January 12, 2023
Federal Funding Opportunities

U.S. Department of Commerce; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Climate Program Office Earth System Science and Modeling Research for Coastal Inundation applications due March 17, 2023

The Earth System Science and Modeling Division programs address climate challenges by managing competitive research programs that support high-priority science initiatives. The programs advance our understanding of the Earth’s climate system and foster the application and use of this knowledge to improve the resilience of our Nation and its partners. The National Ocean Service provides data, tools, and services that support coastal economies and their contribution to the national economy, especially in the area of preparedness and risk reduction. This opportunity is a joint collaboration with the National Weather Service, to develop and support research on the topic of coastal inundation.

U.S. Department of Commerce; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Climate Program Office Climate and Societal Interactions Division Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Climate and Atmospheric Research applications due March 29, 2023

The goal of this funding opportunity is to support collaborative research and community engagement projects that improve climate adaptation planning and action. Collaborative research and community engagement are defined as the process of developing trusted and sustained partnerships between scientists, decision-makers, and communities that lead to shared understandings of climate adaptation needs and the co-generation of credible and actionable climate knowledge to support community defined plans, including implementable solutions. Outcomes from this work will support and inform the identification of equitable and inclusive infrastructure investments that mitigate flooding and wildfire risks.

U.S. Department of Defense; Office of Naval Research Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education and Workforce Program white papers due April 14, 2023

The Office of Naval Research is providing a funding opportunity for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education programs and activities, which is formal or informal education that is primarily focused on physical and natural sciences, technology, engineering, social sciences, and mathematics disciplines, topics, or issues, including environmental science education or stewardship. STEM education programs and activities that could be supported by this funding opportunity include one or more of the following as the primary objective:

• Develop learners’ knowledge, skill, or interest in STEM.
• Attract students to pursue certifications, licenses, or degrees (two-year degrees through post-doctoral degrees) or careers in STEM fields.
• Provide growth and research opportunities for post-secondary, college and graduate students in STEM fields, such as working with researchers or conducting research that is primarily intended to further education.
• Improve mentor/educator (K-12 pre-service or in-service, post-secondary, and informal) quality in STEM areas.
• Improve or expand the capacity of institutions to promote or foster STEM fields.

U.S. Department of Energy; Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office, Building Technologies Office; and Office of Electricity issue Multi-Topic funding opportunity with concept papers due February 3, 2023

This funding opportunity will support activities to advance efficiency improvements and enhance manufacturing competitiveness through technological innovation by focusing on three main topic areas:

• Next Generation Materials and Manufacturing Processes;
• Secure and Sustainable Materials; and
• Energy Technology Manufacturing.

The goals of this multi-topic opportunity are to:

• Validate and demonstrate next generation materials and manufacturing processes including domestic pilot demonstrations and related technologies to support the transition to U.S. manufacturing;
• Enable environmentally and socially responsible domestic manufacturing with diversified domestic supply of feedstocks including from recycled goods; and
• Mature nascent technologies, processes, and methods that improve the performance and market penetration of clean energy technologies and emerging building efficiency technologies.

U.S. Department of Energy; Office of Science Research Opportunities in Accelerator Stewardship and Accelerator Development pre-applications due February 7, 2023

The Department of Energy program in Accelerator Research and Development and Production seeks applications to conduct cross-cutting use-inspired basic research and development to advance accelerator science and technology and domestic supplier development that supports the Office of Science’s activities in physical sciences research, and which is of broader benefit to other U.S. government agencies and industry.

U.S. Department of Energy; Office of Science releases topic-specific Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce Funding Opportunities

Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce (RENEW) aims to build foundations for Office of Science (SC) research and training at institutions historically underrepresented in the SC research portfolio. RENEW leverages SC’s unique national laboratories, user facilities, and other research infrastructures to provide undergraduate and graduate training opportunities for students and academic institutions not currently well represented in the U.S. science and technology (S&T) ecosystem. The hands-on experiences gained through RENEW will open new career avenues for participants, forming a nucleus for a future pool of talented young scientists, engineers, and technicians with the critical skills and expertise needed for the full breadth of SC research activities. Principal Investigators, key personnel, and students of RENEW awards will be invited to participate in researcher meetings and/or SC-wide professional development and collaborator events. RENEW funding opportunity announcements have been issued in the following areas:

• Fusion Energy Science pre-applications due February 20, 2023
• Biological and Environmental Research pre-applications due February 21, 2023
• Advanced Scientific Computing Research pre-applications due February 21, 2023
• Isotope R&D and Production pre-applications due February 21, 2023
• High Energy Physics applications due March 31, 2023
• Nuclear Physics applications due April 17, 2023

