Americorps Education Awards Program
Community Based Job Training Initiative
Educational Research Grants
High Growth Job Training Initiative Grants
Higher Education Challenge Grants
Hispanic-Serving Institutions Assisting Communities
Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service
Nursing Education, Practice, and Retention Grants
Nursing Workforce Diversity
Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy (BBFFL) National Grant
General Grants
Grants for Arts: Arts Access
Preservation and Access Education and Training Grants
Summer Stipends
Developing Hispanic Serving Institutions—Title V
FIPSE Program for North American Mobility in Higher Education
Hispanics Serving Institutions Education Grants Program
Humanities Initiatives for Faculty at Historically Black, Hispanic-Serving, and Tribal Colleges and Universities
Strengthening Institutions Programs (Title III)
Business and International Education
European Union—United States Atlantis Program
FIPSE US—Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program
Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program
Advanced Technology Education
Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC)
Informal Science Education
Instructional Materials Development
Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
Robert Noyce Scholarships Program
Science, Teaching, Engineering and Math Talent Expansion
Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunities
Higher Education Multicultural Scholars Program
Learn and Serve America: Higher Education Programs
Secondary and Post Secondary Agriculture Education Challenge Grants Program
Student Support Services
Talent Search
Upward Bound
Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvements
Discovery Research K-12
Fulbright Teacher and Administrator Exchange
Grants for Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development
Summer Seminars and Institutes
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Funding Agency: Corporation for National and Community Service
Brief Description: After successfully completing a term of service, AmeriCorps members who are enrolled in the National Service Trust are eligible to receive a Segal AmeriCorps Education Award. You can use your Segal AmeriCorps Education Award to pay education costs at qualified institutions of higher education, for educational training, or to repay qualified student loans. The award is $4,725 for a year of full-time service, and is prorated for part-time. You can access the award in full and part, and can take up to seven years after your term of service has ended to claim the award.
Link to Agency Program Page:
http://www.americorps.org/for_individuals/benefits/benefits_ed_award.asp
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Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Labor
Brief Description: Community-Based Job Training Grants seek to strengthen the role of community colleges in promoting the U.S. workforce's full potential. The grants are employer-focused and build on the President's High Growth Job Training Initiative, a national model for demand-driven workforce development implemented by strategic partnerships between the workforce investment system, employers, and community colleges and other training providers. The primary purpose of the CBJTG grants is to build the capacity of community colleges to train workers to develop the skills required to succeed in high growth/high demand industries.
Link to Agency Program Page:
http://www.doleta.gov/business/Community-BasedJobTrainingGrants.cfm
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Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Education
Brief Description: For FY2008, the Institute invites applications for research projects that will contribute to its education research programs in Reading and Writing; Mathematics and Science Education; Cognition and Student Learning; Teacher Quality: Reading and Writing; Teacher Quality: Mathematics and Science; Social and Behavioral Context for Academic Learning; Education Leadership; Education Policy, Finance, and Systems; Early Childhood Programs and Policies; High School Reform; Interventions for Struggling Adolescent and Adult Readers; Postsecondary Education; and Education Technology.
Link to Agency Program Page:
http://ies.ed.gov/funding/
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Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Labor
Brief Description: This Presidential initiative is a strategic effort to prepare workers to take advantage of new and increasing job opportunities in high growth, high demand and economically vital sectors of the American economy. Fields like health care, information technology, and advanced manufacturing have jobs and solid career paths left untaken due to a lack of people qualified to fill them. The High Growth Job Training Initiative targets worker training and career development resources toward helping workers gain the skills they need to build successful careers in these and other growing industries.
Link to Agency Program Page:
http://www.doleta.gov/Brg/JobTrainInitiative/
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Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Brief Description: Projects supported by the Higher Education Challenge Grants Program will: (1) address a State, regional, national, or international educational need; (2) involve a creative or non-traditional approach toward addressing that need that can serve as a model to others; (3) encourage and facilitate better working relationships in the university science and education community, as well as between universities and the private sector, to enhance program quality and supplement available resources; and (4) result in benefits that will likely transcend the project duration and USDA support.
