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This program provides funds to plan, develop, and carry out programs to strengthen and improve undergraduate instruction in international studies and foreign languages.

Each program assisted with federal funds must enhance primarily the international academic program
of the institution. Eligible activities may include but are not limited to:

• Development of a global or international studies program that is interdisciplinary in design;
• Development of a program that focuses on issues or topics, such as international business or
international health;
• Development of an area studies program and programs in corresponding foreign languages;
• Creation of innovative curricula that combine the teaching of international studies with professional
and preprofessional studies, such as engineering;
• Research for and development of specialized teaching materials, including language instruction,
i.e., business French;
• Establishment of internship opportunities for faculty and students in domestic and overseas settings;
and
• Development of study abroad programs.

The Folger Shakespeare Library offers research fellowships to encourage access to its exceptional collections and to encourage ongoing cross-disciplinary dialogue among scholars of the early modern period. Each year, scholars may compete for a limited number of long-term (six to nine months) and short-term (one to three months) fellowships.

Long-term Fellowships
Long-term fellowships are supported by funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Long-term fellows are selected by an external committee which considers the following criteria in making its selections: importance of the topic; originality and sophistication of the approach; feasibility of the research objectives; and the applicant’s need for the Folger collections. The Folger looks for highly talented, productive scholars whose work will be significantly advanced by a prolonged period of access to our collection, and who, while in residence, will contribute to the intellectual vitality of this institution. The Folger is open to traditional as well as innovative scholarly methodologies and agendas.

Two Mellon Research Fellowships will be awarded and carry stipends of $50,000 and $40,000. Three National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships will be awarded and carry maximum stipends of $40,000. NEH Fellowships are restricted to US citizens or to foreign nationals who have been living in the United States for at least three years. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowships are open to scholars from any country.

Short-term Fellowships
Short-term fellowships are supported by the Library’s endowments and carry a stipend of $2,000 per month. The criteria for success in the annual short-term fellowship competition are the same as those for long-term fellowships, though the internal selection committee tends to value need for the collection above other considerations. Each year the Folger awards 20 to 30 short-term fellowships.

The Folger joins the American Council of Learned Societies in support of fellowships for recently tenured faculty in the humanities. Applicants must apply directly to the ACLS for a Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship, which carries a stipend of $65,000.

Collaborative Research Grants provide opportunities for teams of scholars to pursue interpretive research projects that offer new explanations of art and its history. Collaborations that foster a cross-fertilization of ideas and methodologies are particularly encouraged. Collaborative Research Grants also fund the research in preparation for scholarly exhibitions. These grants are intended to support established scholars who have attained distinction in their fields. Teams may consist of two or more art historians, or of one or more art historians together with one or more scholars from other disciplines. Teams for exhibition projects should include scholars from both museums and universities. Individual scholars may not apply as a member of more than one team. Applications are welcome from scholars of all nationalities. We prefer that applications be submitted by a university, museum, or other nonprofit, charitable organization, although we will also accept applications directly from team members. Applications for the development of basic research tools, such as computer databases or art-historical reference works, are not eligible in this grant category. Requests to fund conferences or edited anthologies will be considered only if they are part of a broader research program. Before submitting an application, potential applicants are strongly encouraged to send a brief letter of inquiry (one to two pages) describing the project, in order to determine its eligibility and competitiveness.

Grants provide support for projects that will begin between June 1, 2007, and September 1, 2007. Grant periods vary according to the needs of the individual projects, but are generally available for research periods of one to two years. Although team members may alternate their periods of leave to work on the project, the proposed plan for the project's completion must include a portion of time dedicated to joint study; such periods of joint study may include travel.

Grant amounts vary. Eligible costs include salary replacement, travel, research assistance, and limited funds for research materials (excluding equipment). These awards are not renewable. Applicants are encouraged to seek other sources of funding in conjunction with the Collaborative Research Grant. Grant recipients pursue their research wherever necessary to complete their projects. Although grantees are welcome to use the Getty library if their projects bring them to Los Angeles

Bikes Belong, a national coalition of bicycle suppliers and retailers, administers a grants program designed "to put more people on bicycles more often." The grants program accepts and funds applications for three types of projects: 1) Facilities; 2) Education; and 3) Advocacy. All proposals must: address the goals of the grants program strategic plan — encourage ridership growth, promote bicycling, build political support, leverage funding, and support bicycle advocacy; address the project objectives of the facility, education, or advocacy funding categories; and propose a specific program or project that is measurable. Bikes Belong will not fund general operating costs. The Bikes Belong Coalition welcomes grant applications from organizations and agencies within the United States that are committed to putting more people on bicycles more often. For the education and facility categories, Bikes Belong will accept applications from nonprofit organizations; and from public agencies and departments at the national, state, regional, and local levels. For the advocacy category, Bikes Belong will only fund organizations whose mission is expressly related to bicycle advocacy. Bikes Belong accepts requests for grants of up to $10,000 each.

