Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarships
www.rotary.org/en/StudentsAndYouth/EducationalPrograms/AmbassadorialScholarships/Pages/ridefault.aspx

Location: Worldwide

Duration: 3 months-2 years

The Experience: Rotary offers three types of Ambassadorial Scholarships:

Academic-Year Ambassadorial Scholarships provide a flat grant of US$25,000 for one academic year of study in another country. These awards are intended to help defray costs associated with round-trip transportation, tuition and other fees, room and board, and some educational supplies. They are the most common type of Ambassadorial Scholarships.

Multi-Year Ambassadorial Scholarships help fund two years of degree-oriented study in another country. A flat grant of $12,500 is provided each year.

Cultural Ambassadorial Scholarships help finance either three or six months of intensive language study and cultural immersion in another country. They provide a flat grant of $12,000 for three months and $17,000 for six months. Funds are intended to offset costs associated with round-trip transportation, language training, and homestay living arrangements. Applications are considered for candidates interested in studying Arabic, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, and Swedish.

Some Rotary districts may offer only one type of scholarship, or none at all. Applicants must check with their local club about availability.

Financial Info: (see above)

Eligibility: Applicants must be residents of a country with a local Rotary Club.

Requirements: Scholarship recipients must participate in Rotary events and presentations in their host country as well as events upon return to their home country related to their experience.

FYI: Additional Ambassadorial Scholarships are available specifically for university professors; see website for details.

To Apply: Applications must be made through a local Rotary Club (see website for details). Online application, 2 essays, 2 references (local Rotary Clubs may have additional requirements).

Application Deadline: For 2010-11 awards, individual Rotary Club deadlines may be as early as 1 March 2009 or as late as 15 August 2009.

Contact:
Rotary International
One Rotary Center
1560 Sherman Ave.
Evanston, IL 60201
Phone: 847.866.3000
Fax: 847.328.8554
scholarshipinquiries@rotaryinternational.org

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends
www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/stipends.html

Location: Worldwide

Duration: Summer Stipends support full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two months.

The Experience: Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research in any location worldwide that contributes to scholarly knowledge or to the public’s understanding of the humanities. Recipients usually produce scholarly articles, monographs on specialized subjects, books on broad topics, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly tools.

Financial Info: $6,000 for two consecutive months of full-time research and writing

Eligibility: Faculty or staff members of colleges, universities, or primary or secondary schools; independent scholars or writers; staff of museums or libraries. U.S. Citizenship is required, except foreign nationals who have been living in the United States or its jurisdictions for at least the three years immediately preceding the application deadline are eligible.

Requirements: A final performance report will be due within 90 days after the completion date of the award period.

FYI: Applicants enrolled in a degree-granting program are ineligible to apply. Applicants who have satisfied all the requirements for a degree and are awaiting its conferral may apply, but such applicants need a letter from the dean of the conferring school attesting to the applicant’s status as of October 3. This letter must be faxed to the Summer Stipends program at 202.606.8204.

To Apply: Resume, 3-page narrative describing the proposed project, bibliography, references. These required materials must be submitted online through www.grants.gov (submission instructions are available on the Summer Stipends website).

Application Deadline: Application process begins in August. Deadline is October 1.

Contact:
National Endowment for the Humanities
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 318
Washington, DC 20506
Phone: 202.606.8200
Fax: 202.606.8204
stipends@neh.gov

Peace Brigades International Volunteers
www.peacebrigades.org

Location: Colombia, Guatemala, Indonesia, Mexico, Nepal

Duration: One year, with possibility of extension

The Experience: Teams of volunteers provide protective accompaniment to human rights defenders threatened with violence. From women’s groups in Colombia and Indonesia, indigenous communities in Mexico and Guatemala, to lawyers in Nepal, PBI accompanies a wide variety of activists that are struggling for their rights against heavy odds and receiving threats or violence for carrying out their work. A PBI team seeks to encourage, by means of an international, nonviolent, non partisan presence, a peaceful resolution of conflicts in the local area. Teams meet regularly with local and national civil and military authorities and embassies to raise concerns regarding human rights abuses as they affect the organizations PBI accompanies.

Financial Info: Round trip airfare, accommodation, meals, internal travel, insurance, repatriation and a stipend to cover additional costs.

Eligibility: Minimum age 25, commitment to non-violence, and fluency in Spanish for Colombia, Guatemala, and Mexico programs. Indonesia volunteers are provided with 3 months of language training if not already fluent in Bahasa Indonesia.

Requirements: Varies by country; generally, volunteers attend a two-day orientation meeting prior to departure as well as an in-country orientation.

To Apply: After completing an application form and supplying references to the project office, applicants will first do a pre-screening interview (usually by phone). The next stage in the process is to attend a 7- 10 day project training. These trainings are held several times a year in Europe, North America and the Asia–Pacific region. Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico Project trainings use Spanish and Indonesia and Nepal Project trainings English. Following the training, applicants will be notified of their acceptance.

Application Deadline: Rolling. Placement can take from one month to one year.

Contact (for U.S.-based applicants; see website for contacts for residents of other countries):
PBI USA
1326 9th St, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Tel: 202.232.0142
Fax: 202.232.0143
info@pbiusa.org

Fund for Teachers Fellows
www.fundforteachers.org

Location: Worldwide

Duration: Open

The Experience: The Fund awards almost every type of professional development imaginable, anywhere in the world, including travel, language study, counterpart shadowing, and attending professional development courses (see website to see examples of what past Fellows have done). However, there are a few exceptions. The Fund will not provide monies for student travel, the completion of post baccalaureate degrees, on-site (or campus) professional development, compensation for substitutes, or stipends.

