Tulane School of Liberal Arts and the Office of Corporate & Foundation Relations:

1. Tulane School of Liberal Arts and the Office of Corporate & Foundation Relations: Partnering for success in external funding Presented by Melissa Erekson, GPC August 26, 2011

2. Partnering for Success in External Funding • Presentation Topics • 1. What is Corporate and Foundation Relations? • 2. What does a Senior Corporate and Foundation Relations Officer do for me? • 3. ACLS Fellowships

3. Corporate and Foundation Relations • The Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations is part of the Development Office and resides at 1555 Poydras Street. • We work with non-governmental funding sources.

4. Mission The Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations seeks to maximize financial support from corporations, foundations, and associations on behalf of the staff and faculty of all Tulane’s schools and colleges.

5. What can Corporate and Foundation Relations do to help you? • Provide information about funding opportunities • Provide assistance with forms and attachments • Work with you to develop budgets • Serve as a liaison to private foundations • Serve as a liaison to university-wide corporate relationships • Identify internal collaborators • Provide assistance with proposal development, budgets, submission, and stewardship reporting • Secure leadership signatures as needed

6. What don’t we do? • Student funding • Intellectual property contracts • Government funding • Adjunct or Professor of Practice grants unless paired with tenure track faculty

7. What ACLS Wants • You learned it in kindergarten: • Follow the directions • Answer the questions • Speak clearly • Be honest

8. Internal Process • Paid out to Tulane in a specific faculty/staff member’s name • Notify SLA Dean’s Office • Sabbatical involved • Release time • Salary implications (topping off) • Work with my office • Do not need to route through SPA

9. ACLS Mission: …the advancement of humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and the social sciences and the maintenance and strengthening of relations among the national societies devoted to such studies.

10. Overview • $116 million in assets (2010) • Give $14,000,000 per year (2010) • Most awarded disciplines: • History (all regions) • Literature

11. Overview (cont’d) • Amount of fellowship determined by your rank plus, in some cases, research costs • Generally require a “major scholarly work” product • They will give you reviewer comments if you request by email

12. Overview (cont’d) • Also: • Convene learning societies • Publications • Assign Faculty Fellows and Public Fellows • Dissertation grants: • Eastern Europe • Dissertation Completion • American Art • Full professors: Consider being a reviewer

13. Applying for a Fellowship • Not mutually exclusive • US Citizenship required for most • For most, cannot have taken research leave in past 2 years • Most cannot begin before July, 2012 • If award exceeds your salary, ACLS requires surplus be used for research

14. Process • Online proposal • Biographical information • CV information • Research plan and methodology • Attach: Budget, 3 references, bibliography, publications • Guidelines available: http://acls.org/programs/comps/

15. Applicable Fellowships • ACLS Core Fellowship • Ryskamp • Burkhardt • Collaborative Research • Digital Innovation • Chinese Humanities • Chinese Culture and Society

16. Core Fellowships (9/28) • Asst, Assoc. and Full Professors • $35,000 - $65,000 • 1,000 applicants/ 64 fellows (2010) • Have held PhD for 2 years • Six to twelve months, continuous • Additional support: • Area studies • New York Public Libraries

17. Ryskamp (9/28) • $64,000; 12 awards • One academic year, possible summer • Three years to complete • Advanced assistant professors and untenured associate professors • Completed institution's last reappointment review before tenure review, tenure review not complete before March 1, 2012

18. Burkhardt (9/28) • $75,000 • Tenured for no more than three years • Large minded projects • Linked to 9 interdisciplinary centers • Must be in residence 9 months • Must complete within 3 years • Only 9 awarded

19. Collaborative Research 9/28 • Up to $140,000 per project • Up to 24 months • Encourage junior scholars working with senior scholars • Preference for collaborators at different institutions of higher education

20. Digital Innovation (9/28) • Up to $60,000, plus up to $25,000 • Advance digital humanistic scholarship: broadening understanding of its nature and exemplifying robust infrastructure necessary for creating such works. • Not simply a website or digitization project • Complete in two years • Up to 8 awarded

21. Area Studies • Chinese Humanities (9/28) • Four to twelve months, continuous research • Up to $50,400, Completed in 1.5 years • Must have established Chinese contacts • Chinese Culture and Society (9/28) • Planning meetings, Workshops, Conferences • Up to $25,000 • At least one scholar from Taiwan

22. Clearance • Any application for external funding to a corporation, foundation, or association MUST go through Corporate/Foundation Relations • Call me if you want to submit: • 865.5567