Good morning,
The following opportunity may be of interest to you or a colleague. Please share with any who may be interested.
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By way of introduction, my name is Kate Garman Burns, the Executive Director of MetroLab Network. Emerging from the Obama Administration in 2015, MetroLab is a nonprofit charged with growing and empowering partnerships between cities and universities working collaboratively on innovation and technology projects. We would like to take the opportunity to highlight an important funding opportunity from the National Science Foundation.
NSF Civic Innovation Challenge
MetroLab is supporting a federal government research and action competition that funds ready-to-implement, research-based pilot projects that have the potential for scalable, sustainable, and transferable impact on community-identified priorities. The Civic Innovation Challenge (“CIVIC”), aims to flip the community-university dynamic, inviting communities to identify civic priorities ripe for innovation and to then partner with researchers to address those priorities. CIVIC is a 2-stage competition providing 6-month planning grants of $50K in Stage 1 with a downselection to full awards of $1M over 12 months in Stage 2.
NSF is accepting proposals to the second CIVIC cohort from now until May 5th that focus on one of the following two community-identified priorities:
- Living in a changing climate: Pre-disaster action around adaptation, resilience, and mitigation; or
- Resource & service equity: Bridging the gap between essential resources and services & community needs
For more information on the solicitation, please go to the NSF CIVIC website here. We have hosted three Q+A sessions with NSF and other funding agencies. We highly recommend your watch the Q&A recordings as these webinars answer specific questions that you may be considering.
MetroLab is a supporting partner to this funding opportunity. Please note we do not participate in panel reviews, and we are happy to answer high level questions. Any specific or direct questions about your specific project can go directly to NSF, using the email civic@nsf.gov.
Kind regards,
Kate
Kate Garman Burns, J.D.
Executive Director
MetroLab Network
655 New York Ave, NW, WeWork 6th Floor | Washington, DC 20001
C 913-645-0713 | kate.burns@metrolabnetwork.org
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MetroLab Network
MetroLab works in service of providing positive impact to communities by collaborating with innovators at cities, counties, universities, and colleges as they embark on innovation and technology research and projects. At our core, this network serves to connect. We are connecting local government and academics to their peers to learn from each other. We also aim to connect these communities with funding opportunities, other research and laboratory facilities, and more. Please let us know if you would like any additional information on MetroLab.