William T Grant Foundation Evidence-based Research Grant

Through this RFP, the William T Grant Foundation supports empirical, theory-building studies of what affects policymakers’ and practitioners’ acquisition, interpretation, and use of research evidence. They are interested in policy and practice directly relevant to youth ages 8 to 25 in the United States. Areas of focus can include education, juvenile justice, child welfare, health, family support, employment, and youth programs.

Amount: $100,000 - $600,000 (across 2 - 3 years)

Date due: May 6, 2010

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APF Visionary & Weiss grants

The American Psychological Foundation (APF) Visionary and Weiss grants seek to seed innovation through supporting research, education, and intervention projects and programs that use psychology to solve social problems in the following priority areas:

• Understanding and fostering the connection between mental and physical health to ensure well-being;
• Reducing stigma and prejudice to promote unity and harmony;
• Understanding and preventing violence to create a safer, more humane world; and
• Supporting programs that address the long-term psychological needs of individuals and communities in the aftermath of disaster.

Amount: $10,000 for one year

Date due: March 15, 2010

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U.S. -- Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program

The Department of Education announces the U.S.-Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program to support the formation of educational consortia of U.S. and Brazilian institutions. To meet this priority, the applicant must propose a project that supports cooperation in the coordination of curricula; the exchange of students, if pertinent to grant activities; and the opening of educational opportunities between the U.S. and Brazil. In order to be eligible for an award under this priority, the applicant in the U.S. must be a U.S. institution and the applicant in Brazil must be a Brazilian institution. The focus of the consortium can be an discipline.

The purpose of this grant program is to promote more than student exchange, it is also curriculum development as well as language and cultural preparation to promote student mobility. Students should be exchanged in the context of a common program of study or curriculum and should draw benefits from the added value of spending time abroad. The time abroad should count for their study within their academic major at their home institution and should not significantly increase their time to degree completion.

Amount: $240,000 (spread across four years)

Due date: March 25, 2010

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CNCS Social Innovation Fund FY 2010 CFDA 94.019

This Notice of Federal Funds Availability (Notice) announces the availability of funding for the newly-created Social Innovation Fund (SIF), authorized by the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act of 2009. The SIF is a vehicle to: 1) promote public and private investment in effective and potentially transformative portfolios of nonprofit community organizations to help them strengthen their evidence base, and replicate and expand to serve more low-income communities; 2) identify more effective approaches to addressing critical social challenges and broadly share this knowledge; and 3) develop the grantmaking infrastructure necessary to support the work of social innovation in communities across the country. The Corporation considers “social innovation” as the development of a potentially transformative practice or approach to meeting critical social challenges. Applications must be sumitted through the CNCS grant system and NOT through grants.gov. Applications are due by April 8, 2010.


An approach is “transformative” if it not only produces strong measurable outcomes, but also 1) significantly impacts or informs the public discussion about systems of service delivery, 2) addresses more than one critical social challenge concurrently, or 3) produces dramatic cost savings through efficiency gains. In FY 2010, SIF awards will be made to a small number of intermediaries (existing grantmaking institutions or eligible partnerships) which make investments in nonprofit community organizations as an essential (rather than collateral) means of fulfilling their mission and vision.

The resulting national network of intermediaries will identify through competitive processes, invest in, support, and monitor promising, later-stage (as opposed to nascent or early-stage), innovative nonprofit community organizations (subgrantees) working with low-income communities in one or more of the following priority issue areas:
• Economic Opportunity – Increasing economic opportunities for economically disadvantaged individuals
• Youth Development and School Support – Preparing America’s youth for success in school, active citizenship, productive work, and healthy and safe lives
• Healthy Futures – Promoting healthy lifestyles and reducing the risk factors that can lead to illness

In Fiscal Year (FY) 2010, the Corporation will award up to $50 million in Federal funding to an estimated seven to 10 intermediary organizations. Annual SIF awards to intermediaries will be in the range of $1 million to $10 million, and must be matched 1:1 in cash. The SIF award periods are up to five years. The SIF funding mechanism will leverage $3 of private funding for every $1 in federal funding, generating a total public-private investment of $200 million in FY 2010.

APPLICATIONS CANNOT BE SUBMITTED THROUGH GRANTS.GOV APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED THROUGH THE CORPORATION’S EGRANTS SYSTEM: https://egrants.cns.gov/espan/main/login.jsp

Deadline:
The Letter of Intent to Apply deadline is March 1, 2010, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Applications are due by April 8, 2010, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Certification of matching funds to determine eligibility is due at the time of application. Successful applicants will be notified by July 2010.

Eligible Applicants
State governments
County governments
City or township governments
Special district governments
Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Private institutions of higher education

Additional Information on Eligibility:
To be eligible for a SIF intermediary award, an applicant must: • Be an existing grantmaking institution or an eligible partnership; • Properly propose to be either a geographically-based or issue-based SIF that will focus on improving measurable outcomes; • Have a strong track record of using rigorous evidence to select, invest in, support, and monitor the replication and expansion of grantees; • Have a well-articulated plan to: o Replicate and expand research-proven initiatives that have been shown to produce sizable, sustained benefits to participants or society; and/or o Collaborate with a research organization to undertake rigorous evaluations to assess the effectiveness of initiatives. • Have appropriate policies on conflicts of interest, self-dealing, and other improper practices; and • Demonstrate either cash-on-hand or commitments (or a combination thereof) toward meeting 50 percent of the first year matching funds, based on the amount of grant funds requested. For example, a request of $1 million needs to be accompanied by documentation of $500,000on-hand at the time of application.

