Conference travel funding

[JeremiahParadise]

Hi all,

I'm an MA-holding, humanities adjunct at a community college, and I was recently accepted to present a conference paper this spring. The conference is within driving distance (3-4 hours), but since my current department only offers travel funds to its tenure track faculty, I'm going to be left paying transport and lodging expenses myself.

My question is this: do you happen to know of any other places I can look for funding? I will apply for grants from the conference itself, but I'm interested in whether or not you know of anywhere else -- NPOs, etc.

Thanks for whatever help you can offer!

(x-post from Writing, Presenting, and Publishing)

[Timshel]

I'd be interested in hearing the answer as I am also part-time faculty and I have presented at conferences, and I just pay for it out of pocket. I see it as building my CV and I always try to work it into a vacation, too.

[wreckofthehope]

Conferences committees themselves often offer some, usually competitive, travel funding for students and/or non-tenured and/or part-time academics... maybe check if the conference you're attending has anything like this?

I'm sorry.... I have no idea why I just totally ignored the part of your post where you said you were checking with the conference that you were attending...I'm so tired from writing papers my brain isn't working properly.

Edited December 15, 2011 by wreckofthehope

[runonsentence]

Sorry to say I'm not aware of reliable funding outside of one's own institution or the conference/sponsoring organization itself.

Talking to people within your specific niche/research interest might be the only way of finding something—some conferences/research interests have strange awards floating around out there. For instance, Pearson sponsors an annual grant for CCCC (which I only know about because rhet/comp colleagues have passed on the emails to me).

[Grunty DaGnome]

I noticed that CUNY's grant and funding page had links to several organizations that offered smaller grants that could probably be applied to papers and traveling. Some had Jan. 1st deadlines, so check it out soon.