The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindberg Foundation is offering grants of up to $10,580 (which is a symbolic amount representing the cost of the Spirit of St. Louis) to men and women whose individual initiative and work in a wide spectrum of disciplines furthers the Lindberghs’ vision of a balance between the advance of technology and the preservation of the natural/human environment.
Funding is provided for a variety of innovative research and educational projects which focus on the Lindbergh’s vision of balance between the advance of technology and preservation of the natural/human environment.
There is 5-stage review process of grant applications: (1) The Foundation staff reviews the applications for completeness and general appropriateness. (2) Remaining applications are then sent for 2 “balance reviews”. This review panel, made up of members of our Board of Directors, staff, and former recipients of our grants, answers a two-part question on their review form, “Does this project seek to promote a balance by improving the quality of life through a balance between nature and technology? Why or why not?” (3) Those applications receiving at least one positive balance review go on to the technical review portion of the process. This panel, which would be considered the “peer review” portion of the process, focuses on evaluation of the more technical portion of the application. Each application receives 3-4 reviews at this level, with scores out of 100. These scores are averaged, and the top 25-30 go on to the 4th level of review. (4) The grants committee of the Foundation’s Board of Directors reviews the top applications and selects approximately 8-10 projects for funding. (5) The full Board acts on the Committee’s recommendation at its meeting.
The deadline to submit grant applications is 9 June 2011. For more information, visit this link.