Internal Funding Opportunities
College of Liberal Arts Opportunities
Internal Awards and Funding Sources Available to CLA Faculty: Funding opportunities including the Imagine Fund, Annual Faculty Research Grants, Social Science Research Grants, Mid-Career Faculty Research Awards, and Tenure Track Single Semester Leaves. For general research-related questions in the College of Liberal Arts, contact claresearch@umn.edu.
Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA)
- Community Action Research Grant: Support for faculty public policy research that involves interaction with community groups, agencies, or organizations in Minnesota.
- Fesler-Lampert Chair in Urban and Regional Affairs: One year of support for research activities on a project related to urban and regional affairs in Minnesota.
Center for Writing
- Research grants: Center for Writing offers small grants to support faculty and instructors who want to learn more about how writing is conceptualized, taught, and learned (or unlearned) in the disciplines.
Human Rights Initiative (HRI)
- The Human Rights Initiative (HRI) supports faculty-led interdisciplinary human rights research.
Institute for Global Studies
- Funding Opportunities: Opportunities including the FLAS fellowships, J.W.G. Dunn Jr. Scholarship, and the Title VI Faculty Travel Gants.
Imagine Fund
- The Imagine Fund is an arts and humanities endowment supported by the McKnight Foundation. The foundation provides faculty research awards, visiting distinguished professorships, and a special events fund.
Institute for Advanced Study
- Call for Concepts provides small grants, project development assistance, and fundraising support for promising, early-stage, interdisciplinary projects.
- Environmental Stewardship, Place, and Community Initiative: humanities-led campus/community partnerships focused on curriculum development and institutional change, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Humanities Without Walls consortium links the humanities centers at 15 research universities throughout the Midwest and beyond.
- Research and Creative Collaboratives support for interdisciplinary collaboration, research, or activities.
- Residential Faculty Fellowships offer faculty time and space to pursue their intellectual and creative work among the IAS’s interdisciplinary community of scholars.
Research and Innovation Office (RIO)
- Overview of all U of M funding
- UMN Internal Funding Opportunities
- Minnesota Futures Grant Program: Support for two phases of interdisciplinary collaborative projects. Phase 1 solicits proposals to develop and convene interdisciplinary symposia around research questions of current significance. The purpose is to encourage the development of interdisciplinary research proposals that will be submitted as part of Phase 2 of the program. Phase 2 will be a call for interdisciplinary research proposals that originate from the symposia.
- Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry and Scholarship Program (GIA): Grants to promote the scholarly and artistic activities of the faculty and their graduate students and to foster academic excellence within the University.
Office of the Vice President and Vice Provost for Equity and Diversity
- IDEA Grants Program: Innovation, Diversity, Equity, and Achievement: Established by the Office of the Vice President and Vice Provost for Equity and Diversity, the University of Minnesota IDEA (Innovation, Diversity, Equity, and Achievement) Grants Program seeks to infuse equity and diversity into every aspect of the University's work and operations by funding creative yet pragmatic proposals for projects that address issues of institutional equity and diversity.