1. FAQ: When are proposals due in OSP?
2. Deadlines approaching for Internal Research Awards
a. Faculty first
b. Digital Partners Grant from UNCG Libraries
3. New NSF GPG takes effect Jan 25, 2016
4. NSF STEM Education Resource website
5. NIH unveils FY2016–2020 Strategic Plan
6. Sampling of external funding opportunities
Arts
a. Dedalus Foundation – Master of Fine Arts Fellowships in Paintng and Sculpture
b. NEA Art works
Civic engagement
c. Public Welfare Foundation – Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice, Workers’ Rights
d. NEH – Landmarks of American History and Culture: Workshops for School Teachers
e. NEH: Public Scholar Program
f. Corporation for National and Community Service – Social Innovation Fund
g. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem Solving (EJ-CPS) Cooperative Agreement Competition.
h. Kate B. Reynolds Health Care Division Grant Cycle.
Education
i. Spencer foundation small research grants
j. U.S. Department of Education 2016 National Professional Development Grant Competition to Support Educators of English Learner Students
k. Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program
Sciences
l. NIMH Mentoring Networks for Mental Health Research Education (R25)
m. NIH Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) (R25)
n. American Honda Foundation (focus on STEM and the environment)
o. Limited Competition: Addressing Health Disparities in Maternal and Child Health through Community-Based Participatory Research (R03)
p. NIDA – Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for “NIDA Research Education Program for Clinical Researchers and Clinicians (R25)”
q. N.C. Biotechnology Center – Collaborative Funding Grant (CFG)
r. N.C. Biotechnology Center – Biotechnology Innovation Grant (BIG)
s. NIH – Summer Research Education Experience Programs (R25)
t. NIH Home and Family Based Approaches for the Prevention or Management of Overweight or Obesity in Early Childhood (R21 or R01)
u. NIH, Amgen Foundation and the Foundation for the NIH announce collaboration to support undergraduate research opportunities
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1. FAQ: When are proposals due in OSP?
The OSP requires that all proposals, electronic or otherwise, be fully routed and submitted in RAMSeS FIVE WORKING DAYS PRIOR to an agency deadline. The primary reasons for this are: To assist the PI in creating and submitting a proposal that is within sponsor guidelines including: assistance with an appropriate and accurate budget, assistance with format to ensure that the proposal is complete and that it represents the University and the Investigator in a positive way. Since the proposal document is submitted and the award is made to the University, not to the Principal Investigator (PI), OSP has the legal and fiduciary responsibility to ensure that all University, sponsor, State and Federal regulations, laws, and policies are met. Because the actual proposal development process can take days, weeks, and even months, we recommend that the PI contact the OSP very early in the proposal process, so the administrator can help facilitate the overall process. Start earlier for large and complex grants.
Although NIH data suggests no significant difference in the award rates for last minute submissions…
…grant applications that miss their deadline have a much lower (0%) award rate. Plus, you can lower your stress level by finishing up with time to spare.
See more FAQ’s at:
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2. Deadlines approaching for Internal Research Awards
a. Faculty First Awards are offered by the Office of the Provost thanks to generous support of UNCG donors. Deadline February 29, 2016, at 5pm. For more information see: http://research.uncg.edu/
b. Digital Partners Grant. Through a competitive process, the UNCG Libraries will award one quarter of an FTE of IT support for a year to help UNCG faculty produce and share digital scholarship, through the Digital Partners Grant. The deadline for proposals is Jan 12, 2016. The Digital Partners Grant submission form and more details are available at: http://library.uncg.edu/
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3. New NSF GPG takes effect Jan 25, 2016
If you plan to submit a grant proposal to NSF, please review the new guidelines.
GPG table of contents
Significant Changes and Clarifications to the PAPPG
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4. NSF STEM Education Resource website
Discover the answers to important questions on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and careers, from pre-K, through college, and up to the workforce.
For example:
- What are the basic skills that 2-year olds have developed?
- How do U.S. students score in math and science in 4th grade? In 8th grade? By State?
- Who takes Advanced Placement courses in math and science?
- How many S&E graduates attended community college?
- What percentage of S&E degrees do women and racial/ethnic minorities earn?
- How much do states spend on student aid for undergraduate students
- What does the S&E job market look like for U.S. graduates?
- How useful is S&E education in preparing for the job market?
