Deadline:
January 15, 2025
Location(s)
Worldwide
Overview
The mission of The Leakey Foundation is to increase scientific knowledge, education, and public understanding of human origins, evolution, behavior, and survival. The Leakey Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to funding scientific research that explores the many facets of human origins and sharing the results of this research through our innovative educational programs.
Details
New Requirement for Our January 10 Deadline
In light of potential short and long term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to have formal contingency plans for your proposed project. Please describe in up to one page your plans for adjusting this project if needed. Changes could include modified start dates for travel, fieldwork or data collection, alternative data collection strategies, alternative field sites, or alternative methods for recruitment and engagement of participants, as well as any other potential modifications to research and development activities (including IRB/IACUC approvals/changes).
Please include this document as a PDF attachment to your proposal. You may upload the PDF as a “Supplemental Attachment.” This document will not count against the two page supplemental attachment limit.
Please consider the following if you are thinking of applying for a Leakey Foundation Research Grant:
- Is my research relevant to human origins and evolution?
- For PhD candidates: Will I be advanced to candidacy (all but dissertation) before the deadline for application?
- Am I affiliated with an academic or research institution?
- We do not award funds to individuals.
- Am I fully compliant on all prior Leakey Foundation awards?
How to Apply
Please use the detailed application instructions as well as the application guidelines and FAQs to prepare the attachments that you will upload to your new application. Then use the links on this pageto apply online.
The Leakey Foundation
The Leakey Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to funding scientific research that explores the many facets of human origins and sharing the results of this research through our innovative educational programs.
We are based in San Francisco, California, and we are the only U.S. funding organization wholly committed to human origins research and education throughout the world.
The Leakey Foundation promotes a multidisciplinary approach to exploring human origins. We award more than $800,000 annually in field and laboratory grants for vital new research and long-term projects. We give special encouragement to early career scientists asking new questions and seeking innovative ways to answer these questions about human evolution. Like venture capitalists, The Leakey Foundation understands that the greatest rewards come from taking the greatest risks.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
- Advanced doctoral students (advanced to candidacy – all but dissertation) and established scientists are eligible for Leakey Foundation Research Grants.
- There are no citizenship restrictions; however, all applications must be written in English.
Dates
Deadline: January 15, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
Funding
The Leakey Foundation exclusively funds research related to human origins. Priority of funding is commonly given to exploratory phases of promising new research projects that meet the stated purpose of the Foundation. The majority of The Leakey Foundation’s Research Grants awarded to doctoral students are in the $3,000-$15,000 range. Larger grants given to senior scientists and post-doctoral researchers may be funded up to $25,000.
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