teaching and learning.

http://www.jsmf.org/
The James S. McDonnell Foundation was founded in 1950 by aerospace pioneer McDonnell to "improve the quality of life," and does so by contributing to the generation of new knowledge by supporting research and scholarship. The foundation awards grants via the foundation-initiated, peer-reviewed proposal processes described in the 21st Century Science Initiative.

http://mott.org/
The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation provides grants through four different programs: Civil Society, Environment, Flint Area, and Pathways Out of Poverty.http://www.ms.foundation.org/
The Ms Foundation has a strong record of crafting creative and effective grantmaking, training, and public education strategies to create and improve economic opportunities for women in the United States; safeguard women's health & safety; and help girls sustain their self-confidence and vitality.

http://www.bell-labs.com/fellowships/GRPW
The Graduate Research Program for Women (GRPW) is designed to identify and develop research ability in women and to increase female representation in science and engineering. GRPW is sponsored by the Lucent Technologies Foundation and Bell Laboratories, and provides financial support for outstanding women students.

http://www.nsf.gov/home/grants.htm
The National Science Foundation is an independent U.S. government agency responsible for promoting science and engineering through programs that invest over $3.3 billion per year in almost 20,000 research and education projects in science and engineering.

http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/dge/programs/grf/
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships are intended to ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science, mathematics, and engineering in the United States and to reinforce its diversity. A competition is conducted for general fellowships, with additional awards offered for women in engineering and computer and information science.

http://www.3gf.org/3gfstaff.html
Three Guineas Fund promotes social justice by creating economic opportunity for women and girls. The Fund's strategies, criteria, and philanthropic program are designed to achieve social justice gains that enable women and girls to earn an independent living, participate fully in the economy, politics, and give back to their communities.

http://www.rockfound.org/
The Rockefeller Foundation is a knowledge-based, global foundation with a commitment to enrich and sustain the lives and livelihoods of poor and excluded people throughout the world, also in the sphere of technology. In order to maximize its resources and leverage the Foundation's strengths, grantmaking is organized around four thematic lines of work: Creativity & Culture, Food Security, Health Equity, and Working Communities.

http://www.ssrc.org
The Social Science Research Council is an independent, nongovernmental, not-for-profit international organization that seeks to advance social science throughout the world and supports research, education and scholarly exchange on every continent. They focus on themes of public importance: from human sexuality to the challenges of globalization, from the impacts of information technology to current transformations in international higher education.

http://www.sloan.org/main.shtml
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a philanthropic nonprofit institution, was established in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr., then President and Chief Executive Officer of the General Motors Corporation. Support of science and technology is a major component of the Foundation's program. Fellowships, direct support of research in selected fields, and work in the history of science and technology are basic parts of this program.

http://www.soros.org/
The Soros Foundation focuses not only on building open society during a transition to democracy, but also on correcting the deficiencies of the essentially open society in the United States.

http://www.spencer.org/proginfo.htm
The Spencer Foundation investigates ways in which education, broadly conceived, can be improved around the world. From the first, the Foundation has been dedicated to the belief that research is necessary to the improvement of education. The Foundation is thus committed to supporting high-quality investigation of education through its research programs and to strengthening and renewing the educational research community through its fellowship and training programs and related activities.

http://www.whitaker.org/
The Whitaker Foundation is a private, nonprofit foundation dedicated to improving human health through the support of biomedical engineering. They offer many different grants and projects focusing on variety of interests.

http://www.usaid.gov/wid/
The Office of Women in Development (WID) was established in 1974 to help ensure that women participate fully and benefit equally from U.S. development assistance programs. The WID office assists the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) with integration of gender concerns into all USAID programs, coordinates with the donor community, and identifies emerging issues where gender is a key concern.

http://www.cwig.albany.edu/
Center for Women in Government and Civil Society offers many different scholarships. Founded in 1978, the Center for Women in Government & Civil Society is part of the Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York.

http://www.womenstechcluster.org./about.html
While the rate of new business formation by women has grown rapidly, barriers to accessing capital persist as a systemic problem for women entrepreneurs. In response, the Women's Technology Cluster (WTC) was established to develop a model for breaking these structural and cultural barriers. By providing networks, resources and training, the WTC strives to help women entrepreneurs turn their innovative ideas into market-leading companies.

http://www.witi.com/center/aboutwiti/
Women in Technology International provides inspiration, education, conferences, on-line services, publications and an exceptional worldwide network of resources to women in technology. WITI is the first and only international organization solely dedicated to advancing women in technology fields.

http://www.wfnet.org/
Founded in 1985, the Women's Funding Network is a partnership of more than 90 women and girls' funds and philanthropic organizations. Committed to changing society by improving the status of women and girls locally, nationally, and internationally, Women's Funding Network works to strengthen and empower member funds.

http://www.woodrow.org
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to the encouragement of excellence in education through the identification of critical needs and the development of effective national programs to address them. The Foundation's three broad areas of concern are: A Liberal Arts Renaissance, Access and Opportunity, and Partnerships for Learning. Its programs include fellowships for graduate study, professional development for teachers, educational opportunities for women and minorities, relating the academy to society, and national service.

http://www.zonta.org
Zonta International is a worldwide organization of executives in business and the professions working together to advance the status of women.



