November 21, 2022
Federal Funding Opportunities

U.S. Department of Energy Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: Long-Duration Energy Storage Demonstrations Funding Opportunity Announcement letter of intent due December 15, 2022

The U.S. Department of Energy is releasing this funding opportunity to solicit emerging Long-Duration Energy Storage (LDES) demonstration projects capable of delivering electricity for 10-24 hours or longer to support a low-cost, reliable, carbon-free electric grid. This effort seeks LDES demonstration projects that will validate new technologies, enhance the capabilities of customers and communities to integrate LDES more effectively, and sustain American global leadership in energy storage. LDES demonstration projects are encouraged to have substantial engagement with local and regional stakeholders to ensure that they generate local, regional, and national benefits. Demonstration projects will be expected to carry out meaningful community and labor engagement; invest in America’s workforce by creating good-paying jobs with the free and fair choice to join a union; advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility; and contribute to the President’s Justice40 Initiative goal that 40% of the overall benefits of certain federal investments, including those in climate change, clean energy and energy efficiency.

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program applications due February 6, 2023

Ending and preventing homelessness among Veterans is a priority for Veterans Affairs (VA). VA Homeless Programs Office constitutes the Nation’s largest integrated network of homelessness, housing, prevention, and rehabilitation services for Veterans. These programs are designed to help Veterans live as self-sufficiently and independently as possible. The foundation for these programs is based on Housing First principles combined with supportive services to ensure Veterans are able to end the cycle of homelessness.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Consumer Recycling Education and Outreach Grant Program applications due January 16, 2023

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provides funding to the new Recycling Education and Outreach Grant program for projects that inform the public about new or existing residential or community recycling programs; provide information about the recycled materials that are accepted as part of a residential or community recycling program that provides for the separate collection of residential solid waste from recycled material; and increases collection rates and decreases contamination in residential and community recycling programs. Projects will improve consumer recycling education with the goal of achieving separate collection of recycled material across the nation, maximizing the efficient reuse of materials, and identifying strategies that otherwise result in an increase in volume of recyclable materials.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling Grant Program for Political Subdivisions of States and Territories applications due January 16, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is soliciting applications for a wide variety of projects that are designed to build and transform solid waste infrastructure in the United States to equitably reduce waste and manage materials to achieve a circular economy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and create cleaner, resilient, and healthier communities. It is anticipated that projects will enable the EPA to help eligible partners advance from “where they are” to significantly transform their post-consumer materials management infrastructure. Projects will create new capacity for, optimize existing capacity of, or identify strategies that result in an increase in management of post-consumer materials. The EPA also recognizes and encourages applications that demonstrate innovative solutions and programs that provide or increase access to prevention, reuse, recycling, anaerobic digestion, and composting opportunities in areas that currently do not have access.

Federal Communications Commission Affordable Connectivity Outreach Grant Program applications due January 30, 2023

The goal of the Affordable Connectivity Outreach Grant Program (ACP) is to facilitate the promotion of the ACP and increase awareness of and participation in the ACP among eligible households. To support this goal, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is providing federal financial assistance through the ACP Outreach Grant Program to engage in targeted outreach to low-income households nationwide both to gauge existing levels of ACP awareness and to promote increased awareness of and participation in the program by eligible households.

National Endowment for the Humanities Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections applications due January 12, 2023

This program helps cultural institutions meet the complex challenge of preserving large and diverse holdings of humanities materials for future generations by supporting sustainable conservation measures that mitigate deterioration, prolong the useful life of collections, and strengthen institutional resilience (i.e., the ability to anticipate and respond to disasters resulting from natural or human activity).

National Endowment for the Humanities Cultural and Community Resilience applications due January 12, 2023

This program supports community-based efforts to mitigate climate change and COVID-19 pandemic impacts, safeguard cultural resources, and foster cultural resilience through identifying, documenting, and/or collecting cultural heritage and community experience. The program prioritizes projects from disadvantaged communities in the U.S. or its jurisdictions, and encourages applications that employ inclusive methodologies.

National Endowment for the Humanities Climate Smart Humanities Organizations applications due January 17, 2023

This program supports comprehensive assessment and strategic planning efforts by humanities organizations to mitigate physical and operational environmental impacts and adapt to a changing climate. Projects will result in climate action and adaptation planning documents or similar detailed assessments including prioritized, measurable actions and their expected outcomes.

