Funding Opportunities

The Student Cultural Programming Fee (SCPF)

The Student Cultural Programming Fee (SCPF) makes $3,000.00 available on a competitive basis to students, faculty and staff for cultural events. Since the monies comprising the fee come from the student body itself, it is the express goal of the SCPF Committee to approve only those events serving the specific cultural needs of Native American students. Each cultural house has an SCPF Committee that meets four times per semester in congruence with the deadline periods. These allocation meetings occur approximately one week after the deadline passes.

As the Office of the Dean of Students (ODOS) administers the approved funding, applicants must adhere to the following steps: 1) Complete an application from www.odos.uiuc.edu and submit it to scpf@uiuc.edu by 5 p.m. on the deadline date, 2) when notified via email from ODOS, attend the SCPF Committee meeting to answer any questions pertaining to the proposed event, and 3) if approved, submit the funding disbursement form no later than 30 days after your event to scpf@uiuc.edu. 

Additional requirements do apply such as events must be free and open to the larger campus-at-wide, and can be accessed under "Student Cultural Programming Fee Materials" at http://www.odos.uiuc.edu/resource/culturalFee/guidelines.asp

College Horizons

A pre-college workshop for Native American Students giving you a five-day ‘crash course’ in preparing for college. For more information about this program , please click here.

Morris K. Udall Native American Internship, Scholarship, and Fellowship Programs

The Morris K. Udall Foundation is pleased to announce the 2008 Internship and Scholarship Program opportunities.

The Native American Congressional Internship Program is a ten-week summer internship in Washington, DC, for Native American and Alaska Native undergraduate, graduate and law students. Students are placed in Congressional offices, committees, or select agencies to experience an insiders view of the federal government and learn more about the federal governments trust relationship with tribes. The Foundation provides round-trip airfare, housing, per diem, and a $1,200 educational stipend. Applications must be received at the Foundation by January 31, 2008.

The Scholarship Program awards eighty $5,000 merit-based scholarships for college sophomores and juniors seeking a career in tribal health, tribal public policy or the environment. Scholarship recipients participate in a five-day Orientation in Tucson, AZ, to learn more about tribal and environmental issues. Applications must be submitted through a Udall Faculty Representative at the student's college or university. More information about Faculty Representatives can be found on the Udall website. The application deadline for the 2008 academic year is March 4,2008.
 
Students are encouraged to visit the website at www.udall.gov

The American Indian Graduate Center, Inc. The American Indian Graduate Center, Inc. announces the availability of graduate fellowships for American Indian and Alaska Native students from federally recognized U. S. tribes.  AIGC was founded in 1969 to help open doors to graduate education and to help tribes obtain the educated professionals they need to become more self-sufficient and exercise their rights to self-determination.  To be considered for an AIGC fellowship the applicant must be:Pursuing a post baccalaureate graduate or professional degree as a full time student at an accredited institution in the U.S. and; Able to demonstrate financial need and; An enrolled member of a federally recognized American Indian tribe or Alaska Native group, or provide documentation of descendency (possess one fourth degree federally-recognized Indian blood).

For more information, contact:  American Indian Graduate Center, 4520 Montgomery Blvd. NE Suite 1B, Albuquerque, NM 87109.  (505) 881-4584 and (800) 628-1920. URL: http://www.aigc.com/index.asp

UCLA Institute of American Cultures (IAC) Postdoctoral Fellowships

The Institute of American Cultures (IAC) was created in 1969 as an umbrella organization to support ethnic studies at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) and to build connections among the four ethnic studies research centers – American Indian Studies Center, Asian American Studies Center, Bunche Center for African American Studies, and Chicano Studies Research Center.    IAC postdoctoral/visiting scholar fellowships are competitive awards that support scholarship on African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, and Chicanas/os. The acceptance of a fellowship carries with it a commitment to contribute to the research activities of the sponsoring ethnic studies research center and, in some postdoctoral/visiting scholar cases, to teach a 10-week seminar based on the fellow's research. For more information, contact: Institute of American Cultures, 1237 Murphy Hall,
Box 951419, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1419  Phone: (310) 825-1233

e-mail: IACcoordinator@gdnet.ucla.edu

URL: www.gdnet.ucla.edu/iacweb/iachome.htm