Grant Opportunities 05-16-2011

May 16, 2011

By , Government Grants Coordinator 831-459-1644

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Funding Source:       NSF

Title:                            Archaeology – Senior Research

Program:                    The Archaeology Program provides support for anthropologically relevant archaeological research at both a "senior" and doctoral dissertation level. It also funds anthropologically significant archaeometric research and high-risk exploratory research proposals.

Deadline:                   July 1, 2011

Link:                            http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11690&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund

Funding Source:       NSF

Title:                            Developmental and Learning Sciences

Program:                    DLS supports fundamental research that increases our understanding of cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to children's and adolescents' development and learning.  Research supported by this program will add to our basic knowledge of how people learn and the underlying developmental processes that support learning, with the objective of leading to better educated children and adolescents who grow up to take productive roles as workers and as citizens.

Deadline:                   July 15, 2011

Link:                            http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=8671&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund

Funding Source:       USDA

Title:                            Integrated Research, Education and Extension Competitive Grants Program – National Integrated Food Safety Initiative

Program:                    The purpose of the National Integrated Food Safety Initiative is to support food safety projects that demonstrate an integrated approach to solving problems in applied food safety research, education, or extension. Various models for integration of applied research, education, and extension will be considered for funding. Applications describing multi-state, multi-institutional, multidisciplinary, and multifunctional activities (and combinations thereof) are encouraged. Applicants are strongly encouraged to address at least two of the three functional areas of research, education, and extension (i.e., research and extension, research and education, or extension and education).

Deadline:                   June 27, 2011

Link:                            http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/rfas/food_safety.html

Funding Source:       Merck Family Fund

Title:                            Sustaining Our Environment Grants

Program:                    Primary to the Fund's vision of a healthy planet is the goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to create policies for sustainable production practices. The Fund will have three priority areas towards this end:

1. Promoting Energy Efficiency: The cheapest and fastest way to reduce demand for electric power is through energy efficiency. In order to maximize the carbon and financial savings, a combination of motivational factors are needed for implementation including low cost, simplicity, accessibility, and regulatory oversight. The goal is to support state and regional policies in the Northeast and Southeast that provide incentives and subsidies for energy efficiency implementation.

Deadline:                   Letter of Intent – Continuous; Full proposal August 1, 2011

Link:                http://www.merckff.org/programs_protecting.html

Funding Source:       Wallace Global Fund

Title:                            Grants

Program:                    The mission of the Wallace Global Fund is to promote an informed and engaged citizenry, to fight injustice, and to protect the diversity of nature and the natural systems upon which all life depends.

The Fund supports initiatives related to environmental resource depletion and system collapse, corporate abuses and the concentration of corporate power, planetary carrying capacity, sustainable human population, women's human rights, with an emphasis on ending female genital mutilation, civic engagement, civil liberties, equal justice, independent media, and media policy.

The Fund seeks to further its mission generally through systemic change as well as fundamental public policy shifts. The Fund strongly believes in access to information for furthering democratic participation and in supporting bold, new, progressive ideas.

The Fund supports activities at the global and national level, and will consider significant local or regional initiatives offering the potential to leverage broader national or global impact. It will consider proposals for either core or project-specific support.

Deadline:                   Rolling

Link:                            http://www.wgf.org/priorities

Funding Source:       UCHRI

Title:                            Working Groups on the Humanities and Changing Conceptions of Work

Program:                    Globalization has profoundly impacted not just what work is available but how and where we work, what we think of as work, and what skills the humanities and interpretative social sciences must teach to prepare students for work. This three-year multicampus research initiative seeks to comprehend and illuminate the changing conceptions and experience of work in the face of recent global economic, technological, and social developments, and to address the implications for the Humanities. It will explore also how humanities practitioners can prepare students for the work that awaits them in 21st-century global society.

The working groups, seminars, and other research projects of this three-year initiative will take place on campuses across the University of California, drawing on and promoting the networking and research strengths of faculty and graduate students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences across the system.

Deadline:                   October 15, 2011

Link:                            http://www.uchri.org/page-home.php?page_id=1418&cat_id=1