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Funding Source: NSF
Title: International Research Fellowship Program (IRFP)
Program: The objective of the IRFP is to introduce scientists and engineers in the early stages of their careers to international collaborative research opportunities, thereby furthering their research capacity and global perspective and forging long-term relationships with scientists, technologists and engineers abroad. These awards are available in any field of science and engineering research and education supported by NSF.
Deadline: September 13, 2011
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5179
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM)
Program: The PAESMEM Program seeks to identify outstanding mentoring efforts that enhance the participation and retention of individuals (including persons with disabilities, women and minorities) who might not otherwise have considered or had access to opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The awardees serve as leaders in the national effort to develop fully the nation's human resources in STEM.
Deadline: October 5, 2011
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11563/nsf11563.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
Funding Source: NIH
Title: International Tobacco and Health Research and Capacity Building Program (R01)
Program: This FOA solicits collaborative research and capacity building projects that address the burden of tobacco use in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC) by pursuing observational, intervention and policy research of LMIC relevance and building capacity in epidemiological and behavioral research, prevention, treatment, communications, implementation, health services and policy research. The level of research and research training specialization in any given project will vary based on the strengths of the particular investigators and institutions and the specific need to build capacity to support locally relevant research on tobacco control interventions. The overall intent of the program is to encourage trans-disciplinary research to the international tobacco epidemic and to reduce the global burden of morbidity and mortality caused by tobacco use. The program is designed to promote international cooperation between investigators in the United States or other high-income countries (HIC) pursuing research programs on tobacco control, and scientists and institutions in LMIC where tobacco consumption is a current or anticipated public health urgency. The program allows U.S. and other HIC investigators to gain expertise working under LMIC-specific conditions and strengthens the research base of the U.S. and foreign institutions, especially those institutions in LMIC. To this end, capacity strengthening must be an integrated and significant part of the research proposal.
Deadline: Letter of Intent: August 15, 2011 (not required)
Full Proposal: September 15, 2011
Link: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-TW-11-003.html
Funding Source: USDA-NIFA
Title: People's Garden Grant Program
Program: NIFA announces the availability of grant funds and requests applications for the People's Garden Grant Program (PGGP) for fiscal year (FY) 2011 to facilitate the creation of produce, recreation, and/or wildlife gardens in urban and rural areas, which will provide opportunities for science-based informal education. This program is a joint initiative supported by USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Food and Nutritional Service, Forest Service, and Natural Resources Conservation Service, in addition to NIFA. Successful applicants will provide micro-subgrant support to smaller local projects.
Deadline: August 26, 2011
Link: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/rfas/peoples_garden.html
Funding Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA/DOC)
Title: FY2012 NOAA California Bay Watershed Education and Training Program
Program: The California B-WET grant program is a competitively based program that supports existing environmental education programs, fosters the growth of new programs, and encourages the development of partnerships among environmental education programs throughout the San Francisco Bay, Monterey Bay, and Santa Barbara Channel watersheds. Projects support organizations that provide students "meaningful" watershed educational experiences and teachers professional development opportunities in the area of environmental education.
Deadline: October 4, 2011
Link: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=102833
Funding Source: SSRC
Title: Abe Fellowship
Program: The Abe Fellowship is designed to encourage international multidisciplinary research on topics of pressing global concern. The program seeks to foster the development of a new generation of researchers who are interested in policy-relevant topics of long-range importance and who are willing to become key members of a bilateral and global research network built around such topics. It strives especially to promote a new level of intellectual cooperation between the Japanese and American academic and professional communities committed to and trained for advancing global understanding and problem solving.
Research support to individuals is at the core of the Abe Fellowship Program. Applications are welcome from scholars and non-academic research professionals. The objectives of the program are to foster high quality research in the social sciences and related disciplines, to build new collaborative networks of researchers around the three thematic foci of the program, to bring new data and new data resources to the attention of those researchers, and to obtain from them a commitment to a comparative or transnational line of inquiry.
Deadline: September1, 2011
Link: http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/abe-fellowship/
Funding Source: The Class Foundation
Title: Demonstration/Applied Research Projects & Doctoral Dissertation Awards
Program: The CLASS Foundation focuses on innovative programs and projects that target the creation of breakthroughs in learning. Innovation requires risk, and the entrepreneurial background of the founders encourages the Foundation to consider the challenging nature of proposals that produce significant advances in learning. There are many organizations and individuals developing the expertise and experience to generate the required breakthroughs. The CLASS Foundation exists to support and encourage their efforts to help learning become a highly valued and integral part of everyone’s life.
The mission of The CLASS Foundation is to “strengthen community, family, and individuals through innovation in learning and education.” The Foundation supports projects that have the potential to dramatically enhance and impact the process of learning.
Demonstration/Applied Research Projects: The primary focus of the CLASS Foundation is to support innovative projects that have the potential to affect learning and education. Projects funded by the Foundation must be designed to demonstrate innovation in the process of learning and should include an assessment design that is of sufficient strength to document results that have lasting impact and that can be extended beyond the scope of the proposed project. A proposal must provide a clear rationale for the innovation, focused goals and objectives, and an evaluation plan that measures the success or failure of the innovation.
Doctoral Dissertation Awards: The CLASS Foundation offers up to three dissertation
awards annually to help fund doctoral dissertation research that has the potential to affect learning and education and is consistent with the objectives of the Foundation.
Deadline: Letter of Intent due October 1, 2011
Link: http://www.classfoundation.org/applicants/grantprograms.html
Funding Source: American Philosophical Society (APS)
Title: Franklin Research Grants
Program: Since 1933 the APS has awarded small grants to scholars in order to support the cost of research leading to publication in all areas of knowledge. The program is particularly designed to help meet the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials; the costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses.
Deadline: October 1, 2011
Link: http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/franklin
