Child Development

Adams, John and Abigail, Fellowships in Parental Rights and Educational Freedom: Dedicated to the informed study of parental rights and educational freedoms. Participation is offered to a limited number of college seniors (by the fall of the current fellowship year) and graduate students who have an interest in researching these freedoms and who have shown promising scholarship in these or related fields.
http://www.adamsfellowship.org/

Annenberg Foundation: Provides support for projects within its grant-making interests of education, culture, the arts, and community and civic life. It generally limits funding to programs likely to produce beneficent change on a large scale.
http://www.annenbergfoundation.org/

Association for Women in Science (AWIS): Female students enrolled in a behavioral, life, physical, or social science or engineering program leading to a Ph.D. degree may apply.
http://www.awis.org/ed_foundation.html

Carnegie Corporation Early Childhood Education and Care: Intends to stimulate research, policy analysis, and public education needed to advance children's access to high-quality early education. Emphasis in grantmaking will be on financing, professional development, and consumer demand. In addition, the corporation is exploring effective approaches for linking early childhood education, literacy development, and improved instruction in the early grades.
http://www.carnegie.org/sub/program/education.html

Center for Children and Families Summer Fellowship Program In Child and Family Policy: Provides an opportunity for doctoral students to link their academic learning with their interests in social policy. Fellows spend eight weeks in New York City and learn first hand the policy formation and implementation process by working in a City or State agency on a policy relevant project.
http://www.tc.columbia.edu/centers/ccf/summerfellowships.html

Early Childhood Educator Professional Development Program: Supports replicable, high-quality professional development programs to improve the knowledge and skills of early childhood educators who work in urban or rural high-poverty communities, and who serve children from low-income families. Programs supported must provide research-based training that will improve early childhood pedagogy and will further children's language and literacy skills to prevent them from encountering reading difficulties when they enter school.
http://fr.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=20020529a22

Echoing Green Foundation: The stipend serves as seed money to start a new public service organization or an independent project. The proposed project can be domestic or international. We do not limit our fields of interest, but support projects in all public service areas including, but not limited to, the environment, arts, education, health, youth service and development, civil and human rights, and community and economic development.
http://www.echoinggreen.org/

Foundation for Child Development: Seeks to support research or policy activities that develop strategies for building public support for children and families; leadership development activities that are linked to the programmatic focus of the foundation, including the identification and strengthening of effective voices on behalf of children and families; efforts to link New York City's higher education institutions, in particular their research, policy analysis, and professional education functions with city-based activities on behalf of children and families.
http://www.fcd-us.org/

Grant, William T. Foundation: W. T. Grant Scholars program supports promising postdoctoral (but pre-tenure, tenure-track) scholars from diverse disciplines whose research deepens and broadens the knowledge base in areas that contribute to creating a society that values young people as a resource and helps them live up to their potential. Priority areas for research include youth development, programs, policies, and institutions affecting young people, and adults’ attitudes about and perceptions of young people (ages 8-25), along with the consequences of those attitudes and perceptions. Major grants available to any discipline. Projects should address an issue or question affecting a large number of young people ages 8-25 or a population of particularly vulnerable young people in the age group in the U.S.
http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/

Jacqueline A. Ross Dissertation Award: The TOEFL program sponsors an annual award of $2,500 for completed doctoral dissertation research that makes a significant and original contribution to knowledge about and/or the use and development of second/foreign language tests and testing.
http://www.toefl.org/educator/edraward.html

Kellogg, W.K. Foundation: Supports healthy infant, child, and youth development by mobilizing, strengthening, and aligning systems that affect children’s learning. Goal is to mobilize youth, families, and communities to influence institutions and policies that impact learning and achievement for vulnerable children and youth, and to forge partnerships between education institutions and communities to promote learning, academic performance, and workforce preparation among vulnerable young people.
http://www.wkkf.org/Default.aspx?LanguageID=0

Kraft Foods Community Involvement: In the U.S., the majority of our giving is concentrated in three focus areas – hunger, domestic violence, and access to the arts. We prefer programs that provide direct service to individuals and communities in need; specific projects with measurable results, rather than for general operating support; hold the potential for replication in other communities, and supporting organizations that demonstrate a concern for diversity; are managed by minorities, women, or people with disabilities; or are dedicated to serving their needs.
http://www.kraftfoods.com/corporate/about/ci_index.html - atta

MacArthur, John D. and Catherine T., Foundation: Grantmaking program on human and community development.
http://www.macfound.org/index.htm

Mailman, A. L. Foundation: From organizations that work directly with children and families or with teachers and other frontline workers, we look for powerful, original, and fairly simple ideas and a strong plan for helping them take root and flourish in new places. From organizations engaged in research, policy analysis, advocacy, or other work that does not touch children directly, we look for likely strategic impact. We favor proposals that describe a plausible and practical chain of events leading to tangible results for children.
http://www.mailman.org/index.htm

Model Demonstration Projects for Children With Disabilities: This priority supports model demonstration projects that improve results and outcomes for children with disabilities. Projects must develop, implement, evaluate, and disseminate new or improved approaches for providing early intervention, special education, and related services to infants, toddlers, and children with disabilities and students with disabilities who are pursuing post-school employment, postsecondary education, or independent living goals.
http://fr.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=20020619a6

Murray, Henry A. Dissertation Award: Supports research of individuals in context, over time, and from a variety of perspectives. The dissertation topic should focus on some aspect of "the study of lives," concentrating on issues in human development or personality for populations within the United States. Projects drawing on the center's data will be given priority, although use of the center's resources is not a requirement. The program will award four grants of up to $5,000 each.
http://www.hmdc.harvard.edu/

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (Including Women in Engineering and Computer and Information Science Awards): Offers recognition and three years of support for advanced study to approximately 900 outstanding graduate students in the mathematical, physical, biological, engineering, and behavioral and social sciences, including the history of science and the philosophy of science, and to research-based PhD degrees in science education.
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf03050/nsf03050.htm

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships: Fellowships are awarded for graduate study leading to research-based master's or doctoral degrees in the mathematical, physical, biological, engineering, and behavioral and social sciences, including the history of science and the philosophy of science, and to research-based Ph.D. degrees in science education.
http://www.orau.org/news/releases/2002/fy02-47.htm

Public Policy Analysis and Education Center for Infant and Early Childhood Health: Goal is to analyze the effects of public policies, regulations, and practices at the community, state, and federal levels on the health and well-being of infants and young children and their families. The center's work will include the development of conceptual models for health and related services as well as analysis of the utility of various indicators of health status and well-being for these age groups.
http://fr.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=20010809a2

Valergakis, Dr. Frederick E. G. Research Grants: Candidates must be of Hellenic ancestry; be affiliated with an accredited university in the US; be either graduate students engaged in research or post-doctoral scholars engaged in independent and original research in the biological, medical, or behavioral sciences.
http://www.hucny.org/scholar.htm

Wilson, Woodrow Dissertation Grants in Women's Studies: Encourage original and significant research about women that crosses disciplinary, regional, or cultural boundaries. Special grants also available for dissertations concerning women's or children's health. Students in doctoral programs who have completed all pre-dissertation requirements in any field of study at graduate schools in the United States.
http://www.woodrow.org/womens-studies/