A. General
1. Institute of Museum and Library Services
This program supports projects to develop faculty and library leaders, to recruit and educate the next generation of librarians, to conduct research on the library profession, and to support early career research on any area of library and information science by tenure-track, untenured faculty in graduate schools of library and information science. It also supports projects to attract high school and college students to consider careers in libraries, to build institutional capacity in graduate schools of library and information science, and to assist in the professional development of librarians and library staff.
• Funding: $50,000 +
• Deadline: December 15, 2008
• Website: http://www.imls.gov/applicants/grants/pdf/L21_2009.pdf
2. NEH -Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants
Grant program to encourage faculty and students at the undergraduate level to grapple with the most fundamental concerns of the humanities, and to join together in deep, sustained programs of reading in order to encounter influential thinkers over the centuries and into the present day. Enduring questions can be tackled by reflective individuals regardless of their chosen vocations, areas of expertise, or personal backgrounds. What are these enduring questions? What is the good life? What is justice? Mercy? What is freedom? Happiness? Is there such a thing as right and wrong? Good and evil? What is good government? What is liberal education? The Enduring Questions grant program will support new humanities courses at the undergraduate level: their design and preparation, teaching, and assessment, as well as ancillary activities that enhance faculty-student intellectual community. Courses may be taught by faculty from any department or discipline in the humanities or by faculty outside the humanities (e.g., astronomy, biology, economics, law, mathematics, medicine, psychology), provided humanities sources are central to the course.
• Funding: up to $25,000.
• Deadline: Nov. 13, 2008
• Website: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/EnduringQuestions.html
3. Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans provides opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished new Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields. The program recognizes the contributions new Americans have made to American life and the opportunities the United States has afforded the donors. The fellowships provide grants for up to two years of graduate study in the U.S.
• Deadline: Nov. 1.
• Funds: Thirty fellowships are awarded each year. Fellows receive a maintenance grant of $20,000 and a tuition grant of half the tuition cost of the graduate program, up to $16,000 per academic year paid directly to the institution.
• Eligibility: Applicants are resident aliens; naturalized U.S. citizens; or children of two parents who both are naturalized citizens. The applicant must have either a bachelor’s degree or be in the final year of undergraduate study. Those already pursuing graduate study may receive a fellowship to continue studies. Applicants must not be older than 30 as of Nov. 1.
• Website: http://www.pdsoros.org/
4. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Foundation
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Foundation supports projects and activities designed to foster educational activities between the public and the film industry and encourage an appreciation of the motion picture as an art form and a vocation. Recent awards have gone to Cornell Cinema for visiting artists within a screening series and to Streetlights, a Los Angeles organization, for a production assistant training and placement program.
• Deadline: Jan. 15.
• Funds: Awards typically range from $5,000 to $15,000.
• Eligibility: The program provides awards to institutions, not individuals. Eligible applicants include film-related nonprofit organizations, schools and colleges.
• Website: www.oscars.org/grants/institutional/index.html
5. Blue Moon Fund
The Blue Moon Fund seeks to improve the human condition by changing the relationship between human consumption and the natural world. The fund supports exploration of new cultural and economic approaches to resource and energy use and sustainability. Major categories are: rethinking consumption and energy; balancing human and natural ecosystems; and reenergizing urban communities.
• Deadline: rolling
• Funds: varies
• Website: www.bluemoonfund.org
6. Bernard Osher Foundation Reentry Scholarships
The Bernard Osher Foundation supports Osher Reentry Scholarships to assist reentry students who have experienced an interruption in their education of five or more years and who now want to resume their undergraduate university studies to complete their degree. The scholarship is intended to benefit students who have a considerable number of work years ahead, ideally individuals aged 25 to 50. Students may pursue studies part time or full time. The program currently includes 70 institutions.
• Deadline: Institutions may contact the foundation anytime.
• Funds: The foundation will consider applications for grants up to $50,000 with possible renewal for a second and third year. Upon demonstrated success, the foundation will consider establishing endowments of $1 million to provide permanent support for the scholarships.
• Website: http://www.osherfoundation.org/
7. American Association of University Women
The American Association of University Women supports aspiring scholars around the globe, teachers and activities in local communities, women at critical stages of their careers and women pursuing professions in which women are underrepresented. Its American Fellowships program supports: postdoctoral research leave fellowships at accredited institutions; dissertation support for women doctoral candidates; and summer/short-term research publications grants for faculty and independent researchers to prepare research for publication. Postdoctoral fellowships are available in the arts and humanities, social sciences and natural sciences; dissertation support is open to applicants in all fields of study, especially science, technology and engineering.
