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Title Fulbright Scholar Program
Agency Institute of International Education
Eligibility U.S. citizenship and a Ph.D. or equivalent professional/terminal degree (including the master’s degree, depending on the field) as appropriate. Candidates outside academe (e.g., professionals, artists) need recognized professional standing and substantial professional accomplishments.
Due August 1, 2012
Summary The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program and is designed to “increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.” The awards allow the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research, exchange ideas and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns.
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Title Farmers Market Promotion Program Grants
Agency Agricultural Marketing Service
Eligibility Agricultural cooperatives, producer networks, producer associations, local government, nonprofit corporations, public benefit corporations, economic development corporations, regional farmers market authorities, and tribal governments are eligible to apply.
Due May 21, 2012
Duration Projects must not exceed 24 months in length; project work should begin October 1, 2012 and may end no later than September 30, 2014.
Budget The minimum award per grant is $5,000 and the maximum is $100,000. Matching funds are not required.
Summary This grant opportunity is designed to promote the domestic consumption of agricultural commodities by expanding direct producer-to-consumer marketing opportunities. Eligible projects must increase domestic consumption of agricultural commodities by: (a) improving and expanding, or assisting in the improvement and expansion of, domestic farmers markets, roadside stands, community-supported agriculture programs, agritourism activities, or other direct producer-to-consumer market opportunities; or (b) developing, or aiding in the development of, new farmers markets, roadside stands, community-supported agriculture programs, agritourism activities, or other direct producer-to-consumer marketing opportunities. Applications are only accepted if FMPP funds benefit two or more farmers, producers, or farm vendors who produce and sell their own products through a common distribution channel directly to consumers.
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Title CVS Caremark Community Grant
Agency CVS
Eligibility Applications can be submitted by nonprofit organizations where a CVS/pharmacy store is located in the state where the community organization resides.
Due October 31, 2012
Budget up to $5,000
Summary To ensure that a positive impact is made, the Community Grants Program will focus on inclusive programs and programs for children with disabilities under age 21; academic and enrichment programs at public schools; and programs that provide access to quality health care services and health education for at risk and underserved populations of all ages.
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Title Eugene C. Pulliam Fellowship for Editorial Writing
Agency Society of Professional Journalists
Eligibility Applicants must hold a position as a part-time or full-time editorial writer or columnist at a news publication located in the United States. Applications also are welcome from freelance opinion writers who devote a majority of their time, or derive a majority of their income, from that pursuit.
Due June 22, 2012
Budget The award is for $75,000, and it is to be used to cover the cost of study, research and/or travel in any field
Summary This fellowship enables mid-career editorial writers or columnists to have time away from daily responsibilities for study and research. The cash award allows Pulliam Editorial Fellows to: take courses, pursue independent study, travel, and pursue other endeavors that enrich their knowledge of a public interest issue. The fellowship results in editorials and other writings, including books.
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Title Summer Stipends
Agency National Endowment for the Humanities
Eligibility Only individual scholars are eligible to apply
Due September 27, 2012
Budget up to $6,000
Duration Projects can last up to 2 months
Summary 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. The stipends can support projects at any stage of development.
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Title The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program
Agency The Warhol Foundation
Eligibility Individuals, particularly those who work as art historians, artists, critics, curators, journalists, or practitioner in an outside field strongly engaged with contemporary visual arts. Participants must be 25 years and older and a published author.
Due June 6, 2012
Budget Grant amounts range from $3,000 to $50,000, depending on the scope and complexity of the project.
Summary This grant supports writers whose work addresses contemporary visual art. The program strives to honor and encourage writing about art that is rigorous, passionate, eloquent, and precise; in which a keen engagement with the
present is infused with an appreciation of the historical; that is neither afraid to take a stand nor content to deliver authoritative pronouncements, but serves rather to pose questions and to generate new possibilities for thinking about, seeing, and making art; that is sensitive to both the importance and difficulty of situating aesthetic objects within their broader social and political contexts; that does not dilute or sidestep complex ideas but renders accessible their meaning and value; that creatively challenges the limits of existing conventions without valorizing novelty as an end in itself.
