Student Funding

The sections below can help narrow in on the type of funding you are searching for—internships, fellowships, conferences, emergencies, and more!

Some links lead to pages that have multiple funding sources. Others point toward an office or an individual. Some funds are specifically for students with high financial need and some have restrictions on who may apply. We hope you find what you need!

Internships

• Cross-Cultural Community Service grants provide student support for experiences in cultures other than one’s own, most typically for international community service, advocacy, activism (year-round funding available).
• Center for Careers and Internships provides funding for unpaid summer internships.
• Center for Careers and Internships providesfunding for Winter Term internships (see FAQs).
• Center for Careers and Internships provides other funding sources.
• Rohatyn Center supports internships in Russia through the Padma Desai Fund.
• Privilege & Poverty summer internships are paid, local in Addison County and national through the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP); international students may participate in SHECP internships without using OPT because Middlebury pays their stipends, directly.
• Center for Community Engagement helps facilitate winter term internships with our local community partners.

Fellowships

• CTLR Fellowships
• Listing of Fellowships
• Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship Program
• Rohatyn Center is the contact for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Fellowship.

Experiential Learning 

• Student Summer Experiential Opportunities  
• The Middlebury Mountain Club offers “Adventure Grants” to promote outdoor pursuits.
• Middlebury Outdoor Programs offers financial assistance for its break expeditions.
• Academic Outreach Endowment grants: Grants for students and faculty providing support for community-connected projects; must be linked to course(s) taken or to be taken; must include collaboration with a community partner organization(s); students must have a faculty advisor (rolling deadline).
• Cross-Cultural Community Service grants provides student support for experiences in cultures other than one’s own, most typically for international community service, advocacy, activism (year-round funding available).
• Religious Life Cluster Board Flex Fund provides funding to support cocurricular activities with a spiritual or religious component.

Research and Senior Work

• Research Funding Application for SRPS, Hoskin, and Selover funds.
• Senior Research Project Supplement
• Kellogg Fellowship for research support for senior work in areas of humanistic study related to their major program of study.
• The Selover Research Fund for American and Japanese Studies
• Hoskin Research Fund for research in areas of the world that are either developing as nations, or where conditions are experiencing rapid societal, political, or other fundamental change.
• Rohatyn Center
• Academic Outreach Endowment grants: Grants for students and faculty providing support for community-connected projects; must be linked to course(s) taken or to be taken; must include collaboration with a community partner organization(s); students must have a faculty advisor (rolling deadline).
• Cross-Cultural Community Service grants provide student support for experiences in cultures other than one’s own, most typically for international community service, advocacy, activism (year-round funding available).

Conference Travel

• Academic Conferences
• CE Mini-Grants, if civic- or community-engagement related.
• Cross-Cultural Community Service grants provide student support for experiences in cultures other than one’s own, most typically for international community service, advocacy, activism (year-round funding available).

International Students

• Funding for Optional Practical Training filing fees: Seizing Opportunities Fund Students with high financial need can apply for funding to support the cost of OPT. Before submitting your request in Handshake, you must make a request through International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS) for pre-approval. For details about the process, email isss@middlebury.edu.
• See note about international students above under Internships, Privilege & Poverty.

Winter Term Workshops

• SGA Winter Term Workshop Financial Aid: Apply through Student Activities Office.
• Posse Donor Fund
• Seizing Opportunities Fund

PE Classes

• Posse Donor Fund
• Seizing Opportunities Fund

Educational Diagnostic Testing

Please contact the folks at the Center for Teaching, Learning and Research (CTLR) about testing.

ADA Support

Student Accessibility Services is here to help students with many different types of disabilities.

Wage Relief

• Seizing Opportunities Fund

DACA

The College is committed to supporting students by providing information about Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and other related resources in an effort to help students and their supporters: See the DACA Resources page or please contact Elaine Hammond Middlebury’s Director of Equity Initiatives, who serves as the on-campus point person for current undocumented and DACA students.

Community Engagement

• CE Mini-Grants for student initiatives involving community action (academic year only).
• Academic Outreach Endowment grants: Student and faculty support for community-connected projects (rolling deadline).
• Cross Cultural Community Service grants: student support for international community service, advocacy, activism (year-round funding available).
• Community Engagement Organization Flex Fund: Student volunteer service initiatives related to Community Engagement Organization activities (academic year only).
• Religious Life Cluster Board Flex Fund: Funding to support co-curricular activities with a spiritual or religious component.

Volunteer Work

• Community Engagement Organization Flex Fund: Student volunteer service initiatives related to Community Engagement Organization activities (academic year only).
• CE Mini-Grants for student initiatives involving community action (academic year only).
• Cross Cultural Community Service grants provides student support for international community service, advocacy, activism (year-round funding available).

Summer Funding

• Summer Funding
• Summer Research Opportunities

Navigating College on Your Own

The Wily Network supports students who have experienced foster care, homelessness, or parents who are challenged by addiction, incarceration, or mental health issues; offers on-campus coaching, community-building and networking opportunities, and supplemental financial assistance; please contact Director of Equity Initiatives, Elaine Hammond, for more information.

Emergencies

• DOS Emergency Fund Talk to your Class Dean—this should be your first course of action.
• Posse Donor Fund
• Seizing Opportunities Fund