William T. Grant Scholar Program

The William T. Grant Foundation supports research to improve the lives of young people. The foundation has announced its annual competition for the William T. Grant Scholars Program, which supports promising early career researchers from various disciplines. Through this program, the foundation supports research to understand and improve the settings of youth ages 8-25 in the United States. Focus settings include schools, youth-serving organizations, neighborhoods, families, and peer groups.

Applicants at all nonprofit institutions and of any discipline are eligible. The award is designed for early career researchers. Applicants must have received their terminal degree within seven years of submitting their application. Every year four to six scholars are selected to receive $350,000, distributed over five years. Awards are made to the applicant's institution.
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Tu Voz My Venture Grants

Youth Venture, in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MTV Tr3s Voces, will select teams of two or more youth, ages 13-20, every week through June 29, who submit great ideas for encouraging their peers to graduate from high school and college. Tu Voz My Venture winners will receive grants of up to $1,000 to create their ventures - an organization, business, or club to help young Latinos stay in school and prepare for college and careers. To learn more, click here.

Lindbergh Grants Program

Each year The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation provides grants of up to $10,580 (a symbolic amount representing the cost of the "Spirit of St. Louis") to mean and women whose individual initiative and work in the wide spectrum of disciplines furthers the Lindbergh's vision of a balance between the advance of technology and the preservation of the natural/human environment. Lindbergh Grants are made in the following categories: agriculture; aviation/aerospace; conservation of national resources - including animals, plants, water, and general conservation (land, air, energy, etc.); education-including humanities/education, the arts, and intercultural communication; exploration; health-including biomedical research, health and population sciences, and adaptive technology; and waste minimization and management. For more information, click here.

Local Target Store Grants

Target is accepting applications from organizations in communities where the company does business for its Local Store Grants program. Grant applications are accepted from nonprofit programs that impact any of the following areas: arts; early childhood reading; and family violence prevention. Arts grants are awarded to programs that bring the arts to schools or make it affordable for families to participate in cultural experiences. Early childhood reading grants support programs that promote a love of reading and encourage children, form birth through age nine, to read together with their families. Family violence prevention grants support programs that strengthen families by preventing or reducing the cycle of family violence. For more information, click here.

Education & Diversity Grants

These Kansas NSF EPSCoR grants are designed to enhance science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education in Kansas by supporting activities that will lead to an expanded STEM workforce or prepare a new generation for STEM careers. An Education & Diversity Grant proposal may target any level of the student population; the general public; K-12 teachers; community or four-year college faculty; or employees in the Kansas workforce; and the initiative may employ formal or informal educational methods. Priority will be given to proposals with a significant component to increase diversity by enabling participation in the EPSCoR project's activities by women and men, underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities.
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Robert Wood Johnson Children's Physical Activity Research Grants

Active Living Research is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that works to stimulate and support research on environmental factors and policies that influence physical activity. The purpose of the current call for proposals is to increase the understanding of how environments and policies affect children's physical activity in community and school settings. Grants will be awarded for two research topics: 1) examination of how children's and parents' perceptions of community and recreation environments are related to objective attributes of the environments and how those perceptions affect their desire to use the environments for physical activity; 2) evaluation of policy interventions to promote physical activity in schools.
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Cooperative Education and Internship Association Grants

The Cooperative Education and Internship Association has established grant funds of $6,000 to support (a) research that documents the benefits and outcomes of participating in cooperative education or internships and/or (b) the design of a research instrument that will assist with documenting these benefits and outcomes. It is expected that two or three grants will be awarded depending on the quality and quantity of proposals submitted.

Applicants can be from any country and do not have to be members of CEIA. For further details and application information, go to www.ceiainc.org and click on Research and then Research Grant.

Grants for Technology/Media Service for Children with Disabilities

The purpose of this program is to: 1) improve results for children with disabilities by promoting the development, demonstration, and use of technology, 2) support educational media services activities designed to be of education value in the classroom setting to children with disabilities, and 3) provide support for captioning and video description that is appropriate for use in the classroom setting. For more information, click here.

