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This is a limited call. Internal deadlines for Purdue’s Office of the Vice President of Research (OVPR) are:

Monday, November 29: Letters of Intent due to the OVPR.

Monday, December 13: Preproposals due to the OVPR.

Thursday, December 16: Preproposal rankings due to the OVPR.

USDA Deadline for submission: January 19, 2011

CFP: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/rfas/intl_science.html

Awards: up to $150,000 each

The International Science and Education Competitive Grants Program (ISE) supports research, extension, and teaching activities that will enhance the capabilities of American colleges and universities to conduct international collaborative research, extension and teaching. ISE projects are expected to enhance the international content of curricula; ensure that faculty work beyond the U.S. and bring lessons learned back home; promote international research partnerships; enhance the use and application of foreign technologies in the U.S.; and strengthen the role that colleges and universities play in maintaining U.S. competitiveness.

CFP: http://www.longviewfdn.org/?no=7

Awards: $15,000-$30,000 each

Deadlines – Spring cycle: LOI 1/13/11, Proposal 3/18/11

Deadlines – Fall cycle: LOI 6/15/11, Proposal 9/16/11

Three funding priorities in 2011 are a) State Coalitions for International Education, b) Internationalizing Teacher Preparation, and c) Innovations in International Education.

Longview is focused on funding initiatives to support state coalitions representing education, government, business, and community organizations committed to building young people’s international knowledge and skills; efforts to build global expertise into pre-service teacher education; and strategic and innovative, field-building activities that help address gaps in knowledge or capacity.

Awards: 3-4 awards between $20-30,000 each

Deadline: December 13, 2010

The Purdue Global Policy Research Institute (GPRI) requests proposals for cross-campus interdisciplinary research as part of Purdue University’s emerging Global Food Security Initiative.  These incentive awards are meant to foster cross-College/cross-discipline collaborations to develop competitive proposals that are aligned to the GPRI mission. In this round, $120,000 total will be provided to fund four to six research awards at $20,000 to $30,000 each. These incentive award grants are intended to support proposal development activities that will lead to the submission in 2011 of successful grants from federal or other sources of support.  Proposals that will lead to international collaborations with an international co-PI(s) are encouraged.  Deadline for proposal submission is December 13, 2010.  Questions please contact Angela Phillips Diaz, apdiaz@purdue.edu<mailto:apdiaz@purdue.edu>

Deadline: January 6, 2011; March 9, 2011; and September 1, 2011

CFP: http://www.aera.net/grantsprogram/res_training/res_grants/RGFly.html

Awards: 15 awards, $20,000 per 1-year project or $35,000 per 2-year project

With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the AERA Grants Program announces its Research Grants competition. The program seeks to stimulate research on U.S. education issues using data from the large-scale, national and international data sets supported by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), NSF, and other federal agencies, and to increase the number of education researchers using these data sets. The program supports research projects that are quantitative in nature, include the analysis of existing data from NCES, NSF or other federal agencies, and have U.S. education policy relevance.

Deadline: January 17, 2011 for Exploration and Design & Implementation proposals; For Integration & Deployment proposals, LOI is May 14 and proposals are due July 14, 2011

CFP: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10620/nsf10620.htm

Awards: 24-34 awards from $30,000,000 total funding

Through the Cyberlearning: Transforming Education program, NSF seeks to integrate advances in technology with advances in what is known about how people learn to

• better understand how people learn with technology and how technology can be used productively to help people learn, through individual use and/or through collaborations mediated by technology;

• better use technology for collecting, analyzing, sharing, and managing data to shed light on learning, promoting learning, and designing learning environments; and

• design new technologies for these purposes, and advance understanding of how to use those technologies and integrate them into learning environments so that their potential is fulfilled.

Of particular interest are technological advances that allow more personalized learning experiences, draw in and promote learning among those in populations not currently served well by current educational practices, allow access to learning resources anytime and anywhere, and provide new ways of assessing capabilities. It is expected that Cyberlearning research will shed light on how technology can enable new forms of educational practice and that broad implementation of its findings will result in a more actively-engaged and productive citizenry and workforce.

CFP: http://nextgenlearning.com/the-grants

Deadline: Pre-proposals by November 19, 2010

Awards may be made at one of two levels:

• For the open, core courseware challenge, awards will be made at up to $750,000, for periods not to exceed 15 months (with the option of a six‐month no‐cost extension, subject to approval by EDUCAUSE). Follow‐on awards, totaling up to an additional $5,000,000, may be made to one or more grantees from this wave demonstrating particular effectiveness in scaling the development and adoption of open core courseware.

• For the other three challenge areas, awards will be made up to $250,000 for periods not to exceed 15 months (with the option of a six‐month no‐cost extension). There is a possibility that projects demonstrating particular effectiveness and scaling will receive additional funds in a future wave of funding.