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5. NIH unveils FY2016–2020 Strategic Plan
The plan focuses on four essential, interdependent objectives that will help guide NIH’s priorities over the next five years as it pursues its mission of seeking fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and applying that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability.
Summary:
Full plan, as PDF:
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6. Sampling of external funding opportunities
Arts
a. Dedalus Foundation – Master of Fine Arts Fellowships in Paintng and Sculpture
Deadline: 15-Jan-2016
The sponsor annually awards two fellowships to students in painting or sculpture who are entering their final year in an M.F.A. degree program at a college, university, or art school in the United States. Each fellowship carries a stipend of $20,000.
b. NEA Art works
Deadlines: 2/18/2016 and 7/14/2016.
To support the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, public engagement with diverse and excellent art, lifelong learning in the arts, and the strengthening of communities through the arts. Matching grants generally range from $10,000 to $100,000. A minimum cost share/match equal to the grant amount is required.
Civic engagement
c. Public Welfare Foundation
Continuous submission (no deadline)
The Foundation’s Criminal Justice Program supports groups working to end over-incarceration of adult offenders in America. In particular, the Program makes grants to groups that are working to: Reduce incarceration rates through the reform of sentencing laws and parole and probation systems, including the use of diversion and alternatives to incarceration; Reduce jail populations through the reform of pretrial detention policies and practices; and Develop and promote innovative strategies to reduce the overrepresentation of racial and ethnic minorities in the criminal justice process.
The Foundation’s Juvenile Justice Program supports groups working to end the criminalization and over-incarceration of youth in the United States. In particular, the Program makes grants to groups that are working to advance systems reforms that will: Reduce youth incarceration rates in the juvenile justice system (through policies that, for example, limit the use of incarceration, expand the use of community-based alternatives to incarceration, reduce lengths of stay, and/or decriminalize minor misbehaviors or otherwise divert youth from the juvenile court system); End the practice of trying, sentencing, and incarcerating youth as adults; and Promote more fair and equitable treatment of youth of color by the juvenile justice system.
The Foundation’s Workers’ Rights Program supports groups seeking policy and system reforms to improve the lives of low-wage working people, with a focus on securing their basic legal rights to safe, healthy, and fair conditions at work. Specifically, the Program makes grants to groups seeking reforms that will do the following: Make Work Safe and Healthy– by preventing illness, injury, and death on the job, and improving workers’ compensation; Make Work Pay– by empowering workers to hold low-road employers accountable for wage theft, misclassification, and contingent work abuse, particularly through policies that create or improve private rights of action and fee-shifting; and Build Workers’ Advocacy Power– by improving the ability of low-wage workers to act collectively for policy and system reform.
d. NEH – Landmarks of American History and Culture: Workshops for School Teachers
http://www.neh.gov/grants/
Receipt Deadline February 25, 2016
The Landmarks of American History and Culture program supports a series of one-week workshops for K-12 educators. NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops use historic sites to address central themes and issues in American history, government, literature, art, music, and related subjects in the humanities.
e. NEH – Public Scholar Program
The Public Scholar Program supports well-researched books in the humanities intended to reach a broad readership. Although humanities scholarship can be specialized, the humanities also strive to engage broad audiences in exploring subjects of general interest. They seek to deepen our understanding of the human condition as well as current conditions and contemporary problems. The Public Scholar Program aims to encourage scholarship that will be of broad interest and have lasting impact. Such scholarship might present a narrative history, tell the stories of important individuals, analyze significant texts, provide a synthesis of ideas, revive interest in a neglected subject, or examine the latest thinking on a topic. Books supported by this program must be grounded in humanities research and scholarship. They must address significant humanities themes likely to be of broad interest and must be written in a readily accessible style. Making use of primary and/or secondary sources, they should open up important and appealing subjects for a wide audience. The challenge is to make sense of a significant topic in a way that will appeal to general readers. Applications to write books directed primarily to scholars are not appropriate for this program.
Receipt Deadline: February 2, 2016 for projects beginning October 2016
f. Corporation for National and Community Service – Social Innovation Fund
Deadlines: 13-Jan-2016, 11-Feb-2016
The purpose of the SIF is to grow the impact of innovative community-based solutions that have compellingevidence of improving the lives of people in low-income communities throughout the United States. The SIFdirects resources toward increasing the evidence-base, capacity, and scale of the organizations it funds in order toimprove the lives of people served by those organizations. The SIF also generates broader impact by leveragingthe grant program in various ways to improve how philanthropies, federal government departments and agencies,state and local government, and community-based organizations deploy funds to address social challenges.Additionally, it enhances the ability of the nonprofit sector to support the growth of innovative, high-impactorganizations.
g. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem Solving (EJ-CPS) Cooperative Agreement Competition.
