NEH Summer Stipends CFDA 45.160

Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to scholars and general audiences in the humanities. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, and other scholarly tools. Summer Stipends support full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two months. Summer Stipends support projects at any stage of development. Summer Stipends are awarded to individual scholars. Organizations are not eligible to apply. Applications are due by October 1, 2009.


Summer Stipends may not be used for: research for doctoral dissertations or theses by students enrolled in a degree program; specific policy studies or educational or technical impact assessments; the preparation or publication of textbooks; studies of teaching methods or theories, surveys of courses and programs, or curriculum development; inventories of collections; works in the creative or performing arts (e.g., painting, writing fiction or poetry, dance performance, etc.); projects that seek to promote a particular political, philosophical, religious, or ideological point of view; or projects that advocate a particular program of social action.

NEH Summer Stipends Full Announcement

Document Type: Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number: 20091001-FT
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Posted Date: Apr 15, 2009
Creation Date: Apr 15, 2009
Original Closing Date for Applications: Oct 01, 2009
Current Closing Date for Applications: Oct 01, 2009
Archive Date: Oct 31, 2009
Funding Instrument Type: Grant
Category of Funding Activity: Humanities (see "Cultural Affairs" in CFDA)
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards: 75
Estimated Total Program Funding:
Award Ceiling: $6,000
Award Floor: $0
CFDA Number(s): 45.160 -- Promotion of the Humanities_Fellowships and Stipends
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: No

HHS Job Opportunities for Low-Income Individuals (JOLI) CFDA 93.593

The Office of Community Services' (OCS) Job Opportunities for Low-Income Individuals (JOLI) program supports business development and expansion opportunities, including micro-enterprise and self-employment opportunities, in an effort to help Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients and other low-income individuals achieve economic self-sufficiency. Grantees may provide technical and financial assistance to private employers in low-income communities in order to create sustainable employment and business opportunities. Funded projects should focus on one of the following three program strategies: (1) new business ventures, (2) business expansion, and (3) self-employment/micro-enterprise projects. A minimum of 20 percent of the JOLI funds must be allotted to direct financial assistance to program participants for creating or expanding a business. Applications are due by May 8, 2009, no later than 4:30 pm, eastern time.


Grantees must ensure that TANF recipients and other low-income individuals are recruited to participate in business development and expansion activities, and to fill positions created under the program. The program must help TANF recipients and other low-income individuals overcome personal or community barriers, and ensure that the businesses and jobs remain viable for at least six months after the end of the grant. For JOLI grants, low-income individuals are defined as those living in households with incomes at or below poverty, as defined by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Guidelines on Poverty, found at http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/index.shtml. In addition to a well-planned and viable strategy for business creation or expansion, applicants must have in place: (1) needed management, staff, and other resources, (2) written commitments from third-party partners, (3) evidence of site control, and (4) referral sources to identify low-income individuals to fill the positions.

JOLI projects must focus on one of three program strategies: (1) new business ventures, (2) business expansion, and (3) self-employment/micro-enterprise projects. While proposed projects may involve more than one of these program strategies, the most successful projects typically focus on only one. In all cases, the end result of the JOLI-funded activity must be the creation of new, full-time, full-year jobs for TANF recipients or other low-income individuals.

Program Strategy 1: New Business Ventures involves, developing a new business that will train and employ TANF recipients or other low-income individuals to work within that business.

Program Strategy 2: Business Expansion, involves providing technical and financial assistance to businesses already in existence. The assistance should allow the businesses to expand, for example by helping them obtain better marketing services, contracts, or access to funds needed to help the business grow.

Program Strategy 3: Self-employment/Micro-enterprise projects, involves projects that create self-employment/micro-enterprise opportunities for eligible participants in industries that are expected to thrive in the target area, and will help participants become economically self-sufficient. Self-employment involves the creation of a sustainable business that is designed to employ a single individual such as home-based day care, graphic design, medical billings, sewing services, or secretarial services. Micro-enterprise involves the creation of a sustainable business that is designed to hire one to four or more individuals, such as a cleaning business that will create more than one job. Under this strategy, OCS does not consider a job to be created or sustainable until enough contracts and subcontracts have been committed to provide sufficient cash flow to support one or more full-time jobs, including the self-employed person or the Micro-enterprise owner, for a minimum of 12 months.

