Funding Opportunities
A Sampling of Federal, State and Private Funding Opportunities for Research, Education and Creative Activity
December 2015
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Funding is Grouped By Area
- Arts & Humanities
- Social Science, Education, Law & Business
- Science and Engineering
- Health & Medicine
- Opportunities for Post-docs & Students
Arts & Humanities
Institutes for Historical Editing Grant
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks proposals to improve the training and education of historical documentary editors. The goal of the program is to both provide technical training in necessary skills and inspire documentary editors to think about how they can contribute to the advancement of the field in the 21st century. Deadline is February 11, 2016.
Media Projects Grants Grant
Media Projects Grants support film, television, and radio projects for general audiences that encourage active engagement with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. All projects must be grounded in humanities scholarship in disciplines such as history, art history, film studies, literature, drama, religious studies, philosophy, or anthropology. Projects must also demonstrate an approach that is thoughtful, balanced, and analytical (rather than celebratory). The approach to the subject matter must go beyond the mere presentation of factual information to explore its larger significance and stimulate critical thinking. NEH is a national funding agency, so the projects we support must demonstrate the potential to attract a broad general audience. Film and television projects may be single programs or a series addressing significant figures, events, or ideas. Programs must be intended for national distribution, via traditional carriage or online distribution. Deadline is January 13, 2016.
Museums, Libraries, and Cultural Organizations Grants Grant
This grant program supports projects for general audiences that encourage active engagement with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. Many different formats are supported, including permanent and traveling exhibitions, book or film discussion programs, historic site or district interpretations, living history presentations, and other face-to-face programs in public venues. All projects must be grounded in humanities scholarship in disciplines such as history, art history, film studies, literature, religious studies, philosophy, or anthropology. Projects must also demonstrate an approach that is thoughtful, balanced, and analytical (rather than celebratory).Deadline is January 13, 2016.
Social Science, Education, Law & Business
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Integrating Economic Development Across the Federal Government Grant
EDA is seeking applications for a one year cooperative agreement to conduct research and analysis that results in tools for better aligning and integrating federal economic development programs. A core piece of this work will involve the creation and delivery of comprehensive, useable economic development program content that will facilitate access to and maximize the efficiency of such programs. Ultimately, such tools will permit communities seeking federal and other assistance to achieve their economic development objectives. Applicants should describe how they would develop and deliver comprehensive information, including an inventory of federal economic development programs and related content that identifies and clearly delineates the parameters for all economic development programs administered by all federal agencies. Deadline is January 13, 2016.
Department of Defense
Department of Education
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of the Interior
Department of Justice
Department of Labor
National Archives and Records Administration
National Science Foundation
Department of State
Global Nuclear Security Engagement Activities Grant
The Department of State’s Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction (ISN/CTR) is pleased to announce an open competition for assistance awards through this Request for Proposals (RFP). ISN/CTR invites non-profit/non-governmental organizations, international organizations, and educational institutions to submit proposals for projects that will advance the mission of the Department's Partnership for Nuclear Security (PNS). ISN/CTR has approximately $7,000,000 available in the current fiscal year to award multiple grants and cooperative agreements in this field. ISN/CTR prefers projects that cost less than $250,000 including overhead, though awards may involve multiple projects that cumulatively exceed $250,000. Deadline is January 29, 2016.
Global Biosecurity Engagement Activities Grant
The Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR), part of the Department’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN), sponsors foreign assistance activities funded by the Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining and Related Programs (NADR) account, and focuses on mitigating proliferation risk in frontline states and regions where the terrorist threat is on the rise, such as South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. Deadline is February 12, 2016.
DRL Request for Statements of Interest on Projects to Address Transitional Justice Processes including Bolstering Accountability for Gross Human Rights Violations Grant
The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) announces a Request for Statements of Interest (RSOI) from organizations interested in submitting Statements of Interest (SOI) for projects addressing transitional justice processes including bolstering accountability for gross human rights violations. Prospective applicants submitting SOIs should outline project concepts and capability to manage projects aimed at addressing transitional justice processes in the context of ongoing lack of justice and impunity in countries and regions with a legacy of gross human rights violations. Successful proposals will provide an analysis of the root causes of these systemic issues, explain how the proposed programming approach addresses these root causes, promote collaboration and coordination amongst relevant stakeholders in-country working on these issues through partnerships with one or more organizations, as well as take a holistic view of justice and impunity, articulating how the approach will ultimately serve to restore the relationship between citizens and the state in countries and regions where this legacy impacts individual and community participation in democratic processes. Deadline is December 18, 2015.
