The
IAS awards a total of $4000 in grants to individual authors in
July and February of each year. Grant awards have
ranged from $500 to $2500, although you may request as much as $4000.
Application deadlines are January 15th and June 15th of each year.
Applications received beyond these deadlines will be considered for the
next cycle of grants. A reply will be mailed to you within 4 to 6 weeks
of either deadline.
Please
note that when
the IAS awards a grant of more than $500, only seventy five percent of
the grant is paid at the time of the grant award and the remaining
twenty five percent is sent when we receive the completed project.
IMPORTANT: Please Read Before Beginning
the Application Process
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We cannot consider incomplete applications: please make sure you
complete Parts I, II, III, and IV and attach a writing sample. Please
also make sure that we receive a signed and dated copy of part IV of the
application.
* You must either pay a $10 application fee or enclose nine copies of
your proposal. This requirement is waived for prisoners. (Please make
checks payable to the IAS.)
* Your response to the following questions must not exceed eight single
spaced pages (in addition to the application form).
* Please enclose a sample of your writing, although not more than five
pages. The writing sample can be from a past work.
* Although we support works written in any language, your entire
application must be in English. Your writing sample must also be in
English.
Part I.
General Information
Title of Proposal
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If you are awarded a grant, your work will be complete by this date
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Part
II.
Background Information
1. Please write a one-paragraph
summary of your project.
2. How will you use this grant for the purpose of your work and what are
your financial circumstances?
3. What experience do you have that is relevant to your topic? (This can
include essays or books youve written on related themes, educational
experience, research, employment, etc.).
4. How do you plan to disseminate this piece? (E.g., will your piece be
published as a book or an article?)
5. Please
include letters of reference from three individuals who can attest to
the quality of your work and your ability to complete the proposed
project (e.g., professors, editors, associates, etc.).
Part
III.
Proposal
a. Why is your piece important to
the radical transformation of society? What insights does your piece
offer into social structures of domination and what contributions does
it make to efforts to abolish these structures and create a cooperative,
egalitarian society?
b. Why is your piece especially important at this particular time?
c. How is your piece different from other works on the same topic?
d. Please submit a section by section outline of your piece.
e. Please also enclose a sample bibliography.
Part
IV. Terms and Conditions
To be eligible for a grant from the Institute for Anarchist Studies, you
must indicate that you agree to the following terms and conditions.
a.
I am not an
officer, director, member of the grant selection committee, or any other
committee of the Institute for Anarchist Studies. I am not related to
anyone serving in any of the above capacities.
b. I will complete the
above work by the completion date listed under Personal Data and I
will send a finished copy of the work to the Institute for Anarchist
Studies by this date.
c. Assuming I own the pieces copyright, I grant the Institute for
Anarchist Studies permission to reprint from the completed work.
d. If I am awarded a
grant, I will acknowledge the assistance of the IAS in my published
work.
e. If the project is
scheduled to take more than six months, I will submit biannual progress
reports to the Institute for Anarchist Studies.
f. Should the date of project completion need to be extended,
I will apply for a project extension to the IAS six months
before
the expected date of project completion. Failing to do so, I recognize
that the IAS has the right to request a refund of the grant given.