Funding

FUNDING RESOURCES

Partners in Preservation

A number of organizations and groups in Santa Barbara County are working hard to help all of us preserve our valuable coastal resources. Below you'll find links to a number of these groups and organizations. Please explore these sites for additional information on the issues regarding our coastline.
CF Funded Organizations Local Groups doing good work
Additional Funding Sources

Campus funding opportunities, mostly for undergraduates

Associated Students (AS) Finance Board
www.as.ucsb.edu/financeboard/

Community Affairs Board (CAB) Foundation
www.as.ucsb.edu/cab/

College of Creative Studies scholarships and funding opportunities
www.ccs.ucsb.edu/awards/

Environmental studies department scholarships (includes Matthew Charles Decker Memorial Environmental Scholarship, Dr. Pearl Chase Scholarship in Environmental Studies, Barker Environmental Scholarship, ESA Tom Rogers Scholarship in Environmental Studies)
www.es.ucsb.edu/student_info/scholarships.php

UC Education Abroad Program scholarships
www.uoeap.ucsb.edu/eap/reference/scholarship.htm

faculty club women's scholarship
keep your eyes open for announcements

financial aid office campus scholarship listings
www.finaid.ucsb.edu/Scholarships.asp

grants for undergraduate research and creative projects
www.ltsc.ucsb.edu/urca/research/research.php

letters and science honors program scholarships
www.ltsc.ucsb.edu/honors/scholar.php

research SCUBA diving scholarships
ehs.ucsb.edu/units/diving/dsp/html/bboard.html

scholarship alert database
www.ltsc.ucsb.edu/urca/scholarship/ScholarshipAlrtPrntnew.html

various funding sources for individual and organization projects

(AS Finance Board, Isla Vista Community Relations Committee (IVCRC), AS Student Commission on Racial Equality (SCORE), Student Initiated Outreach Program (SIOP), Residence Halls Association, University Center Governance Board, Chancellor and Vice-chancellor for Student Affairs Office, AS Program Board, AS Community Affairs Board)

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) for College of Creative Studies Students www.ccs.ucsb.edu/awards/Surf.html

UCDC scholarships
www.ltsc.ucsb.edu/urca/ucdc/ucdc.php

UCSB involvement in state or national scholarships
(including Barry Goldwater Scholarship, Donald A. Strauss Scholarship Foundation, Harry S. Truman Scholarship, and Morris K. Udall Foundation)
www.ltsc.ucsb.edu/urca/scholarship/schlrshps&awrds.php

UCSB library scholarship resources
www.library.ucsb.edu

check for scholarships, grants, and stipends through your department!

regional and state-wide funding opportunities

California Student Aid Commission
www.csac.ca.gov

Fund for Santa Barbara
www.fundforsantabarbara.org

Hutton Foundation
www.huttonfoundation.org

Los Angeles Times Fund Scholarship
www.college.ucla.edu/up/src/Devel/times.doc

UC President's Undergraduate Fellowships
http://www.ccs.ucsb.edu/awards/Puf.html

Santa Barbara Foundation
www.sbfoundation.org

Santa Barbara Foundation loans and scholarship programs
www.sbfoundation.org/student_aid.html

Scholarshare Program
www.scholarshare.com

Southwest Student Services Corporation
www.sssc.com

Ventura County Scholarship Directory
vccf.csuci.edu

Wendy P. McCaw Foundation, PO Box 22458, Santa Barbara, CA 93121, 805-965-808

general funding databases

absolutely scholarships
www.absolutelyscholarships.com

arisnet
arisnet.com

college scholarships
www.collegescholarships.com

community of science
www.cos.com

fastweb
www.fastweb.com

fresch
freschinfo.com

fafsa through United States Department of Education
www.fafsa.ed.gov

financial aid and scholarships
www.finaid.com

guaranteed scholarships
www.guaranteed-scholarhips.com

mach25 scholarship search
www.collegenet.com/mach25/

princeton review scholarship search
www.princetonreview.com/?popup=no

sacnas fellowships and scholarships
www.sacnas.org/fellow.html

scholarship resource network
www.SRNEXPRESS.com

scholarships
www.scholarships.com

scholarships broke scholar
www.scholarships.brokescholar.com

super college
www.supercollege.com

wired scholar
wiredscholar.com

examples of some external funding found from above search engines

Budweiser conservation research scholarship
www.nfwf.org/programs/budscholarship.htm

Elk Foundation wildlife leadership award
www.rmef.org/information_section.html?main=/scholor.htm

Elie Wiesel prize in ethics contest
www.eliewieselfoundation.org/

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Minority Academic Institution (MAI) Fellowship undergraduates and graduate students
yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eed.nsf/Webpages/MAIFellowships.html

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) tribal lands environmental science scholarship
www.epa.gov/region01/students/student/intern.html

Fulbright grants
www.iie.org/TemplateFulbright.cfm?section=Fulbright1

Garden Club of America scholarship series (landscape architecture, tropical botany, conservation of endangered flora, native bird habitat study, medicinal botany, coastal wetland studies, horticulture, summer internship funding)
www.gcamerica.org/scholarships.htm

National Security Education Program scholarship
www.iie.org/Template.cfm?&Template=/programs/nsep/default.htm

National Wildlife Foundation (NWF) Campus Ecology Fellowships
www.nwf.org/campusecology/fellowships.cfm

Windstar environmental studies scholarship
www.wstar.org/Windstar/Programs/EnviroStudiesScholarship/environmentalstudies.html

major funding databases for graduate students and researchers

Bio Sci funding opportunities provided by UC Irvine
aspe.os.dhhs.gov/cfda/index.htm

Community of Science (COS)
fundingopps2.cos.com

Cornell's fellowship office
cuinfo.cornell.edu/Student/GRFN/

Council of Graduate Schools (CGS)
www.cgsnet.org/ResourcesForStudents/fellowships.htm

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
www.epa.gov

E-scholar government database of fellowships, scholarships, and grants
studentjobs.gov/e-scholar.htm

Federal Information Exchange (FEDIX)
www.id.ucsb.edu/detche/library/fedix.html

Foundation Center
fdncenter.org/

Foundations on-line
www.foundations.org/grantmakers.html

Grants Net
www.grantsnet.org

Illinois Researcher Information Service (IRIS)
www.library.uiuc.edu/iris/

National Institutes of Health (NIH)
www.nih.gov

National Science Foundation (NSF)
www.nsf.gov/home/grants.htm

Sponsored Programs Information Network (SPIN)
www.infoed.org/home/officemenu.asp

Texas Research Administrator Group (TRAM) funding opportunities and administration
tram.east.asu.edu

UC Los Angeles GRAPES extramural funding database
www.gdnet.ucla.edu/grpinst.htm

UCSB Graduate Division internal and external funding sources
www.graddiv.ucsb.edu/financial

UCSB Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research funding sources for social sciences
www.isber.ucsb.edu

UC San Diego Office of Graduate Studies research fellowship and grant opportunities
www.ogsr.ucsd.edu/fellowships/index.htm

UC system-wide funding
www.ucop.edu/research/fundingFrame.html

United States Department of Education funding
www.ed.gov/index.jsp

University of Iowa international program resources
www.uiowa.edu/~ipgrants/graduate/graduate.html