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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
Lorena Miranda Guevara, YSE External Funds Coordinator
Srishti Singh, YSE External Funds Coordinator

Open Funding Opportunities

Organization	Summary	Deadline	Low	High
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.	February 1, 2025		$5,000
California's Fire Grants Program	The Government of the State of California offers grants for initiatives related to wildfires and forestry.	December 31, 2024
Future Without Speciesism Award	PETA is awarding prizes of $1,000 to $10,000 to students who come up with a game-changing idea for an invention that the student can develop into a specific action plan or design to replace animal use. This award does not convey ownership rights to PETA or prevent you from patenting your invention.	December 31, 2024		$10,000
California Environmental Health Association (CEHA): College Student Scholarship (Upper Division or Graduate Studies)	Tuition support for graduate students in environmental health.	December 31, 2024		$1,000
Clean Energy Experts Scholarship Program	The Clean Energy Experts Scholarship program offers a single $1,000 grant to assist with educational expenses, such as tuition, textbooks, computer equipment, housing, and other related expenses to the recipient’s studies.	December 18, 2024		$1,000
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Environmental Education Grants	Research grant for Environmental education projects in the US and/ or US territories.	December 6, 2024		$91,000
International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR): Norman S. Baldwin Fishery Science Scholarship	Tuition support for graduate students pursuing research in Great Lakes fish research.	December 1, 2024		$6,000
Association of Avian Veterinarians (AAV): Grants	Grants for research projects addressing: - clinical aspects of captive bird health (companion and zoological species) - wild bird health	December 1, 2024	$5,000	$10,000