Grant Opportunities 05-23-2011

May 23, 2011

By , Government Grants Coordinator 831-459-1644

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Funding Source:       NSF

Title:                            Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program

Program:                    CAREER: The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. Such activities should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from junior faculty members at all CAREER-eligible organizations and especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities to apply.

Deadline:                   July 27, 2011

Link:                            http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf11690

Funding Source:       NSF
Title
:                         Linguistics

Program:                    The Linguistics Program supports all types of scientific research that focuses on human language as an object of investigation. The program supports research on the syntactic, semantic, morphological, phonetic, and phonological properties of individual languages and of language in general. It also encourages investigation of linguistic questions that are interdisciplinary in nature: the psychological processes involved in the production, perception, and comprehension of language; the development of linguistic capacities in children; social and cultural factors in language use, variation, and change; the acoustics and physiology of speech; computational approaches to the study of language; and the biological bases of language in the brain.

Deadline:                   July 15, 2010

Link:                            http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5408&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund

Funding Source:       USDA

Title:                            National Integrated Water Quality Program

Program:                    The goal of the National Integrated Water Quality Program (NIWQP) is to contribute to the improvement of the quality of our Nation�s surface water and groundwater resources through research, education, and extension activities. Projects funded through this program will work to solve water resource problems by advancing and disseminating the knowledge base available to agricultural, rural, and urbanizing communities. Funded projects should lead to science-based decision making and management practices that improve the quality of the Nation�s surface water and groundwater resources in agricultural, rural, and urbanizing watersheds.
Deadline:
                   July 15, 2011

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

Funding Source:       Department of Health and Human Services

Title:                            Early Head Start University Partnership Grants: Buffering Children from Toxic Stress

Program:                    The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) announces the Early Head Start University Partnership Grants: Buffering Children from Toxic Stress. These grants fund research activities to implement promising parenting interventions which augment ongoing Early Head Start services, in order to improve outcomes for the most vulnerable infants and toddlers. The purpose of this announcement is to report the availability of grant projects to promote knowledge of how Early Head Start programs can buffer children from the effects of toxic stress by supporting parenting/caregiving. Grantees will be required to demonstrate a partnership or partnerships with Early Head Start programs as an integral part of the research plan development and execution. They will implement a promising parenting interventions model, augmenting existing Early Head Start services, for those children and families at the highest levels of stress. The evaluation component will include a validation of the selected risk factors as indicating a risk for toxic stress, an implementation study of the parenting intervention, as well as a rigorous test of the effectiveness of the intervention. While many caregiving relationships can provide buffering effects, the focus of this announcement is on the parental (or primary caregiver, foster parent, or guardian if biological parents are not available) relationship.

Deadline:                   July 18, 2011

Link:                            http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2011-ACF-OPRE-YR-0204

Funding Source:       William T Grant Foundation

Title:                            Scholars Program

Program:                    The Scholars Program is a professional development program for early-career researchers in the social, behavioral, or health sciences. The program differs from traditional research grants in that it supports career development. The Foundation is particularly excited about applicants who already have a promising track record, but seek a qualitative shift in their trajectory as researchers. The Foundation encourages Scholars to be ambitious in their research endeavors by tackling important questions that will advance theory, policy, and practice for youth and to do so with an expanded array of expertise that includes different methods, disciplinary perspectives, and content knowledge.

Applicants identify areas in which they seek to expand their expertise, and propose five-year research plans to develop it. The Foundation recognizes that early-career researchers often have few supports and incentives to take measured risks with their work, and the Foundation views mentors as providing important assistance. The Foundation therefore also asks applicants to create mentoring plans that will aid them in acquiring new expertise and producing stronger work.

The Foundation supports research to understand and improve the everyday settings of youth ages 8 to 25 in the United States. Settings are defined as the social environments in which youth experience daily life. These settings include environments with clear boundaries such as classrooms, schools, and youth-serving organizations and environments with less prescribed boundaries such as neighborhoods or other settings in which youth interact with peers, family members, and adults. At their best, these settings embed youth within a network of engaging activities; ample resources; meaningful relationships with adults and peers; and opportunities for academic, social, emotional, and identity development.

The Foundation supports research that enhances understanding of: (1) how settings work, how they affect youth development, and how they can be improved; and (2) when, how, and under what conditions research evidence is used in policy and practice that affect youth, and how its use can be improved.

Deadline:                   July 6, 2011

Link:                            http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/funding_opportunities/fellowships/william_t__grant_scholars/william_t_grant_scholars

Funding Source:       Smith Richardson Foundation

Title:                            International Security & Foreign Policy Program Junior Faculty Research Grant Program

Program:                    The Smith Richardson Foundation’s International Security and Foreign Policy Program is pleased to announce its annual grant competition to support junior faculty research on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history.  The Foundation will award at least three research grants of $60,000 each to support tenure-track junior faculty engaged in the research and writing of a scholarly book on an issue or topic of interest to the policy community. 
Deadline:
                  
June 15, 2011

Link:                            http://www.srf.org/grants/international_junior_faculty.php