GRANT ALERTS Updated: 11/12/14

GRANT ALERTS Updated: 11/12/14 Please visit the GrantProse website () at periodic intervals to retrieve updated, which are typically posted at the middle and end of each month. You are welcome to widely distribute and share this document with others; our purpose in making this information available is to support grant-writing activity in North Carolina specifically, and nationwide generally. Disclaimer: GrantProse staff takes care to ensure that the information provided about these is accurate and timely; however, we can't guarantee that this will always be true. Sometimes typos will slip in as we're creating the, and sometimes we will miss something in the information that is available about the grant. Be sure to check the funding agency and original source for you to verify information about these grant opportunities. FIXED DEADLINES ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY IN ORDER OF DEADLINE Deadline: 11/14/14 Program: Comprehensive High-Impact HIV Prevention Projects for Community-Based Organizations Agency: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Description: Cooperative agreements to implement comprehensive HIV prevention programs Award Amount: $350,000 - $450,000 Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=263908 Eligibility: nonprofits (including hospitals) located in selected areas (including Charlotte & Raleigh/Cary, NC) Deadline: 11/14/14 Program: Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program Agency: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Description: Funding to expand the delivery of health care services in rural communities, expand promising practices, and improve population health Award Amount: Unspecified Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=264030 Eligibility: Rural nonprofits or public entities that represent a consortium or network of three or more health care providers

Deadline: 11/17/14 Program: Community-based Marine Debris Removal Agency: U.S. Department of Commerce Description: Cooperative agreements to implement locally driven, community-based marine debris prevention, assessment, and removal that benefits coastal habitat, waterways, and NOAA trust resources Award Amount: $15,000 - $350,000 Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=265368 Eligibility: institutions of higher education; local, state, tribal governments; nonprofits and forprofits Deadline: 11/18/14 Program: Ecological Effects of Sea Level Rise Agency: U.S. Department of Commerce Description: Funding toward improving the management of regional and local ecosystem effects of sea level rise and coastal inundation through targeted research Award Amount: $150,000 - $200,000 Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=262398 Eligibility: state, local, tribal governments; nonprofits, small businesses; school districts and institutions of higher education Deadline: 11/20/14 Program: Information and Intelligent Systems: Core Programs Description: Support for research and education projects that 1) develops knowledge about the role of people in design and use of IT; 2) increases capacity to create, manage, and understand data; 3) advances understanding of how computational systems can exhibit hallmarks of intelligence. in areas of cyber Award Amount: $50,000 - $3M Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=261798 Eligibility: Unrestricted Deadline: 11/24/14 Program: Head Start and/or Early Head Start Agency: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Description: Funding for high-quality, comprehensive birth-to-five programs in select counties of NC (check all links) Award Amount: $500,000 - $3M Websites: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=266691 http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=266693 http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=266708

http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=266706 Eligibility: state, local, tribal governments; nonprofits and for-profits; public housing authorities; school districts; institutions of higher education Deadline: 11/26/14 Program: Professional Formation of Engineers: Revolutionizing Engineering Departments Description: Grants to enable engineering departments to lead the nation via sustainable changes that overcome longstanding issues in their undergraduate programs and educate inclusive communities of engineering students prepared to solve 21 st century challenges Award Amount: Up to $2M Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=262028 Eligibility: universities and colleges Deadline: 12/01/14 Program: Genetic Services Agency: NC Department of Health and Human Services Description: Funding to provide complex genetic services for children and families who meet federal-poverty-level income guidelines in North Carolina, toward reducing neonatal mortality and incidence of chronic handicapping conditions. Award Amount: Based on demonstrated need Website: http://www.ncdhhs.gov/grantopportunities/currentopportunities.htm#287 Eligibility: Nonprofit hospitals, universities, other qualified agencies Deadline: 12/01/14 Program: National Leadership Grants for Museums Agency: Institute of Museum and Library Services Description: Support for projects that address critical needs of the museum field, that have the potential to help museums improve services for the American public Award Amount: $50,000 - $500,000 Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=267029 Eligibility: Museums (art museums, aquariums, etc.) that are nonprofits or units of state, local governments Deadline: 12/01/14 Program: Museums for America Agency: Institute of Museum and Library Services Description: Support for projects that strengthen the ability of a museum to serve its public Award Amount: $5,000 - $150,000 Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=267028 Eligibility: qualifying U.S. museums that are nonprofits or units of state, local governments

