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Members of the Yale School of the Environment (YSE) community have easy access to a curated list of global, external funding opportunities for graduate students and postdocs using this new database.  The service is maintained by a collaboration among the School’s Offices of Admissions and Financial Aid, Career and Professional Development (CPD), and Research.

The database contains detailed information on research grants, internship stipends, travel funds, tuition scholarships, and other awards of interest to members of the School’s community.  Opportunities and deadlines are updated frequently - please check back regularly.  We do our best to keep the content of the database current, but if you see an opportunity that appeals to you and whose deadline has passed, click the associated link to see if a new competition has been announced.

If you are aware of a funding opportunity and it is not listed, please forward a link to Pamela Welch for inclusion.  Let’s crowd source the listings so that we have the most comprehensive database available.

Do you have questions or want to provide feedback?  Contact any of the YSE External Funds DB team members:

Watch this video on how to navigate the External Fund Database. It’s a quick walkthrough to help you get started!

Open Funding Opportunities

Organization Summary Open Deadline Low High
WiNUP: Julia Kiene Scholarship

The Julia Kiene Scholarship is a Scholarship of $2,000 annually for a woman pursuing a career in the utility industry or allied dields. 

 May 1, 2026 $2,000
Allegheny County Bar Foundation: Kennedy T. Friend Scholarship Fund

Applications for 2026 are now open.

Tuition support for children of members of the Bar of Allegheny County in any field [incoming students only]

 May 1, 2026
Altman Family Scholarship

Ken and Deena Altman, owners of Altman Plants, created this scholarship in 2015. The Altman family is highly appreciative of the field of horticulture and they enjoy giving back. The Altmans support numerous efforts to improve education and research for the industry. Altman Plants supplies plant programs to large retailers with point of purchase materials, sales reps to assist with merchandising, a large distribution system that covers the U.S., and offers expertise in growing plants. Each year one student will be awarded this scholarship. It is an annual scholarship, although the same person may receive it a second year should their application score the highest.

 May 1, 2026 $5,000
Connecticut Returned Peace Corps Volunteers

To provide a financial scholarship award of up to $2,000 to eligible and deserving Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCV) to aid in furthering their formal higher education pursuits. [Please inform YSE FA office, if you are applying]

 May 1, 2026 $2,000
Connecticut Sea Grant Arts Support Awards Program

Connecticut Sea Grant, through its Arts Support Awards Program, will award up to $1000 to an artist or group of artists. The winning submission will be selected on the basis of aesthetic quality, relevance to coastal and marine environments and Connecticut Sea Grant themes, as well as its potential impact on the wider public and new audiences.

 May 20, 2026 $1,000
Association of Field Ornithologists (AFO): Skutch Research Grant

The Skutch Research Grants from the Association of Field Ornithologists provide annual awards (typically up to $1,500 USD each) to support question-driven research and projects that advance knowledge of the natural history, ecology, or conservation of birds living under natural conditions in Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.

 March 15, 2026 June 15, 2026 $1,500
Theodore Gordon Flyfishers, Inc. Founders Fund Scholarship

The Theodore Gordon Flyfishers, Inc. Founders Fund Scholarship, established in the name of TGF’s founders, is an annual academic merit scholarship of $5,000 awarded to exceptional graduate students in an environmental program.

 June 30, 2026 $5,000
ABC Humane Wildlife: Women in STEM Academic Scholarship

ABC Wildlife offers a scholarship designed to increase the number of women studying and influencing the future of science, including technology, engineering and math.

 July 1, 2026 $1,000