Funds will be awarded to local community-based organizations seeking to address environmental and public health concerns in their communities. Deadline is February 12, 2016.
h. Kate B. Reynolds Health Care Division Grant Cycle.
We are pleased to announce our grants process for the February 9, 2016, grants application deadline.
The Trust will accept applications in all four of the Health Care Division’s Issue Areas:
Access to Primary Care
Community Centered Prevention
Diabetes
Mental Health and Substance Abuse.
For details, see the announcement on the KBR website, and note that some programs are limited by county tier. http://www.kbr.org/
To engage in an initial conversation about proposals from UNCG for the February cycle, contact Dr. Terri Shelton at shelton@uncg.edu
Education
i. Spencer foundation small research grants
Small Research Grant proposals are accepted 4 times per year. The next deadline is at 4:00pm CST, February 1, 2016. The following deadlines will fall on May 2, August 1, and November 1, 2016.
The Small Research Grants program aims to support smaller scale or pilot research projects that have budgets of $50,000 or less. Proposals are encouraged from scholars across a variety of disciplines in an effort to fund field-initiated education research.
j. U.S. Department of Education 2016 National Professional Development Grant Competition to Support Educators of English Learner Students
The NPD program provides grants for eligible institutions of higher education, in collaboration with states or districts, to implement professional development activities that will improve instruction for English Learners (ELs). Professional development may include preservice or in-service activities for educators of ELs including teachers, administrators, paraprofessionals or others educators working with ELs. Professional development activities may include teacher education programs and training for other education professionals that lead to certification, licensing, or endorsement for providing instruction to English learners.
Dates of Webinars:
Webinar #1 Date & Time: December 16, 2015, 2:00-3:00pm (EST)
Webinar #2 Date & Time: January 13, 2016, 2:00-3:00pm (EST)
Webinar #3 Date & Time: January 20, 2016, 2:00-3:00pm (EST)
Letter of Intent Due By: Dec 31, 2015
Full Application Deadline: February 19, 2016
k. Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program
Deadlines: 29-Jan-2016, 01-Feb-2016
The Foundation will award undergraduate scholarships to outstanding students, to be known as Barry Goldwater Scholars, in the spring of 2016 for use during the 2016–2017 academic year. The awards will be made on the basis of merit to two groups of students—those who will be college juniors and those who will be college seniors in the 2016–2017 academic year—who have outstanding potential and intend to pursue research careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, or engineering.
Sciences
l. NIMH Mentoring Networks for Mental Health Research Education (R25)
Due date: May 25, 2016
Award amount: Application budgets may not exceed $200,000 in direct costs annually, for up to 5 years.
“Participants in proposed mentoring networks are limited to graduate/medical students, medical residents, postdoctoral scholars, and/or early-career faculty”
m. NIH Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) (R25)
Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP) invites applications to its SEPA program for the development of innovative educational activities for pre-kindergarten to grade 12 (P-12), teachers and students from underserved communities with a focus on Courses for Skills Development, Research Experiences, Mentoring Activities, Curriculum or Methods Development or Informal science Education (ISE) exhibits, and Outreach activities. This FOA will use the NIH Research Education (R25) grant mechanism. Deadline: June 22, 2016
n. American Honda Foundation (focus on STEM and the environment)
Deadlines: Feb 1, May1, Aug 1, Nov 1
The American Honda Foundation engages in grant making that reflects the basic tenets, beliefs and philosophies of Honda companies, which are characterized by the following qualities: imaginative, creative, youthful, forward-thinking, scientific, humanistic and innovative. We support youth education with a specific focus on the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects in addition to the environment. When considering the American Honda Foundation as a potential funding source, please note the following:
o. Limited Competition: Addressing Health Disparities in Maternal and Child Health through Community-Based Participatory Research (R03)
Letter of Intent Due Date(s): 30 days before application due date
Next Application Due Date: November 21, 2016
Only one application per institution is allowed
UNCG Internal deadline to declare interest to apply: By March 1, 2016 at 5PM, send an email to arturne2@uncg.edu with the name of the PI and the title of this funding opportunity in the email subject line.
