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The The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is the principal resource in Greece for American scholars conducting advanced research on the language, literature, art, history, archaeology, and philosophy of Greece and the Greek world from pre-Hellenic times to the present.

The Foundation Center is an independent nonprofit information clearinghouse that collects, organizes, analyzes, and disseminates information on foundations, corporate giving, and related subjects.

The National Endowment for the Humanities funds research, education, museum exhibitions, documentaries, preservation, and related activities in the states.

The The National Science Foundation's Division of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) supports research in a broad range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary areas. The division's major focus is to advance fundamental scientific knowledge about cognitive and psychological capacities of human beings; cultural, social, political, spatial, environmental, and biological factors related to human behavior; human behavior, interaction, and decision-making; social, political, legal, and economic systems, organizations, and institutions; and the intellectual, value, process, and impact contexts that govern the development and use of science and technology.

The Natural Environment Research Council is one of the seven research councils which fund and manage scientific research in the UK. NERC is the leading body in the UK for research, survey, monitoring and training in the environmental sciences.

Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society is a non-profit membership society of more than 70,000 scientists and engineers who were elected to the Society because of their research achievements or potential. Sigma Xi has more than 500 chapters at universities and colleges, government laboratories and industry research centers. In addition to publishing American Scientist, Sigma Xi awards grants annually to promising young researchers, holds forums on critical issues at the intersection of science and society and sponsors a variety of programs supporting honor in science and engineering, science education, science policy and the public understanding of science. -- Description from Sigma Xi web page.

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Incorporated is a private operating foundation that supports basic research in all branches of anthropology. The foundation's mission is to advance significant and innovative research about humanity's cultural and biological origins, development, and variation, and to foster the creation of an international community of research scholars in anthropology. -- Description from Wenner-Gren web site.

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