ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH UNIT

Grant AlertsVOLUME 22, NO. 12

Federal Grant Notices for State & Local Governments & Community Agencies

DECEMBER 2014

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 sci-entific theory and understanding of the connections be-tween 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 pub-lic programs in the humanities; planning grants support exhibitions at museums, libraries, and other venues; inter-pretations 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 cre-ate and develop the next generation of scientists and engi-neers for the defense and national security workforce.Eligibility: Public, private, and state controlled institu-tions of higher education; nonprofits, other than institu-tions 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.

Public Scholar Program (CFDA No. 45.160)Purpose: To support well-researched books in the hu-manities 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 Or-ganization Grant Program (CFDA No. 97.012)Purpose: To reduce the number of accidents, injuries, and deaths on America’s waterways and provide a safe enjoyable experience for the boating public and encour-ages 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 inves-tigators 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, collabor-ative technologies, and development of community standards for data and meta-data are especially encouraged.Eligibility: Nonprofit, non-academic organizations: independent museums, observatories, research labs, profes-sional societies, and similar organi-zations 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: grantsgovsup-port@nsf.gov.

Rural Health Network Develop-ment Planning Program (CFDA No. 93.912)Purpose: To assist in the develop-ment of an integrated healthcare net-work, if the network participants do

not have a history of formal collab-orative 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 con-sortium/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 Li-braries (CFDA No. 45.312) Purpose: To test and evaluate spe-cific innovations in operations and services provided and to support the deployment, testing, and evaluation of promising and groundbreaking new tools, products, services, or or-ganizational practices.

Eligibility: A unit of state or lo-cal government or private nonprofit organization, a library or a parent organization, such as a school dis-trict, 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 ar-chives that are not an integral part of an institution of higher education and that make publicly available li-brary 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.