Link to Agency Program Page: http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/fundview.cfm?fonum=1082
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Funding Agency: U.S. Housing and Urban Development
Brief Description: The HSIAC program has facilitated numerous partnerships that are successfully addressing the most critical social and economic issues that this country is facing, including poverty, education, housing, healthcare, and local neighborhood capacity building. In addition, the program has assisted colleges and universities in integrating community engagement themes into their curriculum, academic studies, and student activities.
Link to Agency Program Page:
http://www.oup.org/programs/aboutHSIAC.asp
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Funding Agency: Corporation for National and Community Service
Brief Description: There are several ways to help. For example, your organization can:
By doing so, you will help strengthen local communities; bridge social and cultural differences, and demonstrate the compassion and commitment to make a difference and honor Dr. King's memory.
Link to Agency Program Page:
http://www.mlkday.gov/
Nursing Education, Practice, and Retention Grants
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Brief Description: Nurse Education, Practice and Retention funds academic and continuing education projects that strengthen the nursing workforce and improve nurse retention and quality of care.
Link to Agency Program Page:
http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/nursing/grantprograms.htm
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Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Brief Description: The Nursing Workforce Diversity Program (NWDP) is a principal HRSA Division of Nursing mechanism for improving the racial and ethnic diversity of the basic nursing workforce, which is essential to meeting the increasing needs of the population for culturally sensitive and appropriate health care. Grants and contracts are awarded under Section 821 of Title VIII of the Public Health Service Act to increase nursing education opportunities for individuals who are from disadvantaged backgrounds (including racial and ethnic minorities under- represented among registered nurses).
Link to Agency Program Page: http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/kidscareers/nursing_workforce.htm
Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy (BBFFL) National Grant
Funding Agency: Barbara Bush Foundation
Brief Description: The goal of the national grant program is to develop and expand family literacy efforts nationwide, and to support the development of literacy programs that build families of readers. A total of approximately $650,000 is awarded each year; no grant exceeds $65,000.
Family Literacy programs funded through the Foundation's National Grant Program must include all of the following components:
Programs can also include additional components such as parent support groups, parent involvement, home visits, job training etc.
Link to Agency Program Page: http://www.barbarabushfoundation.com/nga.html
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Funding Agency: Arizona Humanities Council
Brief Description: General Grants are competitive awards available for community-initiated projects that have as their primary purpose to help Arizonans understand and appreciate the humanities. The interpretation of the humanities must be central to all AHC-funded programs.
Link to Agency Program Page:
http://www.azhumanities.org/ggrants1.html
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Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Arts
Brief Description: The National Endowment for the Arts is committed to providing leadership in arts education. The arts are an essential component of education, and all children, not only those with specific artistic talent, benefit from an education in the arts including opportunities to create, perform, and communicate through various artistic media.
Link to Agency Program Page:
http://www.nea.gov/grants/apply/Artsed.html
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Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities
Brief Description: These grants support national or regional (multi-state) education and training programs on the care and management of, and the creation of intellectual access to, library, archival, and material culture collections.
Link to Agency Program Page:
http://www.neh.gov/GRANTS/guidelines/pet.html
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Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities
Brief Description: Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that contributes to scholarly knowledge or to the public's understanding of the humanities. Recipients usually produce scholarly articles, monographs on specialized subjects, books on broad topics, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly tools.
Summer Stipends support full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two months. Applicants may be faculty or staff members of colleges, universities, or primary or secondary schools, or they may be independent scholars or writers.
Summer Stipends are awarded to individual scholars. Organizations are not eligible to apply.
Link to Agency Program Page:
http://neh.gov/grants/guidelines/stipends.html
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Education
Brief Description: This program helps eligible institutions of higher education (IHEs) enhance and expand their capacity to serve Hispanic and low-income students by providing funds to improve and strengthen the academic quality, institutional stability, management, and fiscal capabilities of eligible institutions.
Funds may be used for activities such as: faculty development; funds and administrative management; development and improvement of academic programs; endowment funds; curriculum development; scientific or laboratory equipment for teaching; renovation of instructional facilities; joint use of facilities; academic tutoring; counseling programs; and student support services. Five-year individual development grants, five-year cooperative arrangement development grants, and one-year planning grants may be awarded.
