Grant Opportunity Weekly for June 17-23, 2014

The new Grant Weekly for the week of June17-23, 2014 can be found here.

We are posting this a day early because ORSP will be conducting staff training on June 24, 2014 and unavailable for direct contact.

Additionally, the July 15 deadline for Fall Semester's Research Pilot Studies and Research Grant Development applications is fast approaching. Please have applications and supporting documents into ORSP by this date for consideration. Applications can be found here for Research Pilot Studies and here for Research Grant Development funds.

If you have any questions regarding internal or external funding opportunities, guidelines, and applications please contact ORSP today.

Grant Opportunity Weekly June 11-16, 2014

The Grant Opportunity Weekly for June 11-16, 2014 can be found here. 

This is the first week that the weekly email will not contain the PDF attachment. If you have not registered to receive email updates of new postings on the ORSP Blog, do so here in order to stay up to date on all the funding opportunities available to you as well as important news regarding grants and funding.

If you have received the weekly email in the past, I have already signed you up. Please check your SPAM folders to make sure the confirmation email from Google was not routed there. 

If you are having summer staff retreats to prepare for the upcoming Fall Semester and want to make sure your faculty and staff are informed, please contact us at ex.6606. Orientation on the grant process; PIVOT introduction and overview; proposal searching and identification; pre-proposal preparation; effort reporting, and budget training and creation, are just a few services offered by our staff. Don't miss out on anything and schedule a time today. 

External Funding to Establish Clean Energy Incubator

The Comptroller of Public Accounts invites proposals from Public Higher Education Institutions for the creation  of Clean Energy Incubators  for the Emerging Clean Energy Technology Program.

If you are interested in this Opportunity or no someone that is, the official posting is found here.

Performance of the contract will begin on or about September 1, 2014, or as soon thereafter as practical.

The anticipated schedule of events is as follows:

• Issuance of RFP – June 13, 2014, after 10:00 a.m. CT
• Non-mandatory Webinar – June 18, 2014 
• Questions Due – June 20, 2014, 2:00 p.m. CT 
• Official Responses to Questions posted –June 27, 2014 
• Proposals Due – July 11, 2014, 2:00 p.m. CT
• Contract Execution –August 15, 2014, or as soon thereafter as practical 
• Commencement of Services – September 1, 2014

Grant Opportunity Weekly June 3 - June10, 2014

This week's grant opportunities can be found here.

As of today the Grants Weekly will no longer be emailed out, but posted every Tuesday on the ORSP Blog.

You are able to register your email address with the Blog, so that you stay on top of new postings regarding grants, compliance, training opportunities, and project highlights.

Your feedback on the Blog, the grant opportunities found here, and anything else regarding ORSP outreach would be greatly appreciated. My contact information is fischers@sfasu.edu  I look forward to hearing from you, and working with you in the future.

Grant Opportunity Weekly May 27 - June 1, 2014

The fourth installment of the Grant Weekly. This weekly posting highlights just a few of the grant opportunities that exists for faculty, staff, and departments across all disciplines.

The majority of the opportunities come from PIVOT, which is a paid subscription service available to anyone on the SFA Network. If you are unfamiliar with what PIVOT can do for you, contact ex. 1151 to set up a training session or request more information.

If you have found an external opportunity that you are interested in; want to refine the search criteria to meet your research and creative activity interests; or have an opportunity that you've found yourself, just email or call ORSP today. We are here to serve you.

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