Funding

ARI funding allocations are made annually in the following categories:

System Funding

• Available to qualified CSU faculty through a peer-reviewed competitive process
• Requires submission of a pre-proposal.
• Requires an off-campus collaboration.
• Requests for full proposals will be based on a pre-proposal evaluation and ranking by the Deans’ Council and the Executive Director.
• Funding requests must be for not less than $75,000 and not more than $150,000.
• Must include at a minimum a one-to-one, “project-related” external match. At least 25 percent of the minimum required match must be a documented cash match.

Campus Funding

• Available to all qualified campus faculty on a peer-reviewed competitive basis.
• May be utilized to fund a variety of proposals that address local, regional, or statewide priority issues, including seed grant funding proposals.
• There is no minimum campus proposal funding request limitation. Seed grants, for example, are typically single-year proposals that request $5,000 to $10,000 and often do not require an external match. They are generally used to fund new faculty research start-up projects or innovative research projects that address evolving technology and/or issues of an extraordinarily high priority.
• Funding requests may not exceed $150,000 annually.
• Must include at a minimum a one-to-one external match. External match is generally expected for all campus proposals, and project directors are highly encouraged to aggressively pursue “project-related” external donor funding. At least 25 percent of the minimum required match must be a documented cash match.