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National Network of Libraries of Medicine: Greater Midwest Region

List of CFPs: http://nnlm.gov/gmr/funding/current.html

Summary of funding available to GMR members: Year 5 Awards

Assistance with proposal writing is also available. Please contact the GMR for more information.

CFP: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=56016

Deadline: January 12, 2011

Awards: 10 awards from $8,000,000 total funding

The goal of this funding opportunity is to support K-12 education projects that advance inquiry-based Earth System Science learning and stewardship directly tied to the school curriculum, with a particular interest in increasing climate literacy. To address this goal, this solicitation will support service-learning and professional development projects related to NOAA’s mission in the areas of ocean, coastal, Great Lakes, weather and climate sciences and stewardship. A successful project will catalyze change in K-12 education at the state, regional and national level through development of new programs and/or revision of existing programs to improve the environmental literacy of K-12 teachers and their students. A successful project will also leverage NOAA assets, although use of non- NOAA assets is also encouraged. The target audiences for this funding opportunity are K-12 students, pre- and in-service teachers, and providers of pre-service teacher education and in-service teacher professional development. There is a special interest in projects that address reaching groups traditionally underserved and/or underrepresented in Earth System science. One group that has been identified as underserved is elementary level teachers and students. This funding opportunity has two priorities, which are equal in their importance for funding. Priority 1 is for innovative proof-of-concept projects that are one to two years in duration, for a total minimum request of $200,000 and a total maximum request of $500,000. Priority 2 is for full-scale implementation of educational projects that are three to five years in duration, for a total minimum request of $500,001 and a total maximum request of $1,500,000. This opportunity meets NOAA’s Mission Support goal to provide critical support for NOAA’s mission. It is anticipated that awards under this announcement will be made by June 30, 2011 and that projects funded under this announcement will have a start date no earlier than July 1, 2011.

CFP: http://www.mlanet.org/pdf/grants/res_app_20090909.pdf

Deadline: December 1, 2010
Award: $100-$1000 for a 1-year project
Past awards: http://www.mlanet.org/awards/grants/research.html

The purpose of this grant is to provide support for research, development, or demonstration projects that will help to promote excellence in the field of health sciences librarianship and information sciences. Grants range from $100 to $1000. Grants will not be given to support an activity that is operational in nature or has only local usefulness. More than one award may be granted in a year.

CFP: http://www.aera.net/uploadedFiles/Conference%20Call%20Submission%20Guidelines%20FINAL%207-10-10.pdf
Awards: $10,000-$35,000 for a single conference
Deadlines: September 1, 2010 and March 1, 2011

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) invites proposals for conferences in education research. AERA supports research conferences intended to break new ground in substantive areas of inquiry, stimulate new lines of study on issues that have been largely unexplored, or develop innovative research methods or techniques that can contribute more generally to education research. Conferences may focus on conceptual, empirical, or methodological issues important to understanding the state of the knowledge and charting directions for future research. It is anticipated that research conferences will draw upon diverse disciplines and fields of inquiry where there is relevant scientific and scholarly expertise. The purpose of this program is to foster the accumulation of knowledge, to enhance dissemination, to encourage innovation, and to advance studies of the highest quality in education research.

CFP: http://corporate.honda.com/america/philanthropy.aspx?id=ahf
Deadline: August 1, November 1, February 1, and May 1
Awards: $20,000 to $60,000 each for 1-year projects

The American Honda Foundation engages in grant making that reflects the basic tenets, beliefs and philosophies of Honda companies, which are characterized by the following qualities: imaginative, creative, youthful, forward-thinking, scientific, humanistic and innovative. We support youth education with a specific focus on the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects in addition to the environment.

Since 1984, more than $25 million have been awarded to organizations serving approximately 114 million people in virtually every state in the U.S.

CFP: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10586/nsf10586.htm
Deadline: 11/25/2010
Awards: Up to $29M total funding available in different amounts in different categories

The REESE program seeks to advance research at the frontiers of STEM learning, education, and evaluation, and to provide the foundational knowledge necessary to improve STEM teaching and learning at all educational levels and in all settings. The goals of the REESE program are (1) to catalyze discovery and innovation at the frontiers of STEM learning, education, and evaluation; (2) to stimulate the field to produce high quality and robust research results through the progress of theory, method, and human resources; and (3) to coordinate and transform advances in education, learning research, and evaluation. REESE pursues its mission by developing an interdisciplinary research portfolio focusing on core scientific questions about STEM learning in current and emerging learning contexts, both formal and informal, from childhood through adulthood, and from before school through to graduate school and beyond into the workforce. REESE places particular importance upon the involvement of young investigators in the projects, at doctoral, postdoctoral, and early career stages, as well as the involvement of STEM disciplinary experts. In addition, research questions related to educational research methodology and evaluation are central to the REESE activity.

This solicitation calls for four types of proposals: Pathways, Synthesis, Empirical Research, and Large Empirical Research. The proposal type and its research strand(s) should be specified in the first sentence of the project summary. It is not necessary to include the proposal type or research strand into the project title (as was required by previous REESE solicitations).

1. Pathways Projects – Pathways projects are small-scale studies that include proof-of-concept and feasibility studies-work that is on a path toward a major project (i.e., Synthesis, Empirical, or Large Scale Empirical) but requires that empirical foundations be established before major projects can be deemed warranted and competitive in the review process. Pathways proposals must describe relevant literature, research questions, data to be gathered, and analytic approaches that will be taken. Pathways proposals cannot request funds for upfront planning, and organizational work (such as proposal literature reviews) normally required for submission of a major proposal. Not all of the Pathways projects will necessarily result in a subsequent proposal. However, for those that do, the results and implications of the Pathways work must be explicitly described.