American Hiking Society

The American Hiking Society’s National Trails Fund is the only privately funded, national grant program dedicated solely to protecting hiking trails. Awards range from $500 to $10,000 per project. Now in its seventh year, the fund has awarded more than $290,000 to 73 grassroots organizations all over the U.S. working to establish, protect, and maintain foot trails in America. The program's priorities include: funding projects that have hikers as the primary constituency (however, all human powered trail uses are applicable); securing trail lands, including acquisition of trails and trail corridors, and the costs associated with acquiring conservation easements; building and maintaining trails which will result in visible and substantial ease of access, improved hiker safety, and/or avoidance of environmental damage (higher preference is often given to projects with volunteer labor); and constituency building surrounding specific trail projects — including volunteer recruitment and support.

Grants are typically for amounts between $500 and $10,000 each.

Deadline: November 1, 2006

Bynner Foundation for Poetry

The Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry supports the development of tranferable model programs that use poetry as a vehicle to deal with specific social, educational, and therapeutic concerns; funds are also available for translation. Organizations may apply for grant support from $1,000 to $10,000 for a maximum of three years. The foundation does not support indirect costs for grant administration, endowment funds, capital improvements, or general operating expenses. A letter of intent is required before a grant application can be approved. The letter should be two typewritten pages describing the organization, the program for which funding is requested, the total budget, the portion of the budget for which foundation funds are being requested, and other funding sources committed to the project. Letters of intent will be accepted through December 1 and their receipt will be acknowledged. If the foundation finds the request appropriate and within the scope of our mission, an invitation to submit an application will follow.

Deadline: Letter of Intent, December 1, 2006

James McKeen Cattell Fund: Sabbatical Award in Psychology

These awards supplement the regular sabbatical allowance provided by the recipients' home institutions, to allow an extension of leave-time from one to two semesters. Information on the history of the fund, as well as application materials, requirements for award eligibility, and a list of previous recipients are available on their website.

Deadline: December 1, 2006

Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies

The Shelby Cullom Davis Center supports residencies at Princeton that focus on the processes by which individuals or groups come to accept beliefs, ideas, rituals, or practices that are radically different from those with which they began. For 2007-08, the Center will focus on the study of "fear."

Deadline: December 1, 2006

W.M. Keck Foundation

Liberal Arts Program

The primary interest of the W. M. Keck Foundation is support for exemplary scientific, engineering, and medical research programs throughout the United States. The Liberal Arts Program promotes innovative instruction and research at leading liberal arts colleges across the nation. Past grants have focused on incorporating new instructional technologies into the liberal arts curriculum and on projects in the humanities, arts, and social sciences.

The focus of the undergraduate program is primarily on private, predominately undergraduate institutions. The foundation does not provide funding for routine institutional or general operating expenses, fundraising events, sponsorship of conferences or seminars, publication of books, film or theatre production, public policy research and activities, or organizations or projects to be undertaken outside the United States.

Science and Engineering Grant Program

Grants for equipment, facilities, fellowships, and basic research projects at the frontiers of science and engineering are offered. The foundation also supports excellent undergraduate college science and engineering programs and encourages multidisciplinary projects and multi-college cooperative science ventures.

