The Ireland Funds America conducts research that serves to benefit both the knowledge base of our donors and the projects they support. This ranges from annually researching 600+ organizations across the island of Ireland and in the United States, to inform policy and decision making to assessing grant making impact with onsite visits. Research into the Irish diaspora’s demographics, genealogy, and cultural, personal and business connections increases knowledge within the community.
Through its grantmaking, The Ireland Funds America also supports other organizations’ research including:
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Research grants for restoration and preservation, digitization of research libraries and making them more accessible to the public, libraries in universities and in other community organizations, e.g. including Irish traditional music archives
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Research and scholarships that advance medical research (e.g. oncology), economic research, engineering research
