My First Grant: Smaller Funding Opportunities with an Economics Focus


1	Name of Funding Opportunity	Funding Organization	Amount	Intented Use	Restrictions	Link	Comments? Additions? Amendments? Commenting is turned on!	Interested in the original Twitter thread (including a few offers from previous applicants to talk about specific opportunities)? It is here: https://twitter.com/EconAnne/status/1176981903611744256?s=20

2	Small Grants in Behavioral Economics (BE)	Russell Sage Foundation	$8,500	Research that uses behavioral insights from psychology, economics, sociology, political science and other social sciences to examine and improve social and living conditions in the United States	Applicants must be advanced doctoral students, post-doctoral fellows, or non-tenured junior faculty members who are no more than two years beyond the receipt of their Ph.D.	http://www.russellsage.org/how-to-apply/small-grants-apply/guidelines
3	Doctoral/Post Doc Grants	Washington Center for Equitable Growth	$15,000	research investigating the various channels through which economic inequality may (or may not) impact economic growth and stability, both directly and indirectly.	Grad students and post docs	https://equitablegrowth.org/request-for-proposals/
4	Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (Economics listed here, other fields available as well)	National Science Foundation	varies	DDRIG awards provide funds for items not normally available through the student's university such as enabling doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field research in settings away from their campus. DDRIGs do not provide cost-of-living or other stipends or tuition.	must be at a US institution	https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5437&org=NSF
5	International Dissertation Research Fellowship	The Social Science Research Council	varies, average is $23,000	The Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) offers nine to twelve months of support to graduate students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who are enrolled in PhD programs in the United States and conducting dissertation research on non-US topics.	The program is open to graduate students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences—regardless of citizenship—enrolled in PhD programs in the United States. Applicants to the 2020 IDRF competition must complete all PhD requirements except on-site research by the time the fellowship begins or by December 2020, whichever comes first.	https://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/view/idrf-fellowship/
6	Analyzing Relationships Between Disability, Rehabilitation, and Work: Small Grants Program	Policy Research Inc.	$10,000	supervised independent research designed to foster new analysis of work, rehabilitation, and disability issues, which may develop innovative and fresh perspectives on disability.	students on temporary or student visas	https://ardraw.policyresearchinc.org
7	AERA Research and Dissertation Grants Program	American Educational Research Association	varies	small grants and training for researchers who conduct studies of education policy and practice using quantitative methods and including the analysis of data from the large-scale data sets sponsored by National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and NSF.	must be at a US institution	https://www.aera.net/Professional-Opportunities-Funding/AERA-Funding-Opportunities
8	AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship Program in Education Research	American Educational Research Association	varies	provide support for doctoral dissertation research, to advance education research by outstanding minority graduate students, and to improve the quality and diversity of university faculties.	This program is open to U.S. citizens and permanent residents who are members of racial and ethnic groups historically underrepresented in higher education (e.g., African Americans, Alaskan Natives, American Indians, Asian Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islanders).	https://www.aera.net/Professional-Opportunities-Funding/AERA-Funding-Opportunities
9	Research Grants on Education: Small	Spencer Foundation	up to $50,000	Supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived		https://www.spencer.org/grant_types/small-research-grant
10	Early Career Research Awards	W.E. Upjohn Institute	varies	provide resources to junior faculty (untenured and within six years of having earned a PhD) to carry out policy-related research on labor market issues. The Institute encourages research proposals on all issues related to labor markets and public workforce policy.	junior faculty	https://www.upjohn.org/about/grants-awards/grant-opportunities
11	Humane Studies Fellowship	Institute for Humane Studies	up to $15,000	Accepted Fellows research a broad range of topics from migration and 18th-century property rights to bioethics and environmental policy. IHS welcomes scholars working in unique and diverse research areas. We are looking for anyone doing exciting classical liberal research in the humanities and social sciences.	graduate students	https://theihs.org/funding/humane-studies-fellowship/
12	The Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies	Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation	$5,000	Original and significant research about women that crosses disciplinary, regional, or cultural boundaries.	PhD candidates	https://citizensandscholars.org/fellowships/ws/
13	Officer's Research Grants	William T. Grant Foundation	$5000 - $50,000	Officers’ research grants on reducing inequality are a separate funding mechanism for smaller projects with budgets ranging from $5,000 to $50,000	made to organizations, not individuals	https://wtgrantfoundation.org/grants/research-grants-reducing-inequality#awards