Link to Agency Program Page: http://www.ed.gov/programs/idueshsi/index.html
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Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Education
Brief Description: The program promotes a student-centered, North American dimension to education and training in a wide range of academic and professional disciplines that complement existing forms of bilateral and trilateral exchange programs among Mexico, Canada, and the United States. Consortia are funded for four years with the first year of funding dedicated to establishing consortium agreements or memoranda of understanding among institutions in the participating countries.
Link to Agency Program Page: http://www.ed.gov/programs/fipsenortham/index.html
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Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Brief Description: The Hispanic-Serving Institutions Education Grants Program is a competitive grants program intended to: promote and strengthen the ability of Hispanic-Serving Institutions to carry out higher education programs in the food and agricultural sciences; attract outstanding students from underrepresented groups; and produce graduates capable of enhancing the Nation's food and agricultural scientific and professional work force. Applications for this program may be submitted by a single Hispanic-Serving Institution or multiple Hispanic-Serving Institutions with a lead institution. The activities of a collaboration of Hispanic-Serving Institutions must support and enhance educational equity for underrepresented students.
Link to Agency Program Page: http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/hispanic.html
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Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities
Brief Description: Humanities Initiatives for Faculty are intended to strengthen and enrich humanities education and scholarship at historically black colleges and universities, Institutions with High Hispanic Enrollment, and tribal colleges and universities. These grants may be used to enhance the humanities content of existing programs, develop new programs, or lay the foundation for more extensive endeavors in the future. Each project must be organized around a core topic or set of themes.
Link to Agency Program Page:
http://neh.gov/grants/grants.html
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Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Education
Brief Description: The program helps eligible IHEs to become self-sufficient and expand their capacity to serve low-income students by providing funds to improve and strengthen the academic quality, institutional management, and fiscal stability of eligible institutions.
Funds may be used for planning, faculty development, and establishing endowment funds. Administrative management, and the development and improvement of academic programs also are supported. Other projects include joint use of instructional facilities, construction and maintenance, and student services.
Link to Agency Program Page: http://www.ed.gov/programs/iduestitle3a/index.html
Business and International Education
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Education
Brief Description: This program provides funds to institutions of higher education (IHEs) that enter into agreements with trade associations and businesses to improve the academic teaching of the business curriculum and to conduct outreach activities that expand the capacity of the business community to engage in international economic activities.
Link to Agency Program Page:
http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsbie/index.html
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Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Education
Brief Description: The program, jointly administered and funded by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) and the European Commission's Directorate General for Education and Culture, provides grants for up to three years to add a European Community-United States dimension to international curriculum development and related student exchange.
Link to Agency Program Page:
http://www.ed.gov/programs/fipseec/index.html
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Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Education
Brief Description: The program, jointly administered by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) and the Brazilian Ministry of Education, provides grants for up to four years to consortia of at least two academic institutions each from Brazil and the United States. The program fosters the exchange of students and faculty within the context of bilateral curricular development.
The program supports projects that develop organizational frameworks for international student mobility between the United States and Brazil.
Link to Agency Program Page: http://www.ed.gov/programs/fipsebrazil/index.html
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Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Education
Brief Description: This program provides funds to plan, develop, and carry out programs to strengthen and improve undergraduate instruction in international studies and foreign languages.
Link to Agency Program Page: http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsugisf/index.html
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Brief Description: With an emphasis on two-year colleges, the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program focuses on the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation's economy. The program involves partnerships between academic institutions and employers to promote improvement in the education of science and engineering technicians at the undergraduate and secondary school levels. The ATE program supports curriculum development; professional development of college faculty and secondary school teachers; career pathways to two-year colleges from secondary schools and from two-year colleges to four-year institutions; and other activities. A secondary goal is articulation between two-year and four-year programs for K-12 prospective teachers that focus on technological education. The program also invites proposals focusing on applied research relating to technician education.
