ISBA stewards conservatively-managed accounts containing funds for several specific purposes. Additional contributions beyond the initial endowments are needed to sustain efforts. Please consider supporting some of the prizes and travel awards sponsored by ISBA
ISBA maintains an endowment fund to support offering the periodic awarding of the Savage Award for outstanding doctoral dissertations in Bayesian statistics. Funds may also be used to help finalists attend the ISBA World Meeting or the Joint Statistics Meeting to present their dissertation research.
A fund in memory of Pilar Iglesias has now been established by ISBA to endow an award in her name, to be given in perpetuity. The award provides travel grants for one or two graduate students or young researchers from a developing nation so that they can participate in an ISBA World Meeting .
ISBA maintains a fund devoted to supporting Junior Researchers (ISBA members who are graduate students or who received the PhD or equivalent degree within four years) so that they can participate in an ISBA World Meeting.
ISBA maintains a fund devoted towards defraying some of the expenses for some graduate students or young researchers so that they can participate in an ISBA World Meeting.
ISBA maintains a small fund, replenished by member donations, devoted towards continuing the upkeep of the tomb of the Reverand Thomas Bayes, namesake of ISBA, into the future.