Funding Opportunity Number: OIT-STEP-2014-01
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Funding Instrument Type: Cooperative Agreement
Category of Funding Activity: Business and Commerce
Eligible Applicants: State governments
Agency Name: SBA
Closing Date: 2014-05-20
Award Ceiling: $500,000
Expected Number of Awards: 25

Description: The SBA is issuing Program Announcement No.  OIT?STEP?2014?01 to invite the States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.  S.  Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa and the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (hereinafter ?States?) to apply for a STEP grant to carry out export promotion programs that assist ?eligible small business concerns,? to become exporters, and to increase the value of small business exports.  The STEP grants will be awarded on a competitive basis.  The funding instrument is a cooperative agreement.  A State may not submit more than one application for a grant under the program.  Awards will be made for
a project period of 12 months from the date of award with one option period of 12 months.
Link: www.grants.gov/view-opportunity.html?opp…

The long-range goal of the DMS Workforce Program is to increase the number of well-prepared U.S. citizens, nationals, and permanent residents who successfully pursue careers in the mathematical sciences and in other NSF-supported disciplines. Among intermediate goals to this end are improvements in recruitment, retention, education, and placement of trainees in the mathematical sciences.

The program has an annual submission window for unsolicited proposals of May 15 through June 15. The Workforce Program also administers several more structured training activities, proposals for which are submitted in response to specific solicitations:

• Research Training Groups in the Mathematical Sciences (RTG)
• Mentoring through Critical Transition Points in the Mathematical Sciences (MCTP)
• Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (MSPRF)
• Research Experiences for Undergraduates Sites (REU)
• Expeditions in Training, Research, and Education for Mathematics and Statistics through Quantitative Explorations of Data (EXTREEMS-QED)

More: www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportuni…