May 10, 2023
Federal Funding Opportunities
The Agriculture and Food Research Initiative’s Education and Workforce Development program focuses on developing the next generation of research, education, and extension professionals in the food and agricultural sciences. This fiscal year applications are requested in the following areas:
- Professional development opportunities for K-14 educational professionals,
- Non-formal education that cultivates food and agricultural interest in youth,
- Workforce training at community, junior, and technical colleges,
- Training of undergraduate students in research and extension, and
- Fellowships for predoctoral candidates and postdoctoral scholars.
Program Area Priorities and deadlines:
- Research and Extension Experiences for Undergraduates: August 17, 2023
- Postdoctoral Fellowships: September 7, 2023
- Professional Development for Agricultural Literacy: September 14, 2023
- Agricultural Workforce Training at Community Colleges: September 21, 2023
- Predoctoral Fellowships: October 26, 2023
- Food and Agricultural Non-formal Education: December 7, 2023
The Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) sets forth research areas of interest for basic, applied, and advanced technology development that can improve human performance and Army readiness.
The purpose of the American History and Civics Education National Activities Program is to promote new and existing evidence-based strategies to encourage innovative American history, civics and government, geography instruction, learning strategies, and professional development activities/programs for teachers, principals, or other school leaders, including instruction, strategies, activities and programs that benefit students from low-income backgrounds and other underserved populations.
The purpose of this program is to help address state-identified needs for personnel preparation in special education, early intervention, related services, and regular education to work with children, including infants, toddlers, and youth with disabilities and to ensure that those personnel have the necessary skills and knowledge, derived from practices that have been determined through scientifically-based research, to be successful in serving children with disabilities.
The purpose Research and Evaluation Initiative is to research and evaluate approaches to combat domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking (VAWA crimes) to generate more knowledge about strategies for serving victims and holding offenders accountable to better equip communities to align their work with practices that are known to be effective. These communities will also be more capable of generating empirical knowledge on the efficacy of new and promising ways to address VAWA crimes. This initiative is designed to support researcher-practitioner partnerships and a broad range of research and evaluation methods, including qualitative, mixed-method, quasi-experimental, and experimental designs. This initiative prioritizes the following topics:
- Justice: Ways the justice system can effectively pursue and achieve justice in cases involving VAWA crimes, with justice broadly understood to include autonomy for victims, accountability for offenders, procedural fairness for all, and restorative justice.
- Victims’ needs: How victimization and its aftermath affect people’s lives, and what victims need in order to cope, heal, and achieve safety and justice.
- Cultures, disparities, and access: Ways that cultural differences and social inequalities matter in terms of where and to whom people go for help, and whether people can access justice and get services that are useful to them.
- Impact: Short- and long-term impact of the justice system’s response, victim services, and other VAWA-funded interventions on victim safety and offender accountability.
- Indicators of success: What success looks like and how to measure it—for victims pursuing safety and justice, for offenders being held accountable for their violence, and for people who work with victims and offenders.
- Reducing recidivism: How to prevent violence from recurring.
The purpose of the Media Projects Program is to support collaboration between media producers and scholars to develop content grounded in humanities scholarship as well as prepare documentary films, radio, and podcasts that engage public audiences in humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. Media Projects will be awarded at two levels:
- Development (6-12 months) – These projects enable media producers to collaborate with scholars to develop humanities content and other program elements. Awards must result in a script or detailed treatment(s). Applicants may also use a Development award to plan for outreach and public engagement activities.
- Production (1-3 years) – These projects must result in the production and distribution of radio, podcast, television, and documentary film projects.
The purpose of the Climate Smart Humanities Organizations Program is to support comprehensive assessment and strategic planning efforts by humanities organizations to mitigate physical and operational environmental impacts and adapt to a changing climate. Projects are intended to result in climate action and adaptation planning documents or similar detailed assessments, including prioritized, measurable actions and their expected outcomes. Proposals must address how strategic planning for climate change will increase the organization’s resilience and support its work in the humanities over the long-term.
The National Science Foundation requests input from institutions and organizations across all sectors—industry, academia, non-profits, government, venture capital, and others—to inform the development of a roadmap for its newly-established Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) Directorate, in accordance with the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors and Science Act of 2022. This legislation tasks the TIP Directorate with developing a roadmap to guide investment decisions in use-inspired and translational research over a the-year time frame, working towards the goal of advancing U.S. competitiveness in key technology focus areas and addressing the identified societal, national, and geostrategic challenges. Areas of focus include:
- Use-inspired research;
- Translation of research results to impact, and education, training;
- Development of talent in the key technology areas; and
- Societal, national, and geostrategic challenges.
The purpose of the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (Noyce) is to address the critical need for recruiting, preparing, and retaining highly effective elementary and secondary mathematics and science teachers as well as teacher leaders who persist as classroom teachers in high-need Local Education Agencies. To achieve this goal, Noyce supports talented science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) undergraduate majors and professionals to become effective K-12 STEM teachers. It also supports experienced, exemplary K-12 STEM teachers to become teacher leaders who continue as classroom teachers in high-need school districts. In addition, the Noyce program supports research on the effectiveness and retention of K-12 STEM teachers in high-need school districts.
The purpose of the Innovation in Two-Year College STEM Education (ITYC) Program is to center students in the effort to advance innovation, promote equitable outcomes, and broaden participation for all students in STEM education at two-year colleges as well as enhance the capacity of two-year colleges to harness the talent and potential of their diverse student and faculty population through innovative disciplinary, multi-department, and college-wide efforts. Projects should contribute to student success in STEM-based foundational courses and academic pathways for both majors and non-majors. Project activities may be in any discipline that is currently supported by NSF funding, which includes the social, behavioral, and economic sciences. The ITYC program features two tracks:
- Track 1: A Focus on the Academic Experiences of Two-Year College Students: The transformation of introductory, developmental or laboratory courses for both STEM majors and non-majors.
- Track 2: Leveraging Institutional Strengths and Innovation: Professional development of faculty, staff, and administrators, expanding the roles of teaching and learning centers, or establishing a community of practice within or among institutions.