Deadline: 12/01/14 Program: Sparks! Ignition Grants for Museums Agency: Institute of Museum and Library Sciences Description: Small grants to encourage museums to prototype and evaluate specific innovations in the ways they operate and the service they provide Award Amount: $10,000 - $25,000 Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=267069 Eligibility: museums (incl. aquariums, art museums, etc.) that are nonprofits or units of state or local government Deadline: 12/01/14 Program: Museum Grants for African American History and Culture Agency: Institute of Museum and Library Services Description: Support for projects that improve the operations, care of collections, and development of professional management at African American museums Award Amount: $5,000 - $150,000 Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=267048 Eligibility: eligible museums, HBCUs, and nonprofits Deadline: 12/02/14 Program: Adolescent Parenting Program Agency: NC Department of Health and Human Services Description: Funding to implement services for pregnant or parenting teens in NC, services that delay subsequent pregnancies, increase high school graduations, and improve the welfare and school readiness of participants children Award Amount: Unspecified Website: http://www.ncdhhs.gov/grantopportunities/currentopportunities.htm#284 Eligibility: nonprofits (schools, local health departments, community-based organizations) Deadline: 12/02/14 Program: Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program Agency: NC Department of Health and Human Services Description: Funding to replicate and implement programs shown to be effective at reducing teen pregnancies, especially in targeted counties Award Amount: Unspecified Website: http://www.ncdhhs.gov/grantopportunities/currentopportunities.htm#285 Eligibility: nonprofits (schools, local health departments, community-based organizations)

Deadline: 12/03/14 Program: Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities Description: Grants to help cultural repositories plan and implement preservation strategies for collections of humanities materials Award Amount: Up to $350,000 Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=263130 Eligibility: State, local, tribal governments; institutions of higher education; nonprofits Deadline: 12/04/14 Program: Publishing Historical Records in Documentary Editions Agency: National Archives and Records Administration Description: Grants to publish documentary editions of historical records, focusing on personal papers or covering broad historical movements in politics, military, business, social reform, the arts, and other aspects of the national experience. Award Amount: $30,000 - $200,000 Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=254009 Eligibility: state, local, tribal governments; institutions of higher education, nonprofits Deadline: 12/05/14 Program: FY 2014 Assistance to Firefighters Grants Agency: U.S. Department of Homeland Security Description: Grants to help fire departments and other qualified agencies provide critical resources to protect the public, train emergency personal, and support community resilience Award Amount: Varies Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=269290 Eligibility: local governments, fire departments, EMS organizations, state fire training academies Deadline: 12/05/14 Program: Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities: Personnel Preparation in Special Education, Early Intervention, and Related Services (Focus Areas A D) Agency: U.S. Department of Education Description: Grants to address needs for personnel preparation in special education and related areas Award Amount: $250K - $3M Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=268977 (Focus Area A) http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=268981 (Focus Area B) http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=268985 (Focus Area C) http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=268989 (Focus Area D)

Eligibility: Institutions of higher education, nonprofits Deadline: 12/09/14 Program: Scholarly Editions and Translations Grants Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities Description: Grants for the preparation of editions and translations of pre-existing texts of value to the humanities, including materials of literary, philosophical, historical, and musical significance. Award Amount: Up to $300,000 Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=267910 Eligibility: local, tribal, state governments; nonprofits; institutions of higher education; individuals Deadline: 12/09/14 Program: Collaborative Research Grants Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities Description: Support for interpretive humanities research undertaken by a team of two or more scholars; projects include research, conferences that would benefit research, archaeological projects, and research using a humanities perspective to enhance understanding of other fields. Award Amount: Up to $300,000 Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=267908 Eligibility: local, state, tribal governments; nonprofits; institutions of higher education; individuals Deadline: 12/11/14 (prelim proposals) Program: Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships Description: Support for innovative, complex research and education projects involving partnerships among various institutions and organizations Award Amount: $1.5M - $5M Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=261803 Eligibility: U.S. academic institutions with doctoral degree-granting research and education programs Deadline: 12/12/14 Program: Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities: Preparation of Special Education, Early Intervention, and Related Services Leadership Agency: U.S. Department of Education Description: Funding to address needs for personnel preparation in special education, related services, early intervention, and regular education to work with children with disabilities

Award Amount: $250,000 - $3M Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=268975 Eligibility: Nonprofits, institutions of higher education Deadline: 12/15/14 Program: National Competitive HAB Programs Agency: U.S. Department of Commerce Description: Funding toward ecology, oceanography, monitoring, event response, prevention, control, and mitigation of harmful algal blooms. Award Amount: $100,000 - $600,000 Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=262394 Eligibility: state, local, tribal governments; nonprofits, for-profits; institutions of higher education Deadline: 12/15/14 Program: Environmental Justice Small Grants Program Agency: Environmental Protection Agency Description: Funding for projects that address local environmental and public health issues within an affected community Award Amount: Up to $30,000 Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=266589 Eligibility: nonprofits, tribal governments and organizations Deadline: 12/15/14 Program: NEA Our Town, FY 2015 Agency: National Endowment for the Arts Description: Grants for creative placemaking projects that contribute toward the livability of communities and help transform them into lively places with the arts at their core Award Amount: $25,000 - $200,000 Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=266490 Eligibility: state, local, tribal governments; institutions of higher education; nonprofits; school districts Deadline: 12/15/14 Program: Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive Grant Program Agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture Description: Grants for projects to increase the purchase of fruits and vegetables among lowincome consumers participating in the SNAP program Award Amount: $100,000 - $500,000+ (varies acc. to scale) Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=267288 Eligibility: government agencies and nonprofits

