Category Archives: Opportunities

2014-04-15: Awards for Faculty

Funding Opportunity Number: 20140415-HB
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Funding Instrument Type: Grant
Category of Funding Activity: Humanities (see "Cultural Affairs" in CFDA)
Eligible Applicants: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Agency Name: NEH
Closing Date: 2014-04-15
Award Ceiling: $50,400
Expected Number of Awards: 10

Description: This program supports individual faculty or staff members at Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and Tribal Colleges and Universities pursuing research of value to humanities scholars, students, or general audiences.  Awards are designed to be flexible, allowing applicants to define the audience, type of research, award periods, and administrative arrangements that best fit their projects.
Awards can be used for a wide range of projects that are based on humanities research.  Eligible projects include pursuing research in primary and secondary materials; producing articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources; and conducting basic research leading to the improvement of an existing undergraduate course or the achievement of institutional or community research goals.
Link: www.grants.gov/view-opportunity.html?opp…

2014-04-11: Federal and State Technology (FAST) Partnership Program

Funding Opportunity Number: FAST-2014-R-0008
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Funding Instrument Type: Cooperative Agreement
Category of Funding Activity: Business and Commerce
Eligible Applicants: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Agency Name: SBA
Closing Date: 2014-04-11
Award Ceiling: $100,000
Expected Number of Awards: 20

Description: The U.  S.  Small Business Administration (SB) plans to issue Program Announcement No.  FAST-2014-R-0008 and make twenty awards of up to $95,000 to organizations to conduct outreach and provide technical assistance services to technology-based small business owners.  Applications will be considered from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.  This program is authorized by Public Law (P.  L.  ) 111-117 and 15 U.  S.  C.  657d©.  There is a one proposal per state limitation on this competition.  Only one proposal from each state may be submitted to the SBA for consideration and this application must have an original, signed Letter of Endorsement from the State Governor (Mayor for the District of Columbia).  Please note that all Technical Proposals must be 25 pages or less double spaced.  See pages 8 a) 9 b) of the Program Announcement for Technical Proposal content.  Eligible applicants include, but are not limited to, state and local Economic Development Agencies, colleges and universities and Small Businesses Development Centers.
Link: www.grants.gov/view-opportunity.html?opp…