Limited Submissions
In limited submission opportunities, the sponsor restricts the number of applications or proposals an institution can submit. WSU initiates an internal screening process to determine which application(s) will be approved for submission to the sponsor.
Cover Letter
You must fill out a Cover Letter to apply for a limited submission opportunity.
If you have missed the internal deadline, please contact or.orap.servicedesk@wsu.edu. In the event that no other cover letters were received, you may be approved to proceed with a proposal to the agency.
What happens after you apply for a Limited Submission?
- After you complete the cover letter, the Office of Research Advancement and Partnerships is notified.
- Once the internal deadline has passed, you may be contacted and asked to provide more information if the limitation of applicants has been exceeded.
- That information will be sent to internal reviewers.
- They will select the proposal that is the best fit for the agency.
- The Office of Research Advancement will then notify all applicants. The recipient will receive an official letter to move forward.
- If you were not asked to provide any additional information, the Office of Research Advancement and Partnerships will email you an official letter to move forward.
Information Pages
ORAP maintains information pages and specific internal applications for the following limited submission programs that frequently require internal competitions. For questions regarding these or any other limited submission program, contact us at or.orap.servicedesk@wsu.edu.
The Office of Research Advancement and Partnerships has curated a list, updated weekly, from our Pivot database of limited submission opportunities.
To receive more personalized funding opportunities, we encourage you to create a profile in Pivot to have a list delivered weekly to your in-box. Please reach out to us at or.orap.servicedesk@wsu.edu if you require assistance with Pivot or with developing your proposal.
Updated: Week of 9/2/2024| Title | Internal Deadline | Amount | Abstract |
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| Workforce Development Leadership Award LIMITED: You must submit an internal cover letter | 9/9/2024 | Up to one award will be given annually in this category. Awardees will be invited to present their programs at the next Summer CUTC meeting. | The CUTC Workforce Development Leadership Award recognizes outstanding leadership in designing and delivering workforce development programs. The following evaluation criteria will be used: Clear description of the program and its design. Evidence of a clear purpose of the program, how it was conceived and designed, the delivery mechanisms, the target audience, and how feedback was collected. Demonstrated excellence in workforce development. The Workforce Development Leadership Award is focused on, but not be limited to, enhancing workforce competencies and skills, engaging future leaders in transportation related challenges by working with K-12 as well as college undergraduate programs, and assisting in training the future generation of transportation professional that can help our profession. Evidence that might be used to show excellence could include program evaluations by the recipients of the program, demonstrated application and effectiveness of the workforce development program, and other tangible measures showing the impact on the transportation profession. Contributions to development of collaborative partnerships. Evidence of forging new collaborations between CUTC institutions and other institutions (for example, public agencies, high schools, industry, etc.) that have the potential for sustained impact on the profession. Potential for scalability and transferability. Description of how the program may be replicated at other institutions and locales, by demonstrating ability to scale, ability to transfer, and ability to access program materials for use by other institutions. |
| Tribal Pesticide Program Council (TPPC) Technical Support LIMITED: You must submit an internal cover letter | 9/13/2024 | $1,075,000 | The Tribal Pesticide Program Council (TPPC) was formed in 1999 as a forum for Tribes and Alaska Native Villages to present their pesticide issues and concerns to EPA, and to discuss approaches for resolving them at the national level. The TPPC also provides Tribes and Alaska Native Villages an opportunity to provide input in developing policies that would strengthen their pesticide programs, provide guidance for Tribes that do not have such programs, and provide networking opportunities and support for Tribal pesticide regulators. The TPPC serves as a Tribal counterpart to the State-FIFRA Issues Research and Evaluation Group (SFIREG). The TPPC includes approximately 32 authorized representatives from about 27 federally recognized Tribes and Indian nations and Intertribal organizations. The TPPC is governed by an 11-member elected Executive Committee (EC), and an elected Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson. |
| Leadership Development for Mid-Level Managers LIMITED: You must submit an internal cover letter | 9/16/2024 | $150,000 | NIC is seeking an instructional design practitioner(s) to revise and refresh an in-house curriculum for the Leadership Development for Mid-Level Managers course (see https://nicic.gov/leadership-developmentmid-level-managers-virtual-instructor-led-vilt-series), a multi-session virtual instructor-led series, into a comprehensive “hand-off”-level curriculum package. The body of work to be completed for this project includes comprehensive “hand-off”-level curriculum package development and attend and audit one pilot virtual delivery to a class of 25 mid-level managers who are representative of NIC’s corrections customer base. |
| CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers Award LIMITED: You must submit an internal cover letter | 9/17/2024 | $1,500 | The CRA Undergraduate Research Awards (“URA”) program recognizes undergraduate students in North American colleges and universities who show outstanding potential in an area of computing research. While it is expected that successful nominees will have excellent academic records and will have engaged in some form of service (e.g., club leadership, teaching, peer tutoring), excellence in research is the primary consideration. In addition to recognizing excellence in undergraduate research, CRA is committed to broadening the participation of individuals in traditionally underrepresented groups in computing fields. CRA recognizes that students in different academic environments have different opportunities for research. The selection committee will consider these factors in its evaluation; nominations can describe these factors in nominees’ personal statements or recommenders’ letters. CRA strongly encourages departments to consider all aspects of diversity when selecting their nominees. |
| Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America - Technical Assistance Provider LIMITED: You must submit an internal cover letter | 9/17/2024 | The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2025 for Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. –Technical Assistance Provider (TAP) (HRSA-25-064) and Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. – Systems Coordination Provider (SCP) (HRSA-25-065). The overall purpose of this notice of funding opportunity is to undertake a series of activities to support the recipients of Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. – Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Parts A and B (HRSA-25-063) in meeting the goals of the Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. (hereafter referred to as the “EHE initiative”). The EHE initiative has four key strategies: Diagnose, Treat, Prevent, and Respond. The Technical Assistance Provider (HRSA-25-064) is responsible for providing technical assistance (TA) to the recipients of HRSA-25-063 on implementation of work plan activities, innovative approaches, and interventions. |
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| Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. – Systems Coordination Provider LIMITED: You must submit an internal cover letter | 9/17/2024 | The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2025 for Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. –Technical Assistance Provider (TAP) (HRSA-25-064) and Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. – Systems Coordination Provider (SCP) (HRSA-25-065). The overall purpose of this notice of funding opportunity is to undertake a series of activities to support the recipients of Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. – Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Parts A and B (HRSA-25-063) in meeting the goals of the Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. (hereafter referred to as the “EHE initiative”). The EHE initiative has four key strategies: Diagnose, Treat, Prevent, and Respond. The Systems Coordination Provider (HRSA-25-065) is responsible for assisting HRSA-25-063 recipients in collaborating, coordinating, and integrating their EHE initiative plans, funding sources, and programs with the existing HIV care delivery systems. In addition, the Systems Coordination Provider will assist in identifying existing and new stakeholders, as well as collate and disseminate best practices, innovative approaches, and interventions identified by the TAP that will advance recipients’ progress in meeting the goals of the EHE initiative. |
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| Combating Sports Corruption LIMITED: You must submit an internal cover letter | 9/18/2024 | $2,000,000 | The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a project to build capacity for specialized prosecutors, State and Federal financial intelligence units, regulators, and other stakeholders to counter corruption and financial crime related to corruption in sports. The project will seek to create and improve procedures and/or investigative techniques on anti-corruption and anti-money laundering related to sports. In addition, this project will facilitate more effective collaboration between specialized prosecutors' offices, financial intelligence units, sport’s governing bodies (e.g. Olympic committee, sports federations), and government agencies that regulate sports and sports betting. |
| VentureWell Ecosystem Futures Fellowship LIMITED: You must submit an internal cover letter | 9/18/2024 | $35,000 | Lead the future of innovation at your higher education institution with the VentureWell Ecosystem Futures Fellowship. This new fellowship is an evolution of our Course & Program Grants that focuses on scalable science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) ecosystem solutions through the lens of environmental and social sustainability and inclusive innovation. This program offers professional development, immersive learning experiences, and a supportive community of leaders. It enhances the role of faculty and higher education leaders as ecosystem builders in partnership with industry and government. |
