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How to Find Funding
Kerry Kinney (CE)
Rick Neptune (ME)
Preston Wilson (ME)
You have a Great Research Idea
Now What?
Identify Appropriate Funding Agency
Search On-line Databases
Community of Science Database
GrantsNet
Specific Agency Web Pages
Ask Others in your Department
Once you have identified the appropriate
funding source:
Read RFP guidance carefully
Talk to other faculty who have experience with the
funding agency you are considering.
How to Find Funding for your Great
Research Idea – The Bottom Line
You need more than a great idea!
You must be able to communicate your
research plan and convince reviewers to fund
it.
Proposal writing skills are absolutely
essential…
Tell a concise “Story”
Submit a few well-written proposals; not many
poor proposals
Logistics
Numerous drafts likely – allow enough
time.
Have mentor, other experienced faculty
members review it.
Review other successful proposals to
get an idea of scope and format….
Logistics
Understand the procedures at your “Office of
Sponsored Projects”
Institutional Budget Requirements
Lead Time Required?
Signatures Required?
Overhead Rates
Tuition and Fees
Summer Salary
Once you have scope of proposed project defined,
develop a reasonable time frame for the project
Keep in mind that you may have a new graduate student
working on the project.....
The Aftermath
If your proposal is funded - Great!
If it isn’t, remember you are in good company
Some agencies fund less than 10% of the proposals
they receive!
Don‘t get discouraged;
Revise proposal – Refine research idea;
Submit to new funding agency
Keep Trying
Funding Opportunities
NIH - www.nih.gov
CRISP – Database of funded projects
NIH Review Criteria
http://www.csr.nih.gov/guidelines/r01.htm
Article: How to get NIH funding
http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/
http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2000/10/12/1
NSF - www.nsf.gov
CAREER program
Engineering Division
http://www.nsf.gov/home/crssprgm/career/start.htm
http://www.nsf.gov/home/eng/
Article: NSF grant writing
http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2000/07/06/8
Funding Opportunities
NIDRR - The National Institute on Disability and
Rehabilitation Research
http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/nidrr/index.html
Miscellaneous Funding links
GrantsNet - http://www.grantsnet.org/
Science Magazine – search for articles
Grant writing
http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/
http://www.research.umich.edu/proposals/PWG/pwgcontents.html
Google search for articles
Book – Research Proposals: A Guide to Success (Ogden and Goldberg)
Industry
SBIR mechanism (NSF, NIH)
A Specific Example:
Office of Naval Research (ONR)
ONR sponsors a wide range of basic and
applied research.
Research areas are listed in the Science and
Technology (S&T) pages:
From biology and medicine to math, computer,
physical and social sciences, and engineering.
http://www.onr.navy.mil/sci_tech/
Find the areas that best coincide with your
expertise.
ONR Funding
Many research opportunities discussed
in the S&T pages are open to all:
university faculty, university and
national lab personnel, Navy labs, small
and large businesses.
ONR Funding
Special Programs for University Faculty
ONR-Wide Young Investigator Program
Individual S&T Program Faculty-Specific Awards
Ocean Acoustics-Entry Level Faculty Award
http://www.onr.navy.mil/sci_tech/industrial/363/yip.asp
http://www.onr.navy.mil/sci_tech/ocean/321_sensing/inf
o_acous_awd.asp
Mechanics and Energy Conversion
http://www.onr.navy.mil/sci_tech/engineering/333_mech
anics/usea_uli.asp
ONR Funding
In general, ONR proposals are not peerreviewed.
You need to meet the program managers
(PMs) in your area.
The PMs are obligated to interact with offerers.
Call or email, introduce yourself, set up a
meeting.
Present your ideas to them.
Receive feedback on your ideas and what they
need.
ONR Funding
Develop a pre-proposal (white paper) that fits
into an existing program and utilizes your
expertise.
If the project has a high likelihood of being
funded, PMs will offer suggestions and request
a full proposal.
Receive grant, do work, repeat process! ONR
PMs tend to provide long-term support to a
core group of Principal Investigators (PIs) in
their areas.
Questions?