We are proud to announce that we are now accepting research proposals for posting on FundMyResearch.org!

Please download and review this PDF for guidelines and more details!

FundMyResearch.org is in the early stages of development. We are currently funded entirely by out-of-pocket donations from our founder, Kay Crouch. This means that our development is much slower than it would be if additional donations and grants could be obtained to cover our organizational costs, web site development, publicity, and the other types of expenses common to any start-up organization.

We need your support and word-of-mouth awareness to launch us to the next step. Your investment today will launch research funding into the hands of individuals who care about research and results.

How will your early donations be used?
1. Website development

2. Staffing for a year:

• Executive Director (full time position)
• Accountant Fees
• Legal Fees
• Graphic Designer (part-time)
• Publicity (direct costs)
• Website Maintenance (part-time)

3. Organization of a Review Board to Evaluate Proposals

4. Direct Travel Costs, if necessary, for publicity and additional fund-raising

The United States and indeed the world are falling behind in advancing science. We as a nation and we as world citizens are deriving answers to questions and developing solutions to problems much slower than necessary. When the question “why now?” is raised, we should be saying, “why not years ago?” We see that given the opportunity, private citizens and philanthropically-motivated public organizations will rise to the occasion of helping to create a more sustainable world. All human beings derive enormous satisfaction from helping others. Even those of us that can only “give a little” can make a huge difference. Scientific research is a major catalyst that creates change. In our last U. S. presidential election, we saw clearly how ready the world is for change and we watched a grass roots level movement raise millions and millions of dollars to support that change. We see the same interested and involved people finding a fun and valuable way to contribute to society through FundMyResearch.org.

While it is hard to estimate something as fluid and potentially explosive as scientific research, we expect to be able to fund hundreds or indeed maybe thousands of projects being performed by undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students as well as studies and investigations being carried out by professors and other research experts. The types of research projects funded will be those that engage the imaginations and passions of the members of FundMyResearch.org. The return on these research investments will be immeasurable.

History has demonstrated time and time again that it only takes a small discovery to uncover very great scientific truths.

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FundMyResearch.org is a 501c3 non-profit organization currently seeking tax-exempt status.

FundMyResearch.org (FMR) presents a new and unique mechanism for funding scientific research through small, public donations (micro-grants) which combined together can provide a significant funding source for scientific researchers to access world-wide. Funding for scientific research is highly competitive, and the budgets of virtually all funding agencies, both public and private, are woefully small. FundMyResearch.org seeks to engage the general public, through on-line donations, in the research process. It will allow the world community at large to have access to researchers and to participate directly in funding projects and studies relating to subjects they are personally passionate about.

Currently, research funding comes primarily from the National Science Foundation and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with very limited financial resources. In 2008, the National Science Foundation (NSF) received more than 40,000 grant proposals and only 11,000 proposals were successfully funded. This means that only about 27% of the researchers seeking funding from the NSF were successful and that 29,000 potentially exciting and valuable projects went unfunded.

Obtaining adequate funding for scientific research is a common and significant challenge among science professors, science students, and scientific researchers. They spend a substantial amount of their time developing proposals and attempting to obtain funding, and only a small percentage of their proposals are successful. The primary reason for funding “failures” is a shortage of money within the funding organizations.

Oftentimes, researchers have a difficult time demonstrating the need for funding if their specific research does not fall within the scope of projects that the funding agency is interested in or if it presents a new or an unexplored question. When the federal government and a limited number of private agencies with specific missions and agendas choose which research is funded, the power is taken away from the people who will ultimately be affected by and benefit from the research results --the general public and “the world community”. Current funding mechanisms actually drive research topics and research results toward specific subjects that agencies and organizations are interested in instead of allowing the researchers to be creative and answer much broader questions, including those that may be unpopular or that may lead to truthful results that do not validate current thinking.

Organizations are deciding for “us” what topics the collective “we” are interested in. They do not always get it right.