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Fostering research, creative activities and scholarship.
The mission of the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP) is to advance the research enterprise at Commonwealth University by promoting an environment that fosters research, scholarship, and creative activities for Bloomsburg, Lock Haven and Mansfield campus's.
ORSP provides a customer service environment by providing leadership, resources, information, and guidance. ORSP aligns with the CUP’s mission to enhance academic excellence through the support of faculty and student research and scholarly activity. In doing so, ORSP will provide education and training initiatives in support with the goal of increasing awareness and competitiveness in the pursuit of internal and external funding. In accomplishing this mission, ORSP ensures accountability, compliance and stewardship for sponsored programs as directed by the values of the office and by all applicable Federal, State, and University policies, procedures and regulations.
Guide to Support Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities
These are annual competitions within Commonwealth University, administered by the Office of Research and Sponsored programs. Grants include margins of Excellence and Research and Scholarship. Internal grants are to be meant for one-off research or artistic projects, or as seed money for developing external grants. They are not well-suited for salary replacement/supplement, or for recurring annual expenses. InfoReady is Commonwealth’s competition platform for current opportunities and guidelines.
InfoReady Review is a cloud-based environment that hosts internal competitions and internal competitions for limited-submission external grant competitions.
Each open competition has a page accessed by a link in InfoReady.
Applications for internal competitions must be submitted to InfoReady in PDF file format by the due date.
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| Fall- Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities - Small Grant Program (budgets up to $3,000) | Monday, October 24th | Budgets can range from $500-$3,000 View competition |
| Reassigned Time Competition, for release time in AY 2023-2024 | Monday, December 12th | To apply for release time for the 2023-2024 Academic Year. View competition |
| Spring- Faculty Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities Program (Small, Regular, and Start-Up Requests) |
Monday, March 13th
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| PASSHE Faculty Professional Development Council Grants Competition | Tentative
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$300,000 set aside in APSCUF agreement. See attached article 43. |
The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs encourages faculty and staff to seek funding from external sources to support a vibrant, creative, and research-oriented community. External funding comes in many forms. There are federal agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Education, and others. There are also private foundations such as the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Templeton Foundation.
ORSP is now in collaboration with Indiana University of Pennsylvania Research Institute for all your external grant needs. With their team of grant specialists to assist you in identifying funding opportunities, develop your proposal narrative and budget, submit to your institutional hierarchy for review and approval, submission to the agency, and then manage your project activities and expenditures upon receipt of an award.
IUP-RI will facilitate/offering of webinars, workshops, and other research development opportunities as well as have PI mentorship academies that are held throughout the year. These events will be sent out through email and will appear on the ORSP website so keep an eye out for those opportunities.
Please reach out to Dr. Heather Feldhaus hfeldhau@commonwealthu.edu 570-389-4214, in ORSP, on any questions how to get started on this process. Reminder that if you need any human subject research or animal research approval that will need to be done with IRB/IACUC.
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FUNDING OPPORTUNITY WEBINARS BY AGENCY |
HYPERLINK TO WEBINAR INFORMATION SITE |
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February 9 1 pm – 2 pm |
OVC – Office for Victims of Crime – Anti Trafficking Funding Opportunities Overview Webinar Currently, the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) is the largest Federal funder responding to the needs of human trafficking victims. This includes supporting an array of victim services including case management, housing, legal, employment, and mental health services. In FY2023, OVC anticipates releasing nine competitive funding opportunities to support services for survivors of human trafficking; multi-disciplinary task forces; statewide efforts to address human trafficking; and training and technical assistance for the anti-trafficking field. This webinar, which will occur prior to the release of FY2023 funding opportunities, will review all planned OVC FY 2023 anti-trafficking solicitations as included in the FY 2023 DOJ Program [urldefense.us], provide high-level information about solicitations and eligibility, and offer a question and answer session with interested potential applicants. Live captioning will be available. |
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February 22 1 pm – 2:30 pm |
Youth Collaboratory – Funding & Grant Writing Webinar – FREE
2023 Federal Funding Landscape Federal agencies are readying and issuing their Fiscal Year 2023 grants. Congress is preparing for Fiscal Year 2024. Washington is as complex as ever, but this webinar will make it simple as we walk you through what to expect out of DC this year, its relevance to you as a youth service provider, and how to best prepare your organization. Youth Collaboratory’s Washington representative, Christopher Fisher, will provide an update on the status of the annual appropriations process, while Youth Collaboratory’s Executive Director, Megan Blondin, will prepare you to take full advantage of 2023 funding opportunities. This webinar will include:
This webinar is FREE and open to the public. However, we ask that all participants register and attend individually.
