{"id":156,"date":"2024-05-29T22:31:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foundations\/?page_id=156"},"modified":"2025-07-17T16:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T20:47:12","slug":"for-early-career-faculty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foundations\/for-early-career-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"For Early-Career Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>\u201cThis was my first experience submitting a grant where I felt so at ease and fully supported throughout the process. \u202fI really appreciate everything you have done.\u201d \u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>\u2014<strong>Jingyan Han<\/strong>, Assistant Professor, Medicine<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">How Foundation Relations Can Help<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">BU\u2019s Foundation Relations team can support you in various ways as you begin your career as an independent faculty member. We support faculty in several ways.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Creating Early-Career Funding Roadmaps:<\/strong> comprehensive lists of private and federal funding opportunities customized to your field of research and years of eligibility. These tables allow faculty to see at a glance which programs to apply to and when. You can request a roadmap by contacting the Foundation Relations team member who supports your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foundations\/contact-us\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">academic unit<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>\u201cThank you very much for creating this roadmap for me. This is absolutely phenomenal!\u201d \u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>\u2014<strong>Sanne Verschuren<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of International Security<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Identifying<\/strong> funding programs aligned with your research, in part by drawing from our database of thousands of requests for proposals (RFPs).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Connecting<\/strong> you to program officers and others (e.g., previous awardees) who can provide you with insights about funding programs.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Collaborating<\/strong> with you in the LOI and proposal development process by outlining requirements, editing narrative sections, drafting letters of support, providing institutional information, populating application portals, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>\u201cThanks for the extensive proofreading and many excellent comments. Surely this will make the proposal stand out!\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>\u2014<strong>Adriana Tomic<\/strong>, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Virology, Immunology &amp; Microbiology<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Resources Designed For You<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Some foundation funding programs focused on early-career faculty are listed below.<\/strong> For additional opportunities, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/funding-grants\/finding-funding\/external-funding-opportunities\/funding-opportunities-for-early-career-investigators\/\">this listing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis was my first experience submitting a grant where I felt so at ease and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11263,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":16,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"bu-landing","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foundations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foundations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foundations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foundations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foundations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foundations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1231,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foundations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156\/revisions\/1231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foundations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}