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State Funding Opportunities
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If you have specific questions about a program or line item in the Pennsylvania State Budget. Please contact us at aicup@fourtheconomy.com or contact Rich Overmoyer at 412-325-2457.
If you have specific questions about a program or line item in the Pennsylvania State Budget. Please contact us at aicup@fourtheconomy.com or contact Rich Overmoyer at 412-325-2457.
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Federal Grant Opportunities
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NIDCD Research Core Center Grants
Funding Source: National Institutes of Health
Funding Type: Discretionary, Grant
Total Available: N/A
Award Ceiling: N/A
Deadline: 10.01.12
Eligibility: Institutions of Higher Education, Nonprofits, Small Businesses
Description:
The NIDCD P30 Core Center grant contains one or more research-serving cores, providing centralized resources and facilities for funded R01 research projects. Although no funds are provided for direct support of research projects, a P30 helps to integrate and promote research in existing funded projects, and may include multi-disciplinary and regional collaborations. A Core Center must be an identifiable organizational unit either within a single grantee institution or representing a consortium of cooperating institutions (e.g., geographic or web-based). The Center may serve as an intellectual hub to stimulate cooperative research, to increase the effectiveness, capabilities or productivity of current research, and/or to promote new research directions through collaborations. Individual research cores of the Core Center may provide for sharing technical expertise or centralizing labor-intensive tasks common among several investigators (PD/PIs); staffing, training and maintenance of shared equipment or resources, including tools or staffing to enhance activities such as recruitment databases for clinical projects; or problem-solving through innovative technical solutions using the most current methodologies. NIDCD P30 funds do not provide patient services, or support unfunded pilot studies, or facilitate research other than for funded user projects, unless directly related to advancing the potential of the Core Center itself. A P30 may provide benefits to other core centers or the larger community through sharing data or technology.
To read more, click here.
Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry
Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Funding Type: Discretionary,Grant
Total Available: $5 Million
Award Ceiling: $100,000
Deadline: 09.30.15
Eligibility: Institutions of Higher Education
Description:
Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) promotes university-industry partnerships by making project funds or fellowships/traineeships available to support an eclectic mix of industry-university linkages. Special interest is focused on affording the opportunity for: Faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and students to conduct research and gain experience in an industrial setting; Industrial scientists and engineers to bring industry’s perspective and integrative skills to academe; and Interdisciplinary university-industry teams to conduct research projects. This solicitation targets high-risk/high-gain research with a focus on fundamental research, new approaches to solving generic problems, development of innovative collaborative industry-university educational programs, and direct transfer of new knowledge between academe and industry. GOALI seeks to fund transformative research that lies beyond that which industry would normally fund.
To read more, click here.
Partnerships for Innovation Grants
Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Funding Type: Discretionary,Grant
Total Available: $7 Million
Award Ceiling: $600,000
Deadline: 09.30.15
Eligibility: Institutions of Higher Education, Small Businesses
Description:
One of the general goals of the Partnerships for Innovation Program (PFI) is to stimulate the transformation of knowledge created by the research and education enterprise into innovations that create new wealth; build strong local, regional, and national economies; and improve the national well-being. Aligned with this goal, the PFI competition for FY 2011 funds will provide support for innovation capacity building to sustained, dynamic interactive knowledge-enhancing partnership groups composed of academic researchers and small business (as defined by the Small Business Administration (SBA)) practitioners focused on intense exploration, re-definition, and creation of novel platforms for translating research and moving it towards impact. The basic organizational core of each proposed knowledge-enhancing partnership group must be composed of an academic lead institution and, at a minimum, two small businesses. These newly created partnership groups will provide small group process models for innovation, their hallmark being a collaboration in which research and its translation paths are shaped and expanded from both the research and the business perspectives. While the center-piece of this group is academe and small business, large businesses and non-profits may participate in this core knowledge-enhancement partnership unit, which in turn may be embedded in the broader network of a PFI partnership.The purpose of these knowledge-enhancing partnership groups is to develop researchers more agile in adapting their research for use in new applications and to increase the potential viability of existing small businesses to leverage this capacity. In particular, these interactive relationships will increase the researchers’ effectiveness to respond to and anticipate the constraints imposed by the operational limitations on translation of the research. They will improve the business practitioners’ capability to develop products that will have potentially strong market demand in the future. The ideal project would consist of exploration, re-definition, and creation of a novel platform, that is, one that can be applied to many markets and problems/opportunities (multi-product or process platforms). Some examples of platforms include the following: laser-based technologies that have multiple applications in product verticals; software algorithms that can be customized in different applications to provide multiple functionalities; nano-structured materials that may have multiple applications, environmental remediation technologies; re-manufacturing technologies–a more sustainable approach than conventional manufacturing involving a process of returning used products to at least original performance–that can be applied to diverse industries; energy conservation or storage technologies; innovation through design or education in innovation with widespread impact; and personalized medicine/genetic testing. Partnerships that support areas pertaining to energy, sustainability, or education of next generation entrepreneurs are particularly desirable. Some examples of the kinds of activities that could be engaged in by the knowledge-enhancing partner companies working with academe are feasibility research, alpha-prototype development, design, and product conceptualization.This competition will support 9 to 11 promising partnerships between academic researchers and small business practitioners that engage in the important process of dynamic knowledge enhancement to build capacity to generate and sustain innovation. Partnerships may also include other academic institutions, other private sector organizations (such as large businesses and not-for-profit organizations) and state/local/federal government.
