American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)
As with other ARRA webpages, we are adding information as it becomes available. Please stop back often to review the latest content throughout Yale's ARRA website.
YALE PROCEDURES and INSTRUCTIONS: Responding to Recovery Act
Funding Opportunities
- If you receive a JIT request indicating possible funding via the Recovery Act, the GCAlert! Week of February 23-27, issue 6 provides instructions enabling you to respond quickly...
GCAlert! The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Stimulus Funding: Impacts on Yale (2/27/09) - February 24, 2009 e-mail from the
Executive Director of
Grant & Contract Administration,
concerning forthcoming Recovery Act funding.
To the Faculty and Business Office Staff:
As many of you have probably heard, on Tuesday, February 17, 2009, President Obama signed the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), the economic stimulus, into law. Under this act NIH, NSF and other science agencies will receive substantial funding in support of ARRA’s mission to have a short-term impact on job creation and a long-term effect on investments of value and transparency.
The NIH will receive $10.4 billion to be spent by September 30, 2010. Most of the funding will be allocated to three buckets: 1) The R01 and related mechanism that will fund a portion of the 14,000 applications that were approved for funding in FY 2008 but unfunded, 2) administrative as well as competitive supplements to existing grants 3) and two year NIH Challenge grants in areas of NIH Institute priorities. There will also be opportunities for equipment and construction projects.
Today we learned that one of our peer institutions received its first letter indicating that a grant application had been selected as a candidate to receive funding under the 2009 (ARRA). To be considered for possible funding, the institution was required to send a full categorical two-year budget within 3-5 business days and to meet other Just in Time requirements. I am sure that Yale investigators will be receiving similar letters. In order to be prepared, investigators must be ready to act quickly. More importantly, they must ensure that all compliance documents (HIC, IACUC, COI, etc) are current so that the awards can be set up rapidly. In addition, investigators accepting awards must commit to spending the funds by the end of the federal fiscal year 2010 and to the quarterly reporting that will be required on all funds dispensed through this mechanism.
We have been told that the NSF received $3 billion and will emphasize funding for highly ranked but unfunded applications, making their timeframe for awards similar to that of the NIH. Other science agencies have not yet released plans for using the funds they have received.
We will be adding new information to our website at http://www.yale.edu/grants/funding_info/ARRA.html as it becomes available, but in light of the speed with which the first awards are being implemented we wanted you to be aware that the notices are coming and that very rapid responses will be needed.
Penrhyn (Penny) Cook
Director of Grant and Contract Administration
February 24, 2009
Last update:
March 18, 2009
(MS)
