WHITING FOUNDATION 2022–23 PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT GRANTS, due 30 April 2021

WHITING FOUNDATION 2022–23 PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT GRANTS   

Do you have a research project that is public facing? Are you an early-career scholar?

Please consider submitting an application for Whiting Foundation Public Engagement funding. The ICMA is a nominating institution and can select nominees for a Fellowship and/or a Seed Grant.

The ICMA deadline for summary proposals is 30 April 2021. Submit here.

As a nominating body for the Whiting Foundation's Public Engagement Programs in the humanities, the ICMA calls for proposals in public-facing scholarship to submit for the 2021–22 competition cycle (for funding in 2022–23). The foundation describes these funding opportunities as "designed to celebrate and empower humanities faculty who embrace public engagement" at an early-career stage, "to infuse the depth, historical richness, and nuance of the humanities into public life."

We may nominate one or two proposals by full- or part-time faculty at accredited US institutions of higher learning. To be eligible for the grants, faculty must be full- or part-time faculty in both the 2020-21 and 2021-22 academic years. Faculty need not be on a tenure track to be eligible. Nominees must also be early-career: they should have received their doctorate between 2008 and 2020.

The Foundation welcomes proposals including collaborations between faculty and graduate students. Nominees may apply to either of the Whiting's funding programs, depending on the stage of development of their project: 

  • A Fellowship of $50,000 for projects far enough into development or execution to present specific, compelling evidence that they will successfully engage the intended public.

  • A Seed Grant of up to $10,000 for projects at a somewhat earlier stage of development, where more modest resources are needed to test or pilot a project or to collaborate with partners to finalize the planning for a larger project and begin work.

Detailed guidelines and recommendations for the full proposals required by the Foundation are available online HERE, including the link to the application portal for nominees (see esp. Appendix 2 for proposal components).

The full application for nominees is due on 14 June 2021.

For consideration as an ICMA nominee, please submit a CV, a 2-page summary proposal of your project, and a working budget, to Ryan Frisinger by 1 May 2021. Applicants will be notified by the end of May. Comments will include recommendations for preparing the full grant proposal. Click here to submit.
 

For questions, contact ICMA Advocacy Committee Chair Jennifer Feltman (jmfeltman@ua.edu) or ICMA Grants and Awards Committee Chair Stephen Perkinson (sperkins@bowdoin.edu).