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Centers for Disease Control A Strategic Approach to Advancing Health Equity for Priority Populations with or at Risk for Diabetes applications due March 7, 2023

This funding opportunity seeks to prevent or delay onset of type 2 diabetes among adults with prediabetes and improve self-care practices, quality of care, and early detection of complications among people with diabetes. Additionally, this funding opportunity will support implementation of evidence-based, family-centered childhood obesity interventions as a type 2 diabetes risk reduction strategy. All work supported under this funding opportunity will focus on reducing health disparities and achieving health equity for priority populations, defined as those who have systematically experienced greater obstacles to health based on their racial or ethnic group; religion; socioeconomic status; gender; age; mental health; cognitive, sensory, or physical disability; sexual orientation or gender identity; geographic location; or other characteristics historically linked to discrimination or exclusion.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; National Institutes of Health Programs for Inclusion and Diversity Among Individuals Engaged in Health-Related Research applications due March 10, 2023

The overarching goal of this National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Research Education Program is to support mentoring and research education activities that enhance the diversity of the biomedical, behavioral and clinical research workforce. The major goal of this program is to establish long-term mentoring that will enable junior faculty who are underrepresented in the biomedical sciences to develop a research program and obtain NIH funding. This funding opportunity specifically invites applications from senior faculty, established researchers, and experienced mentors to develop and direct the Summer Institutes of the Programs for Inclusion and Diversity among Individuals Engaged in Health-Related Research (PRIDE) program in order to mentor promising eligible junior faculty who have specific scientific interests in heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders research.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; National Institutes of Health reissues Innovative Mental Health Services Research funding opportunity

The purpose of this funding announcement is to encourage innovative research that will inform and support the delivery of high-quality, continuously improving mental health services to benefit the greatest number of individuals with, or at risk for developing, a mental illness.

Forecasted: U.S. Department of Labor; Employment and Training Administration Building Pathways to Infrastructure Jobs Grant Program

The purpose of this program is to fund public-private partnerships to develop, strengthen, and scale promising and evidence-based training models in H-1B industries and occupations critical to meeting the goals of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and to maximize the impact of these investments. The country will need a proficient workforce to fill the good-paying jobs created by this historic investment, and this grant program will train job seekers in advanced manufacturing; information technology; and professional, scientific, and technical services occupations that support renewable energy, transportation, and broadband infrastructure sectors. The Building Pathways to Infrastructure Jobs Grant Program represents a down payment for the future skilled workforce needs that are being developed through the BIL investments by investing in the development and expansion of the workforce partnerships that will be needed to build equitable pathways to good infrastructure jobs. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Grant Program serves dual purposes by implementing and scaling worker-centered sector strategies to support the workforce necessary for successful implementation of the BIL.

National Science Foundation Addressing Systems Challenges through Engineering Teams letters of intent due February 1, 2023

The Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems Division (ECCS) supports enabling and transformative engineering research at the nano, micro, and macro scales that fuels progress in engineering system applications with high societal impact. This includes fundamental engineering research underlying advanced devices and components and their seamless penetration in power, controls, networking, communications, or cyber systems. The research is envisioned to be empowered by cutting-edge computation, synthesis, evaluation, and analysis technologies and is to result in significant impact for a variety of application domains in healthcare, homeland security, disaster mitigation, telecommunications, energy, environment, transportation, manufacturing, and other systems-related areas. ECCS also supports new and emerging research areas encompassing 5G and Beyond Spectrum and Wireless Technologies, Quantum Information Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Big Data. ECCS, through its ASCENT program, offers the engineering community the opportunity to address research issues and answer engineering challenges associated with complex systems and networks that are not achievable by a single principal investigator or by short-term projects and can only be achieved by interdisciplinary research teams. ECCS envisions a connected portfolio of transformative and integrative projects that create synergistic links by investigators across its three ECCS clusters: Communications, Circuits, and Sensing-Systems, Electronics, Photonics and Magnetic Devices, and Energy, Power, Control, and Networks, yielding novel ways of addressing challenges of engineering systems and networks. ECCS seeks proposals that are bold and ground-breaking, transcend the perspectives and approaches typical of disciplinary research efforts, and lead to disruptive technologies and methods or enable significant improvement in quality of life.

National Science Foundation Pathways into the Earth, Ocean, Polar and Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences proposals due March 27, 2023

The Pathways into the Geosciences – Earth, Ocean, Polar and Atmospheric Sciences (GEOPAths) funding opportunity invites proposals that specifically address the current needs and opportunities related to education, learning, training and professional development within the geosciences community through the formation of STEM Learning Ecosystems that engage students in the study of the Earth, its oceans, polar regions and atmosphere. The primary goal of the GEOPAths funding opportunity is to increase the number of students pursuing undergraduate and/or postgraduate degrees through the design and testing of novel approaches that engage students in authentic, career-relevant experiences in geoscience. In order to broaden participation in the geosciences, engaging students from historically excluded groups or from non-geoscience degree programs is a priority. This solicitation features three funding tracks that focus on Geoscience Learning Ecosystems (GLEs):

• Informal Networks: Collaborative projects in this track will support geoscience learning and experiences in informal settings for teachers, pre-college (e.g., upper level high school) students, and early undergraduates in the geosciences.
• Undergraduate Preparation: Projects in this track will engage pre-college and undergraduate students in extra-curricular experiences and training in the geosciences with a focus on service learning and workplace skill building.
• Graduate Opportunities: Projects in this track will improve research and career-related pathways into the geosciences for undergraduate and graduate students through institutional collaborations with a focus on service learning and workplace skill building.

National Science Foundation Biodiversity on a Changing Planet proposals due March 29, 2023

The biodiversity found in nature is essential for healthy ecosystems and human well-being, however, the disruption and decline of Earth’s biodiversity is currently occurring at an unprecedented rate. The resulting shifts in biodiversity dynamic, including changes in the scope and structure of biodiversity, are increasingly significant but not well-understood. Shifting biodiversity dynamics in turn influence functional biodiversity, which includes the roles of traits, organisms, species, communities, and ecosystem processes in natural systems. Changes in biodiversity dynamics and functional biodiversity are essential factors for future planetary resilience under environmental change, including climate change. The connection between functional biodiversity and biodiversity dynamics on a changing planet is the main focus of the Biodiversity on a Changing Planet program. The program encourages proposals that integrate pattern- and process-based research approaches in the context of the constant gain, loss, and reorganization of biodiversity on a changing planet. To advance a comprehensive understanding of functional biodiversity requires a highly integrative approach, including consideration of spatial and temporal dimensions from the organismal to the ecosystem level and from recent to deep timescales. The program therefore places a strong emphasis on multidisciplinary research among climatic, geological, paleontological, ecological, organismal, phylogenetic and evolutionary sciences.

National Science Foundation Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier: Core Research proposals due March 30, 2023

The overarching vision of this program is to support multi-disciplinary research to sustain economic competitiveness, to promote worker well-being, lifelong and pervasive learning, and quality of life, and to illuminate the emerging social and economic context and drivers of innovations that are shaping the future of jobs and work. The specific objectives of the Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier program are to:

• facilitate inter-disciplinary or convergent research that employs the joint perspectives, methods, and knowledge of behavioral science, computer science, economics, engineering, learning sciences, research on adult learning and workforce training, and the social sciences;
• develop deeper understandings of how human needs can be met and values respected in regard to how new technologies, conditions, and work experiences are changing;
• support deeper understanding of the societal infrastructure that accompanies and leads to new work technologies and new approaches to work and jobs, and that prepares people for the future world of work;
• encourage the development of a research community dedicated to designing intelligent technologies and work organization and modes inspired by their positive impact on individual workers, the work at hand, the way workers learn and adapt to technological change, creative and inclusive workplaces (including remote locations, homes, classrooms, or virtual spaces), and benefits for social, economic, educational, and environmental systems at different scales;
• promote deeper basic understanding of the interdependent human-technology partnership to advance societal needs by advancing design of intelligent technologies that operate in harmony with human workers, including consideration of how adults learn the new skills needed to interact with these technologies in the workplace, and by enabling broad and diverse workforce participation, including improving accessibility for those challenged by physical, learning or cognitive impairment and other visible and invisible disabilities; and
• understand, anticipate, and explore ways of mitigating potential risks including inequity arising from future work at the human-technology frontier.

National Science Foundation Partnerships for Innovation proposals due July 12, 2023

The Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) Program within the Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP) offers researchers from all disciplines of science and engineering the opportunity to perform translational research and technology development, catalyze partnerships and accelerate the transition of discoveries from the laboratory to the marketplace for societal benefit. This solicitation offers two broad tracks for proposals.

The Technology Translation (PFI-TT) track offers the opportunity to translate prior national Science Foundation (NSF) funded research results in any field of science or engineering into technological innovations with promising commercial potential and societal impact. PFI-TT supports commercial potential demonstration projects for academic research outputs in any NSF-funded science and engineering discipline. This demonstration is achieved through proof-of-concept, prototyping, technology development and/or scale-up work. Concurrently, students and postdoctoral researchers who participate in PFI-TT projects receive education and leadership training in innovation and entrepreneurship. Successful PFI-TT projects generate technology-driven commercialization outcomes that address societal needs.

