The Universe of Faculty Funding
A Quick Tour
Internal
Often schools and departments within Emory have funding—often pilot and seed funding programs--to support faculty projects related to their key goals.
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Contact your department chair and the dean of faculty in your school for information about these targeted resources.
Some Emory-based centers and institutes have mission-related funding programs that are open to all Emory faculty.
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There are several university-wide sources of funding for research and intellectual events.
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External
Please visit the Emory Research Administration Services and the Office of Sponsored Programs for more information and support on seeking federal funding. Please also see the Research Administration guide to external funding.
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There are roughly 70,000 foundations in the United States. Your best bet is to identify the ones most relevant to your work (see “Researching Funding Sources”). The Office of Foundation Relations team builds partnerships across Emory’s schools and units to increase foundation support for Emory where mutual impact, interests, and strengths align. Their goal is to raise the faculty profile with foundations by submitting thoughtful, strategic proposals and building strong, reciprocal relationships with funders. In addition to providing helpful insight about foundations and their grantmaking processes, OFR serves as an advocate for Emory faculty with potential funders.
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Many scholarly and professional associations include funding mechanisms for teaching and research, often for early career scholars.
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Many institutions and libraries offer fellowships that provide scholars funded opportunities to use their collections in their research.
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Limited submission opportunities (LSOs) are funding opportunities where the sponsor has placed a limit on the number of applications that may be submitted from an institution.
Review committee and process
Administrators of internal selection processes vary, but as a general summary, reviewers for individual limited submission opportunities are drawn from a standing committee of tenured faculty members who are nominated by the Schools and appointed by the Office of the Provost. Ad hoc committee members may also be invited to serve on specific panels based on their subject expertise and/or their experience with a particular sponsor or program. The internal review committee provides critical reviews of internal pre-proposals and makes recommendations for the pre-proposals that should go forward for external submission. The Office of the Provost follows the best practice of many foundations and agencies and does not disclose the names of individual reviewers who contribute to a specific review panel. The limited submission team notifies individual internal applicants of their pre-proposal review results via email. The limited submission team notifies the Department, School, and Office of Sponsored Programs of the proposal(s) that will go forward for external submission via email.
How/who to contact for more information
As mentioned above, the contact person for internal selection processes can vary but, in general, federal funding opportunities are administered by Holly Sommers of OSP, and private foundation funding opportunities are administered by Kristin Anderson of the Office of Foundation Relations.