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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 French-American Jazz Exchange was created by Chamber Music America, the French Embassy, and the French American Cultural Exchange to foster collaborative projects that unite French and American jazz artists. The program supports initiatives in both countries. In forming international relationships, artists are encouraged to think beyond traditional boundaries. Collaborations with musicians who champion world, electronic, contemporary classical, or other genres are welcome.

Projects may include (but are not limited to) composition, touring, recording, and audience-development activities. Public performance is required, with the understanding that jazz speaks to diverse populations and experiencing music together bridges differences. French and American citizens or legal residents are encouraged to apply.

The Japan Foundation is now accepting proposals for eligible projects in the Performing Arts Japan program for the fiscal year 2007-08 (April 2007-March 2008). The PAJ program was started by the Japan Foundation to establish a system for promoting Japanese performing arts in the United States. The program supports initiatives taken by U.S. nonprofit organizations to provide geographically diverse American audiences with greater exposure to Japanese performing arts. PAJ also encourages collaborations between Japanese and American artists, which will further an appreciation of Japanese culture when presented to American audiences. PAJ Touring Grants help present Japanese performing arts at multiple locations in the U.S. and Canada, with an emphasis on locations outside major metropolitan areas. PAJ Collaboration Grants help American and Japanese artists develop a new work, which will further an appreciation of Japanese culture when presented to an American audience.

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

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

A program of the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the National Wildlife Refuge Preserve America Grant Program seeks to protect historic sites, integrate history into refuge interpretive and education programs, and build partnerships with communities and organizations interested in supporting refuge programs.

The grant program provides competitive grants of $10,000 to $15,000 each to help fund national wildlife refuge interpretive and education projects focusing on history and historic sites and how they contribute to the conservation and understanding of natural resources. Grant proposals must demonstrate national, state, or local partnerships to qualify. Priority will be placed on proposals that effectively blend interpretive or education programs with the Refuge System’s mission to conserve fish, wildlife, and plants and that emphasize themes that are important for understanding American history at the national, state, or local levels. Special consideration will be given to proposals that begin new interpretive or education programs on refuges that meet the President’s Preserve America objectives or that have the potential to reach new audiences to broaden the public’s understanding of and support for the Refuge System's mission.

Deadline: November 1, 2006

Library Company of Philadelphia

The Library Company of Philadelphia and The Historical Society of Pennsylvania will jointly award approximately thirty one-month fellowships for research in residence in either or both collections during the academic year 2007-2008. These two independent research libraries, adjacent to each other in Center City Philadelphia, have complementary collections capable of supporting research in a variety of fields and disciplines relating to the history of America and the Atlantic world from the 17th through the 19th centuries, as well as Mid-Atlantic regional history to the present.

The Library Company/Historical Society fellowship program began in 1987. It now has more than 300 “alumni.” A list of former fellows and their topics is available here , along with a list of publications resulting from their fellowship research.

Named one-month fellowships support research in certain areas: (Applicants will automatically be considered for all pertinent fellowships)

- Two Barra Foundation International Fellowships (which carry a special stipend of $2,000 plus travel expenses) are reserved for citizens of other countries living outside the U.S.

- Three Balch Institute Fellowships will support research in the HSP/Balch collections on the ethnic and immigrant experience in the United States and/or American cultural, social, political, or economic history post-1875.

- The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) sponsors two fellowships that support research in American history in the Early National period.

- The William Reese Company supports a fellowship for research in American bibliography and the history of the book in the Americas.

- The William H. Helfand Fellowship supports research in the social history of medicine in America to 1900.

- The American Society for Eighteenth-Centur y Studies (ASECS) sponsors a fellowship for research on projects related to the American 18th century.

- The Library Company’s Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) offers four short-term fellowships for research in that field.

The Stipend is $1,800. Fellowships are tenable for any one-month period between June 2007 and May 2007. They support advanced, post doctoral, and dissertation research. Candidates are strongly encouraged to inquire about the appropriateness of the proposed topic.

Deadline: March 1, 2007

Humboldt Foundation - Research Awards

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation enables highly qualified, early-stage researchers from abroad, who hold doctorates, to carry out research projects of their own choice in Germany . Applications may be submitted for long-term research stays of at least 6 and at most 12 months; an extension of up to 24 months is possible. Researchers of all nationalities and disciplines may apply to the AvH directly at any time. There are no quotas for individual countries and disciplines. Funding is not available for short-term study visits, participation in conferences, or training courses. Research fellowships are offered world-wide on a competitive basis. The most important criteria for selection are the applicant's (international) publications to date and the quality and feasibility of the research proposal. Applicants choose their own research projects and their own German hosts. Details of the research project and the time-schedule must be agreed upon with the prospective host in advance. Applications to continue a research stay which has already begun may be considered in exceptional cases.

