SUSTAINABILTY GRANTS AND CONTRACTS:
MEASURES OF SUCCESS
Jeff Gordon, Senior Director
Program Development and External Partnerships
San José State University Research Foundation
jeff.gordon@sjsu.edu
SJSU Research Foundation
• Auxiliary 501(c)3 non-profit corporation
• One of 80+ auxiliaries within CSU system…among
the top four in terms of managing contract/grant
revenues, 75 + years old
• SJSU research portfolio $65M+ per year,
professional staff working with faculty on 100’s of
applications and awards each year- Funding Alert!
• Collaborations with industry and local gov’t:
– San Jose BioCenter US Market Access Center, Software
Business Cluster Environmental Business Cluster
Positioning For Success
• Targeting to Goals of RFP/Sponsor
• Collaboration-Interdisciplinary
• Program Officer Relationships
– Review Past Successes
– Apply Best Practices/Avoid Pitfalls
• Rejection Isn’t Personal
– Try, Try Again
– Incorporate Feedback from Reviewers
– “Insanity: doing the same thing over and
over again and expecting different
results”
Albert Einstein
Achieving Success
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Enabling/Enhancing Student Learning
Exceeding Your Metrics/Over Deliver
Building New Relationships/Partnerships
Sponsors Invite You Back
– SJSU’s Center for Development of Recycling
and Santa Clara County (www.recyclestuff.org)
• Create Awareness and Recognition—
Points of Pride (Key Stakeholders/Media)
SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVES
PROSPECTIVE EXTERNAL FUNDING SOURCES
AGENCY/SPONSOR
FOCUS AREAS
FUNDING LEVELS
National Science Foundation
Environmental Engineering and
Sustainability
$ millions
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental Education
Initiatives
$50-200k plus
US Dept of Agriculture
Higher Education Challenge
Grants
$150-500k
US Dept of Interior
Green Parks Program
TBD
US Dept of Energy
Photovolatic Univ/Industry
Partnershps
$100k' s
Kresge Foundation
Green Bldg Initiative
Planning Grants
$50-100k
McArthur Foundation
Conservation and Sustainable
Development
$10-500k plus
Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc
Sustainable Development
$20-250k
John Merck Fund
Climate Change
$10 to 250,000
Wallace Global Fund
Environmental Protection
$25 to 200,00 also
multi year funding
Environmental Defense Fund
Community-based Green Projects
TBD
Lindberg Foundation
Balancing Nature/Technology
through Research/Education
$10,000s
PUBLIC SOURCES
PRIVATE SOURCES
Program/Project Name Title
Faculty-Lead Investigator-PI
Department
Focus Area
Sponsor
Studying Global and Regional
Land Surface Skin Temperature
Change Using Satellite
Observations and Climate
Modeling
Urban Enhancement to
Menglin Jin
Meteorology
Climate Change
National Science Foundation
$152,505 09/15/08 to 08/31/09
Menglin Jin
Meteorology
Land Use and Climate
Change
University of Georgia
$106,398 08/01/08 to 03/14/10
Mark Stephenson & Kenneth Coale Moss Landing Marine
Laboratories
James T. Harvey
Moss Landing Marine
Laboratories
Endangered Species
Management
Animal Protection
Department of the Navy
$15,505 10/02/08 to 10/01/09
Department of Commerce
$20,000 08/01/08 to 07/31/09
James T. Harvey
Moss Landing Marine
Laboratories
Animal Protection
Department of Commerce
$39,922 08/22/08 to 05/31/09
Leonid M. Ivanov
Moss Landing Marine
Laboratories
Marine Issues
National Science Foundation
$333,904 09/01/08 to 08/31/11
Mark Yarbrough
Moss Landing Marine
Laboratories
Moss Landing Marine
Laboratories
Marine Issues
Department of Commerce
$150,000 8/15/08 to 08/14/11
Water Treatment
Department of Commerce
$308,539 10/01/08 to 09/30/10
Michael H. Gram
Moss Landing Marine
Laboratories
Marine Ecosystems
National Science Foundation
$571,027 05/15/08 to 04/30/12
MOBY Lwn Time-Series
Uncertainty Reduction and
System Enhancements for
Improved Vicarious Calibration
across Multiple Agency Ocean
Tilefish Age Determination
Mark Yarbrough
Moss Landing Marine
Laboratories
Ocean Measurement
Systems
Department of Commerce
$630,000 04/01/08 to 03/31/11
Gregor Cailliet and Allen Andrews
Marine
Marine Life
Department of Commerce
$51,635 09/17/07 to 09/16/08
Gulf of Alaska Corals
Gregor Cailliet and Allen Andrews
Marine
Marine Life
Department of Commerce
$45,000 09/10/07 to 09/30/08
Enhancing the Response to
Marine Mammal Stranding
Support of the Central Coast
Wetland Working Group
Restoration Objectives
James T. Harvey
Moss Landing
Laboratories
Moss Landing
Laboratories
Moss Landing
Laboratories
Moss Landing
Laboratories
Marine
Marine Mammal Biology
Department of Commerce
$99,838 06/01/07 to 05/31/10
Marine
Wetland Restoration
Department of Commerce
$85,970 07/16/07 to 10/31/08
Experimental Studies of FireAtmosphere Interactions and
Turbulence during Grass Fires of
Different Scales
Craig B. Clements
Meteorology
Wildland Fire Management
Department of Agriculture
$41,158 08/14/07 to 09/30/08
Incorporation of Marine Research Simona Bartl
and Resource Issues Into Public
Education
Moss Landing Marine
Laboratories
K-12 Science Education re.
Watershed Mgt
Department of Commerce
$48,299 10/01/07 to 09/30/08
Testing Various Methods of Tag
James T. Harvey
Attachments on Leatherback Sea
Turtles
Moss Landing Marine
Laboratories
Marine Mammal Safety
Department of Commerce
$18,000 09/10/05 to 12/31/07
Recycling Telephone Hotline
Information
Erosion after Fires: Sediment
Transport in Ash-Laden Slurries
Disturbance Effects on Harbor
Seals in Glacier Bay
Bruce Olsweski
Environmental Science
Recycling
Santa Clara County
$62,500 07/01/08 to 06/30/09
Emmanuel Gabet
Geology
Errosion/Land Use Issues
University of Montana
$59,014 05/28/08 to 05/27/09
James T. Harvey
Moss Landing Marine
Laboratories
Marine Mammal Safety
Department of Commerce
$31,323 01/02/07 to 05/31/09
Human Feedback from Urban
Climate
Inland Air Quality Impacts from
Urbanization of Israeli-Gaza
Coast
Robert Bornstein
Meteorology
Climate Change
Portland State University
$145,667 10/15/04 to 2/28/09
Robert Bornstein
Meteorology
Climate Change
Aquaba Special Economic
Zone Authority
$24,150 1/01/07 to 12/31/08
Meteorological Modeling
Seal Beach Mussels
A Vessel for Whale
Disentanglement in Central
California
Acoustic Identification and
Enumeration of Epipelagic Fish
and Jellyfish
Collaborative Research: Effects
of Eddies and Waves on the
Westward Transport off Central
California
Fiber Optic Ocean Color Sensor
Development
Technologies and Practices,
Metabolic Verification of Plankton
Viability during Ballast Treatment
Testing
Effects of Ocean Climate Change
Nick Welschmeyer & Jon Geller
on Recruitment, Dynamics, and
Range Shifts of Kelp Populations,
Gage Dayton
TOTAL AWARD FUNDING
Funding
Timeframe
$3,040,354