Document Type: Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number: HHS-2009-ACF-OCS-EO-0011
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Posted Date: Apr 09, 2009
Creation Date: Apr 09, 2009
Original Closing Date for Applications: May 08, 2009
Current Closing Date for Applications: May 08, 2009 See link to full announcement for details. IMPORTANT NOTE: Applications submitted electronically via Grants.gov must be submitted no later than 4:30 p.m., eastern time, on the due date referenced above.
Archive Date: Jun 07, 2009
Funding Instrument Type: Grant
Category of Funding Activity: Income Security and Social Services
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards: 11
Estimated Total Program Funding: $4,838,000
Award Ceiling: $475,000
Award Floor: $0
CFDA Number(s): 93.593 -- Job Opportunities for Low-Income Individuals
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: No

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2009-ACF-OCS-EO-0011.html

NEA Access to Artistic Excellence FY2010, Deadline 2 CFDA 45.024

An organization may submit only one application through one of the following FY2010 Grants for Arts Projects categories: Access to Artistic Excellence, Challenge America: Reaching Every Community Fast-Track Review Grants, Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth.The Arts Endowment's support of a project may start on or after June 1, 2010. Under these guidelines, funding is available for projects only. A project may consist of one or more specific events or activities; it may be a part of an applicant's regular season or activities. Applications are due by August 13, 2009.


Organizations that undertake a single short-term project in a year --a ten-day jazz festival, for example -- could apply for that event, or they could identify certain components (such as the presentation of a key artist and the associated activities) as their project. Describe the activities for which Arts Endowment support is requested, and provide specific information on the artists, productions, venues, distribution plans, etc., that will be involved. Organizations may apply for any or all phases of a project, from its planning through its implementation. A project does not have to be new. Excellent existing projects can be just as competitive as new activities. Projects do not need to be large. The Arts Endowment welcomes small projects that can make a difference in a community or field.

Support is available to organizations for projects that do one or more of the following:
- Provide opportunities for artists to create, refine, perform, and exhibit their work. Present artistic works of all cultures and periods.
- Preserve significant works of art and cultural traditions. Enable arts organizations and artists to expand and diversify their audiences.
- Provide opportunities for individuals to experience and participate in a wide range of art forms and activities.
- Enhance the effectiveness of arts organizations and artists.
- Employ the arts in strengthening communities.

The Arts Endowment is particularly interested in projects that extend the arts to underserved populations -- those whose opportunities to experience the arts are limited by geography, ethnicity, economics, or disability. This is achieved in part through the use of Challenge America: Reaching Every Community funds.

Please note: Congress has prohibited the Arts Endowment from making direct grants to individuals except for Literature Fellowships, NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships, NEA National Heritage Fellowships in the Folk & Traditional Arts, and National Endowment for the Arts Opera Honors.

Stewardship
August 13, 2009, Application Deadline
June 1, 2010, Earliest Beginning Date for Arts Endowment Period of Support

Stewardship refers to projects that protect, share, or celebrate our collective design heritage. These include, among others:

-Historic preservation activities.
-The exhibition and publication of the design of the past.
-Education and outreach that bring established design practices to American communities.
-Conferences, symposia, and other gatherings that promote the heritage and conservation of design.
-Two panels meet each year, one in Innovation and one in Stewardship. Each area has its own application deadline as noted above. Given the possibility of overlap between the two areas, some applications may qualify for either deadline and panel.