National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History and Culture applications due February 1, 2023

The program supports a series of one-week residential, virtual, and combined format workshops across the nation that enhance and strengthen how K-12 educators, higher education faculty, and humanities professionals incorporate place-based teaching and learning in the humanities. Landmarks of American History and Culture workshops (Landmarks) situate the study of topics and themes in the humanities within sites, areas, or regions of historic and cultural significance to expand participants’ knowledge of and approaches to teaching about diverse histories, cultures, traditions, languages, and perspectives in the United States and its jurisdictions.

October 26, 2022
Federal Funding News and Opportunities

U.S. Department of Defense; Naval Research Laboratory issues new Long Range Broad Agency Announcement for Basic and Applied Research

The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) conducts basic and applied research for the Navy in a variety of scientific and technical disciplines. The research conducted at NRL is broad-based, multidisciplinary scientific research and advanced technological development directed toward maritime applications of new and improved materials, techniques, equipment, systems and ocean, atmospheric, and space sciences and related technologies. NRL is interested in receiving innovative proposals that offer potential for advancement and improvement in scientific and technical topic areas that will address the future operations and requirements of the Navy. and allow it to keep pace with rapidly developing technologies.

U.S. Department of Energy; Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Water Power Projects: Innovative Technologies to Enable Low Impact Hydropower and Pumped Storage Hydropower Growth Concept Papers due December 1, 2022

This funding opportunity seeks applications to address innovative solutions to retrofit non-powered dams with environmentally sustainable hydropower at a reasonable cost; applications to address development and testing technologies that mitigate challenges to pumped storage hydropower deployment, including market and revenue uncertainty, development costs and financing, long development timelines, permitting challenges, construction risks, and environmental impacts; and applications to address and encourage emerging organizations to support hydropower development.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Administration for Community Living Field Initiated Projects Program Research and Development proposals due December 16, 2022

The purpose of the Field Initiated (FI) Projects program is to develop knowledge, methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technology that maximize the full inclusion and integration into society, employment, independent living, family support, and economic and social self-sufficiency of individuals with disabilities, especially those with the highest support needs.

In carrying out a research activity under a FI Projects research grant, applicants must identify one or more hypotheses or research questions and, based on the hypotheses or research questions identified, perform an intensive, systematic study directed toward producing new scientific knowledge or better understanding of the subject, problem studied, or body of knowledge.

In carrying out a development activity under a FI Projects development grant, a grantee must use knowledge and understanding gained from research to create materials, devices, systems, methods, measures, techniques, tools, prototypes, processes, or intervention protocols that are beneficial to the target population.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Health Resources and Services Administration Primary Care Training and Enhancement – Residency in Training Mental and Behavioral Health due November 15, 2022

The purpose of this program is to train primary care residents in the prevention, identification, diagnosis, treatment, and referral of services for mental and behavioral health conditions for pediatric, adolescent, young adult, and other populations who are at-risk or have experienced abuse, trauma, or mental health and/or substance use disorders, including those related to the effects of gun. Primary care residencies eligible to apply include family medicine, general internal medicine, general pediatrics and combined internal medicine and pediatrics (med-peds) residencies. Funding must be used to support both didactic training and at least a one-month clinical rotation primarily focused on mental and behavioral health conditions.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Health Resources and Services Administration Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics Training Program due January 19, 2023

The purpose of the Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics (DBP) program is to increase access to evaluation and services for children with a wide range of developmental and behavioral concerns, including autism. Through this program, up to 15 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) accredited DBP fellowship programs will provide post-graduate training, including fellowships, continuing education to practicing providers, and technical assistance to community agencies. Programs will prepare DBP fellows for leadership roles as teachers, researchers, and clinicians. In doing so, programs will build the workforce capacity to evaluate, diagnose or rule out developmental disabilities, including autism, as well as other behavioral health concerns; and support research and clinical care in the broad range of behavioral, psychosocial, and developmental issues through training of pediatric practitioners, residents, and medical students.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; National Institutes of Health Advanced Training in Artificial Intelligence for Precision Nutrition Science Research Institutional Research Training Programs applications due December 8, 2022

This funding opportunity will support new institutional research training programs in artificial intelligence (AI) for precision nutrition (AIPrN) that will focus on integration of the domains of precision nutrition, AI including machine learning, systems biology, systems science, Big Data, and computational analytics. The goal is to build a future workforce that will be able to use growing data resources to tackle complex biomedical challenges in nutrition science that are beyond human intuition. Such research will lead to the development of innovative solutions to combat diet-related chronic diseases.