Community Outreach and Assistance Partnership Program

The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC), operating through the Risk Management Agency (RMA), announces the availability of funding for collaborative outreach and assistance programs for limited resource, socially disadvantaged and other traditionally under-served farmers and rancher, who produce Priority Commodities as defined in Part I.C. Awards under this program will be made on a competitive basis for projects of up to one year. Recipients of awards must demonstrate non-financial benefits from a partnership agreement and must agree to the substantial involvement of RMA in the project. For more information, click here.

$1 Million in Funding Available to Engage Skilled Construction Volunteers in Gulf Coast Rebuilding

The Corporation for National and Community Service has announced the availability of up to $1 million in funds to eligible organizations to bring skilled construction volunteers to help rebuild Gulf Coast communities. The grant competition is designed to stimulate the particular kind of volunteering that the Gulf needs the most—volunteers who are skilled in the building and other trades—and to create a viable national model for skilled trades volunteering in rebuilding efforts after future disasters. Skilled Baby Boomers with relevant experience are especially a target group, as the initiative seeks to increase the number of volunteers among working and retired citizens from that generation who are carpenters, electricians, and plumbers, etc. The potential grantees’ strategy should include outreach to increase public awareness and the recruitment, support, and management of skilled volunteers.

The grant will be awarded to between one and three nonprofit organizations. Although the immediate goal is to stimulate the recruitment of construction volunteers to assist Gulf communities, the long-lasting implication is to create a viable national model for building trades to assemble an army of volunteers to rebuild after future disasters. The Corporation will award one grant of up to $1 million, or up to three smaller grants to organizations, to develop and execute a plan to engage skilled trade professionals in Gulf rebuilding efforts. Intermediary organizations, which specialize in supporting the work of many smaller, newer, often faith and community-based organizations through which they make their impact, are encouraged to apply.

Grant applications should be submitted by email to SkilledServiceGulf@cns.gov. Applications submitted by fax or hard copy will not be accepted. Applicants are also asked, but not required, to submit an email stating their intent to apply. For complete application instructions, click here.

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships

Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research in the humanities that contributes to scholarly knowledge or to the general public's understanding of the humanities. Recipients usually produce scholarly articles, monographs on specialized subjects, books on broad topics, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly tools.
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Compassion Capital Fund Targeted Capacity Building Program

The Administration for Children and Families, Office of Community Services, is accepting applications for grants pursuant to the Department of Health & Human Services Secretary's Compassion Capital Fund. Grants will be awarded to help build the capacity of faith-based and community organizations that address the needs of distressed communities. A distressed community is defined as a neighborhood or geographic community with an unemployment rate and/or poverty rate equal to or greater than the State or national rate. The Targeted Capacity Building Program will focus on capacity building among organizations addressing the following programmatic service areas: help for at-risk youth; help for the homeless; marriage education and preparation services to help couples who choose marriage for themselves develop the skills and knowledge to form and sustain healthy marriages; or social services to rural communities. For more information, click here.

Bringing Theory to Practice Grants

The Bringing Theory to Practice Project has issued a request for proposals for 2007-2010 projects that will enable colleges and universities to build capacity for institutionalizing forms of engaged learning and to understand their relation to outcomes affecting the well-being and civic development of students.

Project grant categories range from Mini-Grants and Student Programming Grants of up to $2,500 to Intensive Site Grants of up to $250,000. Some grants have application deadlines in April, and others have rolling application and award deadlines. For more information, click here.

Association for Moral Education Research Grants

To encourage a new generation of scholars from a wide variety of fields to make a significant contribution to advancing the field of moral development, two doctoral dissertation research grants will be given in the amount of $4000 each for Research Related to Moral Development Theory and Practice. The grants will be awarded by the Association for Moral Education and funded by the Gift of Time Charitable Foundation. All funds can only be distributed through a not-for-profit educational institution.

Doctoral students are eligible to apply if all doctoral course work and exams have been completed and their dissertation proposal has been formally approved. Dissertation research must be clearly relevant to advancing moral development theory or educational practice and the applicant must be in a position to complete the dissertation within the next academic year. Dissertations being written in the fields of education, the social sciences and humanities are eligible for consideration (e.g., literacy, psychology, sociology, philosophy, theology, etc.). All theoretical perspectives and research methods are welcome.

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