OPPORTUNITY FUNDING ALERT

Arts
National Endowment for the Arts – Grants Program
Cardiovascular Disease & Stroke
American Heart Association – National Scientist Development Grant
Diabetes Research
National Institutes of Health
Economic Development
U. S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration
Education
Lumina Foundation – Higher Education
Geriatrics
American Academy of Nursing – Scholarship & Fellowship Programs
Health and Health Care
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – Grants Program
Juvenile Justice
Justice Department – Internet Crimes Against Children Research
Rural Business Enterprise
U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Business Enterprise Grant Programs
Scientific Field Research
National Geographic Foundation - Research and Exploration Grants
Sickle Cell Disease
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation - Sickle Cell Disease Research
Visual Arts Writers
Of Interest
Institute of Education Sciences – Research Funding Webinars
NIH - Recovery Act Grand Opportunities “GO” Grant Submission Deadline Moved to May 29, 2009
Of Interest - Florida Meetings
The National Academies - Meeting: "Strategic Planning for the Florida Citrus Industry: Citrus Greening and the Future"
Green Cities Florida Conference, Orlando, FL, May 19-21, 2009

Arts

National Endowment for the Arts - Grants Program
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced its second round of funding for fiscal year 2009 in the categories of Access to Artistic Excellence, Learning in the Arts, Arts on Radio and Television, American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius, and Partnership Agreements (State and Regional). In this round of funding, the Arts Endowment will distribute $83,472,100 to support 1,075 projects by nonprofit national, regional, state, and local organizations nationwide. More than 1,000 arts projects will receive NEA support through this round of funding. Go to: http://www.nea.gov/news/news09/Announce4-09.html

Access to Artistic Excellence grants support the creation and presentation of work in the disciplines of dance, design, folk and traditional arts, literature, media arts, museums, music, musical theater, opera, presenting, theater, and visual arts. Projects include commissions, residencies, workshops, performances, exhibitions, publications, festivals, and professional development programs. This round of funding also supports grants to local arts agencies for multidisciplinary projects, such as community-wide festivals, public art commissions, and artist residencies. Through the Access to Artistic Excellence category, the NEA will fund 642 projects out of 1,197 eligible applications, for a total of $14,659,500.

Learning in the Arts grants support projects that provide in-depth knowledge, skills, and understanding of the arts to children and youth in schools and communities. Projects engage students with skilled artists and teachers.

Arts on Radio and Television grants support the development, production, and national distribution of radio and television programs that highlight the spectrum of arts disciplines. Through the Arts on Radio and Television category, the NEA will fund 46 projects out of 102 eligible applications, for a total of $3,700,000.

American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius is designed to acquaint Americans with the best of the nation’s cultural and artistic heritage. American Masterpieces grants support performances, exhibitions, tours, and educational programs across different art forms that reach large and small communities in all 50 states. For fiscal year 2009, American Masterpieces grants were awarded in the disciplines of dance, chamber music, presenting, and visual arts.

Cardiovascular Disease & Stroke

American Heart Association - National Scientist Development Grant
The American Heart Association funds research broadly related to cardiovascular disease and stroke in clinical and basic sciences, bioengineering, biotechnology and public health. Applications related to obesity, women and heart disease, and resuscitation are particularly encouraged. The objective is to support highly promising beginning scientists in their progress toward independence by encouraging and adequately funding research projects that can bridge the gap between completion of research training and readiness for successful competition as an independent investigator. All basic disciplines, including multidisciplinary efforts, as well as epidemiological, community and clinical investigations that bear on cardiovascular and stroke problems are of interest. Maximum annual amount: $70,000 direct + 10 percent indirect costs for a duration of four years. Deadline: July 22, 2009. Go to: http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3059907

Diabetes Research

National Institutes of Health

1. Non-Invasive Methods for Diagnosis and Progression of Diabetes, Kidney, Urological, Hematological and Digestive Diseases and Hypertensive Disorders (R01), (PA-09-181)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Multiple dates, see announcement.
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-09-181.html

2. Translational Research for the Prevention and Control of Diabetes and Obesity (R18) (PAR-09-176)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): July 1, 2009, November 2, 2009,
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-09-176.html

3. Planning Grants for Translational Research for the Prevention and Control of Diabetes and Obesity (R34) (PAR-09-177)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): July 1, 2009, November 2, 2009,
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-09-177.html