Document Type: Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number: CNCS-GRANTS-02182010-001
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Posted Date: Feb 18, 2010
Creation Date: Feb 18, 2010
Original Closing Date for Applications: Apr 08, 2010
Current Closing Date for Applications: Apr 08, 2010 The deadline for submission of applications is 5:00 pm Eastern Time on April 8, 2010. Applications must be submitted through the Corporation’s eGrants system: https://egrants.cns.gov/espan/main/login.jsp
Archive Date: Apr 09, 2010
Funding Instrument Type: Cooperative Agreement
Category of Funding Activity: Community Development
Education
Employment, Labor and Training
Energy
Food and Nutrition
Health
Other (see text field entitled "Explanation of Other Category of Funding Activity" for clarification)
Regional Development
Category Explanation: Social Innovation Fund FY 2010
Expected Number of Awards: 8
Estimated Total Program Funding: $50,000,000
Award Ceiling: $10,000,000
Award Floor: $1,000,000
CFDA Number(s): 94.019 -- Social Innovation Fund
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: Yes

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Investigator Initiated Grant on Youth Settings

The William T. Grant Foundation supports work to improve the settings of youth between the ages of 8 and 25 in the United States. The foundation supports high-quality research designed to enhance the understanding of how youth settings work, how they affect youth development, and how they can be improved, as well as when, how, and under what conditions research evidence is used in policy and practice that affect youth and how its use can be improved.

Applicants should submit a project that is consistent with the foundation's current research interests; addresses issues that have compelling relevance for theory, policy, and/or practice affecting the settings of youth between the ages of 8 and 25 in the United States; and reflects high standards of evidence and rigorous methods, commensurate with the project's goals.

The foundation's current Action Topic is improving the quality of afterschool programs. The foundation funds studies of how afterschool programs affect youth, research on attempts to improve these programs, and activities meant to strengthen the communication among researchers, policy makers, and practitioners in the afterschool field.

Amount: Varies

Date due: April 6, 2010 (Letter of Inquiry)

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NIH Research Conference Grant (Interdisciplinary Teams)

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages Research Conference Grant (R13)applications from institutions and organizations that propose to develop interdisciplinary research teams. Teams must include investigators from the social and/or behavioral sciences, and may include the life and/or physical sciences. The goal is to broaden the scope of investigation into scientific problems, yield fresh and possibly unexpected insights, and increase the sophistication of theoretical, methodological, and analytical approaches by integrating the analytical strengths of two or more disparate scientific disciplines while addressing gaps in terminology, approach, and methodology. This program will allow investigators from multiple disciplines to hold meetings in order to provide the foundation for developing interdisciplinary research projects.

Amount: Varies

Date due: April 12, 2010; August 12, 2010

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Chinese Academy of Sciences Visiting Professor (Young Scientist)

The visiting professor fellowships, sponsored and funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), support collaborative scientific research opportunities in China for young scientists. The fellowships provide financial support for individual scientists to conduct cooperative research at one of the institutes of CAS. The funding period is for 12 months, and potentially renewable for up to a further 12 months.

Applicants for this fellowship must apply collaboratively. The research teams must include a young scientist who is a citizen of a nation having formal diplomatic relations with China (Chinese citizens are not eligible). The young scientist must be educated outside of China at the elementary school level and have a Ph.D. degree. Additionally, the young scientist must have strong communication skills in English. The research teams must also include a Chinese collaborator who is a researcher of CAS institutes, and is engaged in a major research program.

The Chinese collaborator must have a senior research position, and preferably a Ph.D. degree. Additionally, the Chinese collaborator must have facilities and capacity to conduct cooperative research with the visiting scientist. Scientists wishing to apply should begin by exploring research opportunities with collaborators within the institutes of the CAS. The grant will cover the recipient's (1) salary, (2) daily living allowance, (3) round-trip international airfare, and (4) health insurance, at a level determined by CAS according to the length of the visit and the academic level of the visitor.

Date due: March 15, 2010; September 15, 2010

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Chinese Academy of Sciences Visiting Professor (Senior International Scientist)

The visiting professorships, sponsored and funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), support collaborative scientific research opportunities in China for senior scientists. The professorships provide financial support for individual scientists to conduct cooperative research at one of the institutes of CAS. They also provide support for visits of 2 to 12 months and are potentially renewable.

Applicants for this professorship must apply collaboratively. The research teams must include a scientist who is a citizen of a nation having formal diplomatic relations with China (Chinese citizens are not eligible). The scientist must have been educated outside of China at the elementary school level. The scientist must have a Ph.D. degree, with academic standing of at least associate professor or equivalent. Additionally, the senior scientist must have strong communication skills in English. The research teams must also include a Chinese collaborator who is a researcher at CAS institutes and is engaged in a major research program.

The Chinese collaborator must have a senior research position, and preferably a Ph.D. degree. Additionally, the collaborator must have facilities and capacity to conduct cooperative research with the visiting scientist. Scientists wishing to apply should begin by exploring research opportunities with potential collaborators within the institutes of CAS. The grant will cover the recipient's (1) salary, (2) daily living allowance, (3) round-trip international airfare, and (4) health insurance, at a level determined by CAS according to the length of the visit and the academic level of the visitor.

Date due: March 15, 2010; September 15, 2010

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