Institutional Development Grants

The Institutional Development Grant (IDG) supports the growth and development of anthropological doctoral programs in countries where the discipline is underrepresented and where there are limited resources for academic development. The grant provides $25,000 per year and is renewable for a maximum of five years providing a total of $125,000. The grant may be used for any purpose to achieve the development goals of the applicant department. This may include, but are not limited to, such things as staff/faculty or student training activities, networking activities, student fellowships, staff/faculty or student exchange with partnership institutions, equipment, library materials and other resource purchases etc.

The Foundation expects applicants to arrange partnerships with one or more national or foreign institutions that can help the applicant department achieve its development goals.

The Institutional Development Grant has a two-stage application process. The first stage is a preliminary inquiry. The deadline for the preliminary inquiry is May 15 in the year prior to the planned start date. If the preliminary inquiry is successful, the applicant will be invited to submit a full application. The deadline for the full application is September 15 and the final decision is normally made within eight to ten weeks from this deadline. Applicants must be prepared to receive a site visit from representatives of the Foundation at any time during the duration of the grant. A minimum of one new award is made each year. Awards and renewals of existing awards are for a calendar-year beginning on January 1 of each year.

Successful applicant departments are expected to participate in periodic Foundation-sponsored networking activities with successful departments from other years to share ideas and experience.

Further questions about this program should be e-mailed to: development@wennergren.org.

For more detailed information on program requirements, application procedures, and review criteria, please refer to the links below: