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Find Funded Projects and More Using NIH Databases

Staying at the cutting edge involves more than just keeping up with the journals and attending scientific conferences. You can leverage NIH databases to learn about emerging research in your field, find potential collaborators for future projects, identify promising research areas, and much more.

Use the tips and links on this page to explore these free NIH databases:

• Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (RePORT) —find historic and current data on all NIH-supported grants, contracts, and award recipients.
• ClinicalTrials.gov —search for summaries and details of NIH-funded clinical trials.
• More Data Sources —check PubMed, eRA Commons, and more.

Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (RePORT)

NIH’s  Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (RePORT)  displays interactive charts, reports, and tables of historic and current data on grants, contracts, and award recipients.

RePORT has the following five major sections:

1. RePORT Expenditures and Results (RePORTER)

RePORT Expenditures and Results (RePORTER) to customize queries on funded projects, investigators, publications, and patents. This can be a great way to get a snapshot of research areas in your field and look for potential collaborators or competitors. You may spot research areas that are underrepresented or highly supported.

Try the Quick Search field or Advanced Project Search . Your search results include tabs to check Publications and more.   

Export and share your search results, save MyRePORTER queries, or download raw data through ExPORTER . Advanced users can retrieve data for analysis and/or reuse in other applications through the RePORTER Application Programming Interface (API) .

2. Matchmaker

Matchmaker  allows you to enter scientific text (e.g., an abstract) and find similar projects or NIH program officers:

• The Similar Projects option helps you find potential collaborators or determine which NIH institute and study section your application could target. (Note that Special Emphasis Panel labels start with a “Z”. You cannot request assignment to a SEP.)
• The Similar Program Officials option lists relevant NIH institutes and program officers.

3. Awards by Location and Organization

Check RePORT’s NIH Awards by Location and Organization  for year-by-year NIH funding by institution, state, congressional district, principal investigator, funding mechanism, and more. Similar to the options above, you can use this to find collaborators and evaluate support for your area of science.

4. Categorical Spending (RCDC)

The Categorical Spending option on the RePORT main page brings you to the Estimates of Funding for Various Research, Condition, and Disease Categories (RCDC)  section.

RCDC shows you the annual support level for each category of research. NIH determines the category for each project based on application text. RCDC includes historic data since fiscal year (FY) 2008 and projections for the current FY.

5. NIH Data Book

The NIH Data Book section of RePORT offers interactive charts and reports on extramural grants and contracts, awardee organizations, and the national biomedical workforce. Most reports include controls to fine tune the details and dates displayed. You can also use the Data, Export, and View More options.

Learn more about RePORT in the  Frequently Asked Questions . Direct your feedback, corrections, or questions to RePORT General Inquiries .

ClinicalTrials.gov

Search public information about NIH-funded clinical trials at ClinicalTrials.gov . Use it to find other researchers’ projects, uncover new developments in clinical research, and find potential collaborators. 

Note: NIH is currently working on Modernization of ClinicalTrials.gov. Check out the Beta Test Website and Share Your Feedback .  

The main  ClinicalTrials.gov  page offers a basic keyword search form. As a working example, here are  Search Results for Clinical Trials Related to COVID-19 .

Create detailed queries through the Find Studies  section’s Advanced Search , categorized Studies by Topic , or regional Studies on Map . Learn How to Search .

Subscribe to Search Results  or use the Download button. Also consider the advanced techniques at  Downloading Content for Analysis  and the  ClinicalTrials.gov API .

Check  ClinicalTrials.gov Questions and Answers  for more detail or Write to the Help Desk .

More Data Sources

Find many more Electronic Databases and Directories at NIH and beyond. For example:

• Learn about scientific findings in your field through PubMed.gov . Use the Advanced Search for more than 35 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.  
• If you have an eRA Commons account, try LikeThis , a thesaurus-based search tool to find funded projects and publications.
• The NIH Intramural Database indexes scientific projects in NIH’s own laboratories and clinics. Find NIH researchers in your area of science and learn how Collaborations Between Extramural and NIAID Scientists work.

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Federal Funds for R&D

This series reviews current and historical trends in Federal obligations and funding for research and development in science and engineering.