The Research Partnerships (PFI-RP) track seeks to achieve the same goals as the PFI-TT track by supporting instead complex, multi-faceted technology development projects that are typically beyond the scope of a single researcher or institution and require a multi-organizational, interdisciplinary, synergistic collaboration. A PFI-RP project requires the creation of partnerships between academic researchers and third-party organizations such as industry, non-academic research organizations, federal laboratories, public or non-profit technology transfer organizations or other universities. Such partnerships are needed to conduct use-inspired research on a stand-alone larger project toward commercialization and societal impact.

January 4, 2023
Federal Funding Opportunities

U.S. Department of Commerce; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Program Office (CPO), Climate and Societal Interactions (CSI) Division — Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) letters of intent due February 1, 2023, and applications due March 29, 2023
The goal of this Notice of Federal Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to support collaborative research and community engagement projects that improve climate adaptation planning and action.

FORECASTED U.S. Department of Energy; National Energy Technology Laboratory Carbon Utilization Procurement Grants Under Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
As part of the BIL, supporting the Administration’s goal to achieve a carbon-free power sector by 2035 and putting the United States on a path to a net-zero economy by 2050, this demonstration program will issue grants to eligible entities to procure commercial and industrial products derived from the conversion of anthropogenic carbon oxides and demonstrate a significant net reduction in life cycle greenhouse gas emissions compared to incumbent technologies, processes, and products. FOA is anticipated to be issued in the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2023.

U.S. Department of Energy; Golden Field Office Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: Resilient and Efficient Codes Implementation concept papers due January 31, 2023
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Building Technologies Office (BTO) is issuing this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) titled Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: Resilient and Efficient Codes Implementation. The activities to be funded under this FOA support the BIL, as well as a broader government-wide approach to advance building codes and support their successful implementation. The primary focus centers around updating to more efficient building energy codes that save money for American homes and businesses, reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and encourage more resilient buildings. This FOA seeks applications with project teams ready to advance building energy codes and other building efficiency policies within a particular region, state, or local jurisdiction.

U.S. Department of Interior; Bureau of Reclamation WaterSMART: Water Recycling and Desalination Planning applications due February 28, 2023
Funding made available is intended to provide assistance to prepare feasibility studies and undertake other planning activities for potential new Title XVI Water Reclamation and Reuse projects, Desalination Construction projects, and Large-Scale Water Recycling projects. Eligible project activities include development of new water recycling and desalination feasibility studies, preparation of preliminary project cost estimates, design activities, and environmental and cultural resource compliance activities. Eligible applicants include local water agencies that are sponsors of water recycling or desalination projects.

U.S. Department of Transportation; Federal Aviation Administration FY2022 Airport Improvement Program Supplemental Discretionary Grants applications due January 31, 2023
This competitive supplemental discretionary grant program falls under the project grant authority for the Airport Improvement Program (AIP), with the objective of assisting eligible airports in the development and improvement of a nationwide system that adequately meets the needs of civil aeronautics. Projects should be ready to begin by June 30, 2024. Eligible projects include, but are not limited to: a. Improvements related to enhancing airport safety, capacity, security, environmental sustainability, planning, or any combination of the above, including terminal development; b. Planning for the feasibility of and options for unleaded aviation fuel infrastructure; c. Airport projects associated with pavement rehabilitation, reconstruction, and extension of the pavement’s useful life; d. Noise planning and noise mitigation; e. Projects to plan for, relocate, and/ or construct run-up locations to reduce community exposure to emissions from leaded aviation fuel usage; and f. Other emission reduction projects.

U.S. Department of Transportation; Federal Railroad Administration FY22-23 Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail Grant Program for projects located on the Northeast Corridor applications due March 27, 2023
The Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail Northeast Corridor (FSP NEC) funds capital projects on the Northeast Corridor that reduce the state of good repair backlog, improve performance, or expand or establish new intercity passenger rail service.

U.S. Department of Transportation; Maritime Administration FY2023 Port Infrastructure Development Program Grants applications due April 28, 2023
The purpose of the Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP) is to improve the safety, efficiency, or reliability of the movement of goods through ports and intermodal connections to ports. Eligible projects for FY 2023 PIDP grants shall be located either within the boundary of a port, or outside the boundary of a port and directly related to port operations or to an intermodal connection to a port. Grants may be made for capital projects that will be used to improve the safety, efficiency, or reliability of (I) the loading and unloading of goods at the port, such as for marine terminal equipment; (II) the movement of goods into, out of, around, or within a port, such as for highway or rail infrastructure, intermodal facilities, freight intelligent transportation systems, and digital infrastructure systems; (III) operational improvements, including projects to improve port resilience; or (IV) environmental and emissions mitigation measures. The complete PIDP Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) with more details on the program and application requirements will be released on or by January 17, 2023.

