ADVANCE: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions NSF 20-554
Sponsor: NSFInternal Deadline: 02/19/2025Institutional Submission Limit: SpecialSponsor Deadline: 04/24/2025Program Website
Please read the solicitation guidelines very carefully as there are multiple tracks and an extensive FAQ.
The NSF ADVANCE program goal is to broaden the implementation of evidence-based systemic change strategies that promote equity for STEM faculty in academic workplaces and the academic profession. The NSF ADVANCE program provides grants to enhance the systemic factors that support equity and inclusion and to mitigate the systemic factors that create inequities in the academic profession and workplaces. All NSF ADVANCE proposals are expected to use intersectional approaches in the design of systemic change strategies in recognition that gender, race and ethnicity do not exist in isolation from each other and from other categories of social identity.
The solicitation includes four funding tracks: Institutional Transformation (IT), Adaptation, Partnership, and Catalyst.
USC may submit only one proposal as lead to the IT-Preliminary, Adaptation, OR Catalyst awards, and may submit only one proposal as lead to the Partnership competition.
Track submission notes:
1) Institutional Transformation (IT) - Preliminary proposal REQUIRED Target Date: April 24, 2025, IT-preliminary proposals are accepted before and after the target date. Please contact the program office before submitting a proposal to discuss timing for submission. Only applicants encouraged by NSF after review of an IT-Preliminary proposal should submit a full IT proposal
2) Adaptation and Partnership tracks ONLY A letter of intent IS REQUIRED by August 4, 2025. Submitting a letter of intent automatically allows you to submit a full proposal. Work on the full proposal should have started well before the letter of intent deadline. Full Proposal deadline: First Wednesday in November, Annually
3) Catalyst Track Catalyst proposals are accepted before and after the target date. Please contact the program office before submitting a proposal to discuss timing for submission. Target date: First Friday in August, Annually
Submission Process
Limited submissions MUST be coordinated with the Office of the Vice President for Research.
If interested in applying for this opportunity, please combine the following items into a single PDF and email to resdev@mailbox.sc.edu by 5pm on the INTERNAL DEADLINE above:
- Cover page with grant program name, number, and track (if applicable) to which you are applying, your project title, PI (name, department/unit, & email), and list of co-PIs/key collaborators (name & department/unit)
- a two-page project abstract addressing key components/criteria for this specific grant program
- a 2-3 page CV/biosketch for the PI (SCiENcv preferred)