I am pleased to announce that VP Glenda Humiston has approved funding 17 projects for UC ANR's 2015 Competitive Grants Program, for a total of $3.7 million over 5 years. The awards range from approximately $50,000 to $450,000. This is comparable to past years' awards. UC ANR awarded $4.46 million supporting 21 projects in 2011, $3.8 million supporting 16 projects in 2012, and $3.5 million supporting 15 projects in 2013. After four grant cycles, the Division has approved funding for 69 projects totaling an investment of $15,464,934. To view the 2015 list of approved projects, please visit http://ucanr.edu/sites/ANRUpdate/files/227066.pdf.
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- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the Letters of Intent (LOIs) that have been selected to move forward and submit full proposals to ANR's Competitive Grants Program. This year we received a total of 117 LOIs, inviting 47 of them to submit a full application. In 2014, ANR conducted a formative assessment of the grants program to evaluate whether the intended goals of the program were being met or if there were plans in place to achieve appropriate outcomes. As a result, applicants this year were required to address strategic initiative priority issue areas to better facilitate the identification and measurement of efforts and impacts.
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- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce that the request for proposals for ANR's 2015 competitive grants program is now released and can be found at http://ucanr.edu/sites/anrstaff/Divisionwide_Programs/2015_ANR_Competitive_Grants_Program.
The purpose of this grants program is to address high-priority issues identified by at least one of the strategic initiatives: Endemic and Invasive Pests and Diseases (EIPD), Healthy Families and Communities (HFC), Sustainable Food Systems (SFS), Sustainable Natural Ecosystems (SNE), and Water Quality, Quantity and Security (Water).
2015 competitive grants...
During 2014, the Division did not release a call for ANR's internal competitive grants program in order to conduct a formative assessment to determine if the program's intended results are being reached or if the trajectory is on target to reach them. ANR's Office of Program Planning and Evaluation (OPPE) was charged to measure progress toward addressing the grants program goals and to document the extent to which it is operating as planned.
A summary of the competitive grants program assessment can be found at http://ucanr.edu/grants_assessment_summary.
The ANR competitive grants program is on track to reach its goals: to support...
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
We recently completed the third cycle of the ANR Competitive Grants Program, committing approximately $3.5 million over 5 years to 15 projects. For all three cycles, almost $12 million have been committed to 52 research and outreach projects headed by ANR academics. The Division has invested in research, education and outreach projects addressing high-priority issues that are consistent with the Strategic Vision, encourage collaboration, are high-impact projects, strengthen the research-extension network, and contribute policy relevant outcomes that address significant agricultural, economic, environmental and social issues in California.
After several years of significant investment, it is time for the Division to conduct...