Research Development & Grant Writing News
This newsletter provides recent federal agency and foundation developments, news on funding opportunities and tips to improve grantsmanship and increase proposal competitiveness.
The monthly newsletter, published by Academic Research Funding Strategies, LLC, typically addresses the following topics:
- Information on new and continuing solicitations (most commonly federal)
- Articles and links to topics of interest to grant writers
- Analysis of sponsor policies, financials and activities
- Suggestions for successful team and consortium building efforts
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April 2024 highlights
- April 2024 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News – We list funding opportunities for scholars in the humanities, social sciences and the arts.
- Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Funding Sources – We discuss this NEH program, which includes funding opportunities focused on methods of parceling and analyzing massive data that complement the core values of strengthening democracy, advancing equity, and addressing our cultural inheritance threatened by a changing climate.
- NSF Innovative Use of Scientific Collections– We discuss a recent NSF Dear Colleague Letter encouraging projects to increase and diversify the ways in which the research community can access and use scientific collections and collections-associated digital data and metadata.
- FY 2025 NSF Budget: Exploring New Funding Directions – We discuss NSF’s FY 2025 Budget Request and what it tells us about NSF’s priorities.
- Figuring Out What You Want to Do for Your NSF CAREER Education Component – Many PIs struggle to figure out what to propose for their CAREER education component. We discuss ways to find inspiration.
- Summary of Changes: NIFA FY 2025 Budget Request – We discuss how USDA’s National Institute of Food & Agriculture’s FY 2025 budget request has changed from last year’s budget.
- What Is the Intellectual Significance of Your Proposed Humanities Project? – We discuss how reviewers in the humanities assess the intellectual significance of proposed projects.
- Tracking Allocations in Research Agency Budgets – We discuss how to analyze agency budgets to understand shifting agency priorities.