How to Seek Stimulus Bill Funding

The president and provost have appointed six work teams [insert link] to examine the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (aka the Stimulus Bill). The work teams will develop a list of priority projects for which the university will seek funding.

1. To be considered for this list, proposals must be submitted to the work teams through your dean.
2. All proposals requesting stimulus funding must be clearly identified on the Proposal Clearance Form by inserting “ARRA” as the agency program number (item 4).
3. For open submissions, supplements, renewal funding, no cost extensions, etc., follow the normal grant routing process; a fully signed Proposal Clearance Form is required for each submission.
4. Any construction or space remodeling requests must be pre-approved by the administration and included on the capital projects list at the time of request.
5. Guidelines for programs with a limited number of submissions are modified slightly from the Research Handbook (Section 2.5): Each dean may nominate a number of proposals equal to the total number allowable by the institution. Those nominations will then be sent to the Director of Sponsored Programs who will review and submit the package to the appropriate work team for recommendation. The recommendations will be referred to Grants Management and the selected PIs will need to follow the same internal routing procedures described above.
6. You may be asked to provide additional information for sharing with the Kentucky congressional delegation, using a standard form (for consistency). These forms must be routed through the Government Relations Office for approval by the university administration.