NMNH Funding Opportunities

*Last Updated 22 January 2008

At the links below, you can find upcoming funding opportunities that may be of interest to NMNH staff. These are updated on a monthly basis. Funding opportunities were found using the Grants.Gov and SPIN databases. Grants.Gov contains all upcoming federal funding opportunities and can be found at www.grants.gov. SPIN contains both government and private funding opportunities and can be accessed at http://www.infoed.org/new_spin/spinmain.asp. Both databases provide the option of receiving daily email notifications of new funding opportunities that fit your search criteria. For either group or individual training on the use of Grants.Gov or SPIN, please contact OSP. We highly encourage you to conduct your own funding searches using these tools.

When applying to grants from private foundations, you are required to contact your Office of Development representative so that sponsor contacts can be coordinated.  Staff at NMNH may contact Christine Elias, Director of Develoment, at 202.633.0822 or eliasc@si.edu.

Please contact OSP as soon as you know you will be submitting a proposal so that we can assist you with the proposal submission process. This includes the preparation of a Proposal Brief to be signed by your supervisor and Unit Director indicating the Institution's approval of your proposal submission. NMNH Staff in Mineral Sciences, Paleobiology, and Zoology should contact Violet Bruce at 202.633.7098 or violet@si.edu. All other NMNH staff should contact Benjamin Nevius at 202.633.7109 or neviusb@si.edu.

Due February 2008 (Back to Top)

Deadlines: 1 February 2008 and 1 May 2008
American Honda Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor provides grant support for projects in the areas of youth and scientific education. Average grants range from $10,000 to $100,000 per year.  Programs related to youth and scientific education should be: dedicated to improving the human condition of all mankind; soundly managed and administered by enthusiastic and dedicated individuals who approach their jobs in a youthful way; look to the future or foresightful programs; and innovative and creative programs that propose untried methods which ultimately may result in providing solutions to the complex cultural, educational, scientific and social concerns currently facing the American society.

Deadline: 1 February 2008
Eppley Foundation for Research, Inc.
Advanced Scientific Research Grants
260 Madison Ave.
New York, NY 10016
Contact: Huyler C. Held, Secy.-Treas.
FAX: (212) 448-6260
E-mail: hheld@Mclaughlinstern.com
The sponsor supports postdoctoral research in the physical and biological sciences. Eligible applicants must be associated with recognized educational or research organizations. No funds are awarded directly to individuals. Grant amounts range from several thousand dollars to $25,000; the average grant award is $15,000. Grants are usually for a one-year period

Deadline: 1 February 2008
Institute of Museum & Library Services
National Leadership Grants for Libraries and Museums
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.
*SI is generally not eligible for direct awards from IMLS.  However, SI may be able to receive subawards.  Consult the IMLS Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal.

Deadlines: 1 February 2008, 30 May 2008, and 1 October 2008
Tourism Cares
Grants Program
The sponsor distributes charitable grants to worthy tourism-related nonprofit organizations worldwide. The foundation seeks programs or projects with one or more of the following goals: To protect, restore and conserve sites of exceptional natural, cultural, or historic significance; and to educate local host communities and the traveling public about conservation and preservation of sites.

Deadlines: 1 February 2008 and 1 August 2008
Trust for Mutual Understanding
Grants Program
The sponsor makes grants to American nonprofit organizations conducting international cultural and environmental exchanges in partnership with institutions and individuals in Russia and Eastern and Central Europe. Priority consideration is given to projects in which direct, professional interaction plays a major role. Most grants are made for exchange activities relating specifically to Russia, with the balance being allocated primarily for projects involving the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, the Slovak Republic and Ukraine. A limited amount of assistance is also provided for exchanges with Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Romania, and Slovenia.

Deadline: 4 February 2008
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
International Sea Turtle Conservation Fund
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation announces the availability of matching grant funding for international sea turtle conservation projects in the Western Hemisphere. Funding is provided by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).  Priority will be given to projects along the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of Central and South America and in the wider Caribbean (including the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico) and Canada. Priority consideration will be given to projects demonstrating clear and immediate benefit to the conservation of hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata) and leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea) turtles in the wider Caribbean and East Pacific, and east Pacific green turtles (Chelonia mydas).

Deadlines: 4 February 2008 and 15 October 2008
National Science Foundation/Directorate for Geosciences
Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change (P2C2)
The goal of research funded under the interdisciplinary P2C2 solicitation is to utilize key geological, chemical, and biological records of climate system variability to provide insights into the mechanisms and rate of change that characterized Earth's past climate variability, the sensitivity of Earth's climate system to changes in forcing, and the response of key components of the Earth system to these changes.  Important scientific objectives of P2C2 are to: 1) provide comprehensive paleoclimate data sets that can serve as model test data sets analogous to instrumental observations; and 2) enable transformative syntheses of paleoclimate data and modeling outcomes to understand the response of the longer-term and higher magnitude variability of the climate system that is observed in the geological record.

Deadline: 8 February 2008 (for required registration; full proposals due 21 March 2008)
National Film Preservation Foundation
Basic Preservation Grants
The sponsor provides grants to nonprofit and public institutions for laboratory work to preserve culturally and historically significant film materials. Awards range from $3,000 to $18,000.

Deadline: 13 February 2008
Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation
Research Grants
The sponsor provides support for high-quality research in the form of project grants to individual researchers or groups of researchers applying for funding. Research may cover any area of scientific research although certain preference has been shown for research in the social sciences and humanities. Funding amounts vary dependent on the proposal. It should be noted that applications from abroad must demonstrate a clearly defined co-operation with Swedish scholars or research institutes.

Deadline: 13 February 2008
National Science Foundation
Earth Sciences: Instrumentation and Facilities
The Instrumentation and Facilities Program in the Division of Earth Sciences (EAR/IF) supports meritorious requests within and across Earth science disciplines. EAR/IF will consider proposals for: 1) Acquisition or Upgrade of Research Equipment that will advance laboratory and field investigations, and student research training opportunities in the Earth sciences; 2) Development of New Instrumentation, Analytical Techniques or Software that will extend current research and research training capabilities in the Earth sciences; 3) Support of National or Regional Multi-User Facilities that will make complex and expensive instruments or systems of instruments broadly available to the Earth sciences research and student communities; 4) Support of Research Technicians who will provide for optimal and efficient operation of advanced instrumentation, analytical protocol development, and user training for Earth science research instrumentation; (5) Development of Cyberinfrastructure for the Earth Sciences (Geoinformatics) that will enable transformative advances in Earth science research and education through novel application, development or adaptation of information technologies.Planned research uses of requested instruments must include basic research on solid-Earth and surface-Earth processes.Support is available through grants or cooperative agreements awarded in response to investigator-initiated proposals. Human resource development and education are expected to be an integral part of all proposals submitted to EAR/IF. Proposals requesting equipment, infrastructure or personnel that will serve disciplines outside the Earth sciences may be jointly reviewed with other programs within the Foundation. EAR/IF will consider co-funding of projects with other NSF programs.

Deadline: 15 February 2008
Florida Ornithological Society
Research Awards
The Florida Ornithological Society annually considers applications for grants-in-aid of ornithological research and/or environmental education with a strong ornithological emphasis. In the past, successful proposals have received award amounts ranging from $500 to $3200.

Deadline: 15 February 2008
National Science Foundation/Directorate for Geosciences
Biological Oceanography
The sponsor supports research in marine ecology broadly defined - relationships among marine organisms and their interactions with the environment of the oceans or Great Lakes. Projects that fall within the purview of the program may focus on marine environments ranging from estuarine and coastal systems to the deep sea, and also include studies in the Great Lakes. Research areas include ecosystem processes; community and population ecology; behavioral, reproductive and life history ecology; physiological and chemical ecology; and evolutionary ecology. Inter-disciplinary projects are particularly encouraged.

Deadline: 15 February 2008
National Science Foundation/Directorate for Geosciences/Division of Ocean Sciences
Chemical Oceanography
The sponsor supports research into the chemical components, reaction mechanisms, and geochemical pathways within the ocean and at its interfaces with the solid earth and the atmosphere. Major emphases include: studies of material inputs to and outputs from marine waters; orthochemical and biological production and transformation of chemical compounds and phases within the marine system; and the determination of reaction rates and study of equilibria. The sponsor encourages research into the chemistry, distribution, and fate of inorganic and organic substances introduced into or produced within marine environments including those from estuarine waters to the deep sea.
*NSF places some restrictions on direct proposals submitted by federal employees. Please consult the NSF Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal. There are no restrictions on proposals submitted by trust employees or research associates or subaward proposals submitted by federal employees.

Deadline: 15 February 2008
National Science Foundation
Developing Global Scientists and Engineers (International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) and Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement Projects (DDEP)
The United States needs to educate a globally-engaged science and engineering workforce capable of performing in an international research environment in order to remain at the forefront of world science and technology.  To support this aim, the Developing Global Scientists and Engineers program provides highest quality international research experiences for U.S. students.  Whereas the International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) component of the program supports groups of U.S. undergraduate or graduate students conducting research abroad in collaboration with foreign investigators, the Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement Projects (DDEP) component supports the dissertation research abroad of one doctoral student in collaboration with a foreign investigator.

Deadlines: 15 February 2008
National Science Foundation/Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
Geography and Regional Science (SBE--BCS) (Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards (DDRI))
The sponsor supports basic research on the geographic distributions and interactions of human, physical, and biotic systems on the Earth's surface. Investigations are encouraged into the nature, causes, and consequences of human activity and natural environmental processes across a range of scales. Projects on a variety of topics (both domestic and international) qualify for support if they offer promise of contributing to scholarship by enhancing geographical knowledge, concepts, theories, methods, and their application to societal problems and concerns. Support also is provided for projects that explicitly integrate undergraduate and graduate education into the overall research agenda.

Deadline: 15 February 2008
National Science Foundation/Directorate for Geosciences
Marine Geology and Geophysics
The sponsor supports research on all aspects of geology and geophysics of the ocean basins and margins, as well as the Great Lakes. The program includes: structure, tectonic evolution and volcanic activity of the ocean basins, the continental margins, the mid-ocean ridges, and island arc systems; processes controlling exchange of heat and chemical species between seawater and ocean rocks; genesis, chemistry, and mineralogic evolution of marine sediments; processes controlling deposition, erosion and transport of marine sediments; past ocean circulation patterns and climates; and interactions of continental and marine geologic processes.

Deadline: 15 February 2008
National Science Foundation/Directorate for Geosciences
Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)
This support focuses on the following: investigations of potential drilling regions, especially by means of regional geological and geophysical field studies; the feasibility and initial development of downhole instruments and techniques; and downhole geophysical and geochemical experiments.

Deadlines: 15 February 2008 and 15 August 2008
National Science Foundation
Ocean Technology and Interdisciplinary Coordination
The Oceanographic Technology and Interdisciplinary Coordination (OTIC) Program supports a broad range of research and technology development activities. Unsolicited proposals are accepted for instrumentation development that has broad applicability to ocean science research projects and that enhance observational, experimental or analytical capabilities of the ocean science research community.

Deadline: 15 February 2008
National Science Foundation/Directorate for Geosciences
Physical Oceanography
Support is provided for research on a wide range of topics associated with the structure and movement of the ocean, with the way in which it transports various quantities, with the way the ocean's physical structure interacts with the biological and chemical processes within it, and with interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere, solid earth and ice that surround it.

Deadline: 15 February 2008
National Science Foundation/Directorate for Geosciences
RIDGE 2000--Time Critical Studies
Support is provided for studies that will address the complex, inter-linked array of processes that supports life at and beneath the seafloor as a consequence of heat and material transfer from the Earth's deep mantle, to the crust and overlying ocean. Award size is expected to range from $100,000 to $2 million.
*NSF places some restrictions on direct proposals submitted by federal employees. Please consult the NSF Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal. There are no restrictions on proposals submitted by trust employees or research associates or subaward proposals submitted by federal employees.

Deadline: 15 February 2008
Padi Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor provides support for underwater science, environmental projects, and education. The sponsor will award a total of approximately $180,000 and will consider proposals with budgets up to $20,000.  The sponsor will fund and assist worthwhile projects that will enrich mankind's understanding of the aquatic environment and encourage sensitivity to and protection of the delicate ecological balance of underwater life. The sponsor also funds worthwhile projects to increase understanding of sport diving physics and physiology that will benefit the general diving public and add to the scientific understanding of man's relationship and ability to survive in the underwater environment.

Deadlines: 19 February 2007 (Type 1 proposals) and 22 February 2008 (Type 2 proposals)
National Science Foundation
Human and Social Dynamics: Competition for FY 2008
The Human and Social Dynamics (HSD) priority area fosters breakthroughs in understanding the dynamics of human action and development, as well as knowledge about organizational, cultural, and societal adaptation and change. HSD aims to increase our collective ability to (1) understand the complexities of change; (2) understand the dynamics of human and social behavior at all levels, including that of the human mind; (3) understand the cognitive and social structures that create, define, and result from change; and (4) manage profound or rapid change, and make decisions in the face of changing risks and uncertainty. Accomplishing these goals requires multidisciplinary research teams and comprehensive, interdisciplinary approaches across the sciences, engineering, education, and humanities, as appropriate.

Deadline: 20 February 2008 (for required pre-proposals; full proposals due 16 May 2008)
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
Coral Reef Conservation Fund
Provides grants for projects that build public-private partnerships to reduce and prevent degradation of coral reefs and associated reef habitats (e.g. seagrass beds, mangroves etc).

Deadline: 20 February 2008 (for required pre-proposals; full proposals due 25 June 2008)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Environmental Literacy Grants for Formal K-12 Education Grant
NOAA anticipates the availability of approximately $4,000,000 of Federal financial assistance in FY 2009 and FY2010 for K-12 education projects. Approximately 5 to 7 awards in the form of grants or cooperative agreements will be made. NOAA will only consider projects that have duration of 1 to 5 years. The total Federal amount for all years that may be requested from NOAA for the direct and indirect costs of the proposed project shall not exceed $750,000. The minimum Federal amount that must be requested from NOAA for all years for the direct and indirect costs is $200,000. Applications requesting Federal support from NOAA of less than $200,000 total or more than $750,000 total for the duration of the project will not be considered for funding.

Deadlines: 20 February 2008 and 20 May 2008
National Science Foundation/Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
International Research and Education: Workshops
Joint workshops designed to identify common research priorities, focused on a specific, well-defined area of research collaboration. U.S. and international co-organizers collaboratively design the agenda around a disciplinary or inter-disciplinary theme, and invite individuals who will uniquely contribute to the workshop’s objectives. Workshops may be held at either a U.S. or foreign location. Workshop results should include recommendations to the research community about possible areas for future collaboration and should be broadly disseminated. The pool of U.S. participants should include junior researchers, women and members of underrepresented groups, and, where appropriate, graduate and/or undergraduate students.
*NSF does not place any restrictions on proposals from federal staff for international workshops.

Deadline: 22 February 2008 (Type 2 proposals)
National Science Foundation
Human and Social Dynamics: Competition for FY 2008
The Human and Social Dynamics (HSD) priority area fosters breakthroughs in understanding the dynamics of human action and development, as well as knowledge about organizational, cultural, and societal adaptation and change. HSD aims to increase our collective ability to (1) understand the complexities of change; (2) understand the dynamics of human and social behavior at all levels, including that of the human mind; (3) understand the cognitive and social structures that create, define, and result from change; and (4) manage profound or rapid change, and make decisions in the face of changing risks and uncertainty. Accomplishing these goals requires multidisciplinary research teams and comprehensive, interdisciplinary approaches across the sciences, engineering, education, and humanities, as appropriate.

Deadlines: 25 February 2008, 30 June 2008, and 13 October 2008
Electronic Data Systems Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor provides support to non-profit organizations involved in education, health and human services, and arts & culture. The sponsor will also focus on supporting comprehensive technology solutions that increase performance and productivity in educational institutions and community organizations globally. Program elements include: access to technology; content; technical infrastructure; professional development; and evaluation.

Deadline: 25 February 2008
National Science Foundation
Advancing Theory in Biology (ATB)
The Biological Sciences Directorate invites submission of proposals that advance our conceptual and theoretical understanding of living systems. The Advancing Theory in Biology (ATB) solicitation supports the development of new theoretical approaches that will improve our understanding of fundamental biological principles that integrate phenomena across levels of biological organization.

Deadline: 28 February 2008
Conchologists of America, Inc.
Research Grants in Malacology
Grants in amounts up to $1,500 will be available annually to qualified persons undertaking field or laboratory research on recent or fossil mollusks, and other molluscan related projects. Awards are made only to citizens or permanent residents of the Americas or to students attending graduate schools in the United States.

Deadline: 28 February 2008
Cotton (Dr. M. Aylwin) Foundation
Publication Grants
The sponsor invites applications for publication awards for studies in the archaeology, architecture, history, language and art of the Mediterranean. Awards are available towards the costs of publication of academic research already completed or imminently available. Applicants should be either the author or the editor of the work.

