Grants and Exhibitions Workshop

Learn about funding opportunities, traveling exhibitions, 

and other resources provided by:

Humanities Texas

The state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities

Texas Commission on the Arts

The state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Arts

10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Friday, November 8, 2013

The Nacogdoches Railroad Depot

101 Old Tyler Road

Nacogdoches, Texas 75961

The workshop is free and open to the public.

Call or email Humanities Texas to reserve a space 

or for further information about the workshop.

Call 512.440.1991 or email rsvp_workshop@humanitiestexas.org.

For more information, please visit the Humanities Texas website.

Government Shutdown Update

FastLane and Research.gov are unavailable during the shutdown. 

While Grants.gov may be up and running, most agencies will not be receiving the proposals nor will proposals be checked for compliance with NSF/NIH/other sponsor proposal preparation requirements until normal operations are allowed to resume. 

How the Government Shutdown May Affect Your Grant

Government agencies have begun posting their respective lapse of government funding information notices. The majority of non-essential government employees will likely not be working during a shutdown (meaning your program officers won’t be available).  

What does this mean for you?

You should continue work on your current projects as federal funds are already obligated. However, some agencies may provide further direction which could impact expenditures. Please forward any such notices to ORSP.

Agencies will be accepting applications but no new awards will be issued during this lapse.

Program officers will not be available to approve any project changes that require prior approval (addition/removal of a PD or co-PD,  change in scope or approved activities of the project,  the absence of 3 months or more of a PI/co-PI).

Some agencies (such as the Forest Service) will not accept nor approve payment requests during the lapse.

Below are notices from the agencies likely affecting you:

NIH:     http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-13-126.html

ED:      http://www2.ed.gov/about/furlough2013/index.html

NSF:    http://www.nsf.gov/outage.html

NPS:   http://www.doi.gov/shutdown/fy2014/upload/NPS-contingency-plan.pdf

FS:      http://www.usda.gov/documents/usda-fs-shutdown-plan.pdf

For a Comprehensive list of federal agency contingency plans, visit: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/contingency-plans

We will continue to post information as it becomes known to us. Please consult with the OSP prior to communicating with your program officers during this lapse as we may be able to answer your questions.