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Other Grant Opportunities
For further information on the following grant opportunities, please contact Carol Clem, carol.clem@colostate.edu.
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act or ARRA)
Funding Opportunities – All Agencies must have spending plans in place by May 1.
*For planning purposes, please remember that all submissions must go through Grants.gov and that hundreds of applications are expected for each RFA. You are strongly advised to submit at least one week prior to the due date to ensure timely submission.*
*Currently, For Profit organizations and Government entities are eligible only for the Challenge Grant opportunity.*
Please check http://grants.gov/applicants/recovery.jsp regularly for updated funding opportunities.
Shared Instrumentation Grant Program (S10)
Full RFA: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-09-028.html
Purpose: The NCRR Shared Instrument Grant (SIG) program solicits applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade commercially available instruments that cost at least $100,000. The maximum award is $500,000. Types of instruments supported include confocal and electron microscopes, biomedical imagers, mass spectrometers, DNA sequencers, biosensors, cell sorters, X-ray diffraction systems, and NMR spectrometers among others.
Due Date: 5pm MDT, March 23, 2009
Anticipated Start Date: April 2010
Term: One year
Budget: $100,000 - $500,000, direct costs only
Cost Share? No
Restricted? No, as long as each application is for a different piece of equipment
NIH – Challenge Grants in Health & Science Research
Full RFA: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-09-003.html
Purpose: As part of the Recovery Act, the NIH invites, through this limited competition, NIH Challenge Grant (RC1) applications from domestic (United States) institutions/organizations proposing novel research in areas that address specific knowledge gaps, scientific opportunities, new technologies, data generation, or research methods that would benefit from an influx of funds to quickly advance the area in significant ways. This program is designed to support research in scientific areas identified by the Institutes and Centers.
Topic Listing: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/challenge_award/Omnibus.pdf
Due Date: 5pm MDT, April 27, 2009
Anticipated Start Date: September 30, 2009
Term: up to 24 months
Budget: Max $500,000 per year for up to 2 years
Cost Share? No
Restricted? No
Recovery Act Limited Competition: Core Facility Renovation, Repair, and Improvement (G20)
Full RFA: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RR-09-007.html
Purpose: This FOA issued by the National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health, solicits applications from institutions that propose to renovate, repair, or improve core facilities. For the purpose of this FOA, a core facility is defined as a centralized shared resource that provides access to instruments or technologies or services, as well as expert consultation to investigators supported by the core. The major objective of this FOA is to upgrade core facilities to support the conduct of PHS supported biomedical and/or behavioral research. Support can be requested to alter and renovate (A&R) the core facility as well as to improve the general equipment in the core facility or to purchase general equipment for specialized groups of researchers. Specialized equipment over $100,000 in cost cannot be requested as part of this FOA. In situations when similar core facilities exist in different departments at an institution, funding can be requested in support of centralizing these core facilities. This FOA is issued under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act), Pub. L. No. 111-5. It is expected that all awards will be expended expeditiously and that applicants will consider the use of “green” technologies and design approaches. Awards are expected to create and/or maintain American jobs.
Due Date: 5pm MDT, September 17, 2009
Anticipated Start Date: July 2010
Term: Not to exceed five (5) years
Budget: $1M - $10M in direct costs only
Cost Share? No
Restricted? YES; no more than two (2) applications per organization
Add’l Info: Please note this is a construction grant and has Sustainable Design requirements
Recovery Act Limited Competition: Extramural Research Facilities Improvement Program (C06)
Full RFA: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RR-09-008.html
Purpose: This FOA issued by the National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health, solicits applications from institutions that propose to expand, remodel, renovate, or alter biomedical or behavioral research facilities. The major objective of this FOA is to facilitate and enhance the conduct of Public Health Service-supported biomedical and behavioral research by supporting the costs of improving non-Federal basic research, clinical research, and animal facilities to meet the biomedical or behavioral research, research training, or research support needs of an institution. Since the funds for this FOA come from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the Recovery Act), Pub. L. No. 111-5, it is expected that all awards will be expended expeditiously and that applicants will consider green/sustainable technologies and design approaches. Awards are expected to create and/or maintain American jobs.
Budget and (Due Dates): 3 groups: $2M-$5M (May 6, 2009), $5M-$10M (July 17, 2009), & $10M-$15M (June 17, 2009)
Anticipated Start Date(s): December 2009 and April 2010
Term: Not to exceed five (5) years
Cost Share? NO
Restricted? Yes – no more than three applications per institution under this FOA
Add’l Info: Please note this is a construction grant and has Sustainable Design requirements
Recovery Act Limited Competition: High-End Instrumentation Grant Program (S10)
Full RFA: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-09-118.html
Purpose: The NCRR High-End Instrumentation Grant (HEI) program encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase a single major item of equipment to be used for biomedical research that costs at least $600,000. The maximum award is $8,000,000. Additionally, it is expected that the funds will be expended expeditiously, within 18-24 months from the date of award. Instruments in this category include, but are not limited to, structural and functional imaging systems, macromolecular NMR spectrometers, high-resolution mass spectrometers, cryoelectron microscopes and supercomputers.