| Central Coordinating Site for the Polycystic Kidney Disease Research Core Centers (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) LIMITED: You must submit an internal cover letter | 9/19/2024 | $350,000 | This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) requests applications for the Central Coordinating Site for the Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Core Centers. The Central Coordinating Site is expected to work collaboratively with the PKD Core Centers as part of the PKD Research Resource Consortium (PKD RRC) and serve as a national resource for the larger research community. The Central Coordinating Site will provide central administrative and communications support, and oversee data sharing for the PKD RRC. The Central Coordinating Site will also administer a Pilot and Feasibility Award program. All activities within the PKD RRC are expected to address the overall goal of improving our understanding of the pathogenesis, progression, prevention and clinical course of PKD through enhanced sharing of resources and establishment of a robust national research community. This NOFO is a companion announcement to RFA-DK-25-016: Polycystic Kidney Disease Core Centers (U54). This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) requires a Plan for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives (PEDP). |
| Cancer Prevention Clinical Trials Network (CP-CTNet): CP-CTNet Sites (UG1 Clinical Trial Required) LIMITED: You must submit an internal cover letter | 9/19/2024 | $1,375,000 | Through this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) proposes and will support the Cancer Prevention Clinical Trials Network (CP-CTNet) sites, for which the goals are as follows:
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| NSF National Resource Coordination Center on Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) LIMITED: You must submit an internal cover letter | 9/19/2024 | $7,500,000 | NSF seeks proposals to create an NSF National Resource Coordination Center on Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) (IUSE Center) that will be an intellectual partner to the IUSE: EDU community and NSF. Working in concert with the IUSE: EDU program, the goal of the IUSE Center is to serve as a focal point and intellectual partner for the IUSE: EDU community. The objectives of the IUSE Center are to:
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| Landscape Scale Restoration Grant Program - Northeast and Midwest LIMITED: You must submit an internal cover letter | 9/20/2024 | $600,000 | The State, Private, and Tribal Forestry (SPTF) Landscape Scale Restoration (LSR) Program purpose is: “To encourage collaborative, science-based restoration of priority forest landscapes.” As noted in the Landscape Scale Restoration Manual (FSM 3800), this competitive grant program supports “high impact projects that lead to measurable outcomes on the landscape, leverage public and private resources, and further priorities identified in each State Forest Action Plan or equivalent restoration strategy.” The project scale must be the most appropriate size based on the land ownerships and desired outcomes for the landscape, and may result in single, multistate, or cross-regional implementation. |
| Landscape Scale Restoration Grant Program - West LIMITED: You must submit an internal cover letter | 9/20/2024 | $300,000 | The purpose of the Landscape Scale Restoration competitive grant program is to encourage collaborative, science-based restoration of priority rural forest landscapes. This program supports high impact projects that lead to measurable outcomes on the landscape, leverage public and private resources, and further priorities identified in a State Forest Action Plan or equivalent science-based restoration strategy. |
| Knowledge SUCCESS II LIMITED: You must submit an internal cover letter | 9/20/2024 | $50,000,000 | The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking applications for a cooperative agreement from qualified entities to implement the Knowledge SUCCESS II program. Progress towards USAID’s Bureau for Global Health (GH) goals require effective knowledge management (KM), defined as the process of generating, curating, organizing, sharing, and using knowledge to create value or support decision-making in context. Effective KM increases impact, realizes efficiencies, and helps achieve development outcomes. The goal of Knowledge SUCCESS II is to advance progress towards the institutionalization of KM at global and local levels that is accessible and tailored to the needs of relevant stakeholders and equitably engages marginalized groups across FP/RH and other the global health communities. USAID offices investing in this activity will include the Office of Population and Reproductive Health (PRH) in the GH Bureau and may include other GH Bureau Offices, Regional Bureaus, and Missions. |
| Journalism Award Program - Photojournalism LIMITED: You must submit an internal cover letter | 9/24/2024 | $25,000 | This competition is journalism. The content may not be digitally altered significantly beyond standard optimization as in cropping, reasonable adjustments to exposure, color and contrast, etc. Photo Competitions: Photojournalism I: News and Features An entry consists of a minimum of four images (at least two news and two features) and a maximum of eight images. News: breaking news, general news or news photos relating to sporting events. Features: features, portraits, sports, documentary photography. Photojournalism II: Picture Story/Series – Visual Journalism Each entry must include one picture story/series (still images) with up to fifteen images on any subject. Optional: entrant may include a video that contains the images submitted in the picture story, not to exceed 60 seconds. Nat sound or dialog is acceptable, but not necessary. National Photojournalism Championship This event is open to the two first-place winners in photo I and photo II (unless graduated the previous year) and three finalists with the next highest scores or accumulated scores from comps I and II. |
| Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships LIMITED: You must submit an internal cover letter | 9/25/2024 | $30,000,000 | The Science and Technology Centers (STC): Integrative Partnerships program supports exceptionally innovative, complex research and education projects that require large-scale, long-term awards. STCs focus on creating new scientific paradigms, establishing entirely new scientific disciplines, and developing transformative technologies which have the potential for broad scientific or societal impact. STCs conduct world-class research through partnerships among institutions of higher education, national laboratories, industrial organizations, other public or private entities, and via international collaborations, as appropriate. They provide a means to undertake potentially groundbreaking investigations at the interfaces of disciplines and/or highly innovative approaches within disciplines. STCs may involve any area of science and engineering that NSF supports. STC investments support the NSF vision of creating and exploiting new concepts in science and engineering and providing global leadership in research and education. Centers provide a rich environment for encouraging scientists, engineers, and educators to take risks in pursuing discoveries and new knowledge. STCs foster excellence in education by integrating education and research, and by creating connections between learning and inquiry so that discovery and creativity fully support the learning process. |
| Moore Inventor Fellows LIMITED: You must submit an internal cover letter | 9/27/2024 | $675,000 | The Moore Inventor Fellows fellowship focuses on supporting scientist-inventors at a critical prototyping stage to capture opportunities that otherwise might be missed. We seek to provide freedom and support to promising inventors with the most compelling ideas to pursue creative and disruptive innovations. The scope of this call is intentionally wide: proposed projects do not need to fall within our current funding priorities but should be broadly within the program areas of foundation interest (science, environmental conservation and patient care). Patient care inventions should resonate with our focus on improving the experience and outcomes of patients with solutions that improve clinical diagnosis. |
| Carter Manny Award LIMITED: You must submit an internal cover letter | 9/27/2024 | $25,000 | The Carter Manny Award supports the completion of outstanding doctoral dissertations on architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The only predoctoral award dedicated exclusively to architectural scholarship, the Carter Manny Award recognizes emerging scholars whose work promises to challenge and reshape contemporary discourse and impact the field at large. Eligible dissertation projects must focus on architecture, though scholarly investigations may be grounded in a range of academic disciplines and fields of inquiry that align with the mission of the Graham Foundation. These include: architecture and architectural history; art and art history; design; engineering; landscape architecture; urbanism; and other related fields. Given the Graham Foundation’s interest in identifying the most promising dissertation projects, the following criteria are taken into consideration during the application review. The Graham Foundaiton is primarily interested in projects that are original and have the potential to impact the field of architecture:
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| NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory - Quantum Testbeds LIMITED: You must submit an internal cover letter | 10/01/2024 | $2,000,000 | With this program solicitation, the Foundation is taking the next step in implementing the National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL) concept as an overarching shared infrastructure designed to facilitate the translation from basic science and engineering to the resultant technology, while at the same time emphasizing and advancing its scientific and technical value. The NQVL aims to develop and utilize use-inspired and application-oriented quantum technologies. In the process, NQVL researchers will explore quantum frontiers6, foster the development of QISE education and workforce development strategies, engage in outreach activities at all levels, and promote input and participation from the full spectrum of diverse talent in QISE, thereby lowering barriers at all entry points of the research enterprise. Engagement with all sectors of the United States (U.S.) QISE community will be necessary for this initiative to succeed, and, indeed, the project is designed to include participation from a full spectrum of organizations who have expertise to contribute. In particular, NSF recognizes that the involvement of industry partners is essential and will welcome these to be a part of the overall structure. Partnerships with other U.S. Federal agencies under the NQI umbrella are also encouraged. |
| Journalism Award Program - Television LIMITED: You must submit an internal cover letter | 10/1/2024 | $25,000 | Television Competitions Television Competition I: Features Entries must be non-deadline reporting of personalities, events, or issues. Entries may be based on but not limited to public affairs, business, investigations, science, sports or weather. Each entry must consist of at least two reports totaling no more than ten minutes. The reports may be part of a longer newscast, but the entry itself is limited to ten minutes. Television Competition II: News Entries must be based on coverage of breaking or developing news stories related to campus, community, national or international issues, sports, business, investigative, science, weather or other current newsworthy matters. Reports must have a hard news focus, regardless of subject. Each entry must consist of at least two reports totaling no more than ten minutes. The reports may be part of a longer newscast, but the entry itself is limited to ten minutes. |