To read more, click here.
NIDCD Research Core Center Grants
Funding Source: National Institutes of Health
Funding Type: Discretionary, Grant
Total Available: N/A
Award Ceiling: N/A
Deadline: 10.01.12
Eligibility: Institutions of Higher Education, Nonprofits, Small Businesses
Description:
The NIDCD P30 Core Center grant contains one or more research-serving cores, providing centralized resources and facilities for funded R01 research projects. Although no funds are provided for direct support of research projects, a P30 helps to integrate and promote research in existing funded projects, and may include multi-disciplinary and regional collaborations. A Core Center must be an identifiable organizational unit either within a single grantee institution or representing a consortium of cooperating institutions (e.g., geographic or web-based). The Center may serve as an intellectual hub to stimulate cooperative research, to increase the effectiveness, capabilities or productivity of current research, and/or to promote new research directions through collaborations. Individual research cores of the Core Center may provide for sharing technical expertise or centralizing labor-intensive tasks common among several investigators (PD/PIs); staffing, training and maintenance of shared equipment or resources, including tools or staffing to enhance activities such as recruitment databases for clinical projects; or problem-solving through innovative technical solutions using the most current methodologies. NIDCD P30 funds do not provide patient services, or support unfunded pilot studies, or facilitate research other than for funded user projects, unless directly related to advancing the potential of the Core Center itself. A P30 may provide benefits to other core centers or the larger community through sharing data or technology.
To read more, click here.
Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry
Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Funding Type: Discretionary,Grant
Total Available: $5 Million
Award Ceiling: $100,000
Deadline: 09.30.15
Eligibility: Institutions of Higher Education
Description:
Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) promotes university-industry partnerships by making project funds or fellowships/traineeships available to support an eclectic mix of industry-university linkages. Special interest is focused on affording the opportunity for: Faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and students to conduct research and gain experience in an industrial setting; Industrial scientists and engineers to bring industry’s perspective and integrative skills to academe; and Interdisciplinary university-industry teams to conduct research projects. This solicitation targets high-risk/high-gain research with a focus on fundamental research, new approaches to solving generic problems, development of innovative collaborative industry-university educational programs, and direct transfer of new knowledge between academe and industry. GOALI seeks to fund transformative research that lies beyond that which industry would normally fund.
To read more, click here.
Partnerships for Innovation Grants
Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Funding Type: Discretionary,Grant
Total Available: $7 Million
Award Ceiling: $600,000
Deadline: 09.30.15
Eligibility: Institutions of Higher Education, Small Businesses
Description:
One of the general goals of the Partnerships for Innovation Program (PFI) is to stimulate the transformation of knowledge created by the research and education enterprise into innovations that create new wealth; build strong local, regional, and national economies; and improve the national well-being. Aligned with this goal, the PFI competition for FY 2011 funds will provide support for innovation capacity building to sustained, dynamic interactive knowledge-enhancing partnership groups composed of academic researchers and small business (as defined by the Small Business Administration (SBA)) practitioners focused on intense exploration, re-definition, and creation of novel platforms for translating research and moving it towards impact. The basic organizational core of each proposed knowledge-enhancing partnership group must be composed of an academic lead institution and, at a minimum, two small businesses. These newly created partnership groups will provide small group process models for innovation, their hallmark being a collaboration in which research and its translation paths are shaped and expanded from both the research and the business perspectives. While the center-piece of this group is academe and small business, large businesses and non-profits may participate in this core knowledge-enhancement partnership unit, which in turn may be embedded in the broader network of a PFI partnership.The purpose of these knowledge-enhancing partnership groups is to develop researchers more agile in adapting their research for use in new applications and to increase the potential viability of existing small businesses to leverage this capacity. In particular, these interactive relationships will increase the researchers’ effectiveness to respond to and anticipate the constraints imposed by the operational limitations on translation of the research. They will improve the business practitioners’ capability to develop products that will have potentially strong market demand in the future. The ideal project would consist of exploration, re-definition, and creation of a novel platform, that is, one that can be applied to many markets and problems/opportunities (multi-product or process platforms). Some examples of platforms include the following: laser-based technologies that have multiple applications in product verticals; software algorithms that can be customized in different applications to provide multiple functionalities; nano-structured materials that may have multiple applications, environmental remediation technologies; re-manufacturing technologies–a more sustainable approach than conventional manufacturing involving a process of returning used products to at least original performance–that can be applied to diverse industries; energy conservation or storage technologies; innovation through design or education in innovation with widespread impact; and personalized medicine/genetic testing. Partnerships that support areas pertaining to energy, sustainability, or education of next generation entrepreneurs are particularly desirable. Some examples of the kinds of activities that could be engaged in by the knowledge-enhancing partner companies working with academe are feasibility research, alpha-prototype development, design, and product conceptualization.This competition will support 9 to 11 promising partnerships between academic researchers and small business practitioners that engage in the important process of dynamic knowledge enhancement to build capacity to generate and sustain innovation. Partnerships may also include other academic institutions, other private sector organizations (such as large businesses and not-for-profit organizations) and state/local/federal government.