Deadline: 29 February 2008
Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles
Grants in Herpetology
The sponsor provides support for deserving individuals or organizations involved in herpetological research, education, or conservation.

Due March 2008 (Back to Top)

Deadlines: 1 March 2008 and 1 September 2008
Bay and Paul Foundations
Grants Program
The sponsor provides both general operating support and project support for the following: (1) Biodiversity Leadership Awards Program: To advance the careers of individuals with proven capacity to help stem the loss of biological diversity, and to promote the application of scientific rigor to the complex issues surrounding the on-going extinction crisis, in 1995 the two foundations established the Biodiversity Leadership Awards program.  (2) Collections Care and Conservation: This program provides modest support for conservation and preservation projects to archives, museums, libraries, botanical gardens and historic sites, and has helped to strengthen these efforts nationwide through support of not-for-profit regional conservation centers, manuals, publications and collections care training programs. Proposals in this funding category are only reviewed in the spring, the postmark deadline for which is March 1st.

Deadlines: 1 March 2008, 1 July 2008, and 1 November 2008
Cafritz (Morris and Gwendolyn) Foundation
Grants Program
Grants provide up to one year of support for a variety of projects in the arts and humanities, community services, education, and health. Awards are available to nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations operating within the greater metropolitan Washington, DC area.

Deadline: 1 March 2008
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The Science for Peace and Security Programme
The Science for Peace and Security Programme offers grants to scientists in NATO, Partner and Mediterranean Dialogue countries to collaborate on priority research topics, which include NATO priorities and additional Partner country priorities. Grants are also offered to assist the academic community in Partner countries to set up computer networking infrastructure and to optimize their use of electronic communication.

Deadline: 1 March 2008
Tinker Foundation, Inc.
Institutional Grants
To be considered for a Tinker Institutional Grant, a proposal must be submitted by an institutional entity and be geographically focused on Latin America, Iberia or Antarctica. Topically, the projects should deal with environmental policy, governance or economic policy. Support may be sought for, but is not limited to, research projects, conferences and workshops. The Foundation encourages collaboration between and among organizations in the United States, Latin America, Spain and Portugal.

Deadline: 1 March 2008
University of Kent
Royal Anthropological Institute Fellowship in Urgent Anthropology
The Fellowship is designed to facilitate ethnographic research on currently threatened indigenous peoples, cultures and languages. Such research should, as a primary aim, contribute to anthropological knowledge through detailed ethnography, and also if possible help such peoples in their particular circumstances.  Applicants must either already have a doctoral qualification or equivalent in anthropology, or be nearing completion of doctoral research. The fellowships are open to all without discrimination of ethnic or national origin, residence, etc.  Applicants are invited to submit budgeted projects costed at up to £23,500, to last approximately 18 months, with a minimum of one year and maximum of two years, this period to include field research and writing-up. All costs including subsistence, transport and medical insurance must be included in the budget.

Deadline: 3 March 2008
American Philosophical Society
Phillips Fund Grant for Native American Research
The Phillips Fund of the American Philosophical Society provides grants for research in Native American linguistics, ethnohistory, and the history of studies of Native Americans, in the continental United States and Canada. Grants are not made for projects in archaeology, ethnography, psycholinguistics, or for the preparation of pedagogical materials. The committee distinguishes ethnohistory from contemporary ethnography as the study of cultures and culture change through time. The grants are intended for such costs as travel, tapes, films, and consultants' fees but not for the purchase of books or permanent equipment.

Deadline: 3 March 2008
Institute of Museum & Library Services
Build and Share Knowledge of Good Practice
The ultimate goal of this Cooperative Agreement is to develop the capacity of the museum and library field to effectively plan and evaluate their programs and to share lessons learned so that library and museum practices in the United States continue to improve.  IMLS wishes to increase the capacity of: 1) Library and museum grantees and potential grantees - to design and deliver projects that preserve cultural heritage, enhance learning opportunities for the public, encourage innovation and support the professional development of library and museum workers so that lessons learned can be shared widely and improve library and museum practice in the U.S.; 2) The museum and library field - to access expertise and knowledge distilled from the IMLS portfolio of current and past projects; and 3) IMLS - to analyze the results of its grants and disseminate this information broadly.
*SI is generally not eligible for direct awards from IMLS.  However, SI may be able to receive subawards.  Consult the IMLS Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal.

Deadline: 3 March 2008
National Science Foundation/Directorate for Geosciences
Centers for Ocean Science Education Excellence (COSEE)
An organization that wishes to partner with an existing Center may submit a proposal to add a new activity to the Center’s portfolio or to expand an existing activity to a new audience. These proposals may be submitted by the new partner or by the existing Center.  These Centers for Ocean Science Education Excellence (COSEE) foster the integration of ocean research into high-quality educational materials, allow ocean researchers to gain a better understanding of educational organizations and pedagogy, provide educators with an enhanced capacity to understand and deliver high-quality educational programs in the ocean sciences, and provide material to the public that promotes a deeper understanding of the ocean and its influence on each person's quality of life and our national prosperity.

Deadline: 14 March 2008
National Science Foundation/Directorate for Biological Sciences
Assembling the Tree of Life
The sponsor invites research proposals from multidisciplinary teams to conduct creative and innovative research that will resolve phylogenetic relationships for large groups of organisms on the Tree of Life. Teams of investigators also will be supported for projects in data acquisition, analysis, algorithm development and dissemination in computational phylogenetics and phyloinformatics. Each award may range up to $3 million, for a duration of up to five years.

Deadline: 15 March 2008
Georgia Ornithological Society
GOS Opportunity Fund
Support is intended for projects or programs designed to benefit bird species that reside in Georgia on a seasonal or annual basis, or that visit stopover habitats in Georgia during migration. Application content should pertain to one of the following types of projects or programs: 1) Research with a clear conservation purpose; 2) Conservation projects such as habitat enhancement; and 3) Public education efforts with a bird or bird habitat conservation theme.

Deadline: 15 March 2008
Institute of Museum and Library Services
21st Century Museum Professionals
21st Century Museum Professionals grants are intended to have an impact upon multiple institutions by reaching broad groups of museum professionals throughout a city, county, state, region, or the nation. Grants fund a broad range of activities, including the development and implementation of classes, seminars, and workshops; resources to support leadership development; collection, assessment, development and/or dissemination of information that leads to better museum operations; activities that strengthen the use of contemporary technology tools to deliver programs and services; support for the enhancement of pre-professional training programs; and organizational support for the development of internship and fellowship programs.
*SI is generally not eligible for direct awards from IMLS.  However, SI may be able to receive subawards.  Consult the IMLS Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal.

Deadlines: 15 March 2008, 15 June 2008, and 15 September 2008
Project AWARE Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor provides grants to a variety of nonprofit organizations, institutions and individuals involved in activities directly related to the conservation of underwater environments - both marine and freshwater. Grants do not exceed $10,000.  The sponsor works to accomplish their mission through support of programs in selected focus areas including: coral reef conservation; shark protection; sustainable fisheries; ecotourism (as related to underwater environments); aquatic education with a special interest in children; and direct activities to conserve underwater resources such as shoreline and underwater cleanups, mooring buoy installations and maintenance. Within these focus areas, projects may include: public education (formal and informal), grass roots conservation and enhancement projects, environmentally focused research that leads to conservation measures, public awareness initiatives, environmental assessment and monitoring projects, and volunteer-support community activism.

Deadline: 15 March 2008
Replogle (Luther I.) Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor focuses its grantmaking in the following areas: (1) Programs addressing the needs of youth and children living in, or at risk of, long-term poverty.  (2) Programs to improve educational opportunities for inner city children, including enrichment programs in the arts and sciences, alternative schools, after-school tutoring and mentoring, and scholarship programs.  (3) Programs for affordable and supportive housing.  (4) Projects, lectures, and fellowships in classical archaeology, particularly in efforts to enable scholars to cross disciplines and specialties, and thus broaden their horizons.  (5) Projects and institutions working for the conservation of maps and globes, and dissemination and education in the area of geography.  (6) The sponsor also provides modest support for the arts. In addition, the sponsor is able to make a small number of discretionary grants.

Deadline: 18 March 2008
National Endowment for the Humanities
Advancing Knowledge: The IMLS/NEH Digital Partnership
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) invite proposals for innovative, collaborative humanities projects using the latest digital technologies for the benefit of the American public, humanities scholarship, and the nation's cultural institutions.
*SI is generally not eligible for direct awards from NEH.  However, SI may be able to receive subawards.  Consult the NEH Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal.

Deadlines: 25 March 2008 and 10 April 2008
National Science Foundation/Directorate for Education and Human Resources
Math and Science Partnership Program (MSP)
The Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program is a major research and development effort that supports innovative partnerships to improve K-12 student achievement in mathematics and science. MSP projects are expected to raise the achievement levels of all students and significantly reduce achievement gaps in the mathematics and science performance of diverse student populations. In order to improve the mathematics and science achievement of the Nation's students, MSP projects contribute to the knowledge base for mathematics and science education and serve as models that have a sufficiently strong evidence base to be replicated in educational practice.

Due April 2008 (Back to Top)

Deadlines: 1 April 2008 and 1 November 2008
Cactus and Succulent Society of America
Research Grants
The sponsor provides small facilitation grants in support of research on succulent plants. Typical awards range up to $1,200 to $1,500.

Deadline: 1 April 2008
Hilfiger (Tommy) Corporate Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor offers support for programs and partnerships that promote educational opportunities for diverse populations in the U.S.A. The sponsor also makes grants to health-related organizations and cultural programs that impact a diverse population of youth.  Proposals submitted for educational and cultural programs must address the following priorities: target K-12 and college students; expose students to career opportunities; develop skills in new technologies; leverage teacher/administrator, parental and community involvement; include hands-on program activities; lead to comprehensive, systemic change on a region and/or national level; involve collaborative partnerships; demonstrate capacity to gain continuing support; result in dissemination and replication of lessons learned; have a broad and positive impact on diverse populations with a special emphasis on women, minorities, and at-risk students; and develop evaluation components with measurable results.

Deadline: 2 April 2008
National Endowment for the Humanities
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants
The sponsor invites proposals for the planning or initial stages of digital initiatives in all areas of the humanities. Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants should result in plans, prototypes or proofs of concept for long-term digital humanities projects prior to implementation.
*SI is generally not eligible for direct awards from NEH.  However, SI may be able to receive subawards.  Consult the NEH Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal.

Deadline: 9 April 2008
National Endowment for the Humanities
Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
As part of the Endowment-wide Digital Humanities Initiative, these grants support national or regional (multi-state) research and training programs on approaches in humanities computing. Through these programs, the NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars using digital technology in their research and broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology applications relevant to the humanities. The projects may be a single opportunity or offered multiple times to different audiences, although the duration of a program should allow for full and thorough treatment of the topic.
*SI is generally not eligible for direct awards from NEH.  However, SI may be able to receive subawards.  Consult the NEH Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal.

Deadline: 10 April 2008
National Science Foundation/Directorate for Education and Human Resources
Math and Science Partnership Program (MSP)
The Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program is a major research and development effort that supports innovative partnerships to improve K-12 student achievement in mathematics and science. MSP projects are expected to raise the achievement levels of all students and significantly reduce achievement gaps in the mathematics and science performance of diverse student populations. In order to improve the mathematics and science achievement of the Nation's students, MSP projects contribute to the knowledge base for mathematics and science education and serve as models that have a sufficiently strong evidence base to be replicated in educational practice.

Deadline: 30 April 2008
Humboldt (Alexander von) Foundation
TransCoop Program: Transatlantic Cooperation in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Law, and Economics
Support is provided for transatlantic research cooperation among German, American, and/or Canadian scholars (Ph.D. required) in the humanities, social sciences, economics, and law. The sponsor provides EUR 55,000 over a three-year period.  Scientific questions, including any from engineering or life sciences, may be considered providing the subject of the proposed research is convincingly related to the humanities and social sciences. In the selection procedure, priority is given to new research cooperation.

Due May 2008 (Back to Top)

Deadline: 2 May 2008 (For proposals for research on the Oden during Nov-Dec 2008)
National Science Foundation/Office of Polar Programs
Antarctic Research
Scientific research and operational support of that research are the principal activities supported by the United States Government in Antarctica. The goals are to expand fundamental knowledge of the region, to foster research on global and regional problems of current scientific importance, and to use Antarctica as a platform from which to support research.  For projects involving fieldwork, the U.S. Antarctic Program supports only research that can be done exclusively in Antarctica or that is best done from Antarctica. The program also supports antarctic-related analytical research performed at home organizations.

Deadline: 20 May 2008
National Science Foundation/Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
International Research and Education: Workshops
Joint workshops designed to identify common research priorities, focused on a specific, well-defined area of research collaboration. U.S. and international co-organizers collaboratively design the agenda around a disciplinary or inter-disciplinary theme, and invite individuals who will uniquely contribute to the workshop’s objectives. Workshops may be held at either a U.S. or foreign location. Workshop results should include recommendations to the research community about possible areas for future collaboration and should be broadly disseminated. The pool of U.S. participants should include junior researchers, women and members of underrepresented groups, and, where appropriate, graduate and/or undergraduate students.
*NSF does not place any restrictions on proposals from federal staff for international workshops.

Deadlines: 30 May 2008 and 1 October 2008
Tourism Cares
Grants Program
The sponsor distributes charitable grants to worthy tourism-related nonprofit organizations worldwide. The foundation seeks programs or projects with one or more of the following goals: To protect, restore and conserve sites of exceptional natural, cultural, or historic significance; and to educate local host communities and the traveling public about conservation and preservation of sites.

Due June 2008 (Back to Top)

Deadline: 1 June 2008
National Science Foundation/Directorate for Geosciences
Geophysics
This program supports basic research in the physics of the solid earth to explore its composition, structure, and processes.
*NSF places some restrictions on direct proposals submitted by federal employees. Please consult the NSF Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal. There are no restrictions on proposals submitted by trust employees or research associates or subaward proposals submitted by federal employees.

Deadline: 1 June 2008
National Science Foundation/Directorate for Geosciences
Hydrologic Sciences
Support is provided for research focusing on terrestrial processes that comprise the hydrologic cycle including evapotranspiration, precipitation, infiltration, overland and streamflow, subsurface percolation and the transport of solutes, nutrients, and particles by these fluxes.
*NSF places some restrictions on direct proposals submitted by federal employees. Please consult the NSF Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal. There are no restrictions on proposals submitted by trust employees or research associates or subaward proposals submitted by federal employees.

Deadline: 1 June 2008
National Science Foundation/Directorate for Geosciences
Petrology and Geochemistry (GEO--EAR)
The sponsor supports basic research on the formation and chemical composition of Earth materials in the crust, mantle, and core.
*NSF places some restrictions on direct proposals submitted by federal employees. Please consult the NSF Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal. There are no restrictions on proposals submitted by trust employees or research associates or subaward proposals submitted by federal employees.

Deadline: 1 June 2008
National Science Foundation/Directorate for Geosciences
Tectonics (GEO--EAR)
This program supports a broad range of field, laboratory, computational, and theoretical investigations aimed at understanding the evolution and deformation of continental lithosphere and how deformational processes have modified the lithosphere through geologic time.
*NSF places some restrictions on direct proposals submitted by federal employees. Please consult the NSF Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal. There are no restrictions on proposals submitted by trust employees or research associates or subaward proposals submitted by federal employees.

Deadline: 2 June 2008
National Historical Publications & Records Commission
Digitizing Historical Records Projects
The Commission seeks proposals that use cost-effective methods to digitize nationally-significant historical record collections and make the digital versions freely available on the Internet.   Projects must make use of existing holdings of historical repositories and be made up of entire collections or series. The materials should already be available to the public at the archives and described so that projects can re-use existing information to create metadata for the digitized collection. Applicants must have the permission of all relevant copyright holders, where possible.

Deadline: 2 June 2008
National Historical Publications & Records Commission
Electronic Records Projects
The Commission seeks ways to ensure that records created today will be usable with tomorrow's technology. As society moves recordkeeping from paper to electronic records, it is essential that electronic records retain their authenticity and are preserved. The NHPRC supports efforts by archivists and other records managers to meet the challenges of a proliferation of electronic records.

Deadline: 2 June 2008
National Historical Publications & Records Commission
Strategies and Tools for Archives and Historical Publishing Projects
Project may also focus on techniques and tools that will improve the professional performance and effectiveness of those who work with such records, such as archivists, documentary editors, and records managers.  Applications must: Present evidence for the need for improvement in current methods; Demonstrate that the project staff has the skills, educational background, and experience appropriate to the project; Describe which reliable research-and-development methodologies and techniques will be used to produce practical outcomes; Describe how the applicant will test the outcomes with practitioners; Describe how the outcomes will be evaluated; Indicate that the applicant will document the costs and benefits of employing the new strategies or tools; and Describe how the project will publicize the results and make them available to the appropriate professions at minimal or no cost.

