Grant Alerts

VOLUME 20, NO. 2

ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH UNIT

FEBRUARY 2012

21st Century Museum Professionals (CFDA No. 45.307) Purpose: To increase the capacity of museums by improving the knowledge and skills of museum professionals in multiple institutions and support the development and implementation of classes, seminars, and workshops; resources to support leadership development; collection, assessment, development, and/or dissemination of information that leads to better museum operations; activities that strengthen the use of contemporary technology tools to deliver programs and services; the enhancement of pre-professional training programs; and the development of internship and fellowship programs. Eligibility: Museums; and public or private notfor profit agencies, organizations, or associations that engage in activities designed to advance museums and the museum profession. Funding: $250,000. Deadline: 3/15/12. Contact: Mark Isaksen, Tel. (202) 653-4667; E-mail: misaksen@imls.gov. Affordable Care ActMaternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Research Network (CFDA No. 93.615) Purpose: To support the creation of an interdisciplinary, multicenter research forum for scientific collaboration and infrastructure building related to home visiting research that is designed to improve life outcomes among mothers, infants, and young children. Eligibility: Public or nonprofit institutions of higher learning and public or private nonprofit agencies engaged in research or in programs relating to maternal and child health and/or services for children with special health care needs. Funding: $300,000. Deadline: 3/5/12. Contact: E-mail: callcenter@hrsa.gov.

Atmospheric System Research (CFDA No. 81.049) Purpose: To support clouds, aerosol, and radioactive transfer research that has the potential to improve the accuracy of regional and global climate models. Eligibility: Unrestricted; federal agencies and lobbyists are ineligible. Funding: $3.5 million. Deadline: 4/16/12. Contact: Tel. (301) 903-3120; E-mail: Ashley.williamson@science.doe.gov. Building the Science of Public Reporting (CFDA No. 93.226) Purpose: To build the scientific evidence base for effective public reporting for consumers through innovative, actionable studies that address pressing questions in the field providing consumers with easy-to-understand, readily accessible reports that allow them to compare providers and sites of care based on quality and value at key decision points. Eligibility: County, city, township, and special district governments; private, public, and state controlled institutions of higher education; Native American tribal organizations; and nonprofits. Funding: $14 million. Deadline: 3/28/12. Contact: E-mail: fbowebmaster@od.nih.gov.

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Chemistry and Materials Research in Cultural Heritage Science (CFDA No. 47.049) Purpose: To enhance opportunities for collaborative activities between conservation scientists, chemists, and materials scientists to address grand challenges in the field of science of cultural heritage; to develop new and improved analytical techniques and instruments with high sensitivity and spatial resolution (large and small scale) for restricted volume and/or standoff detection of component materials, degradation products, and deterioration markers that are suitable for nondestructive analysis of cultural heritage objects; to study dynamic changes leading to degradation of cultural heritage objects; to design new multifunctional treatment materials for cultural heritage objects; and to develop new theoretical models to predict dynamic processes in cultural heritage objects that lead to their degradation while taking into account their molecular and materials properties and their surface and bulk interactions with environmental perimeters. Eligibility: Nonprofit, non-academic organizations such as independent museums, observatories, research labs, professional societies, and similar organizations in the U.S. associated with educational or research activities; and universities and colleges, including community colleges. Funding: $4 million. Deadline: 4/17/12. Contact: E-mail: grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov. Choice Neighborhood Implementation Grants (CFDA No. 14.889) Purpose: To transform distressed public and assisted housing into energy efficient, mixed-up income housing that is physically and financially viable over the long term; support positive outcomes for families who live in the target development(s) and the surrounding neighborhood, particularly outcomes related to residents health, safety, employment, mobility, and education; and to transform distressed, high-poverty neighborhoods into viable, mixed-up income neighborhoods with access to well-functioning services, high quality public schools and education programs, high quality early learning programs and services, public assets, public transportation, and improved access to jobs.
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Eligibility: Public housing authorities; local governments; nonprofits; tribal entities; and for-profit developers who apply jointly with a public entity. Funding: $110 million. Deadline: 4/10/12. Contact: E-mail: choiceneighborhoods@hud. gov. Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects and Centers Program: Field Initiated Projects Program (Research) (CFDA No. 84.133G-1, and 84.133G-2) Purpose: To develop methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technology that maximizes 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. Eligibility: State, county, city, township, or special district governments; independent school districts; private, public, and state controlled institutions of higher education; public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities; Native American tribal organizations; nonprofits; for profit organizations other than small businesses; and small businesses. Funding: $2 million. Deadline: 3/5/12. Contact: Julius Cotton, Tel. (202) 245-6140; E-mail: julius.cotton@ed.gov. Federal Aviation Administration Aviation Research and Development Grants (CFDA No. 20.108) Purpose: To pursue the long-term growth and short-term technical needs of civil aviation. Eligibility: Private, public, and state controlled institutions of higher education. Funding: $5 million. Deadline: 12/31/19. Contact: Tel. (606) 485-5557; E-mail: Elizabeth.och@faa.gov. Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service (CFDA No. 47.076) Purpose: To increase the number of qualified students entering the fields of information assurance and cyber security and to increase the capacity