To read more, click here.
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DCED's Global Alumni Network
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The Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) announced that it is seeking proposals from Pennsylvania Colleges and Universities to partner with the Commonwealth to create a global alumni network that connects international alumni from Pennsylvania schools to DCED's economic development programs to increase foreign investment in the state and expand the markets for goods exported from Pennsylvania. The Global Alumni Network was discussed at the AICUP Institute for Independent Colleges and Universities: The Pennsylvania State Budget and Independent Colleges and Universities held at Lebanon Valley College on October 15, 2007, in a presentation by Rich Overmoyer of GSP Consulting. To view Rich's presentation, click here.
Funding is available from DCED for international alumni events and initiatives that will directly advance the state's international economic and business strategies by initiating and/or strengthening connections with Pennsylvania alumni worldwide. The grant funding requires a dollar for dollar match from the award recipient. Proposals will be accepted on an ongoing basis but are subject to funding availability. Award recipients must complete all projects for which they receive funding within two years from the date the award is issued. Click here to view the complete Request for Partnering Proposal.
The Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) announced that it is seeking proposals from Pennsylvania Colleges and Universities to partner with the Commonwealth to create a global alumni network that connects international alumni from Pennsylvania schools to DCED's economic development programs to increase foreign investment in the state and expand the markets for goods exported from Pennsylvania. The Global Alumni Network was discussed at the AICUP Institute for Independent Colleges and Universities: The Pennsylvania State Budget and Independent Colleges and Universities held at Lebanon Valley College on October 15, 2007, in a presentation by Rich Overmoyer of GSP Consulting. To view Rich's presentation, click here.
Funding is available from DCED for international alumni events and initiatives that will directly advance the state's international economic and business strategies by initiating and/or strengthening connections with Pennsylvania alumni worldwide. The grant funding requires a dollar for dollar match from the award recipient. Proposals will be accepted on an ongoing basis but are subject to funding availability. Award recipients must complete all projects for which they receive funding within two years from the date the award is issued. Click here to view the complete Request for Partnering Proposal.
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The Kresge Foundation's Green Building Initiative
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The Kresge Foundation's Green Building Initiative, launched in 2003, is intended to increase the awareness of sustainable or green building practices among nonprofits and encourage them to consider building green. Upfront planning and an integrated design process are necessary to achieve the full benefits of a green building. The Initiative offers educational resources and special grants to help nonprofits during this planning phase.
The Initiative's Planning Grant program encourages nonprofits working in the arts, health, and human service areas to consider green for the first time. Grant guidelines in this program encourage environmentally-focused organizations to innovate, creating new models of sustainable design. Planning grants are available in amounts from $25,000 to $100,000.
To learn more about the program, click here.
The Kresge Foundation's Green Building Initiative, launched in 2003, is intended to increase the awareness of sustainable or green building practices among nonprofits and encourage them to consider building green. Upfront planning and an integrated design process are necessary to achieve the full benefits of a green building. The Initiative offers educational resources and special grants to help nonprofits during this planning phase.
The Initiative's Planning Grant program encourages nonprofits working in the arts, health, and human service areas to consider green for the first time. Grant guidelines in this program encourage environmentally-focused organizations to innovate, creating new models of sustainable design. Planning grants are available in amounts from $25,000 to $100,000.
To learn more about the program, click here.
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