Deadline: 6 June 2008 (For all proposals for antarctic work other than work proposed on Oden for Nov-Dec 2008)
National Science Foundation/Office of Polar Programs
Antarctic Research
Scientific research and operational support of that research are the principal activities supported by the United States Government in Antarctica. The goals are to expand fundamental knowledge of the region, to foster research on global and regional problems of current scientific importance, and to use Antarctica as a platform from which to support research.  For projects involving fieldwork, the U.S. Antarctic Program supports only research that can be done exclusively in Antarctica or that is best done from Antarctica. The program also supports antarctic-related analytical research performed at home organizations.

Deadlines: 6 June 2008 and 5 June 2009
National Science Foundation
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (Antarctic Program)
The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program supports active research participation by undergraduate students in any of the areas of research funded by the National Science Foundation. REU projects involve students in meaningful ways in ongoing research programs or in research projects specifically designed for the REU program. This solicitation features two mechanisms for support of student research: (1) REU Sites are based on independent proposals to initiate and conduct projects that engage a number of students in research. REU Sites may be based in a single discipline or academic department, or on interdisciplinary or multi-department research opportunities with a coherent intellectual theme. Proposals with an international dimension are welcome.

Deadlines: 15 June 2008 and 15 September 2008
Project AWARE Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor provides grants to a variety of nonprofit organizations, institutions and individuals involved in activities directly related to the conservation of underwater environments - both marine and freshwater. Grants do not exceed $10,000.  The sponsor works to accomplish their mission through support of programs in selected focus areas including: coral reef conservation; shark protection; sustainable fisheries; ecotourism (as related to underwater environments); aquatic education with a special interest in children; and direct activities to conserve underwater resources such as shoreline and underwater cleanups, mooring buoy installations and maintenance. Within these focus areas, projects may include: public education (formal and informal), grass roots conservation and enhancement projects, environmentally focused research that leads to conservation measures, public awareness initiatives, environmental assessment and monitoring projects, and volunteer-support community activism.

Deadlines: 30 June 2008 and 13 October 2008
Electronic Data Systems Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor provides support to non-profit organizations involved in education, health and human services, and arts & culture. The sponsor will also focus on supporting comprehensive technology solutions that increase performance and productivity in educational institutions and community organizations globally. Program elements include: access to technology; content; technical infrastructure; professional development; and evaluation.

Deadline: 30 June 2008
National Science Foundation
Research Coordination Networks in Biological Sciences (RCN)
The goal of this program is to encourage and foster interactions among scientists to create new research directions or advance a field. Innovative ideas for implementing novel networking strategies are especially encouraged. Groups of investigators will be supported to communicate and coordinate their research, training and educational activities across disciplinary, organizational, institutional, and geographical boundaries. The proposed networking activities should have a theme as a focus of its collaboration. The focus could be on a broad research question, a specific group of organisms, or particular technologies or approaches.

Due July 2008 (Back to Top)

Deadlines: 1 July 2008 and 1 November 2008
Cafritz (Morris and Gwendolyn) Foundation
Grants Program
Grants provide up to one year of support for a variety of projects in the arts and humanities, community services, education, and health. Awards are available to nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations operating within the greater metropolitan Washington, DC area.

Deadlines: 1 July 2008 (different deadlines may be applicable depending on the location and program to which you are applying)
Monsanto Fund
Grants Program
All of the sponsor's giving falls into four priority areas that are aligned with Monsanto's business focus: (1) Improving Nutritional Well Being through Agriculture; (2) The Environment--the sponsor is dedicated to environmental education and conservation of natural resources so they will continue to be available to our generation and those to come. Areas of interest include: building environmental awareness through community education, conservation projects, and enhancing water quality and wildlife habitat by improving agricultural practices.  (3) Science Education--the sponsor is dedicated to the belief that the more young people understand about science, the more they will be able affect the quality of their lives in the years ahead. Particular areas of interest include: professional development for teachers; creative and innovative science education programs for elementary and early secondary students. This includes programs offered by science centers, community-based organizations or other institutions; and science outreach programs in the community.  (4) Our Communities--the sponsor is dedicated to enhancing the communities where its people live and work. Some areas of interest include: education, arts education/experiences for disadvantaged children, and human needs/services outside the U.S.

Deadline: 1 July 2008
National Science Foundation
MARGINS Program
The MARGINS program was initiated by the scientific community and the National Science Foundation and has been designed to elevate our present largely descriptive and qualitative knowledge of continental margins to a level where theory, modeling and simulation, together with field observation and experiment, can yield a clearer understanding of the processes that control margin genesis and evolution. Although continental margins have been traditionally assigned to three distinct tectonic settings, i.e., convergent, divergent and translational, the approach used by the MARGINS program recognizes that a range of fundamental physical and chemical processes that form and deform the surface of the Earth operate at all margins. Tectonic setting may govern the specific expression of a particular process that may vary in different environments. However, a relatively small number of processes, i.e., lithospheric deformation, magmatism, other mass/energy fluxes, sedimentation, and fluid flow, are fundamental to the evolution of the margins. Study of these basic processes, wherever they are best expressed, provides a more logical line of inquiry for understanding the complex nature of continental margins.

Deadlines: 1 July 2008 and 3 December 2008
National Science Foundation/Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
Physical Anthropology (SBE--BCS)
The sponsor supports basic research in areas related to human evolution and contemporary human biological variation. Research areas supported by the program include, but are not limited to, human genetic variation, human adaptation, human osteology and bone biology, human and nonhuman primate paleontology, functional anatomy, and primate socioecology. Grants supported in these areas are united by an underlying evolutionary framework, and often a consideration of adaptation as a central theoretical theme. Many proposals also have a biocultural orientation.

Deadline: 1 July 2008
Wildlife Forever
Challenge Grants Program
Grants are targeted for habitat restoration and acquisition, research and management, and educational projects. Special emphasis is placed upon grassroots programs that involve local conservation, sportsmen's or outdoor recreation groups. The sponsor favors supporting projects in the following areas: enhancing wildlife and fish populations through acquisition, research, and management; conserving and enhancing wildlife and aquatic habitat; promoting wildlife and fish habitat and quality; and watchable wildlife related projects.  The typical range for grants is $1,000 to $10,000 dollars, but there is no set grant minimum or maximum. Funds must be matched on at least a one-to-one basis.

Deadline: 2 July 2008
National Science Foundation/Directorate for Biological Sciences
Living Stock Collections
The Living Stock Collections (LSC) program supports operation of and improvements in outstanding collections of living organisms used in basic biological research. The program provides support for two types of projects. Short-term projects are one-time awards (up to 36 months) leading to innovative handling of living stocks or to well-defined improvements in existing collections, including those not otherwise supported by LSC. Long-term projects (up to 60 months) support ongoing operation of significant collections. Collections receiving long-term support are expected to receive support from user fees.

Deadline: 9 July 2008
National Science Foundation/Directorate for Biological Sciences
Long Term Research in Environmental Biology
Through the LTREB program, the Division of Environmental Biology encourages the submission of proposals aimed at generating extended time series of biological and environmental data that address ecological and evolutionary processes aimed at resolving important issues in environmental biology. Researchers must have collected at least six years of previous data to qualify for funding. The proposal also must present a cohesive conceptual rationale or framework for ten years of research. Questions or hypotheses outlined in this conceptual framework must guide an initial 5-year proposal as well as a subsequent, abbreviated renewal. Together, these will constitute a decadal research plan appropriate to begin to address critical and novel long-term questions in environmental biology. As part of the requirements for funding, projects must show how collected data will be shared broadly with the scientific community and the interested public.
*NSF places some restrictions on direct proposals submitted by federal employees.  Please consult the NSF Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal.  There are no restrictions on proposals submitted by trust employees or research associates or subaward proposals submitted by federal employees.

Deadline: 9 July 2008
National Science Foundation
Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (OPUS)
Three clusters within the Division of Environmental Biology (the Ecological Biology, Ecosystem Science, and the Population and Evolutionary Processes clusters) encourage the submission of proposals aimed at synthesizing a body of related research projects conducted by a single individual or group of investigators over an extended period. OPUS proposals will often be appropriately submitted in mid-to-late career, but will also be appropriate early enough in a career to produce unique, integrated insight useful both to the scientific community and to the development of the investigator's future work. In cases where multiple scientists have worked collaboratively, an OPUS award will provide support for collaboration on a synthesis. OPUS awards will facilitate critical synthesis, and do so in a way that will acknowledge the prestige of this important component of scientific scholarship.

Deadline: 9 July 2008
National Science Foundation/Directorate for Biological Sciences
Revisionary Syntheses in Systematics (DEB--BIO)
The sponsor encourages the submission of proposals aimed at synthesizing available and new species-level taxonomic information in the context of providing revisionary treatments and predictive classifications for particular groups of organisms.

Deadline: 9 July 2008
National Science Foundation
Systematic Biology and Biodiversity Inventories
The Systematic Biology and Biodiversity Inventories Cluster supports research in taxonomy and systematics that contributes to: 1) using phylogenetic methods to understand the evolution of life in time and space, 2) discovery, description, and cataloguing global species diversity, and 3) organizing information from the above in efficiently retrievable forms that best meet the needs of science and society.  The Systematic Biology and Biodiversity Inventories Cluster funds projects within the two Programs, Systematic Biology and Biodiversity Inventories, in addition to the PEET and PBI solicitations listed below. In addition, the cluster participates in  AToL and other related funding opportunities. 

Deadline: 12 July 2008
National Science Foundation/Directorate for Biological Sciences
Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS)
The sponsor supports research aimed at an integrative understanding of organisms. The goal is to predict why organisms are structured the way they are, and function as they do. Projects that innovatively apply systems biology approaches, i.e. approaches that combine experimentation, computation, and modeling, and which lead to new conceptual and theoretical insights and predictions about integrated organismal properties that may be experimentally verified, are particularly encouraged.

Deadline: 15 July 2008
National Science Foundation/Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
Cultural Anthropology (SBE--BCS)
The sponsor promotes basic scientific research on the causes and consequences of human social and cultural variation.
*NSF places some restrictions on direct proposals submitted by federal employees.  Please consult the NSF Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal.  There are no restrictions on proposals submitted by trust employees or research associates or subaward proposals submitted by federal employees.

Deadline: 16 July 2008
National Science Foundation
EarthScope
EarthScope is an Earth science program to explore the 4-dimensional structure of the North American continent. The EarthScope Program provides a framework for broad, integrated studies across the Earth sciences, including research on fault properties and the earthquake process, strain transfer, magmatic and hydrous fluids in the crust and mantle, plate boundary processes, large-scale continental deformation, continental structure and evolution, and composition and structure of the deep-Earth. In addition, EarthScope offers a centralized forum for Earth science education at all levels and an excellent opportunity to develop cyberinfrastructure to integrate, distribute, and analyze diverse data sets. The nucleus of the Program is the EarthScope Facility, consisting of the Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO), the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD), and the USArray. The EarthScope Facility is a multi-purpose array of instruments and observatories that will greatly expand the observational capabilities of the Earth Sciences and permit us to advance our understanding of the structure, evolution and dynamics of the North American continent. The Facility is designed to continually incorporate technological advances in geophysics, seismology, geodesy, information technology, drilling technology, and downhole instrumentation. This Solicitation calls for single or collaborative proposals to conduct scientific research associated with the EarthScope Facility and support activities that further the scientific and educational goals of EarthScope.

Deadline: 23 July 2008
National Science Foundation
Community-based Data Interoperability Networks
Digital data are increasingly both the products of research and the starting point for new research and education activities.  The ability to re-purpose data – to use it in innovative ways and combinations not envisioned by those who created the data – requires that it be possible to find and understand data of many types and from many sources. Interoperability (the ability of two or more systems or components to exchange information and to use the information that has been exchanged) is fundamental to meeting this requirement.   This NSF crosscutting program supports community efforts to provide for broad interoperability through the development of mechanisms such as robust data and metadata conventions, ontologies, and taxonomies. Support is provided for Data Interoperability Networks that will be responsible for consensus-building activities and for providing the expertise necessary to turn the consensus into technical standards with associated implementation tools and resources.  Examples of the former are community workshops, web resources such as community interaction sites, and task groups.  Examples of the latter are information sciences, software development, and ontology and taxonomy design and implementation.

Deadline: 25 July 2008
National Science Foundation
Biological Research Collections (BRC)
The Biological Research Collections Program provides support for biological collection enhancement, computerization of specimen-related data, research to develop better methods for specimen curation and collection management, and activities such as symposia and workshops to investigate support and management of biological collections. Biological collections supported include those housing natural history specimens and jointly curated collections such as frozen tissues and other physical samples, e.g. DNA libraries and digital images. Such collections provide the materials necessary for research in a broad area of biological sciences.

Due August 2008 (Back to Top)

Deadline: 1 August 2008
Trust for Mutual Understanding
Grants Program
The sponsor makes grants to American nonprofit organizations conducting international cultural and environmental exchanges in partnership with institutions and individuals in Russia and Eastern and Central Europe. Priority consideration is given to projects in which direct, professional interaction plays a major role. Most grants are made for exchange activities relating specifically to Russia, with the balance being allocated primarily for projects involving the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, the Slovak Republic and Ukraine. A limited amount of assistance is also provided for exchanges with Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Romania, and Slovenia.

Deadline: 15 August 2008
National Science Foundation
Ocean Technology and Interdisciplinary Coordination
The Oceanographic Technology and Interdisciplinary Coordination (OTIC) Program supports a broad range of research and technology development activities. Unsolicited proposals are accepted for instrumentation development that has broad applicability to ocean science research projects and that enhance observational, experimental or analytical capabilities of the ocean science research community.

Deadline: 18 August 2008
National Science Foundation
Research Experiences for Undergraduates
The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program supports active research participation by undergraduate students in any of the areas of research funded by the National Science Foundation. REU projects involve students in meaningful ways in ongoing research programs or in research projects specifically designed for the REU program. This solicitation features two mechanisms for support of student research: (1) REU Sites are based on independent proposals to initiate and conduct projects that engage a number of students in research. REU Sites may be based in a single discipline or academic department, or on interdisciplinary or multi-department research opportunities with a coherent intellectual theme. Proposals with an international dimension are welcome. A partnership with the Department of Defense supports REU Sites in DoD-relevant research areas.

Deadline: 29 August 2008
National Science Foundation
Instrument Development for Biological Research
The Instrument Development for Biological Research (IDBR) Program supports the development of novel instrumentation or instrumentation that has been improved by an order of magnitude or more in some aspects.  Supported instruments are anticipated to have a significant impact on the study of biological systems at any level. The IDBR Program also supports the development or major improvement of software for the operation of instruments or the primary analysis of instrument data where these software developments have the effect of improving instrument performance by at least an order of magnitude in some aspects. Proposals are encouraged for proof-of-concept development for entirely novel instrumentation. Proposals are encouraged for instrument developments that are expected to meet a broad need in the biological community in areas supported by NSF Biology programs.  Proposals are encouraged for instrumentation that does not currently exist in the form of a working prototype.  In the selection of projects for support, the program emphasizes the development of biological instrumentation that is not clinical or biomedical instrumentation.

Due September 2008 (Back to Top)

Deadline: 1 September 2008
Bay and Paul Foundations
Grants Program
The sponsor provides both general operating support and project support for the following: (1) Biodiversity Leadership Awards Program: To advance the careers of individuals with proven capacity to help stem the loss of biological diversity, and to promote the application of scientific rigor to the complex issues surrounding the on-going extinction crisis, in 1995 the two foundations established the Biodiversity Leadership Awards program.  (2) Collections Care and Conservation: This program provides modest support for conservation and preservation projects to archives, museums, libraries, botanical gardens and historic sites, and has helped to strengthen these efforts nationwide through support of not-for-profit regional conservation centers, manuals, publications and collections care training programs. Proposals in this funding category are only reviewed in the spring, the postmark deadline for which is March 1st.

Deadline: 20 September 2008
National Science Foundation/Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
Joint Seminars and Workshops (SBE--INT)
The sponsor supports joint seminars and workshops involving U.S. and foreign investigators which facilitate U.S. participation in international science and engineering activities.

Deadline: 25 September 2008
National Science Foundation
Cooperative Studies of the Earth's Deep Interior (CSEDI)
The Division of Earth Sciences (EAR) invites the submission of proposals for collaborative, interdisciplinary studies of the Earth's interior within the framework of the community-based initiative known as Cooperative Studies of the Earth's Deep Interior (CSEDI). Funding will support basic research on the character and dynamics of the Earth's mantle and core, their influence on the evolution of the Earth as a whole, and on processes operating within the deep interior that affect or are expressed on the Earth's surface.

