September 13, 2022
Federal Funding News and Opportunities

U.S. Department of Agriculture; National Institute of Food and Agriculture Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program applications due November 14, 2022

The purpose of the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program is to encourage research and outreach designed to increase knowledge concerning agricultural production systems that:

• maintain and enhance the quality and productivity of the soil;
• conserve soil, water, energy, natural resources, and fish and wildlife habitat;
• maintain and enhance the quality of surface and ground water;
• protect the health and safety of persons involved in the food and farm system;
• promote the well-being of animals; and
• increase employment opportunities in agriculture.

U.S. Department of Commerce; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Weather Program Office Research Programs applications due November 17, 2022

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Weather Program Office is soliciting proposals for the following four grant competitions:

• Innovations for Community Modeling: Funds researchers from the full weather, water, climate enterprise, academia, government, and industry, partnering with NOAA to improve scientific understanding and forecasting of environmental hazards through innovation.
• Observations: Aims to develop, demonstrate, and/or analyze innovative sensor and observing technologies and strategies that have high potential for advancing a weather observation systems portfolio that is mission-effective, integrated, adaptable, and affordable.
• Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBES): Seeks to integrate SBES research, including anthropology, communication, economics, geography, political science, psychology, and sociology, into meteorological research, forecasting, information displays, communication of uncertainty, and understanding of individual and community vulnerabilities to weather. Specifically, this funding call supports interdisciplinary work, applied research, and more broadly, social science research that will advance theoretical findings into applications for the operational forecast community.
• Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment in the United States: Funds research intended to improve the effectiveness of tornado forecasts and warnings in the U.S.

U.S. Department of Defense Minerva Research Initiative white papers due October 14, 2022

The Minerva Research Initiative is a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)-sponsored, university-based social science research initiative that focuses on areas of strategic importance to the U.S. national security policy. Minerva aims to improve DoD’s basic understanding of the social, cultural, behavioral, and political forces that shape regions of the world of strategic importance to the U.S. The research program seeks to:

• Leverage and focus the resources of the Nation’s top universities;
• Define and develop foundational knowledge about sources of present and future conflict with an eye toward better understanding of the political trajectories of key regions of the world; and
• Improve the ability of DoD to develop cutting-edge social science research, foreign area and interdisciplinary studies, that is developed and vetted by the best scholars in these fields.

U.S. Department of Energy; Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization concept papers due October 12, 2022

The research, development, and demonstration activities to be funded under this funding opportunity will support the government-wide approach to the climate crisis by driving the innovation that can lead to the deployment of clean energy technologies, which are critical for climate protection. Specifically, this funding opportunity will fund high-impact, applied research and development and prototype or pilot-scale technology validation and demonstration projects in order to expedite the adoption of transformational industrial technology necessary to increase energy efficiency across industry and in high greenhouse gas (GHG) emitting industrial subsectors, reducing both energy usage and GHG emissions. This includes cross-sector industrial decarbonization approaches via opportunities in energy efficiency; industrial electrification; low carbon fuels, feedstocks and energy sources; and industrial carbon capture and utilization.

National Endowment for the Humanities Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education applications due November 2, 2022

The Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education program supports the exploration and development of small projects that would benefit underserved populations through the teaching and study of the humanities at small to medium sized institutions of higher education. The Spotlight program supports activities such as curricular or program development, expert consultations, speakers’ series, student research, creation of teaching resources, and community engagement. Projects may benefit students, faculty, the institution or organization, and/or the community.

National Science Foundation introductory webinar to the new Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships September 27, 2022 at 2PM

The National Science Foundation will host an introductory webinar on Tuesday, September 27th from 2-3PM on the new Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships’ (TIP) vision, programs and funding opportunities. TIP advances use-inspired and translational research in all fields of science and engineering, promoting breakthrough technologies that give rise to new industries, create high-wage jobs in science, technology, engineering, and math, and empower all Americans, regardless of background or location, to drive tomorrow’s solutions.