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• Inflation-Adjusted Federal R&D Obligations Expected to Decline for Second Year from FY 2021 High Other | NSF 24-324 | May 20, 2024
• Federal R&D Obligations Increased 0.4% in FY 2022; Estimated to Decline in FY 2023 InfoBriefs | NSF 24-322 | April 3, 2024
• Federal Funds for Research and Development: Fiscal Years 2022–23 Data Tables | NSF 24-321 | April 3, 2024
• Analysis of Federal Funding for Research and Development in 2022: Basic Research InfoBriefs | NSF 24-332 | August 15, 2024 New
• Federal Obligations for R&D Contracts Increase 1.8% in FY 2022; Obligations for R&D Grants Increase 2.7% InfoBriefs | NSF 24-327 | July 1, 2024 New
• Federal Funding to University Affiliated Research Centers Totaled $1.5 Billion in FY 2021 Other | NSF 24-315 | January 16, 2024
• Federal Funding for Experimental Development in FY 2021 Was Concentrated in Engineering and Life Sciences Other | NSF 24-314 | January 16, 2024
• The Department of Energy Accounted for over 60% of All Federal Funding for R&D Plant in FY 2021 Other | NSF 24-313 | January 16, 2024
• Reclassification of Federally Funded Research and Development Centers as Federal Intramural Performers of R&D InfoBriefs | NSF 24-312 | January 4, 2024
• Federal Funds for Research and Development: Fiscal Years 2021–22 Data Tables | NSF 24-309 | December 21, 2023
• Federal Obligations for R&D Increased Nearly 14% in FY 2021, Supported by COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Funding InfoBriefs | NSF 23-352 | September 25, 2023
• Federal Funds for Research and Development: Fiscal Years 2020–21 Data Tables | NSF 22-323 | April 28, 2022
• Driven by Stimulus Funding, Federal R&D Obligations Increased 18% in 2020; Largest Year-to-Year Change since 1963 InfoBriefs | NSF 22-324 | March 24, 2022
• Growth in Federal Research Obligations for Life Sciences Between 1970 and 2020 Other | NCSES 21-200 | June 10, 2021
• Federal Funds for Research and Development: Fiscal Years 2019–20 Data Tables | NSF 21-329 | May 12, 2021
• Federal R&D Obligations Increased 10% in 2019; Largest Year-to-Year Change Since 2009 InfoBriefs | NSF 21-328 | April 28, 2021
• One-Fourth of Federal Obligations for R&D Are Directed to Two States: California and Maryland InfoBriefs | NSF 22-318 | February 16, 2022
• Federal R&D Obligations Increase 8.8% in FY 2018; Preliminary FY 2019 R&D Obligations Increase 9.3% Over FY 2018 InfoBriefs | NSF 20-308 | January 30, 2020
• Federal Funds for Research and Development: Fiscal Years 2018–19 Data Tables | January 14, 2020
• Federal R&D Obligations Increase an Estimated 2.7% in FY 2018 InfoBriefs | NSF 19-321 | June 17, 2019
• Federal Funds for Research and Development: Fiscal Years 2017–18 Data Tables | June 17, 2019
• Federal R&D Obligations Increase 3% in FY 2017: Research Obligations Decrease Slightly While Those for Development Increase 7% InfoBriefs | NSF 18-311 | July 30, 2018
• Federal Funds for Research and Development: Fiscal Years 2016–17 Data Tables | July 12, 2018
• Federal Funds for Research and Development: Fiscal Years 2015–17 Data Tables | April 5, 2017
• Total Federal Research and Development Funding Down 1% in FY 2015, but Funding for Research Up 1% InfoBriefs | NSF 17-316 | March 21, 2017
• Federal Funding for Research Increases by 6% in FY 2014; Total Federal R&D Up 4% (A) InfoBriefs | NSF 16-311 | April 20, 2016
• Federal Funds for Research and Development: Fiscal Years 2014–16 (A) Data Tables | April 20, 2016
• Federal Funds for Research and Development: Fiscal Years 2013–15 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 15-324 | June 29, 2015
• Federal Funds for Research and Development FYs 2012–14 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 14-316 | September 30, 2014
• Federal Funding for Basic Research at Universities and Colleges Essentially Unchanged in FY 2012 (A) InfoBriefs | NSF 14-318 | September 4, 2014
• Federal Research and Development and R&D Plant Funding Drop by 9% in FY 2013 (A) InfoBriefs | NSF 15-322 | May 14, 2015
• Federal Funds for Research and Development: Fiscal Years 2011–13 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 14-312 | July 28, 2014
• Federal Funding for Research Drops by 9% in FY 2011 (A) InfoBriefs | NSF 13-336 | September 24, 2013
• Federal Funds for Research and Development: Fiscal Years 2010–12 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 13-326 | July 8, 2013
• Federal Research and Development and R&D Plant Obligations Show Modest Growth in FY 2010 (A) InfoBriefs | NSF 13-317 | March 26, 2013
• Federal Funds for Research and Development: Fiscal Years 2009–11 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 12-318 | July 2, 2012
• ARRA Increased Federal Research and Development and R&D Plant Obligations by $19.2 Billion for FY 2009–10 (A) InfoBriefs | NSF 12-314 | April 30, 2012
• Federal Funds for Research and Development: Fiscal Years 2008–10 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 12-308 | April 18, 2012
• Federal Funding of Basic and Applied Research Increases in FY 2009 (A) InfoBriefs | NSF 11-324 | July 26, 2011
• Department of the Air Force Revises Development Data for FY 2000–07 (A) InfoBriefs | NSF 11-304 | January 3, 2011
• Federal Funds for Research and Development: Fiscal Years 2007-09 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 10-305 | May 12, 2010
• Federal R&D Support Shows Little Change in FY 2008 (A) InfoBriefs | NSF 09-320 | October 2, 2009
• Federal Funds for Research and Development: Fiscal Years 2006–08 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 10-303 | October 15, 2009
• FY 2008 Data Show Downward Trend in Federal R&D Funding (A) InfoBriefs | NSF 09-309 | February 4, 2009
• Federal Funds for Research and Development: Fiscal Years 2005–07 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 09-300 | November 14, 2008
• Federal R&D Funding Down in FY 2007 (A) InfoBriefs | NSF 08-303 | February 13, 2008
• Federal Funds for Research and Development: Fiscal Years 2004-06 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 07-323 | June 1, 2007
• Federal Agencies Supported R&D Growth over the Period FY 1994-2004 (A) InfoBriefs | NSF 07-302 | December 18, 2006
• Federal Funds for Research and Development: Fiscal Years 2003-05 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 06-313 | May 12, 2006
• Federal Support for R&D and R&D Plant Projected at $110 Billion in FY 2005 (A) InfoBriefs | NSF 06-300 | November 17, 2005
• Federal Funds for R&D: FYs 2002, 2003, and 2004 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 05-307 | April 12, 2005
• Federal Obligations for R&D and R&D Plant Expected to Reach Over $105 Billion in FY 2004 (A) InfoBriefs | NSF 04-331 | July 29, 2004
• Federal Funds for R&D: FYs 1970-2003; Federal Obligations for Research by Agency and Detailed Field of S&E (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 04-335 | August 12, 2004
• Federal Funds for R&D: FYs 1973-2003; Federal Obligations for Research to Universities and Colleges by Agency and Field of S&E (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 04-332 | August 11, 2004
• Federal Funds for R&D: FYs 2001, 2002, and 2003 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 04-310 | April 20, 2004
• Federal Funding for R&D and R&D Plant Continues to Grow in the 21st Century (A) InfoBriefs | NSF 03-321 | June 20, 2003
• Federal Obligations for Research by Agency and Detailed Field of S&E: FYs 1970-2002 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 04-313 | April 30, 2004
• Federal Obligations for Research to Universities and Colleges by Agency and Detailed Field of S&E: FYs 1973-2002 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 04-314 | April 30, 2004
• Federal Funds for R&D, Detailed Historical Tables, FYs 1951-2002 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 03-325 | August 14, 2003
• Federal Funds for R&D: FYs 2000, 2001, and 2002, Volume 50 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 02-321 | July 16, 2002
• Changing Composition of Federal Funding for R&D and R&D Plant Since 1990 (A) InfoBriefs | NSF 02-315 | April 18, 2002
• Classification Revisions Reduce Reported Federal Development Obligations (A) InfoBriefs | NSF 02-309 | February 28, 2002
• Federal Funds for R&D: Detailed Historical Tables: FYs 1951-2001 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 01-334 | July 31, 2001
• Federal Funds for R&D: FYs 1999, 2000, and 2001, Volume 49 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 01-328 | July 11, 2001
• Federal Funds for R&D, FYs 1970-2001, Federal Obligations for Research by Agency and Detailed Field of S&E (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 01-333 | July 1, 2001
• Federal Funds for R&D: Federal Obligations for Research to Universities and Colleges by Agency and Detailed Field of S&E: FYs 1973-2001 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 01-331 | July 1, 2001
• FY 2001 Department of Defense Share of Federal R&D Funding Falls to Lowest Level in 22 Years (A) InfoBriefs | NSF 01-319 | February 26, 2001
• Federal Funds for R&D, Federal Obligations for Research by Agency and Detailed Field of S&E, FYs 1970-2000 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 01-306 | December 14, 2000
• Federal Funds for R&D, Federal Obligations for Research to Universities and Colleges by Agency and Detailed Field of S&E, FYs 1973-2000 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 01-307 | December 14, 2000
• Federal Funds for R&D: FYs 1998, 1999 and 2000, Volume 48 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 00-317 | June 23, 2000
• Federal Survey Shows Defense Funding of Industry Is Largest Share of Federal R&D in FY 2000 (A) InfoBriefs | NSF 00-309 | February 1, 2000
• Federal Funds Survey, Detailed Historical Tables, FYs 1951-99 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 99-347 | June 8, 1999
• Federal Funds Survey, Fields of S&E Research Historical Tables, FYs 1970-99 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 99-345 | June 2, 1999
• Federal Funds Survey, Fields of S&E Research to Universities and Colleges Historical Tables, FYs 1973-99 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 99-346 | June 1, 1999
• Federal Funds for R&D: FYs 1997, 1998, and 1999, Volume 47 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 99-333 | March 23, 1999
• Federal Funding Supports Moderate Growth for Basic Research in the 1990's (A) InfoBriefs | NSF 99-319 | January 7, 1999
• Federal Funds Survey, Fields of S&E Research Historical Tables, FYs 1970-98 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 98-326 | January 1, 1999
• Federal Funds for R&D: FYs 1996, 1997, and 1998, Volume 46 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 98-332 | December 1, 1998
• Federal Funds Survey, Detailed Historical Tables, FYs 1951-98 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 98-328 | August 1, 1998
• Federal Funds Survey, Fields of S&E Research to Universities and Colleges Historical Tables, FYs 1973-98 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 98-327 | August 1, 1998
• Federal Obligations for Applied Research Keep Pace with Those for Basic Research (A) InfoBriefs | NSF 98-309 | April 27, 1998
• Federal Funds Survey, Fields of S&E Research to Universities and Colleges Historical Tables, FYs 1977-97 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | SRS 00-402 | July 1, 2000
• Federal Funds Survey, Fields of S&E Research Historical Tables, FYs 1974-97 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | SRS 00-401 | October 19, 1999
• Federal Funds Survey, Detailed Historical Tables, FYs 1951-97 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | SRS 99-401 | October 4, 1999
• Federal Basic Research Share Grows During a Period of Declining R&D (A) InfoBriefs | NSF 97-308 | May 15, 1997
• Federal Funds for R&D: FYs 1995, 1996, and 1997, Volume 45 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 97-327 | February 6, 1997
• Federal Funds for R&D: FYs 1994, 1995, and 1996, Volume 44 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 97-302 | May 1, 1997
• Federal Funding for R&D and R&D Plant to Drop in FY 1996; Department of Defense Survey Data Expanded (A) InfoBriefs | NSF 96-306 | June 18, 1996
• Federal Funds for R&D: FYs 1993, 1994, and 1995, Volume 43 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 95-334 | June 1, 1995
• Small Decrease in Federal Funding for R&D and R&D plant Expected in FY 1995 (A) InfoBriefs | NSF 95-315 | May 25, 1995
• Selected Data on Federal Funds for R&D: FYs 1992, 1993, and 1994 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | SRS 95-405 | January 1, 1995
• Federal Funds for R&D Detailed Historical Tables: FYs 1956-1994 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 94-331 | November 1, 1994
• Federal Funding for R&D and for R&D Plant Expected to Decrease in FY 1994 (A) InfoBriefs | NSF 94-309 | June 1, 1994
• Federal Funds for R&D: FYs 1992, 1993, and 1994, Volume 42 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 94-328 | April 1, 1994
• Federal Funds for R&D: Federal Obligations for Research by Agency and Detailed Field of S&E: FYs 1971-1994 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 94-332 | January 1, 1994
• Federal Funds for R&D: Federal Obligations for Research to Universities and Colleges by Agency and Detailed Field of S&E: FYs 1975-1994 (A) Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 94-330 | January 1, 1994
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Estimates of Funding for Various Research, Condition, and Disease Categories (RCDC)

