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Send us an <a href=\"mailto:flint.research@umich.edu\">email<\/a> if you want more specific help looking for opportunities to match your project goals. Contact us early in the planning and proposal writing process, to allow time to think about the scope of work, the project team, budget for effort and review the sponsor requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d06bca68c84b45819c5c842ec7d60398\">Internal Funding<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-c33d2e3223361138e729eabdbf9d966a\"><strong>Research and Creative Activity<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The UM-Flint Office of Research offers internal seed funding for a small grants program known as the Research and Creative Activity Awards each academic year. Typically there is funding for 7 awards at the maximum of $20,000 per award each fiscal year. Requests for funding are reviewed on a rolling basis.\u00a0 Applications can be submitted at any time during the fiscal year (July 1 to June 30).\u00a0 The UM-Flint Office of Research oversees the submission and review process. Anonymous review is sought by a minimum of 3 subject matter experts across all three U-M campuses, via the UM-Flint InfoReady Review competition space. Applicants generally receive feedback and a funding decision within 12 weeks. See the Internal Funding page for submission details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-11e5dac821e06221b90684809aac91ce\"><strong>Dr. Ben F. Bryer Foundation Medical Research Fund<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><br><\/strong>The Office of Institutional Advancement and Office of Research manages the Dr. Ben F. Bryer Foundation Medical Research Fund. The Fund was established by the family of Ben F. Bryer to encourage and support the medical research endeavors of the University of Michigan-Flint faculty.\u00a0 This research fund honors the accomplishments of Dr. Bryer, surgeon, scientist, educator, author, and humanist in pursuing medical knowledge. Funding is available, on an application basis, to full-time faculty of the University of Michigan-Flint to provide support for medical and biomedical research, with a priority given to research related to cancer. Beginning in the fall of 2020, requests for Bryer funding will be reviewed on a rolling basis. See the Internal Funding page for further details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1a600481d772f073dce5fad4a67e6b36\"><strong>Academies<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The lack of research development time is a significant impediment to UM-Flint faculty seeking external funding with major scientific agencies or professional foundations. This proposal writing program is designed to provide teaching release time to underwrite and incentivize the pursuit of external research funding. Each of the two largest national funding agencies, the NSF and NIH, has regular submission cycles that permit some advance planning about funding streams well suited to research agendas at UM-Flint, and many professional foundations also have regular annual competition cycles. Faculty selected for the proposal writing academy will receive a course release and will be expected to participate in proposal writing workgroups facilitated by the UM-Flint Office of Research to draft the required sections of the research proposal month by month during the academic term in which the release time is funded. Additional workgroup team members will be recruited to work with the Academy awardees based on their research interests, willingness to offer feedback to their colleagues, and learn more about the submission and proposal writing process. See the Internal Funding page for further details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-4ae814260989023b3495b798ad54651c\"><strong>Research Commons<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn about other new internal funding opportunities across U-M by searching in the Research Commons. The portal uses the InfoReady platform to pool internal opportunities, limited submissions, and some external opportunities. Find funding opportunities quicker by using the keyword search, and filtering by campus, school or college, discipline, career stage, funding type, or areas of interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-be5eff79629738c3e7f6ee7fbb17fe17\"><strong>Student Funding<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Several donors to UM-Flint have expressed an interest in encouraging student research and generously donated funds to provide support for student-initiated research and for travel to attend professional conferences. These endowed funds provide support for original student research ideas and are intended to encourage individual or group work. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1UxqSr-eDqzA35Yp8eNi4J-aHjPLLH_8R4e3SPp3JtQc\/edit?usp=sharing\">Student Funding<\/a> for more information on funds available, eligibility, and how to apply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6c72bf61e7b8b8d93a32c6e191771f4d\">External Funding<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The university has many resources for discovering external funding opportunities across various fields of research and sponsored activity.\u00a0The UM-Flint Library provides access to Pivot and the Foundation Directory Online, and the U-M Library has a very helpful funding portal.\u00a0U-M Foundation Relations has an online foundation funding guide that can be used to explore the priorities of various funders who have supported U-M research and creative activity.\u00a0UMOR also manages the Limited Submissions process for competitions where federal agencies or other sponsors limit the number of submissions from any given campus to internally selected projects.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-e821aace8e0d12b6a8f5999c2ca9083b\"><strong>Library Resources<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.umflint.edu\/faculty\/publishing\">UM-Flint Thompson Library Resources<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pivot-proquest-com.libproxy.umflint.edu\/grants\/main\">Pivot<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fconline-foundationcenter-org.libproxy.umflint.edu\/search\/\">Foundation Directory Online<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/guides.lib.umich.edu\/c.php?g=283405&amp;p=1887268\">U-M Library Finding Funding Portal<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-6e9bd7ed35656d9bece98b446a7e0daa\"><strong>Additional Resources<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/foundations.umich.edu\/\">U-M Foundation Relations Funding Guide<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/research.umich.edu\/research-resources\/funding-and-research-development\/limited-submission-process\">U-M Limited Submissions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/research\/finding-funding\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-88","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}