Research Funding Help: Find NGO's, Gov Programs & More

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A student is seeking to revive an inactive research lab on campus that has significant public interest but lacks funding. Despite discussions with faculty and administration, the student emphasizes the need for external financial support to move forward. The approved research topics include electric vehicles, vehicle design, renewable energy production, and automated robotics, among others. Key advice shared in the discussion highlights the importance of clearly defining funding needs and project goals to attract potential sponsors. It is suggested that collaboration with like-minded individuals and existing funded projects at the university could enhance chances of success. The student has experience in grant writing but is struggling to secure funds and is actively applying for grants through the NSF. The post seeks legitimate sources and partnerships with other labs for collaborative projects, expressing frustration at the lack of helpful responses from the forum compared to other platforms.
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Wasn't really sure where to put this post,
Here is the short version

I am a student who is trying to restart a research lab on campus that is highly publicized but inactive, much to my dismay as a transfer student. I have discussed it with faculty and admin, however without outside funding, the proverbial snowball has a better chance.
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I am trying to find NGO's, government programs, schools that need a partner for projects etc.

Here are the topics that I have received approval for, if funding exhists
(other fields may be allowed as well)

Electric vehicles
Vehicle design
Scale models of Energy production for education
Fuel cells,
Biomass
parallel energy production
Automated RC robotics,
Carbon Offsets
general Renewable Energy production research
Arbortoriums,



If anyone has any programs they know about...
 
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Why should anyone fund you? Seriously - if you don't have an answer to that question, you have no chance. You need to think about that. You also need to decide what to do: maybe fuel cells, maybe planting some trees is not a research plan.

You need to work on those two things.
 
You need to start by being able to answer 1) how much money are you going to need 2) what exactly you want the money for.

Also unless you already have experience with grant proposals you will find that fundraising is extremely inefficient, and you are better off trying to get "like minded individuals" to work together on a volunteer basis. If you have a lot of people in your university that are already being funded to do something related to the lab, then you'll find it a *lot* easier (although still far from easy) to arrange journal clubs and joint projects.
 
Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner, . Specific projects exhist in all the areas that were mentioned.Each with an extensive project discription. I was only general in an attempt to find out what field might be funded easier. This is the main development lab for the school, it has just been sacrificed do to school cut backs and change in administration and I am trying to revive it. small scale projects have a buget of a few grand, some of the larger research projects in biomass originally had a budget of about 200k.

I already have many inidividuals that want to work, but the school will not allow access unless funding can be procured. I have a background it grant writing but not finding the funds. I have spent many hours looking online and am appling to a few through NSF,

the post was an attempt to provide legitimate sources, not state the obvious, or critique a question.

Considering this forum is made up largely of member of the field, why is it i get more benificial answers from yahoo when I use the same question.

Going by my experience on this site, most will probably not reply however, I would sincerely appreciate any sources that can be provided or any school labs that are have projects and would like a partner, as stated in the first post
 

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