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Upcoming Deadlines
Federal
EPA Urban Waters Small Grants:
January 23, 2012
Department of Education Upward Bound:
January 20, 2012
Foundation
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues:
February 15, 2012
Feminist Review Trust:
January 31, 2012
William T. Grant Foundation-Letter of Intent:
January 5, 2012
Student
EPA FY 2012 National Network for Environmental Management Studies (NNEMS) Fellowship
January 30, 2012
NOAA FY 2012 NMFS-Sea Grant Fellowships in Population Dynamics
February 17, 2012
Association for Institutional Research (AIR):
January 10, 2012
Federal
Funding Source: EPA
Title: Urban Waters Small Grants
Program: EPA expects to award between $1.8 to $3.8 million in grants for projects across the country that will contribute to improved water quality and community revitalization. The goal of these Urban Waters Small Grants is to fund research, studies, training, and demonstration projects that will advance the restoration of urban waters by improving water quality through activities that also support community revitalization and other local priorities. The funding is part of EPA’s Urban Waters program, which supports communities in their efforts to access, improve, and benefit from their urban waters and the surrounding land.
Deadline: January 23, 2012
Link: http://www.epa.gov/urbanwaters/funding/
Funding Source: Department of Education
Title: Upward Bound Program
Program: Upward Bound provides fundamental support to participants in their preparation for college entrance. The program provides opportunities for participants to succeed in their precollege performance and ultimately in their higher education pursuits. Upward Bound serves: high school students from low-income families; and high school students from families in which neither parent holds a bachelor's degree. The goal of Upward Bound is to increase the rate at which participants complete secondary education and enroll in and graduate from institutions of postsecondary education.
Upward Bound projects provide academic instruction in mathematics, laboratory sciences, composition, literature, and foreign languages. Tutoring, counseling, mentoring, cultural enrichment, work-study programs, education or counseling services designed to improve the financial and economic literacy of students; and programs and activities previously mentioned that are specially designed for students who are limited English proficient, students from groups that are traditionally underrepresented in postsecondary education, students with disabilities, students who are homeless children and youths, students who are in foster care or are aging out of foster care system or other disconnected students.
Deadline: January 30, 2012
Link: http://www2.ed.gov/programs/trioupbound/index.html
Foundations
Funding Source: Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
Title: SPSSI Action Grants for Experienced Scholars (SAGES)
Program: The SAGES Program was set up to encourage our age 60 and over and retired members to apply their knowledge to helping solve social problems or to assist policy makers to solve social problems. Proposals are invited that use social science research findings to address social problems through direct action projects, consulting with not-for-profit groups, or through preparing reviews of existing social science literature that could be used by policy makers. Proposals will be evaluated in terms of how well they build on existing social science research and theory, the feasibility of the project, and the importance of the project.
Deadline: February 15, 2012
Link: http://www.spssi.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewpage&pageid=732
Funding Source: Feminist Review Trust
Title: Research and Other Scholarly Activity on All Aspects of Gender
Program: The Feminist Review Trust will fund:
Hard to fund projects. Some types of projects are difficult to fund. Typically these projects have no other obvious sources of funding. This might mean, for example, that traditional academic sources are either not interested in the area or that it is an activist project or that it is too feminist for most conventional funding sources. Pump priming activities. This means that we will provide a small amount of funding to help start an activity in the hope that it will then be able attract sufficient funding to continue.
Interventionist projects which support feminist values. It is often difficult for projects around core feminist concerns such as abortion rights and domestic violence to find funding.
Training and development projects: we will fund projects, which provide training in relevant areas.
Dissemination: we will fund the production and distribution of relevant material. Too often wonderful work has had a more limited impact than it should because it was not well of fully distributed The Trust will fund dissemination. .
Core funding: we realize that many groups struggle to raise core funding. The Trustees are willing to offer core funding to cover staff costs, accommodation etc.
Deadline: January 31, 2012
Link: http://www.feminist-review-trust.com/guidelines.htm
Funding Source: William T. Grant Foundation
Title: Investigator Initiated Grants
Program: This program supports high-quality empirical studies that are consistent with our Current Research Interests.
Deadline: Letter of Intent: January 5, 2012
Link: http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/funding_opportunities/research_grants
Students
Funding Source: EPA
Title: FY 2012 National Network for Environmental Management Studies (NNEMS) Fellowship
Program: The National Network for Environmental Management (NNEMS) Fellowship Program is a comprehensive fellowship program that provides students the opportunity to increase their knowledge of environmental issues while participating in a fellowship project that is directly related to their field of study. The fellowships are organized among four key areas: Environmental Policy, Regulation and Law; Environmental Management and Administration; Environmental Science; and Public Relations and Communications.
Deadline: January 30, 2012
Link: http://www.epa.gov/education/students.html
Funding Source: NOAA
Title: FY 2012 NMFS-Sea Grant Fellowships in Population Dynamics
Program: The Graduate Fellowship Program awards at least two new PhD fellowships each year to students who are interested in careers related to the population dynamics of living marine resources and the development and implementation of quantitative methods for assessing their status. Fellows will work on thesis problems of public interest and relevance to NMFS under the guidance of NMFS mentors at participating NMFS Science Centers or Laboratories. The NMFS-Sea Grant Fellowships in Population Dynamics meets NOAA's Mission goal of "Protect, Restore and Manage the Use of Coastal and Ocean Resources Through Ecosystem-Based Management".
Deadline: February 17, 2012
Link: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=129713
Funding Source: Association for Institutional Research (AIR)
Title: AIR Research and Dissertation Grants
Program: With support from the NSF, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), and the National Postsecondary Education Cooperative (NPEC), the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) operates two grant programs that support research on a wide range of issues of critical importance to U.S. higher education. The program has two separate purposes:
*NSF and NCES support grants aim to increase the number of researchers using national datasets and demonstrate the contribution that these datasets make to the national base of knowledge on higher education policy, theory, and practice.
*The NPEC funding supports grants that increase the understanding and knowledge of a specific issue area identified by NPEC. This year, the focus will be “Exploring Postsecondary Non-Degree Programs.”
Two levels of grants are supported:
Research Grants: Faculty and practitioners are eligible for research grants of up to $40,000 for one year of independent research. (Note: These research grants are not available to students). All grant recipients must be affiliated with a U.S. postsecondary institution or relevant non-profit higher education organization.
Dissertation Grants: Doctoral students are eligible for dissertation grants of up to $20,000 for one year to support dissertation research and writing under the guidance of a faculty dissertation advisor.
Deadline: January 10, 2012
Link: http://www.airweb.org/?page=1626
