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Incentive grants are meant
to encourage faculty and staff to write and submit proposals for large
grants. Writing proposals for large grants is time consuming and labor
intensive. Incentive grants can be used, for example, to hire replacement
faculty for one course, thereby releasing the proposer to spend one quarter
of his/her time on the proposal during one semester. Or, for smaller proposals,
they might be used to pay for some time during the summer. They are not
meant to provide overload payments during the academic year.
We strongly encourage faculty/staff interested in applying for an incentive
grant to consult early in the process with the Director of Grants &
Research. He can provide several kinds of assistance: obtaining application
materials for the large grant to be applied for; helping to outline the
grant proposal; estimating the amount of time it will take to write the
proposal; and writing the incentive grant request. He will also present
the incentive grant request to the Research Subcommittee of the FASDB
for approval.
All full-time faculty and academic staff are eligible for incentive grants.
Criteria for incentive
grants
- Incentive grants may be
awarded to support the writing of substantial proposals, i.e. greater
than $50,000.
- The applicant must have
a genuine chance to win the grant for which s/he wishes to apply.
- The projected grant proposal
must require a significant amount of time to prepare, proportionate
to the incentive grant which is requested.
- Incentive grant proposals
must be countersigned by the proposer's department chair or unit supervisor
and dean or director.
Procedures
- Incentive grant proposals
may be submitted at any time. They will be considered on a case-by-case
basis.
- Incentive grant proposals
will be submitted to the Director, Grants & Research. We encourage
proposers to consult with the Director before submission about the funding
opportunity and the amount of time it will take to prepare the proposal.
Those consultations will affect the amount requested as an incentive
grant.
- Incentive grant proposals
will consist of a completed Incentive Grant Cover Sheet (see next page);
a copy of the Request for Proposals (RFP) or equivalent description
of the funding opportunity; an outline or brief description of the projected
grant proposal, including staffing patterns and budget summary; and
a timeline for completion of the proposal.
- Incentive grant proposals
will be reviewed and approved/denied by the Research subcommittee of
the FASDB within one month of submission.
- Incentive grant recipients
who fail to submit the projected grant proposal by the due date will
be ineligible to receive incentive grants for five years.
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The cover sheet is available
here as a "fill in" MS
Word form. You must use this form to apply for funds. Download
the form, fill in the gray boxes with the relevant information, print
the form and submit seven copies of your application to the Director of
Grants & Research, 104 North Hall.
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