External Funding Opportunities
Summer Program Incentive Grant
Purpose: NEH and NSF summer programs recognize faculty expertise, publicize the role of the humanities and social sciences in the College, raise the national profile of Virginia Tech programs, and generate substantial external funding. NEH summer seminars and institutes bring K12 teachers or college faculty to campus for one to five weeks. Funded NEH summer programs have combined intensive study time in Blacksburg with site visits to libraries, archives, and organizations in Washington DC. NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates bring students from other institutions to campus for an intensive mentoring experience for approximately ten weeks. These programs require considerable effort in terms of both preparing an application and administering the program. This incentive program rewards faculty for doing the work necessary to prepare a proposal. The likelihood of proposals being funded is high, so the investment by the faculty and the College is likely to bring results. The goal of the incentive program is to generate two proposals each year for NEH programs (one for K12 and one for higher education) and one proposal each year for an NSF program. Faculty who are selected to submit to the NEH or NSF will receive assistance in preparing proposals, coordinating with collaborators, completing budgets, working with program officers, and meetings grant requirements.
Timeline:
- Deadline for internal proposals: October 31, 2019
- Selection and notification: November 10, 2019
- NEH Deadline: February 13, 2020
- NSF Deadline: August 26, 2020
Eligibility: full time faculty in the College, including tenured, tenure-track, collegiate faculty and Instructors
Proposals should consist of a short description of the summer program, a tentative schedule, the research and teaching expertise of the faculty, possible collaborators, and how the project relates to the professional plans of the faculty member. Proposals should be limited to one page. Please submit proposals as an attached pdf to Tom Ewing (etewing@vt.edu).
Directories of Funding Opportunities
- Alexander von Humboldt Fellowships
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Council of Learned Societies
- Gerda Henkel Foundation Grants
- Guggenheim Fellowships
- Huntington Library Research Fellowships
- MacArthur Foundation
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Institutes of Health
- National Science Foundation
- Sandell Center for Retirement Research
- American Philosophical Society
- Folger Library Postdoctoral Fellowships
- Ford Foundation Fellowships
- Spencer Foundation
- United States Institute of Peace
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- U.S. Department of Education
- U.S. Department of State: Fulbright Awards
- Virginia Commission for the Arts
- Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
- Whirlpool Foundation
Guidelines for Preparing Applications and Writing Proposals
- Foundation Grant Proposal Writing Short Course
- National Institutes of Health (NIH): Writing Your Application
- National Institutes of Health (NIH): Grant Writing Tips Sheet
- National Institutes of Health (NIH): Tips for New NIH Grant Applicants
- American Council of Learned Societies: Writing Proposals
- National Endowment for the Humanities: Advice on Preparing a Grant
- University of Wisconsin: Writing Effective Proposals for Fellowships
Electronic Submission of Grants
Faculty preparing grants for external funding should use the Summit system. For more information, please contact Tom Ewing or Debbis Alvis.
Information sessions
Research grants for individual scholars: NIH NLM, NSF STS, and NEH
- Proposal Writing Workshop, Friday, January 24, 2020, 1:30-3:00 pm, Newman 207. Register here: https://forms.gle/Ecu42xpHsWbqqGzf6
- Workshop will introduce guidelines for four significate federal grants for individual scholars, review examples of proposals, and describe a mentoring program for faculty planning to write proposals in spring 2020.
- NSF STS Scholars, February 3, 2020 and August 3, 2020 https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505697
- NEH Public Scholars, February 5, 2020 https://www.neh.gov/grants/research/public-scholar-program
- NEH Fellowships, April 8, 2020 https://www.neh.gov/grants/research/fellowships
- NLM Grants for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health (G13), letter of intent, January 26, full proposal, February 26 https://www.nlm.nih.gov/ep/GrantPubs.html
Fellowships with deadlines in early 2020
- NSF STS Scholars, February 3, 2020 and August 3, 2020 https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505697
- NEH Public Scholars, February 5, 2020 https://www.neh.gov/grants/research/public-scholar-program
- NEH Fellowships, April 8, 202 https://www.neh.gov/grants/research/fellowships
- NLM Grants for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health (G13), letter of intent, January 26, full proposal, February 26 https://www.nlm.nih.gov/ep/GrantPubs.html