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All Webinars Take Place from: 3pm – 4:15 EST
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NSF – National Science Foundation – Funding for Undergraduate Student Success in the Behavioral, Economic, and Social Sciences Webinars
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March 10 Link [nsf.zoomgov.com]
March 17 Link [nsf.zoomgov.com]
March 24 Link [nsf.zoomgov.com]
March 31 Link [nsf.zoomgov.com]
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Highlighted Funding Opportunities Week of 01/31/2023
SPONSORING AGENCY & AWARD SYNOPSIS |
HYPERLINK TO SPONSOR SITE |
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WEBINAR February 8, 2023
Proposal Due March 15, 2023 |
2023 AARP – Livable Communities Challenge: Quick Action Grants (Flagship, Capacity-Building Microgrants, and Demonstration Grants)
AARP Livable Communities supports the efforts of neighborhoods, towns, cities and counties nationwide to become more livable for all. We believe that communities should provide safe, walkable streets; affordable and accessible housing and transportation options; access to needed services; and opportunities for residents, especially those age 50 and older, to participate in civic and community life.
Award Range: Flagship: up to $50k; Duration – May-Nov 2023 Capacity Building: $2,500; Duration – May-Nov 2023 Demonstrations: $10k-$50k; Duration – May-Nov 2023 |
WEBINAR REGISTRATION [events.aarp.org]
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Proposal Due March 22, 2023 |
DRL – Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor: Leveraging Intersectionality to Ensure Zero Obstruction to Women’s Empowerment DRL requests proposals specifically focused on women from marginalized communities who face compounded discrimination and violence, as well as significant barriers to exercising their human rights, fundamental freedoms, and dignity. DRL is particularly concerned with the status of women and girls from marginalized communities who experience heightened discrimination, violence, and inequality from emerging and growing global challenges, including gender-based violence, disinformation, migration, food insecurity, economic inequality, conflict and crisis, and climate change. Award Range – up to $1m; Duration – 18-24 months |
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WEBINAR February 14, 2023
Proposal Due March 28, 2023 |
BJA – Bureau of Justice Assistance – DOJ – Department of Justice – Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program
With this solicitation, BJA seeks to fund cross-system collaboration programs to reduce criminal justice (CJ) system involvement and improve outcomes for individuals with mental health disorders (MHDs) or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders (MHSUDs) who have come into contact with the CJ system or are leaving a custodial setting.
Award Range – up to $550k; Duration – up to 36 months |
WEBINAR REGISTRATION [bja.ojp.gov]
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Pre-recorded Webinar March 2, 2023
Proposal Due April 7, 2023 |
DoDEA – Department of Defense Education Activity – Grants to Military-Connected Local Educational Agencies for Academic and Support Programs and the World Language Advancement and Readiness Program
The Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) seeks innovative applications that identify and implement evidence-based practices to meet the academic needs of the highly mobile military-connected students in their community and applications which establish, improve, or expand world language programs targeting elementary and secondary students. In addition, any local education agency (LEA) awarded a grant under this announcement must use the funds to support programs that can be continued beyond the grant period and demonstrate approaches that could be disseminated to and duplicated in other LEAs. Awarded projects must provide a written project narrative and a detail budget table which identifies which program (either MCASP or WLARP) the LEA is applying for funding to implement under this announcement. Additionally, all projects awarded under this funding opportunity must include a professional development component.