Table Published: May  14, 2024

The table below displays the annual support level for various research, condition, and disease categories based on grants, contracts, and other funding mechanisms used across the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as well as disease burden data published by the  National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)  at the  Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC).

At the request of Congress, the NIH embarked on a process to provide better consistency and transparency in the reporting of its funded research. This new process, implemented in 2008 through the Research, Condition, and Disease Categorization (RCDC) system, uses sophisticated text data mining (categorizing and clustering using words and multiword phrases) in conjunction with NIH-wide definitions used to match projects to categories. RCDC use of data mining improves consistency and eliminates the wide variability in defining the research categories reported. The definitions are a list of terms and concepts selected by NIH scientific experts to define a research category. The research category levels represent the NIH's best estimates based on the category definitions. These definitions include all aspects of the topic, such as basic, pre-clinical, clinical, biomedical, health services, behavioral, and social research.

In 2016, the NIH added mortality and prevalence data from two sources of consistent and nationally representative disease statistics provided by NCHS/CDC. These data are reported alongside the budgeting categories to provide the public and policymakers with information that is helpful for understanding the NIH research portfolio and its relationship to public health needs. However, NIH believes that the best way to understand disease burdens is by examining patterns in the larger context of multiple methods and measurements, chosen on a case-by-case basis as appropriate for each disease or condition. Further descriptions of these disease statistics can be found  here .

The NIH does not expressly budget by category. The annual estimates reflect amounts that change because of science, actual research projects funded, and the NIH budget. The research categories are not mutually exclusive. Individual research projects can be included in multiple categories so amounts depicted within each column of this table do not add up to 100 percent of NIH-funded research.

The table shows historical data for FY 2008 through FY 2023. Estimates for FY 2024 and FY 2025 are based on RCDC actual data and are usually posted when the President’s Budget is released.

Total Number of Research/Disease Areas: 324  

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It doesn’t matter how many foundations, individual donors, local and regional governments, and other funders believe in your organization and can donate financial support to it if those donors can’t find you and put you on their radar. Researching grants and prospects is the first step in the process, and navigating the upper levels of major-gift fundraising often requires a different approach than individual gift campaigns.

Grant research involves a certain amount of strategy and thoughtfulness, which no software can provide for you. But a number of tools on the market can facilitate your efforts to identify and research funders and make tracking your results more manageable.

For example, online search databases are essential to help you find new potential grants quickly by listing local and national foundations sorted by interest area, saving you time that would otherwise be spent poring over catalogs and directories. Some Web-based services can also help you locate the people in your area who are likely to make major contributions to your organization.

Foundation Grant Research

At its most basic, grant prospect research essentially consists of two major practices: researching various foundations’ grant cycles and giving histories, and managing your organization’s applications for each foundation. The former is an exercise in Web research—identifying a list of foundations that might give to your organization and locating them online to identify the types of organizations they’ve funded in the past, and with what size grants—and the latter is a matter of tracking and managing data.

Grant Research Tools

When looking up giving histories and grant cycles, websites like the Foundation Center’s Foundation Directory Online  database or  GrantStation  are invaluable. They allow you to search very detailed records of foundations by a variety of criteria, including past grants, focus areas, and giving interests. For example, an animal rescue shelter might identify a list of foundations dedicated to animal welfare or with a history of funding other shelters and animal rescue groups. You can access the Foundation Center database online with a monthly subscription ; the basic package starts around $20 a month, and full access costs around $180 monthly. GrantStation has a yearly subscription for $699, but may also be available at substantial discount through your state association.  GrantStation is also available through TechSoup’s product catalog  for qualified nonprofits and libraries. Alternatively, many regional or local philanthropy centers offer access as a benefit of membership, or free on location in their “grant research libraries.”

