Application Deadline: Rolling Deadline
Small grant applications accepted from current MSW and PhD students to support individual or group student projects for anti-racism work, with a specific focus on confronting anti-Blackness, racism against Indigenous peoples, and confronting racial oppression. The goal is to inclusively support students working within SSW or in communities seeking to confront racism to the greatest degree possible. Such funding could be for projects, programming, or partnerships with external organizations. Grants will be made up to the amount of $1,000. Students must identify an SSW faculty or staff member who will advise on the project. Project funding can be used for student support (financial aid award or hourly pay), to support partnership with outside experts and communities, travel, and event costs (when allowed by the university). Students are eligible for one grant in an academic year. Students who would like to brainstorm potential project ideas are invited to contact FLOURISH at [email protected]
Anti-Racism Fund Individual Student Project Grant Application
Submit electronically to Laura Thomas [email protected]
(NO FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR 2024-2025)
This fund provides support to doctoral students who meet one or more of the following criteria and who demonstrate unmet financial need due to a life crisis or some other foreseeable circumstance. Students may receive support from this fund in the amount of $1,175 per year per student. One student per year may receive support. Please contact the Doctoral Office prior to submitting the award application to verify funds are still available: [email protected]
Doctoral Scholarship for Underrepresented Students Application
Submit electronically to Laura Thomas [email protected]
The John & Penny Tropman Conference Networking Travel Grant carries a value of $500. This travel grant is to support a doctoral student who would like to attend a conference for networking purposes who is not presenting at the conference. To be eligible for the award, a student must be in good standing in the Joint Doctoral Program. Please contact the Doctoral Office prior to submitting the award application to verify funds are still available: [email protected]
John & Penny Tropman Conference Networking Travel Grant Application
This student-initiated application must be submitted directly to Rackham.
The Rackham Conference Travel Grant is intended to provide opportunities for Rackham graduate students to become familiar with, and participate in the life of, their academic professions. As part of its University-wide commitment to advancing international research and training, the International Institute provides funding for 30 awards to international destinations. The remainder of the funding comes from Rackham. You must submit your applications before the first day of the conference for travel through the end of the final term of registration. The conference may occur anytime up through your final semester of registration. Applications will not be considered for retroactive funding.
This student-initiated application must be submitted directly to Rackham.
The Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant is designed to support Rackham graduate students who need assistance to carry out research that advances their progress toward their degree.
Rackham deadline: September 17, 2024 Submit electronically to Rackham
These awards were established by Harold T. Shapiro, former President of the University of Michigan, and Vivian Shapiro, former faculty member at the University of Michigan, to assist graduate students with interest payments on unsubsidized educational loans. John Malik, a devoted Rackham alumnus in Physics, established an endowment for the same purpose. Jean Forrest earned her master’s degree from Rackham in 1976, and in gratitude for her education, established an endowed fund to support graduate students with financial need. All three awards are made through a single competition.
The Jim Troy Scholarship is a need-based award to support MSW and PhD students who are inspired by the ideals and examples Jim Toy demonstrated during his lifetime as a fierce advocate for LGBTQ+ communities.
Department deadline: September 30, 2024 Submit electronically to Laura Thomas [email protected]
This award is in memory of Joseph Veroff and Katherine Pavelka Luke. It provides students with the funds to create a Conversations Across Social Disciplines event. The event will focus on key social issues that affect both social work and social science disciplines.
Department deadline: September 3, 2024 Submit electronically to Todd Huynh [email protected]
The Rackham International Student Fellowship assists outstanding international students, particularly those who may be ineligible for other kinds of support because of citizenship.
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