HOW TO FIND FUNDING SOURCES RELEVANT TO SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE RESEARCH: - Ask colleagues at conferences about their funding/award sources. Read acknowledgement sections of their publications. - UW Royalty Research Fund (especially for young faculty) ** 5 pages max, easy budget, $40k, easy way to get your feet wet. ** - UW Simpson Center for the Humanities - UW website of the Office of Sponsored Programs “Find funding”

HOW TO FIND FUNDING SOURCES (continued) UW Office of Research: “Finding funding”

Current departmental expertise in funding from: NEH National Security Language Initiative (UW’s Startalk program) Tap into organizations: Mellon Foundation ( ACLS Fellowships ( The MLA has some information on prizes, but not much on funding ( Is there a history of enthusiastic donations in your field? Christopher Landman is Director of Advancement for the Arts and Humanities (and Molly Purrington). Fundraising through Jewish Studies? Carolyn Black, Director of Advancement for the Social Sciences Fundraising through the Ellison Center for Russian East European and Central Asian Studies in the Jackson School? HOW TO FIND FUNDING SOURCES (continued)

The amazing power of Google. “slavic” + “funding” leads to this…

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Conference travel: Nice summary by the Univ of Pittsburgh

Faculty in Brown Univ.’s Dept. of Slavic Languages list their funding sources on their websites. For example, here’s the list for Linda Cook:

Here’s a similar list for Spencer Golub, who specializes in Russian theater: Faculty in Brown Univ.’s Dept. of Slavic Languages list their funding sources on their websites.

How about teaming up with other faculty at UW to apply for grants? Apply your knowledge about Slavic culture to a bigger, fundable issue? Where might there be overlap? Here’s what I found through a simple web search…

WISER: Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity and Race JACKSON SCHOOL DEPT. OF GEOGRAPHY WOMENS’ STUDIES LINGUISTINCS – IN PARTICULAR, COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS ECONOMICS: Yu-Chin Chen: International finance and trade, and foreign aid. Seik Kim: Foreign-born workers in the U.S. Judith Thornton: “strategies of Western businesses in Russia and determinants of tax effort in Russia's regions”. Hendrik Wolff: Clean-Air legislation in Europe (eastern Europe too?) Mu-Jeung Yang: “Reform & collapse: sources of Russia’s lost decade”. POLITICAL SCIENCE: James Caporaso: Dilemmas of European integration. Rachel Cichowski: European Court of Justice, transnational activists Christine DeStefano: Russian revolutionary Alexandra Kollontai Jamie Mayerfeld: Internat’l Criminal Court; democracy & human rights Aseem Prakash: Globalization, NGOs

Would foundations or corporations fund your research? Office Hours: 2nd Wed. monthly, 10-noon in Comm 057 Faculty can drop in for assistance with: Developing strategies that will lead to proposal invitation/funding from foundations and/or corporations (learn about opportunities and best practices for making a funder aware of your work). Reviewing and revising letters of inquiry (LOI) or proposals to ensure strong alignment with funder priorities. Strategizing how to move current relationships with funders or potential funders to the next level (e.g. getting that first grant, stewarding current grantors to obtain increased funding, working with a program officer to transition them from gatekeeper to an advocate, or leveraging the support from one funder to attract additional funders). The staff is also happy to respond to s or phone calls. - Felicia Gonzalez, Associate Director Laura Gee, Assistant Director

You’ve decided where to apply! Now what? Steps 1-3… 1. Will you apply solo, or with collaborators? If with collaborators, ask someone at UW if you should get a “subaward”. 2. Make a list of your deliverables. Papers? A manuscript? A conference? A new course? A policy paper? 3. Write a budget and a budget justification (an explanation). Have a fiscal specialist staff person look at it. Take advantage of staff who can help you through the A&S Humanities Shared Services Initiative. Instructions and sample budget from Office of Research: Numbers for UW indirect cost rates, tuition, benefits rates are here: Short version of the URL: Long version: Shared%20Documents/Grants%20and%20Contracts/Grants%20and%20Contrac t%20Proposal%20Preparation%20Factsheet.htm

The Office of Sponsored Programs can to teach you to write budgets. “How to prepare a basic budget”

You’ve decided where to apply, assembled a team, and written a budget. Now what? Step 4… 4. Count back from your deadline. Your department and UW may need to approve your finished proposal as early as 3 weeks before the funding agency’s official due date.

You’ve decided where to apply, assembled a team, written a budget, and planned your deadline. Now what? Step 5 5. Write your proposal. Make it painfully clear what your activities will be in your work plan. Write for an audience of tired reviewers who previously read 15 similar proposals. Some faculty will let you borrow funded proposals, so you can see what a successful one looks like. Ask! Don’t wait for them to offer.

“Grant writer’s reference for new researchers” The Office of Research lists limited submission opportunities.

You’ve decided where to apply, assembled a team, written a budget, planned your deadline, and written. Now what? Step 6 6. Get feedback! If a UW colleague knows about your field, ask him/her to read your proposal and give you advice. Call the program officer in charge of awarding funds at the agency to which you are applying. Talking to a program officer is very different from talking to an editor at a journal. The program officer wants to talk to you about your good ideas – that is his/her job. The better your proposal turns out to be, the better he/she looks when explaining how money was spent.

Why bother writing a grant proposal if the probability of being funded is not high? The funding rate for the NSF program that funds me is 13%. I apply many places to land one grant. I also expect to try, and fail, and try again. It is worth it for me. You will get feedback from experts on your work. If you don’t get a funded or miss your deadline, then: – Turn your proposal around and submit it to the next round at the same agency, or somewhere else. – In some fields, you will have done the conceptual groundwork toward completion of a project and publication.

Why not write a grant proposal? Yeah, well, welcome on board. Maybe, maybe not. I assemble my own. UW’s Grants and Contracts office does this for you. Advantage or disadvantage? I have no time. I have no training in grant writing I don’t know how to write a budget. I’ve never navigated UW’s SAGE or e-GC1 forms No grant agency would fund my work. I’ll have to find a staff person who can help me assemble my proposal. I’ll have to find a staff person who can help compile end-of-year summaries of my spending for reporting purposes. I don’t need grant funding in order to get tenure.

What can grant funding do for you? Your summer salary Your travel to conferences or archives Increase your research productivity and scholarly stature Grad student funding Postdoc funding Your salary buyout from teaching Hosting individual speakers at UW Hosting workshops and conferences at UW Presentation Compiled by: Sarah L. Keller Associate Dean for Research Activities for the College of Arts and Sciences University of Washington, Seattle