Research Objective: For instruments in the range of $600,000 to $8M, eligible organizations should apply using this FOA. Applications for synchrotron equipment, with the exception of detectors, are not appropriate for this FOA.
Due Date: Letter of Intent due April 6, 2009 (details copied below); Application due May 6, 2009
Anticipated Start Date: 12/09 or 4/10
Term: One year
Budget: $600,000 - $8M
Cost Share? No
Restricted? No, as long as each application is for a different piece of equipment
Recovery Act Funding for Clean Diesel: SmartWay Clean Diesel Finance Program
Full RFA: http://www.epa.gov/otaq/eparecovery/documents/recovery-act-smartway-finance-clean-diesel-rfa.pdf
Purpose: The Recovery Act Funding for the SmartWay Clean Diesel Finance Program will support the creation of national, state or local innovative clean diesel financial programs, which maximize job creation and preservation. Innovative financial programs include those where the loan recipient receives a unique financial incentive (i.e., better than regular market rates or conditions) for the purchase of retrofitted vehicles or equipment. http://www.epa.gov/otaq/eparecovery/index.htm
Due Date: April 28, 2009
Anticipated Start Date: June 2009
Term: Up to three (3) years
Budget: $3M - $30M
NOTE: This RFA will be awarded as a cooperative agreement and as such is not eligible for Research & Development projects.
Recovery Act Funding for Clean Diesel: National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program
Full RFA: http://www.epa.gov/otaq/eparecovery/documents/recovery-act-national-clean-diesel-rfa.pdf
Purpose: The Recovery Act Funding for National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program will be awarded on a competitive basis to support diesel emission reduction programs which maximize job creation and preservation. Although this is a National competition, applicants must submit applications to the EPA Region in which the project will take place. Assistance agreements funded under this announcement will be evaluated and awarded by each of EPA’s ten Regional Offices. EPA Regions are hosting question and answer sessions regarding Request For Applications (RFA) including conference calls, webcasts, and workshops listed here: http://epa.gov/otaq/eparecovery/prognational.htm
Due Date: April 28, 2009
Anticipated Start Date: June 2009
Term: 15 months – projects expected to be completed by September 30, 2010
Budget: Varies by EPA region; please see RFA Section II
Recovery Act Funding for Clean Diesel: Clean Diesel Emerging Technologies Program
Full RFA: http://www.epa.gov/otaq/eparecovery/documents/recovery-act-emerging-technology-rfa.pdf
Purpose: EPA’s Clean Diesel Emerging Technologies Program is soliciting applications for projects that can be commenced quickly, reduce diesel emissions, and maximize job preservation and/or creation and economic recovery through the use, development and commercialization of emerging technologies. An emerging technology is a device or system that reduces emissions from diesel engines or diesel engine powered vehicles or equipment that has not been certified or verified by EPA or the California Air Resources Board (CARB) but for which an approvable application and test plan have been submitted for verification. Only those technologies that have been approved and placed on EPA’s Emerging Technology List, found at http://www.epa.gov/otaq/diesel/prgemerglist.htm, qualify as emerging technologies for the purpose of this funding solicitation. http://epa.gov/otaq/eparecovery/progemerge.htm
Due Date: May 5, 2009
Anticipated Start Date: June 2009
Term: 15 months – projects expected to be completed by September 30, 2010
Budget: $500,000 - $3M
Decision Making Under Uncertainty Collaborative Groups (DMUU)
Synopsis of Program: The Decision Making Under Uncertainty (DMUU) collaborative groups competition offers awards to support teams of researchers who will advance fundamental understanding of decision making under uncertainty for climate change and related long-term environmental risks. The focus of these collaborative groups will be to generate fundamental new knowledge as well as information and tools that decision makers will find useful to help them incorporate climate change and related long-term environmental risks in their decision making. The focus of these collaborative groups should be to provide new knowledge about how public officials, firms in the private sector, other groups, and/or individuals can incorporate existing knowledge about climate change and related long-term environmental risks into their decisions. In addition to generating societally useful information and tools, DMUU collaborative groups should enhance basic understanding within and across the social and behavioral sciences as well as related science and engineering disciplines.
Full RFA: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09544/nsf09544.htm?govDel=USNSF_25
Due Date: July 14, 2009
Anticipated Start Date: FY2010
Term: Five (5) years
Budget: $900,000 - $1.5M per year for up to five (5) years
Cost Share? No
Restricted? No
Add’l Info: The collaborative group must consist of a multidisciplinary team of researchers, and the team's research must be firmly grounded in the social and behavioral sciences. The research may also draw on and contribute to theoretical frameworks based in other science and engineering disciplines. Collectively, collaborative group personnel should have the requisite expertise to pursue the research, tool-development, education, and outreach activities that they propose to undertake. The collaborative group must establish a diverse external advisory board that will include both researchers and decision makers and that will provide guidance and advice on all group activities.