Deadline: none

Marketing Science Institute

Marketing Science Institute's (MSI) primary objective is to fund high- quality research that deals with topics designated by the member companies as research priorities. MSI supports research with the potential for application by managers as well as more basic or exploratory work. Studies may be conceptual or empirical and may involve literature reviews, comparative studies, field or laboratory experiments, model building, or theory development. Work dealing with global issues and cross-disciplinary work building on theories, research results, and methods from disciplines of relevance to marketing are strongly encouraged. MSI and its member companies strongly endorse using actual consumers, customers, and executives rather than student subjects in research projects. Central to MSI's research program is the belief that academics and practitioners can mutually benefit from interacting throughout the process of planning, conducting, and reporting research. When projects are completed, researchers present their results at MSI meetings, where they can discuss their work with MSI member company executives and other academics. Most MSI grants are made to cover researchers' out-of-pocket costs for travel, data collection, respondent fees, computer time, research assistants, and similar expenses. Generally, these grants are in the $5,000 to $20,000 range. Note that MSI does not provide salary replacement for the principal researcher(s), funds for the purchase of equipment or software, university overhead, tuition, or travel to non-MSI conferences. Nonfinancial support usually takes the form of access to data, contacts with executives, or access to interview or study sites within firms.

Deadline: none

Russell Sage Foundation

The Russell Sage Foundation's (RSF) grants are restricted to support for basic social science research within its announced programs. The foundation currently pursues four programs: 1) a program of research on the future of work, run jointly with the Rockefeller Foundation, concerned with the causes and consequences of the decline in demand for low-skill workers in advanced economies; 2) a program of research on current U.S. immigration focused on the adaptation of the second generation to American society; 3) a program on cultural contact that focuses on understanding and improving relations between racial and ethnic groups in schools, workplaces, and neighborhood settings; and 4) a program on social inequality, focused on the social effects of rising economic inequality with particular attention to the ways in which the U.S. political and educational systems have responded to growing economic disparities. In addition to these programs, the foundation also supports: A) the Behavioral Economics Roundtable, a forum for advancing the interdisciplinary analysis of economic life; B) the September 11 Initiative, focused on the ways in which the war on terrorism may be affecting U.S. institutions; and C) miscellaneous projects not necessarily related to the Foundation's major program themes.

Canadian Embassy - Canadian Studies Grant Program

Foreign Affairs Canada, through the Canadian Embassy, Washington, D.C., in cooperation with Canadian Consulates General throughout the U.S., at its discretion, may provide a matching grant to support Canadian Studies Programs and projects which have been funded by a major foundation or other funding institution.


	September 2006
Our first grant writing workshops were held last week, and they went very well, we had several faculty and staff members to attend. Here are some key points from the workshop that I hope will help while preparing to write grant proposals: Think of writing grants as a process, a long-range scholarly activity. Do not react to a deadline, grants are rarely rewarded to those who throw the proposals together at the last minute. Approach the grant writing process the same as if you were looking for a job You might need to apply in more than one place. You have to sell yourself with unique and creative ideas In a job interview, when the employer asks you, “why do you want to work here?” Your first reaction may be, “because you will PAY me, right?” Unfortunately most people think this way about grants – you have to explain in a proposal why you want the grant money much like you have to explain to a potential employer why you want the job. Because grant writing is a process, keep a folder of ideas for your project or program written down. Just like in the job finding process, you have to adjust your resume or vita to fit the job – the same is true for grants. You do not change the bulk of your resume or vita every time you apply for a job; you simply adjust it to meet the objectives of the company. With that in mind, go ahead and write out a proposal and the FRASP office can help you adjust it to fit the grant guidelines. Grants proposals must be conceptual. For example, you can not simply ask a funding agency to grant you money for equipment. You must explain how that equipment will enhance a program of study for students, what those students will gain from using the equipment, and how these students will benefit by the use of this particular equipment. You must explain how the program, project, or curriculum (or other purpose for funding) will benefit the community at large – think globally. All requests for external funding MUST be approved by the administration. When a grant is awarded, it is awarded to Berry, not to the individual. There is a very detailed process that is required by the administrators before a grant proposal can be submitted. If this procedure is not followed, Berry has the right to refuse a grant award. Dr. Briggs is the authorizing official for Berry—he is the one who actually signs the contracts, so please remember to contact the FRASP office BEFORE you intend to propose a project requiring external funding. Amy
In this issue: National Science Foundation National Endowment for the Humanities U.S. Department of Education Chamber Music America - French/American Jazz Exchange Program Japan Foundation Bikes Belong American Hiking Society National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Library Company of Philadelphia Humboldt Foundation Maketing Science Institute Russell Sage Foundation Canadian Embassy	PLEASE REMEMBER: ALL TYPES OF EXTERNAL FUNDING REQUESTS, INCLUDING GRANTS, SUB-CONTRACTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS, MUST RECEIVE INSTITUTIONAL APPROVAL PRIOR TO SUBMISSION.

