Upcoming Deadlines
Federal
NSF- Louis Strokes Alliances for Minority Participation: August 28, 2012
DOC/Economic Development Administration-2012 i6 Challenge: July 20, 2012
USDA- Food and Agricultural Sciences National Needs Graduate and Postgraduate Fellowship (NNF): August 15, 2012
NSF- Dear Colleague Letter – DGE _REESE – AGEP _ AISL Call for Research Proposals on STEM Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Training
NEH-Summer Stipends: Internal Deadline: September 1, 2012
Foundation
Wells Fargo- Environmental Grantmaking Initiative: Rolling
Federal
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Louis Strokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP)
Program: The LSAMP program assists universities and colleges in diversifying the STEM workforce through their efforts at significantly increasing the numbers of students successfully completing high quality degree programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Particular emphasis is placed on transforming STEM education through innovative recruitment and retention strategies and experiences in support of groups historically under-represented in STEM discipline: African-Americans, Alaskan Natives, American Indians, Hispanic Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders. The knowledge generation portfolio of LSAMP supported activities contributes to the body of literature on successful practices in student recruitment, retention, persistence, and attainment of STEM undergraduate and graduate degrees, especially for the previously mentioned populations underrepresented in STEM disciplines.
Deadline: August 28, 2012
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf12564
Funding Source: DOC/Economic Development Administration
Title: 2012 i6 Challenge
Program: EDA solicits competitive applications to encourage and reward innovative, ground-breaking ideas that greatly expand innovation, commercialization and new enterprise formation across the United States. The 2012 i6 Challenge will award applicants submitting the best strategies to create Proof of Concept Centers that greatly increase innovation within their organizations, create processes to commercialize or implement innovation, and build networks that can utilize that innovation and entrepreneurship for local economic development.
Deadline: July 20, 2012
Link: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=175993
Funding Source: USDA/NIFA
Title: Food and Agricultural Sciences National Needs Graduate and Postgraduate Fellowship (NNF)
Program: his grant program supports: (1) training students for Master's and doctoral degrees in food, agricultural and natural resource sciences, and; (2) Special International Study or Thesis/Dissertation Research Travel Allowances (IRTA) for eligible USDA NNF beneficiaries. Awards are specifically intended to support traineeship programs that engage outstanding students to pursue and complete their degrees in USDA mission areas. Applicants provide clarity about the philosophy of their graduate training, and relevance to USDA mission sciences, NIFA priorities and national science education policies and statistics. Applications are being solicited from institutions that confer a graduate degree in at least one of the following Targeted Expertise Shortage Areas: 1) animal and plant production; 2) forest resources; 3) agricultural educators and communicators; 4) agricultural management and economics; 5) food science and human nutrition; 6) sciences for agricultural biosecurity; and 7) training in integrative biosciences for sustainable food and agricultural systems.
Deadline: August 15, 2012
Link: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/fo/nationalneedsgraduatefellowshipsnnf.cfm
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Dear Colleague Letter – DGE _REESE – AGEP _ AISL Call for Research Proposals on STEM Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Training
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12091/nsf12091.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
Funding Source: NEH
Title: NEH Summer Stipends
Program: The Summer Stipends program welcomes projects that respond to NEH’s Bridging Cultures initiative. Such projects could focus on cultures internationally or within the United States. International projects might seek to enlarge Americans’ understanding of other places and times, as well as other perspectives and intellectual traditions. American projects might explore the great variety of cultural influences on, and myriad subcultures within, American society. These projects might also investigate how Americans have approached and attempted to surmount seemingly unbridgeable cultural divides, or examine the ideals of civility and civic discourse that have informed this quest.
Internal Deadline: September 1, 2012
Internal Guidelines: The campus may submit up to two nominations. Interested applicants should prepare a project description (no longer than 3 pages) and email it as .pdf to ihr@ucsc.edu by September 1, 2012. A committee composed of three members of the participating divisions (Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences) will select the top two projects and send their recommendations to the Humanities Dean, the campus nominating official. The nominees will be notified by September 10, 2012 and have until September 27, 2012 to complete and submit their NEH applications.
Link: http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/summer-stipends
Foundations
Funding Source: Wells Fargo Foundation
Title: Environmental Grantmaking Initiative
Program: Working with nonprofit organizations and universities, the initiative will find, foster, and fund innovative projects and entrepreneurial programs that support the commercialization of new and emerging clean technologies, including advances in renewable energy, "greener" buildings, alternative transportation, WASH technologies, and sustainable agriculture practices. The effort augments a previous $30 billion environmental finance commitment by the company that is aimed at building stronger communities and accelerating a transition to a greener economy.
Deadline: Rolling
Link: https://www.wellsfargo.com/about/charitable/ca_guidelines