December 22, 2022
Federal Funding Opportunities

U.S. Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency Capital Readiness Program applications due February 28, 2023

The Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) Capital Readiness Program is designed to help close the entrepreneurship gap between socially and economically disadvantaged individuals (SEDI) and non-SEDI. This notice requests applications from qualified organizations that have the expertise to provide technical assistance for entrepreneurs starting or scaling their businesses who are seeking various forms of capital. Specifically, MBDA expects this Program to serve SEDI-owned businesses that are applying, have previously applied, or plan to apply to a State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) capital program or other government program that supports small businesses.

U.S. Department of Energy Buildings Energy Efficiency Frontiers and Innovation Technologies concept papers due February 7, 2023

This funding opportunity seeks to support to research and development of high-impact, cost-effective technologies and practices that will reduce carbon emissions, improve flexibility and resilience, as well as lower energy costs across five topic areas:

• Topic 1: Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) and Water Heating: Technologies with improved materials, components, equipment design and engineering, lower cost manufacturing processes, and easier installation.
• Topic 2: Thermal Energy Storage (TES): Development and validation of next generation plug-and-play TES products with improved cost and performance and ease of installation to accelerate adoption of TES in HVAC applications.
• Topic 3: Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS): Development, validation, and demonstration of product innovations that reduce the cost of BESS integration, improve the coordination between distributed BESS and the electrical grid, as well as help meet building decarbonization targets.
• Topic 4: Plug Loads/Lighting: Integration of plug load controls with connected lighting systems in commercial buildings with minimal cost and complexity to support building electrification.
• Topic 5: Opaque Building Envelope: Development, validation, and demonstration of high-impact, affordable. opaque building envelope retrofit and diagnostic technologies.

U.S. Department of Energy; Office of Science Funding for Accelerated, Inclusive Research pre-applications due February 7, 2023

The Office of Science (SC) seeks applications from institutions historically underrepresented in the SC portfolio, including non-R1 minority serving institutions (MSIs) and emerging research institutions, to perform basic research in fields supported by SC. This funding opportunity aims to build research capacity, infrastructure, and expertise at these institutions through mutually beneficial relationships between applicants and U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories, SC scientific user facilities, or R1 MSIs. SC supports fundamental research in applied mathematics, biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, isotope research, materials science, and physics to transform our understanding of nature and catalyze scientific discoveries that can lead to technical breakthroughs. SC does not support applied research, product development, or prototyping.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; National Institutes of Health Biomedical Research Facilities applications due February 24, 2023

This funding opportunity invites applications from eligible academic and research institutions to apply for funding to modernize existing or construct new biomedical research facilities. Applications from both research-intensive institutions and Institutions of Emerging Excellence in biomedical research, both highly resourced and low-resourced institutions, from all geographic regions in the nation are strongly encouraged to apply. The National Institutes of Health recognizes the importance of all institutions of higher learning in contributing to the nation’s research capacity. The goal of this funding opportunity is to modernize biomedical research infrastructure to strengthen biomedical research programs. Each project is expected to provide long-term improvements to the institutional research infrastructure. Targeted projects are the construction or modernization of core facilities and the development of other shared research infrastructure serving an institution-wide research community with broad impact on biomedical research.

National Science Foundation Strengthening American Infrastructure proposals due March 15, 2023

The Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI) program seeks to stimulate human-centered fundamental and potentially transformative research aimed at strengthening America’s infrastructure. Effective infrastructure provides a strong foundation for socioeconomic vitality and broad improvement in quality of life. Strong, reliable and effective infrastructure spurs private-sector innovation, grows the economy, creates jobs, makes public-sector service provision more efficient, strengthens communities, promotes equal opportunity, protects the natural environment, enhances national security and fuels American leadership. Achieving these objectives requires the integration of expertise from across all science and engineering disciplines. SAI focuses on how fundamental knowledge about human reasoning and decision-making, governance, and social and cultural processes enables the building and maintenance of effective infrastructure that improves lives and society and builds on advances in technology and engineering. Successful projects will represent a convergence of expertise in one or more social, behavioral, or economic sciences, deeply integrated with other disciplines to support substantial and potentially pathbreaking fundamental research applied to strengthening a specific focal infrastructure.

National Science Foundation Design for Environmental Sustainability in Computing proposals due March 17, 2023

The Design for Environmental Sustainability in Computing (DESC) solicitation seeks to bring together teams to work toward solutions that address sustainability in new and measurably different ways that are inclusive of the breadth of computing and information science and engineering research, with the ultimate goal of holistic order of magnitude improvements in the environmental sustainability of computing. DESC projects should go beyond solely energy efficiency to address a more complete set of environmentally sustainable outcomes in terms of, but not limited to, metrics of greenhouse gas emissions, volatile organic compounds, consumption and disposal of rare materials, heat, wastewater, recyclability, and longevity, along with potential interactions between these metrics.