In addition, regional associations of grantmakers can be valuable sources of information (visit the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers  for a full list). Most grantmaker associations, also known as philanthropy centers, will house a publicly available list of foundations specific to a geographic area. Some are print-only, but a number offer online databases as well. You can also find associations of grantmakers centered on a mission area, such as  Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media , or by other criteria, like the  Association of Small Foundations . Searching member lists for these associations may help identify potential grant prospects.

Federal grants are another key source of funding for many organizations. While you won’t find these grants in private and corporate foundation databases, you can search for U.S. federal grant opportunities at  Grants.gov . State and local grant listings can most often be found on your municipality’s website. A basic Web search is also a great way to find out what grants nonprofits similar to your own have received, and that your organization may qualify for. Many nonprofits list foundation funders on their websites or in annual reports.

Once you’ve identified a list of foundations, you’ll need to determine their giving histories and grant capacities. Tax records are an important source of information on past grantees, overall budget, granting capacity, and the value of past grants. You’ll likely find a lot of this information through the Foundation Center database, but you may also need to search in other places to find everything you’re looking for.  GuideStar  lets you search a database that contains more than 5 million IRS Forms 990—the form the government uses to track financial information about organizations. A number of helpful sites can show you how to find the relevant data in a 990 form, including the  Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York  and this  archived article  at BusinessJournalism.org.

Tools for Managing the Grants Cycle

As you begin to gather information about prospective funders, you’ll need a place to store it. Smaller organizations with limited budgets and nonprofits just starting their grant research may find spreadsheet applications like  Microsoft Excel  or  Google Drive  to be terrific low-budget options for managing foundation prospect lists. If you choose to go this route, create columns to track such information as foundation names, website links, giving interests, and potential giving capacities, as well as dates of RFPs (requests for proposals) and their due dates. If your organization’s internal deadline for proposals is different from the foundation’s deadline, be sure to record both dates.

Most donor management databases, like any of those listed in Idealware’s  Consumers Guide to Donor Management Systems , let you manage your list of foundations just like any other giving prospects, and can track the RFP and proposal dates, the status of your proposals, and your proposal workflows.

In addition, it can be useful to supplement your deadline- and submission-date records with calendaring or task-management software that can function as a to-do list to ensure you don’t miss any deadlines.

Individual Prospect Research

Major gift prospects—typically wealthy individuals in either your geographic area or the community associated with your issue who have the capacity and interest in donating to your organization—can be as valuable to your organization as foundations.

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Before you can start your research, you’ll need to create a list of current and potential donors.

• Start with your list of current donors. Who has been a good donor in the past? You may find through your research that these people have greater giving capacity than you expected.
• Ask your board members and other supporters to recommend people for the list.
• Identify a few key people in your community who aren’t currently on your list but are known to donate to other organizations.

While technology can help you better understand the giving potential of these donors, it can’t help you create this list.

Once you have your prospect list, you’ll need to create a profile for your potential donors that includes their contact and giving information, as well as their financial capacity. Much of this information can be found for free in public records like tax documents, property values, board affiliations, and publicly held stock portfolios. Depending on the size of your prospect list and your staff time capacity, it can be feasible to manually search for these records. Many documents, such as property value records from the assessor’s office, may require you to request this information in person; this is usually free, though there may be a small fee for photocopies. (Some high-level donors may own property in multiple states or municipalities, posing more of a record-gathering challenge.)

Wealth-Screening Services

Rather than searching manually, you could use a wealth-screening database to save staff time, which to many nonprofits is more valuable than the cost of one of these Web-based services—especially for a longer list of donors. Four of the most widely-used wealth-screening databases are  Donor Search ,  WealthEngine ,  LexisNexis Development Professionals , and  Blackbaud’s Target Analytics .

All four allow you to upload a list of potential donors in order to approximate their individual giving potential. This is similar to the process you would use to research individual prospects yourself. These services just pull information from the databases and public records to which you have access. The difference is the staff time you save by being able to run a list of thousands of names at once instead of manually searching one by one, as well as a honed ability to know where to look for detailed information.

While all of these tools tend to be expensive (prices are available only through a quote from the vendors), WealthEngine and LexisNexis cost more than DonorSearch or Target Analytics. Since they usually run on a subscription basis, you can either run large lists all at once, or smaller donor lists as needed. Many of these services will also filter your prospect list to identify the most likely donors, such as your top one percent or top one hundred prospects. Because the information used to create these donor profiles comes from public records, these services tend to use the same sources with minor variations among them. When choosing a tool, it can be helpful to arrange a trial list from the ones you’re considering by using a few names you already have up-to-date profiles on to judge the accuracy of the tools.

Now That You Have Your List…

As with foundation research, you’ll need a place to record and manage your individual prospects. This should be done using a donor management database, which will let you track each prospect and their giving histories, asset pools, giving interests, and the likelihood that they will give again. Many donor databases can also manage pledges and scheduled or recurring gifts, allowing you to keep track of large gifts spread out over a period of months or years—which can be an important source of reliable funding.

Once you’ve compiled a list of feasible prospects and put them through wealth screening, it’s time to start appending the records already in your database. If you’ve used a wealth-screening tool, you’ll find that some of them—WealthEngine or Blackbaud’s Target Analytics, for example—will integrate with your existing donor database or CRM, while others will require you to import the list manually. You also should check over the profiles you get back from these tools—to make sure, for instance, that the John Smith they’ve highlighted as your most likely prospect is the John Smith you think it is—before you import the list wholesale into your system.

It’s important to remember that these prospects are a starting point for cultivating new, high-value donors, not a piggy bank. If you don’t already have a relationship with your top potential donors, find a way to introduce your organization and take the time to build a relationship before soliciting thousands of dollars from them. You also may find from your research that your current long-term donors have greater capacity than you expected. Because you already have a relationship with them, you can consider asking them to increase their contributions.

As you can see, the technology exists to help you find available grants and track their grant cycle, but there still isn’t software to replace the human element—say, to write your proposals for you. And it’s the same with your individual prospects. Wealth-screening services can quickly track down information for your list that would take hours and hours of staff time, but they can’t sit down with each prospect and build a relationship. It’s still essential to have a seasoned fundraiser with the knowledge and capabilities to write good proposals and/or wine and dine potential donors. It’s a good idea to use the high-tech databases and wealth-screening services to help you find the door, but it’s still your job to get your foot in it.

This article was first published by TechSoup, who provided financial support for its creation. The author would like to thank the following nonprofit technology professionals for providing recommendations, advice, and other help: Robert Weiner ; Erin Baltes,  Thomas College ; Carolyn Appleton , Independent Nonprofit Fundraising Executive; Laura Jansen,  Pierce Family Foundation .

Copyright © 2014 TechSoup Global. This work is published under a  Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License .