2. Synthesis proposals – Synthesis projects are small grants for the synthesis and/or meta-analysis of existing knowledge on a topic of critical importance to STEM learning, education, and/or evaluation, or for the diffusion of research-based knowledge. Synthesis proposals should identify areas where the knowledge base is sufficiently robust to support strong scientific claims, identify areas of importance to education research or practice, and propose rigorous methods for synthesizing findings and drawing conclusions from a range of relevant literatures. Proposals should identify the criteria to be used for including or excluding studies in the synthesis. Investigators are permitted to propose workshops and other meetings as a means of completing the syntheses and diffusing the research-based knowledge that is developed. Additional emphasis will be placed on the proposed dissemination plan.

3. Empirical Research proposals – These projects are designed to support the design and conduct of research and evaluation projects including the collection of new empirical data or the use of secondary analyses from existing state, national, international or other databases.

4. Large Empirical Research proposals – REESE will support a limited number of empirical projects up to $2.5 million (total) for up to five years. Proposals must carefully justify why a budget of this size would be required to carry out the research. These proposals may involve teams of multidisciplinary experts working on conceptually related problems, longitudinal studies of a large sample of participants, randomized controlled trials of an intervention whose efficacy has been established in more limited conditions, group randomized designs, replication studies, and studies focused on scale-up or national initiatives.

REESE may support a few well-focused conferences or workshops related to the goals of the program. Budgets are expected to be related to the duration of the event and the number of participants. Proposals should include a conceptual framework for the conference, a draft agenda, a possible participant list, and the outcomes or products that will result from the conference.

CFP: http://www.alise.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=55548
Deadline: 10/1/2010
Award: $5,000

The Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) is now accepting proposals for its 2011 Research Grant Program Competition. An award of one or more grants totaling $5,000 may be made to support research broadly related to education for library and information science. The Research Grant Award cannot be used to support a doctoral dissertation. At least one applicant in a group submitting a proposal must be a personal member of ALISE as of the deadline date.

Proposals may not exceed 20 double-spaced pages, excluding CVs. If necessary, supporting information may be included in an appendix.

Deadline: October 7, 2010

Call for proposals: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pascp.html

Awards: up to $75,000 per project, 12-18 month project duration

• to strengthen understanding of the connections between great works of American art and significant events, themes, and topics in the American experience;
• to encourage local and regional collaboration between K-12 teachers and humanities experts who can bring appropriate knowledge to the integration of American artworks in core subjects;
• to foster discussion of how to use Picturing America images among K-12 teachers within a locality or region; and
• to provide access to rich scholarly resources and primary materials that support teaching.

Deadline: August 2, 2010
Funding: $25,000 for Research Projects / $10,000 for SLA Operations Projects
CFP: http://www.sla.org/content/resources/scholargrant/resgrant/index.cfm

Description: The Special Libraries Association (SLA) has pooled its research funds and now is offering a new SLA Research Grant incorporating the Steven I. Goldspiel Memorial Research Grant Fund. SLA supports two types of proposals. Firstly research projects focused on the needs and concerns of information professionals in special libraries and related venues, with its current focus being on evidence-based practice, as in the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Research Statement, “Putting Our Knowledge to Work” (www.sla.org/researchstatement). Awards may be granted up to $25,000. Secondly projects which directly benefit the operations of SLA and its units, by furthering the scientific, literary and educational purpose for which the association is organized and operated. Awards may be granted up to $10,000.

This focus on evidence-based practice includes but is not limited to the following topics and approaches:

Impact of Information Professionals;

Roles of Information Professionals within organizations

Current/User Issues;

Core Competencies;

Measures of Productivity and Value;

Client/User Satisfaction Measures;

Grant applications are evaluated by SLA’s Research Committee based on the purpose and objectives of the proposed project within the context of evidence-based practice, the significance of the topic to the profession, the project’s methodology, qualifications of staff, and the appropriateness of the project’s budget and timetable.

Research should focus on the demand for increased professional competence and accountability through consciously and consistently making professional-level decisions that are based on the strongest evidence of what works best for our clients. Areas in which evidence-based practice may be applied are listed in SLA’s revised Competencies for Information Professionals of the 21st Century and include selection and acquisition of information resources, methods of information access, selection and use of information technologies, and management of library and information services. Research techniques that support these competencies include: benchmarking, program evaluation, quality management, performance measurement, identifying best practices, and operations research.

The focus on Association operation projects should be on projects which directly benefit the operations of SLA and its members. They should focus on projects which can be adapted for wider use within SLA’s community, and may include publications, study grants, continuing education programs, public awareness activities, special studies and reports, and information dissemination efforts.

Application Information

The grant is announced internationally. A new solicitation for applicants is made each year. Application materials are available on SLA’s website at http://www.sla.org/slaresearchgrant or by contacting: Chief Policy Officer, Doug Newcomb, Special Libraries Association, 331 S. Patrick Street, Alexandria, VA 22314-3501, USA; E-mail: dnewcomb@sla.org.

2010 Timetable

March 2010: Application materials are made available.

August 2, 2010: Deadline for submission of the proposal and application form to SLA.

December 2010: Notification of award decision.