NIH Announces the Availability of Recovery Act Funds for Competitive Revision Applications
Full RFA: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-058.html
Purpose: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces the opportunity for investigators and United States institutions/organizations with active NIH-supported research project grants (including SBIR and STTR) to submit revision applications (formerly termed competitive supplements) to support a significant expansion of the scope or research protocol of approved and funded projects. Support for these revision applications will come from funds provided to NIH through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (“Recovery Act” or “ARRA”), Public Law 111-5. In addition, Recovery Act funds allocated to NIH specifically for comparative effectiveness research (CER) may be available to support supplements. Projects receiving these funds will need to meet this definition of CER: “a rigorous evaluation of the impact of different options that are available for treating a given medical condition for a particular set of patients. Such a study may compare similar treatments, such as competing drugs, or it may analyze very different approaches, such as surgery and drug therapy.” Such research may include the development and use of clinical registries, clinical data networks, and other forms of electronic health data that can be used to generate or obtain outcomes data as they apply to CER.
Due Date: April 21, 2009
Anticipated Start Date: 9/30/2009
Term: The period of support requested for the revision cannot exceed the current project period end date of the parent grant, including projects on a no-cost extension or up to two (2) years per terms of the Recovery funding.
Budget: No limits but must be reasonable and appropriate
Cost Share? No
Restricted? Only researchers with active NIH research grants are eligible
NIH Announces the Availability of Recovery Act Funds for Administrative Supplements Providing Summer Research Experiences for Students and Science Educators
Full RFA: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-060.html
Purpose: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces the opportunity for investigators and United States institutions/organizations with active NIH Research Grants to request administrative supplements for the purpose of promoting job creation, economic development, and accelerating the pace and achievement of scientific research. These supplements will also encourage students to seriously pursue research careers in the health related sciences, as well as provide elementary, middle school, and high school teachers, community college faculty, and faculty from non-research intensive institutions with short term research experiences in NIH-funded laboratories. Potential applicants should review the instructions for Revision Applications issued by their funding IC (See NIH Institute & Center (IC) Web Sites) before responding to this Notice. Some ICs will consider administrative supplements only in target areas identified on their Web sites.
Due Date: Applications may be submitted throughout FY2009 and FY2010. However, note that some NIH ICs may have specific deadlines for submission of administrative supplements as listed on their own Web sites: http://grants.nih.gov/recovery/ic_supp.html.
Term: Due to the limited nature of Recovery Act funds, applicants requesting multiple year funding in FY 2009 may only request funding for FY 2009 and FY 2010, and it is anticipated that supplement funding will be awarded within a short period after receipt of the supplement request. Requests selected for funding in FY2010 will be limited to a one year project period.
Budget: Note the budget and the number of positions being created should be appropriate for the work proposed in the supplement request. Applicants are encouraged to discuss budgets with their NIH Program Officer.
Cost Share? No
Restricted? Only researchers with active NIH research grants are eligible
Add’l Info: The funds requested by the NIH grantee in the supplement application must be within the general scope of the peer-reviewed activities and aims approved within the parent grant. The funding method being used to support this program, administrative supplements, can be used to cover cost increases that are associated with providing research experiences in the conduct of NIH supported research, as long as they are within the original scope of the parent project. Any cost increases need to result from making modifications to the parent project in order to take advantage of opportunities that would increase the value of the project consistent with its originally approved objectives and purposes or to accelerate the tempo of scientific research. NIH will not consider requests which are solely to restore previously applied budget adjustments to a project nor to supplant previous institutional commitments to supporting individuals and other project costs.
NIH Announces the Availability of Recovery Act Funds for Administrative Supplements
Full RFA: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-056.html
Purpose: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces the opportunity for investigators and United States institutions/organizations with active NIH Research Grants to request administrative supplements for the purpose accelerating the tempo of scientific research on active grants. Support for these supplements will come from funds provided to NIH through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (“Recovery Act” or “ARRA”), Public Law 111-5. Consistent with the intent of the Recovery Act, the purpose of this program is to promote job creation and economic development along with accelerating the pace and achievement of scientific research.
Due Date: Applications may be submitted throughout FY2009 and FY2010. However, note that some NIH ICs may have specific deadlines for submission of administrative supplements as listed on their own Web sites: http://grants.nih.gov/recovery/ic_supp.html.
Term: Funding for administrative supplements to existing grants will be available from Recovery Act funds in FY2009 and FY2010. Due to the limited nature of Recovery Act funds, applicants requesting multiple year funding in FY2009 may only request funding for FY 2009 and FY 2010, and it is anticipated that supplement funding will be awarded within a short period after receipt of the supplement request. Requests selected for funding in FY2010 will be limited to one year for the budget and project period.
Budget: For supplements to Research Grants there is no maximum dollar limit on what may be requested in the budget; however, the requested budget must be in line with the work being proposed. Please note that in general NIH expects to award supplements of not more than 50 percent of the amount of the parent grant.
Cost Share? No
Restricted? No