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Kyle H. Andrei is a research associate for Idealware, a nonprofit that provides thoroughly researched, impartial, and accessible resources about software to help other nonprofits make smart decisions. Visit www.idealware.org to find dozens of free articles, reports, and trainings about technology topics of interest to nonprofits.

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Project Title: Prevalence, Abundance, and Fate of Antibiotics, Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria, and their Determinant Genes in U.S. Wastewater Systems

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Researchers will establish a risk assessment framework that can estimate human health risks based on measurements of ARB and ARGs in surface water under the influence of municipal wastewater and biosolids. The project will use an integrated approach combining field data, model simulation, and risk assessment. Through collaborations among institutions in five states (Hawaii, California, Nebraska, Iowa, and New Jersey), the project will reveal the relative contributions of municipal, nonmunicipal, and natural sources to the AMR in surface waters for river systems in the four states. Fate-and-transport models for ARB and ARGs in runoff and rivers will be developed, and an exposure assessment model for ARB as well as a semi-quantitative risk characterization model for ARGs will be developed to improve stakeholders’ abilities to understand risks and develop/prioritize mitigation strategies.

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Project Title: Understanding the Role of Wastewater Treatment for Mitigating Antimicrobial Resistance: Leveraging Historical Trajectories, Current Day Mass Balances, and Clinical Relevance

Principal Investigator: Ryan Newton

Award Amount: $2,038,572

Grantees will distinguish effective treatment processes for the removal of AMR and quantify and contextualize risks associated with wastewater treatment systems against industrial and agricultural sectors connected to AMR. Researchers will integrate ARG and ARB quantification and genomic and metagenomic-based DNA sequencing to determine changes in clinically relevant genotypes from treatment facility influent through the treatment train and ultimately to facility outflows. The team will also compare current wastewater resistance profiles to those from wastewater collected over the past 10 years, current ARBs and ARGs from hospital clinics, and both upstream (sewer overflows) and downstream (river transect) systems. This project will provide critical information for whether current treatment systems are effectively removing AMR. These analyses will also provide an understanding and quantification of the clinical significance of discharged AMR, and therefore risk associated with wastewater discharge.

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The Water Research Foundation, Denver, Colo.

Project Title: Quantifying Wastewater Sources of Antibiotic Resistance to Aquatic and Soil Environments and Associated Human Health Risks

Principal Investigator: Lola Olabode

Award Amount: $2,374,575

The team will produce a comprehensive study of antibiotic resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistant genes in wastewater treatment plant effluent and biosolids to measure and model their fate including potential for ARB/ARG increase or decrease in aquatic and soil environments. Researchers will compare wastewater sources of AMR with other sources in communities across the US with different wastewater effluent and management approaches. A comprehensive risk assessment modeling framework tailored to the unique aspects of AMR will be developed to evaluate potential mitigation options, identify scenarios where AMR spread is most likely and improve exposure estimates. 

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As part of  NEH’s third and final round of grant awards for FY2024 , the Endowment made its inaugural awards under the new  Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence program, which aims to foster a more holistic understanding of AI in the modern world by creating scholarship and learning centers across the country that spearhead research exploring the societal, ethical, and legal implications of AI. 

Institutions in California, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Virginia were awarded NEH grants to establish the first AI research centers and pilot two or more collaborative research projects that examine AI through a multidisciplinary humanities lens. 

The new Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence grant program is part of NEH’s agencywide  Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence initiative, which supports humanities projects that explore the impacts of AI-related technologies on truth, trust, and democracy; safety and security; and privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties. The initiative responds to President Biden’s  Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence , which establishes new standards for AI safety and security, protects Americans’ privacy, and advances equity and civil rights. 

“The rapid development of artificial intelligence has far-reaching consequences for American society, culture, and democracy,” said NEH Chair Shelly C. Lowe (Navajo). “The humanities provide the ethical compass and historical context to help us understand the full implications of AI technologies, giving both creators and users of AI the necessary tools to navigate its risks and rewards responsibly, critically, and deliberately. Through NEH’s Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence initiative and these new grants, NEH is fostering much-needed research to help guide technology developers, policy makers, and the public in the responsible and ethical development and adoption of AI.” 

The Humanities Perspective on Artificial Intelligence initiative supports AI-related humanities projects through a number of NEH funding opportunities, including  Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence and another new grant program,  Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities , which supports individuals and teams of scholars engaged in humanities-centered research that examines technology and its relationship to society. It also encompasses AI research and education projects funded through NEH’s longstanding grant programs in  Collaborative Research ,  Institutes for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities , and  fellowship and summer stipend programs for individual scholars . 

Since launching the Humanities Perspective on Artificial Intelligence initiative in October 2023, NEH has awarded approximately $3.7 million to support research on the promises and pitfalls of AI technologies, on the development of AI tools and methods to investigate humanities topics and resources, and training and curriculum projects that increase AI literacy among humanities scholars and the public. 

In April 2024,  19 new projects were awarded a total of $1.9 million in Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities   grants . These awards funded a range of research projects undertaken by individuals and teams of scholars, including: a book on the use of artificial intelligence to generate and disseminate disinformation to influence, manipulate, or deceive audiences; a history of life-support technology in the United States and how it changed American culture and health care in the 20th century; and an analysis of the ways individuals in creative industries engage with generative artificial intelligence technologies and its potential impact on arts and culture.

Other projects under the Humanities Perspective on Artificial Intelligence initiative include a grant to Eastern Connecticut State University to develop an AI-related humanities curriculum across five liberal arts colleges, and a  cooperative agreement with the Modern Language Association to hold a two-day convening on the impact of AI on reading, writing, and languages.

Additional AI-related projects receiving funding today include work at the University of South Dakota on the development and testing of SubjectSpotter , AI-based software to automatically create subject tags for digitized cultural heritage materials to enhance search and usability; and a weeklong institute at the University of Kansas focused on teaching critical AI literacy to secondary, community college, and college-level humanities instructors. 

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania will receive a $200,000 grant to work as part of a multinational team on a comparative study of the role of large corporations in developing, deploying, and regulating artificial intelligence in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. This grant was awarded by NEH as part of the  Trans-Atlantic Platform , an international collaboration between 11 major funders in the humanities and social sciences from the U.S., Brazil, Canada, Croatia, France, Poland, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom to strengthen interdisciplinary cooperation on humanities and social sciences research that addresses the challenges of the 21st century. 

Five new Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence grants were awarded today:

• The University of California, Davis Outright: $499,717   to establish the UC Davis Center for Artificial Intelligence and Experimental Futures (CAIEF) on the democratization of AI technology.  Led by project director Colin Milburn, the new CAIEF center will conduct six collaborative projects, three public engagement workshops, one conference, and produce an online handbook of best practices relating to civil rights and the democratization of AI in the United States.   
• Bard College in New York  Outright: $500,000 to establish the Wihanble S'a Center, a humanities research center on Indigenous protocols for AI technology.  Led by project director Suzanne Kite (Oglala Lakota), a team of researchers from across the United States and Canada will conduct a collaborative research program, host interdisciplinary symposia, develop educational workshop modules, and publish scholarly articles and a book on Indigenous protocols for AI development that will guide the creation and refinement of AI wearable and digital technologies.   

