Grant Alerts

VOLUME 23, NO. 2

ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH UNIT

2015 Social Innovation Fund Grant Competition

(CFDA No. 94.019)
Purpose: To provide grants to, and otherwise support
high-performing community-based nonprofit organizations to implement evidence-based programs in the
areas of healthy futures, economic opportunity, and
youth development.
Eligibility: Nonprofits.
Funding: $51 million.
Deadline: 3/17/15.
Contact: Tel. (202) 606-3223;
E-mail: sifapplicant@cns.gov.
Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development
Program (CFDA No. 10.311)
Purpose: To develop and offer education, training,
outreach, and mentoring programs to enhance the sustainability of the next generation of farmers.
Eligibility: Collaborations including State Cooperative Extension Services; federal, state, or tribal agencies; community-based organizations; nongovernmental organizations; junior and four-year colleges or
universities or foundations maintained by a college or
university; private for-profit organizations; and other
appropriate partners including beginning and/or nonbeginning farmers and ranchers.
Funding: $18.5 million.
Deadline: 3/13/15.
Contact: E-mail: electronic@nifa.usda.gov.
Building and Enhancing Criminal Justice
Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships
(CFDA No. 16.560)
Purpose: To provide criminal justice practitioners
with practice- and policy-relevant information while
affording researchers the opportunity to contribute to
the current body of knowledge.
Eligibility: State, county, city, township, or special
district governments; independent school districts; private, public, and state controlled institutions of higher
education; public housing authorities/Indian housing
authorities; Native American tribal organizations;
nonprofits; for-profit organizations other than small
businesses; small businesses; and individuals.

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Federal Grant Notices for State & Local Governments & Community Agencies

Funding: $2 million.
Deadline: 4/20/15.
Contact: Tel. (202) 305-4419;
E-mail: rpp@ojp.usdoj.gov.
Capacity Building Program for Traditionally Underserved Populations Vocational Rehabilitation
Training Institute for the Preparation of Personnel in American Indian Voc Rehab (CFDA No.
84.315C)
Purpose: To provide outreach and technical assistance to minority entities and American Indian tribes
to promote their participation in activities, including
assistance to enhance their capacity to carry out such
activities.
Eligibility: Public, private, and state controlled institutions of higher education.
Funding: $500,000.
Deadline: 3/3/15.
Contact: Joyce Mays, Tel. (202) 245-6122;
E-mail: joyce.mays@ed.gov.
Educational Technology, Media, and Materials for
Individuals with Disabilities: Television Access
(CFDA No. 84.327C)
Purpose: To improve results for children with disabilities by promoting the development, demonstration, and use of technology; support educational
media activities designed to be of educational value
in the classroom for students with disabilities; provide support for captioning and video description that
is appropriate for use in the classroom; and provide
accessible educational materials to students with disabilities in a timely manner.
Eligibility: State, county, city, township, or special
district governments; independent school districts;
private, public, and state controlled institutions of
higher education; public housing authorities/Indian
housing authorities; Native American tribal organizations; nonprofits; for-profit organizations other than
small businesses; and small businesses.
Funding: $2 million.
Deadline: 3/16/15.
Contact: Julius Cotton, Tel. (202) 245-6140;
E-mail: julius.cotton@ed.gov.
FY 15 Postdoctoral Fellowship on Violence
Against Women: Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Violence, Teen Dating Violence, and Stalking
(CFDA No. 16.560)
Purpose: To support the scholarship of up to three
promising postdoctoral researchers to conduct original data collection and/or secondary data analyses on
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violence against women (intimate partner violence,

sexual violence, teen dating violence, and stalking)
under the supervision of a mentor.
Eligibility: State, county, city, township, or special
district governments; independent school districts;
private, public, and state controlled institutions of
higher education; public housing authorities/Indian
housing authorities; Native American tribal organizations; nonprofits, private institutions of higher education, and individuals.
Funding: $1 million.
Deadline: 4/7/15.
Contact: E-mail: vaw_res@ojp.usdoj.gov.
FY 15 Smart Policing Initiative (CFDA No. 16.738)
Purpose: To build upon analysis-driven, evidencebased policing by encouraging state, local, and tribal
law enforcement agencies to develop effective, economical, and innovative responses to crime within
their jurisdictions.
Eligibility: State, county, city, township, or special
district governments, and Native American tribal organizations.
Funding: $4.2 million.
Deadline: 3/9/15.
Contact: Tel. (800) 518-4726;
E-mail: support@grants.gov.
FY 15 Smart Prosecution Initiative
(CFDA No. 16.825)
Purpose: To pair action researchers with prosecutor
offices to develop solutionssuch as hot spot strategies, sophisticated crime analysis, offender-based
policies, and risk and needs assessmentthat create prosecution strategies in an effort to break down
information silos, advance communities, improve
public trust and confidence in the justice system, and
increase public safety.
Eligibility: State, county, city, township, or special
district governments, and Native American tribal organizations.
Funding: $425,000.
Deadline: 3/26/15.
Contact: Tel. (800) 518-4726;
E-mail: support@grants.gov.
FY 2015 Enhanced Training and Services To End
Abuse In Later Life Program (CFDA No. 16.528)
Purpose: To provide or enhance training and services to address elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation,
including sexual assault, domestic violence, dating
violence, or stalking, involving victims who are 50
years of age or older.

