UMass Amherst Public Service Endowment Grant

Deadline: April 17, 2018
Budget: Up to $15,000
Eligibility: All full-time faculty and staff
Notification of award: Week of May 28, 2018

The Public Service Endowment Grants (PSEG) are intended to enhance the mission of UMass Amherst as a Carnegie-classified “Engaged Research University.”  It is an internal University source of funds set aside to deliver public services through research and special projects. For the purposes of this program, public service will be defined as “having to do with the outreach of the University to society at large, extending the research and engagement resources of the campus to individuals and groups who are not part of the academic community while bringing an academic institution’s special competence to bear on the solution of society’s problems.  It can take place on or off campus and can be related to either the governmental or private sectors of our national life. The emphasis on public service is in converting knowledge into readily usable forms for immediate applications.

Proposals should focus on collaborative partnerships and interactions with the off-campus community (or communities) and related scholarship for the mutual benefit, exchange, exploration, and application of knowledge and resources. Projects that will lead to competitive proposals for extramural support will be given the highest priority. The use of this non-renewable “seed” money award should leverage campus and community resources to solve a problem or build capacity at the university and/or in the community. Projects should create opportunity for sustained engagement after PSEG funding is expended.

You can view more information, including the Request for Proposals, here.

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