Federal Relations Seeks Your Assistance in Establishing New Resource
BU’s Foundation Relations team is creating a new grant-seeking resource for BU faculty: an informal database of foundation-related service. They are reaching out to faculty (particularly senior faculty ) across the University to find out if they’ve served in some capacity—e.g., scientific advisory board member, proposal reviewer—which has given them insight into that funder. They would then connect faculty interested in applying to that funder with the faculty member with insights. Only the Foundation Relations team will have access to this database, which they would use to connect faculty when the opportunity arises.
If you have performed any foundation-related service, would you be willing to be included in this database? If so, please send the following information, at your convenience, to Foundation Relations associate director Cecilia Lalama (clalama@bu.edu). This information will be of tremendous value to emerging scholars seeking external support!
- Name of funder
- Type of service
- Years of service
To learn more about the many supports that Foundation (and Federal) Relations provide to faculty members seeing external funding, please attend a CISS-sponsored workshop on Wednesday May 1 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in the CISS conference room 5th floor, 704 Commonwealth Ave).