	Potential Funding Sources In spring 2002, graduate student researchers compiled this list of foundation and other websites as an overview of funding sources for research on gender, information technology focus, or both. http://www.aauw.org/7000/aboutef.html The American Association of University Women (AAUW) Educational Foundation, which is the largest source of funding exclusively for graduate women in the world, supports aspiring scholars around the globe, teachers and activists in local communities, women at critical stages of their careers, and those pursuing professions where women are underrepresented. The Foundation funds groundbreaking research, fellowships and grants for outstanding women from around the globe, special awards, vital community action projects, and symposia, roundtables, and forums. http://acls.org/ The American Council of Learned Societies is a private, non-profit federation of sixty-four national scholarly organizations. Its mission is the advancement of humanistic and social studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and the social sciences. http://www.ashoka.org/what_is/mission.cfm The Ashoka Foundation's mission is to develop the profession of social entrepreneurship around the world. It is a global non-profit organization that searches the world for social entrepreneurs with unprecedented ideas for change in their communities. Ashoka identifies and invests stipends and professional services that allow "Ashoka Fellows" to focus fulltime on their ideas for leading social change in education and youth development, health care, environment, human rights, access to technology and economic development. http://www.att.com/grants/ AT&T grants for education and technology support initiatives that focus technology and innovation on improving the quality of life in communities served by AT&T. Support covers three primary areas: Education, Civic & Community Service, and Arts & Culture. http://exchanges.state.gov/education/rfgps/ The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs offers grants and fellowships in different categories - Small Grants Competition for Women's Political Leadership, Girls' Education, Disability Issues, and Women-Led Small Business Development, for Afghanistan, North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula States of the Middle East, and Latin America & the Caribbean. http://www.carnegie.org/ The Carnegie Corporation of New York's program in "The Strengthening U.S. Democracy" has as its goal to increase civic participation in the United States. It does this by addressing both the structural and attitudinal barriers to full civic/electoral participation in the United States and by building the capacity of the nonprofit sector, which is vital to the social, economic and political welfare of the nation. http://bcn.boulder.co.us/business/colobpwf/cbpwf_index.html Colorado Business and Professional Women's Foundation is a non-profit organization that grants scholarships to Colorado women, focusing on those of non- traditional student age striving for self-sufficiency. http://www.feminist.org/ The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF), which was founded in 1987, is a cutting edge organization dedicated to women's equality, reproductive health, and non-violence. In all spheres, FMF utilizes research and action to empower women economically, socially, and politically. http://www.fordfound.org/ The Ford Foundation is a resource for innovative people and institutions worldwide. They offer grants and fellowships to different projects that deal with different topics: strengthening democratic values, reducing poverty and injustice, promoting international cooperation and advancing human achievement. http://www.gatesfoundation.org/ The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is dedicated to improving people's lives by sharing advances in health and learning with the global community. The foundation was created in January of 2000, through the merger of the Gates Learning Foundation, which focused on expanding access to technology. http://www.getty.edu/grants/ The Getty Grant Program provides support to institutions and individuals throughout the world for projects that promote the understanding of art and its history, media, technology, and the conservation of cultural heritage. http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/ The Global Fund for Women, an international network of women and men committed to a world of equality and social justice, advocates for and defends women's human rights by making grants to support women's groups and projects around the world. They are part of a global women's movement that is rooted in a commitment to justice and an appreciation of the value of women's experience. http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ibmgives/grant/education/ Through Reinventing Education, IBM has formed partnerships with school districts and states in the U.S. and in countries throughout the world to develop technology solutions designed to help support school reform efforts and raise student achievement. http://www.wmkeck.org/ W. M. Keck Foundation's grants are focused primarily on the areas of medical research, science, technology, and engineering. The Foundation also maintains a program for liberal arts colleges and a Southern California Grant Program that provides support in the areas of civic and community services, health care and hospitals, precollegiate education, and the arts. http://macfound.org/ The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grant-making institution dedicated to helping groups and individuals foster lasting improvement in the human condition. The current period of rapid technological change is transforming communications, commerce, and entertainment systems and will eventually reshape many other aspects of society. The General Program makes a small number of grants each year to support groups working to ensure that laws and regulations regarding media and communications serve the public interest. http://www.markle.org/index.stm The Markle Foundation pursues its goals through a range of activities including analysis, research, public information and the development of innovative media products and services. The Foundation has three active program areas: Policy for a Networked Society, Interactive Media for Children, and Information Technologies for Better Health. http://www.mediaworkshop.org/ The mission of Media Workshop New York is to support educators through the process of integrating new media and technology into the practice of teaching and learning. http://www.jsmf.org/ The James S. McDonnell Foundation was founded in 1950 by aerospace pioneer McDonnell to "improve the quality of life," and does so by contributing to the generation of new knowledge by supporting research and scholarship. The foundation awards grants via the foundation-initiated, peer-reviewed proposal processes described in the 21st Century Science