(FOA) Limited Submission – Blue Grass Community Foundation – BGCF365 Education Grant; October 29, 2018

 

Purpose: The Blue Grass Community Foundation BGCF365 Education Grant Program supports projects/programs that improve student learning and remove obstacles to academic success for students of all ages. Such obstacles include, but are not limited to: transportation, food insecurity, physical and/or mental challenges, access to technology, language barriers, poverty and homelessness. Preference will be shown to proposals that focus on efforts to increase academic achievement among low-income, minority and English language learners.

 

Funding Amount/ Project Period: up to $10,000 for 1 year

 

Link to Funding Opportunity Announcement

 

Institutional Limit:  1

 

Internal Competition: To participate in the university’s selection process,please upload the following,assembled into a single PDF file, to the Office of the Vice President for Research via this portal with a copy to your Associate Dean for Research by October 16, 2018:

• Names and departments or affiliations of the Project Director and other key personnel or partners;
• Title of program and/or funding opportunity announcement number;
• Brief project description (2 pages maximum)

 

A committee will be convened to review the material and make a recommendation.

 

For questions or issues with submission through the portal, email the limited submission mailbox (limitedsubmissions@uky.edu), or call 257-2861.

 

Agency Deadline:  October 29, 2018