Link to Agency Program Page: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5464
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Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Brief Description: The Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) program aims to significantly increase the number of U.S. citizens and permanent residents receiving post secondary degrees in the computing disciplines, with an emphasis on students from communities with longstanding underrepresentation in computing: women, persons with disabilities, and minorities. Included minorities are African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. The BPC program seeks to engage the computing community in developing and implementing innovative methods to improve recruitment and retention of these students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Because the lack of role models in the professorate can be a barrier to participation, the BPC program also aims to develop effective strategies for encouraging individuals to pursue academic careers in computing and become these role models.
Link to Agency Program Page: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13510
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Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Brief Description: The ISE program invests in projects that develop and implement informal learning experiences designed to increase interest, engagement, and understanding of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) by individuals of all ages and backgrounds, as well as projects that advance knowledge and practice of informal science education. Projects may target either public audiences or professionals whose work directly affects informal STEM learning. ISE projects are expected to demonstrate strategic impact, innovation, and collaboration.
Link to Agency Program Page: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5361
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Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Brief Description: The Instructional Materials Development (IMD) program includes three components:
Proposals may be submitted for projects in any field of science, technology, or mathematics (STM) education typically supported by NSF.
Link to Agency Program Page: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5468
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Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Education
Brief Description: This program assists predominantly minority institutions in effecting long-range improvement in science and engineering education programs and increasing the flow of underrepresented ethnic minorities, particularly minority women, into science and engineering careers.
The program funds are generally used to implement design projects, institutional projects, and cooperative projects. The program also supports special projects designed to provide or improve support to accredited nonprofit colleges, universities, and professional scientific organizations for a broad range of activities that address specific barriers that eliminate or reduce the entry of minorities into science and technology fields.
Link to Agency Program Page: http://www.ed.gov/programs/iduesmsi/index.html
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Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Brief Description: 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. (2) REU Supplements may be requested for ongoing NSF-funded research projects or may be included as a component of proposals for new or renewal NSF grants or cooperative agreements.
Link to Agency Program Page: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5517&from=fund
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Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Brief Description: The Robert Noyce Scholarship program seeks to encourage talented science, technology, engineering, and mathematics majors and professionals to become K-12 mathematics and science teachers. The program provides funds to institutions of higher education to support scholarships, stipends, and programs for students who commit to teaching in high-need K-12 school districts.
Link to Agency Program Page: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5733
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Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Brief Description: The Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP) seeks to increase the number of students (U.S. citizens or permanent residents) receiving associate or baccalaureate degrees in established or emerging fields within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Type 1 proposals are solicited that provide for full implementation efforts at academic institutions. Type 2 proposals are solicited that support educational research projects on associate or baccalaureate degree attainment in STEM.
Link to Agency Program Page: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5488
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Funding Agency: National Science Foundation/Arizona State University
Brief Description: WAESO is an effort that uses funding to help underrepresented undergraduate student activities, including the transition of college sophomores, juniors, and seniors toward graduate school and the development of high technology products with application or dissemination both regionally and nationally. The intellectual merit of the proposed activity is that the project will draw upon and expand the large existing communities of underrepresented minority STEM scholar/researcher/teacher/mentors and student apprentice scholar/researcher/teacher working collaboratively to further structure and sustain a research-based hot house environment to create wide-spread regional systemic change with dramatically positive national implications and repercussions. The broader impacts of the proposed activity is to achieve and sustain a level of admission, development, graduation, placement, promotion, and tenure of baccalaureate, masters, doctoral, post-doctoral, junior faculty, and senior faculty underrepresented STEM scholars in proportion to the diversity of society as a whole.
Link to Agency Program Page:
http://mati.eas.asu.edu:8421/~ampvi/waeso
Higher Education Multicultural Scholars Program
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Brief Description: The purpose of this competitive undergraduate scholarship grant program is to increase the multicultural diversity of the food and agricultural scientific and professional workforce, and advance the educational achievement of all Americans by providing competitive grants to colleges and universities. The Multicultural Scholars Program is available every other year.