Document Type: Modification to Previous Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number: 2009NEA01AAE2
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Posted Date: Apr 14, 2009
Creation Date: Apr 14, 2009
Original Closing Date for Applications: Aug 13, 2009 August 13, 2009, Application Deadline June 1, 2010, Earliest Beginning Date for Arts Endowment Period of Support
Current Closing Date for Applications: Aug 13, 2009 August 13, 2009, Application Deadline June 1, 2010, Earliest Beginning Date for Arts Endowment Period of Support
Archive Date: Sep 12, 2009
Funding Instrument Type: Grant
Category of Funding Activity: Arts (see "Cultural Affairs" in CFDA)
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
Estimated Total Program Funding:
Award Ceiling: $150,000
Award Floor: $5,000
CFDA Number(s): 45.024 -- Promotion of the Arts_Grants to Organizations and Individuals
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: Yes


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USDA 2009 Rural Business Opportunity Grants (RBOG) CFDA 10.773 (mod 3)

The Rural Development State Offices administer the RBOG program on behalf of USDA Rural Development at the State level. The primary objective of the program is to improve the economic conditions of rural areas. Assistance provided to rural areas under this program may include technical assistance for business development and economic development planning. To ensure that a broad range of communities have the opportunity to benefit from the program, no grant will exceed $50,000, unless it is a multi-State project where funds may not exceed $150,000. There is no match requirement. As indicated in the summary, these limits do not apply to specified funding for Native American, Empowerment Zones, Enterprise Communities, and Rural Economic Area Partnerships. Applications are due by April 30, 2009 - this deadline was extended from Mar 30.


Who is eligible?
Rural public bodies, rural nonprofit corporations, rural Indian tribes, and cooperatives with primarily rural members that conduct activities for the mutual benefit of the membership are eligible provided they have sufficient financial strength and expertise to carry out the activity to be funded.

What types of projects are eligible?
The RBOG program is primarily a training and technical assistance program. Funds may be provided for development of export markets; feasibility studies; development of long term trade strategies; community economic development planning; business training and business based technical assistance for rural entrepreneurs and business managers; establishment of rural business incubators; and assistance with technology based economic development. The types of projects that may be funded might include identification/ analysis of business opportunities that will utilize local material and human resources; provision of leadership development training to existing or prospective rural entrepreneurs and managers; business support centers; centers for training, technology and export trade; and, economic development planning.

How to Apply
To apply for funding for the RBOG program, please contact your Rural Development State Office.

Document Type: Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number: RDBCP-2009-RBOG
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Posted Date: Mar 18, 2009
Creation Date: Mar 18, 2009
Original Closing Date for Applications: Mar 31, 2009
Current Closing Date for Applications: Apr 30, 2009 The deadline for the receipt of applications in the Rural Development State Office is March 31, 2009. The RBOG appropriation for fiscal year 2009 provides specific funding for Native American, Empowerment Zones, Enterprise Communities and Rural Economic Area Partnership, and these applications must also be received in the Rural Development State Office by March 31, 2009. The Agency reserves the right to extend this application deadline. Any applications received after this date will not be considered for FY 2009 funding.
Archive Date: Apr 30, 2009
Funding Instrument Type: Grant
Category of Funding Activity: Agriculture
Business and Commerce
Community Development
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards: 49
Estimated Total Program Funding: $2,483,000
Award Ceiling: $150,000
Award Floor: $50,000
CFDA Number(s): 10.773 -- Rural Business Opportunity Grants
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: No

http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/busp/rbog.htm

BLM-UT-Monticello "More Kids in the Woods" CFDA 15.225

This opportunity is to promote and stimulate public purposes such as education, job training, productive community involvement, and furthering the understanding and appreciation of natural and cultural resources through the involvement of local youth and young adults in the care and enhancement of public resources. Reconnecting young people with the natural world is one of the key outcomes. Developing an environmental ethic and ethic of service are goals. Environmental values, based on Native traditions will be introduced and discussed. Participants in the program will be encouraged to share their traditional knowledge. Problem solving conversations will be initiated to gain an understanding of how much the participants know, what their experience with the natural world has been. Applications are due by April 30, 2009, 4:59 pm, Mountain Standard Time.


Document Type: Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number: BLM-UT-NOI-09-0939
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Posted Date: Apr 07, 2009
Creation Date: Apr 07, 2009
Original Closing Date for Applications: Apr 30, 2009
Current Closing Date for Applications: Apr 30, 2009
Archive Date: Apr 30, 2009
Funding Instrument Type: Cooperative Agreement
Category of Funding Activity: Natural Resources
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards: 1
Estimated Total Program Funding: $18,000
Award Ceiling: $18,000
Award Floor: $500
CFDA Number(s): 15.225 -- Recreation Resource Management
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: No

NEH Humanities Collections and Resources CFDA 45.149

The Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program supports projects that provide an essential foundation for scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities. Thousands of libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country maintain important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture, electronic records, and digital objects. Funding from this program strengthens efforts to extend the life of such materials and make their intellectual content widely accessible, often through the use of digital technology. Awards are also made to create various reference resources that facilitate use of cultural materials, from works that provide basic information quickly to tools that synthesize and codify knowledge of a subject for in-depth investigation. Applications are due by July 15, 2009.


