OPPORTUNITY FUNDING ALERT

Notice - NEH Summer Stipends

Animal Research
Americans for Medical Progress Fellowship in Public Outreach
Bone Marrow Research
Dept. of Defense – Peer Reviewed Bone Marrow Failure Program
Breast Cancer Research
NIEHS & NCI – Breast Cancer and the Environment Research
Dermatology
American Academy of Dermatology - Innovative Continuing Medical Education
Diversity Fellowships
Ford Foundation - Diversity Fellowships
Economics, Policy, Business
Social Equity Venture Fund - Open Enterprise Solutions to Poverty
Florida
Coastal Partnership Initiative – Grants Program
"Green Chemistry"
Environment Protection Agency - "Green Chemistry Programs"
Marine Ecosystems
NOAA and NSF - "Comparative Analysis of Marine Ecosystem Organization (CAMEO)"
Mesothelioma
Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation - Research Grants
Organizational Sciences
NSF- Innovation and Organizational Sciences
Science and Innovation Policy
NSF- Innovation and Organizational Sciences
Stage Direction and Choreographers
Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation – Observership Program
Of Interest
Grants.gov System Unavailable
Recovery Act and Grants.gov
Smithsonian Institution - "The Diplomacy of Science" Conference - Sept. 10, 2009.
NRC / NAS Report Available

Animal Research

Americans for Medical Progress - Michael D. Hayre Fellowship in Public Outreach
The Americans for Medical Progress (AMP) created the Michael D. Hayre Fellowship in Public Outreach to foster young voices to speak in support of science and advancing medical knowledge through responsible animal research. The Fellowship is open to support young adults, aged 18-30, design and implement public outreach programs about the valuable role of laboratory animals in biomedical research. The two outreach projects each come with a $5,000 stipend and a $2,000 program budget. The Fellows will also receive AMP staff guidance and unlimited access to AMP’s advocacy and outreach materials. Deadline: May 15, 2010. Go to: http://www.amprogress.org/HayreFellowship

Bone Marrow Research

Dept. of Defense – Peer Reviewed Bone Marrow Failure Program
This $5 million program (BMFRP) will support innovative research focused on Bone Marrow Failure (BMF) - the Idea Awards and the Synergistic Idea Awards. Both Announcements, have been posted on the Grants.gov and CDMRP websites (http://grants.gov and http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/bmfrp.htm. The synopsis table for the BMFRP Concept Award is located on website: http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/pdf/09bmfrpreftable.pdf. The BMFRP seeks applications from all areas of basic, translational, and epidemiological research related to bone marrow failure.

The Program Idea Awards support innovative ideas and high-impact approaches to bone marrow failure research to move toward the BMFRP vision of understanding and curing bone marrow failure disease. This award mechanism is designed to support new ideas, not ideas that are extensions of existing work. Proposals should have a high probability of revealing new avenues of investigation. Preliminary data, unpublished results from the laboratory of the Principal Investigator (PI) or collaborators named on this application, and/or data from the published literature, that is relevant to bone marrow failure and the proposed research project should be included. Clinical Trials will not be supported under this mechanism. Eligible applicants are at the Asst. Professor level. Maximum allowable funding is $375,000 in direct costs for up to three years plus indirect costs.

The Synergistic Idea Awards support innovative ideas and synergistic approaches to bone marrow failure research through scientific collaborative partnerships. This award mechanism is designed to support new ideas, not ideas that are extensions of existing collaborative efforts. Collaborative partnerships must involve two Principal Investigators (PIs) who will use synergistic and complementary perspectives to address a central problem or question in bone marrow failure research. Preliminary data, unpublished results from the laboratory of the PI or collaborators named on this application, and/or data from the published literature that is relevant to bone marrow failure and the proposed research project should be included. The Synergistic Idea Award requires that two investigators jointly design a single project. However, each partner will be recognized as a PI, submit a separate application, and receive an individual award. Multidisciplinary projects are encouraged; multi-institutional projects are allowed. Clinical Trials will not be supported under this mechanism. Eligible applicants are at the Assistant Professor level (or equivalent). Maximum period of performance is 3 years. Combined total maximum allowable funding is $750,000 in direct costs for up to three years plus indirect costs. Deadlines: Pre-proposal through https://cdmrp.org/ : Sep. 22, 2009. Full Proposal (by invitation only): Jan. 14, 2010.