National Science Foundation Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation for the Astronomical Sciences proposals due between November 15, 2022

The Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation for the Astronomical Sciences (ATI) program provides individual investigator and collaborative research grants for the development of new technologies and instrumentation for use in ground-based astronomy and astrophysics. The development of innovative, potentially transformative, technologies and instruments are sought, even at high technical risk. Supported categories include advanced technology development, concept feasibility studies, and specialized instrumentation to enable new observations that are difficult or impossible to obtain with existing means. Proposals may include hardware and/or software development and/or analysis to enable new types of astronomical observations.

National Science Foundation Quantum Sensing Challenges for Transformational Advances in Quantum Systems preliminary proposals due December 16, 2022

The Quantum Sensing Challenges for Transformational Advances in Quantum Systems (QuSeC-TAQS) program supports interdisciplinary teams of three or more investigators to explore highly innovative, original, and potentially transformative research on quantum sensing. The QuSeC-TAQS program supports coordinated efforts to develop and apply quantum sensor systems, with demonstrations resulting in proof of principle or field-testing of concepts and platforms that can benefit society.

National Science Foundation Advancing Informal Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Learning proposals due January 11, 2023

The Advancing Informal Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Learning (AISL) Program is committed to funding research and practice, with continued focus on investigating a range of informal STEM learning (ISL) experiences and environments that make lifelong learning a reality. This program seeks proposals that center equity and belonging, and further the well-being of individuals and communities who have historically been and continue to be excluded, underserved, or underrepresented, due to gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status, neurodiversity, geographic location, and economic status, among others, as well as their intersections. The current solicitation encourages proposals from institutions and organizations that serve public audiences, and specifically focus on public engagement with and understanding of STEM, including community STEM; public participation in scientific research (PPSR); science communication; intergenerational STEM engagement; and STEM media. Projects funded by AISL should contribute to research and practice that further illuminates informal STEM learning’s role in equity and belonging in STEM; personal and educational success in STEM; advancing public engagement in scientific discovery; fostering interest in STEM careers; creating and enhancing the theoretical and empirical foundations for effective informal STEM learning; improving community vibrancy; and/or enhancing science communication and the public’s engagement in and understanding of STEM and STEM processes.

National Science Foundation Science and Technology Studies proposals due February 2, 2023

Science and Technology Studies (STS) is an interdisciplinary field that investigates the conceptual foundations, historical developments and social contexts of STEM, including medical science. The STS program supports proposals across a broad spectrum of research that uses historical, philosophical, and social scientific methods to investigate STEM theory and practice. STS research may be empirical or conceptual; specifically, it may focus on the intellectual, material, or social facets of STEM including interdisciplinary studies of ethics, equity, governance and policy issues.

September 13, 2022
Federal Funding Opportunities

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Resiliency in Communities After Stress and Trauma applications due October 17, 2022

The purpose of this program is to promote resilience, trauma-informed approaches, and equity in communities that have recently faced civil unrest, community violence, and/or collective trauma within the past 24 months; and assist high-risk youth and families through the implementation of evidence-based violence prevention, and community youth engagement programs.

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Older Adults Home Modification Grant Program preliminary applications due October 13, 2022

The overall purpose of the Older Adult Home Modification Program is to assist experienced nonprofit organizations, state and local governments, and public housing authorities in undertaking comprehensive programs that make safety and functional home modification repairs and renovations to meet the needs of low-income elderly adult homeowners. The goal of the home modification program is to enable low-income elderly adult persons to remain in their homes through low-cost, low barrier, high impact home modifications to reduce older adults’ risk of falling, improve general safety, increase accessibility, and to improve their functional abilities in their home. This will enable older adults to remain in their homes, that is, to “age in place,” rather than move to nursing homes or other assisted care facilities.

