Funding Opportunities

Funding Opportunities

A Sampling of Federal, State and Private Funding Opportunities for Research, Education and Creative Activity

June, 2015

PLEASE NOTE; SUBMISSIONS FOR GRANTS STIPULATING A LIMITED COMPETITION/SUBMISSION MUST BE REVIEWED THROUGH AN INTERNAL FSU PROCESS. PLEASE VISIT THE LIMITED SUBMISSIONS SITE FOR MORE INFORMATION:

http://www.research.fsu.edu/limitedsubmission

Funding is Grouped by Area

o Arts & Humanities

o Social Science, Education, Law & Business

o Science and Engineering

o Health & Medicine

o Opportunities for Post-docs & Students

Arts & Humanities

IMLS

National Endowment for the Arts

NEA Our Town, FY2016 Grant

The Our Town grant program supports creative place making projects that help to transform communities into lively, beautiful, and resilient places with the arts at their core. Creative place making is when artists, arts organizations, and community development practitioners deliberately integrate arts and culture into community revitalization work - placing arts at the table with land-use, transportation, economic development, education, housing, infrastructure, and public safety strategies. This funding supports local efforts to enhance quality of life and opportunity for existing residents, increase creative activity, and create a distinct sense of place. Deadline is September 21, 2015.

http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=276754

NEA Our Town Technical Assistance Program Grant

The purpose of this Program Solicitation is to select an organization (Cooperator) to implement the Our Town Technical Assistance Pilot Program activities as described below. In brief, the Cooperator will: · Plan, coordinate, and implement a technical assistance program serving select Our Town grantees that will both assist these organizations in effectively executing their creative place making activities and educate the Arts Endowment in its understanding of the creative place making field. Deadline is July 21, 2015.

http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=276730

National Endowment for the Humanities

Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grant

The Humanities Collections and Reference Resources (HCRR) program supports projects that provide an essential underpinning for scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities. Thousands of libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country maintain important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture, and digital objects. Funding from this program strengthens efforts to extend the life of such materials and make their intellectual content widely accessible, often through the use of digital technology. Awards are also made to create various reference resources that facilitate use of cultural materials, from works that provide basic information quickly to tools that synthesize and codify knowledge of a subject for in-depth investigation. Deadline is July 21, 2015.

http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=276411

Humanities in the Public Square Grant

The Humanities in the Public Square program supports scholarly forums, public discussions, and educational resources related to the themes of a new NEH initiative, The Common Good: The Humanities in the Public Square. Designed to demonstrate the vital role that humanities ideas can play in our civic life, the Humanities in the Public Square program invites projects that draw on humanities scholarship to engage the public in understanding some of today’s most challenging issues and pressing concerns. The Common Good initiative envisions humanities scholars and organizations turning their attention and expertise to topics that have widespread resonance with the American people and that lend themselves to humanistic methods and concerns. Organizations are encouraged to think creatively about what discussion topics would be meaningful to their community. Deadline is June 24, 2015.

http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=276088

Research and Development Grant

The Research and Development program supports projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources. These challenges include the need to find better ways to preserve materials of critical importance to the nation’s cultural heritage—from fragile artifacts and manuscripts to analog recordings and digital assets subject to technological obsolescence—and to develop advanced modes of organizing, searching, discovering, and using such materials. This program recognizes that finding solutions to complex problems often requires forming interdisciplinary project teams, bringing together participants with expertise in the humanities; in preservation; and in information, computer, and natural science. All projects must demonstrate how advances in preservation and access would benefit the cultural heritage community in supporting humanities research, teaching, or public programming. Deadline is June 25, 2015.

http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=274934

Social Science, Education, Law & Business

Agency for International Development

Expanding Participation of People with Disabilities Program - 2014 Disability Funding Grant

