ICPSR Giving
In an increasingly data-driven world, ICPSR seeks to make data more accessible, more useful, and more understandable. By providing a reliable, unbiased resource to researchers everywhere, ICPSR fosters clarity and transparency during a time in which these qualities seem ever scarcer.
By offering hands-on training services through the ICPSR Summer Program, ICPSR empowers people everywhere to utilize its best-in-class data for the public good, equipping researchers at all stages of their careers to make valuable advancements in the social sciences.
In addition to offering best-in-class training, ICPSR is a national leader in data curation. Without the vital curation efforts of ICPSR faculty and staff, millions of pieces of data would go without organization, description, cleaning, enhancement, and preservation for public use, rendering them virtually unusable and greatly hindering the course of scientific advancement.
An investment in ICPSR will allow our teams to continue their vital work and rise to meet new opportunities for revolutionary research with real-world implications. Your partnership demonstrates a commitment to rigorous data curation, generous data sharing, and intensive data training, so that people everywhere can benefit from ICPSR's unparalleled resources. Now more than ever, your gift to ICPSR will make an impact for researchers, students, and communities near and far.
Support ICPSR
Strategic Initiatives
ICPSR Strategic Initiatives Fund
This fund provides the ICPSR Director with critical support to explore exciting new opportunities or support the area of greatest need.
Data Preservation
CivicLEADS Research Fund
This fund supports infrastructure, resources, and technical assistance for researchers to share and access high-quality datasets which can be used to study civic education and involvement.
DataLumos: Preserving Government Data
DataLumos is an ICPSR archive for valuable government data resources. DataLumos accepts deposits of public data resources from the community and recommendations of public data resources that ICPSR itself might add to DataLumos.
Paul T. David Fund
This fund provides support to update datasets. The funding was provided by Paul and Opal David. Paul David was a prominent political scientist and economist prior to his death in 1994.
Gottesman Family Immigration Fund
This fund will support data projects in ICPSR for processing, curating, and archiving of immigration data. This fund will help ICPSR to establish a broad, robust longitudinal source of data for immigration researchers.
Training Support
Learn about the impact of your gift to the ICPSR Summer Program
Henry "Hank" Heitowit Scholars Fund
ICPSR Summer Program Scholarship was established to honor Hank Heitowit, Director of the Summer Program, 1981-2007. The Scholarship provides for previous participants of the program to attend again to enhance their skillset.
ICPSR Summer Program Fund
This fund provides the ICPSR Summer Program with resources to respond to opportunities and challenges, to further develop the program, and to support program participants.
Warren Miller Scholars Fund
ICPSR scholarship, established to honor Warren Miller, one of America's foremost authorities on electoral politics and voting behavior and the founding director of ICPSR, provides support for students in ICPSR's Summer Program.
Learn about the incredible impact of data activism support at the Institute for Social Research in our Donor Impact section.
What will YOU do to advance data activism?
To learn more about how you can make your data visions a reality at ICPSR, please contact our development team.