Deadline extended to March 1, 2009! Unleash your creativity!

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1 Deadline extended to March 1, 2009! Unleash your creativity! Looking for great ideas! Pacific is announcing a call for proposals for a new Innovation Grant Fund. This fund is available to fulltime members of the Pacific community - faculty, staff, and students. The goal is to create change that has a positive effect on student learning, service, or organizational performance. You are invited to submit a proposal to help enhance the University! What is innovation? Common definitions of innovation include: the introduction of something new; the first attempt to put an invention into practice; the successful exploitation of new ideas; using a tool in a new way; and change that creates a new definition of performance. What ever the approach, however small or large, you can make a difference. Get funding for your ideas. Innovation can be incremental, where something current is adapted or modified, or radical, involving completely new ideas, often disrupting regular patterns. The purpose of the Grant Fund is to inspire great ideas that help Pacific and most of all our students. Please read on and consider submitting a proposal.

2 Support for Innovation at Pacific. How can you make what you do better -- for students, staff, faculty -- for all of us? These mini innovation grants, minnovation call it, are one source to help Pacific implement some great ideas and begin to form a community of practice around innovation. Purpose. The Fund will help support Pacific Rising s commitment to innovation and creativity across the University. Strategic Direction 1 reads, Expand innovation in Innovation Grant Fund Basics academic programs through an ongoing innovation process, support to pedagogy and research and new education and service delivery models. Strategic Direction 2 reads, Enhance University administrative programs and services through innovation and creativity by targeting fundraising, increasing incentives and improving services and programs. Criteria for Awarding Grants. 1. The introduction of a new idea or using something in a new way; 2. the idea is put into practice, which creates change that has value; and 3. the change has a positive effect on student learning, service, or organizational performance. More details about the Innovation Grants The Innovation Grant Fund. The Innovation Grant Fund begins with $50,000 of base funding. One-time grants of $2,000 to $10,000 will be distributed each year to support innovation in all divisions on all three campuses. The grants will be distributed based on a simple yet competitive proposal and application process. The number and amount of grants may vary each year. Unused funds will be returned to the general Innovation Initiative Fund. Some examples. new program or service design improving or redesigning programs or services prototyping or piloting new programs, services, technologies, or learning delivery travel or training to support learning, exploration, or best practices that lead to innovation materials to support innovation design, development, prototyping, and implementation hiring replacement staff while individuals conduct mini-sabbaticals any creative idea that meets the criteria for innovation with value added for Pacific Awards. The Innovation Fund Award Committee reviews proposals and makes recommendations to the President s Cabinet to fund awards.

3 Call for Proposals Submitting the Proposal. Submitting a proposal is easy. Just review the proposal requirements and write a short, two page, less-than-500 word proposal. You can submit the proposal via to rbrodnick@pacific.edu or send a paper copy to the Office of the Provost. Be sure to include your name and your contact information as well as answer all of the questions. The Innovation Fund Award Committee (IFAC). An IFAC has sponsored this call for proposals and will make recommendations on which proposals should be funded each year. Future members of the IFAC will be selected from prior Innovation Grant winners. The committee will be composed of a member of each administrative division and at least one faculty member. Current members include: Cynthia Wagner Weick Scott Soder Gary Martin Joanna Royce-Davis Sondra Roeuny Robert Brodnick Dates and Deadlines. March 1, 2009: Innovation Grant Proposal deadline March 2009: IFAC reviews proposals April 2009: Innovation Awards announced May 2009: Funding Recipients meet to discuss projects July 2009: Funding distributed April 2010: Innovation Grant Action Reports due Responsibilities of Grant Winners. Grant winners will be asked to discuss the conditions of their proposals and address any impacts on their work environments with their supervisor and colleagues. The following conditions must be met for each award: 1. funds must be used for the purposes as outlined in the proposal; 2. each award recipient must submit a final report near the end of the funding year summarizing how funds were spent, what was learned and what resulted; 3. award recipients must participate in the Innovation Learning Communities for at least two meetings, and 4. submit a follow up evaluation report in the third year. Award recipients may also be invited to serve on future Innovation Fund Award Committees. Innovation Learning Communities. Meetings will be conducted as Innovation Learning Communities with prior and potential future recipients meeting to build on ideas. Those interested in submitting proposals in the future may wish to attend these meetings to ask questions and propose ideas for input. Innovations will be evaluated after three years for impact and sustainability. The goal is to deepen our community of practice around innovation! Receiving Funding. If you receive funding for a proposal, your grant notification will be forwarded to your direct supervisor and your Dean or Vice President for acceptance. You will be asked for an index code and the funds will be transfered to your department for your use before August 1.

4 Proposal Requirements Proposals should address each of the seven sets of questions below. Proposals should be no longer than 2 pages or about 500 words in length. Please submit your proposal electronically or on paper to: Robert Brodnick Office of the Provost Anderson Hall, 2nd Floor rbrodnick@pacific.edu Proposals are due on March 1 for consideration for one-time grants to be made the following fiscal year (July 1). The Innovation Fund Award Committee will consider proposals and announce award winners in April. Please be sure to include your name, address, telephone number, and the name of your direct supervisor. A. Background of Applicant Who is the applicant(s)? What motivated you to apply for this grant? B. Issue Identification What is the opportunity, problem, or need? Why is it important? C. Solution Selection What solution did you settle on? What are your measurable goals? D. Approaches/Methods What approaches and methods will be implemented to meet your goals? What is your plan of action? How much time will it take? E. Costs What are the specific costs of implementing your methods? What grant amount are you requesting (provide a detailed budget with brief narrative)? Are there alternatives to funding? F. Evaluation/Reporting In measurable terms, what are the outcomes you expect? What criteria or measures of success will you be tracking to determine if outcomes were reached? G. Return on Investment Summary How will your innovation have a positive effect on student learning, service, or organizational performance? How will the project be self-supporting after this initiative is done?

5 Award Committee Scoring PROJECT: RATER: RATE THE PROJECTS IN LIGHT OF EACH CRITERION USING THE FOLLOWING SCALE WITH 1 BEING STRONGLY DISAGREE AND 10 BEING STRONGLY AGREE: DISAGREE AGREE Please indicate your agreement with each statement The innovation does something novel, original, inventive (x3 weight) 2. The innovation is an improvement over what exists now (x2 weight) 3. The innovation can be implemented within one year 4. The innovation would benefit a large number of people 5. The innovation meets an existing or future need 6. The innovation appears to be feasible 7. The innovation impacts student learning, services or organizational performance (x3 weight) 8. The innovation shows capacity for sustainability, future development, and application 9. The budget for the project is fully explained and justified OVERALL RECOMMENDATION: Strongly recommend: Moderately recommend: Do not recommend: TOTAL POINTS: COMMENTS:

6 Innovation Grant Fund Call for Proposals January 2009