Proposals Submitted : August 2006 Martin Cipollini, Biology, Georgia Forestry Commission
Click on program titles for additional information
National Science Foundation - Upcoming Deadlines, October and November2006 Algebra, Number Theory and Combinatorics, October 3 Analysis, October 3 Foundations, October 3 Research Experiences for Teachers, October 10 NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships, October 11 Advanced Technological Education, October 12 Geography and Regional Science, October 15 Geospace Environment Modeling, October 15 Sociology, October 15 Computational Science Training for Undergraduates in Mathematical Sciences, October 17 Partnerships for International Research and Education, October 30 Archaeology and Archaeometry, October 31 Condensed Matter and Materials Theory Program, November 3 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 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 National Endowment for the Humanities - Upcoming Deadlines Summer Stipends, October 2, 2006 Grants for Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development, October 2 Preservation and Access Grants for Stablizing Humanities Collections, October 2 U.S. Department of Education-Undergradaute 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 Chamber Music America-French American Jazz Exchange Program The French-American Jazz Exchange was created by Chamber Music America, the French Embassy, and the French American Cultural Exchange to foster collaborative projects that unite French and American jazz artists. The program supports initiatives in both countries. In forming international relationships, artists are encouraged to think beyond traditional boundaries. Collaborations with musicians who champion world, electronic, contemporary classical, or other genres are welcome. Projects may include (but are not limited to) composition, touring, recording, and audience-development activities. Public performance is required, with the understanding that jazz speaks to diverse populations and experiencing music together bridges differences. French and American citizens or legal residents are encouraged to apply. Deadline: October 12, 2006 Japan Foundation - Performing Arts Japan Program The Japan Foundation is now accepting proposals for eligible projects in the Performing Arts Japan program for the fiscal year 2007-08 (April 2007-March 2008). The PAJ program was started by the Japan Foundation to establish a system for promoting Japanese performing arts in the United States. The program supports initiatives taken by U.S. nonprofit organizations to provide geographically diverse American audiences with greater exposure to Japanese performing arts. PAJ also encourages collaborations between Japanese and American artists, which will further an appreciation of Japanese culture when presented to American audiences. PAJ Touring Grants help present Japanese performing arts at multiple locations in the U.S. and Canada, with an emphasis on locations outside major metropolitan areas. PAJ Collaboration Grants help American and Japanese artists develop a new work, which will further an appreciation of Japanese culture when presented to an American audience. Deadline: October 13, 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 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation A program of the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the National Wildlife Refuge Preserve America Grant Program seeks to protect historic sites, integrate history into refuge interpretive and education programs, and build partnerships with communities and organizations interested in supporting refuge programs. The grant program provides competitive grants of $10,000 to $15,000 each to help fund national wildlife refuge interpretive and education projects focusing on history and historic sites and how they contribute to the conservation and understanding of natural resources. Grant proposals must demonstrate national, state, or local partnerships to qualify. Priority will be placed on proposals that effectively blend interpretive or education programs with the Refuge System’s mission to conserve fish, wildlife, and plants and that emphasize themes that are important for understanding American history at the national, state, or local levels. Special consideration will be given to proposals that begin new interpretive or education programs on refuges that meet the President’s Preserve America objectives or that have the potential to reach new audiences to broaden the public’s understanding of and support for the Refuge System's mission. Deadline: November 1, 2006 Library Company of Philadelphia The Library Company of Philadelphia and The Historical Society of Pennsylvania will jointly award approximately thirty one-month fellowships for research in residence in either or both collections during the academic year 2007-2008. These two independent research libraries, adjacent to each other in Center City Philadelphia, have complementary collections capable of supporting research in a variety of fields and disciplines relating to the history of America and the Atlantic world from the 17th through the 19th centuries, as well as Mid-Atlantic regional history to the present. The Library Company/Historical Society fellowship program began in 1987. It now has more than 300 “alumni.” A list of former fellows and their topics is available here , along with a list of publications resulting from their fellowship research. Named one-month fellowships support research in certain areas: (Applicants will automatically be considered for all pertinent fellowships) - Two Barra Foundation International Fellowships (which carry a special stipend of $2,000 plus travel expenses) are reserved for citizens of other countries living outside the U.S. - Three Balch