U.S. Department of Labor; Employment and Training Administration Nursing Expansion Grant Program due January 6, 2023

This funding opportunity will address bottlenecks in training the nursing workforce and expand and diversify the pipeline of qualified nursing professionals through two training tracks:

1. Nurse Education Professional Track will increase the number of clinical and vocational nursing instructors and educators by training new or upskilling experienced current or former nurses (including retired nurses) into advanced postsecondary credentialing necessary for nurses to become clinical and vocational nursing instructors and educators. Applicants will propose strategies to improve nursing professional, clinical instructor, and educator recruitment, preparation, development, training, and retention
2. Nursing Career Pathway Track will train frontline healthcare professionals and paraprofessionals, including direct care workers, to advance along a career pathway and attain postsecondary credentials needed for middle- to high-skilled nursing occupations. Grantees will develop training partnerships between clinical settings and education and training providers to support accelerated learning and expanded access to clinical residencies and specialty care rotations.

U.S. Department of Transportation; Federal Highway Administration Exploratory Advanced Research Program proposals due December 5, 2022

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) through its Exploratory Advanced Research (EAR) Program seeks proposals for research projects that could lead to transformational changes and revolutionary advances in highway engineering and intermodal surface transportation. This program supports scientific investigations and studies to advance the current knowledge and state-of-the-art in the sciences and technologies employed in the planning, design, construction, operation, maintenance and management of the nation’s highways. Specifically, through this opportunity FHWA will support research addressing the following two topics:

1. Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Highway Transportation: With the growing number of maturing and commercial applications, there is still a need for early state research to support emerging advances in AI than can solve even more complex questions in highway transportation. Accordingly, the FHWA is seeking to demonstrate the potential of untried advances in AI for solving nationally critical questions in highway transportation.
2. New Approaches to Reduce Embodied Carbon from Infrastructure Construction, Maintenance, and Operations: Recent fundamental advances in science and technology can enhance existing or provide new data driven approaches for effectively assessing the impact of highway infrastructure on the earth’s climate and engineer construction materials that provide better engineering as well as environmental performance than those currently used. Examples include but are not limited to sensing and communications that allow for ubiquitous tracking of materials from extraction through re-use, machine learning approaches that are explainable, contextually valid, and transferable, and multi-scale modeling that are flexible and open.

National Endowment for the Humanities Cultural and Community Resilience due January 12, 2023

This program supports community-based efforts to mitigate climate change and COVID-19 pandemic impacts, safeguard cultural resources, and foster cultural resilience through identifying, documenting, and/or collecting cultural heritage and community experience. The program prioritizes projects from disadvantaged communities in the U.S. or its jurisdictions, and encourages applications that employ inclusive methodologies.

National Endowment for the Humanities Climate Smart Humanities Organizations proposals due January 17, 2023

This program supports comprehensive assessment and strategic planning efforts by humanities organizations to mitigate physical and operational environmental impacts and adapt to a changing climate. Projects will result in climate action and adaptation planning documents or similar detailed assessments including prioritized, measurable actions and their expected outcomes.

NEW: National Science Foundation announces new Experiential Learning for Emerging and Novel Technologies Initiative

Through this new initiative, the Directorate for Education and Human Resources and the newly established Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP), will support inclusive experiential learning opportunities designed to provide cohorts of diverse learners with the crucial skills needed to succeed in emerging technology fields, including advanced manufacturing, advanced wireless, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, quantum information science, semiconductors, and microelectronics, and prepare them to enter the workforce ready to solve pressing scientific and societal challenges. Key goals of this new program are to:

1. Expand access to career-enhancing experiential learning opportunities for a broader, more diverse population, including adult learners interested in re-skilling and/or upskilling
2. Promote cross sector partnerships between organizations in emerging technology fields and those with expertise in workforce development; and
3. Develop a workforce aligned with regional economies based on emerging technologies across the Nation, in alignment with the mission of the new TIP Directorate.

