Deadline: 1 October 2017
The National Geographic Society is seeking applications for its Standard Grant Program to award grants for research, conservation, education, and storytelling through its Committee for Research and Exploration.
National Geographic Society grant-funded projects should be bold, innovative, and transformative.
The National Geographic Society is a nonprofit scientific and educational organization dedicated to exploring our planet, protecting wildlife and habitats, and helping assure that students in K-12 are geographically literate.
Three Lenses
- The Human Journey: The Human Journey focuses on learning more about whom we are and what our future is on this planet.
- Wildlife and Wild Places: Wildlife and Wild Places includes projects on all living organisms, where they live, and the local evolutionary and ecological processes that sustain them.
- Our Changing Planet: Our Changing Planet comprises projects looking at a spectacular variety of ever-changing ecosystems on land and in the sea.
Funding Information
Grants are typically funded for less than US $30,000. We will consider requests for up to US $50,000.
Project Focus
- Conservation
- Education
- Research
- Storytelling
- Technology
Eligibility Criteria
- National Geographic welcomes applications from around the world, and specifically encourages applicants from outside the United States to apply.
- Applicants planning to work outside of their home country should include at least one local collaborator on their team.
- The Committee will not usually consider applications that support strictly laboratory or collections work.
- Grants are awarded on the basis of merit and exist independent of the Society’s other divisions.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply via given website.
For more information, please visit National Geographic Society.