Grant Opportunities 7-15-13

July 15, 2013

By , Government Grants Coordinator 831-459-1644

Upcoming Deadlines
 

Federal
SBA-Request for Quotations:                                                               July 26, 2013
NSF- Biological Anthropology:                                                          August 2, 2013
NEH- Enduring Questions:                                                                 September 12, 2013
NEH- Summer Stipends:                                             Internal:           September 1, 2013

Foundation
OCLC Research- Innovative Information Science Research Projects:           September 15, 2013
Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellowship:       Internal:           September 19, 2013

Student
Fulbright U.S. Student Program (Fulbright IIE):                    Internal:           September 23, 2013

Federal

Funding Source:         SBA
Title:                            Request for Quotations
Program:                     The Office of Advocacy’s mission includes providing research documenting the status of small businesses and the impact of important trends. To fulfill this task Advocacy periodically funds small business research from researchers through requests for quotations (RFQs). Areas of continuing interest are listed below and have been chosen because they are researchable, show the status or role of small businesses, can be a catalyst for further research, or may provide policymaking insight.
SBAHQ-13-Q-0054 -  Research-Income & Wealth of Veteran Business Owners over the Business Cycle 1989-2010
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=c0687a13705f5b1f2a143369e043c641&tab=core&_cview=0
SBAHQ-13-Q-0053 - Research-Miscellaneous Small Business Topics Using Large Datasets
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=ce48a1d909dcec68b3a67a94f1f5771c&tab=core&_cview=0
SBAHQ-13-Q-0052 - Research- The Housing Market & Its Effect on Financing Business Startups: Implications for Minority-Owned Businesses
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=618ae0c615891b3a0e8df837aea6b621&tab=core&_cview=0
SBAHQ-13-Q-0051 - Research-Growth Rates Women-Owned Business: A Study of Contributing Factors
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=c92732b6a011c3ce7b6a7e68c01d9ddf&tab=core&_cview=0
SBAHQ-13-Q-0050 - Research-Student Loan Debt & Entrepreneurship
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=2e36c8175a49b1cb5f6abd52beb55401&tab=core&_cview=0
SBAHQ-13-Q-0048 - Study-Innovation Accelerator Phenomenon
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=b1caf10ae5302ab5de840b64b7a1a135&tab=core&_cview=0
SBAHQ-13-Q-0047 - Research-Gender Differences STEM Fields Entrepreneurship
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=d7c593e1c5e08b0a9a85e16803e742a3&tab=core&_cview=0
SBAHQ-13-Q-0046 - Study-Leahy-Smith America Invents Act
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=304999c464e15d846e75b7e3c90bd255&tab=core&_cview=0
SBAHQ-13-Q-0045 - Research Low Interest Rates & Small Businesses
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=dfa6fd5c1d67b2b19ba5a05cc5599de0&tab=core&_cview=1
Deadline:                    July 26, 2013

Funding Source:         NSF
Title:                            Biological Anthropology
Program:                     The Biological Anthropology Program supports basic research in areas related to human evolution and contemporary human biological variation. Research areas supported by the program include, but are not limited to, human genetic variation, human adaptation, human osteology and bone biology, human and nonhuman primate paleontology, functional anatomy, and primate socioecology. Grants supported in these areas are united by an underlying evolutionary framework, and often a consideration of adaptation as a central theoretical theme. Many proposals also have a biocultural orientation. The program frequently serves as a bridge within NSF between the social and behavioral sciences and the natural and physical sciences, and proposals are commonly jointly reviewed and funded with other programs.
Deadline:                    August 2, 2013
Link:                            http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5407&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click

Funding Source:         NEH
Title:                            Enduring Questions
Program:                     The NEH Enduring Questions grant program supports faculty members in the teaching and development of a new course that will foster intellectual community through the study of an enduring question. This question-driven course will encourage undergraduates and teachers to grapple with a fundamental concern of human life addressed by the humanities, and to join together in a deep and sustained program of reading in order to encounter influential thinkers over the centuries and into the present day.
What is an enduring question? The following list is neither prescriptive nor exhaustive but serves to illustrate.
What is good government?
Can war be just?
What is friendship?
What is evil?
Are there universals in human nature?
What are the origins of the universe?
Deadline:                    September 12, 2013
Link:                            http://www.neh.gov/grants/education/enduring-questions

Funding Source:         NEH
Title:                            Summer Stipends
Program:                     Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources. Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two months. Summer Stipends support projects at any stage of development. Summer Stipends are awarded to individual scholars. Organizations are not eligible to apply. 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, 2013. 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, 2013 and have until September 26, 2013 to complete and submit their NEH applications.
Deadline:                    Internal:                                   September 1, 2013
Link:                            http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/summer-stipends

Foundations

Funding Source:         OCLC Research
Title:                            Innovative Information Science Research Projects
Program:                     OCLC Research, in partnership with the Association for Library and Information Science Education, is accepting applications from individuals whose research promises to contribute to a better understanding of how the integration of new technologies affects user behavior and the information environment. Through its OCLC/ALISE Library & Information Science Research program, OCLC will award grants of up to $15,000 for research related but not limited to the impact of digital technology on libraries and museums, social media and information-seeking behavior, and new developments in knowledge organization such as metadata, social tagging, and linked data. To be eligible, applicants must be a full-time academic faculty member in library or information science or a related field. Priority will be given to proposals from junior faculty.
Deadline:                    September 15, 2013
Link:                            http://www.oclc.org/research/grants/call.html

Funding Source:         Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Title:                            Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellowship
Program:                     The University of California, Santa Cruz has been invited to nominate one candidate for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's New Directions Fellowship. This is an invitation-only submission process. It is a very prestigious award that covers salary for approximately one academic year and two summers of additional support (including release time from teaching, if required). Candidates for this program should be highly qualified scholars pursuing innovative research. New Directions Fellowship assist faculty members in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who received their doctorate between six and twelve years ago and who wish to acquire systematic training outside their own disciplines. The fellowships are looking to assist faculty whose research interests cross-disciplinary boundaries and call for formal training in a discipline other than the one in which they are expert. The nominee will be decided by a committee of Social Science and Humanities faculty members.
Internal deadline:        September 19, 2013
Contact:                       ashleeac@ucsc.edu

Student

Funding Source:         Fulbright
Title:                            Fulbright U.S. Student Program (Fulbright IIE)
Program:                     Established in 1946 by the U.S. Congress to "enable the government of the United States to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries", Fulbright is the largest U.S. international exchange program offering opportunities for students, scholars, and professionals to undertake international graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, and teaching in elementary and secondary schools worldwide.
Internal Deadline:       September 23, 2013, please contact Marlene Robinson for the internal deadline: marobins@ucsc.edu
Link:                            http://us.fulbrightonline.org/applicants/getting-started