Equipment, including computers, may NOT be purchased with NESSF funds. Government furnished equipment will not be provided. A NESSF budget should include itemization of the anticipated use of the grant funding.

Expenses not allowed:

Salary and/or fringe benefits for applicant, tuition fees, travel, subsistence, insurance, etc. expenses of non-project personnel including family accompanying the applicant to the field, travel to and/or attendance at meetings, institutional overhead, or institutional support, living expenses while engaged in thesis write-up, or contingency funds or miscellaneous expenses.

Fellows based in Bangalore, Chennai (Madras), Kolkata (Calcutta), Mumbai (Bombay) or New Delhi receive an additional 15 percent cost of living supplement for maintenance, dollar and dependent allowances. Each fellow receives one round-trip air ticket from the city of origin to the primary research site in India. AIIS will also provide air tickets for 1.5 dependents accompanying a Long-term Fellow who is eligible for dependent allowances for 2 dependents. Short-term Fellows are not provided tickets or allowance for dependents.

AIIS Fellows may not hold another major grant during the fellowship period.

Fellows receive a monthly stipend of $1,600 in addition to reimbursement for reasonable domestic round trip travel expenses to Montana.

At the end of each year, the author of the best paper produced by that year's group of fellows is awarded a $250 honorarium. In addition, $250 is awarded to the person who referred the fellow to PERC.

Fellowship does not fund research equipment or assistants, publication costs, travel to professional meetings or conferences, repayment of loans, institutional costs, or tuition for dependents. Does not fund distance learning or Ph.D coursework or dissertations.

Fellowship must be greater than any other fellowship or grant received during that year, checks are payable only to recipient (not university).

Does not fund: Indirect costs, Research assistants, equipment, and similar costs, Publication costs, Travel to attend professional meetings, conferences, or seminars, Repayment of loans or other personal obligations, fellowships are not retroactive), Grants-in-aid for less than a full academic year or, travel grants, Travel to or from the fellow’s home country

Fellowship program occurs in Asia.

Fellowships are prorated for appointments shorter than the full academic year. Dumbarton Oaks anticipates that sabbatical salary or funds from other sources may supplement awards, particularly to Fellows. Other grants may be held with the knowledge and permission of both the grantors and Dumbarton Oaks. Fellowships are not renewable and may not be extended.

Fellowships serve as compensation for work done by graduate student. 

Fieldwork must be in tropical countries.

For international travel to academic conferences.

A student is eligible to receive one travel grant award (either domestic or international, but not both) during a fiscal year which runs from July 1 - June 30, based on the date the conference is attended.

• Up to $600 for the continental US.
• Up to $850 for Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Europe.
• Up to $1,100 for Africa, Asia, South America, and Australia.

For study at a foreign institute specializing in tropical botany.

Funding for continuation of a fellowship is limited.

Funding is for both fall and spring semesters. We do not fund semesters separately. Checks are sent directly to the school. Manner of disbursement is left to the discretion of the school. Disbursement of spring checks are dependent upon fall grades and spring schedule. Students are eligible to receive one scholarship per year. We do not fund summer session, certificate programs or seminary programs.

Funding is partial and considered only for applicants who plan to be in residence at the Bio Station and/or base their research there.

Priority will be given to those applicants who: 1) plan to be in residence for at least a half term (4 of 8 weeks); 2) demonstrate financial support for their research from other sources such as their department, advisor, graduate school, fellowships, etc.

Funds are not normally provided for travel to conventions, travel or living expenses while conducting research, stipends of principal investigators, costs associated with manuscript preparation, or the indirect costs of institutions. 

Funds cannot be used for the following:  tuition, child care, travel to professional meetings or to begin a new appointment, travel to another institution for coursework, training or workshops, administrative overhead or indirect costs, personal computers, living allowances, or equipment of general use.

A maximum of $10,000 may be requested-any fellowship proposals requesting over $10,000 will be disqualified.

Funds may not be used for personnel expenses, travel to meetings, equipment or supplies for laboratory-based research, or overhead or indirect costs.

Funds must be matched (at least one-to-one) with funds from non-federal sources.

No overhead charges can be deducted from the funds provided by the MSGC. Funding can be used for travel and to purchase supplies and services. Funding can also be used for faculty and student salaries if they are U.S. citizens. Funding cannot be used to purchase equipment or to pay salaries, stipends, or travel to persons that are not U.S. citizens.

Generally, not tenable for dissertation research.

Geographic Location: Bozeman, Montana

Grant awards require a minimum 1:1 match of cash or contributed goods and services (in-kind) and a match of over 2:1 is encouraged.

Grant funds cannot be used for political advocacy, fundraising, lobbying or litigation activities or to support projects resulting from legally mandated mitigation projects.  The Foundation cannot provide funds for general administrative overhead or indirect expenses.  If you are uncertain about categories of budget items which may or may not be funded, please contact Suzanne Sessine. 

Grantees may not hold a DAAD grant with funding from another German, German-American or German-Canadian organization for the same period. Short-term grants with the May deadline must be started between four and 12 months after the application deadline.

Grants cannot be used to fund:

• Travel Costs
• Individual Sponsorships
• Shipping Costs
• Individual School Fees
• Fundraisers