The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation is a private non-profit grant-making foundation based in Princeton, New Jersey.

[edit] History and funding

Originally conceived in 1945, it was funded in 1947 with a founding grant from the Carnegie Corporation. The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation was named in honor of distinguished graduate and president of Princeton University , Woodrow Wilson, who is the only U.S. President ever to have earned the Ph.D. degree. The Foundation has also received support from the Ford Foundation, the Annenberg Foundation, and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.[1]

According to Dr. Nancy Weiss Malkiel, chairwoman of the Foundation's trustees, in 2005 the foundation possessed an endowment of $3 million in and spent about $17 million a year.[2]

[edit] Woodrow Wilson Fellows

Over the course of years it has granted numerous fellowships to gifted graduate students in support of their doctoral training in preparation for a career in higher education. More recently it has extended its support to secondary education.

According to the Foundation's website, "The Woodrow Wilson Foundation has awarded fellowships to more than 20,000 scholars, who now include 13 Nobel Laureates, two Fields Medallists in mathematics, 14 Pulitzer Prize winners, 35 "genius grant" MacArthur Fellows, two U.S. Poets Laureate, and 21 recipients of Presidential and national medals."[3]

[edit] References

• Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation