USA Scholarships
December Deadline Scholarships
December Deadline Scholarships
Scholarships and fellowships with application deadlines in December. Plan ahead and submit your applications before the year-end rush.
Nathan Cummings Foundation Grant 2026 - $50k to $250k
The Nathan Cummings Foundation grant programme funds organisations working on racial, economic and environmental justice in the United States, with most grants between $50,000 and $250,000. The Letter of Inquiry portal is open year-round with rolling review, and staff aim to come back to applicants within 12 weeks. Three grant types run alongside each other: Venture Grants up to $100,000 for one year, Advancement Grants up to $250,000 a year for up to two years, and invitation-only Enterprise Grants above $250,000 a year for longer. Program Related Investments run separately at $250,000 to $750,000, usually repaid over three to seven years. Read the exclusion list before anything else, because NCF does not fund individuals, 501(c)(4) organisations, direct service work outside an advocacy strategy, campus or prison-based programmes, or conservation projects.
Tech Journalism Fund 2026 - $5,000 to $25,000 Grants
The Tech Journalism Fund 2026 is Omidyar Network's project grant for US-based journalists reporting on technology and society, paying $5,000 to $25,000 towards the cost of a single resource-intensive story. Freelancers, staff reporters, editors and whole teams are eligible across any medium. The money covers reporting costs rather than salary: travel, research and fact-checking support, multimedia work, data access such as LexisNexis searches and government record requests, and a stipend for the reporting time itself. Priority goes to pitches on AI regulation and tech policy, investigations into the companies and people shaping the AI industry, the effect of AI on children and families, and how workers and unions are dealing with AI at work. Applications run on a rolling basis with no deadline and are usually reviewed within 30 days. Every funded project stays editorially independent and discloses the support.
HP Social Media Marketing Free Online Course 2026
The HP Social Media Marketing free online course 2026 is a short, self-paced training module from HP LIFE, the free learning platform run by the HP Foundation, and it ends with a certificate of completion that costs nothing. The course covers a range of social media marketing platforms and walks you through building a social media advertisement that actually reaches your target customers. Most learners finish in under an hour. There is no fee, no application, no deadline and no entry requirement: you create a free HP LIFE account, pick one of eight languages, work through the lessons, and download the certificate the moment you finish. More than 179,000 people have taken this one course, and it also works offline through the HP LIFE mobile app.