Breast Cancer Research

Dermatology

American Academy of Dermatology - Innovative Continuing Medical Education
The American Academy of Dermatology has created an educational program called the Program for Innovative Continuing Medical Education in Dermatology (PICMED). The program was established to facilitate the continuing education of dermatologists through support and development of innovative continuing medical education programs. The endowment fund will be used to support the activities of PICMED, including but not limited to: Creative needs assessment mechanisms; Innovative uses of technology; Unique approaches to specific subject matter(s); Novel presentation techniques; Utilization of existing educational paradigms in new environments. Deadline: Sept. 4, 2009. Go to: http://www.aad.org/education/grants/picmed.html

Diversity Fellowships

Ford Foundation - Diversity Fellowships
Through its program of Diversity Fellowships, the Ford Foundation seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. Eligibility to apply for a Ford fellowship is limited to: All citizens or nationals of the United States regardless of race, national origin, religion, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation; Individuals with evidence of superior academic achievement (such as grade point average, class rank, honors or other designations); Individuals committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level. For information regarding level-specific eligibility requirements, stipends, and other program information for each of the three levels of the Fellowship program, please access the fact sheet for the program level of your interest, predoctoral, dissertation or postdoctoral. Go to: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/pga/fordfellowships/

Economics, Policy, Business

Social Equity Venture Fund - Open Enterprise Solutions to Poverty
The aim of SEVEN Fund sponsored research is to answer the question of whether wealth-creation may be the most effective solution to alleviate poverty. The fund invests its resources in finding, researching, and documenting examples where entrepreneurial success is shown to have led to poverty alleviation. In the process, the fund seeks to inspire entrepreneurs in developing countries with advice, investments, role models, and other services. The fund's Request for Proposals is limited to research in economics, government policy, and business strategy, insofar as the research bears directly on questions in enterprise-based solutions to poverty. Anyone may submit an initial proposal for funding — there are no geographic or other limitations on program eligibility. Applicants may include think tanks, economists, professors from business schools as well as other departments, researchers, entrepreneurs, business experts, strategy experts, graduate and post-graduate student researchers, economic development experts, business strategists, and nongovernmental organizations. The fund will award up to two research grants of up to $100,000 each for up to twelve months. Deadline: Initial Letter of Interest: Oct. 15, 2009. Go to: http://sevenfund.org/enterprise-solutions-poverty/index.php

Florida

Coastal Partnership Initiative – Grants Program
The Coastal Partnership Initiative (CPI) provides support ($20,000-$60,000) for innovative local coastal management projects in four program areas: resilient communities, public access, working waterfronts, and coastal stewardship. Certain governmental, educational, and non-profit entities may apply for grants for community projects such as dune revegetation, citizen water quality monitoring and waterfront revitalization. Each year in August or September, the FCMP publishes a CPI Brochure and a Notice of Availability of Funds in the Florida Administrative Weekly to solicit proposals from eligible local governmental, educational, and non-profit entities. For detailed application procedures, funding eligibility, and review procedures, see the new CPI Application Form and read revised Rule 62S-4, Florida Administrative Code. The Coastal Zone Management Act Section 306A Guidance and Checklist, appended to the CPI Application, must be completed for all acquisition and construction projects including invasive species removal and native species restoration. Contact the FCMP Grants section with questions on submitting a CPI application. Deadline: TBA. Go to: http://www.dep.state.fl.us/cmp/grants/fcpmgrants.htm

Green Chemistry

Environment Protection Agency - "Green Chemistry Programs"
The Environmental Protection Agency offers a timely list of funding sources that includes: Technology for a Sustainable Environment (TSE), EPA's Small Business Innovation Research Program, National Science Foundation – Mathematical and Physical Sciences, EPA-supported Consortia, Fellowships, and Technology Vision 2020. Go to: http://www.epa.gov/greenchemistry/pubs/grants.html#TSE

The moment a chemist puts pencil to paper to design the synthetic sequence that will be used to manufacture a chemical product, he/she also decides whether that sequence will use or generate hazardous substances that will require special handling, treatment, transportation, or disposal. There can be literally hundreds of different chemical reactions to choose from when constructing chemicals, some of which are more hazardous and generate more pollution than others. With proper forethought and analysis, chemists can choose reactions that are less hazardous and prevent pollution, thereby avoiding many of the environmental problems and liabilities that chemical manufacturers face.

