NEELY FOUNDATION GRANT PROGRAM
FOR GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH
SUMMER 2013
Please complete all applicable portions of this application (including required attachments) and upload via the online scholarship portal. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Note: These funds are intended to be used by Graduate students in the School of Sustainability or Undergraduate sustainability majors engaged in Capstone Project or Honors Thesis work.
I. GENERAL INFORMATION:
NAME: (Last, First) / ASU ID #:ASU EMAIL ADDRESS: / PHONE #:
Please complete this section if you are an undergraduate student:
DEGREE:BA BS / LEVEL:
Junior Senior / TRACK (IF DECLARED):
GPA IN SOS COURSES: / CUMULATIVE GPA: / TOTAL HOURS COMPLETED: / ESTIMATED GRADUATION (TERM AND YEAR):
Please complete this section if you are a graduate student:
DEGREE:MA MS PhD / YEAR IN THE PROGRAM:
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th + / IF MA/MS, ARE YOU PURSUING:
Thesis Non-Thesis
IF PHD, HAVE YOU ADVANCED TO CANDIDACY?
Yes No
When did you or when do you plan to? / CUMULATIVE GPA: / ESTIMATED GRADUATION (TERM AND YEAR):
II. PROJECT TITLE & LOCATION: (15 words or less)
III. PROPOSAL NARRATIVE: (Please attach your proposal)
Submit a proposal of no more than two (2) typed pages (double-spaced, 12-point font, 1 inch margins) outlining the project objectives and the proposed methodology to be used.
Identify the primary food system/agricultural sustainability issue or problem that your project/research is addressing, and show how your proposed activities that will be funded in this fellowship will help you address the problem. Set your work in the context of others (e.g., the literature) and/or contemporary conditions, challenges, events, or policies. Illustrate how the grant will help you further your professional objectives and will also address a key food system/sustainability concern. Identify any contacts that you have made in the field area that will help you achieve your objectives (you may attach a letter or other information to document contacts).
IV. RELEVANT COURSEWORK: (List courses that you have taken that are relevant to food and agricultural sustainability and/or methodological approaches that will be employed in project/research)
V. OTHER FUNDING (Please list any other applications for funding either pending or funded that will support this project – note the organization, the name of the fellowship/grant program, amount requested, and expected date of notification)
VI. MENTOR: (Note the name, title, and contact information of the faculty member who will be acting as your mentor on this project. It is also required that you submit a competed Mentor Commitment Form with this application.)
MENTOR’S NAME: (Last, First) / MENTOR’S TITLE:MENTOR’S ASU EMAIL ADDRESS: / MENTOR’S PHONE #:
VII. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: (Provide a brief biographical background. Include relevant information such as educational background, research interests, and professional goals. This information may be used in promotional materials should your application be selected. 100-150 words.)
VIII. CERTIFICATION: The signature below indicates that the information on this application is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge, and that I give my consent for ASU to release academic, financial and/or other information to the School of Sustainability for the purpose of selecting awardees. If submitting this application electronically please type your name and send the application from your ASU email address (we will consider this to be your electronic signature).
SIGNATURE: / DATE:NEELY FOUNDATION GRANT PROGRAM
MENTOR COMMITMENT FORM
2013-2014
We appreciate your commitment to serve as a mentor to Arizona State University students applying for the Neely Foundation Grant Program. Mentors play an integral role in helping students design a project, stay on track with the project goals, tracks expenses and achieve deliverables.
Mentors are encouraged to provide guidance as students draft their proposals and develop their ideas. Mentors will continue to support students over the course of the project if they receive the Neely Scholarship grant.
As a mentor, you agree to:
¨ Make yourself available to your student as they develop their project and assist them with budget development, if needed.
¨ Communicate with the student at least once per month to review progress on project implementation for the duration of the project, starting on the date the award monies are disbursed (expected in March 2013). Communications may occur via email, phone or in person visits.
¨ Alert the student to other funding sources and/or other resources that may assist with design and implementation.
As a mentor, if your student does not win an Neely Foundation Grant award you agree to:
¨ Review the student’s application.
¨ Offer suggestions about how the student might improve his/her project proposal.
¨ Alert the student to other funding sources and/or other resources that may assist with design and implementation.
By signing this agreement letter you have affirmed that you have read and understand the role of a mentor, and that you are willing to serve as a mentor to the Neely Scholarship Grant Program applicant named below. If you have any questions regarding the information presented in this document, please contact either: Jenny Carter () or Hayfa Aboukier ().
Applicant: This form must be completed and uploaded as part of the final scholarship application package. Failure to include this form will automatically disqualify your application. Application deadline: February 18, 2013.
Please print:
Applicant Name:Mentor’s Name: / Mentor’s Email:
Mentor Signature / Date / Applicant Signature / Date
NEELY FOUNDATION GRANT PROGRAM
APPLICATION CHECKLIST: Email a single Adobe Acrobat (.PDF) document that includes the following components by the deadline.
¨ Application form
¨ Two (2) typed pages (double-spaced, 12-point font, 1 inch margins) outlining the project objectives and the proposed methodology to be used
¨ Project budget (must be in budget template provided)
Failure to include all items will automatically disqualify your application. Application deadline: February 18, 2013 at 5:00 pm.