Fall in Love With Funding The first hurdle of the grant cycle has come on gone, but many more are on their way. As institutions start renewing their research topics, or implementing new ones, the Washington Institute for Public Affairs Research can help you find your funding match by linking you to the best resources for your topic areas.

This month’s newsletter features funding opportunities from organizations that have increased funding for social science, as well as current hot topics in research news.

We have also included our latest infographic in WIPAR’s year-long series that highlights funding trends across institutions.

As always, feel free to contact WIPAR with all of your grant searching needs.

Wishing you a February full of funding,

The Team at WIPAR

Table of ContentsUpcoming Deadlines

Infographic of the Month: Agencies By the Numbers

Things to ConsiderGrant News

Upcoming DeadlinesUnited States Department of Health and Human Services Modeling Social Behavior (R01)Deadline: February 5, 2015Click Here for More Information.

Infographic of the Month: NIJ

Things to Consider

IBM Center for the Business of GovernmentResearch StipendsDeadline: April 1, 2015

Excerpt from RFP: “The Center solicits proposals that result in reports that have sound research, insightful findings, and actionable recommendations for government leaders and public managers in the following areas of interest:

1. Fostering Innovation and Transformation 2. Aligning Mission Support with Mission Delivery 3. Developing Cost Savings Strategies That Improve Efficiency and Effectiveness 4. Making the Best Use of Performance and Results Management 5. Managing Risk in a Rapidly Changing World 6. Developing New Models of Public Leadership Within and Across Agencies

While the six topics outlined above frame the Center’s priorities, it also welcomes interesting and timely practical research and actionable recommendations in other current and emerging areas of importance for government, such as acquisition, supply chain, social media, human capital and work-force development, financial management, information technology, healthcare reform implementa-tion, and sustainability.”

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National Endowment for the Humanities (2)

FellowshipsDeadline: April 30, 2015

Excerpt form RFP: “Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources in the humanities. Projects may be at any stage of development.”

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Public Scholar ProgramDeadline: March 3, 2015

Excerpt from RFP: “The Public Scholar program supports well-researched books in the humanities intended to reach a broad readership. Although humanities scholarship can be specialized, the hu-manities also strive to engage broad audiences in exploring subjects of general interest. They seek to deepen our understanding of the human condition as well as current conditions and contemporary problems... Making use of primary and/or secondary sources, they should open up important and

appealing subjects for wider audiences. The challenge is to make sense of a significant topic in a way that will appeal to general readers.

...NEH especially welcomes applicants who are in the writing stages of their projects or who already have a commitment from a publisher. However, the Public Scholar program also supports projects in the early stages of development.”

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Grant News

Institutions Work towards Research Transparency

An article from the Science journal’s January 2015 edition calling for transparency standards in research is gaining widespread attention in the academic world. The article, which sites the “pub-lish or perish” mindset in academia as a major factor in the current transparency problem, proposes a list of changes to combat some of the issues that stem from the belief that researchers must always publish new, irrefutable research.

In response, some institutions are adopting these standards or creating their own. Several psychological journals, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, and the American Economic Association, have implemented their own transparency standards with randomized trials. Some institutions, like the American Political Science Association, already had guidelines in place as far back as 2012 that require researchers to back up their claims by making their data accessible, and being clear about how they produce their results.

At the forefront of this push is the Center for Open Science founded by the article’s co-author, Brian Nosek, a spearhead for transparency in academia....

...To date, COS is the first foundation of its kind. Nosek founded the center in 2013 with a grant from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation in order to improve how science in all fields is con-ducted and communicated. COS recently launched the Open Science Framework, which enables research teams to make their data public and register their hypotheses and pre-analysis plans.

“It supports a novel publishing model in which study designs are peer-reviewed before data collec-tion, rather than afterward.” Nosek said, “Designs are evaluated on the quality of the methods and the importance of the question, rather than the nature of the results.”

Nosek believes that COS and the Open Framework will help researchers create more accurate and more informed studies.

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RG III Launches His Own Foundation Washington Redskins Quarterback, Robert Griffin the 3rd launched his own foundation in January to aid families in need. Family of 3, the name of Griffin’s foundation, works with the Boys and Girls Club of America and the Bob Woodruff Foundation to aid families with disabled children and injured veterans through advocacy, fundraising, and support from both RGIII and the Redskins.

According to the Family of 3 website, the mission of the foundation “is to continuously grow our Family with people who share our passion for helping others, and “to give people a reason to believe they can accomplish anything, and that their dreams aren’t out of reach.”

RGIII created the foundation in order to continue the life-long tradition philanthropy he participat-ed in throughout his childhood and young adult years. Griffin said that he wants “to give back and be that extra push people need to catch their dreams.”

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