IPM Ambassador Travel Grants
IPM AMBASSADOR TRAVEL GRANT
Rolling RFA now open!
The IPM Ambassador Travel Grant responds to the call to action put in place by the The IPM Roadmap that expresses an urgent need to address IPM challenges such as ecological, genetic, economic and socio-political factors that affect development, communication and effective implementation of IPM strategies and technologies to manage pests effectively, slow the rate of resistance evolution, preserve existing control measures and create effective new approaches. To further meet this need, the IPM Ambassador Travel Grant provides support to travel to conferences, meetings, or workshops to bring IPM awareness to new audiences.
THE PRIZE
IPM Ambassador Travel Grant recipients will receive funding of up to $1,000 to enable travel to one conference, meeting, or workshop in 2024 or 2025. A maximum of five recipients will be awarded this fiscal year.
WHO CAN APPLY?
You are welcome to apply for this travel grant in addition to any other SIPMC program or grant.
However, you do not need to be nominated or awarded any other grant to be eligible.
You are welcome to apply for yourself or have someone else apply on your behalf.
ELIGIBILITY FOR A TRAVEL GRANT
Any individual who is willing to communicate the science, practice, and implementation of IPM to new stakeholders and audiences, including professionals, students, practitioners, educators, extension agents, pesticide safety educators, researchers, technology innovators, land and natural resource managers, agricultural producers, residential, structural, public pest managers; public health officials; wildlife health officials, climate scientists, invasive species, biosecurity, communicators, or any other audience or discipline that can be convincingly relevant to IPM.
Applicants must be based in the Southern region (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Virginia).
Submission Deadline
There is no deadline for submission and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until all funds are expended (with a maximum of 5 awards per fiscal year).