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Title The Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for Internation Photography
Agency The Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation
Eligibility Photographers of all nationalities who are 18 and older
Due May 31, 2012
Duration Judging will take place in Paris, France in July 2012
Budget Winners will receive $5,000 to be utilized for the production or completion of a social documentary project
Summary The foundation is currently seeking to create an online showcase of outstanding work by photographers around the world, and award one outstanding social documentary photographer with a grant of $5,000.
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Title Kendal Charitable Funds Promising Innovations
Agency Kendal Charitable Funds
Eligibility Nonprofit organizations are welcome to apply
Due LOI: June 15, 2012
Full Proposal (by invitation): August 1, 2012
Budget up to $25,000
Summary The purpose of this grant is to support improvements in serving older adults. Funding will be given to proposals that transform the experience of aging by enhancing the lives of an aging population. Proposals may include services, research, and/or developing new understandings and awareness of the potential for aging well. Priority will be given to opportunities that have the greatest potential for change and replication, for the greatest number of individuals. Suggestions for grants include but are not limited to: the field of aging (wellness enhancement, quality of life, and home and community) and populations of older adults (frail, thriving, underserved, minority, and cognitively impaired).
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Title Interprofessional Education Collaborative Practice Collection
Agency The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), as a partner in the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC)
Due May 25, 2012
Budget Up to 15 development awards of $2,000 will be given
Summary This initiative is designed to create a national clearinghouse of competency-linked learning resources for interprofessional education and models of
team-based or collaborative care. The resulting collection will be hosted through MedEdPORTAL, an online peer-review repository that adheres to the full standards of professional scholarship guidelines. Submissions should be linked to the four general competency domains which include: values/ethics for interprofessional practice, roles/responsibilities, interprofessional communication, and teams and teamwork. Submissions should take the form of teaching materials that enhance the training of health professionals take many forms such as: tutorials, exercises, lab guides, case studies, videos, simulations, faculty development resources, etc. The awards will accelerate content refinement in preparation for formal submission and peer-review to MedEdPORTAL.
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Title Academic Community Partnership Conference Series
Agency Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development
Eligibility Higher education institutions, both public and private
Due October 17, 2012
Duration 3 year maximum
Budget Up to $30,000 per year
Summary This grant supports applications to conduct health disparities-related meetings, workshops, and symposia. The purpose of the Conference Series is to bring together academic institutions/organizations and community organizations to identify opportunities for addressing health disparities. The objectives of meetings conducted as part of this award will be to: (1) establish and/or enhance academic-community partnerships; (2) identify community-driven research priorities, and (3) develop long-term collaborative CBPR research agendas. Thus, it is expected these partnerships will lead to grant applications for the support of CBPR projects designed to meet identified community needs. The areas of focus for these partnerships may include one or more of the following community-health issues: infant mortality; Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS); fibroid tumors; childhood, adolescent, and/or adult obesity; health literacy; techniques for outreach and information dissemination; pediatric and maternal HIV/AIDS prevention; and violence prevention. Community organizations are defined as organizations that (1) have a documented (e.g., mission statement) interest in improving the health of the relevant community; and (2) have a history (3 years or more) of serving the health needs and interests of the relevant community.
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Title Healthy Eating Research: Round 7 Grants
Agency Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
Eligibility Preference will be given to applicant organizations that are either public entities or nonprofit organizations. Applicant organizations must be based in the U.S. or its territories.
Due Concept Papers: August 9, 2012
Invited Full Proposals: May 31, June 31, and October 4, 2012
Duration Up to 18 months
Budget Up to $170,000
Summary Funding will support scientifically rigorous, solution-oriented proposals from investigators representing diverse disciplines and backgrounds. The program’s overall aims are to identify strategies likely to have important population-level impacts and to provide advocates, decision- and policy-makers with evidence to guide and accelerate effective action to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic. Priorities of the RWJF include: (1) ensuring that all foods and beverages served and sold in schools meet or exceed the most recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans, (2) using pricing strategies—particularly incentives but also disincentives—to promote the purchase of healthier foods, (3) reducing youths’ exposure to the marketing of unhealthy foods through regulation, policy, and effective industry self-regulation, and (4) increasing access to and purchase of high-quality, affordable foods through new or improved grocery stores and healthier corner stores and bodegas. Secondary priorities include child-care policies and environments, front of package labeling, and menu labeling.
