Health insurance, life insurance, tuition, and associated fees are not provided with this offer. 

If an award recipient withdraws from the educational institution for which the award was granted, the award will be cancelled and the unspent portion, if any, will be returned to the Foundation. Awards are subject to state and federal income tax guidelines.

If a recipient chooses to take a course or series of courses at a tax exempt, accredited educational institution other than the one to which she was originally attending, or if she wishes to transfer to another tax exempt educational institution, the Otis M. Smith Scholarship Program Award will not be forfeited if the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan is notified in advance of such transfer to an eligible institution.

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Indirect costs are not allowable from the Federal funds either for the Fellowships or for any costs associated with the Fellowships, including more than $2,000 budgeted for placement week. These costs, though, can be denoted as matching funds.

It is expected that you will not otherwise work, travel, or teach during this Fellowship.

  Fellows will meet twice during the summer in conferences, once in June and again in August.

Master's students can be funded for a maximum of two years, MFA students for three years, and PhD students for four years. MLA students should email AIGC contact (above) for eligibility questions).

This is a loan.  If awarded you must begin your payback six months after you have graduated in a career with tribal governments, Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Affairs funded organizations on and off reservations. Organizations and other agencies with significant American Indian populations are reviewed case by case.  Fellows shall work 40 hours per week and/or full‐time work week. Fellows will be required to repay loans on a 1‐1 basis (one year of service for each year of loan payment).

May request for grant to be paid directly to tuition or direct deposit. Stipend paid monthly. Payment occurs 4-6 weeks after start of fellowship.

Sucessful applicants must evaluate tax liability.

Must conduct research in one of the following countries:

Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine,  Uzbekistan

Must indicate other potential funding sources.

Must perform research at selected locations.

Must submit a report on research or public service activity within one month of the end of the funding period.

No employee or contractor of the Smithsonian Institution may hold a Smithsonian fellowship during the time of his/her employment or contract, nor may an award be offered to any person who has been employed by or under contract to the Institution in the previous year, without the prior approval of the Office of Fellowships.

Financial support, in addition to a Smithsonian fellowship, for such purposes as research travel and equipment may be received from other sources provided that no special demands are made upon the fellow's time.  Permission to receive additional stipend support must be requested in writing from the Office of Fellowships.

All funds provided under Smithsonian fellowships, including stipends and research and travel allowances, are subject to tax.

No part of an award may be used for the payment of indirect costs to the recipient's institution. All funds must be expended directly in support of the proposed investigation. Any equipment purchased shall be the property of the institution.

 Students may apply to ONLY ONE program, either the Fellowship for Graduate Student Travel or Grants-in-Aid of Research.

None specified

None

Not monetary award

One-time award

Organizations must be in a start-up phase. To be considered a start-up, the applicant may have been running the organization full-time for approximately two years and Echoing Green's financial support should qualify it as a major/primary early funder.

Applicants must make a full-time commitment to the organization's development. A full-time commitment is defined as a minimum of 35 hours per week; it is expected that the fellow would resign from their current employment to dedicate themselves full-time to their initiative.

Applicants must commit to attending Echoing Green's training conferences, if selected as fellows. All new fellows attend a conference in July the year they are selected, as well as a November conference that year and for the next three years.

Passport fees not paid

Payment will be made directly to the institution of higher education for credit toward the tuition obligation of the sucessful candidate.

Please note that proposals of the sort listed below will not be considered suitable for a project in this program:

(a) Activities with an excessively limited number or range of participants and/or beneficiaries (e.g. scholarships, members limited to one organization, etc.).

(b) Activities with no tangible objectives or results in mind (e.g. conducting an event or aiming for "networking" alone, with no results or other output besides a project report).

(c) Activities focused primarily on research. (Such proposals may be suitable for the Toyota Foundation’s Research Grant Program.)

(d) Ongoing activities (e.g. those by an NGO or charity organization that regularly issues materials) or proposals to use the grant to cover the running cost of an organization. Please note that projects in this program must be new initiatives that start and end within the grant period, not something that is part of a longer project.

Priority will be given to grant proposals that:

• focus on interdisciplinary research
• seek imaginative solutions to contemporary social, cultural, technological, and environmental problems in Africa
• deepen and expand scholarly projects between U-M and its African partners

Project costs incurred after receipt of the proposal will not be reimbursed if the proposal is not approved for funding.

Ineligible for funding: routine expenses of the contributor; project management salary costs prior to grant execution; project planning and proposal development, including investigations to document the project's resource value; conservation education materials or salaries; fundraising; law enforcement; research; boat ramps, parking lots, roads, and other public access work; observation towers and blinds; routine operations and maintenance salaries and costs; building construction, repairs, and value of donated property; the value of existing residences, structures, and buildings unnecessary for wetland conservation purposes and the cost to construct, remove, or repair same; equipment acquisition in lieu of a more cost-effective means (e.g. renting, using equipment on hand); acquisition of vehicles; costs over the appraised value for fee-title and easement acquisitions; or short-term annual conservation activities, such as predator management. 

Projects must directly affect biological conservation.