Funding Announcements

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For your planning purposes, please take into account that the campus Proposal Administrative Review (PAR) process will be a minimum of 7 - 10 days prior to the funder's submission deadline.  Please note that the internal review deadline may be listed below for specific funding opportunities.

 

Campus Grant Announcements

Jefferson Science Fellow Program

The National Academies is pleased to announce a call for nominations and applications for the 2009 Jefferson Science Fellows program (JSF). Jefferson Science Fellows spend one year at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. and may periodically travel to U.S. foreign embassies and/or missions.  JSF awards are open to tenured academic scientists, technologists and engineers from U.S. institutions of higher learning. Nominees/applicants must be U.S. citizens and will be required to obtain a security clearance.

Nomination/applicatioin forms and instructions can be found on the Jefferson Science Fellows website: www.national-academies.org/jsf 

CSUCI Internal nomination/application deadline is January 5, 2009

 

FACULTY RESEARCH FELLOWS PROGRAM

Faculty Research Fellows Program to examine and evaluate how California local workforce investment areas use federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA) funds to provide training to job seekers. 

CSUCI Internal Deadline: January 5, 2009
Funder's deadline: January 12, 2009
Link to RFP: http://www.csus.edu/calst/government_affairs/Current_and_Recent_RFPs.html

M E M O R A N D U M

TO:                          All Interested Parties in the California State University System

FROM:                    Dr. Bill Leach, Coordinator

                                Faculty Research Fellows Program Center for California Studies

SUBJECT:             Request for Proposals

PROJECT TITLE: Workforce Investment Act – An Examination of Training Fund Expenditures in California

The Senate Office of Research has requested assistance from the California State University Faculty Research Fellows Program to examine and evaluate how California local workforce investment areas use federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA) funds to provide training to job seekers. 

Qualified California State University faculty and staff should submit proposals in response to this request. We prefer that the principal investigator is a full-time faculty or staff member of the CSU system, but it is not necessary. Part-time faculty and students can be included as secondary investigators and assistants. The enclosed attachment provides background on the issue, a description of the project, timeline, budget, and requirements for the submission of a proposal.

Proposals are due January 12, 2009 and should be mailed or faxed to:

Dr. Bill Leach Coordinator, Faculty Research Fellows Program
Center for California Studies Faculty Research Fellows Program
California State University, Sacramento
Sacramento, CA 95819-6081
Fax: (916) 278-5199

The decision date for funding is January 19, 2009.

Sign-off by the principal researcher's campus research office is required as is conformance with Chancellor's Office's Executive Order Number 890 (http://www.calstate.edu/EO/EO-890.pdf).

Researcher(s)' salary, travel, and incidental expenses are usually paid through CSU, Sacramento.  If researcher(s) desire the payment of travel and incidental expenses through the principal researcher's home campus, indirect cost can be paid on these items provided the total budget (including indirect cost) does not exceed $13,500.

FACULTY RESEARCH FELLOWS PROGRAM

Center for California Studies, California State University, Sacramento

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

Project Title/Description

Workforce Investment Act – An Examination of Training Fund Expenditures in California

Examine how California local workforce investment areas use federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA) funds to provide training to job seekers. 

Background:  The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) replaced the Job Training Partnership Act and changed the way federal job training is funded and accessed.  WIA requires each local workforce investment area (there are 50 in California) to develop a one-stop delivery system comprised of core services (including job search assistance), intensive services (including comprehensive assessment and case management); and training (including customized training, on-the-job training and training vouchers).  These services are intended to be provided sequentially, with individuals accessing core services first, then intensive, and then if still in need of assistance, training.

Responding to the use of WIA funds, a report by The General Accounting Office found that in 2003 local workforce boards used an estimated 40 percent of the WIA funds on training activities with the remaining funds used for other program costs and administrative costs[1]. In California, local workforce investment areas report training expenditures[2] for both adult and dislocated worker funds. In fiscal year 2006-07 training expenditures averaged 25% for the adult worker program, and 22% for the dislocated worker program.  Moreover, a recent cost study report prepared for the California Workforce Investment Board[3] concluded that 48 percent of costs were spent on enrolled services[4], 30 percent on universal services, 13 percent on business services and 9 percent on youth services.

The current proposal focuses on the following questions:

1. How do local workforce investment areas in California define training-related expenditures and how does this compare to definitions used by other selected states that require a minimal level of spending on WIA funds? 
2. How do local workforce investment areas in California use federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA) funds to provide training to jobseekers?  What types of services are offered, to whom and what do we know about any outcomes associated with such training expenditures?

