Grants and Funding Opportunities

The Center is committed to fostering work that is collaborative, interdisciplinary, and comparative. The Center has established a seed grant program to stimulate and support collaborative research projects that advance the Center’s mission. This page also provides links to other internal and external research funding opportunities.

Other ASU Funding Opportunities
Office for Knowledge Enterprise Development
http://funding.asu.edu		 Offers resources and workshops for faculty on external grant and contract funding.
The Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR)
www.asu.edu/clas/issr		 Provides research development and data support services for ASU researchers from all disciplines.

Knowledge Enterprise Development/PRIDE

http://pride.asu.edu/; http://funding.asu.edu/

Promoting Research Identification Development and Execution at ASU, including access to funding database, internal funding opportunities and TRIPS program.

 

External Funding Opportunities
The American Studies Association
www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asainfo.html		 Many grants and fellowships for social behavioral, humanities and science-based research.
Arizona Humanities Council
www.azhumanities.org		 Supports projects in comparative religion and ethics, among others.
Arthur B. Schultz Foundation
www.absfoundation.org		 Has a grant program for increasing global understanding and promoting peace.
Ford Foundation
www.fordfound.org		 Provides support to strengthen democratic values and promote international cooperation.

Fulbright-Hays--Group Projects Abroad Program
www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsgpa/index.html

 Provides grants to support overseas projects in training, research, and curriculum development in modern foreign languages and area studies.
German Marshall Fund
www.gmfus.org/template		 Supports efforts that strengthen international security.
Harry Frank Guggenheim
www.hfg.org		 sponsors scholarly research on problems of violence, aggression, and dominance
Henry Luce Foundation
www.hluce.org		 Fosters scholarship that links the academies to the churches and interreligious understanding.
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
www.macfound.org		 Has a program in international peace and security.
Lilly Foundation
www.lilly.com/products/access/foundation.html		 National and international issues as they relate to public policy.
National Endowment for the Humanities
www.neh.gov		 Wide variety of support including comparative religion and other humanities related topics.
Rockefeller Foundation
www.rockfound.org		 Promotes multidisciplinary scholarship and "creative ferment" in areas of creativity and culture, among other things.
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
www.rbf.org		 Has a peace and security funding program.
Sasakawa Peace Foundation
www.spf.org/e		 Funds efforts that lead to greater international understanding and cooperation.
Soros Foundation and the Open Society Institute 
www.soros.org 

Promoting democratic governance and human rights.
Templeton Foundation
www.templeton.org		 Intersections between theology and science.
U.S. Institute of Peace
www.usip.org		 Funds research related to areas of conflict resolution and education.
Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu		 Supports efforts to strengthing teaching and learning of religion and theology.