EIM-OC Franklin Microgrant: Program Grant

The EIM-OC Franklin Microgrant Program, sponsored by the American College of Sports Medicine, offers funding opportunities of $500, $750, and $1,250 to support Exercise Is Medicine-On Campus initiatives. Eligible applicants must be ACSM national members and affiliated with registered EIM-OC institutions, ensuring high-quality data collection and student involvement in projects. This grant aims to advance health and human performance through innovative exercise interventions.

American College of Sports Medicine
The American College of Sports Medicine® (ACSM) serves as the largest sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world, with nearly 50,000 international, national and regional members and certified fitness professionals. All are dedicated to ACSM’s mission to educate and empower professionals to advance the science and practice of health and human performance.
Thanks to the generosity of ACSM past president Barry Franklin and his wife, Linda three types of grants are offered under the Franklin Microgrant Program. These grants are meant to defray the costs of conducting Exercise Is Medicine-On Campus (EIM-OC) interventions, performing high quality data collection and analysis of EIM-OC programming.

Eligibility

Applicants must be an ACSM national member in good standing before applying for funding (including international applicants). ACSM chapter membership alone does not fulfill this requirement.
Applicant institution must be a registered EIM-OC institution.
Applicants should be full-time faculty or staff of the applicant institution.
Applications must indicate how students will be involved in the proposed initiatives.  The PI must be a graduate student, post-doctoral fellow, or on the faculty or staff at one of the institutions where the research is to be performed and must assume personal responsibility for conducting the proposed research and/or supervising the research activities of associates or assistants that may be required. The PI is expected to prepare the application and research proposal themselves and will be required to certify this when submitting the application.
You must be a member of this organization to apply for this award - become a member. Applicants must be an ACSM national member in good standing before applying for funding. Grantees must remain ACSM members through the life of the grant, including the final reporting period. ACSM chapter membership alone does not fulfill this requirement.

Ineligibility

Grants will not be awarded to individuals to duplicate projects, which are being supported by other funding agencies. If a proposal is submitted to add outcomes or important aspects to a project already funded by another mechanism, the relationship of the proposed work to the existing project must be clearly described.