Agency: United States Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration
Deadline: October 19, 2007
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) B-WET Chesapeake is a competitively based program that supports existing environmental education programs, fosters the growth of new programs, and encourages the development of partnerships among environmental education programs through the entire Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Proposals to the B-WET Chesapeake program should address one of the following three areas of interest:
- Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience for Students or Related Professional Development for Teachers – Awards of $10,000 to 75,000 will be made for projects that provide opportunities for K through 12 students to participate in meaningful watershed educational experiences (MWEEs) in the Chesapeake Bay. Projects that provide K through 12 teachers within the Chesapeake Bay watershed opportunities for professional development in the area of watershed education are also accepted under this priority. Depending on Congressional action, approximately $2.75 million will be available for successful proposals submitted under this area of interest.
- Exemplar Programs Combining Teacher Professional Development with Long-Term Classroom-Integrated Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences for their Students – Awards of $20,000 to $150,000 will be made for projects that combine teacher professional development with long-term classroom-integrated MWEEs for their students. Depending on Congressional action, approximately $500,000 will be available for successful proposals submitted under this area of interest.
- Technology-Based Projects – Awards of $20,000 to $150,000 will be made for proposals that use innovative technologies to deliver or enhance MWEEs. Examples include projects that utilize the newly designed NOAA Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System; projects that incorporate distance learning as a preface or prelude to field experiences, including live online discussions; integrating technologies such as GIS, cell phones, and I-pods into lesson plans and field experiences; or projects that are designed to improve watershed-wide school-to-school interaction and data sharing. Depending on Congressional action, approximately $250,000 will be available for successful proposals submitted under this area of interest.
Applications should cover a project period between one and three years. For projects that anticipate multiple years of funding, proposals should be submitted for a minimum of two years and may be submitted for up to three.
No cost sharing is required under this project; however, applicants are strongly encouraged to include a 25% or higher match.
URL: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=14647&mode=VIEW
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Learning & Leadership Grants
Agency: The NEA Foundation
Deadline: Open
The vision of the NEA Foundation is a great public education for every student. Learning and Leadership Grants support public school teachers, public education support professionals, and/or faculty and staff in public institutions of higher education for one of the following two purposes:
- Grants to individuals, funding participation in high-quality professional development experiences, such as summer institutes or action research.
- Grants to groups, funding collegial study, including study groups, action research, lesson study, or mentoring experiences for faculty or staff new to an assignment.
All professional development must improve practice, curriculum, and student achievement. “One-shot” professional growth experiences, such as attending a national conference or engaging a professional speaker, are discouraged. Grant funds may be used for fees, travel expenses, books, or other materials that enable applicants to learn subject matter, instructional approaches, and skills. Recipients are expected to exercise professional leadership by sharing their new learning with their colleagues.
Grants will fund activities for twelve months from the date of the award. The grant amount is $2,000 for individuals and $5,000 for groups engaged in collegial study. Grant funds may not be used to pursue degrees; pay indirect costs, grant administration fees, or salaries; or support travel costs or conference fees for more than one person. With the exception of study groups, applicants may not use grant funds to pay themselves stipends. Funds may not be used for lobbying or religious purposes. Identical applications will not be considered.
Applications may be submitted at any time. Applicants are encouraged to plan ahead.
Applications are reviewed three times per year:
Application Received By |
Notification |
February 1 |
June 15 |
June 1 |
November 15 |
October 15 |
March 15 |
Applicants should give careful attention to the timeline of their projects. Applications that include activities scheduled prior to the date of notification will not be considered.
Applicants must be practicing U.S. public school teachers in grades K–12; public school education support professionals; or faculty and staff at public higher education institutions. Preference will be given to members of the National Education Association. The NEA Foundation encourages grant applications from teachers with less than seven years of experience in the profession and from education support professionals.
URL: http://www.neafoundation.org/programs/Learning&Leadership_Guidelines.htm
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Student Achievement Grants
Agency: The NEA Foundation
Deadline: Open
The Student AchievementGrantsreplace the NEA Foundation’s Innovation Grants, which have been discontinued.
Grants will fund activities for twelve months from the date of the award. The grant amount is $5,000. Grant funds may be used for resource materials, supplies, equipment, transportation, software, or scholars-in-residence. Although some funds may be used to support the professional development necessary to implement the project, the majority of grant funds must be spent on materials or educational experiences for students. Grant funds may not be used to support after-school, weekend, or summer programs; pay indirect costs, grant administration fees, or salaries; pay stipends to the applicants; or support conference fees for more than one person. Funds may not be used for lobbying or religious purposes. Identical applications will not be considered.
Applications may be submitted at any time. Applicants are encouraged to plan ahead. Applications are reviewed three times per year, every year:
Application Received By |
Notification |
February 1 |
June 15 |
June 1 |
November 15 |
October 15 |
March 15 |
Applicants should give careful attention to the timeline of their projects. Applications that include activities scheduled prior to the date of notification will not be considered.
Applicants must be practicing U.S. public school teachers in grades PreK–12; public school education support professionals; or faculty or staff at public higher education institutions. Preference will be given to applicants who serve economically disadvantaged students. Preference will also be given to members of the National Education Association. The NEA Foundation especially encourages grant applications from teachers with less than seven years of experience in the profession and education support professionals.
URL: http://www.neafoundation.org/programs/StudentAchievement_Guidelines.htm
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Individual Opportunity for Faculty Members in the Natural and Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Grants
Agency: Guggenheim (Harry Frank) Foundation
Deadline: August 1, 2007
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (HFG) welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of violence, aggression, and dominance in the modern world.
Particular questions that interest HFG concern violence, aggression, and dominance in relation to social change, the socialization of children, intergroup conflict, interstate warfare, crime, family relationships, and investigations of the control of aggression and violence. Research with no useful relevance to understanding human problems will not be supported, nor will proposals to investigate urgent social problems where the foundation cannot be assured that useful, sound research can be done. Priority will also be given to areas and methodologies not receiving adequate attention and support from other funding sources.
HFG awards research grants to individuals for individual projects and does not award grants to institutions for institutional programs. For administrative convenience, a grantee may choose for the foundation to pay grant funds to an institution on behalf of the grantee, rather than to the grantee directly. If the grantee so directs, the grant will be administered and accounted for by the institution on behalf of the grantee in accordance with the budget prepared by the grantee and included with the application (subject to revisions approved by the foundation). Applications must clearly specify whether the funds requested will be administered through an institution or will be paid to the grantee directly. Administration of grant funds through an institution does not change the grant's tax status as a grant made to the individual researcher.
HFG ordinarily makes awards in the range of $15,000 to $30,000 a year for periods of one or two years. Applications for larger amounts and longer durations must be very strongly justified. Requests will be considered for salaries, employee benefits, research assistantships, supplies and equipment, field work, essential secretarial and technical help, and other items necessary to the successful completion of a project. The foundation does not supply funds for overhead costs of institutions, travel to professional meetings, self-education, elaborate fixed equipment, or support while completing the requirements for advanced degrees (apart from that indirectly involved in research assistantships or awarded through the Foundation’s Dissertation Fellowship). The Foundation will not accept applications for the support of meetings and conferences or travel costs for participants.
URL: http://www.hfg.org/rg/guidelines.htm
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