Deadline: 12/16/15 Program: National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Agency: Environmental Protection Agency Description: Grants to support student teams that research, develop, and design solutions to realworld challenges involving sustainability and its three pillars: people, prosperity, and the planet Award Amount: Up to $15,000 Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=264451 Eligibility: U.S. institutions of higher education (including nonprofits that are part of the institution) Deadline: 12/23/13 Program: Innovative Public Transportation Workforce Development Program Agency: U.S. Department of Transportation Description: Cooperative agreements to promote innovative workforce development models and programs that help build ladders of opportunity for workers in public transportation Award Amount: $200,000 - $1M Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=269208 Eligibility: local, state, tribal governments; nonprofits; institutions of higher education Deadline: 12/31/14 Program: Technical Assistance and Training Grants Agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture Description: Grants to provide technical assistance and/or training to identify and evaluate solutions to water problems (e.g., source storage, treatment, distribution, waste disposal) Award Amount: $17M total funding (for an est. 15 awards) Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=267348 Eligibility: qualifying nonprofits Deadline: 12/31/14 Program: Solid Waste Management Grant Program Agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture Description: Grants to evaluate landfill conditions for threats to water resources in rural areas, and to provide technical assistance and/or training to 1) maintain and operate rural landfills, 2) to help associations reduce solid waste stream, and 3) to help operators with rural landfill closure Award Amount: unspecified Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=267368 Eligibility: private nonprofits, academic institutions, public bodies, Native American tribes Deadline: 01/07/15

Program: Development and Translation of Medical Technologies to Reduce Health Disparities (SBIR) Agency: National Institutes of Health Description: Grants to small businesses for Phase I (fast track) and II (renewal) proposals to develop and translate medical technologies to reduce disparities in healthcare access and health outcomes Award Amount: $200,000 - $400,000 per year Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=251496 Eligibility: small businesses Deadline: 01/07/15 Program: Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials Description: Grants to broaden participation and enhance diversity in materials research and education by facilitating partnerships between minority-serving colleges and universities with NSF Award Amount: $300,000 - $700,000 Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=263774 Eligibility: minority-serving colleges and universities Deadline: 01/09/15 Program: Rural Health Network Development Planning Grant Program Agency: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Description: Grants to help develop integrated health care networks, which aid smaller rural health care providers in aligning resources and strategies, achieving economies of scale, increasing effectiveness in addressing challenges, expanding access to services, and improving quality of services Award Amount: Up to $100,000 Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=269291 Eligibility: rural nonprofits or public entities (including tribal entities) that represent a network of three or more health care providers Deadline: 01/12/15 (LOI) Program: Partnerships for Innovation Description: Grants to facilitate the movement of academic research discoveries into the marketplace Award Amount: $5M total funding for an estimated 4-8 awards Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=267269 Eligibility: Academic institutions (that facilitate research consortia)

Deadline: 01/12/15 Program: Tectonics Description: Support for a range of investigative methods aimed at understanding the deformation of the terrestrial continental lithosphere Award Amount: $30,000 - $500,000 Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=266088 Eligibility: academic institutions; nonprofit, nonacademic organizations (museums, observatories, research labs, professional societies, etc.) Deadline: 01/15/15 Program: American Battlefield Protection Program, Battlefield Planning Grants Agency: U.S. Department of the Interior (National Park Service) Description: Seed money for projects that lead directly to the identification, preservation, and interpretation of battlefield and/or historic sites associated with battlefields. Award Amount: up to $117,000 (average award is $32,300) Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=266408 Eligibility: nonprofits; academic institutions; local, regional, state, tribal governments Deadline: 01/21/15 Program: US Ignite Description: Funding to promote U.S. leadership in development and deployment of nextgeneration gigabit applications with potential for societal impact Award Amount: $600,000 - $3M Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=269080 Eligibility: unrestricted Deadline: 01/28/15 Program: Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity Description: Support for academe-industry partnerships led by an interdisciplinary academic research team with at least one industry partner to build technological, human, and service system innovation capacity Award Amount: $1M+ Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=266533 Eligibility: U.S. colleges and universities Deadline: 01/29/15 Program: Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future

Description: Grants for activities that accelerate materials discovery and development, toward the well being and advancement of society Award Amount: $500,000 - $1.5M Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=260716 Eligibility: Institutions of higher education Deadline: 11/01/16 Program: Planning Grants for Pragmatic Research in Healthcare Settings to Improve Diabetes Prevention and Care Agency: National Institutes of Health Description: Grants for research to develop and pilot test approaches to improve diabetes treatment and prevention in existing healthcare settings. Award Amount: Up to $150,000 Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=243816 Eligibility: Local, state, and tribal governments; institutions of higher education and independent school districts; nonprofits and for-profits; public housing authorities Deadline: 09/07/17 Program: Art-Based Approaches in Palliative Care for Symptom Management Agency: National Institutes of Health Description: Support for clinical studies to understand the impact of arts-based approaches in palliative care for symptom management Award Amount: Up to $300,000 Website: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppid=260175 Eligibility: nonprofits and for-profits; school districts and institutions of higher education; state, local, tribal governments; certain federal government agencies