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Healthy Homes Production Grant Program applications due October 18, 2022

The Healthy Homes Production Program (HHP) takes a comprehensive approach to addressing multiple childhood diseases and injuries in the home by focusing on housing-related hazards in a coordinated fashion, rather than addressing a single hazard at a time. Applicants receiving a Healthy Homes Production Award will be expected to accomplish the following objectives:

• Maximize both the number of vulnerable residents protected from housing-related environmental health and safety hazards and the number of housing units where these hazards are controlled.
• Identify and remediate housing-related health and safety hazards in privately owned, low-income rental and/or owner-occupied housing, especially in units and/or buildings where families with children, older adults 62 years and older, or families with persons with disabilities reside.
• Promote cost-effective and efficient healthy home methods and approaches that can be replicated and sustained.
• Support public education and outreach that furthers the goal of protecting children and other vulnerable populations from housing-related health and safety hazards.
• Build local capacity to operate sustainable programs that will prevent and control housing-related environmental health and safety hazards in low- and very low-income residences, and develop a professional workforce that is trained in healthy homes assessment and principles.
• Promote integration of this grant program with housing rehabilitation, property maintenance, weatherization, healthy homes initiatives, local lead-based paint hazard control programs, health and safety programs, and energy efficiency improvement activities and programs.
• Build and enhance partner resources to develop the most cost-effective methods for identifying and controlling key housing-related environmental health and safety hazards.
• Promote collaboration, data sharing, and targeting between health and housing departments.
• Ensure to the greatest extent feasible that job training, employment, contracting, and other economic opportunities generated by this grant will be directed to low- and very-low-income persons, particularly those who are recipients of government assistance for housing, and to businesses that provide economic opportunities to low- and very low-income persons in the area in which the project is located.
• Further environmental justice, the fair treatment, and meaningful involvement of all people within the target communities regardless of race, color, national origin, disability, religion, sex, familial status or income regarding the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.
• Comply with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act which prohibits discrimination based on disability; and the Fair Housing Act and Civil Rights and to affirmatively further fair housing.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Brownfields Assessment, Cleanup Multipurpose, and Revolving Loan Fund applications due November 22, 2022

The Brownfields Program provides direct funding for brownfields assessment, cleanup, and revolving loans. Grants offered by the Brownfields Program may be used to address sites contaminated by hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants, including hazardous substances co-mingled with petroleum, and petroleum. Further information and the current solicitation for each type of funding can be found below and at the following links:

• Assessment Grants provide funding for brownfield inventories, planning, environmental assessments, and community outreach.
• Cleanup Grants provide funding to carry out cleanup activities at brownfield sites owned by the applicant.
• Multipurpose (MP) Grants provide funding to conduct a range of eligible assessment and cleanup activities at one or more brownfield sites in a target area.
• Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grants provide funding to capitalize loans that are used to clean up brownfield sites.

August 18, 2022
Federal Funding Opportunities

Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grants for Museums applications due November 15, 2022

National Leadership Grants for Museums support projects that address critical needs of the museum field and that have the potential to advance practice in the profession to strengthen museum services for the American public.

National Archives and Records Administration Mellon Planning Grants for Collaborative Digital Editions applications due June 7, 2023

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission, with funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, seeks proposals for its planning grant program for Collaborative Digital Editions in African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American History and Ethnic Studies. With an overarching goal to broaden participation in the production and publication of historical and scholarly digital editions, the program is designed:

• To provide opportunities that augment the preparation and training of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color new to the work of historical documentary editing, especially those currently working in history or related area and ethnic studies departments.
• To encourage the innovative and collaborative re-thinking of the historical and scholarly digital edition itself—how it is conceived, whose voices it centers, and for what purposes.
• To support planning activities essential for successful development of significant, innovative, and well-conceived digital edition projects rooted in African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American history and ethnic studies.
• To stimulate meaningful, mutually beneficial, and respectful collaborations that help to bridge longstanding institutional inequalities by promoting resource sharing and capacity building at all levels.
• To sustain projects that build meaningful community and user engagement into their plans.

National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Advancement Grants applications due January 12, 2023

The National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities is accepting applications for the Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program. The program supports innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities.