Financial Info: Applicants may apply individually for up to $5,000 or as a team for up to $10,000.

Eligibility: Teach in a Pre-K through 12th grade classroom (as a full-time teacher spending at least 50 percent of the time in the classroom or classroom-like setting), minimum of three years classroom teaching experience, must have intention of returning to teaching in the same district following the fellowship, employed by a school/district in an eligible geographic area (see map of eligible areas in 42 states at www.fundforteachers.org/apply.html).

FYI: The Fund awards almost every type of professional development imaginable. However, there are a few exceptions. The Fund will not provide monies for student travel, the completion of post baccalaureate degrees, onsite (or campus) professional development, compensation for substitutes, or stipends. More than 3,500 teachers from across the United States have studied and traveled in 110 countries on all seven continents as Fellows.

Requirements: Upon completion of their fellowship, Fellows must submit a budget summary, an overview of the experience, and complete a survey

To Apply: Proposal detailing how the fellowship will make the applicant a better teacher and how improved skills are to be implemented in the classroom, benefiting students, curricula and school. Fellowships are awarded based on application quality and merit as judged by a committee (see website for the application scoring rubric).

Application Deadline: January 30, 2009

Contact:
Fund For Teachers
2000 Post Oak Boulevard, Suite 100
Houston, TX 77056
Phone: 713.296.6127
Fax: 713.296.6134
info@fundforteachers.org

Fulbright Teacher Exchange
www.fulbrightexchanges.org

Location: Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Ghana, Hungary, India, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, Poland, Romania, Senegal, Slovakia, South Africa, Switzerland, Turkey, Thailand, United Kingdom, Uruguay

Duration: 2-6 weeks, a semester, or an academic year

The Experience: The majority of teachers participating in the Fulbright Teacher Exchange spend 6 weeks, a semester, or an academic year in their program country teaching the same subject and grade level as they do in the U.S. Most Fulbright Teacher Exchanges are reciprocal; a teacher from the country of exchange teaches at the recipient’s school for the year. Though programs vary by country, many include an in-country orientation upon arrival. For U.S. administrators, the Fulbright program also offers work-shadowing assignments overseas lasting from three to six weeks.

Financial Info: Grantees receive airfare to and from the program location. Grantees receive a leave of absence from their home school with pay and benefits and use their regular salary to cover daily expenses while abroad. Some placements provide an additional living allowance.

Eligibility: U.S. citizenship (Fulbright Teacher Exchanges are also available to overseas teachers; see website for details), bachelor’s degree, at least 3 years of full-time teaching or administration experience. Additional requirements vary by country. Applicants must be fluent in the local language for placements in certain countries; see website for more details.

Requirements: Teachers selected for exchange must attend a pre-departure orientation in Washington, D.C.

FYI: Fulbright often gives preference to applicants who have not previously lived in the country in which they wish to participate in an exchange.

To Apply: Completed application (available online only), essays, a health form, and 2 references (including one from the applicant’s current supervisor granting a leave of absence if necessary), in-person interview.

Deadline to Apply: October 15

Contact:
Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program
600 Maryland Ave. SW, Suite 320
Washington, DC 20024
Phone: 202-314-35270
Fax: 202-479-6806
fulbrightcte@aed.org

U.S. Department of State English Language Fellows Program
http://elf.georgetown.edu

Location: Placements vary by year and currently include Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Malawi, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia and Montenegro, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, West Bank/Gaza, Yemen

Duration: 10 months (September to June of each year)

The Experience: The English Language Fellows (ELF) program places experienced teacher trainers and recent TEFL/TESL master’s degree graduates at universities, teacher-training institutions, ministries of education, and other related language education institutions to assist with the improvement of English teaching capacity around the world. There are two types of Fellows. Senior English Language Fellows are experienced teacher trainers who have a M.A. or higher degree in TEFL/TESL or a closely related field and who have significant overseas teaching experience. These Fellows serve as full-time teacher trainers and participate in the following activities: teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP), designing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) curricula and materials, conducting program evaluations, testing, organizing workshops and conferences. Junior English Language Fellows are recent (within the past five years) TEFL/TESL master’s degree graduates who may or may not have prior overseas teaching experience. These Fellows serve as full-time EFL teachers. Teaching duties comprise 20 hours per week, with additional work in teacher training, curriculum development, and testing. Fellows generally work 40 hours per week and are not required to do administrative work.

Financial Info: Stipend ($35,000 for Senior Fellows and $25,000 for Junior Fellows), living allowance (designed to cover local housing, food, and transportation), dependent allowance (Senior Fellows only: $5,000 for one dependent), shipping allowance, educational materials allowance, airfare to and from the program site, medical coverage up to $50,000 per illness or injury.

Eligibility: U.S. citizenship. Senior Fellows must have previous overseas teaching experience and a master’s degree or higher in TEFL/TESL, Applied Linguistics or a related field. Junior Fellows must have received a master’s degree in TEFL/TESL or a related field within the past five years.

Requirements: Fellows are required to attend a pre-departure orientation in Washington, DC, in August.

FYI: Since 1992, more than 800 English Language Fellows have taught and conducted programs in 110 countries. The ELF Program is funded by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and is currently administered by Georgetown University. Fellows have the option of renewing for an additional year of service.

To Apply: Completed application (available online or call for a copy), resume, 2 letters of reference, 2 essays, and a direct video conferencing or in-person interview. Additional requirement for Senior Fellow applicants: two teacher training modules.

Deadline to Apply: May 15

Contact:
English Language Fellows Program
Georgetown University-CIED
Box 579400
Washington, DC 20057-9400
Phone: 202.687.2608
Fax: 202.687.2555
elf@georgetown.edu