Program: Head Start Research Grants
Agency: Administration for Children and Families
Next Deadline: Feb 07, 2001
Supports research projects aimed at improving services provided by the Head Start programs. In FY 01, ACF is supporting University-Head Start Partnerships and Graduate Student Head Start Research Grants. Priorities iinclude infant and toddler development within a cultural context, school readiness, and field-initiated research that will increase knowledge of low-income children's development, for the purpose of improving services or producing significant policy implications. See the 11/9/00 Federal Register, or http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/hsb/. E-mail hsr@lcgnet.com
CFDA Number: 93.600
Contact:
ACYF Operations Center
1815 North Fort Meyer Drive
Suite 300
Arlington, VA 22209
800/351-2293
Program: Grants Program
Agency: American Honda Foundation
Next Deadline: Feb 01, 2001
Awards are made to nonprofit organizations, including colleges and universities, for projects that meet the most pressing needs of youth (especially minority students). Most funded projects have included job training or math, science, technology, and environmental education improvement, including curriculum development. Emphasis is on broad, innovative, and forward-thinking projects with national scope. Grants are for $10,000-$75,000. To obtain guidelines, send a letter and a self-addressed label to the address above. See http://www.hondacorporate.com/community/index.html.
CFDA Number: N/A
Contact:
1919 Torrance Blvd., Bldg. 100
P.O. Box 2205
Torrance, CA 90509-2746
310/781-4090
Program: Grants Program
Agency: Kazanjian (Calvin K.) Economics Foundation, Inc.
Next Deadline: Feb 15, 2001
Supports a wide range of projects that aim to increase economic literacy, especially the best way to teach the subject (research, curriculum development); the impact of economic education (policy studies, measurement of economic understanding); encouragement of youth/young adults to participate in the economic system after finishing school (research, conferences, outreach programs); and the distribution of economic education materials developing market economies. See http://www.kazanjian.org/. E-mail: director@kazanjian.org.
CFDA Number: N/A
Contact:
Managing Director
P.O. Box 300
Dallas, PA 18612-0300
570/675-7074
Program: Initiative on The Cost Effective Uses of Technology in Teaching
Agency: Mellon (Andrew W.) Foundation
Next Deadline: Jan 01, 2001
Supports the design and implementation of experiments to test whether, and how, technology can enhance learning in cost-effective ways. Subject matter, course structure, time and place, type of technology, and other variables are all open to discussion. Competitive proposals must include specific methods for measuring costs and learning outcomes as well as strong institutional support. The program will fund only a limited number of experiments. E-mail a 1-2 page overview of experiment to tin@mellon.org. For more details, see http://www.mellon.org/ceutt.html.
CFDA Number:
Contact:
Tom Nygen, Program Officer
140 East 62nd Street
New York, NY 10021
212/838-8400
Program: Innovation and Organizational Change Program
Agency: National Science Foundation
Next Deadline: Feb 01, 2001
Supports development of concepts, tools and methods for managing transformations to quality in organizations. Partnerships between researchers and firms or organizations will serve to improve theoretical and empirical understandings of total quality and to expedite implementation of quality practices. Research should be multidisciplinary, ideally integrating perspectives from the social, behavioral, managerial, and engineering sciences. NSF expects to make approximately 10 to 15 new awards annually at typically $75,000 per year for one to three years. See also, http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/ses/ioc/start.htm.
CFDA Number: N/A
Contact:
Mariann Jelinek, Program Director
Div. of Social, Behav. and Econ. Research
4201 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22230
703/292-8761
Program: Public Telecommunications Facilities Program
Agency: U.S. Department of Commerce
Next Deadline: Jan 2001 (tentative)
Supports construction or planning projects for public telecommunications networks or purchase of telecommunication equipment and facilities. Matching grants are provided for activities that extend the delivery of public telecommunications to underserved areas, or strengthen the capabilities of existing public television and radio stations. Solicitation release is awaiting budget approval. Applications will not be due before mid-January, 2001. Details will be posted at http://www.ntia.doc.gov/otiahome/ptfp/index.html once they have been finalized.
CFDA Number: 11.550
Contact:
Public Broadcasting Division
Nat. Telecommunications and Info. Adm.
1401 Constitution Avenue, NW, Rm H- 4625
Washington, DC 20230
202/482-5802
Program: FIPSE: Comprehensive Program
Agency: U.S. Department of Education
Next Deadline: Dec 15, 2000
Supports projects that encourage postsecondary reform, innovation, and improvement with a focus on enhancing equality of educational opportunity. Successful projects are comprehensive, action-oriented, risk-taking and responsive to the needs of practitioners. Approximately 125 projects were funded in FY 00. Guidelines for FY 01 will be published in fall, 2000. See http://www.ed.gov/FIPSE/ for more information.
CFDA Number: 84.116
Contact:
Cassandra Courtney, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education
1990 K Street, NW
8th Floor
Washington, DC 20006-8544
202/502-7506
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