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These resources compile newly developed tools, scholarly works, and informational links that support the various aspects of BI-RI-SI spectrum (Broader Impacts (BI): Why research matters; Research Impact (RI): How research makes change; and Societal Impact (SI): What continues to improve.)

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From EPIIC to IHE APPLI: A New Guide for Building ERI Capacity

The NSF’s Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity (EPIIC) program tested a new approach to strengthening research competitiveness. Through a live, high-support grant process, participants received intensive guidance in challenge identification, solution design, and proposal preparation. Across three iterative cycles, the program refined a model for helping build institutional capacity and compete more effectively...

The Handbook of Broader Impacts

The Handbook of Broader Impacts equips researchers and institutions with proven frameworks, infrastructure models, and real-world examples to design, measure, and sustain societal impact — plus guidance for competencies and promotion/tenure. View flyer . Pre-order your copy of The Handbook of Broader Impacts, which shows how to turn research into real-world benefit through policy,...

Guiding Principles 2.0

Updated from the original Guiding Principles document, this guide is designed to assist NSF program managers, proposal reviewers, and review panels, in evaluating the BI component of NSF proposals and to assist proposers with developing their BI plans.

Broader Impacts Guidesheet

A printable BI Guidesheet to help plan and create your Broader Impacts plan.

Broader Impacts Toolkit

The Broader Impacts (BI) Toolkit provides support for investigators in developing a BI statement via an easy 5-step process to produce an outline of important points to satisfy the National Science Foundation (NSF) BI Criterion. Includes the BI Wizard, Checklist and Project Rubric.

National Science Board’s Merit Review

This 2025 report proposes updates to the U.S. National Science Foundation's Merit Review policy to ensure that NSF-funded research advances national priorities and improves American lives.

Informal Science (REVISE)

REVISE is an NSF-funded resource center sharing NSF updates pertaining to informal STEM education (ISE) as well as field-wide opportunities and resources focused on advancing ISE. (Informalscience.org is hosted by the REVISE Center.)

EMERGE Library

Emory’s EMERGE (Equipping Minoritized and Emerging Research Institutions to Grow their Enterprises) Library is the first national, peer-reviewed collection of plain-language research enterprise resources centered on the voices and expertise of minority-serving institutions (MSIs) and emerging research institutions (ERIs). Developed with partner institutions, it shares proven strategies and practical, context-specific guidance for faculty, staff,...

Special Issue of JCES on Broader Impacts Toolkit

This special edition of Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship is focused on the ARIS BI Toolkit. This issue reviews the development of the ARIS BI Toolkit and its progression through usability testing, and goals for expansion.

ARIS BI Toolkit: Project Rubric

Learn how to assess your project's potential. The BI Plan Rubric is designed to help you evaluate a specific Broader Impacts (BI) plan via five key questions.

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