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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:

Diana Morgan, Director of Research
Pamela Welch, Associate Director of Financial Aid
Ashley Eugley, YSE External Funds Coordinator
Srishti Singh, YSE External Funds Coordinator

Open Funding Opportunities

Organization	Summary	Open	Deadline	Low	High
Google Academic Research Awards	Google Academic Research Awards (GARA) support groundbreaking foundational and applied research in computing and technology around the world. Each funding cycle, Google will identify key research areas and invite proposals from academics who are conducting research in a variety of technologically-focused domains that have societal implications. The program is open to professors (assistant, associate, etc.) at degree-granting institutions who are advising students and conducting research in the field of technology and computing.	June 18, 2025	July 23, 2025
Club300: Bird Protection Grant	Support conservation and research on highly threatened or poorly known species.		July 31, 2025		$5,000
Laura Bassi Scholarship (Summer)	Providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed, within their disciplines.		July 31, 2025	$500	$2,500
MPOWER Global Citizen Scholarship	Scholarships awarded annually to international and DACA students enrolled at schools MPOWER supports.		July 31, 2025	$1,000	$8,000
Sallie Mae: $2,000 No Essay Scholarship (July)	$2000 scholarship for US residents		July 31, 2025		$2,000
Social Shifters: Global Innovation Challenge	Social Shifters Global Innovation Challenge is open to next gen leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs (18 - 30 years) with fresh solutions to today’s most pressing social and environmental challenges! We’re looking for creative ideas, projects, and business solutions to the problems that matter most to you and your community. We welcome ideas at any stage and from anywhere in the world.	May 1, 2025	July 31, 2025		$10,000
Atlas Shrugged Essay Contest	Prize for an essay on Atlas Shrugged		August 1, 2025		$22,000
National Academies: NRC Research Associateship (June)	Fellowship for graduate, postdoctoral and senior level research at a sponsoring federal laboratories and affiliated institutions.	June 1, 2025	August 1, 2025