EPA's Green Chemistry Program supports fundamental research in green chemistry in order to provide industry with the chemically viable tools and methods necessary to develop products and processes that are more environmentally benign. Green chemistry grant opportunities are available through a number of industry/university/government consortia. In addition, both the EPA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and the EPA/NSF "Technology for a Sustainable Environment" program include green chemistry in their research grant solicitations.

EPA-Supported Consortia
1. The ACS Green Chemistry Institute works across disciplines and academic, government, and industry sectors to promote the development and implementation of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances. Go to: http://www.epa.gov/greenchemistry/pubs/gcinstitute.html
2. The National Environmental Technology Institute - The National Environmental Technology Institute (NETI), at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, promotes and funds long-term research to minimize or eliminate pollution from industrial processes. NETI's specific focus is developing innovative process design changes to existing and new industry operations through private industry research partnerships. 3. The Center for Process Analytical Chemistry - The Center for Process Analytical Chemistry (CPAC) at the University of Washington is a consortium of university, government, and academic partners. It is dedicated to supporting and promoting research in several areas of process analytical chemistry. Go to: http://www.cpac.washington.edu/

Fellowships
1. Joseph Breen Memorial Fellowship in Green Chemistry – go to: http://www.epa.gov/greenchemistry/educat.html#breen
2. Kenneth G. Hancock Memorial Award in Green Chemistry – go to: http://www.epa.gov/greenchemistry/educat.html#Hancock.

Technology Vision 2020
The Technology Vision 2020 is a call to action, a strategic plan, for the U.S. chemical industry. The U.S. chemical industry is the world's largest producer of chemicals (value shipped, $367.5 billion in 1995), contributing the largest trade surplus of any non-defense-related sector to the U.S. economy ($20.4 billion in 1995), representing 10 percent of all U.S. manufacturing, and employing more than one million Americans. Chemical companies must innovate and change to keep the U.S. chemical industry competitive in the global environment in the 21st century.

In addition and with the goal of creating a technology "roadmap" for the chemical industry to follow, Vision 2020 partners examined the technical disciplines of new chemical science and engineering technology, supply chain technology, information systems, and manufacturing and operations. The importance of these areas to the future competitiveness of the U.S. Chemical Industry is described in Technology Vision 2020 as well as the current state of the industry, a vision for tomorrow, and the technical advances that need to be made in these areas to make the vision a reality. Go to: The Council for Chemical Research at http://www.ccrhq.org/vision/

Marine Ecosystems

NOAA and NSF - "Comparative Analysis of Marine Ecosystem Organization (CAMEO)"
Proposals are invited for the Comparative Analysis of Marine Ecosystem Organization (CAMEO) Program, a partnership between the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service and the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. Opportunity No.: NOAA-NMFS-FHQ-2009-2001734. The purpose of CAMEO is to strengthen the scientific basis for an ecosystem approach to the stewardship of our ocean and coastal living marine resources. The program will support fundamental research to understand complex dynamics controlling ecosystem structure, productivity, behavior, resilience, and population connectivity, as well as effects of climate variability and anthropogenic pressures on living marine resources and critical habitats. CAMEO encourages the development of multiple approaches, such as ecosystem models and comparative analyses of managed and unmanaged areas (e.g., marine protected areas) that can ultimately form a basis for forecasting and decision support. Deadline: Oct. 5, 2009. Go to (http://cameo.noaa.gov).

Mesothelioma

Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation - Research Grants
Continuing its efforts to stimulate translational research for the treatment of malignant mesothelioma, the Meso Foundation is again soliciting applications for funding of innovative projects that address issues for the treatment of the disease. Eligible projects may relate to benchwork, translational or clinical research, must not be presently funded or pending review, and may be conducted through any not-for-profit academic, medical or research institution, in the U.S. or abroad. The award for any project will be for two years up to $50,000 per year. The Foundation will review and monitor the study's progress and results, requiring a ten month progress report, and a presentation and full progress report at the close of the second year. Funding will be continued for the second year only upon satisfactory progress obtained in the first year. The Meso Foundation does not pay institutional indirect costs. Deadline: Aug. 15, 2009; Go to: http://www.curemeso.org

