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Funding Source: USDA
Title: 2011 Farmers Market Promotion Program
Program: The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has announced the availability of approximately $10 million in competitive grant funds in fiscal year (FY) 2011 to be awarded through the Famers Market Promotion Program (FMPP). The FMPP competitive program is administered by the Marketing Grants and Technical Services Branch (MGTSB), Marketing Services Division (MSD) of AMS and is designed to promote the domestic consumption of agricultural commodities by expanding direct producer-to-consumer marketing opportunities.
Deadline: July 1, 2011
Link: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=97873
Funding Source: EPA
Title: EPA School Integrated Pest Management Grants
Program: EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) announces the availability of approximately $1 million for assistance agreements to further through research, development, monitoring, public education, training, demonstrations, or studies the adoption of verifiable integrated pest management (IPM) by the nation�s kindergarten to 12th grade public and tribal schools.
Deadline: July 18, 2011
Link: http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Informal Science Education (ISE)
Program: The ISE program supports innovation in anywhere, anytime, lifelong learning, through investments in research, development, infrastructure, and capacity-building for STEM learning outside formal school settings.
Deadline: Preliminary Proposal (optional): August 12, 2011
Full Proposal: January 11, 2012
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11546/nsf11546.htm
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Population and Community Ecology
Program: The Population and Community Ecology Cluster supports research that advances the conceptual or theoretical understanding of population ecology, species interactions and community dynamics in terrestrial, wetland and freshwater habitats. We encourage projects that integrate theoretical, modeling, and empirical approaches, or that promote synthesis across spatial and temporal scales. The cluster seeks to fund projects that are transformative -- that is, those that will change the conceptual bases of population and community ecology and have broad implications for future research. Proposals that develop research questions within the context of existing theory, consider alternate mechanisms, and design critical tests to distinguish among mechanisms are particularly encouraged, together with those that use contemporary approaches to develop new paradigms.
Population and Community Ecology Program: This program supports fundamental studies in the broadly defined areas of population and community ecology. Topics include the population dynamics of individual species, demography, and fundamental ecological interactions affecting populations, communities, and their environments. Themes include, but are not limited to: population regulation; food-web structure and trophic dynamics; competition, predation, mutualism and parasitism; mechanisms of coexistence and the maintenance of species diversity; community assembly; paleoecology; landscape ecology; conservation and restoration biology; behavioral ecology; and macroecology. The Program particularly encourages studies that can be applied to a wide range of habitats and taxa across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Deadline: July 9, 2011
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503414&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Geography and Spatial Sciences (GSS)
Program: The goals of the NSF Geography and Spatial Sciences (GSS) Program are:
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To promote scientific research in geography and the spatial sciences that advances theory and basic understanding and that addresses the challenges facing society
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To promote the integration of geographers and spatial scientists in interdisciplinary research
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To promote education and training of geographers and spatial scientists in order to enhance the capabilities of current and future generations of researchers
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To promote the development and use of scientific methods and tools for geographic research
The Geography and Spatial Sciences Program sponsors research on the geographic distributions and interactions of human, physical, and biotic systems on the Earth's surface. Investigations are encouraged into the nature, causes, and consequences of human activity and natural environmental processes across a range of scales. Projects on a variety of topics (both domestic and international) qualify for support if they offer promise of contributing to scholarship by enhancing geographical knowledge, concepts, theories, methods, and their application to societal problems and concerns. GSS encourages projects that explicitly integrate undergraduate and graduate education into the overall research agenda.
Deadline: August 15, 2011
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5410&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Funding Source: The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Title: Research Grant
Program: Proposals welcomed from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes manifestations, and control of violence and aggression. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of violence and aggression in the modern world.
Deadline: August 1, 2011
Link: http://www.hfg.org/rg/guidelines.htm