Expected Output:  This report shall address the following

1. Identify a representative sample of other states that either through legislative or regulatory action require a minimal level of spending of WIA funds on training activities. Describe what activities are included in the definition of training.  
2. With available state data describe, to the extent possible, local workforce investment  areas in California in the bottom and top quartiles of expenditures to determine:
   1. The definition of training-related expenditures used by the local area (if it differs from the state definition), the amount and proportion of available WIA funds spent on training-related services, and the number of individuals who received training-related services.
   2. How people who received training-related services differ in background characteristics from those who did not receive these services, but received other non-training services.
   3. The types of training-related services people get in terms of content, length, and pedagogy (such as on-the-job training or classroom training)
   4. The outcome(s), using federal measures, of different kinds of training compared to each other and to other levels of service.
   5. The extent to which training expenditures and outcomes of selected California local workforce investment areas are connected to the workforce needs of the local economy
   6. The extent to which the amount of training expenditures is related to effective leveraging of WIA funds with other funding sources to provide an integrated workforce delivery system in the community.   
3. Review and analyze training expenditures in California to determine if there is a relationship between training expenditures (and whether these expenditures are defined narrowly or broadly) with the size, geographic location or economic vitality of the local workforce area.  
4. Develop policy recommendations based on findings.

Project Timeline

Proposals are due January 12, 2009.  Proposals should be no longer than seven pages (excluding vitas and research office sign-off). Notification of award occurs by January 19, 2009. A progress report would be due on March 1, 2009 and a draft report on May 1, 2009.  The entire project must be completed by June 1, 2009.

Project Budget

$13,500 from 2008-09 Faculty Fellows Budget

Proposal Requirements

The written proposal should include the following:

1. Introductory statement that demonstrates an understanding of the subject matter.
2. Description of researcher’s(s’) qualifications to perform the study. If available, please include evidence of successful and timely completion of projects for public sector clients.
3. Explanation of how the desired data will be gathered and reported.
4. A specific timeline for completing the project requirements in the allotted period.
5. A proposed budget that indicates the portion to be devoted to faculty time (including incidental expenses) and any need for non-incidental operating expenses.
6. At least two references who could advise the Faculty Research Fellows staff on the quality and timeliness of the principal researcher’s work.
7. Telephone and e-mail address for principal researcher(s).
8. A resume or vita for each person funded under the project.
9. Evidence that the proposal has been approved by the principal investigator’s campus office of research and sponsored programs.

Proposals should be no longer than seven pages (excluding vitas and research office approval)

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Faculty Research Fellow Program

1. U.S. Government Accountability Office. (2005, June). Workforce investment act: Substantial funds are used for training, but little is known nationally about training      outcomes.  Report to Congressional Requesters.  Washington D.C.
2. Definition of training expenses includes expenditures for participants attending approved classroom instruction, payments for individual training accounts, and contracted services for customized and on-the-job training, materials, and support services.
3. Moore, R.W., Gorman, P.C., & Wilson, A. (2007). California one-stop system cost study report.  Prepared for The California Workforce Investment Board.
4. Includes training costs.  Additionally, training conducted away from the site (i.e. at a community college or proprietary school) was not accounted for.
    

 

 

American Council of Learned Societies:Collaborative Research Awards   http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=3154

National Science Foundation: Proactive Recruitment in Introductory Science and Mathematics Program   http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08596/nsf08596.htm

California Coastal Commission: The Whale TAIL Grants Program   http://www.coastal.ca.gov/publiced/plate/plgrant.html

National Endowment for the Humanities: CiS Digital Humanities Grant   http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/IATDH.html#awardinfo

 

CSUCI Sponsored Databases - The links below are to password protected databases which offer searchable funding opportunities.  If you would like information on how to access these database subscriptions, please send an email to orsp@csuci.edu

Info ED International, Inc:  http://www.infoed.org/new_spin-spinmain.asp

AASCU Grants Resource Center:  http://www.aascu.org/gsmodule/

 

New Funding Opportunities

 Grants Resource Center (GRC) Deadlines - PDF

This publication includes deadline dates for the month of January 2009 and late announcements for the months of December 2008 and November 2008.  Proposals submitted by a referenced target date will be included in a particular review cycle, while those received after the target date will be held for the next review cycle.  It is advisable to contact the program staff cited in each listing to obtain all available information.  Those deadlines marked by an asterisk (**) are tentative.  In some cases, these are specific dates that may change depending on the timing of the deadline notices and in others, we have listed just the month during which a deadline is expected.  Deadlines marked by a double plus sign (++) are target dates.

  

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices for November 14, 2008      http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/WeeklyIndex.cfm?WeekEnding=11-14-2008

 

NSF Funding Opportunities   

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_list.jsp?sort=date