National Science Foundation Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 preliminary proposals due January 5, 2023

The Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 Program (Mid-scale RI-1) supports the design or implementation of unique and compelling RI projects. Mid-scale implementation projects may include any combination of equipment, instrumentation, cyberinfrastructure, broadly used large scale datasets and the personnel needed to successfully commission the project. Mid-scale RI-1 design projects include the design efforts intended to lead to eventual implementation of a mid-scale class RI project. Mid-scale RI-1 projects should involve the training of a diverse workforce engaged in the design and implementation of science, technology, engineering, and math research infrastructure.

National Science Foundation Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Improving Education and Human Resources proposals due January 18, 2023

The Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE: EDU) program seeks to promote novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. IUSE: EDU supports projects that seek to bring recent advances in STEM knowledge into undergraduate education, that adapt, improve, and incorporate evidence-based practices into STEM teaching and learning, and that lay the groundwork for institutional improvement in STEM education. In addition to innovative work at the frontier of STEM education, this program also encourages replication of research studies at different types of institutions and with different student bodies to produce deeper knowledge about the effectiveness and transferability of findings.

National Science Foundation Expanding AI Innovation through Capacity Building and Partnerships proposals due March 13, 2023

The National Science Foundation (NSF) and its partners support the continued growth of a broad and diverse interdisciplinary research community for the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and AI-powered innovation, providing a unique opportunity to broadly promote the NSF vision and core values, especially inclusion and collaboration. The Expanding AI Innovation through Capacity Building and Partnerships (ExpandAI) program aims to significantly broaden participation in AI research, education, and workforce development through capacity development projects and through partnerships within the National AI Research Institutes ecosystem.

October 3, 2022
Federal Funding News and Opportunities

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Health Resources and Services Administration Preventive Medicine Residency applications due November 21, 2022

The purpose of the Preventive Medicine Residency program is to increase the number, quality, and diversity of preventive medicine residents and physicians to support access to preventive medicine and to integrate population health with primary care to improve the health of communities.

U.S. Department of Transportation; Federal Highway Administration Advanced Transportation Technologies and Innovative Mobility Deployment Program applications due November 18, 2022

The Advanced Transportation Technologies and Innovative Mobility Deployment Program (ATTIMD), also known as the Advanced Transportation Technology and Innovation (ATTAIN) Program, provides funding to deploy, install, and operate advanced transportation technologies to improve safety, mobility, efficiency, system performance, intermodal connectivity, and infrastructure return on investment. These model technology deployments are expected to provide benefits in the form of:

• reduced traffic-related fatalities and injuries, traffic congestion and improved travel time reliability, and/or transportation-related emissions;
• optimized multimodal system performance;
• improved access to transportation alternatives, including for underserved populations, and/or integration of payment systems;
• public access to real-time integrated traffic, transit, and multimodal transportation information to make informed travel decisions;
• cost savings to transportation agencies, businesses, and the traveling public; and/or
• other benefits to transportation users and the general public.

U.S. Department of Transportation Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation Grants applications due November 18, 2022

The Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grants Program funds purpose-driven innovation to build data and technology capacity and expertise for state and local governments. Communities should target their real-world challenges where the use of new technologies and approaches can create benefits.

Note: Institutions of Higher Education are not eligible applicants but can partner with a local government to plan and prototype promising transportation-related technologies.

National Endowment for the Humanities Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities applications due February 2, 2023

The Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities Program supports humanistic research that examines the relationship between technology and society. The National Endowment for Humanities is particularly interested in projects that examine current social and cultural issues that are significantly shaped by technology.

National Science Foundation Advanced Chip Engineering Design and Fabrication research concept outlines due December 13, 2022

The Advanced Chip Engineering Design and Fabrication Applications (ACED Fab) program aims to leverage the complementary academic talent and engineering strengths of semiconductor research in the U.S. and Taiwan to enable chip design and fabrication to advance semiconductor science, Engineering, and education. Proposals are encouraged to target emerging applications, including, but not limited to:

• High-performance, low-power circuits and systems;
• Edge-AI sensing, computing, and communication; Quantum computing and communication chips; and
• Emerging semiconductor heterogeneous integration.