Applicants should define a specific problem, devise procedures and potential solutions, and explain how they would evaluate their projects and disseminate their findings. Project results must serve the needs of a significant segment of humanists. Small and mid-sized institutions that have never received an NEH grant are especially encouraged to apply. Applications may be submitted for projects that include or combine the following activities: arranging and describing archival and manuscript collections; cataloging collections of printed works, photographs, recorded sound, moving images, art, and material culture; implementing preservation measures, such as basic rehousing, reformatting, deacidification, or conservation treatment; digitizing collections, or preserving and improving access to born-digital resources; developing databases, virtual collections, or other electronic resources to codify information on a subject field or to provide integrated access to selected humanities materials; creating encyclopedias; preparing linguistic tools, such as historical and etymological dictionaries, corpora, and reference grammars (separate funding is available for endangered language projects in partnership with the National Science Foundation); developing tools for spatial analysis and representation of humanities data, such as atlases and geographical information systems (GIS); and designing digital tools to facilitate use of humanities resources. Applications may address the holdings or activities of a single institution or may involve collaboration. In all cases, projects should be designed to facilitate sharing, exchange, and interoperability of humanities information and products.

Awards range from $100,000 to a maximum of $350,000 for a two-year period. As part of this request, a maximum of $50,000 may be included to develop a plan for the long-term sustainability of the project. Applicants for Research and Development projects that focus on integrated access as noted above may request up to $500,000. Successful applicants will be awarded a grant in outright funds, federal matching funds, or a combination of the two, depending on the applicant's preference and the availability of NEH funds.

Cost Sharing
Cost sharing is not required. NEH, however, is rarely able to support the full costs of projects approved for funding. In most cases, NEH Humanities Collections and Resources grants cover no more than 50 to 67% of project costs. A 50% level is most likely to pertain in the case of projects that deal exclusively with the applicant’s own holdings.

Document Type: Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number: 20090715-PW
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Posted Date: Apr 07, 2009
Creation Date: Apr 07, 2009
Original Closing Date for Applications: Jul 15, 2009
Current Closing Date for Applications: Jul 15, 2009
Archive Date: Aug 14, 2009
Funding Instrument Type: Grant
Category of Funding Activity: Humanities (see "Cultural Affairs" in CFDA)
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards: 20
Estimated Total Program Funding:
Award Ceiling: $350,000
Award Floor: $0
CFDA Number(s): 45.149 -- Promotion of the Humanities_Division of Preservation and Access
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: No

http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/HCRR.html

BLM UT Challenge Cost Share Program (NEW) FY 2009 CFDA 15.238

The Utah Challenge Cost Share (CCS) program is locally based and funds a variety of activities including the following: - Research, monitoring and inventory of resources (e.g., wildlife, fish, and plant populations and habitat, cultural or historical sites, recreation use or facilities such as trails); - Implementation of habitat improvement projects; - Protection or documentation of cultural or historic resources; - Providing for enhanced recreational experiences; - Development and implementation of species conservation and recovery plans; - Environmental education; - Conservation planning and implementation; - Conservation projects for native plant communities; and - Eradication projects for noxious and other weeds in areas of special concern. Applications are due by May 15, 2009, 4:59 p.m. Mountain Standard Time.


In Utah, the program is managed to maintain a variety of partnerships for wildlife, recreation, cultural resources, native plant community conservation including rare plants, fisheries and riparian habitat at the local level. In recent years Utah BLM has received $700,000 - $850,000 annually to fund 50-70 projects. Partnership contributions are required with a 50:50 overall cost share with non-federal dollars. Utah BLM cost share will not exceed $100,000 per project annually. Multiple year projects up to but not exceeding 5 years are acceptable.

