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Capital Construction/Renovation: Awards to support building, expanding, or major renovations/alterations to physical facilities.
Centers, Research/Service: Awards to start or maintain a center, the focus of which is research, service delivery, etc.
Challenge Grant: Awards that are matching grants, to encourage new and increased support, usually for cultural institutions. Challenge grants require a match of funds. For example, "three-for-one" or four-for-one," means that for every three or four dollars raised from other sources, the sponsor will "match," or award, one dollar. These are one-time, multi-year grants, generally allowing the recipient a specified time period, usually up to three years, to come up with the "other sources" portion to be matched.
Collaborative Project: Awards for programs which encourage/require collaboration on the part of applicants. Typically used on programs where the sponsor provides funding to one party who then uses the funds to administer a project where several parties will work together. Not used when the award recipient is to collaborate with the sponsoring agency. Also used for programs where an investigator conducts research with a foreign investigator. Note: These projects should not be confused with EXCHANGE programs (see below).
Computer Infrastructure/Networks: Used when the sponsor provides funding for an institution to be connected to the Internet or to link the institution's computer system to another. Can also be used to support the maintenance, expansion, or creation of internal or external networks.
Conference—Attend: Awards to attend a conference, symposium, seminar, workshop, etc. Awards may include per diem and administrative costs and cost of publishing the proceedings.
Conference—Host/Conduct: Awards to hold/conduct a conference, symposium, seminar, workshop, etc.
Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA): Used primarily for projects that involve the development and licensing of technology.
Curriculum Development: Awards in support of educational programs, designing/developing/revising educational curricula, instructional methods, etc. NOT for research ABOUT educational programs, curricula, etc.
Demonstration/Evaluation: Awards for demonstration/evaluation projects (also for model and pilot projects). These awards are used for projects to illustrate the effectiveness of a procedure/methodology; an example of a demonstration project might be a proposal for establishing the feasibility of an art restoration method.
Development—Program: Awards to develop or initiate a program (NOT for development as used in fundraising).
Dissertation: Used for programs to support the research and writing of doctoral dissertations and master’s theses.
Endowment: Awards for endowment, generally for educational institutions.
Equipment: Awards for purchase of major equipment (generally, laboratory/scientific equipment, but also audio-visual materials).
Exchange Program: For those programs where an actual (reciprocal) exchange of personnel/researchers or students or faculty members takes place.
Exhibits/Collections: Awards to design or fund exhibits and collections (generally, art or similar). Also used for awards of books and written materials to augment a library's collections.
Facilities—Access To: For use on programs in which library/art/scholarly materials collections or scientific equipment, etc. is made available for someone to conduct research/scholarly endeavors. Money may or may not be involved.
Federal Register Weekly Ref. Guide: Used only on SPIN's Federal Register Weekly Reference Guide programs. Four weeks’ worth of the Guide are kept on the SPIN database at a time. Guides advise of updates to existing SPIN federal programs, as well as new programs to be added (and SPIN program numbers when assigned); proposed and final rules of such programs; and also comment on programs announced, but not included, on SPIN.
Fellowship: Awards to individuals for research, often used in conjunction with award types that indicate where (in-residence, travel abroad, travel domestic) or for what (training/professional development, temporary government assignment) the fellowship is being offered. Also may be used when an institution is awarded money to offer a fellowship.
Fulbright Programs: For those programs called Fulbright programs.
General Operating Funds: Awards for the general costs of maintaining a program or organization.
General Project: Awards that may be used for a non-specified/general project.
Information Dissemination: Awards to be used to spread/disseminate information/ideas.
Internships: Awards for periods generally ranging from a few weeks to a year of training/work experience (often unpaid), sometimes in-residence, at a sponsor's facilities.
In-Residence: Award that indicates that an awardee must be resident (relocate); usually requires involvement in sponsor programs or activities, in addition to the research or training "experience" element of the award. Duration of stay is usually a set one pre-determined by the sponsor. Always used with other award mechanisms (i.e., research grants/R&D, fellowship, summer).
Land Acquisition: Awards to purchase land/real estate/property.
Lectureship: Awards which provide funds for the delivery of a set number/series of lectures or "talks"of a scholarly nature at an academic institution library, etc.
