NINR Center of Excellence (P30) | RFA NR 17 004

Opportunity Information: Apply for RFA NR 17 004

The NINR Center of Excellence (P30) opportunity (RFA-NR-17-004) is a discretionary grant program from the National Institutes of Health, specifically the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR). It is designed to help institutions build or strengthen a research "center" model by funding the shared infrastructure that multiple investigators can use when they are working on a common, well-defined research problem. In practice, this means the award is intended less for paying for one single study and more for creating centralized cores, services, and facilities that make a whole portfolio of related projects run better, faster, and with higher quality.

The core idea of this P30 mechanism is shared resources. NINR is looking to support centralized capabilities (often called "cores") that serve a group of scientists conducting categorical research in the same theme area. The announcement emphasizes that the P30 core grant is integrated with a center's component research projects or program projects, but it is funded independently of those projects. The expectation is that when multiple teams can access common tools, expertise, and systems through a coordinated center structure, the overall productivity and impact will be greater than if each project tried to build and maintain those resources on its own. In other words, the grant is meant to create efficiencies, reduce duplication, standardize approaches, and raise the performance of the research enterprise around a shared focus.

From an applicant eligibility standpoint, the FOA is broad and includes many domestic U.S. organization types. Eligible applicants include state, county, and local governments (including city or township governments and special district governments), independent school districts, and public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities. It also includes public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, and a wide range of nonprofit organizations (both 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3), as long as they are not institutions of higher education where that restriction applies). For-profit organizations (other than small businesses) and small businesses are listed as eligible, and the FOA also notes "others," which is a common federal listing meant to capture additional entity types that meet NIH eligibility rules.

The opportunity also explicitly highlights additional eligible applicant categories that NIH and NINR often seek to encourage, including Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions, Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs), Hispanic-serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs), and faith-based or community-based organizations. It further notes that eligible agencies of the federal government, regional organizations, U.S. territories or possessions, and Indian/Native American tribal governments that are not federally recognized may be eligible (alongside federally recognized tribal governments already listed in the main eligibility section). Taken together, the eligibility language signals an intent to allow many different kinds of U.S.-based institutions and partnerships to serve as the hub for a research center, as long as they can credibly manage NIH grant requirements and provide shared resources to an aligned group of investigators.

At the same time, the FOA is strict about foreign involvement. Non-domestic (non-U.S.) entities and foreign institutions are not eligible to apply, and non-domestic components of U.S. organizations are also not eligible. In addition, foreign components, as defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, are not allowed. The practical implication is that the center infrastructure supported by this award must be domestic, and the funded activities cannot include a formal foreign component under NIH rules.

In terms of basic administrative details, the funding instrument is a grant, and the funding activity category is listed under Education and Health. The CFDA number associated with this opportunity is 93.361. The original closing date shown in the source information is November 30, 2017, and the creation date is September 15, 2017, indicating this was a time-limited solicitation during that period. The listed award ceiling is $350,000, which should be interpreted as the maximum amount expected per award under the opportunity as presented in the source data.

Overall, this grant opportunity is best understood as infrastructure support for a nursing research-focused center model: it funds the shared platform (people, systems, and facilities) that enables multiple research teams to pursue a unified scientific theme more efficiently and with stronger collective outcomes than they could achieve through isolated, stand-alone projects.

• The National Institutes of Health in the education, health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "NINR Center of Excellence (P30)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.361.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2017-09-15.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2017-11-30. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $350,000.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For-profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses, Others.

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