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Spring 2009 Funding Sampler

Below is a list of selected funding opportunities that are available from government and foundation sources. Please contact the ORSP office if you would like further information regarding any of these opportunities.

A. General

1. Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation

The Foundation seeks to preserve the balance between the advance of technology and the preservation of the natural/human environment. Grants are awarded in the following areas: agriculture, aviation/aerospace, conservation of natural resources, education, exploration, health, and waste minimization and management. Education grants include humanities, arts, and intercultural communication. Health grants focus on biomedical research, health and population sciences, and adaptive technology. A Jonathan Lindbergh Brown grant may be awarded to support adaptive technology or biomedical research, which seeks to redress imbalances between an individual and his or her human environment. The grant amount, $10,580, is a symbolic amount representing the cost of Charles’ plane, the Spirit of St. Louis.

2. NSF – Math and Science Partnership

The Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program is a major research and development effort that supports innovative partnerships to improve K-12 student achievement in mathematics and science. MSP projects are expected to raise the achievement levels of all students and significantly reduce achievement gaps in the mathematics and science performance of diverse student populations. In order to improve the mathematics and science achievement of the Nation's students, MSP projects contribute to what is known in mathematics and science education and serve as models that have a sufficiently strong evidence/research base to improve the mathematics and science education outcomes for all students. Targeted Partnerships seek to improve student achievement in a specific grade range and/or with a specific disciplinary focus in mathematics or the sciences.

  • Deadline: August 20, 2009 for Targeted Partnership Program
  • Funding: $250,000+
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3. Aetna Foundation

a. Regional Community Health Grants Program. The Aetna Foundation will award grants in support of philanthropic initiatives focused on fighting obesity and increasing health literacy in selected communities across the United States.  The obesity proposal category seeks to fund community-based health education, prevention, and early detection efforts aimed at fighting obesity. Health Literacy proposals must incorporate and/or demonstrate impact in one or more of the following: plain language approach to communications; public education and awareness programs; and/or training and education for health care professionals, staff, and patients.

b. Healthy Community Outreach Program. Awards will be granted to nonprofit organizations to support grassroots efforts that increase awareness of critical health initiatives through health walks, health fairs and health education outreach. Please provide all levels of event sponsorships on your application. Funding decisions and notifications will be made throughout the year while all notifications will be made by November 1, 2009.

 

B. Science

 1. Small Grants for Behavioral Research in Cancer Control (R03)

This funding opportunity announcement (FOA), issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is intended to provide support for either new investigators in cancer-related behavioral research, or investigators who want to refocus their research interests toward behavioral research in cancer control. The program is designed to facilitate the growth of a nationwide cohort of scientists with research experience in behavioral cancer control and design of public health interventions. Preliminary data for the proposed projects are not required. Overarching goals are to: (1) encourage new investigators to enter the field of behavioral research in cancer control and initiate their long-term career development aimed at becoming independent investigators in the field, and (2) support research on transfer of behavioral science knowledge into cancer control practice.
Deadlines: Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): April 20, 2009; August 20, 2009; December 21, 2009; April 20, 2010; August 20, 2010; December 20, 2010; April 20, 2011; August 22, 2011; December 20, 2011
Funding: up to $100,000 over two years
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2. Recovery Act Limited Competition: Academic Research Enhancement Award (R15)

This NIH Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is supported by funds provided to the NIH under the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009. The purpose of the Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) program is to stimulate research in educational institutions that provide baccalaureate or advanced degrees for a significant number of the Nation's research scientists, but that have not been major recipients of NIH support. These AREA grants create opportunities for scientists and institutions otherwise unlikely to participate extensively in NIH programs, to contribute to the Nation's biomedical and behavioral research effort. AREA grants are intended to support small-scale health-related research projects proposed by faculty members of eligible, domestic institutions. This FOA will utilize the Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) R15 award mechanism. The total project period for an application submitted in response to this funding opportunity may be up to three (3) years.