DRL Request Statement of Interest on Forensic Assistance to Address Legacies of Gross Human Rights Violations Grant
The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) announces a Request for Statements of Interest (RSOI) from organizations interested in submitting Statements of Interest (SOI) for projects on forensic assistance to address legacies of gross human rights violations. Prospective applicants submitting SOIs should outline project concepts and capability to manage forensic projects aimed at building the capacity of local organizations. Projects may also seek to address the collection and analysis of DNA samples identifying victims of forced disappearances and other serious human rights abuses, systemic issues of lack of access to justice by strengthening local capacity to investigate and prosecute human rights abuses.Deadline is December 18, 2015.
DRL FY16 Supporting Regional Efforts to Address Torture and Human Rights Abuses of Prisoners/Detainees
Grant
The U.S. Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) announces
an open competition for organizations interested in submitting applications for projects that
address the most egregious abuses in the context of prisons/detention throughout the Central
Asia region: torture, politically-motivated prosecutions, and a lack of meaningful monitoring of
prison and detainee conditions. Deadline is January 21, 2016.
Department of Veteran Affairs
Social Security Administration
Private Funding Sources/ Other
Science and Engineering
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
FY 2016 Air Quality Research and Forecasting Grant
Through the U.S. Weather Research Program (USWRP), OAR’s Office of Weather and Air Quality (OWAQ) is soliciting proposals to conduct air quality research and development activities related to advancing air quality forecasting that will improve NOAA’s operational predictions of ozone and PM2.5 in particular over the coming 5 to 10 years. Deadline is January 29, 2016.
National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) Land Acquisition and Construction Program for Fiscal Year 2016 Grant
The solicitation, by funding designated Reserve agencies and universities to conduct land acquisition and construction projects that support the NERRS mission, aims to strengthen protection of key land and water areas, enhance long-term protection of Reserve areas for research and education, and provide for facility and exhibit construction that meet the highest sustainable design standards possible. Deadline isJanuary 29, 2016.
Department of Defense
Medical Countermeasure Systems Broad Agency Announcement Grant
The medical CBRN countermeasures developed by the Joint Project Manager Medical Countermeasure Systems (JPM MCS) office directly support the current, near-term, and far-term challenges by providing the capability to prevent, diagnose and treat the effects of chemical, radiological and biological warfare agents. This program is open and continuous until revised or discontinued.
Deployed Warfighters Protection Program Grant
The Deployed War-Fighter Protection research program (DWFP) is an initiative to develop and validate novel methods to protect United States Military deployed abroad from threats posed by disease-carrying insects. The DWFP research portfolio is concentrated in 3 specific areas: novel insecticide chemistries/ formulations, application technology and personal protective systems. The ultimate objective is to find industry partners and get useful products into the market/military stock system. This program is open Continuous until modified or closed.
DPA Title III Thin Wall Castings for Military Applications Project
Grant
The DPA Title III objective of the Phase 1 effort is to maintain, modernize, and expand existing domestic, economically viable, merchant supplier production capabilities in the manufacture of complex, large, multi-core magnesium and aluminum sand casting products for rotorcraft platforms. Deadline is January 11, 2016.
Department of Energy
DE-FOA-0001385: Solutions to Improve the Energy Efficiency of U.S. Small and Medium Commercial Buildings Grant
Through this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), Department of Energy (DOE) seeks to fund the scale-up of promising solutions to the market barriers that hinder the growth of energy efficiency in the small and medium commercial buildings and tenant spaces. The objective of this funding is to build a path for market-ready solutions to be used at scale across the United States (US) to improve commercial building energy efficiency. Deadline is February1, 2016.
Office of Science Plant Feedstock Genomics for Bioenergy: A Joint Research Grant
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research (OBER), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), hereby announce their interest in receiving applications for genomics- based research that will lead to the improved use of biomass and plant feedstocks for the production of fuels such as ethanol or renewable chemical feedstocks. Applications are sought for research on candidate bioenergy plants with improved resistance/tolerance to disease and disease complexes. Research to overcome these biological barriers to the low-cost, high-quality, scalable and sustainable production of bioenergy feedstocks using the tools of genetics and genomics are encouraged. Deadline is February 2, 2016.
Department of the Homeland Security
Department of the Interior
Department of Justice
Department of State
Department of Transportation
Environmental Protection Agency
FY16 Environmental Workforce Development and Job Grant
This notice announces the availability of funds and solicits proposals from eligible entities, including nonprofit organizations, to deliver environmental workforce development and job training programs that recruit, train, and place local, unemployed and under-employed residents with the skills needed to secure full-time employment in the environmental field, with a focus on solid and hazardous waste remediation, environmental health and safety, integrated pest management, and wastewater-related training. Deadline is January 14, 2016.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Park Service
National Science Foundation
Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs: Establishing Spokes to Advance Big Data Applications Grant
The National Science Foundation's Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) initiated the National Network of Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs (BD Hubs) program to foster multi-sector collaborations among academia, industry, and government. The BD Hubs are expected to serve a convening and coordinating role and helping to bring together a wide range of Big Data stakeholders in order to connect solution seekers with solution providers. This Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs: Establishing Spokes to Advance Big Data Applications (BD Spokes) solicitation extends the BD Hubs network by establishing multi-institutional and multi-sector collaborations focused on topics of specific interest to a given region, which build upon the capabilities and strengths of said region. This solicitation covers one aspect of NSF's overall Big Data R& D portfolio, which includes: research; infrastructure development and provisioning; education and workforce development; and community engagement. This solicitation is not meant to fund proposals where fundamental research is the primary activity. Deadline is February25, 2016.