of U.S. higher education to continue to produce professionals in these fields to meet the needs of our increasingly technological society. Eligibility: Universities and two- and four-year colleges (including community colleges) accredited in, and having a campus located in, the U.S. Funding: $45 million. Deadline: 4/17/12. Contact: E-mail: grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov. Genomic Science: Biosystems Design to Enable Next-Generation Bio-fuels (CFDA No. 81.049) Purpose: To develop modeling algorithms and innovative bio-systems design technologies to define, build, and apply functional biological modules for the generation of novel biological systems that advance toward the production of bio-fuels; and for plant systems design for bio-energy to develop novel technologies to re-design bio-energy crops that can grow in marginal environments while producing high yield of biomass that can be easily converted to bio-fuels. Eligibility: Unrestricted. Funding: $20 million. Deadline: 4/2/12. Contact: Tel. (301) 903-3026; E-mail: kim.laing@science.doe.gov. Higher Education Challenge Grants Program (CFDA No. 10.217) Purpose: To address a state, regional, national, or international educational need; involve a creative or non-traditional approach toward addressing that need that can serve as a model to others; and encourage and facilitate better working relationships in the university science and education community, as well as between universities and the private sector, to enhance program quality and supplement available resources and result in benefits that will likely transcend the project duration and USDA support. Eligibility: U.S. public or private nonprofit colleges and universities offering a baccalaureate or first professional degree in at least one discipline or area of the food and agricultural sciences. Funding: $4.77 million. Deadline: 3/30/12. Contact: Tel. (202) 401-5048; E-mail: electronic@nifa.usda.gov.

National Science Foundation Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) (CFDA No. 47.076) Purpose: To support scholarships for academically talented students demonstrating financial need, enabling them to enter the STEM workforce or STEM graduate school following completion of an associate, baccalaureate, or graduate-level degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics disciplines. Eligibility: U.S. institutions of higher education. Funding: $70 million. Deadline: 8/14/12. Contact: E-mail: grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov. Preservation Assistance Grants (CFDA No. 45.149) Purpose: To help small and mid-sized institutions such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, cultural organizations, town and county records offices, and colleges and universities improve their ability to preserve and care for their significant humanities collections. Eligibility: State, county, city, township, or special district governments; private, public, and state controlled institutions of higher education; Native American tribal organizations; and nonprofits. Funding: $6,000. Deadline: 5/1/12. Contact: Tel. (202) 606-8570; E-mail: preservation@neh.gov. Protecting Public Health, Safety, and the Economy From Counterfeit Goods and Product Piracy: The Intellectual Property Theft Enforcement Program (CFDA No. 16.752) Purpose: To provide national support and improve the capacity of state, local, and tribal criminal justice systems to address intellectual property criminal enforcement, including prosecution, prevention, training, and technical assistance. Eligibility: State, local, tribal, and municipal law enforcement agencies, including law enforcement agencies within institutions of higher education, and prosecutors. Funding: $200,000. Deadline: 3/2/12. Contact: Tel. (800) 518-4726; E-mail: support@grants.gov.

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Reintegration of Ex-Offenders Adult Generation 5 (CFDA No. 17.270) Purpose: To provide pre-release and post-release services to ex-offenders returning to high-poverty, high-crime communities. These services will include job training, and assistance connecting to supportive services such as housing and substance abuse programs and mental health treatment. Eligibility: Nonprofit organizations. Funding: $20.6 million. Deadline: 3/13/12. Contact: Tel. (202) 693-3437; E-mail: ruggles.brinda@dol.gov. The Rural Energy for America Program Renewable Energy Systems and Energy Efficiency Improvements (CFDA No. 10.868) Purpose: To provide for the

development and construction of renewable energy systems and for energy efficiency improvement projects; grants for conducting energy audits; grants for conducting renewable energy development assistance; and grants for conducting renewable energy system feasibility studies. To provide funds to agricultural producers and rural small businesses to install renewable energy systems and energy efficiency improvements. Eligibility: Individuals; small businesses including agricultural producers and rural small businesses; and all agricultural producers, farmers, and ranchers who gain 50% or more of their gross income from the agricultural operations. Funding: $86.4 million in grants and loan guarantees. Deadline: 3/30/12.

Contact: Anthony Ashby, Tel. (202) 720-0661; E-mail: Anthony.ashby@wdc.usda.gov. Wrongful Conviction Review Program (CFDA No. 16.746) Purpose: To provide high quality and efficient representation for potentially wrongfully convicted defendants in cases of post-conviction claims of innocence. Eligibility: Nonprofit organizations with missions dedicated (in whole or in part) to exonerating the innocent and to state or local public defender offices; public and nonprofit organizations that have experience and expertise in providing representation to wrongfully convicted defendants in post-conviction claims of innocence cases. Funding: $250,000. Deadline: 3/1/12. Contact: E-mail: support@grants.gov.