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

Business Organizations

Globalization

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: Continuous

application 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, 2008

The 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, 2009

The 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, 2008

The 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, 2008

The 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, 2008

The 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.

 

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