North Carolina State University   Outright: $500,000 to establish the Embedding AI in Society Ethically (EASE) Center on the ethics of agent-based AI.

Led by project director Veljko Dubljevic, the new EASE Center will serve as a hub for research on AI ethics. Projects supported by the grant include the creation of a postdoctoral fellow mentoring program, a new graduate minor in AI ethics, an annual conference, and special journal issues on topics such as ethical considerations related to autonomous vehicles, large language models (LLMs), and AI-based technologies for eldercare.   

The University of Oklahoma, Norman Outright: $498,129 to establish the OU Center for Creativity and Authenticity in AI Cultural Production, focusing on generative AI and the meaning of creativity, authenticity, and appropriation.

Led by project director Hunter Heyck, Kim Marshall, and Pete Froslie, the new center will coordinate six research teams investigating questions related to AI and creative and intellectual endeavors, public trust and governance, and Native American cultural sovereignty through a linked set of research projects, interdisciplinary conferences and associated edited volumes, and public lectures.  

• The University of Richmond , in Virginia Outright: $491,863 Match: $226,602 to establish the Center for Liberal Arts and AI (CLAAI) on the social, cultural, and legal dimensions of artificial intelligence, with a focus on visual AI. Led by project director Lauren Tilton, CLAAI will serve as a nexus for a consortium of 16 liberal arts colleges across the Southeast to collaborate on research into the social, cultural, and legal possibilities and challenges of AI. Building upon an existing strength in visual AI, the center will support research fellows, provide faculty support grants to enhance AI expertise and expand course offerings in AI ethics, and convene institutes and a public symposium exploring issues related to AI and power and access, and the effects of AI technology on the environment. 

New application information for NEH’s Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence funding opportunity will be posted this fall. Consult the  NEH website for application guidelines and deadlines. 

National Endowment for the Humanities(NEH): Created in 1965 as an independent federal agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports research and learning in history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities by funding selected, peer-reviewed proposals from around the nation. Additional information about the National Endowment for the Humanities and its grant programs is available at  neh.gov .

2024-25 Spring Quarter - Global Development Research Funding

The Stanford King Center on Global Development  is a Stanford University research center working to improve the lives of the world’s poor. We stimulate and support research, inspire students, and collaborate with thought leaders and influencers to make a real-world impact.

This request for proposals is open to Stanford faculty and postdoctoral scholars performing new research on topics relevant to global development and poverty. Proposals will be accepted and considered twice yearly.

Expected funding for each project is up to $80,000 per project for faculty and $30,000 for postdoctoral scholars. Modest proposals are welcome and appreciated.

The application deadlines for the 2024-25 academic year are:

• Sunday, March 23, 2025 at 11:59pm.     

Scope and scale: 

The proposed work may involve the broad range of disciplines involved in global development, including but not limited to earth sciences, economics, engineering, medicine, political science, and policy. 

Proposals for which this funding would be incremental to funding already available, or for which the research is already sufficiently advanced to be a good candidate for other funding, are less likely to be selected.

Salary support for faculty is not allowed. Proposals with substantial requests for funding for existing staff or postdoctoral salaries will not be prioritized for support through this mechanism.

Proposals for projects that involve in-country research experience for PhD and masters students are encouraged. Projects will be funded for up to two years. One no-cost extension for the duration of up to one year past the original end date of the award may be requested. Follow-up funding in subsequent years is not anticipated.

For postdoctoral scholar applicants, it is expected that the proposed project will be completed during the postdoctoral appointment; funding cannot be transferred to other institutions nor continue after a Stanford appointment ends.

Proposal submission and budget guidelines: 

Proposals should be submitted via Stanford Seed Funding  website. Proposals must be self-contained with no links to additional information.

The proposal is subject to a five-page limit , including the text, figures, tables, and references. The budget and budget justification are limited to two additional pages . Use one-inch margins and an 11-point or larger font. 

In the proposal, please answer the following questions:

What is the global development issue you are hoping to address?

What is the study context?

How will you organize the research effort so as to answer your question with a high level of confidence? Research design elements to consider include (but may not be limited to) sampling strategy, kinds of comparisons you plan to make, data sources and methods, timing of data collection, and how you propose to deal with potential threats to sound inference (e.g., confounding and bias).

How will the project contribute to the academic literature? What is the potential for policy impact?

What is the anticipated timeline (provide both the optimistic and pessimistic scenario)? 

Each postdoctoral fellow and/or Principal Investigator (PI) who will be associated with the proposed work should submit a CV. If multiple PIs are involved in the project, the most senior person should submit the application. 

Postdoctoral scholars applying for funding should also submit a note from their faculty mentor indicating a willingness to serve as the official PI. 

The source of funding is gift funds; therefore, no proposal may include indirect costs, even if non-Stanford investigators would complete some part of the project. Projects will be funded through a newly created gift project task award (PTA); the eight percent (8%) university infrastructure charge for the award will be paid directly by the King Center.

Proposed budgets need not be routed through the Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) for this internally funded research initiative. 

Proposal review and selection criteria:

The objective of the review process is to identify high-quality projects that are consistent with the goals of this solicitation. Proposals will be reviewed by a committee that will apply a general filter for alignment with the themes of global poverty and development, and then use the following criteria to evaluate the proposals: 

Innovation 

Academic rigor

Budget is commensurate with the value of the proposed research. Budgets will be scrutinized for value for money.

Priority will be given to junior faculty over senior faculty. 

Committee members who are involved in a proposed project will recuse themselves from discussions of the relevant proposals. The committee may be supplemented by other faculty and experts at Stanford and outside with knowledge related to the areas of research but who are not involved in the proposed effort, with the requirement that each reviewer maintain the confidentiality of the proposed work.

The primary Principal Investigators (PIs) must be Stanford faculty members and members of the academic council.

Clinician Educators, Clinical Professors, and Instructors are not eligible to receive Global Development Research Funding from the King Center. If you have one of these appointments, but will be transitioning into an eligible faculty appointment, please indicate this and include your appointment letter showing that you will become an eligible faculty member during the initial year of project funding when you submit your application.

Stanford postdoctoral scholars are also eligible.  Postdoctoral scholars applying for funding should also submit a note from their faculty mentor indicating a willingness to serve as the official PI.

Please note that consulting faculty and academic staff are not eligible to apply.

Awards timelines

It is anticipated that funding decisions will be announced approximately two months after proposal submission.

For questions, please contact [email protected]

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About Grants

Did you know that NIH is the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world, investing more than $32 billion a year to enhance life, and reduce illness and disability? NIH funded research has led to breakthroughs and new treatments, helping people live longer, healthier lives, and building the  research foundation that drives discovery. Read on for an orientation to NIH funding, grant programs, how the grants process works, and how to apply.

Grants Process Overview

Learn the steps needed for an application to proceed from planning and submission to award and close out. Drill down on each step for guidance that can deepen your understanding of the grants process and help you submit a grant application and manage your grant award. 

