Funding Opportunities

Arts/Humanities/International

One-year grants of $1,000 to $1,500 support extra costs such as travel, tapes, or films for research on Native American linguistics and ethnohistory. Submit requests in writing for materials and information. Specify whether support is sought for ethnohistory or linguistics. Preference will be given to younger scholars, including seasoned graduate students.

Challenge Grants
National Endowment for the Arts, 202/682-5436
Next Deadline: March 3, 1994

Provides three-to-one matching grants of $75,000 to $1 million to assist organizations to undertake one-time, long-range projects that will have a lasting impact on artistic excellence, access to or appreciation of the arts, and/or increase non-federal support for the arts. Program provides two forms of support: institutional stabilization and project implementation. Deadline cited is for a required preapplication summary; for full proposals - 5/4/94.

Lila Wallace--Readers' Digest Arts Partners Program (Planning Grants)
Association of Performing Arts Presenters, 202/833-2787
Next Deadline: March 11, 1994

Supports professional presenter organizations on campus under two types of grants: Planning Grants provide for planning a major audience development/outreach program; Project Grants fund extended artists' residencies that involve interaction with the community.

Cooperative Grants Program
NAFSA: Association of International Educators, 202/462-4811
Next Deadline: March 1994 (anticipated)

Funded through a grant from USIA, the program offers grants for the development of campus-based and community projects to enhance the experience of foreign students at U.S. colleges and universities and U.S. students planning to study abroad. There is a special interest in model programs that may be adapted by other institutions. Maximum award is $6,000. The deadline cited is for required preliminary proposals. Full proposals will be invited after a review. Mini-grant proposals (under $1,000) are accepted at any time during the year.

Education/Human and Community Development

Supports the development of educational materials and model programs designed to promote women's educational equity. The program has two parts: General Significance grants (84.083 A) are open to all public agencies, IHEs, and non-profit organizations; Challenge Grants (84.083 B) are open to a consortium of these groups. In FY 94, ED will fund only projects that develop and test model programs to help LEAs meet Title IX requirements; or develop programs to increase women's participation in instructional courses in math, science and computer science. See 9/24/93 Federal Register.

TRIO: Training Program for Federal TRIO Programs
U.S. Department of Education, 202/708-4804
Next Deadline: March 31, 1994

Supports projects designed to train staff and leadership personnel employed by projects funded under Title IV Part A of the Higher Education Act (TRIO Projects) in order that those projects might run more effectively. Training activities can include conferences, internships, seminars, workshops and the publication of training manuals. For FY 94, the Department expects to make 10 awards averaging around $190,000 each. See the 9/24/93 Federal Register.

Secondary Education and Transitional Services for Youth with Disabilities
U.S. Department of Education, 202/205-8163
Next Deadline: March 28, 1994

Supports research, development, demonstration, and evaluation projects to assist youth with disabilities in the transition from secondary school to postsecondary environments. FY 94 priorities and application deadlines are research projects on student involvement in transition planning (4/8/94 deadline); outreach projects (3/28/94). See the 9/21/93 Federal Register.

Grant Program
Upjohn (W.E.) Institute for Employment Research, 616/343-5541
Next Deadline: March 23, 1994

Grants support research on the causes, effects and measures for alleviation of unemployment at the national, state and local levels. FY 94 priorities are earnings replacement; structural change and the distribution of earnings; family employment issues; labor relations and organization of work; workforce quality; economic development and the labor market; and international comparative research in labor markets. Maximum award level is $45,000, with an additional $25,000 available for data collection.

Health/Mental Health

Provides non-renewable 1- or 2- year grants of up to $25,000/year to beginning investigators or graduate students for occupational safety and health research. May be used to carry out pilot studies, to develop or test new methods or techniques, or to analyze previously collected data. Areas of interest include: traumatic injuries, reproductive effects, neurologic and cardiovascular effects, occupational cancers, noise-induced hearing loss, musculoskeletal injuries, dermatologic problems, psychological disorders, and respiratory diseases.

BRSG Shared Instrumentation Grants
National Institutes of Health, 301/594-7947
Next Deadline: March 24, 1994

Provides support for research instruments costing at least $100,000 that can only be justified on a shared-use basis and for which meritorious research projects are described. Institutions that receive Biomedical Research Support Grants (i.e., health professional schools and other academic institutions that receive three or more Public Health Service research grants totalling $200,000 per year) are eligible to apply. Maximum award is $400,000.

Science/Engineering

Supports the design, development, testing, and dissemination of innovative approaches for increasing the effectiveness of the undergraduate experience in the fields of computer and information science, computer engineering, computational science, and artificial intelligence. Support will be provided for curriculum development, faculty enhancement, software or other educational materials development, or equipment acquisition and maintenance. Eligible institutions must offer the baccalaureate degree in any of the fields noted above.

Student Training and Education Program (STEP)
U.S. Department of Transportation, 202/366-7538
Next Deadline: March 1, 1994

Supports student internships, lecture series/transportation curriculum development and faculty fellowships at Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs). Program activities serve to increase interaction between businesses and HSIs and to elevate skill levels of students in transportation fields. Awards will go to eight HSIs for a project period of 18 months. See the 11/23/93 issue of Commerce Business Daily.