Funding Opportunities
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So you've got an idea. You've been working years to get your solutions out to the world so you can help your community. But how can you get the data you need? Through funding opportunities! From internal to state to federal to private sources, there are likely funding opportunities that can help!
Funding Opportunities on this page:
UW-Green Bay
Research Council
Since 1994, the Research Council has supported faculty by providing funding opportunities for research and scholarly activities. Through the Research Enhancement Program, Research Council provides support for faculty to present their findings or small seed grants to help position research for publication, presentation or to pursue external funding. It also helps support summer work on research through the Research Scholar Program.
Universities of Wisconsin
WiSys
WiSys helps great ideas born on Universities of Wisconsin campuses reach the wider world by connecting inventors and businesses with the resources they need. Serving as the dedicated technology transfer office for the UW’s 11 comprehensive universities, WiSys also offers a variety of funding opportunities including the Ignite, Spark and Launch grants.
Freshwater Collaborative
With the ultimate goal to address water challenges, The Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin is a collaborative partnership between the 13 public Universities of Wisconsin, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, tribal nations and private businesses. With a $5 million per biennial budget from the Wisconsin State Legislature, funds are distributed to the UW institutions through a Request for Proposal process.
Water Resources Institute
The University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute (UW-WRI) promotes research, training and information dissemination to effectively confront water resources problems. UW-WRI manages a number of resources and state-wide funding opportunities including the State of Wisconsin Joint Solicitation for Groundwater Research and Monitoring.
Tommy Thompson Center
The mission of the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership is the promotion of effective leadership, bipartisan approaches to public policy and well-researched policy. The Thompson Center funds research across the UW System that will advance public leadership and help leaders to address pressing policy challenges. Grants are intended to help researchers focus on issues in need of attention in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Partnership Program
The Wisconsin Partnership Program administers competitive grant programs for both UW faculty and community organizations.
Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars
The Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars (WTFS) program offers UW faculty and teaching academic staff a unique opportunity to collaborate with other exceptional teachers from across the UW system and from various disciplines.
Institute for Research in the Humanities
The institute fosters research in the humanities and humanistic social sciences by creating a community in which fellows can pursue their scholarly work, share it with other fellows and members of the campus, and benefit from intensive discussion with scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and perspectives. Each year, they offer up to four fellowships each year to faculty coming from the Universities of Wisconsin campuses with full release time from teaching and service for one semester.
University Partnerships
Non-Land Grant College of Agriculture Designation (NLGCA)
A USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)-certified Non-Land-grant College of Agriculture (NLGCA) designation enables an institution to satisfy the eligibility requirement for the Capacity Building Grants for Non-Land-grant Colleges of Agriculture program as well as a few other NIFA-administered programs.
Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESU)
The Great Lakes-Northern Forest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (GLNF-CESU) is a collaboration of 42 leading academic programs, specialists from 9 organizations and resource managers from 11 federal land management and natural resource agencies. You’ll have access to high-quality research, technical assistance and education. Many federal agencies accept grant proposals using the approved and negotiated CESU indirect cost rate of 17.5% Modified Total Direct Costs.
Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium (WSGC)
Funded by NASA’s National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program, Congress established the program in 1988 to contribute to the nation’s scientific enterprise by funding research, education, and public service projects through a national network of 52 university-based Space Grant consortia.
External Funding
Wisconsin State Sponsors
Let's move Wisconsin forward together. Find grants to help your research thrive.
Sponsors
Grants.gov is the U.S. government’s centralized portal for finding and applying for federal grants. A user account is not required to search for past, current or forecasted federal funding opportunities and download application guidance. Additional guidance may be available from each agency’s website. The Office of Grants and Research maintains accounts for facilitating submission of proposals through this portal.
Tools for Identifying Funding Opportunities
Pivot
Pivot is a searchable database of funding opportunities. The database monitors many of the federal and larger private sponsors worldwide and provides lots of mechanisms for streamlining and automating your funding search. Create a personal Pivot login using your uwgb.edu email address. Note that UWGB's Pivot membership does not use "institutional credentials/Shibboleth authentication", so ignore that option on the login screen.
Grants Resource Center
The Grants Resource Center (GRC) is a premium service of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) that strengthens the competitive edge of colleges and universities pursuing public and private funding opportunities. GRC provides faculty access to a comprehensive suite of resources to improve your efficiency and increase your success in securing competitive grants from federal and private sponsors.
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