| Journalism Award Program - Multimedia LIMITED: You must submit an internal cover letter | 10/2/2024 | $25,000 | An entry must have been posted on the web and the entrant must have completed at least three of the following components: writing, photos, audio slideshows, video, animation, graphics or any other visual tools. Entrants also could have used social media, including blogging. Entries must be journalism, and may not include dramatization, and are defined as a single piece of journalism executed essentially by one journalist. Multimedia Competitions Competition One: Narrative Video Storytelling Entries consist of a story on any topic that is told through the medium of video for a digital audience. Judges will consider the uniqueness of presentation, how the work incorporates digital storytelling techniques and the impact and strength of the journalism produced. NEW! Competition Two: Innovative Journalism Entries demonstrate original reporting and storytelling using immersive digital tools and techniques. Stories should use emerging media that allow for innovative journalistic approaches. Examples of such tools include (but are not limited to) virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, 360 video, AI, data visualization and animation. Entries should include a short statement that explains how the entry fits this category. Judges will consider the quality of the journalism, innovative use of digital tools and techniques, originality. Competition Three: Digital News or Enterprise Story – Individual Entries consist of individual reporting based on a single news event or enterprise or explanatory journalism around a newsworthy event or issue. Each entry must consist of at least three components that, together, tell the story. Components may include writing, photographs, audio, video, graphics, data, emerging media and social media. Judges will consider the newsworthiness of the topic, range and execution of digital techniques employed and the quality of the journalism. Competition Four: Digital News or Enterprise Story – Team Entries consist of team reporting based on a single news event or enterprise or explanatory journalism around a newsworthy event or issue. Each entry must consist of at least three components that, together, tell the story. Components may include writing, photographs, audio, video, graphics, data, emerging media and social media. Judges will consider the newsworthiness of the topic, range and use of digital tools and techniques employed, and the quality of the journalism. Entries may not include dramatization and must have been published on the web. National Multimedia Championship This event is open to five selected finalists: the first-place winners from competitions I, II, III (unless graduated) plus two high-scoring individuals from these competitions. |
| Walter Byers Graduate Scholarship LIMITED: You must submit an internal cover letter | 10/4/2024 | $24,000 | In 1988, the National Collegiate Athletic Association established the Walter Byers Scholarship as a means of recognizing the contributions of the former executive director through encouraging excellence in academic performance by student-athletes. Annually, one male and one female student-athlete are awarded a Walter Byers scholarship in recognition of outstanding academic achievement and potential for success in graduate study. It is intended that an individual named a Byers Scholar will be recognized as one who has combined the best elements of mind and body to achieve national distinction for his or her achievements, and promises to be a future leader in his or her chosen field of career service. |
| NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Program LIMITED: You must submit an internal cover letter | 10/4/2024 | $10,000 | The NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship was created in 1964 to promote and encourage graduate education by rewarding the Association's most accomplished student-athletes through their participation in NCAA championship and/or emerging sports. Athletics and academic achievements, campus involvement, community service, volunteer activities and demonstrated leadership are evaluated. An equitable approach is employed in reviewing an applicant's nomination form to provide all student-athlete nominees an opportunity to receive the graduate award, regardless of sport, division, gender or race. In maintaining the highest broad-based standards in the selection process, the program aims to reward those individuals whose dedication and effort are reflective of those characteristics necessary to succeed and thrive through graduate study. |
| Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes (QLCI) LIMITED: You must submit an internal cover letter | 10/25/2024 | Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes are large-scale interdisciplinary research projects motivated by major challenges at the frontiers of quantum information science and technology (QIST). Institutes are expected to catalyze breakthroughs on important problems underpinning QIST, for example in the focus areas of quantum computation, quantum communication, quantum simulation and/or quantum sensing. Successful institutes will coordinate a variety of approaches to specific scientific, technological, and educational goals in these fields, including multiple institutions and building upon multiple disciplines, as motivated by the science and engineering challenges. In so doing, Institutes will nurture a culture of discovery, provide education, training, and workforce development opportunities in the context of cutting-edge research, and demonstrate value-added from synergistic coordination within the institute and with the broader community. Partnerships, infrastructure, industry engagement, outreach, international collaboration, and new applications for QIST should be fostered by Institutes in support of their research, education, and coordination goals. |