Faculty Funding Opportunities
Contact Brian Thomas, College of Management Director of Research Development, for assistance or additional details.
Internal Funding Sources
External Funding Sources
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Due date: continuous
Human Resources, Jobs, and Income
Sloan Industry Studies Fellowships
Due date: October 15, 2008
Industry Studies Fellowships are intended to recognize and support junior faculty members in a wide range of academic disciplines. Awards are made to scholars who show the most outstanding promise of making important contributions to understanding the complex systems of companies, product and labor markets, institutions and their interactions that shape the multifaceted environment of modern industrial enterprises. Candidates must be nominated by Department Heads or other Senior Scholars
American Tax Policy Institute
Due date: continuous [grants reviewed in January and July]
Request for Research Proposals to Further Scholarship about Tax Policy.
Topics of interest are “Special tax subsidies for savings” and “Tax policy and healthcare.”
Center for State and Local Government Excellence
Due date: continuous
The Center is currently funding qualitative and quantitative
research on the following topics: Structure of State and Local Government Retirement Plans, Post Employment and Retiree Health Care Benefits, Financial Wellness and Retirement Planning. They offer a $14,000 research stipend.
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
Due date: multiple
Seedcorn Funding Initiative
Due date: Continuousapplication form, guidance notes
This initiative provides an opportunity for both developing researchers and researchers looking to develop new ideas to submit research proposals.
Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals
Due date: continuous
All logistics and supply chain management professionals and academics (CSCMP members and nonmembers alike) are encouraged to submit research ideas and proposals for the CSCMP Research Strategies Committee's consideration.
Foundation for Managed Derivatives Research (FMDR)
Due date: Continuous
FMDR is particularly interested in funding research that will enrich the body of knowledge in the field of managed derivatives and which will have far-reaching application or impact on managed derivatives. FMDR encourages proposals that address major issues facing the managed futures industry.
IBM Center for the Business of Government
Due date: October 1, 2008
See Research Announcement document for full information. Cross-cutting management issues of interest include, citizen-centric service delivery, financial management, innovation, leadership, and supply-chain.
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS)
Due date: Continous
Institute of Management Accountants (IMA)
Due date: Continuous
See Invitation to Submit Research Proposals document for complete information
(NEW) John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition
Due date: October 15, 2008
The 2008 Digital Media and Learning Competition theme is Participatory Learning. Participatory Learning includes the many ways that learners (of any age) use new technologies to participate in virtual communities where they share ideas, comment upon one another's projects, and plan, design, advance, implement, or simply discuss their goals and ideas together.
National Endowment for Financial Education
Due date: December 1, 2008
The grants program seeks innovative research and research-based development projects that can make a profound contribution to the field of financial literacy, directly relevant to the financial well-being of the public, and able to be applied broadly.
National Science Foundation
Due date: Multiple
CreativeIT
Due date: September 26, 2008The CreativeIT Program solicits proposals for projects that explore synergistic cross disciplinary research in creativity and computer science and information technology.
Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI)
Due: continuous(NEW) Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers Program
Due date for Letters of Intent: January 2, 2009The Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRCs) program develops long-term partnerships among industry, academe, and government. The centers are catalyzed by a small investment from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and are primarily supported by industry center members, with NSF taking a supporting role in their development and evolution. Each center is established to conduct research that is of interest to both the industry and the center.
Infrastructure Management and Extremen Events (IMEE)
Due date: October 1, 2008The IMEE program focuses on the impact of large-scale hazards on civil infrastructure and society and on related issues of preparedness, response, mitigation, and recovery. The program supports research to integrate multiple issues from engineering, social, behavioral, political, and economic sciences. It supports fundamental research on the interdependence of civil infrastructure and society, development of sustainable infrastructures, and civil infrastructure vulnerability and risk reduction.
Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP)
Due date: December 16, 2008The SciSIP program underwrites fundamental research that creates new explanatory models, analytic tools and datasets designed to inform the nation’s public and private sectors about the processes through which investments in science and engineering (S&E) research are transformed into social and economic outcomes.
Service Enterprise Systems (SES)
Due date: October 1, 2008The SES program supports research on strategic decision making, design, planning and operation of commercial, nonprofit, and institutional service enterprises with the goal of improving their overall effectiveness and cost reduction. The program has a particular focus on healthcare and other similar public service institutions, and emphasizes research topics leading to more effective systems modeling and analysis as a means to improved planning, resource allocation, and policy development.
New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation, S.T. Lee Research Fellowship
Due date: applications accepted at any time
Application instructions available here
North Carolina Biotechnology Center
Faculty Recruitment Grant
Due date: continuous
Robert Schalkenbach Foundation
Due date: continuous
Their funding seeks to support projects that advocate ideas and programs compatible with Henry George's philosophy of economic justice. They fund two types of projects, Research Projects: Deepening the Georgist Perspective, and Policy-oriented projects: Promoting Georgism as a Practical Philosophy
Society of Actuaries: 2009 Individual Grants Competition Announcement
Due date: Letters of intent due October 20, 2008
The Actuarial Foundation's (TAF) AERF Committee, the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) and the Society of Actuaries' Committee on Knowledge Extension Research (CKER) announce the 2009 Individual Grants Competition to support the advancement of knowledge in actuarial science. Grants will be funded through TAF, the SOA, and the CAS.