Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) Fellowship
Carnegie Mellon University and the Data Science for Social Good Foundation
Full-time summer fellowship in which student teams build machine learning and data science projects with government and nonprofit partners on real social problems; agencies and nonprofits can also propose projects as partners.
- Indicative award
- Not a cash award (not a cash award)Page gives no stipend figure; partner organisations receive fellow project work in kind.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · MarNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Three-month summer program; the 2026 edition was hosted at Johns Hopkins University with an extended deadline of March 6, 2026.
- Who can apply
- Master's / undergraduate, Doctoral candidate, Community organisation
- Eligibility
- Open to current or recent graduate and undergraduate students from quantitative and computational fields; partner projects come from governments and nonprofits.
- SSWR clusters
- Special Interest Groups
- Topics
- data science · machine learning for public good · government analytics · nonprofit data projects · applied research
- Apply at
- https://dssgfellowship.org/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-09-23. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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