Upcoming Federal opportunities are listed below. Corporate and foundation opportunities will be listed in future editions. In some cases the deadlines are short or even past. If the opportunity is still of interest, the link is worth following as there may be future deadlines for the same program or the site may lead to other opportunities of interest.
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to support multilevel, transdisciplinary population health interventions that target underlying social, economic, and environmental conditions in an effort to improve health outcomes.
The goal of this funding opportunity is to support research that will further elucidate the pathways involved in the relationship between education and health outcomes and in doing so to carefully identify the specific aspects and qualities of education that are responsible for this relationship and what the mediating factors are that affect the nature of the causal relationship.
This funding opportunity supports innovative research to identify mechanisms of influence and/or promote positive sustainable health behaviors, including developing healthy sleep patterns, developing effective self-regulation strategies, adaptive decision-making in risk situations, practicing proper dental hygiene, eating a balanced and nutritious diet, engaging in age-appropriate physical activity and/or participating in healthy relationships, in children and youth. Topics to be addressed include: effective, sustainable processes for influencing young people to make healthy behavior choices; identification of the appropriate stage of influence for learning sustainable lifelong health behaviors; the role of technology and new media in promoting healthy behavior; identification of factors that support healthy behavior development in vulnerable populations; and, identification of mechanisms and mediators that are common to the development of a range of habitual health behaviors.
National Leadership Grants for Libraries support projects that address significant challenges and opportunities facing the library and archives fields and that have the potential to advance theory and practice. Successful proposals will generate results such as new tools, research findings, models, services, practices, or alliances that will be widely used, adapted, scaled, or replicated.
The goal of this program is to provide access to, and editorial context for, the historical documents and records that tell the American story. Projects may focus on the papers of major figures from American history or cover broad historical movements in politics, social reform, business, military, the arts, and other aspects of the national experience.
National Science Foundation Smart and Connected Communities proposals due February 28, 2018
The goal of the Smart and Connected Communities program is to accelerate the creation of the scientific and engineering foundations that will enable smart and connected communities to bring about new levels of economic opportunity and growth, safety and security, health and wellness, and overall quality of life. This goal will be achieved through integrative research projects that pair advances in technological and social dimensions with meaningful community engagement.
The purpose of the Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics (DBP) Training Program is to enhance the behavioral, psychosocial, and developmental components of pediatric care by supporting DBP fellowship programs to train health care professionals to use valid and reliable screening and diagnostic tools, in addition to providing evidence-based interventions for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental disabilities (DD). Specific aims of the program are to support DBP fellowship programs to prepare fellows for leadership roles as teachers, investigators, and clinicians, and provide other trainees, including pediatric practitioners, residents, and medical students, with biopsychosocial knowledge and clinical expertise, including with ASD/DD.
The purpose of this program is to develop a comprehensive, collaborative, well-coordinated, and evidence-based approach to: enhance services for all college students, including those at risk for suicide, depression, serious mental illness, and/or substance use disorders that can lead to school failure; prevent mental and substance use disorders; promote help-seeking behavior and reduce stigma; and improve the identification and treatment of at-risk college students so they can successfully complete their studies. It is expected that this program will reduce the adverse consequences of serious mental illness and substance use disorders, including suicidal behavior, substance-related injuries, and school failure.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars and Institutes grants due February 22, 2018
Summer Seminars and Institutes grants broaden and deepen understanding of the humanities by supporting one- to four-week professional development programs designed for K-12 educators or college and university faculty. Summer Seminars and Institutes focus on the study and teaching of significant texts and other resources, provide models of excellent scholarship and teaching, contribute to the intellectual growth of the of participants, and build lasting communities of inquiry. A Seminar provides an intimate and focused environment in which sixteen participants study a specific humanities topic under the guidance of one or two established scholars, and emphasizes sustained interaction among the participants and director through discussion of common readings, conversations about teaching, and advising on independent projects. An Institute allows twenty-five to thirty-six participants to pursue an intensive program of study under a team of scholarly experts, who present a range of perspectives on a humanities topic, and participants and scholars mutually explore connections between scholarship about and the teaching of the topic.
This program supports a series of one-week workshops for K-12 educators that enhance and strengthen humanities teaching at the K-12 level. The program defines a landmark as a site of historic importance within the U.S. and its territories that offers educators a unique and compelling opportunity to deepen and expand their knowledge of the diverse histories, cultures, traditions, languages, and perspectives of the American people. Projects employ a place-based approach, teaching historic sites through critical interpretation in order to explore central themes in American history and government, as well as in literature, art, music, and related humanities subjects.
U.S. Department of Justice; National Institutes of Justice Graduate Research Fellowships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics and Social and Behavioral Sciences proposals due March 12, 2018
The Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics and Social and Behavioral Sciences provides awards to Universities to support graduate research leading to doctoral degrees in areas that are relevant to ensuring public safety, preventing and controlling crime, and ensuring the fair and impartial administration of criminal justice in the U.S.
The Campus Program supports activities that develop and strengthen trauma informed victim services and strategies to prevent, investigate, respond to sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking. Project must develop campus-wide coordinated responses involving campus victim service providers, law enforcement/campus safety officers, health providers, housing officials, administrators, student leaders, faith-based leaders, representatives from student organizations, and disciplinary board members. Colleges and universities are encouraged to create or revitalize large-scale efforts by adopting effective, culturally relevant policies and protocols, developing victim services and advocacy programs, and implementing effective prevention approaches that demonstrate to every student that these crimes will not be tolerated, that perpetrators will face serious consequences, and that holistic services are available for victims.
The purpose of this initiative is to research and evaluate approaches to combating domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking. By generating more knowledge about strategies for serving victims and holding offenders accountable, communities that benefit from Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) funding will be better equipped to align their work with practices that are known to be effective, and they will be more capable of generating empirical knowledge on the efficacy of new and promising ways of doing things. This program supports researcher-practitioner partnerships and a broad range of research and evaluation methods, including qualitative, mixed-method, and quasi-experimental designs.
The American English E-Teacher Program offers foreign English teaching professionals the opportunity for professional development through high-quality virtual exchange components including online university-level Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages methodology courses, online English language learning courses, Massive Open Online Courses, webinars, digital libraries, communities of practice and other types of engaging and innovative virtual learning.
The purpose of the Environmental Education Local Grants Program is to support locally-focused environmental education projects that increase public awareness and knowledge about environmental and conservation issues and provide the skills that participants in its funded projects need to make informed decisions and take responsible actions toward the environment.