Grant Alerts

VOLUME 22, NO. 12

ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH UNIT

Law and Social Sciences (CFDA No. 47.075)

Purpose: To address social scientific studies of law and
law-like systems of rules and research that advances scientific theory and understanding of the connections between law or legal processes and human behavior.
Eligibility: U.S. academic institutions.
Funding: $5 million.
Deadline: 2/4/15.
Contact: E-mail: grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov.
Museums, Libraries, and Cultural Organizations
(CFDA No. 45.164)
Purpose: To provide support for museums, libraries,
historic places, and other organizations that produce public programs in the humanities; planning grants support
exhibitions at museums, libraries, and other venues; interpretations of historic places, sites, or regions; and book/
film discussion programs; living history presentations;
and other face-to-face programs at libraries, community
centers, and other public venues; implementation grants
support all of the above including interpretive websites,
mobile applications, games, and other digital formats.
Eligibility: State, county, city, township, and special
district governments; private, public, and state controlled
institutions of higher education; Native American tribal
organizations; and nonprofits.
Funding: $1 million.
Deadline: 1/14/15.
Contact: Tel. (202) 606-8269;
E-mail: publicpgms@neh.gov.
National Security Science And Engineering Faculty
Fellowship (CFDA No. 12.300)
Purpose: To support innovative basic research within
academia, as well as education initiatives that seek to create and develop the next generation of scientists and engineers for the defense and national security workforce.
Eligibility: Public, private, and state controlled institutions of higher education; nonprofits, other than institutions of higher education; for-profit organizations other
than small businesses; and individuals.
Funding: $25 million.
Deadline: 4/24/15.
Contact: Tel. (703) 696-0989;
E-mail: joseph.cloft@navy.mil.

DECEMBER 2014

Public Scholar Program (CFDA No. 45.160)

Purpose: To support well-researched books in the humanities intended to reach a broad readership, and to
encourage scholarship that will be of broad interest and
have lasting impact.
Eligibility: Individuals.
Funding: $50,400.
Deadline: 3/3/15.
Contact: Tel. (202) 606-8200;
E-mail: publicscholar@neh.gov.
Recreational Boating Safety National Nonprofit Organization Grant Program (CFDA No. 97.012)
Purpose: To reduce the number of accidents, injuries,
and deaths on Americas waterways and provide a safe
enjoyable experience for the boating public and encourages greater non-profit organizations participation and
uniformity in boating safety efforts.
Eligibility: Nonprofits.
Funding: $5.3 million.
Deadline: 2/13/15.
Contact: Tel. (202) 372-1055;
E-mail: carlin.r.hertz@uscg.mil.
Research Coordination Networks (CFDA Nos. 47.041,
47.050, 47.070, 47.074, 47.075, 47.076, and 47.079)
Purpose: To advance a field or create new directions
in research or education by supporting groups of investigators to communicate and coordinate their research,
training and educational activities across disciplinary,
organizational, geographic and international boundaries
and provides opportunities to foster new collaborations,

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including international partnerships,

and address interdisciplinary topics.
Innovative ideas for implementing
novel networking strategies, collaborative technologies, and development
of community standards for data and
meta-data are especially encouraged.
Eligibility: Nonprofit, non-academic
organizations: independent museums,
observatories, research labs, professional societies, and similar organizations in the U.S. associated with
educational or research activities;
universities and colleges (including
community colleges).
Funding: $12.5 million.
Deadline: 3/2/15.
Contact: E-mail: grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov.
Rural Health Network Development Planning Program
(CFDA No. 93.912)
Purpose: To assist in the development of an integrated healthcare network, if the network participants do

not have a history of formal collaborative efforts; to help smaller rural

health care providers and health care
service organizations align resources
and strategies, achieve economies
of scale and efficiency, and address
challenges more effectively as a
group than as single providers.
Eligibility: Rural nonprofit or rural
public entity that represents a consortium/network of three or more
health care providers.
Funding: $1.5 million.
Deadline: 1/9/15.
Contact: E-mail: aberrian@hrsa.
gov.
Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries (CFDA No. 45.312)
Purpose: To test and evaluate specific innovations in operations and
services provided and to support the
deployment, testing, and evaluation
of promising and groundbreaking
new tools, products, services, or organizational practices.

Eligibility: A unit of state or local government or private nonprofit

organization, a library or a parent
organization, such as a school district, a municipality, a state agency,
or an academic institution, that is
responsible for the administration of
a library; including public libraries,
elementary and secondary school
libraries, college and university
libraries, research libraries and archives that are not an integral part
of an institution of higher education
and that make publicly available library services and materials that are
suitable for scholarly research and
not otherwise available, and private
or special libraries that have been
deemed eligible to participate in this
program by the state in which the
library is located.
Funding: $250,000.
Deadline: 2/2/15.
Contact: Tel. (202) 653-4639;
E-mail: tcarrigan@imls.gov.