December 15, 2022
Federal Funding Opportunities

U.S. Department of Energy; Golden Field Office 2022 Funding Opportunity Announcement for Energy Improvements at Public K-12 School Facilities – Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) – Renew America’s School concept papers due January 26, 2023
The activities to be funded under this funding opportunity support BIL section 40541 and the broader government-wide approach to support projects that enable replicable and scalable impacts, create innovative, sustaining partnerships, leverage funding and economies of scale, focus on disadvantaged communities, improve student, teacher, and occupant health, enrich learning and growth, assist schools that serve as community assets (e.g., neighborhood cooling centers or disaster recovery shelters), and are crafted thoughtfully within the context of public school facilities (e.g., procurement restraints, construction windows, etc.).

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention School-Based Interventions to Promote Equity and Improve Health, Academic Achievement, and Well-Being of Students letters of intent due January 12, 2023
The purpose of this 5-year cooperative agreement is to protect and improve the health and well-being of school-age children in underserved and disproportionately affected communities. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Healthy Schools will award approximately 16 recipients with up to 50 recipients depending on available funding. Recipients will use the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model to: establish key partnerships to support school health programs; promote dissemination and implementation of CDC school health guidelines, tools, and resources through professional development and technical assistance; and use action planning to implement physical activity, school nutrition, and school health services policies, practices, and programs within state and local education agencies, schools, and out-of-school time settings.

U.S. Department of Labor; Employment and Training Administration YouthBuild applications due February 7, 2023
Under the YouthBuild Funding Opportunity Announcement, the Department of Labor (DOL) will award grants through a competitive process to organizations providing pre-apprenticeship services that support education, occupational skills training, and employment services to opportunity youth, ages 16 to 24, while performing meaningful work and service to their communities. The YouthBuild program model prepares participants for quality jobs in a variety of careers, including infrastructure, and contains wrap-around services such as mentoring, trauma-informed care, personal counseling, and employment – all key strategies for addressing community violence. YouthBuild applicants must include construction skills training and may include occupational skills training in other in-demand industries. This expansion into additional in-demand industries is the Construction Plus component, a priority in this grant competition.

U.S. Department of Transportation FY2023 National Infrastructure Investments – Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) Grant Program applications due February 28, 2023
The purpose of this notice is to solicit applications for Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) grants. RAISE grants are for investments in surface transportation that will have a significant local or regional impact. Per the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), in addition to capital awards, the Department of Transportation (DOT) will award at least $75 million for eligible planning, preparation or design of projects eligible for RAISE Grants that do not result in construction.

National Archives and Records Administration Publishing Historical Records in Collaborative Digital Editions applications due May 3, 2023
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks proposals to publish online editions of historical records. All types of historical records are eligible, including documents, photographs, born-digital records, and analog audio. Projects may focus on broad historical movements in U.S. history, including any aspect of African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American history, such as law (including the social and cultural history of the law), politics, social reform, business, military, the arts, and other aspects of the national experience.

National Endowment for the Arts Grants for Arts Projects 1, FY2024 part I of applications due February 9, 2023 and part II of applications due February 21, 2023.
Grants for Arts Projects is our largest grants program for organizations, providing comprehensive and expansive funding opportunities for communities. Through project-based funding, the program supports opportunities for public engagement with the arts and arts education, for the integration of the arts with strategies promoting the health and well-being of people and communities, and for the improvement of overall capacity and capabilities within the arts sector. We welcome applications from a variety of eligible organizations, including first-time applicants; from organizations serving communities of all sizes, including rural and urban areas; and from organizations with small, medium, or large operating budgets.

National Endowment for the Arts Challenge America, FY2024 part I of applications due April 27, 2023 and part II of applications due May 16, 2023.
Challenge America offers support primarily to small organizations for projects in all artistic disciplines that extend the reach of the arts to groups/communities with rich and dynamic artistic and cultural contributions to share that are underserved. Challenge America seeks to address these potential barriers for organizations seeking funding. The program features an abbreviated application, a standardized $10,000 grant amount, and a robust structure of technical assistance to facilitate entry to National Endowment for the Arts funding opportunities. This category may be a good entry point for organizations that are new to applying for federal funding.