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Before getting started, learn the basics like why it is important to understand the structure of NIH and how we approach grant funding, what types of organizations and people are eligible to apply, what we look for in a research project, and the types of grant programs we offer. Once you have the big picture move on to learn about planning your application.

How to Apply

How to Apply serves as our comprehensive application guide, providing step-by-step instructions to get you through the grant application process, from completing required registrations, finding a funding opportunity to accessing the application forms and instructions, formatting your application, finding due dates and submission policies, and more. 

Application Referral and Review

Once you submit your application to NIH, we assign your application to a specific study section for review and to a specific NIH Institute or Center for funding consideration. After assignment, the application undergoes a two level peer review process. Explore this page to learn more.

Pre-Award and Post-Award Processes

Applications that do well in review begin the pre-award process. Learn what happens during this process and what types of information you will be expected to provide. Once awarded, grantees must follow the requirements in the NIH Grants Policy statement and provide periodic reports to NIH that help NIH monitor the award.

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Essential NIH forms, instructions and format pages you need to apply for, manage, and close out grant awards. 

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Update 8/27/2024: NIA Funding Line Policy for FY 2024

On Saturday, March 23, 2024, the President signed into law: H.R. 2882, the “Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024,” which provides funding through September 30, 2024, for all departments and agencies of the Federal Government, including the NIH. NIA has updated the funding line policy below to reflect the actual 2024 budget allocation. As always, please watch this page for further updates as they become available.

It is the intent of NIA that we will now pay all FY24 noncompeting awards at 100% of the committed level as shown in the Notice of Award. NIA will also restore the cuts made in noncompeting awards paid earlier in this fiscal year. 

Note: There is always a possibility that changes will be made to the payline before the end of the fiscal year.

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NIA is now reducing FY24 competing awards by 16% on average. This average-cut policy applies to all research project awards except R03s (small grants), R21s (exploratory/developmental awards), and R15s (Academic Research Enhancement Awards and the NIH Research Enhancement Awards program). These awards (R03, R21, R15) generally receive the study-section-recommended amount of support. Additionally, all early stage investigator (ESI) and new investigator (NI) applications will not receive the reduction and will receive the study-section-recommended amount of support.

Note: The 16% cut remains an average. Individual awards may be reduced by more or less than that percentage.

Alzheimer’s Allocation

NIA is paying awards at their full study-section-recommended amounts, unless concerns about overlap or similar issues reduce the amount awarded.

Though NIA expects to pay most applications within these lines, when scientific concerns are identified in peer review that weaken the case for making an award, we may alternatively provide short-term support (R56) or invite a resubmission of the application. Similarly, we may pay a few applications beyond the paylines when they focus on high priorities of the institute.

*Note: Research applications submitted in response to a targeted (includes set-aside funds) funding opportunity (RFA, PAR, PAS) will be considered for funding using the Overall Impact Scored based Paylines, regardless of the locus of review (NIA or CSR).

Though NIA expects to pay most applications within these lines, when scientific concerns are identified in peer review that weaken the case for making an award, we may invite a resubmission of the application. Similarly, we may pay a few applications beyond the pay lines when they focus on high priorities of the institute.

All other categories of awards (Conference, Institutional Training, Small Business) are allocation-based rather than based on a funding line.

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NSF announces 4 new Engineering Research Centers focused on biotechnology, manufacturing, robotics and sustainability

Engineering innovations transform our lives and energize the economy.  The U.S. National Science Foundation announces a five-year investment of $104 million, with a potential 10-year investment of up to $208 million, in four new NSF Engineering Research Centers (ERCs) to create technology-powered solutions that benefit the nation for decades to come.   

"NSF's Engineering Research Centers ask big questions in order to catalyze solutions with far-reaching impacts," said NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan. "NSF Engineering Research Centers are powerhouses of discovery and innovation, bringing America's great engineering minds to bear on our toughest challenges. By collaborating with industry and training the workforce of the future, ERCs create an innovation ecosystem that can accelerate engineering innovations, producing tremendous economic and societal benefits for the nation."  

The new centers will develop technologies to tackle the carbon challenge, expand physical capabilities, make heating and cooling more sustainable and enable the U.S. supply and manufacturing of natural rubber.  

The 2024 ERCs are:  

• NSF ERC for Carbon Utilization Redesign through Biomanufacturing-Empowered Decarbonization (CURB) — Washington University in St. Louis in partnership with the University of Delaware, Prairie View A&M University and Texas A&M University.   CURB will create manufacturing systems that convert CO2 to a broad range of products much more efficiently than current state-of-the-art engineered and natural systems.    
• NSF ERC for Environmentally Applied Refrigerant Technology Hub (EARTH) — University of Kansas in partnership with Lehigh University, University of Hawaii, University of Maryland, University of Notre Dame and University of South Dakota.   EARTH will create a transformative, sustainable refrigerant lifecycle to reduce global warming from refrigerants while increasing the energy efficiency of heating, ventilation and cooling.    
• NSF ERC for Human AugmentatioN via Dexterity (HAND) — Northwestern University in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University, Florida A&M University, and Texas A&M University, and with engagement of MIT.  HAND will revolutionize the ability of robots to augment human labor by transforming dexterous robot hands into versatile, easy-to-integrate tools.     
• NSF ERC for Transformation of American Rubber through Domestic Innovation for Supply Security (TARDISS) — The Ohio State University in partnership with Caltech, North Carolina State University, Texas Tech University and the University of California, Merced.   TARDISS will create bridges between engineering, biology, and agriculture to revolutionize and on-shore alternative natural rubber production from U.S. crops.  

Since its founding in 1985, NSF's ERC program has funded 83 centers (including the four announced today) that receive support for up to 10 years. The centers build partnerships with educational institutions, government agencies and industry stakeholders to support innovation and inclusion in established and emerging engineering research.  

Visit NSF's website and read about NSF Engineering Research Centers .  

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Eight HFA Research Projects Awarded 2024 Faculty Research Grants

Twelve projects led by UMass Amherst researchers—including eight projects from HFA faculty—have received Faculty Research Grants/Healey Endowment Grants (FRG) for 2024. Administered by the Office of Research Development (ORD), under the Vice Chancellor for Research and Engagement, the FRG program supports projects with high potential for future publication, the development of creative work, additional funding from outside of the university or recognition of excellence.

The program encourages proposals for projects involving research, scholarship and creative works in all disciplines from early career faculty members initiating new projects and mid-career faculty members in pursuit of new directions or seeking to revitalize an ongoing program after a gap in productivity due to a period of exceptional commitment to departmental, university, and professional service, heavy teaching loads in the last three to six years or personal or family circumstances.

Full-time UMass Amherst faculty members whose appointments extend beyond the current academic year are eligible to apply for up to $20,000 in FRG grants, provided they have not received two previous FRG awards, have yet to submit a final report for a previous FRG award, or have more than $40,000 in unrestricted, uncommitted funds.