Deadline: 30 September 2008 (for required letters of intent)
National Science Foundation
Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI)
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 to encompass computational concepts, methods, models, algorithms, and tools.   Applied in challenging science and engineering research and education contexts, computational thinking promises a profound impact on the Nation’s ability to generate and apply new knowledge.  Collectively, CDI research outcomes are expected to produce paradigm shifts in our understanding of a wide range of science and engineering phenomena and socio-technical innovations that create new wealth and enhance the national quality of life. 
*NSF places some restrictions on direct proposals submitted by federal employees.  Please consult the NSF Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal.  There are no restrictions on proposals submitted by trust employees or research associates or subaward proposals submitted by federal employees.

Deadline: 30 September 2008
Sladen (Percy) Memorial Fund
Grants for Research Abroad
The sponsor supports field work in the earth and life sciences. Proposals should be for work away from the applicant's usual country of residence. Grants are for a maximum of 750 Pounds Sterling.  Grants are offered to assist field research or investigations overseas in the subjects of natural and earth sciences, including botany, zoology, geology, anthropology, archaeology, experimental physiology, pathology and therapeutics.

Deadline: 30 September 2008
U.S. Department of Defense/Office of Naval Research
RFP--Long Range Broad Agency Announcement for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is interested in receiving proposals for Long-Range Science andTechnology (S&T) Projects which offer potential for advancement and improvementof Navy and Marine Corps operations. Readers should note that this is an announcement to declare ONR's broad role in competitive funding of meritorious research across a spectrum of science and engineering disciplines. Prior to preparing proposals, potential offerors are strongly encouraged to contact the ONR point ofcontact (POC) whose program best matches the offeror's field of interest. For information on POCs, refer to the ONR Science and Technology Departments as listed in the Science and Technology section of the ONR Home Page accessible through the World Wide Web at http://www.onr.navy.mil/ and for ONR's International Agent located on the ONR Global Homepage at http://www.onrglobal.navy.mil/.

Due October 2008 (Back to Top)

Deadline: 1 October 2008
Tourism Cares
Grants Program
The sponsor distributes charitable grants to worthy tourism-related nonprofit organizations worldwide. The foundation seeks programs or projects with one or more of the following goals: To protect, restore and conserve sites of exceptional natural, cultural, or historic significance; and to educate local host communities and the traveling public about conservation and preservation of sites.

Deadline: 6 October 2008 (for required pre-proposals)
National Science Foundation/Office of Cyberinfrastructure
Sustainable Digital Data Preservation and Access Network Partners
Science and engineering research and education are increasingly digital and increasingly data-intensive. Digital data are not only the output of research but provide input to new hypotheses, enabling new scientific insights and driving innovation. Therein lies one of the major challenges of this scientific generation: how to develop the new methods, management structures and technologies to manage the diversity, size, and complexity of current and future data sets and data streams. This solicitation addresses that challenge by creating a set of exemplar national and global data research infrastructure organizations (dubbed DataNet Partners) that provide unique opportunities to communities of researchers to advance science and/or engineering research and learning.
*NSF places some restrictions on direct proposals submitted by federal employees.  Please consult the NSF Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal.  There are no restrictions on proposals submitted by trust employees or research associates or subaward proposals submitted by federal employees.

Deadline: 13 October 2008
Electronic Data Systems Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor provides support to non-profit organizations involved in education, health and human services, and arts & culture. The sponsor will also focus on supporting comprehensive technology solutions that increase performance and productivity in educational institutions and community organizations globally. Program elements include: access to technology; content; technical infrastructure; professional development; and evaluation.

Deadline: 15 October 2008
National Science Foundation/Directorate for Geosciences
Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change (P2C2)
The goal of research funded under the interdisciplinary P2C2 solicitation is to utilize key geological, chemical, and biological records of climate system variability to provide insights into the mechanisms and rate of change that characterized Earth's past climate variability, the sensitivity of Earth's climate system to changes in forcing, and the response of key components of the Earth system to these changes.  Important scientific objectives of P2C2 are to: 1) provide comprehensive paleoclimate data sets that can serve as model test data sets analogous to instrumental observations; and 2) enable transformative syntheses of paleoclimate data and modeling outcomes to understand the response of the longer-term and higher magnitude variability of the climate system that is observed in the geological record.

Due November 2008 (Back to Top)

Deadline: 1 November 2008
Cactus and Succulent Society of America
Research Grants
The sponsor provides small facilitation grants in support of research on succulent plants. Typical awards range up to $1,200 to $1,500.

Deadline: 1 November 2008
Cafritz (Morris and Gwendolyn) Foundation
Grants Program
Grants provide up to one year of support for a variety of projects in the arts and humanities, community services, education, and health. Awards are available to nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations operating within the greater metropolitan Washington, DC area.

Due December 2008 (Back to Top)

Deadline: 3 December 2008
National Science Foundation/Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
Physical Anthropology (SBE--BCS)
The sponsor supports basic research in areas related to human evolution and contemporary human biological variation. Research areas supported by the program include, but are not limited to, human genetic variation, human adaptation, human osteology and bone biology, human and nonhuman primate paleontology, functional anatomy, and primate socioecology. Grants supported in these areas are united by an underlying evolutionary framework, and often a consideration of adaptation as a central theoretical theme. Many proposals also have a biocultural orientation.

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3M Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor funds initiatives that produce measurable and sustainable results in five areas of emphasis: (1) K-12 Education--to prepare students for success through initiatives that raise achievement in math, science and economics and college readiness. (2) Higher Education--to invest in science, engineering, and business programs and provide increased participation by underrepresented people in these fields.  (3) Health and Human Services--to strengthen youth and families through prevention programs, job training, and by providing humanitarian and disaster relief.  (4) Arts and Culture--to enhance the quality of cultural life in 3M communities through organizations with strong education and community outreach programs.  (5) Environment--to make meaningful contributions to the sustainability of the earth's ecosystems focusing on biodiversity and climate change.

Abbott Laboratories Fund
Grants Program
The sponsor provides support in the following areas: (1) Health & Welfare: The Fund supports human health and welfare through federated or community drives funding local institutions in Abbott communities.  (2)  Education: The Fund concentrates its educational support on institutions whose programs and services have the potential to provide short to long–term benefits to the health care industry and its employees. (3) Civic & Cultural Activities: In the areas of culture, art and civic activities, the Fund considers support for specific projects having unusual needs that are related to Abbott's overall interests and activities. These include community improvement projects and organizations providing cultural enrichment in Abbott communities. Support is also considered for agencies involved in social policy and the environment.

Affymetrix, Inc.
Corporate Donations Program
The company focuses its giving in three main areas: (1) Education--As a company that relies on technological and scientific innovation, the sponsor realizes the importance of a solid educational foundation, therefore contributing to programs that support science and math education, focusing on K-12 students and their teachers. (2) Ethics. (3) Cancer Research and Advocacy.

Alaska Humanities Forum
Mini Grants
Support is provided to nonprofit organizations or institutions, individual scholars, and ad hoc groups for timely, pre-approved projects that cannot wait until a general grant deadline.  The sponsor provides funding for a variety of humanities-based projects. They support programs that: cultivate appreciation and enjoyment of the humanities; create dialogue among peoples holding divergent points of view; apply traditional bodies of wisdom to present concerns; search for a sense of personal identity and a sense of place through history, traditions, and new ideas; and pass on the values, methods, and wisdom of the humanities to future generations of Alaskans. Proposals should fall into one of the following categories: media (nonprofit radio, television, film, print, other); oral history; public meetings and exhibits; publications; research; and planning.  Funding up to $2,000 is available for timely projects that cannot wait until a general grant deadline. Forum grant funding can provide no more than half the total cost of a project.

Alcoa Foundation
Grants Program
The majority of the sponsor's grants fit within one of the following areas: (1) Conservation and Sustainability--the sponsor demonstrates commitment to conservation by educating young leaders, protecting our forests, promoting sound public policy research, and understanding the linkages between business and the environment.  (2) Safe and Healthy Children and Families--Ensuring that children and their families have the tools, the knowledge and the services to remain healthy and safe at home, in the community and in the workplace.  (3) Global Education and Workplace Skills--Broadening student and adult participation through education in technical areas central to the sponsor to ensure that a diverse cross-section of our communities is economically connected, workplace ready and globally competitive. (4) Business and Community Partnerships--Seeding notions of corporate citizenship community by community to strengthen the non-profit sector and to develop meaningful partnerships among non-profits, the private sector and local government.

American Express Philanthropic Program
Philanthropic Program
The sponsor actively solicits proposals under its Community Service, Cultural Heritage and Economic Independence themes.  (1) Community Service-Funding includes grants to relief agencies.  (2) Cultural Heritage -- Funding that protects important natural and man-made cultural or historic sites around the world, and that also supports art and culture unique to countries and regions. Cultural Heritage grantmaking emphasizes: public awareness of the importance of historic and environmental preservation; preservation and management of major historic and tourism sites; direct support for important cultural institutions and major projects in the visual and performing arts that are representative of national, regional and local cultures; and access to the arts and assistance to organizations in developing new audiences.  (3) Economic Independence-- Funding that supports initiatives that encourage, sustain and develop economic self-reliance.

Annenberg Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor provides support for projects within its grant-making areas interests of education and youth, arts and culture, civic and community and health. Eligible applicants are tax-exempt, nonprofit organizations.  The Annenberg Foundation accepts letters of inquiry at all times during the year and there are no deadlines. The Annenberg Foundation is not presently considering inquiries for projects focused exclusively on research.

AT&T Foundation
Arts and Culture Grants Program
The sponsor supports innovative artistic projects by nationally and internationally recognized arts and cultural institutions. Of interest to the sponsor are projects: assisting in the creation, production and presentation of new artistic work; bringing the work of women and artists of diverse cultures to a wider public; and mobilizing new technologies to promote artistic innovation and to increase access to the arts.

AT&T Foundation
Education Grants Program
The sponsor supports initiatives that help students (especially nontraditional and underserved students) successfully complete high school and/or prepare for and gain access to college and successfully complete college; integrate technology into K–16 instruction and administration; develop community and civic leadership capacity; and encourage higher education technology-workforce development in areas such as computer science, information technology, math, science and engineering.

Bank One Corporation
Grants Program
Giving is strategically focused on supporting nonprofit organizations in three key areas: (1) Community Asset Development--supporting financial literacy programs designed to bring traditionally unbanked populations into the economic mainstream; promoting development of and access to affordable housing; promoting economic development of communities through support of programs that encourage small business development, microenterprise, commercial revitalization, and industrial retention; and providing job training for disadvantaged populations and communities.  (2) Youth Education--supporting early childhood programs that help young learners develop the literacy skills they need to succeed as they enter elementary school; supporting programs that provide young people with the financial literacy skills they need to succeed in work and in life; promoting partnerships among schools, parents, and community agencies in low-income areas to encourage community-based schools that provide enhanced programming and services for young people and community residents; and supporting education initiatives designed to help students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds prepare for and gain access to college.  (3) Enriching Community Life--supporting arts giving, including access to the arts; and supporting civic enhancement and programs that address cultural enrichment and issues related to diversity.

Blockbuster Video, Inc.
Corporate Giving
The company will consider requests from non-profit organizations that meet one or more of the following requirements: (1) Project has film/video industry focus, (2) Project impacts children/families, (3) Project supports a particular Blockbuster business objective, i.e., employment, and (4) Project has clearly defined and measurable goals.

Blue Moon Fund
Grants Program
The fund supports initiatives that elevate the human condition by comprehensively addressing human consumption, the natural world, and economic advancement, including sponsoring a fellows program aimed at cultivating cutting-edge approaches to these issues.

BMW of North America
Grants Program
The sponsor's focus includes: (1) Education--The sponsor believes education is the backbone of society and so the sponsor is concerned with advancing education at all levels, from the very young to those pursuing advanced degrees. Grantmaking focuses on three areas: intercultural learning for students and their teachers in grades K-12; automotive technology, mechanics, career and repair programs in high schools, technical schools and community colleges; and research in the areas of safety design, ergonomics, and new materials. (2) Road Traffic Safety. (3) Environment--The BMW Group is committed to preserving the environment and has adopted sustainable development as a key principle of its corporate strategy. For corporate giving we focus on programs that seek to: conserve/preserve natural resources, in particular parklands and waterways ; research/promote the use of alternative fuels; and provide environmental education for students in grades K-12.

Boeing Company
Contributions Program
The sponsor provides support in four major areas: (1) HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES; (2) ARTS AND CULTURE--the sponsor provides support to build participation in arts and cultural activities, we seek innovative: performances and exhibitions that introduce new voices and perspectives to our community; collaborative efforts developed to create a more sustainable arts and cultural environment; and programs that engage people to become lifelong arts and cultural participants, patrons or practitioners; (3) CIVIC --To increase engagement in and understanding of community issues, the sponsor seeks innovative programs that address: Globalization; Conservation/sustainability; Community building; Economic development; Workforce development; Scientific literacy/uses of technology; Cultural, ethnic and religious diversity; and Strengthening the democratic process; (4) ENVIRONMENT--To protect and conserve the environment, the sponsor seeks innovative programs that: facilitate the development of integrated plans for acquisition and restoration of natural assets; protect critical natural assets; restore/improve critical habitat; and train citizens to protect and conserve the environment; and (5) EDUCATION.

Brainerd Foundation
Program Grants
The sponsor provides support in the following areas:  (1)  Endangered Ecosystems: This aspect of the program focuses on protecting high priority intact ecosystems within the Pacific Northwest, as well as maintaining or restoring biodiversity in key resilient, partially fragmented landscapes in the region. The sponsor's first priority is the protection of landscape level core habitat areas, as well as the protection or restoration of buffer areas and terrestrial and aquatic linkages between core reserves. The sponsor seeks to expand citizen participation in the management of public resources; enhance the capacity of the conservation community to protect public resources; and support and defend key environmental principles embodied in federal and state environmental statutes. The sponsor also works to improve collaboration among a broad range of tribal, agricultural, rural and urban stakeholders where this approach supports the foundation's conservation goals.  (2) Communications and Capacity-Building Program: The sponsor provides capacity building support for direct efforts to defend the endangered ecosystems within the geographic focus areas, as well as for key groups within the region whose programs augment regional conservation efforts (for example, service providers that supply technical and organizational assistance for a variety of regional groups). The program has two primary arms: organizational effectiveness and allied voices.  Grants typically range between $15,000 and $25,000, and are awarded for a period of one to two years.

Brooks (Gladys) Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor supports non-profit libraries, educational institutions, hospitals, and clinics in the eastern US. Grants will generally be made where outside funding is not available, where the proposed project will be largely funded by the grant, and where funds will be used for capital projects, including equipment or endowments. Grants usually range from $50,000 to $100,000.  The sponsor provides support in the following areas: (1) LIBRARIES: applications will be considered for endowments, capital construction, and innovative equipment.  (2) EDUCATION: applications will be considered generally for educational endowments to fund scholarships based solely on education, leadership and academic ability of the student; endowments to support salaries of educators who confine their activities primarily to classroom instruction in liberal arts, mathematics and the sciences during the academic year; and erection or endowment of buildings, wings, or additions of buildings for educational purposes.  (3) HOSPITALS AND CLINICS: generally, proposals should demonstrate one or more of the following: a new health need, an improvement in the quality of health care, and the probability of lowering health care costs with better patient outcomes. Generally, no grant will be considered that is to support a laboratory research project; exceptions may be made where a research project is of exceptional merit and funding is not available from normal sources.

Caterpillar Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor provides support in the following areas: education; health & human service; culture & art; and civic & community activities.

Chapin (Harry) Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor will focus its funding program in the following areas:  (1) Community education, programs to identify community needs and mobilize resources to meet them, fostering social and economic justice.  (2) Arts in education programs and other approaches to educating young people to create a healthier and more peaceful world.  (3) Agricultural programs that support the preservation of individually-owned farms; support for citizen organizations that promote equitable food production and distribution.  (4) Environmental programs that promote a safe and sustainable environment.  Grants sizes range from a few hundred dollars to the maximum of $10,000. Grants are made to cover a one-year period.

Chase Wildlife Foundation
Grants Program
The foundation promotes the preservation of wildlife and the environment on a global scale. It operates with two goals: first, to stop the destruction of animal habitats by human growth and expansion; and second, to focus on the survival and re-establishment of key species in that environment. To these ends, the foundation provides individual grants and joins cooperative efforts with other preservation and conservation organizations worldwide.

Chesapeake Bay Trust
Mini Grants Program
The Mini Grants program awards up to $5,000 for projects that address one or more of the Trust’s grantmaking priorities. The majority of Mini Grant applications are submitted by schools for field experiences and on-the ground student service projects. However, organizations and agencies also submit grants for small projects and public awareness initiatives. You may submit a request to the Mini Grants program at any time during the year. However, requests will not be considered when the application is submitted without sufficient time to review the application. Generally, grant applications should be submitted four to six weeks before the project. Decisions are made within four to six weeks.

