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Deadline:  September 14, 2009 Call For Proposals Awards: $650,000 total funding with maximum award of $65,000 per project The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy is pleased to announce our 2010 National Grant competition.  The Foundation’s grant-making program seeks to develop or expand projects designed to support the development of literacy skills for adult primary […]

Number: NSF 09-559 Deadline: September 21, 2009 Awards: 20-35 projects from $15,000,000, $250,000 max annual budget for 3 years CFP: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09559/nsf09559.htm The Social-Computational Systems (SoCS) program seeks to reveal new understanding about the properties that systems of people and computers together possess, and to develop a practical understanding of the purposeful design of systems to […]

Pre-proposal: June 15, 2009 Notification for Request for proposal: August 4, 2009 Deadline: September 4, 2009 Award notice: November 30, 2009 Award amount: $75,000-$500,000 CFP: http://www.clir.org/hiddencollections/applicants.html The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has opened the second application period for its Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives grant program. Information about the program, deadlines, […]

2009 Indiana LSTA Grants

October 31st, 2008

CFP: http://www.in.gov/library/2704.htm Three categories: Innovation, Digitization, and Technology Deadline: 1/16/2009 (for technology and digitization, open for innovation) As part of the Museum and Library Services Act, The Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) was signed into law September 30, 1996. As a result, LSTA funds are distributed to states for the purpose of increasing the […]

CFP: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08604/nsf08604.htm Deadline for pre-proposals: Window from 11/8 to 12/8/2009 Full proposals: Window from 4/20 to 5/20/2009 Awards: 30 projects from $26,000,000 – Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) is NSF’s bold five-year initiative to create revolutionary science and engineering research outcomes made possible by innovations and advances in computational thinking.  Computational thinking is defined comprehensively […]

CFP: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf08571 Deadline for preliminary proposals: 11/4/2008 (only for Integrating Services category) Deadline for full proposals: 11/14/2008 for HPC Remote Visualization and Data Analysis, 6/15/2009 for Integrating Services Award amounts: 3-6 projects from $32,000,000 total – Over the past three years, the TeraGrid has revolutionized the way in which members of the academic science and […]

CFP: http://imls.gov/applicants/grants/21centuryLibrarian.shtm Deadline: 12/15/2008 Award amounts: $50,000 – $1,000,000 Project duration: 3-4 years – Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program Application forms and guidelines for the current fiscal year are made available approximately 90 days before the grant deadline. Until that time, applications and guidelines from the previous year are available for your reference, but […]

CFP: http://www.dmlcompetition.net/ Deadline: 10/15/2008 Decision: April 2009 Award category: Innovation in Participatory Learning Award amounts: $30,000 – $250,000 – MACARTHUR’S $2 MILLION DIGITAL MEDIA AND LEARNING COMPETITION FOCUSES ON PARTICIPATORY LEARNING, GOES INTERNATIONAL Chicago, IL (August 18, 2008) – The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, in collaboration with the University of California, Irvine, […]