The Impact of Private Support

Gifts from private sources are critical in assuring our leadership position in survey research and in expanding our mission to educate the next generation of empirical social scientists.

Government funding sources have fostered dramatic growth in the scope and volume of ISR research but they have also limited the Institute's development in several important ways. Grant dollars must be directed exclusively to specific research projects, leaving ISR with limited revenue for student scholarships, fellowships, and graduate student research assistantships; insufficient funds to recruit and retain extraordinary junior faculty; few dollars for outreach; and--perhaps most importantly--no venture capital for innovative, risky and potentially high-payoff research projects.

The stories linked below exemplify the impact of private support dollars and illustrate the real importance of philanthropy from individuals, foundations and corporations in the research ISR conducts and in the life of students involved with ISR.

	Supporting the Kish Fellows Fund
	Innovation in Social Research Award winner: Corrine McConnaughy
	Marshall Weinberg supports Zhen Zeng and Justin Thomas
	ISR Welcomes Partners in Industry
	The Detroit Arab American Study
	Belly Talk Among U.S. Moms-to-Be