Citigroup Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor makes grants in the following areas: (1) FINANCIAL EDUCATION--Financial education, having a basic understanding of money and how it works in today's society, is crucial to a person's ability to develop assets. (2) EDUCATING THE NEXT GENERATION--The Foundation seeks to improve educational opportunities in low-income communities that will better prepare the next generation for life-long learning and the workforce. In early childhood and primary and secondary education, grants support early literacy development, technology-based curriculum resources, and career and college preparation programs. The Foundation also provides grants for teacher training and innovative teaching strategies that increase student achievement. Programs that enhance learning by integrating the arts into school curricula and increase student access to leading cultural institutions are also funded. In higher education, grants are made to improve student and curriculum development for graduate and undergraduate business programs. The Foundation also provides scholarships to increase access to higher education and to provide more opportunities for women and minorities in the workplace. (3) BUILDING COMMUNITIES AND ENTREPRENEURS--Grants are made to reinforce community-led efforts to revitalize low-income neighborhoods in Citigroup communities worldwide.

Claiborne (Liz) and Art Ortenberg Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor is devoted to the conservation of nature and the amelioration of human distress. The sponsor seeks to redress the breakdown in the processes linking nature and humanity. It concerns itself particularly with matters of species extinction, habitat destruction and fragmentation, resource depletion and resource waste. It favors solutions which directly benefit local communities and serve as exemplars for saving species and wildlands. It recognizes the imperative to reconcile nature preservation with human needs and aspirations.  The sponsor devotes a substantial portion of its funding to developing countries. It therefore recognizes the destructive connection between poverty, over-population, high infant mortality, cultural traditions that dehumanize women, inequitable land distribution and the subsequent degradation of the land and the systems the land supports.  The sponsor is also actively involved in conservation in the United States, particularly Montana and those Western states historically dependent upon extractive industries and agriculture. It encourages local initiatives addressing the problems of diminishing natural resources, technological change and job loss. It emphasizes conservation through cooperation, persuasion and the development of sustainable economic alternatives to resource depletion.

Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation
Grants Program
Grants are made for religious, charitable, scientifc, literary or educational purposes and for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals. The foundation's major emphasis is on supporting education.

Coca-Cola Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor supports educational programs primarily within three main areas: higher education, classroom teaching and learning, and international education. Programs support scholarships for aspiring students; encourage and motivate young people to stay in school; and foster cultural understanding.

Compton Foundation, Inc.
Grants Program
Purpose and activities: To coordinate the Compton family giving to community, national, and international programs in areas of its special interests, including peace and world order, population, and the environment. Other concerns include equal education opportunity, community welfare, and culture and the arts.  The grantmaker has identified the following area(s) of interest:  (1) Community Welfare, Education, and the Arts: Community Welfare, Education, and the Arts are program areas almost entirely funded at the initiation and discretion of individual Board and Family members. They now represent a decreasing percentage of the foundation's total grants. Unsolicited proposals are not encouraged.  (2) Environment and Sustainability: The program's goals are to advance ecologically healthy, economically sustainable, and socially just visions for the management and use of fresh water in the western U.S., reduce the U.S. contribution to global climate change, and promote community-based strategies to support healthy ecosystems and thriving rural communities. The foundation seeks to build and expand broad constituencies committed to taking action that will help foster a healthy environment. Over the short term it will support efforts to inform and motivate personal choices and to develop innovative political alliances. Over the long term, it hopes to promote changes in public opinion and policy. The foundation is particularly interested in projects that: 1) promote values that affirm sustainable relationships with land and water; 2) defuse conflict and create spaces for people to find common ground; 3) share best practices and lessons learned; 4) encourage a diversity of experience, interest, and organizational scale in defining and addressing environmental issues; 5) offer creative new approaches; and 6) foster environmentally informed, responsible citizens. The foundation does not fund conferences or marine projects. It does not usually fund land, water, or easement acquisitions, or place-based conservation or restoration projects unless they represent a new model of resource ownership or management and offer a plan for replication.

Coors (Adolph) Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor's primary areas of interest are:  (1) Health.  (2) Education--The Foundation's interest in education is directed to institutions and programs that foster excellence in the knowledge of free enterprise, science, technology and ethics.  (3) Youth, Community & Human Services--The Foundation is generally supportive of community and human services agencies that assist the disadvantaged in their efforts to be self-sufficient and productive and that nurture the development of integrity and leadership. (4) Civic & Cultural--Civic and cultural programs attracting the Foundation's attention are typically those that enhance our culture and heritage, demonstrate our creativity as a people and are likely to be of economic benefit to and broadly used by the communities they serve.

Corning Incorporated Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor's focus areas are: (1) Education--including community service programs for students, curriculum enrichment, student scholarships, facility improvement and instructional technology projects for the classroom.  (2) Culture--provides assistance to institutions such as arts organizations, libraries, museums and public broadcasting stations.  (3) Community Service--supports a variety of organizations that serve a broad base of constituents. Included in this category are hospitals and hospices, community foundations, youth and women's centers, YMCAs, local youth organizations and selected United Ways.  (4) National Programs--the sponsor supports selected organizations that promote national, and sometimes international, understanding and good will. The means endorsed in achieving these goals have included cultural endeavors, opportunities for improved quality of life, education, research and sharing of information.

Cummings (Nathan) Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor's core programs include arts and culture ; the environment ; health; interprogram initiatives for social and economic justice; and the Jewish life and values/contemplative practice programs.

DaimlerChrysler Corporation Fund
Grants Program
The sponsor supports programs that address key issues in the communities where the company has major operations, as well as selected national and international programs addressing the sponsor's primary issues. The majority of support focuses on the following areas: (1) FUTURE WORK FORCE--programs that develop skills necessary for success in a multi-national manufacturing environment; (2) COMMUNITY VITALITY--programs in communities that build social and economic stability and contribute to making these communities attractive places for our employees and their neighbors to live; and (3) MARKETPLACE AND PUBLIC POLICY LEADERSHIP--support is available for a number of national and regional organizations that address special concerns of the sponsor's employees, suppliers, dealers, and the marketplace. Examples include highway safety, environment, energy, transportation, technology and trade related issues.

Delmas (Gladys Krieble) Foundation
Humanities Program
The sponsor intends to further the humanities along a broad front, supporting projects which address the concerns of the historical studia humanitatis: a humanistic education rooted in the great traditions of the past; the formation of human beings according to cultural, moral, and aesthetic ideals derived from that past; and the ongoing debate over how these ideals may best be conceived and realized.  Programs in the following areas are eligible: history; archaeology; literature; languages, both classical and modern; philosophy, ethics; comparative religion; the history, criticism, and theory of the arts; and those aspects of the social sciences which share the content and methods of humanistic disciplines. The Foundation welcomes projects that cross the boundaries between humanistic disciplines and explore the connection between the humanities and other areas of scholarship.

Delmas (Gladys Krieble) Foundation
Research Library Program
Support is provided to improve the ability of research libraries to serve the needs of scholarship in the humanities and the performing arts, and to make their resources more widely available to scholars and the general public. The sponsor considers proposals for 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 preservations and conservation work and research. The geographical concentration will be 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.

Earhart Foundation
Grants Program
(734) 761-8592
The sponsor provides grants to publicly supported educational and research organizations for specific projects or activities in such disciplines from the social sciences and humanities as economics, philosophy, history, international affairs and government/politics.

Educational Foundation of America
Grants Program
Areas of interest include: the environment, the crisis of human overpopulation and reproductive freedom, Native Americans, arts, education, medicine, and human services.

Edwards Mother Earth Foundation
Grants Program
The purpose of the foundation is to enhance sustainable quality of life on earth by supporting organizations that strengthen the interconnectedness of the human community with each other and the environment. The foundation is interested in: Sustainable building practices; Environmental Biodiversity in oceans, rainforests, renewable energy, populations; Local environmental justice through the people most directly involved.

Energy Foundation
Grants Program
Purpose and activities: To assist in a transition to a sustainable energy future by promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy.  The grantmaker has identified the following area(s) of interest:  (1) Climate: The program is a partnership between the Energy Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The mission is to develop and promote U.S. state and regional policies to reduce global warming pollution, in order to build models for and momentum toward federal climate policy. The policy and education efforts supported by this program are expressly focused on mitigating climate change. Potential areas of work include: 1) State and regional carton cap-and-trade programs; 2) State and regional greenhouse gas plans and targets; 3) Financial mechanisms like incentives or carbon taxes; and 4) Other direct controls to reduce global warming pollution.

Exxon-Mobil Corporation
Community Contributions Program
The sponsor focuses on the following priority areas: (1) Education--funding is directed at supporting basic education and literacy program in the developing world. In areas of the world where basic education levels have been met, the sponsor supports education programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.  (2) Health--the sponsor supports programs targeted to worldwide health issues. Support falls into several categories: the fight against global health pandemics; support for medical centers/hospitals; health education and health-care delivery; health and the environment; and health-related research. In the United States, the main focus is public health education and research as it relates to our business. The sponsor also supports research and public education related to childhood asthma and other related illnesses.  (3) Environment (Biodiversity and Conservation)--the sponsor provides support for biodiversity conservation issues around the world. Projects have included: saving wild tigers and their habitat; protecting the Leuser ecosystem; integrating southeastern Angola into the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area; protecting habitat in the Gulf Coast Region; and increasing the amount of quality wildlife habitat in the U.S.  The sponsor does not seek and rarely funds unsolicited grant applications and project proposals.

Exxon Mobil Education Foundation
Grants Program
Funding priorities are focused on education, health, the environment and public policy research. The sponsor does fund other areas such as civic & community and arts & culture but on a more limited basis in local communities where we have a significant operating presence. The sponsor may fund national grants particularly those related to their funding priorities of education, health, and the environment.

Farmers Insurance Group
Grants Program
Funding is provided to non-profit, tax-exempt organizations in the areas of Education/Youth; Health and Human Services; Safety; Arts and Culture; and Civic Institutions.

Federated Department Stores, Inc.
Grants Program
The Federated Department Stores Foundation focuses giving primarily in the areas of education, arts/culture, women's issues, HIV/AIDS, and programs to assist youth and minorities.

Ford Foundation
Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom
Awards support domestic and international projects in the following areas: education, sexuality, and religion; and media, arts and culture.

Ford Motor Company Fund
Contributions Program
The sponsor works with a variety of nonprofit organizations that strive to make the world a better place through many programs and projects. Support is focused on these primary areas: education; community development, and auto-related environment and safety. The sponsor places top priority on the support and development of organizations that promote diversity.

General Mills Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor provides grants to nonprofit organizations that create sustainable community improvement in the areas of family life, youth nutrition and fitness, education, and arts and culture.

General Motors Company
Grants Program
With a strong commitment to diversity in all areas, the targeted areas of focus for GM and the GM Foundation are: (1) Education: Realizing the importance of education, we are consistently a leader among contributors to education, both in terms of financial support and the quality of the programs receiving support.  (2) Health and human services.  (3)  Civic and community: We support organizations that strengthen community awareness and improvement.  (4) Public Policy: We support organizations that help to build an environment conducive to a healthy business climate. The principle focus is in the areas of energy, environment, trade globalization and regulatory reform.  (5) Arts and culture: We provide support to organizations that promote appreciation of the arts, recognition of diverse cultures and awareness of arts in education programs.  (6) Environment and energy: Protecting the environment is one of our most important priorities. We are dedicated to protecting human health, natural resources and the global environment and support organizations that promote these ideals. We support organizations whose objectives, goals and activities are compatible with at least one aspect of GM's Environmental Principles.   (7) Diversity: Recognizing the value of diversity in its work force, dealer body, supplier community, and customers, we support organizations that promote the interests of minorities and women, as well as other diversity dimensions.

Global Environment Project Institute, Inc.
Grants Program
P.O. Box 158
Pacific Palisades, CA 90272-0158
Contact: Rampa R. Hormel, Pres. and Treas.
The institute promotes the conservation of biodiversity and the sustainability of life on earth.  Giving on a national basis, with emphasis on CA.

Graham (Philip L.) Fund
Grants Program
202-334-6640
The sponsor's mission is to use its resources for the betterment of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, and to support activities in the field of journalism and communications. Preference is given to proposals addressing special one-time needs of organizations (e.g., equipment and capital needs) rather than general operating or program support. The areas of interest are: (1) Arts and Humanities--especially major cultural organizations and those devoted to the visual or dramatic arts.  (2) Community Endeavors--especially those that make the community a better place to live.  (3) Education--especially focused on healthy early childhood development or improving public education at the pre-college level.  (4) Health and Human Services--especially those that benefit children, youth and families.  (5) Journalism and Communications--especially organizations that advance broad industry goals.

Great Lakes Protection Fund
Grants Program
The sponsor supports projects that take concrete actions to achieve basin-wide ecological results. Areas of interest include preventing biological pollution, restoring more natural flow regimes, using market mechanisms for environmental improvement, and providing leadership for ecosystem restoration.

Hearst Foundations
Grants Program
Priority areas of interest include: (1) EDUCATION; (2) HEALTH; (3) SOCIAL SERVICE; and (4) CULTURE--the sponsor supports programs that enrich the lives of young people by engaging them in cultural activities, primarily through arts-in-education programs. Grants are awarded to major institutions and community organizations in the arts and sciences that address the lack of arts programming in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade curricula by providing comprehensive, on-site and/or outreach education activities.

Heller (Clarence E.) Charitable Foundation
Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation Grants
Priority given to organizations in California, though other organizations are welcome to apply. Areas of interest are: (1) ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH--to prevent serious risk to human health from toxic substances and other environmental hazards by supporting programs in research, education and policy development; (2) MANAGEMENT OF RESOURCES--to protect and preserve the earth's limited resources by assisting programs that demonstrate how natural resources can be managed on a sustainable and ecologically sound basis, consistent with amenable standards of living; (3) MUSIC--to encourage the playing, enjoyment, and accessibility of symphonic and chamber music by providing scholarship and program assistance at selected community music centers, schools and institutes; and, (4) EDUCATION--to enhance academic learning opportunities for elementary and secondary school students by supporting programs designed to improve the professional skills of classroom teachers.

Herrick Foundation
Grants Program
313-496-7585
The sponsor provides support to tax-exempt, charitable or educational institutions and organizations whose principal activities are within Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New York City and immediate surrounding environs, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Wisconsin, or Washington, D.C. with particular interest and attention being given to those institutions and organizations whose activities are centered in Michigan.

Hewlett (William & Flora) Foundation
Environment Grants Program
The sponsor's goal is to ensure that conservation is the primary management aim on ecologically significant land in the West, where threats are imminent and the potential harm irreversible. The sponsor will: continue to build institutional capacity in the field and to provide general support for core Western organizations that have missions and means that correlate strongly with the priorities of the program; continue to seek strategies that can bind people together and realign environmental and western politics; support efforts to assist the transition of rural communities away from unsustainable, resource extraction-based economies; expand efforts in building new alliances and constituencies for environmental issues; continue to emphasize and support efforts to bring sound analysis and scientific research into policy debates; work to test new strategies and ideas to help environmental groups break out of traditional (and often unsuccessful) strategies of engagement; and continue to support focused educational efforts for the public and decision makers.

Hilton Hotels Corporation
Grants Program
The sponsor focuses its charitable giving to four areas: education, health, youth programs, and civic affairs and public policy. The sponsor prefers to support organizations with a national constituency and programs in communities where the corporation has a major presence.

Hudson River Foundation
Expedited Grants
The sponsor provides support for the study of emergency situations affecting the Hudson River, such as unexpected natural or human-induced events, or research efforts for which additional funds are needed to enhance an existing research effort prior to the sponsor's next formal funding cycle.

Hudson River Foundation
Travel Grants
The sponsor provides support for travel related to the sponsor's research goals, with particular interest in supporting visits by experts from outside the Hudson region to share new approaches to environmental questions about the Hudson River.  The sponsor's seeks to make science integral to decision-making with regard to the Hudson River and its watershed and to support competent stewardship of this extraordinary resource. This purpose is pursued through: support of scientific research; communication to expand knowledge about the river among the scientific community, policy makers, and the public at large; initiatives to enhance management of the Hudson ecosystem; education about the River; and physical improvements to the riverfront.

Humboldt (Alexander von) Foundation
Humboldt Research Fellowships
The sponsor offers around 100 grants annually to foreign scholars with internationally recognised academic qualifications. Award winners are invited to carry out research projects of their own choice in Germany in co-operation with German specialist colleagues for periods of between six months and one year. The award can amount to EUR 60,000. Nominations for these awards must be made by leading German scholars or research institutions.

IBM Corporation
Grants Program
While not encouraged, unsolicited proposals are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Applicants wishing to submit unsolicited proposals should make an initial inquiry in the form of a two-page letter.  Support is provided to tax-exempt and educational institutions for philanthropic projects and programs that fit within the sponsor's areas of interest. Program areas of interest supported may include: education; adult training and workforce development; arts and culture; helping communities in need; and employee giving.