Deadline: December 1, 2006


	October 2006
Looking for funding? Here are a few places to visit on-line: Grants.gov Foundation Center IRIS database also try: Professional Organizations Colleagues in your field Listservs
In this issue: National Science Foundation National Endowment for the Humanities U.S. Department of Education Folger Shakespeare Library Bikes Belong American Hiking Society Bynner Foundation for Poetry James McKeen Cattell Fund: Sabattical Awards in Psychology Shelby Cullum Davis Center for Historical Studies W.M. Keck Foundation	PLEASE REMEMBER: ALL TYPES OF EXTERNAL FUNDING REQUESTS, INCLUDING GRANTS, SUB-CONTRACTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS, MUST RECEIVE INSTITUTIONAL APPROVAL PRIOR TO SUBMISSION.
Click on program titles for additional information
National Science Foundation - Upcoming Deadlines, November and December 2006 Discovery Research K-12, November 1 Condensed Matter Physics, November 3 Electronic Materials, November 3 Metals, November 3 Office of Special Programs, November 3 Polymers, November 3 Solid-State Chemistry, November 3 Applied Mathematics, November 7 Geometric Analysis, November 7 Probability, November 7 Quantitative Environmental and Integrative Biology, November 7 Statistics, Novmeber 7 Topology, November 7 Computer Systems Research, November 10 Applied Mathematics, November 15 Continental Dynamics, November 15 Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants in the Directorate for Biological Sciences, November 17 High Performance Computing System Acquisition: Towards a Petascale Computing Environment for Science and Engineering, November 30 Geophysics, December 1 Computational Mathematics, December 7 East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students, December 12 Broadening Participation in Computing, December 13 Informal Science Education, December 14 Joint DMS/NIGMS Initiative to Support Research in the Area of Mathematical Biology, December 15 National Endowment for the Humanities - Upcoming Deadlines Challenge Grants, November 1 Digital Humanities Start-up Grants, November 1 Collaborative Research Grants, November 1 Scholarly Editions Grants, November 1 U.S. Department of Education-Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language This program provides funds to plan, develop, and carry out programs to strengthen and improve undergraduate instruction in international studies and foreign languages. Each program assisted with federal funds must enhance primarily the international academic program of the institution. Eligible activities may include but are not limited to: • Development of a global or international studies program that is interdisciplinary in design; • Development of a program that focuses on issues or topics, such as international business or international health; • Development of an area studies program and programs in corresponding foreign languages; • Creation of innovative curricula that combine the teaching of international studies with professional and preprofessional studies, such as engineering; • Research for and development of specialized teaching materials, including language instruction, i.e., business French; • Establishment of internship opportunities for faculty and students in domestic and overseas settings; and • Development of study abroad programs. Deadline: Full Proposal, November 17, 2006 Folger Shakespeare Library The Folger Shakespeare Library offers research fellowships to encourage access to its exceptional collections and to encourage ongoing cross-disciplinary dialogue among scholars of the early modern period. Each year, scholars may compete for a limited number of long-term (six to nine months) and short-term (one to three months) fellowships. Long-term Fellowships Long-term fellowships are supported by funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Long-term fellows are selected by an external committee which considers the following criteria in making its selections: importance of the topic; originality and sophistication of the approach; feasibility of the research objectives; and the applicant’s need for the Folger collections. The Folger looks for highly talented, productive scholars whose work will be significantly advanced by a prolonged period of access to our collection, and who, while in residence, will contribute to the intellectual vitality of this institution. The Folger is open to traditional as well as innovative scholarly methodologies and agendas. Two Mellon Research Fellowships will be awarded and carry stipends of $50,000 and $40,000. Three National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships will be awarded and carry maximum stipends of $40,000. NEH Fellowships are restricted to US citizens or to foreign nationals who have been living in the United States for at least three years. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowships are open to scholars from any country. Short-term Fellowships Short-term fellowships are supported by the Library’s endowments and carry a stipend of $2,000 per month. The criteria for success in the annual short-term fellowship competition are the same as those for long-term fellowships, though the internal selection committee tends to value need for the collection above other considerations. Each year the Folger awards 20 to 30 short-term fellowships. The Folger joins the American Council of Learned Societies in support of fellowships for recently tenured faculty in the humanities. Applicants must apply directly to the ACLS for a Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship, which carries a stipend of $65,000. Deadline: November 1, 2006 Getty Foundation - Collaborative Research Grants Collaborative Research Grants provide opportunities for teams of scholars to pursue interpretive research projects that offer new explanations of art and its history. Collaborations that foster a cross-fertilization of ideas and methodologies are particularly encouraged. Collaborative Research Grants also fund the research in preparation for scholarly exhibitions. These grants are intended to support established scholars who have attained distinction in their fields. Teams may consist of two or more art historians, or of one or more art historians together with one or more scholars from other disciplines. Teams for exhibition projects should include scholars from both museums and universities. Individual scholars may not apply as a member of more than one team. Applications are welcome from scholars of all nationalities. We prefer that applications be submitted by a university, museum, or other nonprofit, charitable organization, although we will also accept applications directly from team members. Applications for the development of basic research tools, such as computer databases or art-historical reference works, are not eligible in this grant category. Requests to fund conferences or edited anthologies will be considered only if they are part of a broader research program. Before submitting an application, potential applicants are strongly encouraged to send a brief letter of inquiry (one to two pages) describing the project, in order to determine its eligibility and competitiveness. Grants provide support for projects that will begin between June 1, 2007, and September 1, 2007. Grant periods vary according to the needs of the individual projects, but are generally available for research