Economic Development

U. S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration
This Stimulus program provides grants that will promote comprehensive, entrepreneurial and innovation-based economic development efforts to enhance the competitiveness of regions, resulting in increased private investment and higher-skill, higher-wage jobs in regions that have experienced sudden and severe economic dislocation and job loss due to corporate restructuring. Deadline: Until June 30, 2010. Go to: http://www.eda.gov/PDF/FY09ARRAFFOFINAL031309.pdf

Education

Lumina Foundation – Higher Education Grants
Lumina Foundation supports the following types of efforts to increase awareness of the benefits of higher education, improved student access to and preparedness for college, improved student success in college and increased productivity across the higher education system. Lumina makes a limited number of institution-specific grants to help stimulate change in the field. For a single college to be eligible for a grant, we expect the institution to demonstrate how the grant will not only contribute to a process of institutional transformation centered on a student success agenda on its own campus, but also at other campuses.

The Foundation's Minority-Serving Institutions–Models of Success Program Request for Proposals, due June 8, 2009, is available at www.luminafoundation.org/grants/information_for_grant_seekers/MSI-Request_for_Proposal.pdf.

Geriatrics

American Academy of Nursing – Scholarship & Fellowship Programs
The American Academy of Nursing, with support from the John A. Hartford Foundation of New York City and the Atlantic Philanthropies, seeks applicants for the following Scholarship and Fellowship Programs: The Predoctoral Scholarship program is designed to support two years of doctoral work for nurses committed to careers in academic geriatric nursing. T he program awards a total of $100,000 ($50,000 per annum) to each selected Predoctoral Scholar candidate. The Claire M. Fagin Fellowship provides $120,000 for the 2-year fellowship ($60,000 per annum) for advanced research training and mentorship designed to assist doctorally-prepared nurses committed to faculty careers in geriatric nursing. The Mayday Fund provides an additional $5,000 award to selected scholar and fellow candidates whose research includes the study of pain in the elderly. Deadlines are in January. Information for 2010 will be available on June 1, 2009. Go to: http://www.geriatricnursing.org/applications/applications.asp

Health and Health Care

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – Grants Program
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provides grants for projects in the United States and U.S. territories that advance its mission to improve the health and health care of all Americans. For projects to be eligible for funding, they must address one of seven program areas. Visit a program area for more information on its strategic objectives and funding guidelines. The Foundation awards most grants through calls for proposals (CFPs). All seven program areas issue CFPs from time to time. Three program areas—Building Human Capital, Pioneer and Vulnerable Populations—also accept unsolicited proposals. The Foundation accepts unsolicited proposals in these areas at any time and issues awards throughout the year. There are no deadlines. The types of projects funded are innovative projects that can have measurable impact and can create meaningful, transformative change, such as service demonstrations; gathering and monitoring of health-related statistics; public education; training and fellowship programs; policy analysis; health services research; technical assistance; communications activities; and evaluations.

Project HealthDesign: “Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records" This is a $10 million national program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Pioneer Portfolio. Project HealthDesign stimulates innovation in the development of personal health record systems by transforming the concept of personal health records as data collection tools to such records as a foundation for action and improved health decision-making. In this second round of funding, Project HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about patterns of everyday living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take action and clinicians can integrate new insights into clinical care processes. Deadline: Jun. 3, 2009. Go to: http://www.rwjf.org/grants/

Juvenile Justice

Justice Department – Internet Crimes Against Children Research
This program seeks to encourage innovative and independent research and data collection to further the understanding of the scope and prevalence of technology and internet-facilitated crimes against children and to enhance the administration of justice through improved investigation of crime. Deadline: May 14, 2009. Go to: http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/grants/solicitations/FY2009/ARRAICACResearch.pdf

Rural Business Enterprise

U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Rural Business Enterprise Grant Programs
One program is designed to support efforts to provide energy audits and renewable energy development assistance for agricultural producers and rural small businesses. Deadline: Jun. 9, 2009. Go to http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs . Rural business opportunity grants are also available.

Scientific Field Research

National Geographic Foundation - Research and Exploration Grants
The National Geographic Society awards grants for scientific field research and exploration through its Committee for Research and Exploration. All proposed projects must have both a geographical dimension and relevance to other scientific fields and be of broad scientific interest. Applications are generally limited to the following disciplines: anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, biology, botany, geography, geology, oceanography, paleontology, and zoology. In addition the committee is emphasizing multidisciplinary projects that address environmental issues (e.g., loss of biodiversity and habitat, effects of human-population pressures).

