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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:

Open Funding Opportunities

Organization Summary Open Deadline Low High
Gloria Barron Wilderness Society Scholarship

This research scholarship seeks to encourage individuals who have the potential to make a significant positive difference in the long term protection of wilderness in the United States.

 April 15, 2025 $25,000
Hawk Mountain: Conservation Science Traineeships (Fall)

Four-month International Internships consist of exposure to and training in all aspects of Sanctuary conservation. 

 April 15, 2025
Society of Women Geographers (SWG): Pruitt National Fellowship for Dissertation Research
The SWG invites applications for this fellowship from woman students in Ph.D. programs in geography or in geographical aspects of allied fields. The competition is open to Ph.D. candidates in all geographical specialties enrolled in doctoral programs in the United States. Preference will be given those students who have completed comprehensive examinations, have an approved dissertation research proposal, and will be engaged in their research in 2025-2026.
 April 15, 2025 $12,000
STEG: Small & PhD Research Grants (SRGs)

Small Research Grants (SRGs) of between £10,000 and £25,000 to fund research assistance, data collection and/or purchase, and potentially research stipends/teaching buyouts (if sufficiently justified).

 April 15, 2025 $25,000
NOAA Fisheries - Transformational Habitat Restoration and Coastal Resilience Grants
$100 million in funding is available for transformational habitat restoration and coastal resilience projects under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
 December 6, 2024 April 16, 2025 $750,000 $10,000,000
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