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Macedonia would like to bring to the attention of prospective organizations and existing USAID recipients and contractors an exciting funding opportunity to increase the participation of people with disabilities (PWD) in USAID programs/activities and strengthen the capacity and services of Disabled People’s Organizations (DPO) in Macedonia. Deadline is July 8, 2015.

http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=271169

INTEGRATED NUTRITION AND WASH ACTIVITY (INWA Grant)

The United States Government, as represented by the United States Agency for International Development in Rwanda (USAID/Rwanda) is seeking applications from qualified and eligible organizations for a five-year activity is to improve the nutritional status of women of reproductive age and children under five years of age in Rwanda. Deadline is July 17, 2015.

http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=276830

Addendum 1: Community Health Workers Programming under the Integrating Community Health APS Grant

The focus of this Addendum is to improve population health by increasing effective coverage of high impact health and nutrition interventions through: addressing barriers to scaling up and sustaining high quality CHW programming. USAID seeks Applicants to play a substantive role in helping foster better harmonization by addressing fragmentation of CHW programming, identifying knowledge gaps in planning and implementation of CHW programs, and translating new knowledge to influence decisions and actions from the community to the national policy and program levels. Applicants are strongly encouraged to identify barriers and solutions by applying a joint community-health systems focus. Deadline is June 30, 2015.

http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=276759

Department of Agriculture

Rural Community Development Initiative Grant

The RCDI was authorized to develop the capacity and ability of qualified private, nonprofit community-based housing and community development organizations, low-income rural communities, and federally recognized Native American Tribes to undertake projects related to housing, community facilities, or community and economic development in rural areas. Strengthening the recipient’s capacity in these areas will benefit the communities they serve. Deadline is August 13, 2015.

http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=276813

Department of Commerce

Smart Grid Interoperability Standards Cooperative Agreement Program Grant

NIST invites applications from eligible applicants for a program with substantial NIST participation that will support continuous innovation of the electrical grid through the coordination and acceleration of standards development and harmonization and advancement of the interoperability and security of smart grid devices and systems. Deadline is June 24, 2015.

http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=276133

Department of Defense

The Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization (POWER) Implementation Grants Grant

The goal of the POWER Initiative is to align, leverage, and target complementary federal economic and workforce development resources to assist communities and workers negatively impacted by changes in the coal economy. By aligning and leveraging the resources of DOC’s EDA, DOL’s ETA, ARC, and SBA, this initiative seeks projects that reach across economic development and workforce development systems and support local solutions that implement existing economic development strategic plans. This FFO is intended to competitively award grants to partnerships of regionally-oriented economic and workforce development organizations and other key stakeholders located in and supporting impacted coal communities. These grants will enable grantees to take deliberate and measured steps to build economic resilience, industry diversification, local and regional workforce pipelines, and promote new job creation opportunities. Deadline is July 10, 2015.

http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=276458

Department of Education

Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE): First in The World (FITW) Program: VALIDATION Grants CFDA Number 84.116X Grant

The FITW program is designed to support the development, replication, and dissemination of innovative solutions and evidence for what works in addressing persistent and widespread challenges in postsecondary education for students who are at risk for not persisting in and completing postsecondary programs, including, but not limited to, adult learners, working students, part-time students, students from low-income backgrounds, students of color, students with disabilities, and first-generation students. The focus of the FITW program is to build evidence for what works in postsecondary education by testing the effectiveness of these strategies in improving student persistence and completion outcomes. Deadline is June 30, 2015.

http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=276456

Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE): First in The World (FITW) Program: DEVELOPMENT Grants CFDA Number 84.116F Grant

http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=276490

HHS/ACL/NIDILRR: Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects Program CFDA Number 84.133A-7 Grant

The purpose of DRRPs, which are under NIDILRR's Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects and Centers Program, is to improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, by developing methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technologies that advance a wide range of independent living and employment outcomes for individuals with disabilities, especially individuals with the most severe disabilities. Deadline is June 23, 2015.

