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TCF Grant Application Guidelines

Submit applications electronically as a .doc or .pdf file in formal grant proposal format with the following required sections:

  1. TCF standardized Proposal Cover Sheet filled out (downloadable .doc available here)
  2. Title page with full contact details, including mail and e-mail address of all investigators
  3. Short summary of the overall project objective and requested funding
  4. Background and research or conservation rationale
  5. Specific methodology
  6. Discuss your vision for a longer-term conservation strategy for the species (for which the project may represent a component), and discuss how this may be achieved and who may be involved with this effort over the longer term
  7. Project deliverables anticipated
  8. Total project expenses
  9. Funding requested from TCF
  10. Funding available or requested from other organizations
  11. General timetable
  12. Literature cited
  13. Curriculum Vitae for principal investigators (or for primary personnel for an organizational grant request).

 

The proposal itself must be no longer than 12 pages long (shorter is better) and c.v.’s must be no longer than 3 pages per individual. All type must be of good readable size, no smaller than 12-point font.

The TCF provides grants in support of direct research and conservation expenses of selected turtle projects and programs. TCF does not provide support for indirect organizational overhead expenses associated with administration of grants, and will not fund requests for such indirect costs.

Awards are granted through an internal review process carried out by the Grants Committee of the Executive Board of TCF, which includes: Hugh R. Quinn, Anders G.J. Rhodin, Russell A. Mittermeier, Rick Hudson, Kurt A. Buhlmann, Peter C.H. Pritchard, Walter C. Sedgwick, Chris B. Banks, Hans-Dieter Philippen, Kevin R. Buley, Peter Paul van Dijk, Douglas B. Hendrie, and Eric Goode.

Application Deadlines:  May 1 and November 1
Award Determinations:  approximately August 15 and February 15 (or September or March as necessary)

Submit proposals electronically via e-mail to:

Hugh R. Quinn and Anders G.J. Rhodin
(mailed paper copies are not necessary)

Contact Information:

Hugh R. Quinn
Co-Chair, Turtle Conservation Fund
8200 Red Deer Road
Rapid City, SD 57702 USA
Phone: 605-342-0583
E-mail: Hugh R. Quinn
       

Anders G.J. Rhodin
Co-Chair, Turtle Conservation Fund
Chelonian Research Foundation
168 Goodrich Street
Lunenburg, MA 01462 USA
Phone: 978-582-9668 - Fax: 978-582-6279
E-mail: Anders Rhodin
Web Site: www.chelonian.org