Award Range – $500k - $2m; Duration – up to 60 months |
Link to Webinars [dodeagrants.org]
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Proposal Due April 10, 2023 |
NIJ – National Institutes of Justice – W.E.B. Du Bois Program of Research on Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Justice System
With this solicitation, NIJ seeks applications for funding for investigator-initiated research examining how observed racial and ethnic disparities in the justice system might be reduced through public policy interventions at any point during the administration of justice from two categories of researchers:
NIJ will give special consideration to proposals with methods that include meaningful engagement with the people with lived experience of the subject of study; including, but not limited to, justice practitioners, community members, crime victims, service providers and individuals who have experienced justice system involvement. Applicants are encouraged to propose multidisciplinary research teams to build on the complementary strengths of different methods and areas of subject matter expertise. NIJ also seeks proposals that include consideration and measurement of issues of diversity, discrimination, and bias across age, gender and gender identity, race, ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation, as applicable. Award range: up to $1m; Duration: 60 months |
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Pre-Applications Due March 1, 2023
Proposal Due April 12, 2023 |
DOE – Department of Energy – OS – Office of Science – ASCR – Advanced Scientific Computing Research : Scientific Machine Learning for Complex Systems The DOE SC program in Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) hereby announces its interest in research applications to explore potentially high-impact approaches in the development and use of scientific machine learning (SciML) and artificial intelligence (AI) in the predictive modeling, simulation and analysis of complex systems and processes.
Award Range – $300k - $1.2m; Duration – 48 months |
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WEBINAR February 15, 2023
Proposal Due May 1, 2023 |
BJA – Bureau of Justice Assistance – DOJ – Department of Justice – Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program
With this solicitation, BJA seeks to fund cross-system collaboration programs that improve or enhance public safety and public health responses to and outcomes for individuals with mental health disorders (MHDs) or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders (MHSUDs) who come in contact with law enforcement. BJA provides grant funding to help entities prepare, create, or expand comprehensive plans and then implement these collaborative projects to target preliminarily qualified individuals.
Award Range – up to $550k; Duration – up to 36 months |
WEBINAR REGISTRATION [bja.ojp.gov]
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Statement of Interest Due March 15, 2023
IF INVITED:
Full Proposals Due May 15, 2023 |
Public Diplomacy Section of the U.S. Embassy in Luxembourg – Remembering our Shared History
The U.S. Embassy Luxembourg invites proposals from non-governmental organizations, think tanks, government institutions, academic institutions, and individuals for programs strengthening the bilateral ties between the United States and Luxembourg and Remembering our Shared History, including, but not limited to: • Programs that highlight significant WWII events, ‘untold stories’, and any elements of U.S.-Luxembourg collaboration that provide unique context, perspective, and meaning to the long-standing alliance between the Unites States and Luxembourg. • Programs focused on youth and youth education to ensure the memory of WWII is not forgotten by the younger generations in Luxembourg. • Programs that foster truthful recognition and remembrance of the tragedies of the Second World War and particularly the Holocaust • Program activities such as historical/cultural exhibits, film screenings (movies/documentaries) and lecture series, book discussions, various media platforms (broadcast media, social media, etc.) and other types of public outreach campaigns.
All programs must engage Luxembourg audiences. All programs must include a U.S. element or connection with U.S. experts that will promote increased understanding of U.S. policy and perspectives. Any speaker paid with grant funding must hold U.S. citizenship.
Award range: $3,000 - $15k; Duration: 12 months |
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Statement of Interest Due March 15, 2023
IF INVITED:
Full Proposals Due May 15, 2023 |
Public Diplomacy Section of the U.S. Embassy in Luxembourg – Accelerating STEM and Climate Ambitions The U.S. Embassy Luxembourg invites proposals from non-governmental organizations, think tanks, government The U.S. Embassy Luxembourg invites proposals from non-governmental organizations, think tanks, government institutions, academic institutions, and individuals for programs strengthening the bilateral ties between the United States and Luxembourg and Accelerating STEM and Climate Ambitions, including, but not limited to: • Programs that raise awareness about space and satellite technology, space exploration, biotechnology, green technology, clean energy, climate change, or the climate crisis. This could include educational programs for young people, trainings for educators, public debates, exhibits, etc. • Educational programs with a focus on interactive STEM skills, such as computer programming, coding, and robotics, or programs about the importance of protecting the environment, clean air and water and sustainability measures. • Projects that share American best practices in STEM and space research, climate change, sustainability, renewables, environmental protection, or biotechnology by bringing U.S. experts to engage with Luxembourg audiences.
All programs must engage Luxembourg audiences. All programs must include a U.S. element or connection with U.S. experts that will promote increased understanding of U.S. policy and perspectives. Any speaker paid with grant funding must hold U.S. citizenship.
Award range: $3,000 - $15k; Duration: 12 months |
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