GRANT FUNDING ALERT

The following opportunities are of general interest, if you want something more specific to your disciple/research you can create your own funding alert through COS Pivot.

CUNY Internal Funding Programs

PSC-CUNY Research Award Program

The Professional Staff Congress-City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) Research Award Program was established as a major vehicle for the University's encouragement and support of faculty research and leverage external funding. It seeks to enhance the University's role as a research institution, further the professional growth and development of its faculty, and provide support for both the established and the younger scholar. Awards are distributed by the University Committee on Research Awards, a faculty committee, and administered by the Research Foundation of CUNY. Preference is given to junior faculty in the allocation of funds.

Cycle 47 update:

September 4, 2015: Grants Proposal System opens for application submissions.

December 15, 2015 11:59 PM EST: Application submission deadline for Cycle 47 Traditional A, Traditional B and Enhanced Awards. Your college may have an earlier internal deadline.

April 15, 2016: Notification of Cycle 47 Awards sent to faculty who applied for Traditional A or Traditional B Awards.

May 16, 2016: Notification of Cycle 47 Awards sent to faculty who applied for Enhanced Awards.

July 1, 2016: Cycle 47 Traditional A, Traditional B and Enhanced Awards begin.

June 30, 2017: Cycle 47 Awards terminate. Requests to exercise the six month extension must be received by this date.

September 30, 2017: All receipts for expenditures must be received by the Research Foundation for grants that terminate June 30, 2017.

December 31, 2017: Extended Traditional A, Traditional B and Enhanced Awards terminate.

March 1, 2018: Final reports due for Cycle 47 awards.

March 31, 2018: All receipts for expenditures must be received by this date for grants that terminate on December 31, 2017.

Cycle 48 announcement September 2016

Community College Research Grant Program (Formerly C³IRG)

Brief Summary

In past years the CUNY Community College Collaborative Incentive Research Grant (C³IRG) program has provided faculty with grants to fund research in a wide variety of areas. The C³IRG program is now being replaced with the Community College Research Grant program. Funds from this program will support faculty research at CUNY community colleges through two distinct tracks. Track 1 of the program supports for pedagogical research. Track 2 supports faculty and students who participate in mentored research experiences.

Application Deadline: Next Deadline April 1, 2016 // Deadline for submission to the Office of Grants and Sponsored Programs of the QCC Grant Proposal Information Form with draft narrative and budget is two weeks prior to official deadline.

Awards are expected no later than September 2016.

Grant cycle will run from 9/1/16 thru 6/30/17.

For complete information on this program and proposal submission guidelines, please see http://www.cuny.edu/research/faculty-resources/internal-funding-programs/community-college-grant.html

Interdisciplinary Research Grant Program (Formerly CIRG)

Brief Summary

The University is introducing a new Interdisciplinary Research Grant program that seeks to support and encourage faculty researchers who will tackle global challenges or problems that affect the needs of urban populations. We encourage applications that address specific challenges in ways that can be approached by combining expertise across disciplines (such as the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities).

The goal of this program is to provide seed funding for projects that will become eligible and competitive for external funding. The program replaces the long-running Collaborative Incentive Research Grant Program.

Application Deadline: Next Deadline March 4,2016 // Deadline for submission to the Office of Grants and Sponsored Programs of the QCC Grant Proposal Information Form with draft narrative and budget is two weeks prior to official deadline.

Awards are expected late August 2016.

Grant cycle will run from 9/1/16 thru 6/30/17.

For complete information on this program and proposal submission guidelines, please see http://www.cuny.edu/research/faculty-resources/internal-funding-programs/collaborative-incentive-grant.html

National Science Foundation

The NSF funds in a wide variety of fields as follows:

Crosscutting and NSF-wide
Biological Sciences
Computer & Information Science & Engineering
Education and Human Resources
Engineering
Environmental Research & Education
Geosciences
Integrative Activities
International Science & Engineering
Mathematical & Physical Sciences
Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences

Recently announced NSF funding can be found here http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_list.jsp?org=NSF&ord=rcnt

Availble funding by Program area/Discipline can be searched here http://www.nsf.gov/funding/

Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants

Brief Summary

The Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program awards relatively small grants to support the planning stages of innovative projects that promise to benefit the humanities.

Proposals should be for the planning or initial stages of digital initiatives in any area of the humanities.

Application Deadline: TBA

For complete information on this program and proposal submission guidelines, please see http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/digitalhumanitiesstartup.html

Summer Stipends

Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both.

Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources.

Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months.

Summer Stipends support projects at any stage of development.

Summer Stipends are awarded to individual scholars. Organizations are not eligible to apply.

Application Deadline: TBA

For complete information on this program and proposal submission guidelines, please see

Research on Educational Improvement

The Spencer Foundation provides grants for research on the improvement of education. The Spencer Foundation’s research grant-making activities are organized through four Areas of Inquiry identified by the Foundation as having “fundamental and abiding importance for educational improvement.”

Funding Availability: The Spencer Foundation considers grant proposals up to $40,000/$50,000 and $50,001 up to $1,000,000.

Deadlines: The next deadline for Small Grant proposals is 4:00pm CST, February 1, 2016. The following deadlines will fall on May 2, August 1, and November 1, 2016. Small Research Grant proposals are accepted 4 times per year.

Letter of Intent for Lyle Spencer Research Awards: TBA

Links to detailed descriptions of each Area of Inquiry and Strategic Initiative are linked to from this page: http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/research. Guidelines for the Areas of Inquiry and Strategic Initiatives can be found through this page: http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/how-to-apply.

The Allen Foundation makes grants for the following purposes:

• To fund relevant nutritional research.
• To support programs for the education and training of mothers during pregnancy and after the birth of their children, so that good nutritional habits can be formed at an early age.
• To assist in the training of persons to work as educators and demonstrators of good nutritional practices.
• To encourage the dissemination of information regarding healthful nutritional practices and habits.

Deadlines: Proposals received by December 31st will be considered for awards to be announced in June the following year.

For more information on the Allen Foundation, please visit https://www.allenfoundation.org/default.asp.