• Deadline: Nov. 15, 2008
• Funds: $30,000 for postdoctoral research leave support; $20,000 for dissertation support; $6,000 for research publication grants.
• Website: www.aauw.org/education/fga/fellowships_grants/american.cfm
8. Knowledge Dissemination Conference Grants Program Announcement
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announces SAMHSA’s Knowledge Dissemination Conference Grants program. The purpose of the Conference Grant program is to disseminate knowledge about practices within the mental health services and substance abuse prevention and treatment fields and to integrate that knowledge into real-world practice as effectively and efficiently as possible. It is not the practice of SAMHSA to provide total support for planned meetings and conferences. Only direct costs will be funded under this program. Not all SAMHSA’s Centers will be awarding Conference Grants in any given year.
• Deadline: March 31, 2009
• Funds: up to $50,000 for a 12-month project period
• Website: http://www.samhsa.gov/Grants/2008/OA_08_002cmhs.aspx
9. Reducing Risk Behaviors by Promoting Positive Youth Development
This FOA supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the National Institute of Nursing Research is designed to stimulate a theoretically grounded program of research to promote the development, implementation, evaluation, and dissemination of effective, positive youth development programs for youth from childhood to young adulthood. A multilevel approach will be taken which includes the promotion of positive youth development, the reduction of risk behaviors, and consideration of family, community, social, and political context.
• Deadline: rolling through Sept. 7, 2011
• Funds: varies
• Website: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=true&oppId=18235
10. Collaborative Research Grants (NEH)
Collaborative Research Grants support original research undertaken by a team of two or more scholars or research coordinated by an individual scholar that, because of its scope or complexity, requires additional staff and resources beyond the individual's salary. Eligible projects include: research that significantly adds to knowledge and understanding in the humanities; conferences on topics of major importance in the humanities that will benefit ongoing research; archaeological projects that include the interpretation and communication of results (projects may encompass excavation, materials analysis, laboratory work, field reports, and preparation of interpretive monographs); translations into English of works that provide insight into the history, literature, philosophy, and artistic achievements of other cultures; and research that uses the knowledge, methods, and perspectives of the humanities to enhance understanding of science, technology, medicine, and the social sciences. These grants support full-time or part-time activities for periods of one to three years.
• Funds: $25,000 to $100,000 per year
• Deadline: Nov.5, 2008
• Website: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/collaborative.html
B. Health
1. Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship (HRSA)
Grants are awarded to eligible institutions to provide financial support through traineeships for registered nurses enrolled in advanced education nursing programs to prepare nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse- midwives, nurse anesthetists, nurse administrators, nurse educators, public health nurses and nurses in other specialties requiring advanced education. The traineeship program is a formula program so all approved applicants will receive funds. Eligible applicants are collegiate schools of nursing, academic health centers, and other private or public nonprofit entities accredited by a recognized body or bodies or State agency, approved for the purpose of nursing education by the Secretary of Education.
• Funding: average award of $52,000
• Deadline: October 27, 2008
• Website: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=42913
2. Innovative Nurse Education Technologies - HRSA
Grants are awarded to eligible institutions to strengthen the capacity for registered nurse education to address the registered nursing shortage. The program requires an innovative regional approach in the use of new technologies to enhance nursing education which shall include competency-based distance learning methodologies. The regional approach should use technology to support learning and teaching for the benefit of learners, teachers, educational institutions and employers. An applicant’s approach would be considered regional if it includes a multi-institutional and/or multi-State collaborative that maximizes resources and impacts the registered nurse shortage.
• Funding: up to $650,000
• Deadline: Oct. 27, 2008
• Website: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=true&oppId=18353
3. Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente’s Community Benefit Grants award money to projects that decrease disparities in health care, especially among the disadvantaged, such as racial and ethnic minorities and children.
• Funding: Grants range from $5,000 to $100,000, averaging $20,000 for one year.
• Deadline: Rolling.
• Website: http://info.kp.org/communitybenefit/
4. Building Healthy Communities for Active Aging: Training and Demonstration Projects
The EPA Aging Initiative, located in the Office of Children’s Health Protection and Environmental Education, is seeking proposals for a new grant opportunity for Building Healthy Communities for Active Aging: Training and Demonstration Projects. Proposals must include their strategy for accomplishing one of the following two goals: (1) Training older adults, to be environmental leaders on local planning decisions that affect their community’s built environment; (2) Demonstrating how greenways and sustainable streets can improve the quality of life for persons of all ages while improving environmental quality.
• Funding: funding of up to $200,000 (1 or 2 grants).
• Deadline: Nov. 21, 2008
• Website: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=42906
5. Health Resources & Services Administration
Grants are awarded to increase nursing education opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds (including racial and ethnic minorities underrepresented among registered nurses) by providing student scholarships or stipends, pre-entry preparation, and retention activities
• Funds: average award estimated at $290,800
• Deadline: Nov. 3, 2008
• Website: https://grants.hrsa.gov/webexternal/FundingOppDetails.asp?FundingCycleId=CD617CA9-0A3F-4206-8D88-7B738E8282CD&ViewMode=EU&GoBack=&PrintMode=&OnlineAvailabilityFlag=True&pageNumber=1
6. Advanced Education Nursing Grants (HRSA)
Grants are awarded to eligible institutions for projects that support the enhancement of advanced nursing education and practice. For the purpose of this section, advanced education nurses means individuals trained in advanced degree programs (master's and doctoral levels)including individuals in combined RN to Master's degree programs, post-nursing Master's certificate programs, or in the case of nurse-midwives, in certificate programs in existence on November 12, 1998, to serve as nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse midwives, nurse anesthetists, nurse educators, nurse administrators or public health nurses.
• Funds: average $250,000
• Deadline: Dec. 15, 2008
• Website: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=42909
C. Science
1. Environmental Protection Agency: 6th Annual P3 Awards
The EPA, as part of the P3 Award Program, is seeking applications proposing to research, develop, and design solutions to real world challenges involving the overall sustainability of human society. The P3 competition highlights the use of scientific principles in creating innovative projects focused on sustainability. The P3 Awards program was developed to foster progress toward sustainability by achieving the mutual goals of economic prosperity, protection of the planet, and improved quality of life for its people-- people, prosperity, and the planet – the three pillars of sustainability. The EPA offers the P3 competition in order to respond to the technical needs of the world while moving towards the goal of sustainability.
• Funding: student awards of $10,000; $75,000
• Deadline: Phase I deadline – Dec. 23, 2008
• Website: http://www.epa.gov/P3
2. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOAA is soliciting proposals for two separate programs. Program 1 is the Regional Ecosystem Prediction Program on Coral Reef Ecosystem Studies (CRES) From Science to Conservation: Linking Coral Reefs, Coastal Watersheds and their Human Communities in the Pacific Islands. Projects under this program will be 3 to 5 years in duration. The goal of this funding opportunity is to utilize existing scientific tools and approaches (e.g., biophysical models; coupled watershed and hydrodynamic models) within a social, cultural, and economic framework to develop and implement effective coastal ecosystem management practices in the Pacific Islands. Program 2 is the Northern Gulf of Mexico Ecosystems and Hypoxia Assessment Program (NGOMEX). NGOMEX has two components. The Modeling the Causes of Hypoxia component takes a regional ecosystem prediction approach to advance model development assessing the association between the northern Gulf hypoxic zone and causative factors. The proposed research for this competition should be 3-5 years in duration. The Modeling the Impacts of Hypoxia component takes an ecosystem stressors approach to advance understanding of hypoxia on ecologically and commercially important living resource populations of the northern Gulf of Mexico ecosystem. These projects should be 3 to 5 years of duration.
• Funding: up to $1,000,000
• Deadline: Oct. 9/Oct.20, 2008 (depending on region)
• Website: http://www.cop.noaa.gov/
3. Exploratory Studies in Cancer Detection, Diagnosis, and Prognosis (NIH)
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA), issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), invites grant applications from institutions and organizations that are interested in developing and testing innovative methods in cancer detection, diagnosis, and prognosis. The NCI is especially interested in research studies that focus on the development and testing of improved methods for detecting specific characteristics of cancer, which can be subsequently used for the clinical management of cancer patients or individuals who are at risk for (developing) cancer. It is important that research studies focus on the search for molecular and cellular differences between tumors, pre-malignant, or normal tissues. The studies should determine the clinical translational significance of these differences by correlation with clinical parameters, in order to answer clinical problems related to detection, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis
• Funding: up to $200,000
• Deadline: Sept. 7, 2012
• Website: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=true&oppId=18401
4. Small Grants Program for Cancer Epidemiology
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA), issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), encourages the submission of Small Research Grant (R03) applications for research on cancer etiology and epidemiology. The overarching goal of this FOA is to provide support for pilot projects, testing of new techniques, secondary analyses of existing data, development and validation of measurement methods, linkage of genetic polymorphisms with other variables related to cancer risk, and development of innovative projects for more comprehensive research in cancer etiology and epidemiology. -Mechanism of Support.
• Funds: varies
• Deadline: Nov. 19, 2011
• Website: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=true&oppId=18230