Organizational Sciences

National Science Foundation - Innovation and Organizational Sciences
The NSF, Div. of Social and Economic Sciences’ Innovation and Organizational Sciences (IOS) program supports scientific research directed at advancing understanding of innovation and organizational phenomena (PD 07-5376). Levels of analysis may include individuals, groups and/or institutional arrangements. Disciplinary perspectives may include organization theory, organizational behavior, organizational sociology, social and industrial psychology, public administration, computer and information sciences, complexity sciences, decision and management sciences. Research methods may span a broad variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, including archival analyses, surveys, simulation studies, experiments, comparative case studies, and network analyses. Research may involve industrial, educational, service, government, not-for-profits, voluntary organizations or interorganizational arrangements. IOS-funded research must be grounded in theory and generalizable. It must advance our scientific understanding of innovation and organizations. Deadlines: Sept. 3, 2009; Feb. 2, 2010. Go to: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5378&govDel=USNSF_39

Science and Innovation Policy

National Science Foundation - Science of Science and Innovation Policy
The Science of Science & Innovation Policy (SciSIP) program (PD 09-7626) supports research designed to advance the scientific basis of science and innovation policy. Research funded by the program thus develops, improves and expands models, analytical tools, data and metrics that can be applied in the science policy decision making process. For example, research proposals may develop behavioral and analytical conceptualizations, frameworks or models that have applications across a broad array of SciSIP challenges, including the relationship between broader participation and innovation or creativity. Proposals may also develop methodologies to analyze science and technology data, and to convey the information to a variety of audiences. Researchers are also encouraged to create or improve science and engineering data, metrics and indicators reflecting current discovery, particularly proposals that demonstrate the viability of collecting and analyzing data on knowledge generation and innovation in organizations. Deadline: Sept. 9, 2009. Go to: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501084

Stage Direction and Choreographers

Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation - Observership Program The Observership Program of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF) was established to offer early-career directors and choreographers the opportunity to observe the work of master directors and choreographers as they create new productions on Broadway, off-Broadway and at leading regional theatres across the country. SDCF Observers have access to the entire rehearsal process, from first rehearsal to opening night. Deadline: Aug. 17, 2009. Go to: http://sdcweb.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16&Itemid=73

Of Interest

Grants.gov System Unavailable
Due to the implementation of Build 2009-04 the Grants.gov system and website will be unavailable Saturday, August 8, 2009 through Sunday, August 9, 2009. The system is scheduled to be back online at 11:59 p.m. EDT August 9, 2009. The system updates for this build will be available once the build is successfully deployed on the Site Features and Enhancements page. If you have any questions or issues while the system is unavailable, please email support@grants.gov and the Contact Center will address your inquiry during business hours (Monday-Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., EDT).

Recovery Act and Grants.gov
A new feature was unveiled on Grants.gov to help users find and apply for The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) grant opportunities. The launch of the ARRA or Recovery Act feature on the homepage of Grants.gov will direct users to Recovery Act opportunities, other Recovery Act resources, upcoming Webinars and links to www.whitehouse.gov/recovery and www.recovery.gov.

Smithsonian Institution - Conference: "The Diplomacy of Science" - Thurs., Sept. 10, 2009.
This is the 3rd conference in the 2009 Science and Scholarship in Society Series sponsored by the Smithsonian's Office of Sponsored Projects in partnership with Navy Medicine. The next event will take place on Thursday, 10 September 2009, from 10:30-12:30 at the National Museum of American History auditorium. The keynote speaker and respondents will address The Diplomacy of Science. The event will center upon the potential of science and technology to advance world progress and secure harmony between nations and cultures. The agenda, location information, speakers, and registration are found at the following http://www.thechiefinformationgroup.com/conference/smithsonian/index.php?c_id=7

NRC / NAS Report Available: - "A Survey of Attitudes and Actions on Dual Use Research in the Life Sciences: A Collaborative Effort of the National Research Council and the American Association for the Advancement of Science"
The same technologies that fuel scientific advances also pose potential risks--that the knowledge, tools, and techniques gained through legitimate biotechnology research could be misused to create biological weapons or for bioterrorism. This is often called the dual use dilemma of the life sciences. Yet even research with the greatest potential for misuse may offer significant benefits. Determining how to constrain the danger without harming essential scientific research is critical for national security as well as prosperity and well-being. Go to: http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12460

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