August 18, 2022
Federal Funding Opportunities

U.S. Department of Education; Office of Postsecondary Education Fund for The Improvement of Postsecondary Education: Postsecondary Success Program applications due October 11, 2022

The purpose of this program is to promote postsecondary completion for students close to completion, whether for students currently enrolled in higher education, students who are no longer enrolled because of challenges they faced during the COVID-19 pandemic and close to completion, or both. Institutions may opt to supplement or expand evidence-based and data-driven activities to support retention and completion for both groups. This program aims to improve student outcomes, including retention, transfer, credit accumulation, and completion, by augmenting evidence-based activities that are already underway at eligible institutions of higher education.

U.S. Department of Energy; National Energy Technology Laboratory Innovative Methane Measurement, Monitoring, and Mitigation Technologies applications due October 4, 2022

The overall objective of the planned funding opportunity announcement is to solicit and award multiple Research and Development cooperative agreements to accelerate development of emissions mitigation technologies that enable an efficient, resilient and “leak tight” natural gas value chain. Projects will establish integrated networks of surface-based sensor technologies that enable timely monitoring of methane emissions across large areas and determine how to best apply methane emissions monitoring, measurement, and mitigation efforts across oil and natural gas producing regions. Projects will also deliver a well-defined plan for creating an “integrated methane monitoring platform” that will enable early detection and quantification of methane emissions along the natural gas supply chain. Finally, the funding opportunity announcement will seek projects designed to improve the accuracy of methane emissions estimates from upstream crude oil, condensate and produced water storage tanks as a function of their character, configuration, and operating conditions.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Health Resources and Services Administration Geriatrics Academic Career Award Program applications due November 3, 2022

The purpose of the Geriatrics Academic Career Award (GACA) program is to support the career development of junior faculty as academic geriatricians or academic geriatrics specialists. The goals of the program are for the GACA candidate to: a) develop the necessary knowledge and skills to lead health care transformation in a variety of settings, including rural and/or medically underserved settings, b) be age-friendly, and c) provide training in clinical geriatrics, including the training of inter-professional teams of healthcare professionals to provide healthcare for older adults.

Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grants for Museums applications due November 15, 2022

National Leadership Grants for Museums support projects that address critical needs of the museum field and that have the potential to advance practice in the profession to strengthen museum services for the American public.

National Archives and Records Administration Mellon Planning Grants for Collaborative Digital Editions applications due June 7, 2023

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission, with funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, seeks proposals for its planning grant program for Collaborative Digital Editions in African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American History and Ethnic Studies. With an overarching goal to broaden participation in the production and publication of historical and scholarly digital editions, the program is designed:

• To provide opportunities that augment the preparation and training of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color new to the work of historical documentary editing, especially those currently working in history or related area and ethnic studies departments.
• To encourage the innovative and collaborative re-thinking of the historical and scholarly digital edition itself—how it is conceived, whose voices it centers, and for what purposes.
• To support planning activities essential for successful development of significant, innovative, and well-conceived digital edition projects rooted in African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American history and ethnic studies.
• To stimulate meaningful, mutually beneficial, and respectful collaborations that help to bridge longstanding institutional inequalities by promoting resource sharing and capacity building at all levels.
• To sustain projects that build meaningful community and user engagement into their plans.

National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research applications due November 30, 2022

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Research Programs is accepting applications for the Collaborative Research program. This program supports groups of two or more scholars seeking to increase humanistic knowledge through convenings, manuscript preparation for collaborative publications, and the creation of scholarly digital projects. Projects must pursue significant research questions and lead to a tangible interpretive product. The collaborative work can be rooted in a single field of study or cross disciplines. NEH encourages collaboration with scholars working in the natural or social sciences, but projects must focus on humanistic content and employ humanistic methods.

National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations applications due November 30, 2022

The National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Research Programs is accepting applications for the Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations program. This program supports collaborative teams who are editing, annotating, and translating foundational humanities texts that are vital to scholarship but are currently inaccessible or only available in inadequate editions or translations. Typically, the texts are significant literary, philosophical, and historical materials, but works in other humanities fields may also be the subject of an edition.

National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Advancement Grants applications due January 12, 2023

The National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities is accepting applications for the Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program. The program supports innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities.