Due to recent federal budget cuts, the SALRC is currently unable to support any minigrants and cannot accept applications at this time. Please check back within the next few months; this page will be updated once minigrants are again available.

Request for Proposals

For SALRC Grants up $5,000

The South Asia Language Resource Center seeks to support projects to develop a broad variety of curricular materials for South Asian languages at all levels of university instruction. Within our goals and resources, a certain fund is being put aside each year for these mini-grants.

Goal

SALRC grants are intended to meet national (and often international) needs for the teaching and learning of South Asian languages. While recognizing the overall goals for our projects which are available on our website in the Guidelines for our annual grant competition, the SALRC also sees a need to provide interim assistance in the following areas:

  1. Provide for greater distribution via the Internet of already existing print, audio or visual media materials.
  2. Planning assistance for a larger project to be submitted to SALRC or other funding body.
  3. Web site development for small scale projects.

In all cases the applicant should demonstrate the need for the project and how the ultimate product will be utilized by the larger South Asia language community. However in this mini-grant category we do not expect you to put your proposal in the context of a large, integrated suite of materials.

South Asian language professionals meeting in January and March 2003 established priorities and guidelines in major South Asian languages. Again, it is not necessary in this mini-grant category to adhere to those priorities but they are available to you as guidelines. See Guidelines and Priorities.

While it is not required that a project be collaborative, collaborative projects are favored under the SALRC system, since materials that have been prepared collaboratively tend to receive wider use.

Process

A summary proposal and budget may be submitted anytime during the year as e-mail attachments only to salrc@uchicago.edu.

Proposals will only be accepted on SALRC forms downloadable from our website.

It is the applicant's obligation to assure that the proposal is readable on Windows or Macintosh platforms. Please provide any fonts required to read the proposal.

Your proposal will be reviewed by experts in the field and, in most cases, by experts in the application of technology to language teaching and learning. The proposal should include high level information on the nature of the materials, the approach, the plan of work, plan for dissemination and the budget. The project must be completed within 6 months of the start date.

Budget

Allowable costs include labor and benefits for technical and clerical staff including graduate student support, professional fees for consultants and reviewers, travel (if crucial to the success of the project), reasonable materials, and, in very special cases, equipment. After the completion of the project any equipment will remain the property of the relevant department or program in South Asian languages or studies and in no case be the property of the project director.