2024 HFA Faculty Research Grants/Healey Endowment Grant Recipients

“linguistic ideologies in the standardization of minority languages”.

María Biezma , assistant professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures (PI) with co-PIs Patricia Gubitosi , professor in the department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and Ana Arregu , professor of linguistics, have received $19,937. With their FRG, they aim to make testable models to predict how social meaning comes out of minority languages. To achieve this, they will use standardized and vernacular Kichwa, part of the indigenous language family of Quechuan, spoken in Salasaka, Ecuador.

“New Songs from New England: A Debut Solo Recording Project for publication, featuring newly commissioned works for Jamie-Rose Guarrine, soprano”

Jamie-Rose Guarrine , associate professor of voice, has secured a national recording label (PARMA/Navona) to publish her new solo album on all streaming platforms, featuring new pieces by female composers and poets from New England. She will use her $19,997 award to support the recording, mastering and distribution of the work.

“Kea Archaeological Research Survey & Replication Studies”

Shannon LaFayette Hogue , assistant professor of Classics, will use the $19,952 award to conduct a surface survey in Northwest Kea, Greece, covering an area previously examined in 1983-1984. The goal is to test the reproducibility of results from pedestrian surface survey techniques that are commonly used but have not been validated.

“Running to Music: How Musical Meaning Shapes Marathoning”

Catrina Kim , assistant professor of music theory, has been awarded $20,000 to investigate how running playlists create a narrative of what an idealized runner looks like in terms of race, gender and class.

“The ‘You-Cube’ - a tiny, sustainable, temporary, outside performance space for our University and broader community”

With $20,000, Anya Klepikov (PI), associate professor of scenic design, and Harley Erdman , professor of theater, aim to create a tiny performing space that allows audiences to view short live shows by peeking through cracks in the walls.

“Commissioning and Recording New Music for Horn”

Joshua Michal , associate professor of horn, will use his $19,600 award to record two solo albums. The first is an anthology of works for horn by composer Daniel Baldwin, including a newly commissioned sonata. The second album will contain new music for horn, voice and piano in memory of all those who died during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Our Cause: A Climate Fiction”

Jeff Parker , associate professor of English, has been awarded $14,175 to research and draft a novel titled “Our Cause.” This novel will follow three characters, each representing a different approach to addressing climate change.

“Expanding the bassoon repertoire through the lens of identity and connection”

Rémy Taghavi , assistant professor of bassoon, has received $17,725 to record newly transcribed and commissioned works for bassoon by composers from France and Iran. The album will also highlight underrepresented voices with two works by women and two by BIPOC composers.

Learn more about the FRG program.  

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August 28, 2024 | Combined Reports

With Record Success, UConn Research Looks to Make Profound Impact

UConn’s Research Enterprise celebrated a stellar year in 2024, eclipsing previous marks for expenditures and rising to meet global challenges.

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UConn investigators won $367 million in awards in the 2024 fiscal year, an increase of $45 million over 2023 and a major step in the University’s strategic plan goal of surpassing the $500 million mark.

In addition, 2024 expenditures – a critical metric used to assess research productivity at colleges and universities nationwide – reached $342 million, setting a UConn record.

The increases in research awards and expenditures are tangible evidence of UConn’s depth and breadth of expertise, its strength in innovation, its excellence in research, and its commitment to our communities. In fact, UConn’s faculty members are dedicated to addressing some of the most daunting challenges of our lifetime and research funding makes their work possible.

“We are developing a deeper understanding of issues such as grid resiliency, responsible energy consumption and production, health across the lifespan, cybersecurity, human rights, sustainability, and much more,” says Pamir Alpay, Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. “And, we have the capacity to make a profound difference for generations to come.”

In a highly competitive funding landscape, UConn stands out for the quality of its faculty and the excellence of its research infrastructure, which benefited from significant investments by the State of Connecticut, including the new Science 1 research and educational facility. These assets have allowed UConn to build interdisciplinary collaborations and forge strong partnerships with businesses and industry, both of which are critical to sustaining research over the long term.

“Our research success is not coincidental,” Alpay says. “We have purposefully strategized our growth to leverage existing strengths in areas such as the environment, materials and manufacturing, education, human rights, and health and life sciences and to build our capabilities through investments in faculty, infrastructure, and core centers and institutes. The result is a more prominent national profile and the ability to recruit and retain outstanding faculty and students, who, in turn, help build UConn’s research enterprise.”

“Our research initiatives have elevated all aspects of the University, including undergraduate education, sustainability, community service, innovation and entrepreneurship, and quality of health care at our hospital and clinics across the state.” says UConn President Radenka Maric. “Through our research programs, UConn directly contributes to the environmental, economic, and social vitality of the state and to the well-being and quality of life of Connecticut’s citizens.”

In an example of research funding driving programs that address real-world problems, UConn recently secured a $10 million grant from the Environmental Protection Administration to become the New England region’s Environmental Justice–Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Center (EJ-TCTAC). One of 17 regional centers selected in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy, EJ-TCTAC will build capacity in New England in underserved and rural/remote communities to address environmental and energy justice concerns, serving as a resource and technical assistance hub. The program will provide technical assistance services, education, outreach and community engagement on environmental quality and health, energy justice, climate adaptation, and civic justice.

UConn’s public mission is a key to its success. “As a public university, our mission is to advance knowledge in service of the public welfare,” says Alpay. ” Research teams across our campuses engage with individuals and communities to understand and address the challenges they face. Community connections shape our research programs and deliver answers where they’re needed. Our work in community resilience in response to climate change, our public policy efforts, and our engagement with industry in support of economic development are good examples.”

Among the most prominent of UConn’s efforts linking research, innovation, and public service is QuantumCT, a collaboration led by UConn and Yale in collaboration with state government, business, and community leaders that aims to make Connecticut an engine for economic development fueled by innovations in quantum technologies and to bring opportunity to communities. UConn and Yale received a National Science Foundation Regional Innovation Engine Development Award in 2023 to start building the QuantumCT innovation engine.

“Pioneering research is one of the main differentiators between great universities and good universities,” says Maric, a noted researcher in clean energy engineering. “The continued upward trajectory of UConn Research’s funding shows the respect that our faculty have around the world.”

The increase in awards comes at a time when the University’s research strength is being recognized in other ways, from early career faculty awards to senior faculty being elected members of prestigious societies. In addition, UConn and UConn Health consistently have multiple faculty members named to the annual Web of Science Highly Cited Researchers List, including five in 2023. The list recognizes researchers whose publications ranked in the top 1% by citations for their field and year of publication, demonstrating significant research influence among their peers.

Research is also key to the quality of education we are able to provide our students. Because UConn’s faculty are leaders in their fields, they prepare their students to meet the world’s emerging challenges. In part because of research excellence, UConn attracted the highest number of applications for admission to its freshman class in its history, including 148 valedictorians or salutatorians.

“And while I am glad to see the year-over-year success of UConn Research, we are not resting on our laurels,” says President Maric. “We have a goal of $500 million in research funding, and we intend to meet – and surpass – that goal.”

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