There are many non-Penn (external) sources of funding for students, which fall into different categories:
Scholarships
- Brown & Caldwell Scholarships – Brown & Caldwell offer scholarships to students with career pursuits related to the environment through a variety of scholarships including the Eckenfelder Scholarship, the Minority Scholarship, Women in Leadership Scholarship, the LGBT Scholarship and the Navajo Nation Scholarship.
Internships & Volunteer Work
- Amy Adina Schulman Memorial Fund – New Jersey based fund providing grants to individuals, young adults who volunteer or intern for progressive social action projects or programs
- Gilman International Internship for Internships Abroad – open to U.S. citizen undergraduate Federal Pell Grant recipients intending to participate in intern abroad programs
- ProFellow – Searchable database of 1,000+ fellowships in different categories
Post-Grad & Gap Year Fellowships
- MyUndocumentedLife – Offers advice, blog posts, information on scholarships, internships, jobs, fellowships and graduate programs for undocumented and DACAmented students
- ProFellow – Searchable database of 1,000+ fellowships in different categories
- The Grant Advisor – Information on grant, research, and fellowship opportunities for U.S. institutions of higher education
- SPIN database – SPIN (Sponsored Programs Information Network) is a funding opportunity database that provides information on government and private funding sources in both the US and abroad. SPIN contains over 40,000 funding opportunities from more than 10,000 global sponsors. The University of Pennsylvania has subscribed to the SPIN database and provides access to all PennERA users.