More information

Do you have a passionate belief in the need to improve college readiness and completion in the United States? Do you see the possibilities for how technology can help improve student success and transform learning? Or, perhaps, you are already using technology to further learning and increase student success?

Next Generation Learning Challenges needs you. We’re looking for the best, brightest, most innovative individuals and institutions committed to using educational technology to make more students successful. Our first wave of challenges focuses on ways that technology can be used to dramatically improve college readiness and completion for the millions of students who want an education.

CFP: http://carnegie.org/programs/higher-education-and-libraries-in-africa/

The main objectives of Carnegie Corporation’s work in Africa are to enhance the capacities of educators, researchers and academic leaders in selected countries; to improve the use of information and communication technologies in teaching, research and management and to create public and university libraries to deepen academic research and public access to information and knowledge. These goals represent integrated pathways toward strengthening the next generation of academics and university leaders in Africa.

Our funding partners in this earlier work have been members of the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa (PHEA) and other private donors, European government agencies and U.S. Government initiatives. The Partnership coordinating office in New York is closed as of January 2010, but collaborative grantmaking in some areas of common interest will continue.

Our future projects will stem from strategic grantmaking in the following areas:

• Investing in Africa’s Next Generation of Academics and University Leaders
• Information and Communication Technologies for Teaching, Learning and Research
• Libraries and Information

CFP: http://www.longviewfdn.org/?no=7
Awards: $15,000-30,000 each

Categories: State Coalitions for International Education, Internationalizing Teacher Preparation, and Innovations in International Education.

1. Letters of inquiry in the Internationalizing Teacher Preparation and Innovations in International Education categories are due June 18, 2010 for the fall grant cycle. Please use the form below.

2. The foundation will review inquiries and contact organizations to invite proposals by July 16, 2010 for the fall grant cycle.

3. The deadline for proposals invited for the fall grant cycle is September 10, 2010.

4. The foundation will announce funding decisions in late October, 2010 for the Fall Grant Cycle.

CFP: http://www.delmas.org/programs/research_lib_d.html

Deadline: Rolling (submit letter of inquiry)

The Research Library Program concentrates primarily in those areas of its founders’ interests and aims to be fully complementary to the Foundation’s other program areas (i.e., humanities scholarship, performing arts, and Venetian history and culture).

The overall objective of the Research Library Program is to improve the ability of research libraries to serve the needs of scholarship in the humanities and the performing arts, and to help make their resources more widely accessible to scholars and the general public.

Wherever possible, grants to libraries seek to promote cooperative cataloguing projects, with an emphasis on access to archival, manuscript, and other unique sources; some elements of interpretation and exhibition; scholarly library publications; bibliographical and publishing projects of interest to research libraries; and preservation/conservation work and research.

The geographical concentration is primarily but not exclusively directed toward European and American history and letters, broadly defined. Technological developments that support humanities research and access to humanities resources are also eligible. A limited number of modest grants will also be available for projects related to the history of the book, book culture, printing history, and related programs. Conferences designed to address these issues in collaborative ways and programs formulated to enhance or leverage similar activity by other institutions, consortia, or funding agencies will also be considered.

These programs do not fund individuals. Organizations seeking funding, within the scope of the program guidelines, should send a letter of inquiry to the Foundation, addressed to the Foundation Administrator. Letters of inquiry should not exceed two typewritten pages. A copy of the IRS determination letter for the organization seeking funding, if available, should be included. There are no application deadlines for these programs; inquiries are reviewed on an ongoing basis. After reviewing the letter of inquiry, the Foundation may request further information or a full proposal from the applicant.

Endowment contributions will be considered only in cases where the purpose and benefit of the grants are clearly focused. No grants will be made for building campaigns. As a rule the Foundation does not fund indirect costs as components in its grants.

CFP: http://imls.gov/applicants/grants/nationalLeadership.shtm

Deadline: February 1, 2011

Grant Amount: $50,000–$1,000,000
Grant Period: Up to three years

Categories: Advancing Digital Resources, Research, Demonstration, and Library-Museum Collaboration.

Planing grants: Level 1 – up to $50,000; Level 2 – up to $100,000 (one year)

Matching Requirement: 1:1 for requests over $250,000, except research projects. Cost sharing of at least one-third is encouraged for requests under $250,000 and for research projects.

National Leadership Grants support projects that have the potential to elevate museum and library practice. The Institute seeks to advance the ability of museums and libraries to preserve culture, heritage and knowledge while enhancing learning. IMLS welcomes proposals that promote the skills necessary to develop 21st century communities, citizens, and workers.

Successful proposals will have national impact and generate results—new tools, research, models, services, practices, or alliances—that can be widely adapted or replicated to extend the benefit of federal investment.