Link to Agency Program Page: http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/fundview.cfm?fonum=1110
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Funding Agency: Corporation for National and Community Service
Brief Description: Learn and Serve America provides direct and indirect support to K-12 schools, community groups and higher education institutions to facilitate service-learning projects by:
Link to Agency Program Page:
http://www.learnandserve.gov/
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Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Brief Description: The purpose of the Secondary and Two-Year Postsecondary Agriculture Education Challenge (SPEC) Grants Program is to promote and strengthen teaching programs in agriscience and agribusiness, at secondary and 2-year postsecondary institutions, by enhancing curricula, increasing faculty teaching competencies, promoting higher education to prepare students for scientific and professional careers, incorporating agriscience or agribusiness subject matter into other instructional programs, facilitating joint initiatives among other educational institutions, and to respond to identified State, regional, national or international educational needs.
Link to Agency Program Page: http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/sec_challenge.html
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Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Education
Brief Description: The program provides opportunities for academic development, assists students with basic college requirements, and serves to motivate students toward the successful completion of their postsecondary education. Student Support Services (SSS) projects also may provide grant aid to current SSS participants who are receiving Federal Pell Grants (# 84.063). The goal of SSS is to increase the college retention and graduation rates of its participants and help students make the transition from one level of higher education to the next.
Link to Agency Program Page: http://www.ed.gov/programs/triostudsupp/index.html
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Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Education
Brief Description: This program identifies and assists individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds who have the potential to succeed in higher education. The program provides academic, career, and financial counseling to its participants and encourages them to graduate from high school and continue on to the postsecondary institution of their choice. Talent Search also serves high school dropouts by encouraging them to reenter the education system and complete their education. The goal of Talent Search is to increase the number of youths from disadvantaged backgrounds who complete high school and enroll in postsecondary education institutions of their choice.
Projects provide tutorial services, career exploration, aptitude assessments, counseling, mentoring programs, workshops, and information on postsecondary institutions.
Link to Agency Program Page:
http://www.ed.gov/programs/triotalent/index.html
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Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Education
Brief Description: Upward Bound provides fundamental support to participants in their preparation for college entrance. The program provides opportunities for participants to succeed in their precollege performance and ultimately in their higher education pursuits. Upward Bound serves: high school students from low-income families; high school students from families in which neither parent holds a bachelor's degree; and low-income, first-generation military veterans who are preparing to enter postsecondary education. The goal of Upward Bound is to increase the rate at which participants complete secondary education and enroll in and graduate from institutions of postsecondary education.
Upward Bound projects provide academic instruction in mathematics, laboratory sciences, composition, literature, and foreign languages. Tutoring, counseling, mentoring, cultural enrichment, and work-study programs also are supported.
Link to Agency Program Page: http://www.ed.gov/programs/trioupbound/index.html
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Brief Description: The Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program seeks to improve the quality of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education for all undergraduate students. Based on a cyclic model of knowledge production and improvement of practice, CCLI supports efforts that conduct research on STEM teaching and learning, create new learning materials and teaching strategies, develop faculty expertise, implement educational innovations, assess learning, and evaluate innovations. The program supports three types of projects representing three different phases of development, ranging from small exploratory investigations to comprehensive projects.
Link to Agency Program Page:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5741&org=
NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
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Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Brief Description: Discovery Research K-12 funds research, development, and evaluation activities through knowledge generation and application to improve K-12 learning and teaching. The program addresses this mission by funding activities in three major areas:
In addition to these three areas, conferences related to the mission of the program are also supported.
Link to Agency Program Page: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=500047
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Funding Agency: U.S. Department of State
Brief Description: Since 1946, the Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program has helped nearly 23,000 teachers and administrators contribute to mutual understanding between the United States and countries around the world.
If you are a full-time U.S. teacher or administrator, you may be eligible to apply to the regular program.
Link to Agency Program Page:
http://www.fulbrightexchanges.org/
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Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities
Brief Description: Grants for Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development support projects that improve specific areas of humanities education and serve as national models of excellence. Projects must draw upon scholarship in the humanities and use scholars and teachers as advisers.
Link to Agency Program Page: http://neh.gov/grants/guidelines/teachinglearning.html
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Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities
Brief Description: These grants support national faculty development programs in the humanities for school teachers, and for college and university teachers. Seminars and institutes may be as short as two weeks or as long as six weeks. The duration of a program should allow for full and thorough treatment of the topic.
Link to Agency Program Page:
http://neh.gov/grants/guidelines/seminars.html