John Z. Duling Grant Program

Deadline: 15-Sep-21

The Tree Research and Education Endowment Fund (TREE Fund) is inviting proposals for the John Z. Duling Grant Program to provide start-up or seed funding to support innovative research and technology transfer projects that have the potential of benefiting the everyday work of arborists.

John Z. Duling Grants may be used to support exploratory work in the early stages of untested, but potentially transformative, research ideas and approaches. Examples may include application of new approaches to research questions, or application of new expertise involving novel disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspectives.

The Duling program will focus on: Risk Assessment and mitigation including all aspects of decay detection, hazard tree assessment and related matters where human safety, including worker safety, are concerned.

Funding Information

Projects are expected to be completed within one to three years with a maximum grant award of $25,000. No project may receive more than one award from this program.

Eligibility Criteria

Letters of inquiry for Duling Grants that do not focus on topics related to the focus area will be rejected from further consideration. TREE Fund welcomes research proposals and applications from a wide range of academic and technical disciplines, of both a qualitative and a quantitative nature. TREE Fund does not fund the following types of projects, and will not accept applications for such work:
- Grants to individuals;
- Projects that are primarily municipal tree surveys or assessments;
- Tree planting programs;
- Studies of individual tree species for the primary purpose of agricultural or timber/forest planting yield;
- Commercial tree- or soil-related product testing primarily for the benefit of the company that manufactures the product.
TREE Fund does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, gender, sexual orientation, disability or national or ethnic origin.
Current trustees of TREE Fund or any member of the family of any such trustee are ineligible to receive grants from TREE Fund.