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  • Live Mas Scholarship
    11/25/24
    The Taco Bell Foundation offers the Live Mas Scholarship for students who are pursuing higher education, preparing for the workforce, or using their passion to ignite change in their communities and beyond. Applicants submit a two-minute video which is evaluated based on their: passion, social impact, personal presentation, and educational goals.
  • United University Professions (UUP) Student Scholarships
    11/25/24
    United University Professions (UUP) is the nation's largest higher education union and offers three student scholarships.
  • American Planning Association Scholarships
    11/25/24
    The APA Foundation scholarships aim to make the planning profession more accessible to individuals with limited means and to attract the best, brightest, and most talented individuals to the planning profession. By providing scholarships to students of great merit and from historically underrepresented groups we make our profession more representative of — and therefore more responsive to — the diverse communities it serves. // Awards offered include the APA Foundation Diversity Scholarship and the Judith McManus Price Scholarship.
  • Margaret McNamara Education Grants (MMEG)
    11/25/24
    MMEG is a nonprofit, public charity whose mission is to improve the lives of women and children by supporting the higher education of exceptional women from developing countries who will catalyze change. There are programs in the U.S., Canada, Latin America, and France
  • ACLS Digital Justice Grants
    11/25/24
    The ACLS Digital Justice Grant program is designed to promote and provide resources for projects at various stages of development that diversify the digital domain, advance justice and equity in digital scholarly practice, and/or contribute to public understanding of racial and social justice issues.  This program supports digital projects across the humanities and interpretative social sciences that critically engage with the interests and histories of people of color and other historically marginalized communities through the ethical use of digital tools and methods. Digital Justice Seed Grants support projects at the earliest stage of development, while Digital Justice Development Grants support projects that have advanced beyond the prototyping or proof-of-concept phase.
  • U.S.-U.K. Summer Fulbright Institutes
    11/19/24
    The U.S.-U.K. Fulbright Commission offers special summer institutes for U.S. citizens to go to the U.K. These summer programs provide the opportunity for U.S. undergraduates to visit the U.K. on a three or four week academic and cultural summer program. Participants in these programs will get the opportunity to experience an exciting academic program at a highly regarded U.K. university, explore the culture, heritage and history of the U.K. and develop their academic ability by improving presentation, research and communication skills.
  • McCall MacBain Scholarship
    11/13/24
    The McCall MacBain Scholarships bring together exceptional students who strive to engage in positive change by taking on meaningful leadership roles. McCall MacBain Scholars connect with mentors and participate in an interdisciplinary leadership program while pursuing a fully funded master’s or professional degree at McGill University. As a McCall MacBain Scholar, you will be an active member of a diverse group of peers, mentors and advisors who value working with others to address complex challenges facing communities large and small.
  • Gilliam Fellows Program
    11/6/24
    The Gilliam Fellows Program aspires to build a more inclusive scientific ecosystem by supporting scientists at two levels — graduate students and their faculty thesis advisors. The program invests in graduate trainees who are committed to advancing equity and inclusion in science, and engaging their communities in science, and empowers them as future science leaders. The Fellowship also provides support for thesis advisors to enhance their mentorship skills and act as change-makers to develop more inclusive and healthy scientific training environments.
  • U.S. Teaching Assistantships at Austrian Secondary Schools
    10/30/24
    Each year, more than 140 college graduates from the United States teach in Austria under the auspices of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education (BMB) Foreign Language Teaching Assistantship Program. The purpose of this program, which draws assistants not only from the English-speaking world but also from France, Italy, Russia, and Spain, is to bring talented and enthusiastic young people from abroad into the classrooms of secondary schools in communities large and small all over Austria. Teaching contracts last from October through May and assistants receive a monthly stipend.
  • Teaching Assistant Program in France (TAPIF)
    10/30/24
    The Teaching Assistant Program in France (TAPIF) is one the Cultural Services of the French Embassy’s longest running and most sought-after programs. Each year, TAPIF places around 1,300 Americans into French public schools to work as English language teaching assistants for 12 hours a week.