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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	Deadline	Low	High
Swarthmore College Fellowships	Tuition support for graduate students who are Swarthmore College graduates.	April 20, 2025		$5,000
Connecticut Botanical Society: Small Grants Program	The Small Grants Program provides funding for land conservation projects that provide protection of rare or uncommon native plant species or natural communities, or areas of high native diversity. We will also consider habitat improvement projects, protection of open space in low-income and urban communities, and assistance with fund-raising for projects that meet the above criteria.	April 21, 2025	$1,000	$5,000
Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation: Navjot Sodhi Conservation Research Award	Every year the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation presents the Navjot Sodhi Conservation Research Award to a student from a developing country conducting research in tropical conservation biology.	April 22, 2025		$1,000
Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church: College Scholarship	Tuition support for students belonging to a Greek Orthodox Church in the Greater New Haven Area.	April 25, 2025
2025-2026 AFCEA Hawaii STEM Scholarship	These merit-based scholarships are open to high school seniors, undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate, and professional certificate students studying STEM fields to include cyber and intelligence.	April 27, 2025		$5,000
Air & Space Forces Association (AFA): Jodi Callahan Memorial Scholarship	$2,000 scholarship to Active Duty Air Force, Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve, and Active Duty Space Force personnel pursuing a Master’s Degree in a non-technical field of study	April 30, 2025		$2,000
American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES): A.T. Anderson Memorial Scholarship	The AISES A.T. Anderson Scholarship program supports students pursuing a degree in a STEM field who are of American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, First Nation, and other indigenous peoples of North American heritage.	April 30, 2025		$2,000
American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES): Google Scholarship	$2,500 scholarship for Indigenous students pursuing higher education in a STEM field.	April 30, 2025		$2,500