What is the carbon footprint of an HRA member organization and what activities contribute most? What steps can an organization take to reduce its footprint?  What is the impact on budgets, external relationships, and employee engagement/productivity? Climate change has an enormous effect on the health and lives of everyone, so…

Attend a session led by Kyle Marian Viterbo, Engagement Producer at Science Friday, to learn how the scientific community engages with social media and the myriad ways you can become an effective professional user as an individual and organization—whether you’re a program officer, grants administrator, member of the communications team, or…

Attend this session to learn from HRA colleagues about strategies they use to engage awardees and alumni beyond funding and reporting. The session will be split into 2 segments with a few very brief “lightning” presentations in each segment, followed by Q&A. Segment 1: Talks will highlight strategies to engage…

Please join the DEI  working group where all three subgroups will present and update on progress. The goals of the DEI Working Group are to provide learning opportunities, develop resources, and identify tools to amplify member’s individual efforts to measurably advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in their grant programs and…

Thanks to the work of the Professional Development Program Team, will be offering a virtual workshop called “Understanding your Leadership Style.”  The workshop is designed for mid-level managers (not the CEO, or Director-level) and will be conducted over two 2.5-hour sessions on 12/2 and 12/9, from 2:30-5:00pm ET. Please use…

Evaluating Open Science Practices of Your Awardees Do you encourage open science practices among your awardees or want to?  If so, please join us for a discussion of how some of your colleagues collect information on applicants/awardees “open” practices (especially with respect to data sharing), and how they use the…