Eligibility: State, county, city, township, or special

district governments; public and state controlled institutions of higher education; Native American tribal
organizations; and nonprofits.
Funding: $3 million.
Deadline: 3/18/15.
Contact: Tel. (202) 616-6728;
E-mail: Janice.a.green@usdoj.gov.
FY 2015 Rural Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence,
Dating Violence, and Stalking Program (CFDA
No. 16.589)
Purpose: To address and prevent sexual assault; domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking in rural
jurisdictions.
Eligibility: State, county, city, township, or special
district governments; private, public, and state controlled institutions of higher education; and nonprofits.
Funding: $33 million.
Deadline: 3/4/14.
Contact: Tel. (202) 532-4629;
E-mail: charlotte.turpin@usdoj.gov.
Humanities Open Book Program (CFDA No.
45.169)
Purpose: To make outstanding out-of-print humanities books available to a wide audience and will allow
teachers, students, scholars, and the public to read humanities books that have long been out of print.
Eligibility: State, county, city, township, or special
district governments; private, public, and state controlled institutions of higher education; Native American tribal organizations; and nonprofits.
Funding: $100,000.
Deadline: 6/10/15.
Contact: E-mail: odh@neh.gov.
Improving Undergraduate Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics Education: Pathways into Geoscience (CFDA Nos. 47.050 and
47.076)
Purpose: To increase the number of undergraduate
students interested in pursuing undergraduate degrees
and/or post-graduate degrees in geoscience through
the design and testing of novel approaches for engaging students in authentic, career-relevant experiences
in geosciences and to broaden participation in the
geosciences, engaging undergraduate students from
traditionally underrepresented groups or from nongeoscience degree programs.
Eligibility: Public, private, and state controlled institutions of higher education including two-year com-

munity colleges.
Funding: $9 million.
Deadline: 3/16/15.
Contact: E-mail: grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov.
National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships: Prose, FY 2016 (CFDA No. 45.024)
Purpose: To provide grants in prose (fiction and
creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative
writers that enable recipients to set aside time for
writing, research, travel, and general career advancement.
Eligibility: Individuals.
Funding: $25,000.
Deadline: 3/11/15.
Contact: E-mail: webmgr@arts.gov.
National Institute of Justice FY15 Research into
the Use of Suicide Prevention and Intervention
Strategies by Law Enforcement Agencies (CFDA
No. 16.560)
Purpose: To identify and characterize the suicide
prevention and intervention strategies currently being
used by law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and,
potentially, elsewhere as well as to encourage and
support research, development, and evaluation to improve criminal justice policy and practice.
Eligibility: Unrestricted.
Funding: $500,000.
Deadline: 4/2/15.
Contact: Tel. (800) 518-4726;
E-mail: st-research@ojp.usdoj.gov.
Rehabilitation Long-Term Training Program
Vocational Rehab Counseling (CFDA No.
84.129B)
Purpose: To provide financial assistance for projects that provides basic or advanced training leading
to an academic degree in areas of personnel shortages
in rehabilitation.
Eligibility: Public, private, and state controlled institutions of higher education.
Funding: $4 million.
Deadline: 3/9/15.
Contact: Tel. (202) 245-6122;
E-mail: roseann.ashby@ed.gov.
Replicating Evidence-Based Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs to Scale in Communities with
the Greatest Need (Tier 1B) (CFDA No. 93.297)
Purpose: To mobilize the community to develop
and implement a plan to prevent teen pregnancy and
promote positive youth development.
Eligibility: State, county, city, township, or special
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district governments; independent

school districts; private, public,
and state controlled institutions of
higher education; public housing
authorities/Indian housing authorities; Native American tribal organizations; nonprofits; for-profit
organizations other than small businesses; and small businesses.
Funding: $2 million.
Deadline: 4/15/15.
Contact: Tel. (240) 453-2846;
E-mail: tpptier1b@hhs.gov.
Research Experiences for Teachers in Engineering and Computer
Science (CFDA Nos. 47.041 and
47.070)
Purpose: To bring knowledge of
engineering or computer and information science and engineering as

well as technological innovation

to pre-college/community college
classrooms and to enable K-12
science, technology, engineering,
and mathematics teachers and community college faculty to translate
their research experiences and new
knowledge gained in university settings into their classroom activities.
Eligibility: Public, private, and
state controlled institutions of higher education; nonprofits, other than
institutions of higher education;
and for-profit organizations, other
than small businesses.
Funding: $5.8 million.
Deadline: 4/8/15.
Contact: E-mail:
grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov.

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) +

Computing Partnerships (CFDA
Nos. 47.070 and 47.076)
Purpose: To significantly enhance
the learning and teaching of STEM,
and computing by K-12 students
and teachers, through research on,
and development of, courses, curriculum, course materials, pedagogies, instructional strategies, or
models that innovatively integrate
computing into one or more STEM
disciplines, or integrate STEM content into the teaching and learning
of computing.
Eligibility: Unrestricted.
Funding: $43 million.
Deadline: 4/14/15.
Contact: E-mail:
grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov.