Applicant must notify ASF if they receive other award offers.

 ASF does not fun: travel for attendence at professional meetings, conferences, seminars, or conventions; performances or exhibitions; publication costs; equipment purchases, including personal computers, software, and cell phones; research assistants; institutional overhead costs; tuition fees from US home institution; foregone salary; supplementation of substantial sabbatical support; support for dependents; repayment of loans or other personal obligations; acquisition of language skills; study in programs especially designed for English-language students, or at English-language institutions; beginning studies in any subject; or retroactive program support.

Regions and countries currently supported by the program include Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Funding is not presently available for research on the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania).
The fellow's home institution is expected to make a cost-sharing contribution of no less than 10 percent of the fellowship award; in exceptional circumstances, this condition may be waived. Travel grants are available only to selected fellows and require additional application materials (e.g. travel budget) that must be approved before travel grants are awarded.

Fellows will not be able to hold two fellowships simultaneously if the Awards Terms & Conditions are contradictory. In addition, fellows may not receive more than a combined total of $30,000 throughout the tenure of the award (one academic year).

Tuition,stipend
The Fellow must inform the Program of other awards that s/he has been offered and may be asked to accept a total package that does not exceed full tuition, fees plus $30,000.

Research (general),Salary/stipend,Travel,Equipment,Technical Support,Other
Grant funds may be used for direct project expenses and/or to cover living expenses. Grant funds are intended to serve as seed money, not to cover the full cost of the project. Grant awards are not transferable between students and must be carried out by awarded applicant. Payments are dispersed at the beginning and at the end of project period. Grant funds must be distributed to an Administrative Office on campus to the attention of the appropriate administrator. All distributed funds must be allocated towards direct expenses or only up to 20% can be allocated towards indirect expenses.
Fellows are responsible for collecting documentation of project expenses, including associated receipts and invoices. Copies of documentation must be submitted to the Administrative Office and/or Fellowship Coordinator. Upon receipt and approval of the final report and expense documentation (or notice of receipt from the Administrative Office), final grant payment will be released.

Matching Funds
Climate Change is a major focus and priority is given to campuses that have have applied to earn the designation of NWF Climate Champion.
Some other funding source for the project is expected.

Awards are intended primarily to cover station fees at OTS field stations (food, lodging and station access). Other expenses that may be included in your budget, to a maximum of $500, are research and export permit fees, local travel, and and reimbursement in whole or in part of one round trip airline ticket. Major capital equipment will not be covered; minor amounts of materials and supplies may be considered, but are best covered by other sources of funds. Salaries or stipends for the investigator are not allowed, but salaries for field assistants will be considered if the work cannot be carried out safely or efficiently by one person.

Equipment, including computers, may NOT be purchased with NESSF funds. Government furnished equipment will not be provided. A NESSF budget should include itemization of the anticipated use of the grant funding.

Organizations must be in a start-up phase. To be considered a start-up, the applicant may have been running the organization full-time for approximately two years and Echoing Green's financial support should qualify it as a major/primary early funder.

Applicants must make a full-time commitment to the organization's development. A full-time commitment is defined as a minimum of 35 hours per week; it is expected that the fellow would resign from their current employment to dedicate themselves full-time to their initiative.

Applicants must commit to attending Echoing Green's training conferences, if selected as fellows. All new fellows attend a conference in July the year they are selected, as well as a November conference that year and for the next three years.

Grant awards require a minimum 1:1 match of cash or contributed goods and services (in-kind) and a match of over 2:1 is encouraged.

Grant funds cannot be used for political advocacy, fundraising, lobbying or litigation activities or to support projects resulting from legally mandated mitigation projects.  The Foundation cannot provide funds for general administrative overhead or indirect expenses.  If you are uncertain about categories of budget items which may or may not be funded, please contact Suzanne Sessine. 

CREES should be funder of last resort. When submitting the application, please attach copies of your requests to other UM funding sources.

One grant per year.

Policy is not to pay overhead, whether stated as overhead or as indirect cost. Funding is for one year of research and may not be renewed

For most awards, student must be a member of the American Society of Safety Engineers.

- salary, tuition, or living expenses for the applicant

- major travel, hotel costs, conference attendance, or organizational dues

- purchase of major equipment or furniture

- expenses incurred prior to faculty approval of dissertation proposal or after faculty approval of completed dissertation

Eligible activities include data-collection expenditures, such as the purchase of publications, duplication costs and online-search charges. Purchases of equipment are not allowable expenses.
 

Does not support conferences, travel to scientific meetings, legal actions, tuitions or salaries at institutions, and overhead costs.

Projects or programs that are primarily educational or recreational in nature or designed to increase or improve river access will NOT be considered. Proposals will be accepted for projects located in any county within the Muskegon River Watershed.

Project costs incurred after receipt of the proposal will not be reimbursed if the proposal is not approved for funding.

Ineligible for funding: routine expenses of the contributor; project management salary costs prior to grant execution; project planning and proposal development, including investigations to document the project's resource value; conservation education materials or salaries; fundraising; law enforcement; research; boat ramps, parking lots, roads, and other public access work; observation towers and blinds; routine operations and maintenance salaries and costs; building construction, repairs, and value of donated property; the value of existing residences, structures, and buildings unnecessary for wetland conservation purposes and the cost to construct, remove, or repair same; equipment acquisition in lieu of a more cost-effective means (e.g. renting, using equipment on hand); acquisition of vehicles; costs over the appraised value for fee-title and easement acquisitions; or short-term annual conservation activities, such as predator management.