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American Association of University Women (AAUW) Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

The AAUW Educational Foundation is the world's largest source of grant funding exclusively for graduate women. Each year the Foundation provides about $4 million in fellowships, grants, and awards for outstanding women around the globe and for community action projects. The Foundation also funds pioneering research on women, girls, and education, and international symposia.

The AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund,

A program of the AAUW Educational Foundation, is the nation's largest legal fund focused solely on sex discrimination in higher education. The Legal Advocacy Fund provides funds and a support system for women seeking judicial redress for sex discrimination in higher education.

America's Junior Miss Scholarship Programs

To emphasize education by providing scholarship opportunities to outstanding, college-bound high school girls, and to encourage personal development in all young people through the Be Your Best Self outreach program.

Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)

Travel Grants for Women Researchers- The travel grants program enables women to attend research conferences in their fields, thereby providing a valuable opportunity to advance their research activities and their visibility in the research community.

Mentoring Travel Grants for Women - The mentoring grants program funds travel, subsistence, and other required expenses for an untenured woman mathematician to travel to an institute or a department to do research with a specified individual for one month.

Bell Labs Graduate Research Fellowships for Women and Minorities

The Bell Labs Graduate Research Fellowship Program is designed to increase the number of minorities and women in the fields of science, math, engineering and technology by helping outstanding candidates enhance their knowledge and pursue a PH.D. degree in science and engineering. Candidates are selected on the basis of scholastic attainment in their fields of specialization, and other evidence of their ability and potential as research scientists

Business and Professional Women Foundation

The BPW Foundation established the Career Advancement Scholarship Program in 1969 to provide financial assistance to disadvantaged women seeking to further their education. Scholarships are provided to women who wish to advance in their careers, or are soon to enter or re-enter the workforce. The Foundation has awarded more than $6 million in scholarships, grants, and loans to over 8,000 women seeking to improve their lives.

Cornell University Graduate Fellowships for Women

Women's Research & Education Institute (WREI): Congressional Fellowships on Women and Public Policy

Digital Women Grants

Educational Foundation for Women in Accounting Scholarships

The Educational Foundation awards scholarships to women who are pursuing accounting degrees at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Foundation Center

The Foundation Center has identified a range of materials useful to women seeking funding. Feel free to refer to them, read introductions, scan indexes, and think of all the subjects and terms by which you can describe your project. A knowledge of support available from appropriate organizations will also be to your benefit. You need to be both creative and flexible in your approach to seeking funding.

Google 2006 Anita Borg Scholarship

Scholarships will be awarded based on the strength of candidates' academic background and demonstrated leadership. A group of female undergraduate and graduate student finalists will be chosen from the applicant pool. The scholarship recipients, selected from the finalists, will each receive a $10,000 scholarship for the 2006-2007 academic year.

HORIZONS Foundation Scholarship Program

Women In Defense, A National Security Organization established the HORIZONS Scholarship to encourage women to pursue careers related to the national security and defense interests of the United States and to provide development opportunities to women already working in national security and defense fields. The scholarship is intended to provide financial assistance to further educational objectives of women who are U.S. citizens either employed or planning careers in defense or national security areas.

International Federation of University Women Fellowships and Grants

IFUW and its national affiliates help to build the future by offering fellowships and grants to enable women and girls to achieve their educational goals. While the numbers of women entering university now equals or exceeds that of men in some countries, in other parts of the world a university education is beyond the reach of most women. For many women, a primary or secondary education remains an unattainable dream. Even where parity at the level of the first university degree has been achieved, there is still a pyramid effect. The numbers of women begin to dwindle dramatically in advanced degree courses and women are significantly underrepresented in many of the scientific and technological fields that lead to the higher paying professions in today's world.

Jeannette Rankin Foundation Women's Education Fund

The Jeannette Rankin Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to raising funds for, and awarding grants to, low-income women, ages 35 and older. Each grant recipient has a vision of how a college education will benefit herself, her family, and her community. Most recipients are in truly meager financial circumstances and may have other hardships or disabilities.

Open Society Institute Network Women's Program

OSI initiatives award grants, scholarships, and fellowships on a regular basis throughout the year. Applicants can determine their eligibility and view relevant initiatives and application guidelines.

R.O.S.E. Fund

The R.O.S.E. Fund fulfills its mission through several programs that help women that have broken the cycle of domestic violence regain their self-esteem and rebuild their lives. Scholarships provide individuals with the tools to help them regain their self-esteem through a college education and continuing education grants. They also distributes direct assistance grants, to non-profit organizations aligned with R.O.S.E.’s mission, on an annual basis.