Institute Fellowships will support research in the HSP/Balch collections on the ethnic and immigrant experience in the United States and/or American cultural, social, political, or economic history post-1875. - The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) sponsors two fellowships that support research in American history in the Early National period. - The William Reese Company supports a fellowship for research in American bibliography and the history of the book in the Americas. - The William H. Helfand Fellowship supports research in the social history of medicine in America to 1900. - The American Society for Eighteenth-Centur y Studies (ASECS) sponsors a fellowship for research on projects related to the American 18th century. - The Library Company’s Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) offers four short-term fellowships for research in that field. The Stipend is $1,800. Fellowships are tenable for any one-month period between June 2007 and May 2007. They support advanced, post doctoral, and dissertation research. Candidates are strongly encouraged to inquire about the appropriateness of the proposed topic. Deadline: March 1, 2007 Humboldt Foundation - Research Awards The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation enables highly qualified, early-stage researchers from abroad, who hold doctorates, to carry out research projects of their own choice in Germany . Applications may be submitted for long-term research stays of at least 6 and at most 12 months; an extension of up to 24 months is possible. Researchers of all nationalities and disciplines may apply to the AvH directly at any time. There are no quotas for individual countries and disciplines. Funding is not available for short-term study visits, participation in conferences, or training courses. Research fellowships are offered world-wide on a competitive basis. The most important criteria for selection are the applicant's (international) publications to date and the quality and feasibility of the research proposal. Applicants choose their own research projects and their own German hosts. Details of the research project and the time-schedule must be agreed upon with the prospective host in advance. Applications to continue a research stay which has already begun may be considered in exceptional cases. Deadline: none Marketing Science Institute Marketing Science Institute's (MSI) primary objective is to fund high- quality research that deals with topics designated by the member companies as research priorities. MSI supports research with the potential for application by managers as well as more basic or exploratory work. Studies may be conceptual or empirical and may involve literature reviews, comparative studies, field or laboratory experiments, model building, or theory development. Work dealing with global issues and cross-disciplinary work building on theories, research results, and methods from disciplines of relevance to marketing are strongly encouraged. MSI and its member companies strongly endorse using actual consumers, customers, and executives rather than student subjects in research projects. Central to MSI's research program is the belief that academics and practitioners can mutually benefit from interacting throughout the process of planning, conducting, and reporting research. When projects are completed, researchers present their results at MSI meetings, where they can discuss their work with MSI member company executives and other academics. Most MSI grants are made to cover researchers' out-of-pocket costs for travel, data collection, respondent fees, computer time, research assistants, and similar expenses. Generally, these grants are in the $5,000 to $20,000 range. Note that MSI does not provide salary replacement for the principal researcher(s), funds for the purchase of equipment or software, university overhead, tuition, or travel to non-MSI conferences. Nonfinancial support usually takes the form of access to data, contacts with executives, or access to interview or study sites within firms. Deadline: none Russell Sage Foundation The Russell Sage Foundation's (RSF) grants are restricted to support for basic social science research within its announced programs. The foundation currently pursues four programs: 1) a program of research on the future of work, run jointly with the Rockefeller Foundation, concerned with the causes and consequences of the decline in demand for low-skill workers in advanced economies; 2) a program of research on current U.S. immigration focused on the adaptation of the second generation to American society; 3) a program on cultural contact that focuses on understanding and improving relations between racial and ethnic groups in schools, workplaces, and neighborhood settings; and 4) a program on social inequality, focused on the social effects of rising economic inequality with particular attention to the ways in which the U.S. political and educational systems have responded to growing economic disparities. In addition to these programs, the foundation also supports: A) the Behavioral Economics Roundtable, a forum for advancing the interdisciplinary analysis of economic life; B) the September 11 Initiative, focused on the ways in which the war on terrorism may be affecting U.S. institutions; and C) miscellaneous projects not necessarily related to the Foundation's major program themes. Canadian Embassy - Canadian Studies Grant Program Foreign Affairs Canada, through the Canadian Embassy, Washington, D.C., in cooperation with Canadian Consulates General throughout the U.S., at its discretion, may provide a matching grant to support Canadian Studies Programs and projects which have been funded by a major foundation or other funding institution.
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.