Service, Manufacturing and Operations Research Grant
The Service, Manufacturing and Operations Research (SMOR) program supports research leading to the creation of new mathematical models, analyses, and algorithms for decision-making related to design, planning, and operation of service and manufacturing systems. Specifically, the program supports two main types of research: (i) innovations in general-purpose methodology related to optimization, stochastic modeling, and decision and game theory; and (ii) research grounded in relevant applications that require the development of novel and customized analytical and computational methodologies. Deadline isFebruary16, 2016.
Critical Techniques, Technologies and Methodologies for Advancing Foundations and Applications of Big Data Sciences and Engineering Grant
Proposals submitted in response to the BIGDATA solicitation must focus on the development of the scientific discovery processes, novel systems, novel computational, statistical, or mathematical techniques and technologies, or novel theoretical analyses or experimental evaluations of techniques for big data and knowledge management and analytics. BIGDATA proposals submitted under the Foundations category must be highly innovative and broadly applicable. BIGDATA proposals submitted under the Innovative Applications category must address a big data challenge of key importance to at least one application domain from one of the participating NSF directorates and/or agencies, and involve a substantial collaboration between researchers in the application domain and computational disciplines. Deadline is February 09, 2016.
Scalable Nanomanufacturing Grant
This solicitation is seeking high-risk/high-reward research and education proposals. Its focus is on scalable nanomanufacturing challenges and societal and educational issues associated with continuing advances in nanomanufacturing and the ensuing increasing use of nanoscale materials, devices and systems. All proposals should clearly state what roadblocks to scale-up exist and what new approach or approaches will be investigated to overcome those roadblocks. The scientific and engineering barriers to commercialization, in terms of production rate, throughput, quality, reproducibility, yield, efficiency, sustainability, and cost should be addressed in the proposal. Deadline is February 16, 2016.
Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems Grant
This program will support innovative, potentially transformative science and engineering that will accelerate understanding of neural and cognitive systems. Projects responsive to this solicitation will integrate across existing disciplines or approaches, spatial or temporal scales, and/or levels of abstraction or analysis and, where appropriate, challenge prevailing paradigms and practices. This cross-directorate program is one element of NSF’s broader effort directed at Understanding the Brain, a multi-year activity that includes NSF’s participation in the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative. NSF envisions a connected portfolio of transformative, integrative projects that create synergistic links across investigators and communities, yielding novel ways of tackling the challenges of understanding the brain in action and in context. Letter of Intent due December 10, 2015. Deadline is January 26, 2016.
Smart and Connected Health (SCH) Grant
The solicitation aims to complement the long-standing disease and application-focused research efforts with fundamental, innovative, and exploratory research that draws from multiple domains of science and engineering including social, behavioral, and economic sciences. Proposals can address computational, algorithmic, systemic, and device level issues, as well as models of uptake, diffusion, and use of the resulting solutions among different demographic and social groups, as well as the role of appropriate incentives, the risk of potential disparities, and the associated legal and ethical considerations. Accordingly, this interagency solicitation represents the collaboration of the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Deadline is December 10, 2015.
Transportation
USAID
Health & Medicine
Department of Defense
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
National Institutes of Health & CDC
NHLBI TOPMed: Omics Phenotypes of Heart, Lung, and Blood Disorders (X01)Grant
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is intended to support studies of common, complex disorders that significantly affect heart, lung, and blood (HLB) systems and ultimately provides an opportunity for investigators to utilize biospecimen analysis capabilities supported by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and NHLBI contracts to generate omics signatures for their own studies. Data generated through this program is expected to be shared with others in the scientific community, allowing investigators to leverage a rich collection of omics data accumulating in a common, publically accessible database. An overarching goal is to generate information that has greater collective scientific value than the individual studies in isolation. The ultimate goal is to transform HLB genomic science from simple genetic locus-trait associations to comprehensive understanding of complex disease pathobiology at a multi-omics, systems level. Applicants should contact NHLBI staff before preparing an application to discuss the purpose and scope of their applications and to obtain updates regarding the technical requirements and analytical capabilities of the program. Deadline is January 18, 2018.