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Title: Obesity Policy Research: Evaluation and Measure (R21; R03)
Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC)
Eligibility: Non-profit organizations with or without 501(c)(3) status are encouraged to apply. The opportunity is also available to various governmental entities, local organizations, for-profit groups and small businesses.
Due: June 16, 2012 (next cycle: October 16, 2012)
Duration: Two years
Budget: R21: $275,000 maximum total
R03: Up to $50,000 per year for two years
Summary: This opportunity encourages applications that propose to: (1) conduct evaluation research of obesity-related “natural experiments” (defined here as research on community and other population-level policy interventions that may affect diet and physical activity behavior), and/or (2) develop and/or validate relevant community-level measures (instruments and methodologies to assess the food and physical activity environments at the community level). The overarching goal is to inform public policy and research relevant to (1) diet and physical activity behavior, and (2) weight and health outcomes of Americans.
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Title Pilot Project Grant
Agency The Johns Hopkins Global Center for Childhood Obesity (JHGCCO)
Eligibility Proposals are welcomed from investigators with diverse backgrounds and at varying career levels worldwide. Investigators must be affiliated with a university, agency, or research center that meets the same eligibility criteria that apply to NIH funding.
Due September 2012 (next grant cycle: March 2013)
Budget Up to $30,000
Summary This grant supports novel, rigorous projects that utilize systems science concepts and framework, but not necessarily system science models or analyses, to understand the environmental mechanisms driving childhood obesity, and can lead to the development or confirmation of effective interventions to prevent or reduce childhood obesity. Research will be funded through a Rapid Response funding mechanism, and will only support opportune pilot and feasibility projects that might not be fundable via the regular NIH review cycles. Collaboration with a JHGCCO-affiliated investigator is required.
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Title Summer Research Training Institute: Design and Analysis of Practical Quasi-Experiments for use in Education
Agency The Institute of Education Sciences
Eligibility Applicants should have a doctoral degree (Ph.D., Ed.D.) and experience conducting research relevant to education. Due June 1, 2012
Duration August 6 to August 10, 2012
Summary The course sessions will provide intensive training on planning, im
plementing and analyzing data from quasi-experimental designs. The course will enable participants to: understand different conceptions of causation including the conception underlying experimental methods and how methods to improve experiments can also be applied to improve quasi-experiments, understand several different quasi-experimental designs including regression discontinuity, interrupted time series, and various kinds of matching designs, and have access to the most recent research on these methods and their successful implementation in school-based research
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Title Summer Research Training Institute: Design, Implementation, and Analysis of Within-Study Comparisons
Agency The Institute of Education Sciences
Eligibility Applicants should have a doctoral degree (Ph.D., Ed.D.) and experience conducting research relevant to education. Applicants should also have upper-level knowledge in statistics or econometrics.
Due May 14, 2012
Duration August 13 to August 17, 2012
Summary This training opportunity is intended to increase the national capacity of researchers to develop and conduct rigorous evaluations of the impact of education interventions. The course will enable participants to: use state-of-the-art tools for designing, implementing, and analyzing thier own within-study comparisons, plan higher quality (and more internally valid) WSCs, and increase thier understanding of the methodological underpinnings of WSCs.
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Title Investing in Innovation Fund (I3)
Agency Office of Innovation and Improvement, Department of Education
Due Notice of Intent to Apply: April 16, 2012
Full Proposal: May 30, 2012
Budget Cost-sharing is required.
Summary To expand the implementation of, and investment in, innovative practices that are demonstrated to have an impact on improving student achievement or student growth, closing achievement gaps, decreasing dropout rates, increasing high school graduation rates, or increasing college enrollment and completion rates. Validation and scale-up grant types are available.
