Brief Summary of Resources

1) Office of Research & Sponsored Programs (ORSP). Supports proposal submission and grant administration.

2) Table of internal funding on ORSP’s website that includes nearly all internal sources of funding for research, scholarship and creative work.

3) Pilot Research Grants (PRG’s). Two calls for proposals per year, at the end of October and end of February. These are single investigator funds for up to $20,000 and the primary purpose is to provide the scholar with support to gather preliminary data to make an external proposal competitive. Proposals are reviewed by the Research Advisory Council, a group of faculty from each Division in the College as well as representatives from each professional school as well as the Graduate School.

4) Collaborative Pilot Grants (CPG’s). One call for proposals per year, at the beginning of March. These are multi- investigator funds for up to $30,000 and the primary purpose is to provide the scholars with support to gather preliminary data to make an external proposal competitive. This must include a collaborator from the Medical School or from outside of WFU.

5) Intercampus Collaborative Grant (ICG’s). One call for proposals per year. These are multi- investigator funds for up to $50,000 and the primary purpose is to foster interdisciplinary research collaborations that spark long-term projects that can garner external funding for novel ideas to benefit human health. This must include a collaborator from Wake Forest University School of Medicine (Winston-Salem and/or Charlotte).

6) List of Current Funding Opportunities. This list is updated monthly under Current Opportunities at this website.

7) Open Access Fund. Publication fund that cost shares publication of manuscripts in open-access journals. Fees are cost-shared among the Provost’s Office, the Library, the faculty member’s Department, as well as the Faculty member (4-way cost share).

8) Provost’s Travel Fund.  Will fund travel for conference presentations that are not covered by the Department or an external grant. More information can be found here.

9) CRADLE (Creative Research Activities Development and Enrichment) – program for junior faculty to learn about grant writing.  Senior mentors – find a few 1-3 mentors in your discipline/area who will agree to review proposals for you and provide feedback. They can serve as readers of different stages of proposal preparation, providing constructive feedback throughout the two-year program. Quality Circle – fellow CRADLE participants serve as readers toward the end of the first year. CRADLE participants are expected to put their proposals through a quality circle improvement exercise (at end of first year) and assist other CRADLE Fellows by acting as participant reviewers or as a quality circle leader. Includes presentations by David Bauer (outside consultant) as well as one-on-one meetings by David with individual faculty members. The full program for applicants who were accepted as Fellows (limited to 9 faculty) includes seminars/workshops, a $5K stipend to work on the proposal (split between two summers), as well as one-on-one sessions with David Bauer. However, all faculty at the university are welcome to attend the seminars/workshops part of the program.

10) Grants Contracts Managers (GCM’s). All PhD-granting Departments have staff members whose job it is to help faculty with pre- and post-award administration of proposals/grants. Other Departments also have GCM’s (HES), and some Departments share a GCM with other Departments.

11) InfoEd’s SPINPlus. Grant funding database –mainly Federal & State. We have a license that allows faculty to search for funding opportunities – you can login with your university email and password. Go to the Funding Database Search Engines entry at this website.

12) Foundations Directory Online (FDO). Foundation funding database – over 140,000 foundations listed worldwide, over 85% of which have no web portal that can be found online. We have a license that allows faculty to search for funding opportunities. Go to the Funding Database Search Engines entry at this website. You will need to contact Stephen Williams in ORSP to gain access to the FDO database.

13) Editing assistance for proposals by Julie Edelson, whom we pay. She has a PhD in Comparative Literature. Contact Lori Gabriel, Executive Director of ORSP, to make initial arrangements.

14) Centers & Institutes. Centers & Institutes sometimes support associated faculty with funding for projects internally, and some have annual calls for funding graduate students, travel, workshops, etc. You need to look these up on individual Center/Institute websites. The list of Centers & Institutes can be found at this Provost’s Office website.

15)  College Faculty Development Funding website. A few examples: Archie Funds – provide support for primary research and research travel domestically and internationally in the Arts and Humanities. This site also has the Research and Publication Fund application – this fund supports costs associated with the publication of faculty scholarly or creative activities. The fund may be used to offset the cost of obtaining permissions, reproducing photographs or other images, transcribing interviews, or, occasionally, of indexing. The fund may not be used to pay for editors.

16) Grant-writing Tips & Other Resources. The ORSP website has a variety of online resources that you can access at this link.

17) Sample Successful Grants by Wake Forest Faculty. We have a secure website, accessible to Wake Forest faculty only, where some of our faculty have agreed to allow other WFU faculty to see a grant they submitted that was successful. This is a confidential site, and the information is shared confidentially, so please be mindful of this condition. To access this site you need to request a password from Lori Gabriel, Executive Director of ORSP.