Major funding agencies and opportunities for Waterloo Arts researchers:
Search Engine
- PIVOT funding opportunity search engine (free for UW researchers, but registration/login required)
Internal
- Waterloo's Robert Harding and Lois Claxton Humanities and Social Sciences Endowment Fund grants program
- UW/SSHRC Explore Grant Program
- UW/SSHRC Exchange Grant Program
- Waterloo CIHR Research Incentive Award Program
- Waterloo Special Graduate Student Entrance Award (aka New Faculty Award) (on the recommendation of a new faculty member hired in the last two years, the student will receive a $5,500 award)
- Waterloo Centre for Teaching Excellence Learning Innovation and Teaching Enhancement (LITE) Grant Program
- Waterloo International Research Partnerships Grant Program
- Waterloo Research Award, or "Leave / Non-leave Grant" for self-funded research. (This is a program that enables researchers who fund some of their own research to arrange for special tax treatment of those expenditures (i.e., if awarded, salary used directly for research expenses will not be taxed). Researchers can apply, at any time in the year, for sabbatical or leave periods, or for ongoing research expenses.
Provincial
- Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation funding programs (ERA, ORF, etc.)
National
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funding programs
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) funding programs
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) funding programs
- Canada Council for the Arts funding programs
- Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) funding programs (UWaterloo CFI guidelines)
- Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program
- MITACS Student internship programs
International
- See Waterloo International's list of international funding/grant opportunities
Government Research Contracts
- See the Office of Research's list of current government research contracts
- Search the Public Works and Government Services Canada database
- Search the Grants.gov database for U.S. research grants and contracts
Foundations and Institutes
- Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada research grants programs
- Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute funding programs
- Japan Foundation of Canada - grants
- La Fondation Daniel Langlois (Daniel Langlois Foundation for Arts, Science and Technology, Montreal)
- Gerda Henkel Foundation (grants for historical humanities)
- Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) - grants
Prestigious awards
- Office of Research prestigious awards, categorized by discipline with further detail about eligibility, deadlines, etc.