Funding Opportunities

FAS Research Development helps faculty identify opportunities to support research, equipment, conferences, travel, sabbatical, exhibitions, digital projects, publications, and more. Navigate the various sites through this link https://science.fas.harvard.edu/funding-opportunities for the different existing funding opportunities. Please contact FAS Research Development if you have questions about any funding opportunities or if you would like support developing your proposal. 

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research created a library of internal and external funding opportunities through this link: https://research.harvard.edu/funding/. Additional funding opportunities are available on the Harvard University Funding Portal (HUFP) and can be accessed with Harvard Key. 

More funding opportunities:  

Dean's Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship
https://research.fas.harvard.edu/deans-competitive-fund-promising-scholarship 

Funding Opportunities for Postdoctoral Scholars 
https://research.fas.harvard.edu/postdoc_opportunities 

Funding Opportunities for Students https://carat.fas.harvard.edu/

The Harvard Center for African Studies
https://africa.harvard.edu/funding; https://africa.harvard.edu/motsepe-presidential-research-accelerator-fund-africa 

The American Association of University Women (AAUW)
https://www.aauw.org/resources/programs/fellowships-grants/ 

Life Science Research Foundation
https://lsrf.org/apply/ 

National Science Foundation
https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities 

The Leakey Foundation (human origins and evolution)
https://leakeyfoundation.org/grants/research-grants/ 

Fulbright Foreign Student Program
https://foreign.fulbrightonline.org/ 

National Science Foundation (fellowships are restricted to citizens and residents)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/education.jsp?fund_type=2 

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (anthropology and archaeology)
http://www.wennergren.org/grantprograms/2