December 14, 2022
Federal Funding Opportunities

U.S. Department of Energy; Office of Science Integrative Computational Tools for Systems Biology Research pre-applications due January 10, 2023

The Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program supports basic research to understand the fundamental nature of biological processes relevant to Department of Energy (DOE) energy and environmental mission goals. Within BER, the Genomic Science Program supports systems biology research on microbial, plant, plant-microbe interactions, and environmental microbial communities to address DOE’s mission in sustainable bioenergy development. Understanding and harnessing the metabolic and regulatory networks of plants and microbes will enable their design and re-engineering for improved energy resilience and sustainability, including advanced biofuels and bio products. Specifically, through this funding opportunity DOE solicits applications that propose innovative computational solutions that can integrate large, disparate data types from multiple and varied sources, and/or the integration of data to achieve coordinated knowledge or integration of knowledge to decipher relationships of biological systems of relevance to DOE. Novel computational tools and analytical approaches of large-scale, multimodal, and multiscale data that will lead to scalable solutions for omics analysis, data mining, and knowledge extraction from complex data sets (experimental and calculated) are sought, and bioinformatics tools or computational applications that are interoperable and effective for computationally intensive data processing and analyses for systems-level investigations are desirable. Also encouraged is the enhancement of existing software or approaches that are demonstrated to be in broad use by the genomics community, to aid the interpretation of multimodal data for environmental sciences.

U.S. Department of Energy; Office of Science Research in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering pre-applications due January 12, 2023

The DOE program in Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) is interested in receiving single-investigator or small-group research applications to carry out frontier-level research in basic plasma science and engineering. The FES Discovery Plasma Science: Plasma Science and Technology–General Plasma Science program supports research at the frontiers of basic and low temperature plasma science, including dynamical processes in laboratory, space, and astrophysical plasmas, such as magnetic reconnection, dynamo, shocks, turbulence cascade, structures, waves, flows and their interactions; behavior of dusty plasmas, non-neutral, single-component matter or antimatter plasmas, and ultra-cold neutral plasmas; plasma chemistry and processes in low temperature plasma, interfacial plasma, synthesis of nanomaterials, and interaction of plasma with surfaces, materials or biomaterials. In addition, this portfolio supports microelectronics and Quantum Information Science research opportunities.

U.S. Department of Energy; Office of Science Climate Resilience Centers pre-applications due January 19, 2023

Understanding fine-scale, local and community impacts of climate change across this nation is a critical gap in climate research and analysis today. Further, climate change is known to disproportionately impact people in disadvantaged communities due to increased exposure and vulnerability. BER seeks to establish Climate Resilience Centers (CRC) at historically black colleges and universities, non-R1 minority-serving institutions, and emerging research institutions to address critical research questions in support of the needs of stakeholders and communities in the pursuit of equitable climate solutions. The CRCs will facilitate two-way engagement between BER sponsored research and regional communities, enhancing accessibility and translation of DOE research to inform and build climate resilience. Efforts focused at local levels are expected to identify data sets, technical and process information, tailored models, and community contexts that will aid in the new investigations as well as bring critically needed community and local perspectives more centrally within DOE’s climate research planning. CRCs will build upon and enhance the talent and capabilities at local institutions, providing a valuable resource to advance climate research, identify local resilience challenges, and develop equitable solutions. These centers have the potential to catalyze additional research activities in climate and energy, the development of future technology innovations, and new jobs in communities across the country.

NEW: U.S. Department of Energy; National Energy Technology Laboratory Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Regional Direct Air Capture Hubs letters of intent due January 24, 2023

Authorized the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, this funding opportunity seeks applications to develop and commercially demonstrate Regional Direct Air Capture (DAC) Hubs in the U.S. Funding will be provided for projects that contribute to the development and demonstration of four domestic Regional DAC Hubs to accelerate the commercialization of carbon dioxide (CO2) removal via integrated capture from the atmosphere, processing, transport, and secure geologic storage and/or conversion.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; National Institutes of Health Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hubs applications due February 9, 2023

This funding opportunity announces the renewal of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hub (REACH) program, established to facilitate and accelerate the translation of academic biomedical discoveries into products that improve patient care and public health. Through this program, NIH will provide the qualifying institutions with the funds to seed the creation of academic entrepreneurship Hubs. Hubs will be responsible for providing innovators with both the initial investment and resources to support the proof-of-concept work and the mentorship in product development and commercialization needed to develop high priority technologies within the NIH’s mission. Funded Hubs are intended to work as a consortium to enable: the infrastructure for identifying the most promising technologies, funding for product definition studies (e.g. feasibility studies, prototype development, proof-of-concept studies) provided to individual researchers, access to resources and expertise in areas required for early stage technology development (including scientific, regulatory, reimbursement, business, legal, and project management), and skills development and hands-on experience in entrepreneurship. Establishing public-private partnerships and providing additional non-federal funds will be critical for success.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Health Resources and Services Administration Nurse Anesthetist Traineeship Program applications due February 10, 2023

