Deadline: 15-Sep-20
TREE Fund welcomes research proposals and applications for Jack Kimmel International Grant Program from a wide range of academic and technical disciplines, of both a qualitative and a quantitative nature.
The Jack Kimmel International Grant Program is championed by the Canadian TREE Fund, honors the late Jack Kimmel who was the former Director of Parks for the City of Toronto. Jack Kimmel grants provide much needed funding to arboriculture and urban forestry researchers all over the world.
Note Well: In 2020, TREE Fund’s Jack Kimmel International Grant program will be focused specifically on plant health care, to include such sample areas of inquiry as (this list is not all-inclusive):
- Wound response to injection;
- Pest/pathogen biology and management;
- Resistance breeding
- Decay assessment
- Tree injection;
- Etc.
Funding Information
Grant award amounts are limited to a maximum of $10,000 and will vary depending upon the adjudged value of the project relative to the needs of the arboriculture community. No project may receive more than one award from this program.
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.
Criteria for selection
Staff will screen all applications for applicant eligibility, word counts, alignment with TREE Fund mission, and compliance with minimum requirements, then forward compliant applications to TREE Fund’s Research and Education Committee. Members of this committee will score your proposal as follows:
- Qualifications of the investigative team: 10 points
- Potential impact of the project: 25 points
- Approach: 35 points
- Dissemination plan: 10 points
- Feasibility: 15 points
- Discretionary: 5 points.
- Total Maximum Possible Score: 100 points.
TREE Fund does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, gender, sexual orientation, disability or national or ethnic origin. Its current trustee or any member of the family of any such trustee are ineligible to receive grants from it.
For more information, visit https://treefund.org/researchgrants/kimmel