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The AAUW Educational Foundation (EF) provides funds to advance education, research, and self-development for women and to foster equity and positive societal change. In 1888 AAUW gave Ida Street $350 to pursue graduate research, possibly the first fellowship of its kind in any country. In 1920 AAUW, through the Foundation, gave Marie Curie $156,400 toward the purchase of a gram of radium. Since then, the Educational Foundation has helped 7,5000 women worldwide achieve their personal goals. Total fellowships, grants, and awards now exceed $3.3 million annually.
The AAUW Educational Foundation is the largest source of funding exclusively for graduate women in the world. The Foundation supports aspiring scholars around the globe, teachers and activists in local communities, women at critical stages of their careers, and those pursuing professions where women are underrepresented. In addition, EF funds groundbreaking research, special awards, and community action projects. Studies on sexual harassment, gender bias in the classroom, girls and computers, women's transitions through work and school have made headlines and sparked both controversy and change across the country. For annotated list of EF research publications, click here.
How You Can Help
Your contributions to the AAUW Educational Foundation promote educational equity for women and girls throughout the nation and the world. The AAUW Educational Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization. Contributions are tax deductible for federal income tax purposes.
Branches raise money for EF through such activities as used book sales, home and garden tours, and "new to you" sales.
- To find out the dates and locations of EF events in or near your community, contact your local branch representative.
- To make a direct contribution contact Jo Stevenson, AAUW-MT EF Chair.
- To obtain information about applying for fellowships and community action grants, also contact Jo Stevenson.
Wanted: Applicants from Montana
Send inquiries to
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or call her at 406/452-7756.
One of the world's largest sources of funding exclusively for graduate women, the AAUW Educational Foundation supports aspiring scholars around the globe, teachers and activists in local communities, women at critical stages of their careers, and those pursuing professions where women are underrepresented.
- American Fellowships support women doctoral candidates completing dissertations and scholars seeking funds for postdoctoral research leave or for preparing completed research for publication. Applicants must be U.S citizens or permanent residents. One-year postdoctoral research leave fellowships, dissertation fellowships, and summer/short-term research publication grants are offered.
- Career Development Grants support women who hold a bachelor's degree and who are preparing to advance their careers, change careers, or re-enter the work force. Applicants must be U.S citizens or permanent residents.
- Community Action Grants provide seed money to individual women, AAUW branches and AAUW state organizations, as well as local community-based nonprofit organizations for innovative programs or nondegree research projects that promote education and equity for women and girls. Applicants must be U.S citizens or permanent residents.
- International Fellowships are awarded for full-time graduate or postgraduate study or research to women who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Supplemental grants support community-based projects in the fellow's home country.
- Selected Professions Fellowships are awarded to women who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents and who intend to pursue a full-time course of study (during the fellowship year) in designated degree programs where women's participation traditionally has been low.
- University Scholar-in-Residence, located at a college or university, undertakes and disseminates research on gender and equity for women and girls.
Foundation Diversity Statement
The AAUW In principle and practice, the AAUW Educational Foundation values and seeks diversity. There shall be no barriers to full participation in this organization on the basis of gender, race, creed, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or class.
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