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Title Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships in Education Research
Agency Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
Eligibility Partnerships with research institutions and State or
local education agencies
Due Letter of intent: July 19, 2012
Full application: September 20, 2012
Duration 1-2 years
Budget $400,000 total maximum
Summary Partnerships are to identify an education issue with important implications for improving student achievement that is of high priority for the education agency, carry out initial data analyses regarding the education issue, and develop a plan for further research on the issue culminating in an application to one of the Institute’s research grant programs. The ultimate goal of the partnerships is to conduct research that that has direct implications for improving programs, processes, practices or policies that will result in improved student outcomes. IES priorities includes integrating stakeholder groups to advance application of findings; to build capacity in practitioner settings; and foster greater use of available data for research.
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Title Education Research Grants: Mathematics and Science Education
Agency Institute of Education Sciences
Due Letter of Intent: April 19, 2012
Application: June 21, 2012
Summary This topic supports research on the improvement of mathematics and science knowledge and skills of students from kindergarten through high school. The long-term outcome of this research will be an array of tools and strategies (e.g., curricula, programs, assessments) that are documented to be effective for improving or assessing mathematics and science learning and achievement. Applications must be submitted to one of the five research goals: Exploration; Development and Innovation; Efficacy and Replication; Effectiveness; or Measurement.
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Title Education Research Grants: Reading and Writing
Agency Institute of Education Sciences
Due Letter of Intent: April 19, 2012
Application: June 21, 2012
Summary This topic supports research on the improvement of reading and writing skills of students from kindergarten through high school. The long-term outcome of this research will be an array of tools and strategies (e.g., assessments, instructional approaches) that are documented to be effective for improving or assessing reading and writing. Applications must be submitted to one of the five research goals: Exploration; Development and Innovation; Efficacy and Replication; Effectiveness; or Measurement.
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Title Education Research Grants: Social and Behavioral Context for Academic Learning
Agency Institute of Education Sciences
Due Letter of Intent: April 19, 2012
Application: June 21, 2012
Summary This topic supports research on social skills, dispositions, and behaviors to improve student outcomes (e.g., grades, standardized test scores, attendance, high school graduation rates) in typically developing students from kindergarten through high school. The long-term outcome of this research will be an array of tools and strategies (e.g., assessment tools and behavioral interventions) that have been documented to be effective for improving or assessing social skills, dispositions, and behaviors that support academic and other important school-related outcomes of students from kindergarten through high school. Applications must be submitted to one of the five research goals: Exploration; Development and Innovation; Efficacy and Replication; Effectiveness; or Measurement.
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Title Special Education Research Programs: Autism Spectrum
Disorders
Agency Institute of Education Sciences
Due Letter of Intent: April 19, 2012
Application: June 21, 2012
Summary This program supports research that contributes to the improvement of developmental, cognitive, communicative, academic, social, behavioral, and functional outcomes of students identified with ASD from preschool through Grade 12. The long-term outcome of this program will be an array of comprehensive programs and assessments (i.e., those designed to address multiple outcomes) that have been documented to be effective for improving the developmental, cognitive, communicative, academic, social, behavioral, and functional outcomes of students identified with ASD from preschool through Grade 12. You may only study students with disabilities and may not study students at risk for a disability. Applications must be submitted to one of the five research goals: Exploration; Development and Innovation; Efficacy and Replication; Effectiveness; or Measurement.
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Title Special Education Research Programs: Transition Outcome for
Secondary Students with Disabilities.
Agency Institute of Education Sciences
Due Letter of Intent: April 19, 2012
Application: June 21, 2012
Summary This grant opportunity supports research focused on the improvement of transition outcomes of secondary students with disabilities. Transition outcomes include the behavioral, social, communicative, functional, occupational, and academic skills that enable young adults with disabilities to obtain and hold meaningful employment, live independently, and obtain further training and education (e.g., post-secondary education, vocational education programs). The long-term outcome of this program will be an array of tools and strategies (e.g., assessments, intervention programs) that have been documented to be effective in improving transition outcomes for secondary students with disabilities. Applications must be submitted to one of the five research goals: Exploration; Development and Innovation; Efficacy and Replication; Effectiveness; or Measurement. Research must address secondary students in middle school or high school with high- or low-incidence disabilities. However, samples may include students with disabilities at the post-secondary level if the purpose is to improve services and interventions provided at the secondary level (e.g., data from recent high school graduates to inform the development of a school-based or community-based transition program for high school students with disabilities).
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