The purpose of the Nurse Anesthetist Traineeship program is to increase the supply and distribution of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) who are well prepared and well positioned to practice independently and collaboratively within interprofessional teams and to deliver evidence-based, high quality, and safe anesthesia and pain management services. The program aims to expand access to anesthesia services, especially to rural, urban, and tribal underserved communities nationwide. Eligible grant award recipients are accredited institutions that educate registered nurses to become nurse anesthetists; recipient institutions, in turn, disburse funds to students in the form of traineeship support.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; National Institutes of Health Rapid Translation of Epidemiological Findings into Interventions to Prevent Substance Use and Addiction applications due March 15, 2023

The goal of this initiative is to address the structural incentives that limit translation from epidemiology into prevention science using a two-pronged approach. The phased mechanism will support innovative epidemiologic research using either primary data collection or analysis of existing data related to substance use and addiction in the first phase to provide the foundation for a targeted prevention intervention in the second phase. The second phase will apply the findings from the first phase to either adapt or target an existing intervention to increase effect size or reach a new population or develop a novel intervention to address a new prevention target.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; National Institutes of Health Short Courses on Innovative Methodologies and Approaches in the Behavioral and Social Sciences applications due April 17, 2023

The overarching goal of this program is to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a diverse workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research needs. To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this funding opportunity will support creative educational activities with a primary focus on Courses for Skills Development in cross-cutting methodologies and analytics that are needed to advance behavioral and social sciences research but are not well-address by existing educational programs.

National Endowment for the Arts Grants for Arts Projects grants.gov applications due February 9, 2023, and full applications due February 21, 2023

Grants for Arts Projects provide comprehensive and expansive funding opportunities for communities. Through project-based funding, this program supports opportunities for public engagement with the arts and arts education, for the integration of the arts with strategies promoting the health and well-being of people and communities, and for the improvement of overall capacity and capabilities within the arts sector.

NEW: National Science Foundation Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity preliminary proposals due February 15, 2023

The purpose of this solicitation is to broaden participation in innovation ecosystems that advance emerging technologies (e.g., advanced manufacturing, advanced wireless, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, quantum information science, semiconductors and microelectronics) by supporting capacity-building efforts at institutions of higher education interested in growing external partnerships.

National Science Foundation Campus Cyberinfrastructure proposals due March 1, 2023

The Campus Cyberinfrastructure program invests in coordinated campus-level cyberinfrastructure improvements, innovation, integration, and engineering for science applications and distributed research projects. Learning and workforce development in cyberinfrastructure is also explicitly addressed in the program. Projects that help overcome disparities in cyber-connectivity associated with geographic location, and thereby advancing the geography of innovation and enabling populations based in these locales to become more nationally competitive in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics research and education are particularly encouraged.

National Science Foundation Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future proposals due March 13, 2023

The Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) Program seeks to foster the design, discovery, and development of materials to accelerate their path to deployment by harnessing the power of data and computational tools in concert with experiment and theory. DMREF emphasizes a deep integration of experiments, computation, and theory; the use of accessible digital data across the materials development continuum; and strengthening connections among theorists, computational scientists (including data scientists), and experimentalists as well as those from academia, industry, and government. DMREF is committed to the education and training of a next-generation materials research and development workforce that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive; well-equipped for successful careers as educators and innovators; and able to take full advantage of the materials development continuum and innovation infrastructures that the National Science Foundation is creating with partners in other federal agencies.

National Science Foundation releases new Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program Solicitation

The main goal of the Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program is to enable low-income students with academic ability, talent or potential to pursue successful careers in promising STEM fields. Ultimately, the S-STEM program seeks to increase the number of academically promising low-income students who graduate with a S-STEM eligible degree and contribute to the American innovation economy with their STEM knowledge. Recognizing that financial aid alone cannot increase retention and graduation in STEM, the program provides awards to institutions of higher education not only to fund scholarships, but also to adapt, implement, and study evidence-based curricular and co-curricular activities that have been shown to be effective supporting recruitment, retention, transfer (if appropriate), student success, academic/career pathways, and graduation in STEM.

National Science Foundation releases new Research Coordination Networks Program Solicitation

The goal of the Research Coordination Networks (RCN) program is 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. The RCN program provides opportunities to foster new collaborations, including international partnerships where appropriate, and address interdisciplinary topics. Innovative ideas for implementing novel networking strategies, collaborative technologies, training, broadening participation, and development of community standards for data and meta- data are especially encouraged. RCN awards are not meant to support existing networks; nor are they meant to support the activities of established collaborations. RCN awards also do not support primary research. Rather, the RCN program supports the means by which investigators can share information and ideas; coordinate ongoing or planned research activities; foster synthesis and new collaborations; develop community standards; and in other ways advance science and education through communication and sharing of ideas.