Volume 15, Number 3: September 3, 2008
FUNDING TIPS
New to Carolina? Tips from the GrantSource Library
Welcome to Carolina! The GrantSource Library would like to offer new faculty members and postdoctoral scholars these tips for getting started on your funding search:
- Schedule a consultation with a GrantSource Librarian for help in identifying potential funders.
- Subscribe to Research Support, Carolina 's monthly online newsletter about funding and sponsored research.
- Search for external funding opportunities using databases such as COS, SPIN, and Foundation Directory Online, available through the GrantSource Library's web site.
- Use the Carolina Internal Funding Database to find internal funding opportunities.
- Learn about resources and services available at Carolina via the Research@Carolina web site, which provides information and links to the offices that support the university's research mission.
- Talk with other faculty, your departmental colleagues, or your mentor to learn about opportunities and resources in your campus unit.
For more information or to schedule a consultation contact the GrantSource Library (962-3463).
New Kresge Grantmaking Programs in Health and Environment
The Kresge Foundation has announced two new comprehensive grantmaking programs: the Health Program and the Environment Program. Both programs address health and environment-related social issues, particularly those affecting minority, low-income, and other underserved communities. The Environment Program seeks to influence practices and policies associated with climate change and environmental sustainability. The programs are in the development stage; program teams will be refining their grantmaking focus and strategy over the next year. To learn more about the programs, their goals, eligibility criteria, and processes for submitting project ideas, visit the Health Program and Environment Program sections of the Kresge Website.
American Heart Association Funding Opportunities
The American Heart Association (AHA) will post funding opportunities for its January 2009 deadline by September 15, 2008. To further the development of young clinical investigators, AHA's Council on Clinical Cardiology and the Council on Stroke also offer a limited number of seed grants for young investigators for meritorious research projects based on data gathered from AHA's Get With the Guidelines program.
If you are interested in receiving a COS funding alert for these and other future AHA funding opportunities, log in to your COS Workbench and then click here to open a preset COS funding search for AHA. Then click on "save search" to save it on your COS Workbench. If you have questions about how to do this, you can refer to the GrantSource Library's online instructions (pdf) or contact the GrantSource Library (962-3463).
American Cancer Society Palliative Care Research Funding
The American Cancer Society is creating a new peer review committee in Symptom Control and Palliative Care Research in January 2009, to enhance research funding in this area. It will focus on research proposals in the following categories pertaining to adults or children with cancer and their families:
- Poor prognosis malignancies at any stage of illness,
- Advanced malignancies, defined as recurrent and/or metastatic disease, or
- Favorable prognosis malignancies associated with a high symptom burden
For more information about the funding mechanisms offered, eligibility criteria, and the deadlines for submission, click here (pdf).
NC IDEA Grants for Commercialization of Research Innovation
NC IDEA, a private, not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping establish and develop early-stage companies by commercializing research innovation, has opened the Fall 2008 cycle of its NCIDEA grants program. The program is intended to help companies bridge the gap between ideas and institutional funding.
Interested companies are invited to submit an online pre-proposal application through September 12. Approximately twenty companies submitting pre-proposal submissions will be selected to submit full proposals. NCIDEA plans to award grants to three to six companies, with a maximum of $50,000 per company. North Carolina-based companies focused on information technology, medical devices, material sciences, or green technologies are invited to apply, with preference given to those that have not received equity financing.
There is a new pre-proposal instructions document and pre-proposal form. If you have previously applied for a grant, do not use a pre-proposal form from a previous cycle.
For more information or to apply online for a grant, click here.