Beware of Low-Value Grantwriting Workshops

Colleagues, today I received yet another email from an outfit called "The Grant Training Center," advertising a Two-Day Grant Writing Workshop at University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

This organization charges $495 for this workshop, but you can receive much of the same information by working with the CHASS Research Office, with College and University development officers, with your colleagues at NC State, and with your professional network. This event is not sponsored by UNC-G, and this organization is simply renting space at or near UNC-G.

Please let me know if you have questions about this or similar organizations. Some of these offers are legit, but they tend to be the exception, not the rule.

Colleagues, I'm sharing a note I received from Bonnie Aldridge, who sends periodic reminders about our subscription to Research Development and Grant Writing News. This is a remarkable resource, full of information about funding trends, funding opportunities, how to prepare winning proposals, and so on. I strongly recommend Reading current and recent issues of this newsletter to gain insight into sometimes obscure funding opportunities. The e-books are also very good resources. Please share this with your colleagues across the college.




The July 2014 issue of Research Development and Grant Writing News has been posted to: go.ncsu.edu/research-news. 

The Research Development Office maintains an institutional-level subscription allowing us to distribute freely within NC State University.  

Current and past issues of the newsletter and e-books:  New Faculty Guide to Competing for Research Funding: What all new faculty need to know about finding funding and writing research proposals and Strategies for Planning, Developing, and Writing Large Team Grants can be accessed online with a valid unity ID.

More funding opportunities in the humanities

I received these notices today. Please share with your colleagues.

National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants	9/11/14	$5K - $60K
National Endowment for the Humanities Enduring Questions (new course development)	9/11/14	Up to $38K
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Academy Film Scholars Program	10/1/14	$25K

NEH/DFG Bilateral Digital Humanities Program (USA-Germany)

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in the United States and the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V., DFG) are working together to offer support for projects that contribute to developing and implementing digital infrastructures and services for humanities research. Details are at http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/nehdfg-bilateral-digital-humanities-program

Upcoming opportunities in the social sciences and humanities

Bonnie Aldridge shared this list, and the ACLS, in particular, is a good place for faculty to look for support--it's a prestigious award that reflects well on a scholar's abilities and ideas.

Let me or the research office staff know if you plan to pursue any of these listed opportunities, which follow the jump. Click on the title for more information, and note that deadlines are primarily in September.

Important Limited Submission Opportunities

Colleagues, Bonnie Aldridge has shared this list of upcoming limited submission programs. I have not edited this list, so there may well be some opportunities here that are not aimed at CHASS, but given the interdisciplinary nature of our work, you should know of these opportunities and share them with your colleagues. 

Click on the program name link to learn more about the opportunity.  Click the mandatory/courtesy contact link to email the Limited Submission office to declare your interest. The entries in bold are more likely to be of greatest interest to CHASS researchers. Please let me know if you wish to submit an application, as there may be an internal review process for many of these programs.

The list follows the jump.

NEA and NEH: Important Opportunities

Colleagues, these are important opportunities that are "limited submission" programs, meaning that they will be reviewed at the University level before being sent to the funder.

CHASS Humanities Extension Program -- Call For Participants

CHASS Humanities Extension Program 

The Humanities Extension Program at NC State University seeks to match public school classroom teachers with NCSU CHASS faculty who are interested in sharing their expertise with public school students. Dr. David Zonderman from History serves as the program’s academic director.

NEH Summer Stipends

NEH Summer Stipends
Receipt Deadline September 30, 2014 for Projects Beginning May 2015

NCSU Process:

Limit:  2 per institute 

Due Dates:
8/1/14 - Mandatory Notice of Intent to submit


If an internal review is required:

8/15/14 – Concept paper describing research due to Limited-submission@ncsu.edu
8/29/14 – Internal review
9/30/14 - Full application due to National Endowment for the Humanities

Head Start and Child Care Graduate Student Research Grants

OPRE Grant Announcement

The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) in the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has recently published two discretionary research funding announcements titled “Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Head Start Graduate Student Research Grants” and “Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Child Care Research Scholars”, which are summarized below.   If you have questions regarding these grant announcements, please emailHSGraduateResearchReviews@icfi.com or ChildcareScholars@icfi.com, respectively, or call 1-877-350-5913.

Head Start and Child Care Graduate Student Research Grants

The full announcements for “Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Head Start Graduate Student Research Grants” is available at: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2014-ACF-OPRE-YR-0785

The full announcement for “Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Child Care Graduate Student Research Grants” is available at: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2014-ACF-OPRE-YE-0775

The purpose of these grants is to support dissertation research addressing issues of significance related to Head Start, Early Head Start, and CCDF, that will inform policy decisions and solutions, particularly for underserved/understudied populations, utilizing the most rigorous research methodology, and promoting mentor-student relationships that support students’ independent lines of research.

NEH CHALLENGE GRANTS--Deadline MAY 1

Office of Challenge Grants

Receipt Deadline May 1, 2014

Brief Summary

NEH challenge grants are capacity-building grants, intended to help institutions and organizations secure long-term support for their humanities programs and resources. Through these awards, many organizations and institutions have been able to increase their humanities capacity and secure the permanent support of an endowment. Grants may be used to establish or enhance endowments or spend-down funds that generate expendable earnings to support and enhance ongoing program activities. Challenge grants may also provide capital directly supporting the procurement of long-lasting objects, such as acquisitions for archives and collections, the purchase of equipment, and the construction or renovation of facilities needed for humanities activities. Funds spent directly must be shown to bring long-term benefits to the institution and to the humanities more broadly. Grantee institutions may also expend up to 10 percent of total grant funds (federal funds plus matching funds) to defray costs of fundraising to meet the NEH challenge. Because of the matching requirement, these NEH grants also strengthen the humanities by encouraging nonfederal sources of support.

Investigator-Initiated Research: The Comprehensive School Safety Initiative

Colleagues, this is an interesting study for anyone researching schools and school safety, and, as noted, the solicitation is very wide open. If you're interested, I'd strongly urge you to apply and, of course, my office is ready to help with our application.

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April 11, 2014 Dear Colleague: The purpose of this letter is to alert school officials and social and behavioral scientists and researchers about an exciting research opportunity. The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is interested in receiving proposals related to our “Investigator-Initiated Research: The Comprehensive School Safety Initiative” solicitation. The announcement has been on the streets for a few weeks now, but we would like to provide more insight into the kinds of proposals we are seeking. It is most important to note that the solicitation is wide open—NIJ will consider any research topic that can add to our knowledge base about school safety. Think broadly: What do we know and what do we need to know? This is your opportunity to test innovative ideas about school safety. Does your idea have the potential to make a difference where school safety is concerned? Can it be implemented in the real world? If successful, could it be adopted by schools across the country or schools in certain parts of the country (e.g., rural areas)?

Proposal Development Workshop Series session on National Science Foundation (This Friday!)

There is still time to register for the panel discussion "Winning Grants at NSF," which will be held this Friday, April 4th, from 9:00-11:00 AM in Room 2431 at the College of Textiles. The workshop will feature a panel of successful faculty sharing best practices on winning grants from NSF. The session is co-presented by the Research Development Office and the Office of Faculty Development. To register, please visit go.ncsu.edu/proposaldevelopment.

Colleagues, I apologize for the very short deadline on this--I just today received information about this very exciting opportunity.

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Two weeks left to apply for the Presidential Innovation Fellowship!

There are just two weeks left to apply to be a Presidential Innovation Fellow! The PIF program pairs talented, diverse individuals with top civil servants in federal government to tackle many of our nation’s biggest challenges. A six-month or one-year tour of duty as a PIF is an amazing way to create a profound and lasting social impact.

Applicants have the opportunity to apply for 14 exciting projects, in three major areas: modernizing the veterans’ experience, data innovation, and crowdsourcing. If you’ve ever thought about serving your country, or know someone who you think would be a great fit, apply to be a Presidential Innovation Fellow today! We are accepting applications through April 7.

Yours truly,

Todd Park
U.S. Chief Technology Officer
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Dear Colleague Letter - Youth Violence: Opportunity for Breakthroughs in Fundamental Basic Research

Please note that this is not a new funding opportunity, but, rather, is an announcement of NSF's interest in soliciting research that addresses this important issue. 