3. NSF - Systematic Biology and Biodiversity Inventories

The Systematic Biology and Biodiversity Inventories Cluster supports research in taxonomy and systematics that contributes to: 1) using phylogenetic methods to understand the evolution of life in time and space, 2) discovery, description, and cataloguing global species diversity, and 3) organizing information from the above in efficiently retrievable forms that best meet the needs of science and society. The Systematic Biology and Biodiversity Inventories Cluster funds projects within the two Programs, Systematic Biology and Biodiversity Inventories, in addition to the PEET and PBI solicitations listed below. In addition, the cluster participates in AToL and other related funding opportunities. The SBBI Cluster continues to encourage and support studies that seek to synthesize available and new species-level taxonomic information in the context of providing revisionary treatments and predictive classifications for particular groups of organisms. The Systematic Biology Program supports the scientific study of biological diversity and phylogeny, for all groups of organisms and for all habitats on Earth, including marine environments. Activities include the discovery and description of species, the organization of taxonomic information into hierarchical predictive classifications associated with efficient, reliable identification keys, and the analysis of evolutionary and biogeographic relationships among groups of species and across the tree of life. This program also supports revisionary and monographic research on species that fully utilize modern information technology at all stages from data capture and analysis to electronic dissemination of results.

4. NIH - Career Enhancement Award for Stem Cell Research (K18)

The purpose of the Career Enhancement Award for Stem Cell Research (K18) is to encourage investigators to obtain the training and career development they need to appropriately use stem cells in their research.  The use of stem cells in biomedical research offers the potential for significant advances in the next decades, provided investigators not only understand this potential, but are equipped to take advantage of it.  Human embryonic stem cells (hESC) have only recently become available, and most investigators are not prepared to handle, maintain, or properly study hESCs. Likewise, the potential of human adult or cord blood, and even animal, stem cells for understanding, treating, and curing human disease is great.

5. NSF - Undergraduate Research and Mentoring in the Biological Sciences

The goal of the Undergraduate Research and Mentoring in the Biological Sciences (URM) program is to increase the number and diversity of individuals pursuing graduate studies in all areas of biological research supported by the NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences. Support will be provided to academic institutions to establish innovative programs to engage undergraduates in a year-round research and mentoring activity. Particular emphasis will be placed on broadening participation of members of groups historically underrepresented in science and engineering: African Americans, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Hispanic Americans, Native Pacific Islanders, and persons with disabilities.

 

6. Research Initiation Grants to Broaden Participation in Biology (RIG BP)

With the goal of broadening participation to all biologists including members from groups under-represented in biology, the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) at NSF continues to offer Research Initiation Grants (RIG).  Currently, African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders are under-represented in biology.  These grants are intended to increase the diversity of researchers who apply for and receive BIO funding to initiate research programs early in their careers.

7. EPA: Reliability and Life Expectancy of Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Systems

The purpose is to develop reliability and life expectancy data (tables, charts, graphs) for use by operators/managers/owners of decentralized wastewater systems. The current lack of this type of information has hindered the proper operation and maintenance of decentralized wastewater systems, contributing to failing systems that endangered public health and the aquatic environment.


C. Arts

 1. NEH – Summer Stipends

Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to scholars and general audiences in the humanities. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly tools. Summer Stipends support full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two months. Summer Stipends support projects at any stage of development. Summer Stipends are awarded to individual scholars. Organizations are not eligible to apply. Summer Stipends may not be used for research for doctoral dissertations or theses by students enrolled in a degree program; specific policy studies or educational or technical impact assessments; the preparation or publication of textbooks; studies of teaching methods or theories, surveys of courses and programs, or curriculum development; inventories of collections; works in the creative or performing arts (e.g., painting, writing fiction or poetry, dance performance, etc.); projects that seek to promote a particular political, philosophical, religious, or ideological point of view; or projects that advocate a particular program of social action. Applications may address the holdings or activities of a single institution or may involve collaboration. In all cases, projects should be designed to facilitate sharing, exchange, and interoperability of humanities information and products.

2. NEA - Grants for Arts Projects

An organization may submit only one application through one of the following FY 2010 Grants for Arts Projects categories (see "Application Limits" for the few exceptions to this rule).
• Access to Artistic Excellence: To encourage and support artistic excellence, preserve our cultural heritage, and provide access to the arts for all Americans. An organization may request a grant amount from $5,000 to $150,000.

  • Deadline: August 13, 2009
  • Funding: $5,000 to $150,000
  • Challenge America: Reaching Every Community Fast-Track Review Grants: To support projects that extend the reach of the arts to underserved populations. Deadline: May 28, 2009
  • Funding: $10,000 
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3. NEH - Fellowships 

Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to scholars and general audiences in the humanities. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, and other scholarly tools. Fellowships support continuous full-time work for a period of six to twelve months. Fellowships may not be used for: curricular or pedagogical methods, theories, or surveys; preparation or revision of textbooks; projects that seek to promote a particular political, philosophical, religious, or ideological point of view; projects that advocate a particular program of social action; works in the creative and performing arts, i.e., painting, writing fiction or poetry, dance performance, etc.; or doctoral dissertations or theses.