The research grant is open to all qualified individual applicants for personal study, including faculty, independent scholars, and doctoral candidates, especially from universities and colleges in the Vincentian and Setonian tradition. Organizations and Institutions are also eligible to apply for funding.

Individual Applicants

If you are applying as an individual seeking a personal grant, and your application is approved for funding, you will be required to provide a social security number to DePaul University. This is done for tax purposes as the university is required to send you a 1099 form per Federal Tax Law. If you are a group of individuals seeking funding you will need to provide social security numbers for each person, and you will need to designate one person as the primary grant director. This individual will specify how the funds will be distributed among the group. 1099 forms will then be sent to each individual in the group for the dollar amount designated per person by the grant director.

Institutional / Organizational Applicants

If you are an organization seeking funding, and your application is approved, you will be required to provide a tax identification number for your institution. The contact information for your institutions Grant Program Director is also required. The director will be responsible for signing off on the application, along with any co-recipients, and for accepting the conditions of the grant in writing before the funds are released. This is particularly relevant should you be faculty/staff seeking salary reimbursement (or buy-out) for time devoted to research. In this case, your institution or organization must apply for the grant on your behalf and must provide the information detailed above.

1. A completed Application form, either Individual or Institutional (see forms).
2. Title and brief (3-5 page) description of the research project. This will include a list of repositories where research will be conducted, and a time line for completion of research.
3. A resume including academic standing, professional experience, and publications.
4. At least two letters of reference.

Personal Application and Institutional Application forms are available per request.

• The deadline for submitting an application is September 1st.
• Announcements will be made by October 31st.

Funding

Should your grant be accepted, the Vincentian Studies Institute reserves the right to offer partial or conditional funding. This includes specifying a later date of funding based upon monies available to the Vincentian Studies Institute Grant Program for a given year.

Reporting

A brief progress report will be required midway through the project, and a more substantial final report at the completion. Depending on the length and nature of the grant other reporting may be required.

Publication

Grant recipients are encouraged to submit an article, monograph, or book based on their research for publication in Vincentian Heritage, the journal of the Vincentian Studies Institute or a part of the Institute’s publication series.. Ordinarily, the Vincentian Studies Institute holds first right of publication on a resulting research.

Information:
To apply, or for more information, contact Mr. Nathaniel Michaud, Vincentian Studies Institute, 2350 North Kenmore Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 60614; phone: 773/325-7348; fax: 773/325-7279; e-mail: nmichaud@depaul.edu ; website: http://vsi.depaul.edu