14	Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Grants	Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy	$7,500	To support emerging scholars through small grants, To promote scholarship with a social policy application, To encourage projects that address contemporary issues in the social sciences	current PhD candidates	https://www.horowitz-foundation.org
15	SMS Dissertation Research Program	Strategic Management Society	up to $10,000	grant proposals associated with doctoral students’ dissertations in strategic management	The SRF recognizes that dissertation program structures vary, but suggests that applicants will have completed at least half of their home institution’s program requirements, including preliminary or qualifying requirements (such as coursework, comprehensive examinations/research proposal defense) prior to submitting an application	https://www.strategicmanagement.net/srf/overview/drp
16	Babbitt Dissertation Fellowship Program	Lincoln Institute of Land Policy	$10,000	research builds on, and contributes to, the concerns of the Babbitt Center: integration of land and water policy to advance water sustainability and resilience, particularly in the West	graduate students	https://www.lincolninst.edu/research-data/research/babbitt-dissertation-fellowship-program
17	C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship Program	Lincoln Institute of Land Policy	varies	assists Ph.D. students, primarily at U.S. universities, whose research complements the Institute's interests in land and tax policy	graduate students	https://www.lincolninst.edu/research-data/research#research-fellowship-opportunities
18	Benjamin H. Stevens Graduate Fellowship in Regional Science	North American Regional Science Council (NARSC)	$30,000	support the winning student’s dissertation research in the field of Regional Science with a fellowship	North American PhD candidates	https://www.narsc.org/newsite/awards-prizes/stevens-graduate-fellowship/
19	Josephine de Karman Fellowship	Josephine de Karman Fellowship Trust	$25,000	The Josephine de Karman Fellowship Trust was established in 1954 by the late Dr. Theodore von Karman, world renowned aeronautics expert and teacher and first director of the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, in memory of his sister, Josephine, who died in 1951. The purpose of this fellowship program is to recognize and assist students whose scholastic achievements reflect Professor von Karman’s high standards.	PhD students in any discipline, including international students, who are currently enrolled in select universities. Only PhD candidates who will defend their dissertation in or about June 2021 are eligible for consideration for a 2020-2021 fellowship.	http://www.dekarman.org/qualifications/
20	IGCC Dissertation Fellowship Competition	Institute on Global Conflict and Cooepration	$25,000	IGCC addresses global challenges to peace and prosperity through academically rigorous, policy-relevant research, training, and outreach on international security, economic development, and the environment.	University of California student whose dissertation project aligns with IGCC’s mission and research themes	https://igcc.ucsd.edu/funding/dissertation-fellowship-competition.html
21	Stigler Center PhD Dissertation Award	Stigler Center at UChigaco	$5,000	Awards for University of Chicago PhD students who are currently in their third, fourth or fifth year and who are in advanced stages of writing their dissertation about the political, economic, and cultural obstacles to better working markets.	UChicago PhD students only	https://www.chicagobooth.edu/research/stigler/research/phd-dissertation-award
22	ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships	American Council of Learned Societies	Stipend: $35,000, plus funds for research costs of up to $3,000 and for university fees of up to $5,000	ACLS invites applications for Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships, which support a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences in the last year of PhD dissertation writing.	PhD candidate in the US, ABD/post proposal stage, no more than 6 years into PhD program (including time spent earning an MA in that program), not a recipient of a dissertation completion fellowship	https://www.acls.org/programs/dcf/
23	AAUW Fellowships (US and International)	American Association of University Women	$18,000-$30,000	Degree completion	Masters, PhD, post-docs	https://www.aauw.org/resources/programs/fellowships-grants/
24	ALCT Grant	Annette Lawson Charitable Trust	£1,000	PhD research related to a specific topic (2019: Gender and climate change)	PhD students in the UK	https://alcharitabletrust.org.uk/
25	Wayne F. Placek Grants	American Psychological Foundation	$10,000	to support empirical research from all fields of the behavioral and social sciences on any topic related to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender issues.	Must be either a doctoral‐level researcher or graduate student affiliated with an educational institution of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit research organization. Graduate students and early career researchers are encouraged to apply.	https://www.apa.org/apf/funding/placek?tab=2
26	IGC Small Projects	International Growth Center	£20,000 or less	The Small Projects Facility (SPF) is an IGC initiative to produce research which immediately responds to the particular needs and demands of IGC engagement countries, particularly where this demand has a specific policy focus. The main purpose of this initiative is to allow pertinent, highly salient research to be produced in a time-sensitive manner, while retaining high academic quality.	less than 1 year to complete,	https://www.theigc.org/funding/small-projects/