Outreach: Used when the term "outreach" is (usually) explicitly used in the program; refers to efforts to reach a group or "make inroads" into an area in a particular community that is not ordinarily "touched" or affected by a particular discipline, e.g., an outreach program that might endeavor to bring art into public places in the inner city.
Performances: Awards that provide the opportunity/"venue" for performance, as in a music/voice/piano recital.
Planning Grant: Awards for planning, designing, and establishing the means of accomplishing a major objective. Often used in the first stage of a large project, to cover costs of preliminary steps leading up to the actual project. Support of a planning grant indicates definite interest in the future or merit of an idea and the funder is often a source of at least partial assistance for the final project.
Prizes/Awards: Used for prizes or awards given on a competitive basis for work already done, often for lifetime achievement, outstanding accomplishment, or achievement in one's field. SPIN programs coded for prize/award are generally awards of at least $1,000; as well as any meritorious awards consisting ONLY of a plaque, statuette, or medal (but NO MONEY).
Professorship: Awards for a specified term of academic professorship (perhaps a visiting professorship) or for institutions to fund professorial faculty positions.
Projects Outside the U.S.: Used for awards to conduct a specific project in a country(ies) outside the U.S.; projects do not necessitate the recipient's presence in/travel to that country. Used with keyword(s) to indicate where project is to be conducted.
Public Awareness/Education: Award for projects which seek to inform and/or influence public opinion or public policy, often used in conjunction with health-related projects that target a broad audience.
Publication: Awards that acknowledge the merit of an article, manuscript, poem, by publishing it (usually a scholarly/university press), either as a book/pamphlet, or including it in an anthology or in a literary/scientific journal. Award may include royalties resulting from sales of the published work.
Requests for Applications (NIH): Used for RFAs (Requests for Applications) from the NIH (National Institutes of Health) Guide only.
Requests for Proposals (FBO): Used for RFPs (Requests for Proposals) for SPIN programs from InfoEd review of the FBO (FedBizOpps) only.
Research Grants/R&D: Awards for experimentation/investigation aimed at the discovery and interpretation of facts, the revision of accepted theories in the light of new facts, or the application of such new and revised theories.
Sabbatical: Awards to support/supplement a faculty member's sabbatical leave. May be monetary/non-monetary support. Used if specifically for sabbatical or if faculty on sabbatical leave are eligible.
Seed Money/Start-Up Funds: Awards that provide funds to begin or start the financing of a new project, or to attract additional funds for a new (typically long-term) project.
Service Delivery: Often used in conjunction with a target group, these are awards, often in the health care sector, that supply/deliver services to a group/community.
Small Business Innovation Research: Used on Federal SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) programs only.
Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR): Used on Federal STTR (Small Business Technology Transfer) programs only.
Student Scholarship: Awards providing monetary assistance for tuition or other education-related expenses of students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Individuals or institutions may be eligible applicants.
Summer: Used for projects to be carried out during the summer period, or when summer is specifically designated as one of the suggested time periods when an award may be used. Always used in conjunction with other award type codes, such as sabbatical, research, or fellowship.
Technical Assistance: For funding provided to an organization to administer a specific program or award, or to provide technical advice. Often involves a sub-contracting relationship with the sponsor and a competitive bid process, with the contract offered to the lowest qualified bidder.
Temporary Government Assignments: For awards that are for a period of temporary assignment at a U.S. Federal/State government agency. Since this award implies residency for the time period, in-residence is not used in conjunction with this award type.
Training/Professional Development: For projects for will further a career or develop the professional skills of the recipient. May be used in conjunction with fellowship or other award types.
Travel Abroad: Awards for travel outside of one's own country-if the applicant must be a U.S. citizen, travel abroad would mean travel to any country outside the U.S. (including Canada); if the applicant is Canadian or another foreign nationality, meaning other than U.S. or Canadian citizenship, then travel abroad would mean travel to any country outside the applicant's own. Used with country keywords, or the "International" keyword, if the country is not specified.
Travel Domestic: Awards for travel within the applicant's own country.
Writing Projects: Awards which fund projects where the money is specifically for writing (NOT research), such as an award that specifically supports the writing of a handbook or manual.