An ACED Fab proposal must be an integrated collaborative effort between the U.S. and Taiwan researchers. The research project must aim to bring a specific innovation to integrated circuit prototypes that demonstrate advanced functionality and utilize advanced fabrication technology as differentiators. The scope of an ACED Fab proposal must include at least one semiconductor chip design for tape-out utilizing fabrication process technologies of Taiwan’s semiconductor foundries via multi-project wafer runs within the duration of the project.

National Science Foundation Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation applications due December 16, 2022

The Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) program seeks to enable funding opportunities that are flexible and responsive to the evolving and emerging needs in cyberinfrastructure (CI). The program continues to emphasize integrated CI services, quantitative metrics with targets for delivery and usage of these services, and community creation. The CSSI program anticipates three classes of awards:

• Elements: These awards target small groups that will create and deploy robust services for which there is a demonstrated need, and that will advance one or more significant areas of science and engineering.
• Framework Implementations: These awards target larger, interdisciplinary teams organized around the development and application of services aimed at solving common research problems faced by NSF researchers in one or more areas of science and engineering, and resulting in a sustainable community framework providing CI services to a diverse community or communities.
• Transition to Sustainability: These awards target groups who would like to execute a well-defined sustainability plan for existing CI with demonstrated impact in one or more areas of science and engineering supported by NSF. The sustainability plan should enable new avenues of support for the long-term sustained impact of the CI.

National Science Foundation Racial Equity in STEM Education proposals due January 17, 2023

Racial inequities often create barriers to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) knowledge generation, as well as access to and participation in all aspects of STEM education, research, and the workforce. In ongoing efforts to address these disparities, the National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks to support bold, groundbreaking, and potentially transformative projects that contribute to advancing racial equity in STEM education and workforce development. Collectively, proposals funded by this solicitation will: substantively contribute to institutionalizing effective research-based practices, policies, and outcomes in STEM environments for those who experience inequities caused by systemic racism and the broader community; advance scholarship and promote racial equity in STEM in ways that expand the array of epistemologies, perspectives, ideas, theoretical and methodological approaches that NSF funds; and further diversify project leadership and institutions funded by NSF.

October 3, 2022
Federal Funding Opportunities

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grants due January 11, 2023

Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grants support the implementation of comprehensive neighborhood revitalization plans that are expected to achieve the following three core goals:

1. Housing: Replace distressed public and assisted housing with high-quality mixed-income housing that is well-managed and responsive to the needs of the surrounding neighborhood;
2. People: Improve outcomes of households living in the target housing related to employment and income, health, and children’s education; and
3. Neighborhood: Create the conditions necessary for public and private reinvestment in distressed neighborhoods to offer the kinds of amenities and assets, including safety, good schools, and commercial activity, that are important to families’ choices about their community.

U.S. Department of the Interior; National Park Service Save America’s Treasures Preservation and Collections Grant applications due December 20, 2022

The Save America’s Treasures grant program provides funding to help preserve nationally significant historic properties and collections. The program is divided into two parts:

• One for preservation projects for properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places for national significance or designated a National Historic Landmark. 
• One for projects involving collections, including artifacts, museum collections, documents, sculptures, and other works of art. Note: These awards are managed by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

U.S. Department of Transportation Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation Grants applications due November 18, 2022

The Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grants Program funds purpose-driven innovation to build data and technology capacity and expertise for state and local governments. Communities should target their real-world challenges where the use of new technologies and approaches can create benefits.

U.S. Department of Transportation; Federal Highway Administration Advanced Transportation Technologies and Innovative Mobility Deployment Program applications due November 18, 2022

The Advanced Transportation Technologies and Innovative Mobility Deployment Program (ATTIMD), also known as the Advanced Transportation Technology and Innovation (ATTAIN) Program, provides funding to deploy, install, and operate advanced transportation technologies to improve safety, mobility, efficiency, system performance, intermodal connectivity, and infrastructure return on investment. These model technology deployments are expected to provide benefits in the form of:

• reduced traffic-related fatalities and injuries, traffic congestion and improved travel time reliability, and/or transportation-related emissions;
• optimized multimodal system performance;
• improved access to transportation alternatives, including for underserved populations, and/or integration of payment systems;
• public access to real-time integrated traffic, transit, and multimodal transportation information to make informed travel decisions;
• cost savings to transportation agencies, businesses, and the traveling public; and/or
• other benefits to transportation users and the general public.

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.