Grant Funding Opportunities: 10/28/11
If you have any special funding request searches, please feel free to send them any time (julie_king@ncbiotech.org). Please also advise if any of your partners have submitted grant applications to funding announcements posted in the weekly grant alert emails. We would love to hear of their successes!
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Upcoming Meeting: A Biotech Forum will be heldat the North Carolina Biotechnology Center on Wednesday, December 7th from 5:30pm – 8:00pmto inform emerging biotechnology companies corporate and academic researchers about the breadth and depth of foundation funding. The discussion will focus on topics such as best practices for receiving foundation funding and how to develop and make the most out of relationships with these organizations. Forum panelists include individuals from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and the Michael J. Fox Foundation. Paid registration is required. Visit the Biotechnology Center’s website for more details and information on registration: http://www.ncbiotech.org/event/biotech-forum-foundation-funding.
Deadline: 11/25/11 (LOI Due); 1/31/12 (Full Proposal Due)
Agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Program: Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI)
Description: The Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) was established to solve critical industry issues through research and extension activities. SCRI will give priority to projects that are multistate, multi-institutional, or trans-disciplinary; and include explicit mechanisms to communicate results to producers and the public. Projects must address at least one of five focus areas: research in plant breeding, genetics, and genomics to improve crop characteristics; efforts to identify and address threats from pests and diseases, including threats to specialty crop pollinators; efforts to improve production efficiency, productivity, and profitability over the long term; new innovations and technology, including improved mechanization and technologies that delay or inhibit ripening; and methods to prevent, detect, monitor, control, and respond to potential food safety hazards in the production and processing of specialty crops.
Award Amount: Award amounts and project lengths vary based on project type—see full program details for more information.
Website: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/rfas/specialty_crop.html
Eligibility: For the Specialty Crop Research Initiative, applications may be submitted by Federal agencies, national laboratories, colleges and universities, research institutions and organizations, private organizations or corporations, State agricultural experiment stations, Cooperative Extension Services, individuals, or groups consisting of two or more of these entities.
Special Cost Share Requirement: The recipient of a grant under the Specialty Crop Research Initiative must provide funds or in-kind support from non-Federal sources in an amount that is at least equal to the amount provided by the federal government.
Deadline: 12/5/11 (3/5/12 and 9/5/12)
Agency: Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF)
Program: Promoting Innovation in Science and Mathematics (PRISM)
Description: The Burroughs Wellcome Fund recognizes the important role that K-12 teachers play in the lives of students by stimulating a passion for science and mathematics innovations. In this time of tight budgets, BWF wants to support teaching professionals in their efforts to provide quality hands-on, inquiry-based activities for their students. BWF is launching a new program to support North Carolina K-12 teachers in their efforts to promote excitement for science and mathematics in the classroom by providing grants for materials, equipment, and supplies related to the implementation of high quality curriculum and activities in the classroom. Equipment, materials, and supplies must be related to quality hands-on experiences for the students in science and/or mathematics. Items must be used directly by students in the classroom or in a structured afterschool time activity.
Award Amount: The PRISM award program provides grants up to $3,000 to cover the cost of equipment, materials, and supplies to implement hands-on, minds-on science and mathematics curriculum in the classroom. Recognizing the need for materials training, additional funding up to $1,500 may be requested for professional development related to the implementation of new equipment or use of materials in the classroom.
Website: http://www.bwfund.org/pages/619/Promoting-Innovation-in-Science-and-Mathematics/
Eligibility: Applying teaching professionals must currently hold a professional educator’s license to teach in a North Carolina K-12 public school. Teachers holding licensure in elementary education are eligible. Applying teaching professionals must currently be employed at a K-12 public school (including charters) in North Carolina.
Deadline: 1/17/12
Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: Improvements in Facilities, Communications, and Equipment at Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories (FSML)
Description: Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories (FSMLs) are off-campus facilities for research and education conducted in the natural habitats of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems. FSMLs support environmental and basic biological research and education by preserving access to study areas and organisms, by providing facilities and equipment in close proximity to those study areas, and by fostering an atmosphere of mutual scientific interest and collaboration in research and education. To fulfill these roles, FSMLs must offer modern research and educational facilities, equipment, communications and data management systems for a broad array of users. In recognition of the importance of FSMLs in modern biology, NSF invites proposals that address these general goals of FSML improvement.
Award Amount: Proposals may request up to $350,000, except that requests for planning grants are limited to $25,000. The program expects to make, on an annual basis, approximately 15 - 20 new standard and continuing grants, of which 3 - 5 will be planning grants. The exact number of grants, and their durations, will depend on the quality of the proposals received, the size of the requests, and the availability of funds at NSF.
Website: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12505/nsf12505.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
Eligibility: Universities and Colleges, Non-Profits
Deadline: 1/20/12
Agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture/National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Program: Secondary Education, Two-Year Postsecondary Education, and Agriculture in the K-12 Classroom Challenge (SPECA) Grants Program
Description: The purpose of this grant is "to promote and strengthen agriscience and agribusiness education." Toward this end, this program will increase the number and diversity of students entering 2- or 4-year degree programs in food, agriculture, and/or STEM related fields. Also, this program will improve the quality of postsecondary education to meet the workforce needs of these fields.
Award Amount: Applicants can submit one of the following types of projects (total award max amounts in parentheses): Conference/Planning Proposal ($25K), Regular Project Proposal ($50K), Joint Project Proposal ($150K), and Large-Scale Comprehensive Initiatives ($300K). Project periods may range from twenty-four (24) to thirty-six (36) months. Projects should conclude no sooner than twenty-four (24) months after the award start date to allow sufficient time to evaluate project results and to report project impacts. In any of the four Project Types described above, a grant recipient must match 25% of the Federal funds awarded from non-Federal sources.
Website: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/rfas/sec_challenge.html
Eligibility: Applications may only be submitted by: (1) public secondary schools, (2) public or private nonprofit junior and community colleges, (3) institutions of higher education, or (4) nonprofit organizations.
Deadline: Various (Deadline for submission is the last business day of January, March, June and September)
Agency: Greiner Bio-One
Program: Lab Grant Program
Description: The Greiner Grant Program will award 4 startup labs $1000 in essential lab products using Greiner Bucks which can be redeemed as cash for whichever Greiner products are needed specific to the lab’s research. Products offered include those for cultivation and analysis of cell and tissue cultures, microplates for high-throughput screening, a complete line of dependable ready-to-use general labware tools and innovative biochip technologies.
Award Amount: $1000 max
Eligibility: To be eligible for the grant, applicants must be researchers who have a Ph.D., M.D. or equivalent who are starting a new lab or are currently at a lab which has been conducting research for less than two months at the date of application. Any new lab must have an affiliation with an educational organization, a startup company or a lab within an existing business.
Special Note: Only 1 application valid per start up lab, 1 additional entry may be obtained by contacting Greiner Bio One on Linkedin. Deadline for submission is the last business day of January, March, June and September. http://www.linkedin.com/company/greiner-bio-one
