American-Scandinavian Foundation

The American-Scandinavian Foundation is the leading cultural and educational link between the United States and Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. An American nonprofit organization headquartered in New York City, ASF works to build international understanding with an extensive program of fellowships, grants, intern/trainee sponsorship, publishing, and membership offerings.

Fellowships of up to $23,000 are intended to support an academic year-long stay, and priority is given to students at the graduate level who need to spend time at foreign academic or research institutions. Grants starting from $5,000 are available for shorter research visits, both at the graduate and post-doctoral levels. Funding is available to candidates in all fields. The American competition, open to U.S. citizens and permanent residents, has a deadline of November 1, 2010.

The foundation's Visiting Lectureship program invites U.S. colleges and universities to apply for funding to host a visiting lecturer from Norway or Sweden. The program provides awards of $20,000 for appointments of one semester. Lectureships should be in the areas of public policy, conflict resolution, healthcare, environmental studies, or multiculturalism. The award is appropriate not just for Scandinavian studies departments, but for any department or inter-disciplinary program with an interest in incorporating a Scandinavian focus into its course offerings. Applicants are asked to submit a Letter of Intent by November 5, 2010, describing the proposed visiting lectureship.

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Organizational Behavior/Sociology -- NSF

The Sociology Program supports basic research on all forms of human social organization -- societies, institutions, groups and demography -- and processes of individual and institutional change. The Program encourages theoretically focused empirical investigations aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social processes. Included is research on organizations and organizational behavior, population dynamics, social movements,social groups, labor force participation, stratification and mobility, family, social networks, socialization, gender roles, and the sociology of science and technology. The Program supports both original data collections and secondary data analysis that use the full range of quantitative and qualitative methodological tools. Theoretically grounded projects that offer methodological innovations and improvements for data collection and analysis are also welcomed.

Amount: Varies

Date due: January 15, 2011

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IMLS: Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries and Museums CFDA 45.312

The citizens and communities served by libraries, archives, and museums now are offered an increasing variety of choice for information sources and services. In this environment, cultural heritage organizations are challenged to respond to changing user needs and expectations, and to make more productive use of the money, staff, and other resources they are given to serve their users. Innovation will be a key determinant of their success. The IMLS Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries and Museums are a new IMLS funding opportunity within the National Leadership Grants program. These grants encourage libraries, archives, and museums to challenge existing assumptions about how they operate and the services they provide. These small grants support the deployment, testing, and evaluation of promising and groundbreaking new tools, products, services, or organizational practices. Applicants may propose activities or approaches that involve risk, as long as the risk is balanced by significant potential for improvement in the ways cultural heritage institutions serve their communities. Successful proposals will address problems, challenges, or needs of broad relevance to libraries, archives, and/or museums, will test innovative responses to these problems, and will make the findings of these tests widely and openly accessible. Applications are due November 15, 2010.

Document Type: Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number: SPARKS-FY11
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Posted Date: Sep 09, 2010
Creation Date: Sep 09, 2010
Original Closing Date for Applications: Nov 15, 2010
Current Closing Date for Applications: Nov 15, 2010
Archive Date: Dec 15, 2010
Funding Instrument Type: Grant

Category of Funding Activity: Arts (see "Cultural Affairs" in CFDA)
Education
Humanities (see "Cultural Affairs" in CFDA)

Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
Estimated Total Program Funding:
Award Ceiling: $25,000
Award Floor: $10,000
CFDA Number(s): 45.312 -- National Leadership Grants
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: No

Eligible Applicants
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Additional Information on Eligibility:
See http://www.imls.gov/applicants/guidelines/sparks_1.shtm#elig for specific eligibility requirements for libraries, archives, and museums.

http://www.imls.gov/applicants/grants/SparksIgnition.shtm