Educational Foundation
Mission: The AAUW Educational Foundation provides funds to advance education, research, and self-development for women and to foster equity and positive societal change.
The American Association of University Women Educational Foundation has a long a distinguised history of advancing educational and and professional opportunities for women in the United States and around the globe. One of the world's largest sources of funding for graduate women, the Educational Foundation provided more than 250 fellowships, grants, and special awards to outstanding women in the 2007-08 academic year.
Join a group of women scholars who are introducing domestic violence laws to protect womena nd children, researching substance abuse among women and therapeutic approaches to the treatment of HIV infection, and developing improved micro credit access for women, among other activities.
- American Fellowships support women doctoral candidates completing dissertations and scholars seeking funds for postdoctoral research leave or for preparing completed research for publication. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. One-year postdoctoral research leave fellowships, dissertation fellowships, and summer/short-term research publication grants are offered. (more information)
- Career Development Grants support women who hold a bachelor's degree and who are preparing to advance their careers, change careers, or re-enter the work force. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. (more information)
- Community Action Grants provide seed money to individual women, AAUW branches and AAUW state organizations for innovative programs or non-degree research projects that promote education and equity for women and girls. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. (more information)
- International Fellowships are awarded for full-time graduate or postgratuate study or research to women who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Supplemental grants wupport community-based projects in the fellow's home country. (more information)
- Selected Professions Fellowships are awarded to women who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents and who intend to pursue a full-time course of study (during the fellowship year) in designated degree programs where women's participation traditionally has been low. (more information)
For more information, go to aauw.org.
At the branch level this year’s EF contribution will go to the Eleanor Jenkins American Fellowship and the Claire Fulcher International Fellowship and the Leonette Wischard Fellowship.
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