Institute for Wetland and Waterfowl Research
Research Grants Program
The sponsor's objectives are: to discover new information that will help solve fundamental problems facing North American waterfowl and their habitats; to help develop highly skilled professionals in wetland and waterfowl conservation biology; and to communicate the results of the sponsor's research, and other important information on wetland and waterfowl biology and conservation.  Applicants proposing field work in the United States and Mexico should use the following contact: Dr. Bruce D.J. Batt, Chief Biologist, Ducks Unlimited Inc., One Waterfowl Way, Memphis, TN 38120. Phone: 901-758-3874. Fax: 901-758-3850. Email: bbatt@ducks.org.

International Paper Company Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor primarily addresses existing and emerging educational needs, as well as short-term, critical civic needs within the communities where International Paper has operating facilities. The three primary areas of support are education, employee involvement and new critical community needs.  In the area of education, the sponsor focuses on: (1) Environmental Education--particularly those programs focused on young children; outdoor classrooms, forestry and air and water quality programs are also of interest.  (2) Literacy--programs that enhance the reading skills of children; and programs that teach English as a second language.  (3) Minority Career Development--education programs targeted to women and minorities that emphasize careers in manufacturing, engineering or forestry; outreach education programs for college potential minority youth.

Johnson Controls Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor's grant categories are: (1) Health & Social Service; (2)  Education -- Contributions in this category will be made to public and private higher educational institutions, adult education programs, and education related organizations, including those which seek to increase public knowledge of economics. Grants are not usually given to public or private pre-schools, elementary, or secondary institutions, but are limited to colleges and universities; (3) Culture and the Arts -- To assist arts and cultural programs, the sponsor will consider contributions to visual, performing, and literary arts, public radio and television, libraries, museums, and other related cultural activities. Priority will be extended to those serving communities in which Johnson Controls employees live and work, and to those in which these employees are involved with their time and/or funds; (4) Civic Activities -- This category includes assistance to programs in the areas of justice and law, community and neighborhood improvements, the environment, civil rights and equal opportunity, citizenship and safety.

Kaplan (J.M.) Fund
Environment Program: North America : Protect cross-border ecosystems
The Fund supports the conservation of important ecosystems that straddle national frontiers: The Gulf of Maine; the Northern Plains; the Chihuahuan Desert ; the Northwest Caribbean ; and the Mesoamerican Forest . The Fund is particularly interested in strategies that include both wilderness reserves and working landscapes.

Kingston Technology
Grants Program
Grants are made in the following categories: (1) Education: Educational support is provided for the advancement of knowledge and technological improvement.  (2) Community Service: Support is provided for community services for specific programs.  (3) Arts and Culture: Support is provided to performing arts and cultural organizations.

Kirby (F.M.) Foundation, Inc.
Grants Program
Grants are made in education, health and medicine, the arts and humanities, civic and public affairs, as well as religious, welfare and youth organizations.

Kleberg (Robert J. & Helen) Foundation
Grants Program
210-271-3691
Support is provided in the fields of medical research, veterinary and animal sciences, wildlife research and preservation, health services, higher education, community organizations and the arts and humanities. Grants in the past have ranged from $2,500 to $1,800,000.

Koch Industries, Inc.
Grants Program
The sponsor provides support for nonprofit organizations in the following areas: (1) Education--the sponsor looks for programs that help people apply economic and scientific principles to problem solving.  (2) Environmental Stewardship--the sponsor takes a hands-on approach to philanthropy that furthers environmental preservation. Support is awarded primarily to public/private partnerships and other programs that help reduce waste, conserve resources, and promote sound science and environmental education.  (3) Human Services--the sponsor focuses contributions and employee energy on projects that give people a hand up, as well as on the performing arts and arts education that further enhances the diversity and quality of life in communities.

Kraft General Foods Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor provides support to nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and Canada. In the U.S., the majority of the sponsor's support is concentrated in three focus areas: hunger, healthy lifestyles and access to the arts.

Kresge Foundation
Capital Challenge Grant Program
The sponsor awards challenge grants to organizations operating in the areas of higher education (awarding baccalaureate and/or graduate degrees), health care/long-term care, human services, science and the environment, arts and humanities, and public affairs for construction/renovation of facilities and the purchase of major capital equipment and real estate. Support is provided for projects involving construction and/or renovation of facilities; purchase of major capital equipment or an integrated system, at a cost of at least $300,000; and purchase of real estate.  Only one application is allowed per organization in a 12-month period.

Kresge Foundation
Science Equipment Program
The sponsor makes challenge grants to colleges and universities, teaching hospitals, medical schools and research institutions to upgrade and endow scientific instrumentation and laboratories. Awards provide one-fourth of the total project costs.  Scientific equipment and attendant renovation of space necessary to accomodate such equipment are eligible projects. Items may include new, replacement, or upgraded equipment and may range from basic science instrumentation for classroom laboratories to a single piece of equipment for student/faculty research.

Kress (Samuel H.) Foundation
Practice of Art History and Conservation Grants
Emphasis is placed on two program areas: (1) ESSENTIAL RESOURCES -- Grants that support the means by which specialized knowledge is created and disseminated, including publications, archives, photography, documentation, databases, catalogues, technical and scientific studies and other materials that relate to art historical research and art conservation.  (2) SHARING EXPERTISE -- Grants for activities that permit art historians and conservators to share their expertise through international exchanges, professional meetings, conferences, symposia, consultations, the presentation of research, and other structured events.

Lafitte (Charles) Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor is committed to helping groups and individuals foster lasting improvement on the human condition by providing support to education, children’s advocacy, medical research and the arts.  (1) EDUCATION--The sponsor provides support for innovative programs aimed at resolving social service issues, assisting students with learning disabilities, providing technology and computer based education, creating access to education of the arts, supporting at-risk children from pre-school to college and providing learning enhancement, including the development of leadership skills. (2) CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY--The sponsor supports programs that deal with issues such as child abuse, foster housing, literacy, educational advancement, after-school programs, hunger projects and the general well-being of children. (3) MEDICAL RESEARCH--The sponsor supports innovative programs, research that promotes health, scientific and educational activities and disease prevention. (4) ARTS--The sponsor will favor educational programs that encourage students to release their creativity, inspire them to learn and empower them with achievement. The sponsor supports innovation and creativity in the arts, and is particularly interested in encouraging emerging artists and inspiriting the development of new artistic work.

Laurie (Blanche and Irving) Foundation
Grants Program
Telephone:  973-993-1583
The sponsor provides support for several areas of interest. The arts have been a particular funding focus of the sponsor including the theatre, opera, ballet and museums. The sponsor's education grants are concentrated on higher education and on special needs education at the primary school level. Substantial commitments have also been made across a broader spectrum of social service needs, including medical care, geriatric programs and programs for physically and mentally challenged children. The sponsor's support of the Jewish community is varied and substantial as well. Major grants were made to support victims of recent natural disasters such as the devastating tsunami in Southeast Asia and the hurricanes and flooding along our country's Gulf Coast.

Lockheed Martin Corporation
Grants Program
Philanthropic contributions are made primarily to programs of nationwide interest and programs in geographic areas of the corporation's operations. Areas of funding interest include: K-16 math and science education; culture; civic and public interest; health and human services; and voluntarism.

Luce (Henry) Foundation, Inc.
Grants and Responsive Grants
The sponsor awards grants and responsive grants in the following areas: (1)ASIA--The sponsor's Asia Program pursues two interrelated goals. One is fostering cultural and intellectual exchange between the countries of the Asia-Pacific and the United States. The second is creating scholarly and public resources for improved understanding of Asia in the United States. Asia Project Grants are limited to the humanities and social sciences and are typically for longer-term programs or projects. Most awards are made to United States-based universities and organizations dealing with the countries and cultures of East and Southeast Asia. (2) HIGHER EDUCATION--supports special scholarly or educational initiatives that fall outside the guidelines for the foundation's other programs. Some grants address issues of shared concern for American higher education; others are for programs that are compelling for intellectual or institutional reasons. (3) AMERICAN ART--focuses on the American fine and decorative arts and is committed to scholarship and the overall enhancement of the field. The program is national in scope, and provides support for all periods and genres of American art history. (4) THEOLOGY--the program encourages the development of leadership for religious communities through theological education, and fosters scholarship that links the academy to churches and the wider public. (5) PUBLIC POLICY AND THE ENVIRONMENT--supports research, training, and policy recommendations dealing with significant issues at the national and international levels. Public Policy grants provide funding to study critical issues and recommend solutions to problems that confront our nation and our world. The Environmental Initiative has two purposes. The first is to enhance the quality of academic training on the environment at both small liberal arts colleges and large research universities. The second purpose is to work with environmental organizations on "real world" issues. Here, the sponsor endeavors to identify projects that will break new ground and hold promise for solving specific problems.

Marathon Oil Company Foundation
Grants Program
Support is provided in the following areas: (1) Health and Human Services: the sponsor provides a number of direct capital and operating grants to the United Way and other health and human service organizations.  (2) Education: grants focus on higher education through direct grants to colleges and universities for operating, project, capital and scholarship needs. Preference is given to institutions that have strong programs in engineering, science and business. The program includes scholarships for sons and daughters of Marathon and its affiliates' employees and matching gifts programs for colleges and universities.  (3) Civic and Community: grants support environmental, public policy, business and community organizations which focus on issues relating to the interests of the sponsor.  (4) Arts and Culture: grants to arts and cultural organizations include capital and operating support for major performing arts organizations and cultural institutions that enhance the quality of life.

May Department Stores Company
Grants Program
Funding is provided in areas such as health and welfare, education, culture, and civic activities.

McDonnell (James S.) Foundation
21st Century Collaborative Activity Awards--Studying Complex Systems
The sponsor provides support to initiate interdisciplinary discussions on problems or issues, to help launch interdisciplinary research networks, or to fund communities of researchers/practitioners dedicated to developing new methods, tools, and applications of basic research to applied problems. All proposed activities must involve multi-institutional collaboration.  Grants in this program area will support scholarship and research involving the development of theories and models that can be applied to the study of complex, nonlinear systems. It is anticipated that research funded in this program will address issues in fields such as biology, biodiversity, climate, demography, epidemiology, technological change, economic development, governance, or computation. However, the program's emphasis will be on the development and application of theoretical models used in these research fields and not on particular fields per se.

Mellon (Andrew W.) Foundation
Grants Program
Support is currently provided in the following areas: (1) Higher Education; (2) Museums and Art Conservation: this program is designed to help institutions build and sustain their capacity to undertake serious scholarship on their permanent collections; to preserve these collections; and to share the results of their work in appropriate ways with scholarly and other audiences. The art conservation program concentrates largely on advanced training for future generations of conservators, but it also undergirds fundamental work in developing fields such as conservation science – an area of increasing importance to conservation as a whole. Both programs, therefore, are engaged in supporting basic research intended to enable curators, conservators, and other professionals to devote intensive study to the objects in their care, and to make their knowledge and professional expertise available to others in new as well as in more traditional ways; (3) Performing Arts: the sponsor provides multi-year grants to leading organizations in the disciplines of music, theater, dance, and opera; and (4) Public Affairs: this program makes a limited number of grants reflecting the interests and expertise of Foundation staff, relative to applied economic research on public policy issues.

The Merck (John) Fund
Grants Program
Grants are made in the following areas: for medical research on developmentally disabled children; to preserve environmental quality in rural New England and globally; to support reproductive health and rights initiatives; to advance human rights in Latin America; and to support job creation and training in the New England area of the U.S.  The grantmaker has identified the following area(s) of interest:  (1) Environment Program: The environment program addresses a range of issues with critical implications for natural resources and human health. Through grants in the areas of energy production and consumption, the fund encourages policy changes that simultaneously target the problems of climate change and ongoing toxic contamination of the air, soil and water. The fund also supports emerging efforts to boost public awareness of persistent bioaccumulative toxins, reduce public exposure to these chemicals and, ultimately, curtail their use. It promotes study and responsible regulation of genetically modified foods, and has provided enduring support for efforts to preserve and nurture the productive farmland of Vermont.

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
Grants Program
The sponsor aims to create brighter futures in the communities throughout the world in which their employees live and work by providing direct service programs to children and youth. The principal philanthropic focus is the education of underserved children and youth in the areas of financial literacy, entrepreneurship, leadership development, career planning and business awareness.

Metropolitan Life Foundation
Grants Program
Support is provided to tax-exempt organizations, primarily in communities in which the sponsor has a major presence, for programs within the following broad areas of concern: health, civic affairs, education, culture, and public broadcasting.

Millipore Foundation
Grants Program
Support is provided to non-profit, tax-exempt organizations engaged in the areas of education and research, social services, health care, culture and public policy, in communities and fields of interest to the sponsor. The average size grant is $5,000.  The Foundation supports programs in the areas of:  (1) EDUCATION AND RESEARCH--educational institutions and programs with an emphasis on grades K through 12; organizations engaged primarily in life sciences and biotechnology research.  (2) SOCIAL SERVICES--organizations with an emphasis on programs for minority and youth development--particularly inner-city youth.  (3) HEALTH CARE--local health care agencies, hospitals and other health service providers.  (4) CULTURE--organizations with emphasis on programs benefiting youth, elderly citizens and the underprivileged.  (5) PUBLIC POLICY--local and national public policy initiatives, particularly those affecting the sponsor's stockholders, employees and customers.

Monell (Ambrose) Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor voluntarily aids and contributes to religious, charitable, scientific, literary, and educational uses and purposes, in New York, elsewhere in the United States and throughout the world.

Motorola Foundation
Grants Program
Areas of focus include the following: (1) Education "Innovation Generation"--the sponsor supports systemic and continuous improvements in schools at all grade levels, concentrating on mathematics, science, and engineering, especially for under-represented groups; the sponsor funds best-in-class organizations around the world that inspire and target innovation generation; and encourage ongoing education exploration and celebrate a spirit of discovery. (2) Community Connections--the sponsor supports non-profit organizations that help build healthy communities. The sponsor recognizes the power of strategic partnerships and nurture them in the many communities in which we live and work and also knows the impact of arts and cultural programs on the fabric of communities. The sponsor supports and applauds the contribution of culture and arts to improving the world. (3) Environment One World--the sponsor provides a wide variety of environmentally responsible activities, including proper care of our own products and materials.

Murdock (M.J.) Charitable Trust
Grants Program
The sponsor provides support for education, scientific research, arts and culture, and health and human services programs.

National Endowment for the Humanities
Rediscovering Afghanistan
The sponsor invites applications for projects focusing on Afghanistan's history and culture. The special initiative is designed to promote research, education and public programs about Afghanistan and to encourage United States institutions to assist Afghanistan in efforts to preserve and document its cultural resources.
*SI is generally not eligible for direct awards from NEH.  However, SI may be able to receive subawards.  Consult the NEH Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal.

National Geographic Society
Conservation Trust Grants
The sponsor provides awards to projects that contribute significantly to the preservation and sustainable use of the Earth’s biological, cultural, and historical resources. Grants range from $15,000 to $20,000 (U.S.).

National Geographic Society
Research Grants
Grants averaging between $15,000 and $20,000 (US) per year are provided to investigators with advanced degrees for scientific field research and exploration. Applications are generally limited to the following disciplines: anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, biology, botany, geography, geology, oceanography, paleontology, and zoology.

National Historical Publications and Records Commission
Subvention Program
These grants provide funding for nonprofit presses to help pay for the costs of manufacturing and distributing documentary volumes produced by projects that have been supported or formally endorsed by the Commission. The grants are intended to promote the widest possible use of these editions and to encourage the highest archival permanence standards of paper, printing, and binding. For the initial printing of the volume, the Commission will fund only the presses estimated loss. Subvention grants for initial printings cannot exceed $10,000. For the reprinting of a volume, the NHPRC may provide as much as half of the production costs, up to a maximum of $3,000. The Commission will accept subvention proposals for decision at either its November or May meetings.

National Science Foundation
Aeronomy (GEO-ATM)
The sponsor supports research on upper and middle atmosphere phenomena of ionization, recombination, chemical reaction, photoemission, and transport; the transport of energy, momentum, and mass in the mesosphere-thermosphere-ionosphere system, including the processes involved and the coupling of this global system to the stratosphere below and the magnetosphere above; and the plasma physics of phenomena manifested in the coupled ionosphere-magnetosphere system, including the effects of high-power radio wave modification.
*NSF places some restrictions on direct proposals submitted by federal employees.  Please consult the NSF Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal.  There are no restrictions on proposals submitted by trust employees or research associates or subaward proposals submitted by federal employees.