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages Small Research Project Grant (R03) applications to support community-based participatory research (CBPR) projects planned and developed by recipients of the Phase I Academic-Community Partnerships Conference Series awards under PAR-09-092 and PAR-12-102. Only one CBPR project will be supported per Phase 1 grant award.
The areas of research emphasis include: preterm birth; infant mortality; sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS); maternal mortality; reproductive health; uterine fibroid tumors; childhood, adolescent, and/or adult obesity; violence prevention; perinatal HBV and HIV/AIDS prevention; HIV/AIDS prevention; asthma; intellectual and developmental disabilities; pediatric injury prevention; and medical rehabilitation. Support will be provided for formative research; pilot or feasibility studies; development, adaptation and/or testing of methodologies; and development and/or testing of technology for the purpose of reducing maternal and child health disparities through the use of CBPR.
p. NIDA – Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for “NIDA Research Education Program for Clinical Researchers and Clinicians (R25)”
In January 2016, there will be a re-issue of PAR-13-084 (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/
The overall objective of this Program is to ensure that highly trained clinical scientists will be available in adequate numbers and in appropriate scientific areas to reduce the burden of substance abuse, addiction, and their related health consequences. To accomplish this goal, the NIDA Research Education Program will support research education in the mission areas of the NIDA, for those in clinically focused careers. Participants (those receiving the research education) should be training for careers as clinical researchers, clinicians/service providers, or optimally a combination of the two. Participants (those receiving the research education experiences) may be at the following levels of professional career development: undergraduate, medical/graduate student, postdoctoral fellow, medical resident, and/or independent scientist.
q. N.C. Biotechnology Center – Collaborative Funding Grant (CFG)
Co-sponsored by the Kenan Institute for Engineering, Technology and Science, the CFG program supports university-company partnerships that help to transfer technology from the lab to the market. Grant funds pay for a postdoctoral researcher or technician in a university research laboratory who, under the guidance of a principal investigator, performs research that will help the company partner achieve a commercially significant milestone. Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to contact us to discuss potential projects.
Next Deadline: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 (noon).
r. N.C. Biotechnology Center – Biotechnology Innovation Grant (BIG)
The Biotechnology Innovation Grant (BIG) targets university technologies at the invention disclosure stage, funding studies that provide go/no-go decisions for future development. The project team must include an academic scientist and a commercialization advisor. Interested applicants are strongly encouraged tocontact us to discuss potential BIG projects.
Next Deadline: February 17, 2016 (noon).
s. NIH – Summer Research Education Experience Programs (R25)
The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The over-arching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that foster a better understanding of biomedical, behavioral and clinical research and its implications. To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this FOA will support creative educational activities with a primary focus on research experiences for high school, undergraduate and science teachers during the summer academic break.
Letter of intent due 30 days prior to application due date.
Application Due Date(s)
March 23, 2016, March 23, 2017, March 23, 2018 , by 5:00 PM
t. NIH Home and Family Based Approaches for the Prevention or Management of Overweight or Obesity in Early Childhood (R21 or R01)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites exploratory pilot/feasibility study and small clinical trial (R21) applications from institutions/organizations that propose to test novel home or family based interventions for the prevention or management of overweight in infancy and early childhood. Tested interventions can use behavioral (including dietary and physical activity), environmental, or other relevant approaches.Deadline: May 7, 2016Full Details (R21): http://grants.nih.gov/
u. NIH, Amgen Foundation and the Foundation for the NIH announce collaboration to support undergraduate research opportunities
Amgen Scholars at NIH will spend the summer working at NIH’s main campus in Bethesda, Maryland side-by-side with some of the world’s leading scientists, in an environment devoted exclusively to biomedical research. During their internships at NIH, scholars will be matched with research mentors in the NIH Intramural Research Program (IRP) where they will be immersed in a culture of translational science and will explore important elements of the basic, translational and clinical research enterprise.
During their internships at NIH, scholars will receive a monthly stipend and Transhare benefits for travel within the Metro DC area. Housing and travel support for all interns participating in the Amgen Scholars Program at NIH will be arranged by the Foundation for the NIH.
Requirements:Be U.S. citizens or permanent residents, Be enrolled for Fall 2015 in a four-year college or university in the U.S., Puerto Rico, or other US territory, Be a rising junior or senior (including fifth-year seniors), Have a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher (4.0 scale).
Deadline: February 1, 2016 (For best consideration, apply no later than January 15th, 2015)
For details, see: https://www.training.nih.