Funding is not restricted to United States citizens. Researchers planning work in foreign countries should include at least one local collaborator as part of their research teams. The committee will not consider applications seeking support solely for laboratory work or archival research. While grants are awarded on the basis of scientific merit and exist independent of the Society's other divisions, grant recipients are expected to provide the Society with rights of first refusal for popular publication of their findings. Grants to PIs in Developing Countries: While the first priority of the CRE is to fund high-quality scientific research, there is also a particular interest in funding projects that promote the growth of scientific infrastructure in geographic locations where such infrastructure is lacking.

This grant program does not pay educational tuition, nor does it offer scholarships or fellowships of any kind. There is a two-part application process. One-year grants are usually $15,000-$20,000. Go to: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/field/grants-programs/cre-application.html

Sickle Cell Disease

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation - Sickle Cell Disease Research
An initiative of the Doris Duke Innovation in Clinical Research Award provides seed funding for early stage, multi-disciplinary clinical research projects. The 2009 Innovation in Clinical Research Award competition invites proposals for clinical research that has the potential to catalyze innovative breakthroughs in the treatment of sickle cell disease. It is hoped that these awards will attract new investigators into clinical SCD research. The 2009 awards will provide $150,000 each per year for three years (plus 8 percent for indirect costs) to support direct research expenses, including salaries. It is anticipated that up to four awards will be made in 2009. Deadlines; Letter of Intent: May 20, 2009; Proposal: Jul. 8, 2009. Go to: http://www.ddcf.org/page.asp?pageId=300

Visual Arts Writers

Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation - Arts Writers Grant
The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant provides project grants to individual authors whose work addresses contemporary visual art. The program is spearheaded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts as part of its broader Arts Writing Initiative and is administered by the Creative Capital Foundation. The Arts Writers Grant Program issues awards for books, articles, short-form writing, blogs, and new and alternative media projects. The program aims to support the broad spectrum of writing on contemporary visual art from general-audience criticism to academic scholarship.

Only individuals are eligible for a grant. Applicants must be an art historian, artist, critic, curator, journalist, or practitioner in an outside field strongly engaged with the contemporary visual arts. Nominees must also be at least 25 years of age and be a published author (specific publication requirements vary depending on project type). Applicants are not eligible if applying on behalf of an organization or for a project in which his/her primary involvement will be as an editor. Full-time students in degree-granting programs (with the exception of those students who are simultaneously maintaining professional careers as arts writers) are not eligible. The program supports approximately twenty to twenty-five projects a year. Grant amounts range from $3,000 to $50,000 each, depending on the scope and complexity of the project. Go to: http://www.artswriters.org/guidelines.php

Of Interest

Institute of Education Sciences – Research Funding Webinars
The Institute of Education Sciences is hosting a series of webinars related to research funding opportunities at the National Center for Special Education Research and the National Center for Education Research. For more information about the upcoming webinars browse here: http://ies.ed.gov/funding/webinars/

National Institutes of Health - Recovery Act Grand Opportunities “GO” Grant Submission Deadline Moved to May 29, 2009
The submission deadline for RFA-OD-09-004, Recovery Act Limited Competition for NIH Grants: Research and Research Infrastructure “Grand Opportunities” (RC2), has been moved from May 27 to May 29, 2009. This change is due to the close proximity of this receipt date to an eRA Commons system upgrade to take place from May 22-26. During the system upgrade, applicants will not be able to see application images, view errors/warning, or access any other feature of Commons. Although eRA systems, including Commons, will be unavailable during this time, Grants.gov will be able to accept applications. Applicants submitting through Grants.gov during May 22 -26 will need to complete their submission through eRA Commons once it is available for use on May 27. Go to: (http://www.nih.gov). NIH will continue to provide updates as needed.

Of Interest - Florida Meetings

The National Academies - Meeting: "Strategic Planning for the Florida Citrus Industry: Citrus Greening and the Future"
To be held on May 15-16, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress, One Grand Cypress Blvd., Orlando, Florida 32836. Tel: 407-239-1234. Go to: http://www8.nationalacademies.org/cp/meetingview.aspx?MeetingId=3433

Green Cities Florida Conference, Orlando, FL, May 19-21, 2009
To be held at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando May 19-21, for Green Cities Florida. Florida businesses, government and community leaders will convene to focus on sustainable practices and design that will save money and conserve natural resources. Go to: http://greencitiesflorida.com/register

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