Initiative. http://mott.org/ The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation provides grants through four different programs: Civil Society, Environment, Flint Area, and Pathways Out of Poverty.http://www.ms.foundation.org/ The Ms Foundation has a strong record of crafting creative and effective grantmaking, training, and public education strategies to create and improve economic opportunities for women in the United States; safeguard women's health & safety; and help girls sustain their self-confidence and vitality. http://www.bell-labs.com/fellowships/GRPW The Graduate Research Program for Women (GRPW) is designed to identify and develop research ability in women and to increase female representation in science and engineering. GRPW is sponsored by the Lucent Technologies Foundation and Bell Laboratories, and provides financial support for outstanding women students. http://www.nsf.gov/home/grants.htm The National Science Foundation is an independent U.S. government agency responsible for promoting science and engineering through programs that invest over $3.3 billion per year in almost 20,000 research and education projects in science and engineering. http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/dge/programs/grf/ The National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships are intended to ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science, mathematics, and engineering in the United States and to reinforce its diversity. A competition is conducted for general fellowships, with additional awards offered for women in engineering and computer and information science. http://www.3gf.org/3gfstaff.html Three Guineas Fund promotes social justice by creating economic opportunity for women and girls. The Fund's strategies, criteria, and philanthropic program are designed to achieve social justice gains that enable women and girls to earn an independent living, participate fully in the economy, politics, and give back to their communities. http://www.rockfound.org/ The Rockefeller Foundation is a knowledge-based, global foundation with a commitment to enrich and sustain the lives and livelihoods of poor and excluded people throughout the world, also in the sphere of technology. In order to maximize its resources and leverage the Foundation's strengths, grantmaking is organized around four thematic lines of work: Creativity & Culture, Food Security, Health Equity, and Working Communities. http://www.ssrc.org The Social Science Research Council is an independent, nongovernmental, not-for-profit international organization that seeks to advance social science throughout the world and supports research, education and scholarly exchange on every continent. They focus on themes of public importance: from human sexuality to the challenges of globalization, from the impacts of information technology to current transformations in international higher education. http://www.sloan.org/main.shtml The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a philanthropic nonprofit institution, was established in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr., then President and Chief Executive Officer of the General Motors Corporation. Support of science and technology is a major component of the Foundation's program. Fellowships, direct support of research in selected fields, and work in the history of science and technology are basic parts of this program. http://www.soros.org/ The Soros Foundation focuses not only on building open society during a transition to democracy, but also on correcting the deficiencies of the essentially open society in the United States. http://www.spencer.org/proginfo.htm The Spencer Foundation investigates ways in which education, broadly conceived, can be improved around the world. From the first, the Foundation has been dedicated to the belief that research is necessary to the improvement of education. The Foundation is thus committed to supporting high-quality investigation of education through its research programs and to strengthening and renewing the educational research community through its fellowship and training programs and related activities. http://www.whitaker.org/ The Whitaker Foundation is a private, nonprofit foundation dedicated to improving human health through the support of biomedical engineering. They offer many different grants and projects focusing on variety of interests. http://www.usaid.gov/wid/ The Office of Women in Development (WID) was established in 1974 to help ensure that women participate fully and benefit equally from U.S. development assistance programs. The WID office assists the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) with integration of gender concerns into all USAID programs, coordinates with the donor community, and identifies emerging issues where gender is a key concern. http://www.cwig.albany.edu/ Center for Women in Government and Civil Society offers many different scholarships. Founded in 1978, the Center for Women in Government & Civil Society is part of the Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York. http://www.womenstechcluster.org./about.html While the rate of new business formation by women has grown rapidly, barriers to accessing capital persist as a systemic problem for women entrepreneurs. In response, the Women's Technology Cluster (WTC) was established to develop a model for breaking these structural and cultural barriers. By providing networks, resources and training, the WTC strives to help women entrepreneurs turn their innovative ideas into market-leading companies. http://www.witi.com/center/aboutwiti/ Women in Technology International provides inspiration, education, conferences, on-line services, publications and an exceptional worldwide network of resources to women in technology. WITI is the first and only international organization solely dedicated to advancing women in technology fields. http://www.wfnet.org/ Founded in 1985, the Women's Funding Network is a partnership of more than 90 women and girls' funds and philanthropic organizations. Committed to changing society by improving the status of women and girls locally, nationally, and internationally, Women's Funding Network works to strengthen and empower member funds. http://www.woodrow.org The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to the encouragement of excellence in education through the identification of critical needs and the development of effective national programs to address them. The Foundation's three broad areas of concern are: A Liberal Arts Renaissance, Access and Opportunity, and Partnerships for Learning. Its programs include fellowships for graduate study, professional development for teachers, educational opportunities for women and minorities, relating the academy to society, and national service. http://www.zonta.org Zonta International is a worldwide organization of executives in business and the professions working together to advance the status of women.