NSF 14-049

Dear Colleague Letter - Youth Violence: Opportunity for Breakthroughs in Fundamental Basic Research

National Science Foundation
Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (SBE)

March 12, 2014

Dear Colleague:

This letter is to alert all basic social and behavioral science research communities of the National Science Foundation's interest in receipt of proposals that will enable a better understanding of the contributing factors, causes, and consequences of violence perpetrated by and against youth. This will advance the Foundation's goal to provide scientific evidence in support of important social issues. The interest spans both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research.

Background: Although the incidence of youth violence is at a historic low, the continuing loss of life is tragic and the long term consequences of youth violence are of ongoing public concern. In 2013, the National Science Foundation sponsored a workshop on "Youth Violence: What We Need to Know." This two-day workshop brought together researchers from sociology, anthropology, psychology, communications, computer science, information systems, and public policy. The resulting reportsummarized much of the existing scientific evidence regarding the precursors and causes of violence perpetrated by children and adolescents. It underscored the need for additional study to enhance our understanding of the dynamics of, contributors to, and impact of violent ideology and violent acts.

NSF's mission includes support for basic research, in this case research with the goal of elucidating the causes, correlates, and consequences of youth violence. For this reason, projects focused on developing or evaluating specific interventions would lie outside NSF's purview.

UGPN Research Collaboration Fund Call for Proposals 2014

The Office of International Affairs at NC State on behalf of the University Global Partnership Network (UGPN), is pleased to announce the 3rd Round of the UGPN Research Collaboration Fund is now open. This Fund provides travel support for high-quality research collaboration between researchers at the UGPN partner institutions (North Carolina State University, University of São Paulo, University of Surrey). The intention is that these awards go beyond pump-priming to support substantive engagement that leads to high quality outputs, such as joint papers or joint research bids. Proposals should be jointly submitted by faculty from at least two of the UGPN partner institutions. 

The deadline for proposal submission is Friday May 2, 2014 at 5:00 PM

View the announcement and download the full Call For Proposals on the OIA website.

(http://oia.ncsu.edu/ugpn-grant-announcement-2014)

4th Annual Global Engagement Exposition--Please Share!

This is an important event for international engagement--please share!

Tom

OIA Event Invitation 4th Annual Global Engagement Exposition Come see how NC State is fulfilling its promise to be "locally responsive, globally engaged" at the 4th Annual Global Engagement Expo!  The expo will feature achievements in international research, teaching/scholarship, extension, engagement and economic development at North Carolina State University. Faculty, staff and students engaged in international research, teaching, extension and/or engagement are invited to showcase their global projects via poster presentations. The expo also features an awards ceremony for the 2014 Jackson Rigney International Service Award and the Outstanding Global Engagement Award.   Thursday, April 10th, 2014 11:30am - 1:30pm The University Club 4200 Hillsborough St., Raleigh, NC 27606   Lunch will be provided.  Registration is free.  RSVP required.   RSVP or Submit a Poster Presentation Proposal by Friday, April 4th at 5:00pm RSVP for the 2014 Global Engagement Exposition Submit a Poster Presentation Proposal Details: oia.ncsu.edu/2014-global-engagement-exposition

Information Session on Department of Defense Research Funding

Randy Avent sent me a reminder that there will be a panel discussion on how to find funding from the Defense Department. This panel will be held on Centennial Campus, College of Textiles, room 2431 at 9:00 am on Friday, March 21. Please share this information with your colleagues! This follows an earlier, and very well received, panel on seeking funding from the National Institutes of Health. 

New Release - U.S. Census Bureau International Population Data and Maps

From my colleague Joshua Comenetz at the Census Bureau--fascinating data!

The Census Bureau has added to and updated the online collection of subnational population data linked to maps (shapefiles) that are available at the Spatial Data Repository.  The Repository contains a variety of data and maps primarily for countries that receive assistance via the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
http://spatialdata.measuredhs.com/

To access the maps, start at the web page above and:

Funding Opportunity: FRPD RFP and Guidelines Announced

Funding Opportunity: FRPD RFP and Guidelines Announced 

We are pleased to announce the release of the proposal guidelines for the 2014-15 Faculty Research and Professional Development Fund (FRPD).  Do not hesitate to contact Missy Seate if you have any questions about this award.  http://research.ncsu.edu/rdo/funding/internal-funding/frpd/

PINS Proposal must be routed to the CHASS Research Office by April 11, 2014.