National Science Foundation
Africa, Near East, and South Asia Program
The Africa, Near East, and South Asia (ANESA) region includes a large number of countries across three continents. The ANESA regional group enables research and education collaborations with scientists and engineers in all of Africa, the Near Eastern countries including Turkey, and the countries of South Asia, primarily India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.  The Program supports workshops, short-term planning visits, dissertation enhancement, and research experiences for students.
*Consult the NSF Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal.  NSF places some restrictions on proposals submitted by Federal employees.  NSF generally does not place restrictions on subawards or proposals submitted by Trust employees or research associates.

National Science Foundation
Climate and Large-Scale Dynamics
The goals of the Program are to: advance knowledge about the processes that force and regulate the atmosphere’s synoptic and planetary circulation, weather and climate, and sustain the pool of human resources required for excellence in synoptic and global atmospheric dynamics and climate research.  Research topics include theoretical, observational and modeling studies of the general circulation of the stratosphere and troposphere; synoptic scale weather phenomena; processes that govern climate; the causes of climate variability and change; methods to predict climate variations; extended weather and climate predictability; development and testing of parameterization of physical processes; numerical methods for use in large-scale weather and climate models; the assembly and analysis of instrumental and/or modeled weather and climate data; data assimilation studies; development and use of climate models to diagnose and simulate climate and its variations and change.
*Consult the NSF Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal.  NSF places some restrictions on proposals submitted by Federal employees.  NSF generally does not place restrictions on subawards or proposals submitted by Trust employees or research associates.

National Science Foundation
Communicating Research to Public Audiences
Communicating Research to Public Audiences is a component of the Informal Science Education program (ISE) in the Division of Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education. ISE projects provide rich and stimulating contexts and experiences for individuals of all ages, interests, and backgrounds to increase their appreciation for, and understanding of, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in out-of-school settings. Requests for up to $75,000 will be considered to support projects that communicate to public audiences the process and results of current research that is being supported by any NSF directorate through informal science education activities, such as media presentations, exhibits, or youth-based activities. The purpose of these efforts is to disseminate research results, research in progress, or research methods.
*NSF places some restrictions on direct proposals submitted by federal employees.  Please consult the NSF Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal.  There are no restrictions on proposals submitted by trust employees or research associates or subaward proposals submitted by federal employees.

National Science Foundation/Directorate for Biological Sciences
Developing Country Collaborations in Plant Genome Research (DCC-PGR)
The sponsor supports research collaboration between US scientists and scientists in developing countries as part of ongoing or new Plant Genome Research Program awards. Supplements will generally be for up to a total of $100,000 for up to two years, although larger amounts and longer award durations will be considered if well justified.

National Science Foundation
Developing Global Scientists and Engineers
Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement Projects: supports dissertation research conducted by graduate students at a foreign site. Students are expected to work in close cooperation with a host country institution and investigator. Eligible students should be U.S. citizens or permanent residents enrolled in Ph.D. programs at U.S. institutions. Students from developing countries who are enrolled in Ph.D. programs at U.S. institutions may also apply, but preference is given to qualified U.S. applicants.
*Note: NSF places some restrictions on proposals listing Federal employees as PIs.  Federal employees may be co-PIs and/or receive subawards.  There are no restrictions on proposals submitted by Trust employees or Research Associates.

National Science Foundation
Dissertation Enhancement Projects
Dissertation enhancement projects support dissertation research conducted by graduate students at a foreign site. Students are expected to work in close cooperation with a host country institution and investigator.

National Science Foundation
Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants: Archaeology
The sponsor awards grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research. These grants allow doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field research in settings away from their campus that would not otherwise be possible.

National Science Foundation/Directorate for Geosciences
EAR Education and Human Resources
The Division of Earth Sciences' Education and Human Resources Program (EH) facilitates highly innovative educational activities in the earth sciences, including efforts to increase the diversity of participants and involve leading researchers in education. Activities at all levels are supported, including: 1) graduate and postdoctoral education outside the framework of normal NSF research grants; 2) undergraduate education, including the NSF-wide Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program; and 3) education activities at the K-12 level both inside and outside the classroom.

National Science Foundation
High-Risk Research in Anthropology (HRRA) (SBE--BCS)
This program is designed to permit the submission of high-risk, exploratory proposals that can lead to significant new anthropological knowledge. In an effort to insure that both risky projects and projects that require a rapid decision have a possibility of success the sponsor offers three Anthropology Programs (Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology and Physical Anthropology) through which these may obtain funding. Projects which face severe time constraints because of transient phenomena or access to materials may also be considered.
*NSF places some restrictions on direct proposals submitted by federal employees.  Please consult the NSF Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal.  There are no restrictions on proposals submitted by trust employees or research associates or subaward proposals submitted by federal employees.

National Science Foundation
International Research and Education: Planning Visits
Planning visits to assess foreign facilities, equipment, or subjects of research, and to have detailed discussions with prospective foreign partners to finalize plans for cooperative research. Visits typically range from seven to fourteen days.
*Note: NSF places some restrictions on proposals listing Federal employees as PIs.  Federal employees may be co-PIs and/or receive subawards.  There are no restrictions on proposals submitted by Trust employees or Research Associates.

National Science Foundation
Magnetospheric Physics (GEO-ATM)
The sponsor supports research on the magnetized plasma envelope of the outer atmosphere, including energization by the solar wind; the origin of geomagnetic storms and substorms; the population by solar and ionospheric sources; the origin of electric fields; the coupling among the magnetosphere, ionosphere, and atmosphere; and waves and instabilities in the natural plasma. Also supported are ground-based observational programs at high latitudes and laboratory experiments applicable to the geospace environment. Theoretical research programs may include numerical simulations using a variety of MHD, hybrid and particle codes. The analysis of data from all sources, whether ground-based or from spacecraft, is also supported.
*NSF places some restrictions on direct proposals submitted by federal employees.  Please consult the NSF Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal.  There are no restrictions on proposals submitted by trust employees or research associates or subaward proposals submitted by federal employees.

National Science Foundation
Oceanographic Centers and Facilities
The sponsor supports construction, conversion, acquisition, and operation of major shared-use oceanographic facilities. The University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) schedules these facilities and expeditionary programs. This program supports expensive facilities that are necessary for NSF-funded research and training of oceanographers. Examples of these facilities are ships, submersibles, large shipboard equipment, and shared-use instruments to collect and analyze data. NSF encourages local contributions from nonfederal funds; however, there is no fixed requirement for institutional contributions.
*NSF places some restrictions on direct proposals submitted by federal employees.  Please consult the NSF Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal.  There are no restrictions on proposals submitted by trust employees or research associates or subaward proposals submitted by federal employees.

National Science Foundation
Oceanographic Education Program
The sponsor offers funding for proposals that support the goals of improving ocean education in K-12, undergraduate, graduate and informal settings. The sponsor is particularly interested in efforts to incorporate the academic fleet into education activities.
*NSF places some restrictions on direct proposals submitted by federal employees.  Please consult the NSF Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal.  There are no restrictions on proposals submitted by trust employees or research associates or subaward proposals submitted by federal employees.

National Science Foundation
Ocean Technology and Interdisciplinary Coordination
The Oceanographic Technology and Interdisciplinary Coordination (OTIC) Program supports a broad range of research and technology development activities. Unsolicited proposals are accepted for instrumentation development that has broad applicability to ocean science research projects and that enhance observational, experimental or analytical capabilities of the ocean science research community.
*NSF places some restrictions on direct proposals submitted by federal employees.  Please consult the NSF Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal.  There are no restrictions on proposals submitted by trust employees or research associates or subaward proposals submitted by federal employees.

National Science Foundation
Paleoclimate
The sponsor supports research on the natural evolution of the Earth's climate with the goal of providing a baseline for present variability and future trends through improved understanding of the physical, chemical, and biological processes that influence climate over the long-term.
*NSF places some restrictions on direct proposals submitted by federal employees.  Please consult the NSF Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal.  There are no restrictions on proposals submitted by trust employees or research associates or subaward proposals submitted by federal employees.

National Science Foundation
Physical Oceanography
The Physical Oceanography Program supports research on a wide range of topics associated with the structure and movement of the ocean, with the way in which it transports various quantities, with the way the ocean's physical structure interacts with the biological and chemical processes within it, and with interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere, solid earth and ice that surround it.
*NSF places some restrictions on direct proposals submitted by federal employees.  Please consult the NSF Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal.  There are no restrictions on proposals submitted by trust employees or research associates or subaward proposals submitted by federal employees.

National Science Foundation
Planning Visits
Planning visits offer U.S. researchers the opportunity to consult with their prospective foreign partners to finalize plans for a cooperative activity eligible for consideration for support by the sponsor.
*NSF places some restrictions on direct proposals submitted by federal employees.  Please consult the NSF Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal.  There are no restrictions on proposals submitted by trust employees or research associates or subaward proposals submitted by federal employees.

National Science Foundation
Planning Visits (SBE--INT)
The sponsor supports planning visits to assess foreign facilities, equipment, or subjects of research, and to have detailed discussions with prospective foreign partners to finalize plans for cooperative research. Visits typically range from seven to fourteen days.  Support for planning visits will be for a maximum of two years and a maximum total budget of $20,000 over the duration of the award. Support is primarily for travel and subsistence expenses for U.S. participants; salaries and stipends are not typically supported. Award duration and budget are expected to vary considerably depending on the scope of activities proposed.
*NSF places some restrictions on direct proposals submitted by federal employees.  Please consult the NSF Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal.  There are no restrictions on proposals submitted by trust employees or research associates or subaward proposals submitted by federal employees.

National Science Foundation
Research Experience for Teachers (RET): Supplement to Current NSF Awards
The intent of this endeavor is to facilitate professional development of K-12 science teachers through research experience at the cutting edge of science. The BIO Directorate strongly encourages all its grantees to make special efforts to identify talented teachers for participation in this RET-supplement opportunity. We believe that encouraging active participation of teachers in on-going NSF projects is an excellent way to reach broadly into the teacher talent pool of our nation. The goal of the RET-supplement is to help build long-term collaborative relationships between K-12 teachers of science and the NSF research community. The Directorate for Biological Sciences at NSF is particularly interested in encouraging its researchers to build mutually rewarding partnerships with teachers at inner city schools and less well endowed school districts. A request for funding of a RET-supplement should be made under an existing NSF award or within a proposal for a new or renewal NSF award.
* Note: You must have an existing NSF award or be submitting a NSF proposal in which this could be included as a supplement.

National Science Foundation
Research Opportunity Award (ROA): Supplement Opportunity
ROAs enable faculty at predominantly undergraduate institutions, including community colleges, to pursue research as visiting scientists with NSF-supported investigators at other institutions. The goal of this activity is to enhance the research productivity and professional development of science faculty at undergraduate institutions through research activities that enable them to explore the emerging frontiers of science. Such research not only contributes to basic knowledge in science but also provides an opportunity to integrate research and undergraduate education.  An ROA supplement can be requested on a current award or when submitting a new or renewal proposal. Most frequently, ROA activities are summer experiences, but partial support of sabbaticals may also be provided. ROA supplements are usually about $25,000, including indirect costs.

National Science Foundation
Small Grants for Exploratory Research (SGER)
Proposals for small-scale, exploratory, high-risk research in the fields of science, engineering, and education normally supported by the sponsor may be submitted to individual programs. Such research is characterized as: preliminary work on untested and novel ideas; ventures into emerging and potentially transformative research ideas; application of new expertise or new approaches to "established" research topics; having a severe urgency with regard to availability of, or access to data, or specialized equipment, including quick-response research on natural disasters and similar unanticipated events; or efforts of similar character likely to catalyze rapid and innovative advances.
* Note: NSF places some restrictions on the submission of proposals by federal employees of the Smithsonian.  Consult OSP and the NSF Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal.

National Science Foundation
Solar-Terrestrial Research (GEO-ATM)
The sponsor supports research on the processes by which energy in diverse forms is generated by the Sun, transported to the Earth, and ultimately deposited in the terrestrial environment. Major topics include helioseismology, the solar dynamo, the solar activity cycle, the magnetic flux emergence, solar flares and activity, coronal mass ejections, solar wind heating, interactions with cosmic rays, and solar wind/magnetosphere boundary problems.
*NSF places some restrictions on direct proposals submitted by federal employees.  Please consult the NSF Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal.  There are no restrictions on proposals submitted by trust employees or research associates or subaward proposals submitted by federal employees.

National Science Foundation
Upper Atmospheric Facilities
The National Science Foundation supports four large incoherent-scatter radar facilities and the SuperDARN coherent scatter radar system. The incoherent-scatter radars are located along a longitudinal chain from Greenland to Peru. Each of the incoherent-scatter facilities is also equipped with powerful optical diagnostic instruments. The SuperDARN consists of a number of coherent-scatter HF radars in both the northern and southern hemispheres. The major goal of the Upper Atmospheric Facilities (UAF) is to promote basic research on the structure and dynamics of the Earth's upper atmosphere. Research efforts utilizing these facilities have strong links to the Aeronomy Program and the Magnetospheric Physics Program.
*NSF places some restrictions on direct proposals submitted by federal employees.  Please consult the NSF Program Officer prior to preparing a proposal.  There are no restrictions on proposals submitted by trust employees or research associates or subaward proposals submitted by federal employees.

NiSource Charitable Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor makes grants to non-profit, tax-exempt organizations in the following areas: Education ; Environment ; Economic Development; Human Services; and Public Safety.

The Oak Foundation U.S.A.
Grants Program
The foundation's giving priorities include child abuse prevention, environment, housing and homelessness, international human rights, issues affecting women, and learning disabilities.  The grantmaker has identified the following area(s) of interest:  (1) Environment: The program's priority areas are: 1) Advocating for the protection and sustainable use of marine ecosystems in Europe and the Bering Sea Region; 2) Direct support for the effective management of marine reserves in Belize; and 3) Addressing global climate change by advocating for renewable energy and energy efficiency in the power and transport sectors through education, research, and policy change in Europe, Canada, and the northeastern U.S.

Packard (David and Lucille) Foundation
Grants Program
The Conservation and Science Program seeks to protect and restore our oceans, coasts, and atmosphere and to enable the creative pursuit of scientific research toward this goal. The Program makes grants to nonprofit organizations, supports the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, and manages the Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering.

The Pew Charitable Trusts
Grants Program
The Pew Charitable Trusts support nonprofit activities in the areas of culture, education, the environment, health and human services, public policy and religion. Based in Philadelphia, the trusts make strategic investments to help organizations and citizens develop practical solutions to difficult problems.  The grantmaker has identified the following area(s) of interest:  (1) Policy: The program aims to advance policy solutions on important issues facing the American people. At both the national and state levels, the trusts engage the foremost leaders, thinkers, researchers and technical experts to identify pragmatic resolutions to pressing societal concerns. From this base of rigorous, nonpartisan research, study and policy analysis, support is for a range of focused interventions that include highly targeted public education initiatives, advocacy efforts and issue campaigns. The goal is to inform decision makers about options and help them form consensus on policies that will drive positive change for Americans. The trusts' work in the policy arena falls into three major categories - the environment; health and human services; and state policy and education - with selected investments in other areas of significant and timely opportunity. The current top policy priorities include: 1) Education: Pre-K education; 2) Environment: global warming, protecting ocean life, wilderness protection; 3) Health and Human Services: foster care reform, alcohol marketing and youth, alcohol treatment policy, genetics and public policy, food and ag biotechnology, retirement security, nanotechnologies; and 4) Other areas: improving elections, state policy, death penalty reform, election reform, and medical malpractice.

Polinger (Howard and Geraldine) Family Foundation
Grants Program
The mission of the Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation is to improve the quality of life for individuals, families and communities through support of ongoing programs and innovative projects that create positive outcomes. The Foundation places major emphasis on support of organizations that strengthen Jewish life, locally and in Israel. Foundation grants focus primarily on the Washington metropolitan area, and concentrate on providing opportunity and access to quality education, cultural arts and services to enhance family well-being.

PPG Industries Foundation
PPG Industries Foundation Grants Program
Areas of interest include: (1) Education: the sponsor favors projects that promote academic excellence and prepare the next generation of leaders in business, science and technology. Support for students of high academic achievement and programs that attract young people to the study of science remain priorities. (2) Human services: Participation in federated giving programs and the volunteer allocations process they represent are the sponsor's preferred means of helping people in need. Other grants are allocated to provide capital support to upgrade facilities and expand access for persons with special needs.  (3) Culture and Arts: New grants have increased accessibility for all citizens to arts activities and performances through intervention and outreach programs, computers and technology at libraries and the country’s public and natural resources.  (4) Civic and Community Affairs: The sponsor has supported programs that provide leadership in public affairs nationally, statewide and regionally. Major interests include environmental education, community and economic development and promotion of an effective civic environment.

