Select Grant Announcements for Faculty and Staff
The Office of GRASP provides proposal development support in helping faculty and staff to identify and pursue appropriate sponsors and announcements for their research, scholarship, and creative activity interests. Use the Research Funding Resources highlighted below to better identify funding sources. Browse the curated agency announcements carefully selected for CSU Bakersfield faculty and staff. Contact GRASP Pre-Award staff for support and technical assistance with any of the resources below and to receive counsel on better pursuing external sponsors.
Research Funding Resources
- Pivot – Pivot-RP accelerates the research process by providing access to the most comprehensive
global source of research funding opportunities, facilitating collaborator discovery,
and offering insights and short-cuts to help research organizations win a larger share
of available funding. Pivot-RP unifies the Pivot® and Research Professional funding
solutions, together serving hundreds of the world’s leading research institutions.
- Use the “Login from my Institution” button for access. Login using CSUB credentials.
- Review the following link to learn all about Pivot, Getting Started, and Setting up your Profile. You can also visit their YouTube channel here.
- Recommendation: Create your profile with the support of GRASP Pre-Award personnel to receive ongoing funding announcements.
- Federal Funding
- Provides a common website for federal agencies to post discretionary funding opportunities and for grantees to find and apply to them.
- State of California Funding
- The California Grants Portal is your one destination to find all grants and loans offered on a competitive or first-come basis by California state agencies
- Grants Resource Center - register for an account.
- The Grants Resource Center (GRC), a premium service of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), strengthens the competitive edge of colleges and universities pursuing public and private funding opportunities.
- ORCID ID - Register for an ORCID identification number here.
- ORCID, which stands for Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is a free, unique, persistent identifier (PID) for individuals to use as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities.
Curated Agency Announcements and Links for CSU Bakersfield Faculty
National Science Foundation: Search NSF Funding Opportunities
Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program
The National Science Foundation Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (Noyce) invites
innovative proposals that address the critical need for recruiting, preparing, and
retaining highly effective elementary and secondary mathematics and science teachers
and teacher leaders who persist as classroom teachers in high-need Local Education
Agencies (LEA), (a.k.a. high-need school district). To achieve this goal, Noyce supports
talented science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) undergraduate majors
and professionals to become effective K-12 STEM teachers. It also supports experienced,
exemplary K-12 STEM teachers to become teacher leaders who continue as classroom teachers
in high-need school districts.
Research on Innovative Technologies for Enhanced Learning (RITEL)
The purpose of the Research on Innovative Technologies for Enhanced Learning (RITEL)
program is to support early-stage research in emerging technologies for teaching and
learning that respond to pressing needs in authentic (real-world) educational environments.
RITEL supports future-oriented exploratory and synergistic research in emerging technologies
(including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and immersive
or augmenting technologies) for teaching and learning. The program accepts proposals
that focus on learning, teaching, or a combination of both. The scope of the program
is broad and includes teaching and learning in science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics (STEM) and in foundational areas that enable STEM (e.g., self-regulation,
literacy, communication, collaboration, creativity, and socio-emotional skills). RITEL
supports research in all learning contexts (e.g., formal, informal, workplace) and
for all learner populations.
EHR Core Research: Building Capacity in STEM Education Research
ECR’s Building Capacity in STEM Education Research (ECR: BCSER) supports projects
that build investigators’ capacity to carry out high-quality STEM education research
that will enhance the nation’s STEM education enterprise. In addition, ECR: BCSER
seeks to broaden the pool of researchers who can advance knowledge regarding STEM
learning and learning environments, broadening participation in STEM fields, and STEM
workforce development. Researchers of races and ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations,
and abilities who are currently underrepresented in their participation in STEM education
research and the STEM workforce, as well as faculty at minority-serving and two-year
institutions, are particularly encouraged to submit proposals.
Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
CAREER: The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide
activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in
support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models
in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department
or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build a firm foundation
for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. NSF encourages
submission of CAREER proposals from early-career faculty at all CAREER-eligible organizations
and especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and
persons with disabilities to apply.
Mid-Career Advancement (MCA)
The MCA program offers an opportunity for scientists and engineers at the mid-career
stage (see restrictions under Additional Eligibility Information) to substantively
enhance and advance their research program and career trajectory. Mid-career scientists
are at a critical career transition stage where they need to advance their research
programs to ensure long-term productivity and creativity but are often constrained
by service, teaching, or other activities that limit the amount of time devoted to
research. MCA support is expected to help lift these constraints to reduce workload
inequities and enable a more diverse scientific workforce (more women, persons with
disabilities, and individuals from groups that have been underrepresented) at high
academic ranks.
The Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program serves to increase access to multi-user scientific and engineering instrumentation for research and research training in our Nation's institutions of higher education and not-for-profit scientific/engineering research organizations. An MRI award supports the acquisition of a multi-user research instrument that is commercially available through direct purchase from a vendor, or for the personnel costs and equipment that are required for the development of an instrument with new capabilities, thereby advancing instrumentation capabilities and enhancing expertise for instrument design and fabrication at academic institutions.
Support for Research Excellence (SuRE) Award (R16 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
The SuRE program supports research capacity building at eligible higher education
institutions by funding investigator-initiated biomedical research in basic, social,
clinical, behavioral, or translational science that falls in the mission areas of
the NIH. The purpose of SuRE awards is to provide research grant support for faculty
investigators at resource-limited institutions who are not currently funded by any
NIH Research Project Grants (RPGs) with the exception of SuRE or SuRE-First awards,
to furnish students with high-quality undergraduate and/or graduate research experiences
and to enhance the institutional scientific research culture.
Support for Research Excellence – First Independent Research (SuRE-First) Award (R16
- Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
The SuRE program supports research capacity building at eligible higher education
institutions through funding investigator-initiated biomedical research in basic,
social, clinical, behavioral, or translational science that falls in the mission areas
of the NIH. The purpose of SuRE-First awards is to provide research grant support
for faculty investigators who have not had prior independent external research grants,
to furnish students with high-quality undergraduate and/or graduate research experiences
and to enhance the institutional scientific research culture.
Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) for Undergraduate-Focused Institutions
(R15 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
The purpose of this Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) for Undergraduate-Focused
Institutions is to support small scale research grants at institutions that do not
receive substantial funding from the NIH, with an emphasis on providing biomedical
research experiences primarily for undergraduate students, and enhancing the research
environment at applicant institutions.
Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) for Undergraduate-Focused Institutions
(R15 Clinical Trial Required)
The purpose of this Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) for Undergraduate-Focused
Institutions is to support small scale research grants at institutions that do not
receive substantial funding from the NIH, with an emphasis on providing biomedical
research experiences primarily for undergraduate students and enhancing the research
environment at applicant institutions.
The R21 grant mechanism is intended to encourage exploratory/developmental research by providing support for the early and conceptual stages of project development. The NIH has standardized the Exploratory/Developmental Grant (R21) application characteristics, requirements, preparation, and review procedures in order to accommodate investigator-initiated (unsolicited) grant applications.
Research Grants on Education: Small
The Small Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. We accept applications three times per year.
Research Grants on Education: Large
The Large Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets ranging from $125,000 to $500,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. We anticipate awarding grants with budgets across each of the following funding tiers -- $125,000 to 250,000; $250,001 to $375,000; and $375,001 to $500,000. Within each of our funding tiers, we evaluate projects within tier and strongly encourage applicants to submit for funding that best fits their project rather than applying for the highest amount. We accept Intent to Apply forms twice a year.
ACS Petroleum Research Fund
The Petroleum Research Fund is an endowed fund, managed by the American Chemical Society that supports fundamental research directly related to petroleum or fossil fuels at nonprofit institutions (generally colleges and universities) in the United States and other countries. ACS Petroleum Research Fund (ACS PRF) grants are intended as seed money, to enable an investigator to initiate a new research direction. The investigator should not have published or received financial support from another funding agency for the proposed research. Also, proposals that the ACS PRF Committee feels are a logical extension of an investigator’s previous research may be denied as “not a new direction.”
Herman Frasch Foundation Grants
The Herman Frasch Fund for Chemical Research is a trust created under the will of Elizabeth Blee Frasch, administered by Bank of America, N.A. as Trustee. The American Chemical Society advises the Trustee on the Frasch program. The purpose of the Foundation is to award grants to nonprofit incorporated institutions to support research in the field of agricultural chemistry which will be of practical benefit to the agricultural development of the United States.
Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Foundational and Applied Science Program
The AFRI Foundational and Applied Science Program supports grants in six AFRI priority areas to advance knowledge in both fundamental and applied sciences important to agriculture. The six priority areas are: Plant Health and Production and Plant Products; Animal Health and Production and Animal Products; Food Safety, Nutrition, and Health; Bioenergy, Natural Resources, and Environment; Agriculture Systems and Technology; and Agriculture Economics and Rural Communities. Research-only, extension-only, and integrated research, education and/or extension projects are solicited in this Request for Applications (RFA). See Foundational and Applied Science RFA for specific detail.
NSF - NIFA Plant Biotic Interactions Program
The Plant Biotic Interactions (PBI) program supports research on the processes that mediate beneficial and antagonistic interactions between plants and their viral, bacterial, oomycete, fungal, plant, and invertebrate symbionts, pathogens and pests. This joint NSF-NIFA program supports projects focused on current and emerging model and non-model systems and agriculturally relevant plants.
EREF is one of the largest sources of private research funding in North America related to sustainable materials management. Our grants program has provided millions of dollars in funding to cutting edge research institutions to help address the many challenges that exist.
Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research
EPSCoR establishes partnerships with government, higher education and industry that are designed to effect lasting improvements in a state or region’s research infrastructure, research and development capacity, and its national research and development competitiveness.
National Space Grant College and Fellowship Project
NASA initiated the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Project, also known as Space Grant, in 1989. Space Grant is a national network of colleges and universities. These institutions are working to expand opportunities for Americans to understand and participate in NASA’s aeronautics and space projects by supporting and enhancing science and engineering education, research and public outreach efforts.
Grants to faculty teams that are testing and gathering insights on innovative approaches to teaching and learning.
Grants for Arts Projects
Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) provides expansive funding opportunities to strengthen the nation’s arts and cultural ecosystem. Grants are available for arts projects in a wide variety of artistic disciplines. Each discipline has identified the types of projects that are of greatest interest within this program as well as the characteristics of competitive applications.
National Endowment for the Humanities: NEH Grants
Preservation and Access Education and Training
This program supports projects that develop and implement educational programs for
professionals who preserve and provide access to humanities collections. Such materials
include but are not limited to paper-based, photographic, archaeological, ethnographic,
artistic, audiovisual, digitized, and born-digital collections. Advancing long-term
access to these materials for scholars, students, and the public requires skilled
professionals from varied backgrounds and communities working in organizations large
and small.
Public Humanities Projects
The Public Humanities Projects program supports projects that bring the ideas of the
humanities to life for general audiences through public programming. Projects must
engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes in disciplines such as
history, literature, ethics, and art history. Awards support projects that are intended
to reach broad and diverse public audiences in non-classroom settings in the United
States. Projects should engage with ideas that are accessible to the general public
and employ appealing interpretive formats.
Rediscovering Our Revolutionary Tradition
A grant program from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Rediscovering
Our Revolutionary Tradition [links-2.govdelivery.com], honors the 250th anniversary
of the Declaration of Independence and the nation’s principles of equality, liberty,
and government by consent. The program supports activities to preserve and improve
access to primary source materials that document: 1) The history of American independence
and the establishment and/or expansion of the nation. Projects will include the experiences
of states, territories, and communities—in the original colonies and beyond—in joining
the nation. Or: 2) The history of U.S. government—from federal to local, from federal
and state constitutions to governors’ papers and court records. Projects may work
with collections that include archival records; documents and rare publications; art
and material culture; and photographs and sound recordings. Supported activities include
conservation treatment and rehousing, digitization and description, transcription
and translation, and updating existing digital resources to ensure long-term public
availability.
Celebrate America!
Through this program, NEH will award 250 challenge grants of up to $25,000 each for
projects that focus on the founding of the American nation, key historical figures,
and milestones that reflect the exceptional achievements of the United States. As
part of your application, you will need to certify that your organization has secured
third-party, nonfederal gifts equal to the amount requested from NEH. Allowable activities
include, but are not limited to: speakers, screenings, and discussion series; community
events and family programs; exhibits; meetings, conferences, and symposia; digital
projects and educational materials pertaining to the 250th.
Institute of Museum and Library Services: IMLS Grants
National Leadership Grants for Libraries
The National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program (NLG-L) supports projects that
address critical needs of the library and archives fields and have the potential to
advance practice and strengthen library and archival services for the American public.
Successful proposals will generate results such as new models, tools, research findings,
services, practices, and/or alliances that can be widely used, adapted, scaled, or
replicated to extend and leverage the benefits of federal investment.