In 2009, we will manage the Utah program to implement a variety of important projects that include resource inventory, monitoring and research, conservation planning and implementation, environmental education, habitat and plant community restoration, cultural site protection, recreation and OHV management. We are anticipating that Utah BLM will receive approximately $950,000 in CCS funding in 2009. Funding opportunities may change depending on budget allocations for the CCS Program by Congress in 2009.

Project Objective:

The objective of the Utah CCS program is to have a cost effective, local-level cost share program with non-federal partners to implement conservation or other public land management projects for the good of the general public and public resources, including but not limited to, recreation, fish, wildlife, special status plants, water quality, cultural sites and historical trails.

Statement of Joint Objectives/Project Management Plan:

The Utah CCS program is locally based and funds a variety of activities including the following:
- Research, monitoring and inventory of resources (e.g., wildlife, fish, and plant populations and habitat, cultural or historical sites, recreation use or facilities such as trails);
- Implementation of habitat improvement projects;
- Protection or documentation of cultural or historic resources;
- Providing for enhanced recreational experiences;
- Development and implementation of species conservation and recovery plans;
- Environmental education;
- Conservation planning and implementation;
- Conservation projects for native plant communities; and
- Eradication projects for noxious and other weeds in areas of special concern.

Cost-share projects submitted under this program will be developed in coordination with local BLM office staff. For example, potential partners interested in a wildlife habitat project should contact the wildlife biologist in the appropriate field office or district. If a potential partner is interested in protecting a local cultural site then the appropriate field office or district archeologist should be contacted. If a potential partner is interested in a project with state-wide implications than the appropriate program leaders at the Utah State Office should be contacted.

Cost share applicants should reference the Utah BLM website at: (http://www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/info/directory.2.html) for the staff directory of BLM State, District and Field offices. Assistance in locating the appropriate BLM contact will also be provided by writing to Ron Bolander, Partnership Coordinator at the Utah State Office at ron_bolander@blm.gov.

Partners can match BLM funds in a variety of ways:
- The non-federal match may include cash; in-kind goods, services or labor; or project materials.
- If volunteers are used then labor contributions should be calculated using www.independentsector.org.
- Applicants should use local rates for other in-kind valuation of contributions (equipment operators, equipment use, professor salaries).
- The match will be explained in the project proposal and listed on the budget attachment.

A. Period of Project (1 -5 years): CCS projects covered under this program will vary in length from 1 year to 5 years.

B. Funding Period: April 15, 2009 through September 30, 2009

AWARD INFORMATION

A. Expected Number of Awards: 50-70

B. Estimated Total Program Funding: The cost share overall goal is a 50:50 match. Funding amounts for partners may range from $500 up to $100,000 annually depending on the scope of the project and the cost share funding responsibilities of the partners and BLM. Utah BLM will reimburse CCS partners up to but not exceeding $100,000 annually, not to exceed five years.

C. Award Ceiling: $100,000

D. Assistance Instrument: Cooperative Agreement

ELIGIBILITY INFORMATION

A. Eligible Applicants: Restricted to non-federal partners with existing cooperative agreements.

B. Cost Sharing or Matching:

Non-federal partners are expected to match Utah BLM CCS funds at or near 1:1 for their respective projects. Only non-federal funds can be used to match BLM CCS funds. If there is more than one non-federal partner for a project than their total contribution can be combined to meet the 1:1 cost share goal. If more than one project is funded with the same partner than the 1:1 match would apply to the total for all of the cooperative projects that fiscal year.

Document Type: Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number: BLM-UT-RFA-09-0898
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Posted Date: Apr 03, 2009
Creation Date: Apr 03, 2009
Original Closing Date for Applications: May 15, 2009
Current Closing Date for Applications: May 15, 2009; 4:59 MST
Archive Date: Jul 01, 2009
Funding Instrument Type: Cooperative Agreement
Category of Funding Activity: Natural Resources
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards: 60
Estimated Total Program Funding: $850,000
Award Ceiling: $100,000
Award Floor: $500
CFDA Number(s): 15.238 -- Challenge Cost Share
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: Yes