2025 Impact Grant

Eligibility

• Applicants must be U.S. Citizens or U.S. permanent residents. 
• Applicant may be an individual or from a nonprofit organization. For-profit companies are not eligible to apply for Impact Grants. 
• If the applicant is in the process of establishing a nonprofit organization, they may apply through a fiscal sponsor. 
• Primary focus of the project must be to serve the US community. International participants may be included as appropriate. 
• Applicant may be an individual or from a non-profit organization. For-profit companies are not eligible to apply for Impact Grants. 
• If the applicant is in the process of establishing a non-profit organization, they may apply through a fiscal sponsor. 
• Applications received from individuals will not be eligible to transfer to an institution during their first year of funding. Transfers of institutions may only be requested during the renewal period.

Please refer to Section IV in the Program Guidelines for additional eligibility requirements.

Summary

The 2025 Impact Grant offers funding to individuals or community-based organizations that have developed, or would like to develop, a project or program to support individuals with cystic fibrosis (CF) or their families in their daily lives.

This award provides one year of funding support of up to $10,000 of direct costs. Indirect costs (overhead) of up to twelve percent (12%) are allowable for established nonprofit (501c3) organizations. Individual applicants are not eligible to request the 12% indirect costs. Awards will be made to the individual applicant or nonprofit organization. Projects may be renewed for a second year, pending submission and approval of a renewal progress report and CFF’s availability of funds.

Overhead

Indirect costs (overhead) of up to twelve percent (12%) are allowable for established nonprofit (501c3) organizations. Individual applicants are not eligible to request the 12% indirect costs. 

Application deadlines

RSO detailed review deadline

RSO final internal review deadline

Program application deadline

NOTE: Consult your Faculty Associate Dean (Research) (ADR) regarding Faculty-specific deadlines and submission processes.

Principal Investigators: Complete a Research Management System (RMS) record, including a copy of your complete application, and submit this for approvals in RMS.

Postdocs, students, and trainees: For fellowships and externally-sponsored research training awards or opportunities, you must complete the Research Funding Application Approval (RFAA) Trainee PDF form, and submit it, along with a complete copy of the application, to Research Services at rsotrainee@ucalgary.ca. Trainees should not use RMS at this time.

Approvals: The University of Calgary requires that all funding applications be approved prior to submission. Approval requires signatures via either RMS or the RFAA Trainee form, in the following order:

• Principal Investigator
• Department Head
• Faculty ADR/Dean
• Research Services (on behalf of the Vice-President Research)

Read the Meaning of Grant Signatures policy to understand what your approval means. Please see the agency guidelines for details about which signatures are required on your application, as it may differ from internal requirements.

Late submissions: Late submissions will only be accepted in cases of medical or family emergencies, or other exceptional circumstances. If you submit your RMS record to Research Services after the internal deadline has passed, you must secure additional approvals. Please read: Late Applications Process.

Submission Information

• Applications deadline: Thursday, April 3, 2025 by 5:00 PM (Eastern) 
• Submit online through https://awards.cff.org (Refer to Section X of the Program Guidelines for specific submission instructions) 
  • The CF Foundation reviews applications electronically, and only documents submitted online at http://awards.cff.org will be reviewed.
• An application will be considered incomplete if it fails to comply with the instructions, or if the submitted material is insufficient to permit adequate review.
• Documents should be typed using Times New Roman 12 or Arial 11 with margins no less than a half inch on each side 
  • Note: When all the documents have been uploaded to awards.cff.org, the system will compile them into a single PDF file. You may preview this file by selecting “Application Full Print” as well as exporting the compiled PDF file. To login, please visit: http://awards.cff.org

Additional Resources

Using RMS:

RMS: Creating a Pre-Award LOI

RMS: Creating a Pre-Award Application
Support for projects involving Indigenous Research:

Support with the development of your grant application is available internally through the Indigenous Research Support Team (IRST). Applicants can reach out by email to IRST at IRST@ucalgary.ca in advance of the RSO internal deadline. For more information about IRST, please visit the IRST webpage.

Support for Knowledge Engagement:

Support for knowledge mobilization/engagement/translation is available internally through the Knowledge Engagement Team. Applicants can reach out by email to the KE team at knowledge.engagement@ucalgary.ca in advance of the RSO internal deadline. For more information, please visit the KE team webpage.

Support for Research Data Management:

For information on research data management plans, processes, or best practices for your research program, please contact research.data@libanswers.ucalgary.com and/or visit https://libguides.ucalgary.ca/researchdatamanagement.

Support for EDI in Research:

RSO can provide resources and support to research teams on the integration of equitable and inclusive practices in research design and research practice. Contact Erin.OToole@ucalgary.ca for more information.