periods of one to two years. Although team members may alternate their periods of leave to work on the project, the proposed plan for the project's completion must include a portion of time dedicated to joint study; such periods of joint study may include travel. Grant amounts vary. Eligible costs include salary replacement, travel, research assistance, and limited funds for research materials (excluding equipment). These awards are not renewable. Applicants are encouraged to seek other sources of funding in conjunction with the Collaborative Research Grant. Grant recipients pursue their research wherever necessary to complete their projects. Although grantees are welcome to use the Getty library if their projects bring them to Los Angeles Deadline: November 1, 2006 Bikes Belong Bikes Belong, a national coalition of bicycle suppliers and retailers, administers a grants program designed "to put more people on bicycles more often." The grants program accepts and funds applications for three types of projects: 1) Facilities; 2) Education; and 3) Advocacy. All proposals must: address the goals of the grants program strategic plan — encourage ridership growth, promote bicycling, build political support, leverage funding, and support bicycle advocacy; address the project objectives of the facility, education, or advocacy funding categories; and propose a specific program or project that is measurable. Bikes Belong will not fund general operating costs. The Bikes Belong Coalition welcomes grant applications from organizations and agencies within the United States that are committed to putting more people on bicycles more often. For the education and facility categories, Bikes Belong will accept applications from nonprofit organizations; and from public agencies and departments at the national, state, regional, and local levels. For the advocacy category, Bikes Belong will only fund organizations whose mission is expressly related to bicycle advocacy. Bikes Belong accepts requests for grants of up to $10,000 each. Deadline: November 27, 2006 American Hiking Society The American Hiking Society’s National Trails Fund is the only privately funded, national grant program dedicated solely to protecting hiking trails. Awards range from $500 to $10,000 per project. Now in its seventh year, the fund has awarded more than $290,000 to 73 grassroots organizations all over the U.S. working to establish, protect, and maintain foot trails in America. The program's priorities include: funding projects that have hikers as the primary constituency (however, all human powered trail uses are applicable); securing trail lands, including acquisition of trails and trail corridors, and the costs associated with acquiring conservation easements; building and maintaining trails which will result in visible and substantial ease of access, improved hiker safety, and/or avoidance of environmental damage (higher preference is often given to projects with volunteer labor); and constituency building surrounding specific trail projects — including volunteer recruitment and support. Grants are typically for amounts between $500 and $10,000 each. Deadline: November 1, 2006 Bynner Foundation for Poetry The Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry supports the development of tranferable model programs that use poetry as a vehicle to deal with specific social, educational, and therapeutic concerns; funds are also available for translation. Organizations may apply for grant support from $1,000 to $10,000 for a maximum of three years. The foundation does not support indirect costs for grant administration, endowment funds, capital improvements, or general operating expenses. A letter of intent is required before a grant application can be approved. The letter should be two typewritten pages describing the organization, the program for which funding is requested, the total budget, the portion of the budget for which foundation funds are being requested, and other funding sources committed to the project. Letters of intent will be accepted through December 1 and their receipt will be acknowledged. If the foundation finds the request appropriate and within the scope of our mission, an invitation to submit an application will follow. Deadline: Letter of Intent, December 1, 2006 James McKeen Cattell Fund: Sabbatical Award in Psychology These awards supplement the regular sabbatical allowance provided by the recipients' home institutions, to allow an extension of leave-time from one to two semesters. Information on the history of the fund, as well as application materials, requirements for award eligibility, and a list of previous recipients are available on their website. Deadline: December 1, 2006 Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies The Shelby Cullom Davis Center supports residencies at Princeton that focus on the processes by which individuals or groups come to accept beliefs, ideas, rituals, or practices that are radically different from those with which they began. For 2007-08, the Center will focus on the study of "fear." Deadline: December 1, 2006 W.M. Keck Foundation Liberal Arts Program The primary interest of the W. M. Keck Foundation is support for exemplary scientific, engineering, and medical research programs throughout the United States. The Liberal Arts Program promotes innovative instruction and research at leading liberal arts colleges across the nation. Past grants have focused on incorporating new instructional technologies into the liberal arts curriculum and on projects in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. The focus of the undergraduate program is primarily on private, predominately undergraduate institutions. The foundation does not provide funding for routine institutional or general operating expenses, fundraising events, sponsorship of conferences or seminars, publication of books, film or theatre production, public policy research and activities, or organizations or projects to be undertaken outside the United States. Science and Engineering Grant Program Grants for equipment, facilities, fellowships, and basic research projects at the frontiers of science and engineering are offered. The foundation also supports excellent undergraduate college science and engineering programs and encourages multidisciplinary projects and multi-college cooperative science ventures. Deadline: December 1, 2006
Office of Faculty Research and Sponsored Programs P.O. Box 5006 Mount Berry, GA 30149 Phone: 706-238-5849 Fax: 706-238-5910 Staff: Donna Davin, Director 706-290-2163 ddavin@berry.edu Amy Summerlin, Grants Coordinator 706-238-5849 asummerlin@berry.edu http://www.berry.edu/academics/ services/Faculty_Research	The Office of Faculty Research and Sponsored Programs promotes externally-funded research. It is a central source of information on major government agencies, foundations, and corporations which support research and scholarship. We provide assistance to faculty members, administrators, and students from conceptual development and planning through implementation and management of funded projects. Assistance is provided in identifying potential extramural funding sources; developing proposal narratives and budgets; completing standardized application forms; assuring compliance with all applicable federal and state regulations; negotiating grant awards and contracts; and administering funded projects.