Project Aware Foundation
Grants Program
Project AWARE Foundation provides grants to a variety of nonprofit organizations, institutions and individuals involved in activities directly related to the conservation of underwater environments - both marine and freshwater. We work to accomplish our mission through support of programs in selected focus areas including: (1) Coral reef conservation ; (2) Shark protection; (3) Sustainable fisheries; (4) Ecotourism (as related to underwater environments); (5) Aquatic education with a special interest in children ; and (6) Direct activities to conserve underwater resources such as shoreline and underwater cleanups, mooring buoy installations and maintenance. Within these focus areas, projects may include: (1) Public education (formal and informal) ; (2) Grass roots conservation and enhancement projects; (3) Environmentally focused research that leads to conservation measures ; (4) Public awareness initiatives ; (5) Environmental assessment and monitoring projects ; and (6) Volunteer-support community activism

Reiman Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor provides support for tax-exempt organizations in the areas of healthcare, education, and children.

Richardson (Smith) Foundation, Inc.
Grants Program
The mission of the sponsor is to contribute to important public debates and to help address serious public policy challenges facing the United States. The International Security and the Foreign Policy Program and Domestic Public Policy Program make grants for research and writing on public policy topics that have been identified as priority areas for the sponsor. Requests for grants of $50,000 or less are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Requests for grants greater than $50,000 and for multi-year grant support are made at one of the sponsor's regular board meetings.

RGK Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor supports innovative projects, without geographical limitations, in the areas of Education, Community, and Medicine/Health.  The sponsor is also interested in programs that attract female and minority students into the fields of mathematics, science, and technology.

Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc.
Sustainable Development Program
The sponsor provides support for environmental stewardship that is ecologically based, economically sound, socially just, culturally appropriate, and consistent with intergenerational equity. The sponsor’s goals are: 1) strategies to combat global warming and contribute to international cooperation on this issue and 2) protecting and restoring ecosystems and fostering sustainable communities that pursue locally-appropriate development strategies.

Rockefeller Family Fund
Grants Program
The sponsor makes grants for advocacy efforts in the following program areas: Citizen Participation and Government Accountability, Economic Justice for Women, The Environment, and Institutional Responsiveness. Eligible applicants are tax-exempt organizations.

Rockefeller Foundation
Creativity and Culture Program
The sponsor provides support to give full expression to the creative impulses of individuals and communities in order to enhance the well-being of societies and better equip them to interact in a global and dynamic world. Areas of work include: (1) Supporting Resilient and Creative Communities--the sponsor supports efforts to preserve and renew the cultural heritage of people excluded from the benefits of globalization. (2) Fostering Creativity and Knowledge--the sponsor supports strengthening civil society and the free flow of ideas through the support of individual artists and humanists and their institutions. (3) Enhancing Creativity and Innovation in a Global Age--the sponsor supports new art forms which promote cultural diversity, innovation and understanding across cultures.

Rosie's For All Kids Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor supports non-profit organizations that provide child care, education and other programs for at-risk and economically disadvantaged children in underserved communities. Organizations providing direct child care services are given preference.  Grant amounts vary depending on the program for which funds are requested and the demonstrated need in the community served by the nonprofit program. However, grant awards for program support typically range between $5,000 and $10,000.

Rubin (Shelley and Donald) Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor is primarily interested in supporting the inclusion of art from non-Western European cultures into the mainstream of scholarship and display. In addition, the sponsor is interested in the study of the relationship between art, culture and humanity. In particular, the sponsor's interest is the collection, care, preservation, study and public display of the ancient art of the Himalayas, with the related goal of exploring the relationships between this art and that of other cultures.

Saint Gobain Corporation Foundation
Contributions Program
Support is provided to tax-exempt organizations in the following areas: health and human services; education; arts and culture; and civic and community.

Schering-Plough Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor provides support in the following areas: (1) HEALTH--The Foundation's interest in improving the health and well-being of our communities remains a top priority and is reflected in the numerous initiatives that have been developed to benefit these communities.  (2) EDUCATION - The education of our children, particularly in the area of science, has always been an important part of the Foundation's philanthropic activities. The sponsor provides leadership in science education by investing in the construction of science and technology laboratories in high schools and colleges, and by sponsoring student and teacher mentorship programs and summer camps.  (3) COMMUNITY INITIATIVES--Support for community development takes many forms and allows the Foundation to reach out to numerous, highly diverse groups within our communities.

Schultz (Arthur B.) Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor supports: organizations and initiatives promoting conservation of healthy wildland ecosystems and wildlife habitat, including supporting research and advocacy; initiatives supporting outdoor adventure opportunities and mobility solutions for the disabled; socially and environmentally responsible entrepreneurial projects recognizing an interdependent global economy; and initiatives designed to promote global peace and understanding between people of different nations and ethnic backgrounds. The formal program areas of interest are Wildlife Conservation, Disabled Recreation, Disabled Mobility, International Microenterprise, and Global Understanding.

Sloan (Alfred P.) Foundation
Grants Program
Grant requests can be made for support of activities related to the following areas of interest: (1) SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY--supports research in various areas of scientific work, including but not limited to molecular evolution; theoretical neurobiology; computational molecular biology; astrophysics; limits to knowledge; and marine science. In addition, the sponsor has ongoing work regarding the history of science and technology.  (2) STANDARD OF LIVING AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE--seeks to improve understanding of the basic forces affecting American economic progress and the U.S. standard of living in the increasingly competitive world economy.  (3) EDUCATION AND CAREERS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY--provides support for programs that strengthen education in science and technology, to increase interest in these fields, and to understand and communicate to others the nature of careers in these fields. Increasingly important are opportunities presented by electronic technologies for learning outside the classroom. (4) SELECTED NATIONAL ISSUES--for projects that contribute to other major issues in a way appropriate to the sponsor's expertise and size. Focus areas are: bioterrorism; and federal statistics  (5) CIVIC PROGRAM--aimed at contributing to the sponsor's home area, New York City.  In addition to the grants made by the Trustees, officer grants are made to enable the sponsor to respond quickly to proposals for many activities, such as workshops, symposia, and conferences.  In the past, officer grants have ranged from $500 to $45,000, with very few toward the upper end of the range. Officer grants may not include any overhead charge.

Solectron, Inc.
Grants Program
Grants are made in the following areas: (1) EDUCATION: The sponsor provides funding in the areas of higher education, pre-college education, scholarships and fellowships, and education-related organizations.  (2) HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: The sponsor makes grants in the area of wellness to various medical agencies and health organizations.  (3) CIVIC AND COMMUNITY: The sponsor provides funding in the areas of environment and ecology, and community development.  (4) CULTURE AND THE ARTS: The sponsor provides grants to museums, arts funds or councils, theaters, halls of fame, cultural centers, dance groups, music (e.g. orchestras, operas), heritage foundations and nonacademic libraries.

Sony USA Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor provides support to innovative and committed grant seekers and institutions interested in strengthening education at the primary and secondary school levels, with consideration also given to selected higher education initiatives. Consideration is given to efforts that promote literacy and basic educational competency, as well as, efforts that encourage the technical and scientific skills required of tomorrow's workforce. The sponsor will also continue to support institutions which promote equal opportunity, advancement and recognition for disenfranchised groups.

Spencer (W.L.S.) Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor's mission is to fund activities, anywhere in the world, which foster new ideas and innovative ideas in education. The sponsor's program areas are: (1) ARTS--the sponsor funds educational activities, publications and outreach associated with innovative Asian art and/or contemporary art exhibitions. We are interested in projects that encourage knowledge about art and culture, foster international understanding, and are supported by academic scholarship.  (2) EDUCATION--the sponsor funds programs that are innovative and that motivate children to stay in school, do well academically and continue on in their education beyond high school (to college or other higher education opportunities).

Sprint Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor has the following major areas of interest: (1) EDUCATION--The Foundation's emphasis on education is focused principally in the corporation's Employee Matching Gift Program. Few grant awards are made to individual schools.  (2) ARTS AND CULTURE--the sponsor supports visual and performing arts organizations, theater, symphonies, museums and other cultural organizations and activities which have effective outreach programs that broaden cultural experiences for the general public, particularly youth and non-traditional audiences.  (3) YOUTH DEVELOPMENT--the sponsor's support of youth organizations will be targeted to drug and alcohol education, minority youth endeavors, broad-scale community youth activities focused on building leadership and social skills, and to programs that promote business and economic education for youth.

Starr Foundation
Grants Program
Grants are made to organizations primarily in the fields of education, medicine and health care, public policy, human needs, and culture. In the area of culture, the sponsor has made significant grants since its inception both to large cultural institutions such as museums and to small, community-based groups providing special services to specific populations, such as the elderly and the disabled. The sponsor funds cultural exchange organizations that further international relations and understanding.  Applications for multi-year grants, general operating support and capacity-building are accepted.

Surdna Foundation
Grants Program
Funding will be provided for high quality, direct service programs which advance the sponsor's philanthropic goals in the following areas of interest: Environment; Community Revitalization; Effective Citizenry; Arts; and Nonprofit-Sector Support.

Talbots
Grants Program
The sponsor provides support to non-profit organizations that benefit civic and cultural activities, social welfare, health and education services in communities in which it conducts business.

Tellabs Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor's primary focus is to support programs in areas in which Tellabs employees live and work. The sponsor attempts to focus its grant-making in the areas of special interest to Tellabs in furtherance of its mission to be a "leader in providing innovative solutions to the telecommunications industry worldwide." Those areas are: (1) EDUCATION: the sponsor supports education programs with a particular focus on local and national programs and curricula for engineering, science, mathematics and technology.  (2) HEALTH AND WELLNESS.  (3) ENVIRONMENT: the sponsor supports programs to encourage understanding and the protection of the environment. Grants will be considered primarily to institutions which effectively allocate funds to local and national protection/improvement programs. Grants will also be considered for organizations which protect the environment, particularly in the areas of public health, clean air, clean water, recycling and waste reduction.  Grants are generally $10,000 and above.

Tiffany & Co. Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor awards grant in the following areas: (1) DECORATIVE ARTS EDUCATION--The sponsor awards grants to educational institutions that provide talented artisans with the necessary instruction to become highly skilled professionals in their chosen field. Specifically, the sponsor supports proposals in metalsmithing and traditional jewelry design.  (2) PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION--The sponsor focuses the preservation of arts and traditional craftsmanship. Helping to maintain these centuries-old vocations ensures that art of the past remains meaningful and continues to thrive in succeeding generations.  (3) ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION--The sponsor supports organizations dedicated to the conservation of natural resources in the areas of responsible mining and coral reef conservation.

Toyota USA Foundation
Grants Program
Support is provided to U.S. tax-exempt organizations, including colleges and universities, to improve the quality of K-12 education, with a primary interest in mathematics and science. The sponsor provides support for single-and multi-year grants for the development and implementation of innovative programs.

United Parcel Service (UPS) Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor provides support to national programs in the areas of: human welfare, including programs for families and children in crisis, the economically or culturally disadvantaged, the physically or mentally challenged, and community development programs - programs helping those struggling with systemic effects of illiteracy, hunger, poverty and homelessness; education, including programs that raise the level of educational effectiveness, innovative programs to enhance the quality of instruction, family learning opportunities and school involvement projects; and major initiatives such as adult literacy and the distribution of prepared and perishable food.

United Technologies Corporation
Grants Program
Nationally, the company supports grants to national arts organizations and groups engaged in environmental sustainability work. The national grant making is centered on the northeast corridor of the United States, namely the urban areas of Washington, D.C.; New York City and Boston.

U.S. Department of Defense/Department of the Army
Life Sciences Program
The sponsor provides support in the following four areas: biomolecular and cellular materials and processes; molecular genetics and genomics; microbiology and biodegradation; and neurophysiology and cognitive neuroscience. Proposals are sought from educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, and commercial organizations.

U.S. Department of Defense/Office of Naval Research
Ocean, Atmosphere, and Space Research Division
The Ocean, Atmosphere, and Space Research Division of the Ocean Battlespace Sensing Department, concentrates on improving the Navy and Marine Corps' understanding of environmental evolution, the assimilation of data, and the limits of predictability. It plans, fosters, and encourages an extensive program of scientific inquiry and technological development in fields ranging from environmental optics to high latitude dynamics.

U. S. Department of the Interior/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
CO Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance Grant
The Colorado Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance Program will fund projects on a reimbursable and as-required basis. The program has responsibility for managing and conserving fish and wildlife species on Department of Defense lands throughout Colorado. Proposals may include but are not limited to assessment, planning and coordination, implementing and evaluating habitat, production and reintroduction, species inventories, surveys, monitoring and information and education, bio-control and research needs. There is no required match, however, 50% cost share is highly encouraged. Project ranking include; ecological benefits for Fedral trust species, minimum costs to the Service for operation and maintenance, current scientific knowledge and proven technology, and addressing objectives outlined in approved management plans.

U. S. Department of the Interior/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Wildlife Without Borders - Latin American and the Caribbean
The purpose of this competitive grants program is to protect fish, wildlife and plant resources in the Western Hemisphere through: academic and technical training in conservation and management of biological resources; training in management of nature reserves and other protected areas; community-level conservation education for the protection and sustained use of natural resources; technology transfer and information exchange to promote international collaboration; and promotion of networks, partnerships and coalitions that assist in the implementation of conventions, treaties, protocols and other international activities for the conservation of biological resources. Due to the limited funding available and the desire to support diverse projects, preference will be given to proposals requesting $50,000 or less. Higher amounts may be requested with appropriate justification.

Vetlesen (G. Unger) Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor voluntarily aids and contributes to religious, charitable, scientific, literary and educational uses and purposes in New York, elsewhere in the United States and throughout the world.

Wachovia Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor provides support to 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizations in the areas of: education, community development, health/human services and arts and culture.

Waksman Foundation for Microbiology
Grants Program
The sponsor supports research and education in the general field of microbiology, including medical disciplines, agricultural and soil microbiology, marine microbiology and the diverse environmental interactions of microbes.  The sponsor also makes grants for projects designed to enhance kindergarten through twelve education through teacher training, course or curriculum development, construction of laboratory exercises or innovative use of electronic media.

Wallace Genetic Foundation
Grants Program
Areas of interest are sustainable agriculture, protection of farmland near cities, plant genetic research, biodiversity protection, and environmental education.

Wallace Global Fund
Grants Program
The sponsor's mission is to promote an informed and engaged citizenry, to fight injustice, and to protect the diversity of nature and the natural systems upon which all life depends. Its objectives are: effective protection of the environment and natural resources and their capacity to provide for human needs; progressive public policies that serve the common good, protect civil liberties, and guard against corporate abuses; sustainable levels of human populations; and equal justice.  The sponsor recommends submission of a concept paper, not to exceed three pages, prior to submission of a full proposal. Grant proposals are processed and reviewed on a continual basis.

Wal-Mart Foundation
Grants Program
The sponsor provides funding in the areas of: community, education , environment and children.

Wenner-Gren Foundation
Historical Archives Grants
The sponsor supports a program to encourage the preservation of unpublished records and other materials of value for research on the history of anthropology. Grants are offered for two purposes: to assist individuals holding significant records and personal papers with the expenses of preparing and transferring them for archival deposit; and to aid oral-history interviews with senior anthropologists.

Wenner-Gren Foundation
International Symposium Program
Support is provided for a limited number of international symposia on topics of broad significance for anthropology. They must aim to make major theoretical or methodological interventions in current issues within anthropology, broadly construed. They must also advance the foundation's goal of fostering an international community of anthropologists by drawing participants from around the world. The objectives of the symposium should be to coalesce and advance knowledge on the issue, to present and address divergent viewpoints, and to mark out directions for future research.

Westinghouse Electric Company
Grants Program
Areas of support are:  (1) Education -- emphasis is given to elementary, secondary, and high school educational programs that emphasize math and science, although consideration will be given to other relevant, non-fine arts programs.  (2) Civic and Social Grants -- grants in this category support programs encouraging community economic development, environmental quality and preservation, and public safety.  Individual award amounts will be $5,000 and under. In addition, only two grants can be awarded to an organization over a five-year period.

WestWind Foundation
Grants Program
The foundation is dedicated to protecting the integrity of natural ecosystems and the health of human communities through its grantmaking programs.  The grantmaker has identified the following area(s) of interest: (1) Education: The education program of the WestWind Foundation seeks to improve the quality of educational programs offered to students of all ages.  (2) Environment: Although the Foundation does not specify that the organizations must advance the protection of the environment in any one area, generally, successful grantees provide for the following: forestland conservation, with an emphasis on public lands protection; land conservation and habitat protection; or non-governmental organizations that work to mitigate climate change.

Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation
Grants Program
Support is provided to improve the quality of life in communities where the sponsor operates and to increase understanding of the importance and sustainability of forests and the products they provide to meet people's needs. Two types of grants are offered:  (1)Community Giving: Awards to programs in communities where the sponsor has major facilities and where company employees have a presence. Grants are usually awarded to programs that make a significant difference in the quality of life in these communities.  (2) Industry-Related Giving: Awards to educational institutions, environmental groups and professional organizations that promote further understanding of how the forest products industry responds to a changing society. Projects cover a wide range of topics, including: education and research; conservation of natural resources; public policy; forest management; and promotion of wood products.

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