http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=276108

HHS/ACL/NIDILRR: Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects (DRRPS) Program: Center on Knowledge Translation for Employment Research CFDA Number 84.133A-5 Grant

http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=276348

HHS/ACL/NIDILRR: Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects (DRRPS) Program: Projects for Translating Disability and Rehabilitation Research into Practice CFDA Number 84.133A-6 Grant

http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=276350

HHS/ACL/NIDILRR: Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers (RRTC): Outcomes Measurement for Home and Community Based Services CFDA Number 84.133B-6 Grant

The purpose of the RRTCs, which are funded through the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects and Centers Program, is to achieve the goals of, and improve the effectiveness of, services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act through well-designed research, training, technical assistance, and dissemination activities in important topical areas as specified by NIDILRR. These activities are designed to benefit rehabilitation service providers, individuals with disabilities, family members, policymakers and other research stakeholders. Deadline is June 20, 2015.

http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=276755

HHS/ACL/NIDILLRR: Employment Policy and Measurement CFDA Number 84.133B-3 Grant

The purpose of the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects and Centers Program is to plan and conduct research, demonstration projects, training, and related activities, including international activities to develop methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technology. The Program's activities are designed to maximize the full inclusion and integration into society, employment, independent living, family support, and economic and social self-sufficiency of individuals with disabilities, especially individuals with the most severe disabilities, and to improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (Rehabilitation Act). Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers The purpose of the RRTCs, which are funded through the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects and Centers Program, is to achieve the goals of, and improve the effectiveness of, services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act through well-designed research, training, technical assistance, and dissemination activities in important topical areas as specified by NIDILRR. These activities are designed to benefit rehabilitation service providers, individuals with disabilities, family members, policymakers and other research stakeholders. Deadline is June 19, 2015.

http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=275985

HHS/ACL/NIDILRR: Employment for Individuals with Blindness or other Visual Impairments CFDA Number 84.133B-5 Grant

http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=275986

HHS/ACL/NIDILRR: Employer Practices Leading to Successful Employment Outcomes for Individuals with Disabilities CFDA Number 84.133B-1 Grant

http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=276019

Institute of Education Sciences (IES): Research Training Programs in Special Education CFDA Number 84.324B Grant

The Institute's purpose in awarding these grants is to provide national leadership in expanding fundamental knowledge and understanding of (1) developmental and school readiness outcomes for infants and toddlers with or at risk for disability, and (2) education outcomes for all students from early childhood education through postsecondary and adult education. Purpose of Program: The central purpose of the Institute's research grant programs is to provide interested individuals and the general public with reliable and valid information about education practices that support learning and improve academic achievement and access to education opportunities for all students. Deadline is August 6, 2015.

http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=275905

Institute of Education Science (IES): Special Education Research CFDA Number 84.324A Grant

http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=275904

Institute of Education Sciences (IES): Research Networks Focused on Critical Problems of Education Policy and Practice CFDA Number 84.305N Grant

http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=275903

Institute of Education Sciences (IES): Partnerships and Collaboration Focused on Problems of Practice or Policy CFDA Number 84.305H Grant

http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=275902

Department of Health and Human Services

Department of Homeland Security

Department of Housing and Urban Development

Department of the Interior

Department of Justice

OJJDP FY 2015 Police and Youth Engagement: Supporting the Role of Law Enforcement in Juvenile Justice Reform Grant

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) provides national leadership, coordination, and resources to prevent and respond to juvenile delinquency and victimization. To fulfill this mission, OJJDP collaborates with professionals from diverse disciplines to improve juvenile justice practices and policies. Specifically, OJJDP will examine how to foster strong, collaborative relationships between local law enforcement, youth, families, and communities. OJJDP will emphasize evidence-based practices specific to youth engagement and will identify areas within police operations where additional training and technical assistance are needed, including training and protocols to enable law enforcement to better identify and respond to children who have been direct victims of or witnesses to violence in their homes, schools, and/or communities. Deadline is June 16, 2015.