The Pac-12 Student-Athlete Health and Well-Being Grant Program

Limited program for all Stanford faculty with PI eligibility; a university-wide internal selection process is required. The Pac-12 Conference (“Pac-12”) offers grant funding to directly support the advancement of Pac-12 student-athlete health and well-being and has made it a priority to utilize funded project results to develop best practices for general improvements in these areas.  Please contact rmg_communications@stanford.edu RFP and Application Form.

Internal proposal deadline: August 1, 2022 (see the internal submission guidelines below)
For the 3 applicants selected:
Pre-Proposal (Letter of Intent) deadline: August 15, 2022
Those invited to submit a full proposal will be notified by September 15, 2022
Institutional representative (RPM/RMG or CGO/OSR): October 7, 2022
Full proposal deadline: October 14, 2022

The Pac-12 Student-Athlete Health and Well-Being Grant Program

Standard grant: A STANDARD GRANT is a type of grant in which the Pac-12 agrees to provide a specific level of support for a specified period of time with no statement of Pac-12 intent to provide additional future support or without expectation of submission of another proposal.  There is no dollar limit, however, we encourage projects generally under $150,000/annually, including indirect costs (20%).

Exploratory/Bridge grant:  An EXPLORATORY/BRIDGE GRANT is a type of grant similar to NIH R-21 grants which are used to fund preliminary studies, exploratory, or development-based projects that would have large growth potential with a high likelihood of other federal support. This grant would lead to submission of a larger, NIH R01 award or similar federal agency award in the future.  Exploratory/bridge grants are limited to two years at $200K/yr., including indirect costs (20%).

• Stanford faculty with PI eligibility (with UTL, UML, and NTL-Research appointments) are eligible to apply.
• Investigators must be employed by a current Pac-12 member institution or an organization that is directly affiliated with a Pac-12 member institution, and must meet their employer’s requirements for such status.

The purpose of the Grant Program is to improve the health, general well-being, and safety of student-athletes at all Pac-12 member institutions. The Grant Program’s primary focus areas included in the attachment.  Although this is not an exclusive Grant Program focus list, priority will be given to those projects targeted at the focus areas below.  Priority also will be given to projects that are the result of collaboration amongst multiple Pac-12 member institutions, are translational in nature, and will have direct and significant impact to student-athletes as a result of the project. Projects should not duplicate other work funded by the Pac-12 Grants Program. Prior grant awardees and their projects may be found at: Pac-12 Grant Program - Prior Awardees.

By August 1, 2022, please submit one PDF file containing the following (in the order listed below) via email attachment to: 

Mr. Anthony Pass
Director, Athletic Training
apass@stanford.edu

File name: Last name_PAC-12.pdf

Institutional representative: not applicable. You do not need to submit your internal proposals through your RPM/RMG or you CGO/OSR for their approval. You may submit them directly to Mr. Anthony Pass.

1) Title page
The Pac-12 Student-Athlete Health and Well-Being Grant Program
Title of proposal: "Topic of interest: ....."
Please begin the title of your project with your topic/priority area (i.e., Head Trauma)
PI name, title, department, address, email address
Co-PIs title, department, address, email address
The title page should be in the above format. Please do not include an introductory note.

2) Brief Project Summary (limit to 300 words)
PIs are strongly encouraged to use plain language understandable to a lay audience outside of the research field. 

3) Project description (limit 3 pages)
Format: use 11 or 12-point Arial or Helvetica font and 1" margins, single-spaced. References and figures are not included in the page total.

4) NIH Biosketches for the PI and each Co-PI (if applicable)

Selection Process:
Stanford proposals will be reviewed by an internal review committee formed by Stanford's PAC-12 institutional contact, Anthony Pass, Director, Athletic Training.

Institutional representative: not applicable. You do not need to send your internal proposal to your RPM/RMG or your CGO/OSR for institutional review and approval. For inquiries regarding the internal selection process, please contact:

Mr. Anthony Pass
Director, Athletic Training
apass@stanford.edu