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Taking Notes

GRANT OPPORTUNITIES

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The Shaffer Evaluation Group team has selected grant opportunities with our clients in mind

Deadline: November 27, 2024
COPS Office Invitational Program

Funder: Department of Justice

 

Description: The program will provide funding to for-profit (commercial) organizations, nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, community groups, and faith-based organizations to develop the capacity of law enforcement to implement community policing strategies by providing guidance on promising practices through the development and testing of innovative strategies; building knowledge about effective practices and outcomes; and supporting new, creative approaches to preventing crime and promoting safe communities.

Funder: National Science Foundation

 

Description: The twin goals of the ITYC program are to (1) center students in the effort to advance innovation, promote equitable outcomes and broaden participation for all students in STEM education at two-year colleges, and (2) enhance the capacity of two-year colleges to harness the talent and potential of their diverse student and faculty population through innovative disciplinary, multi-department, and college-wide efforts. These goals will be achieved by investing in projects at two-year colleges that contribute to student success in STEM-based foundational courses and academic pathways for both majors and non-majors.

Deadline: January 10, 2025
FY2025 Farm to School Grant-Turnkey

Funder: US Department of Agriculture

 

Description: The Patrick Leahy Farm to School Grant Program is designed to increase the availability of local foods in schools and connect students to the sources of their food through education, taste tests, school gardens, field trips, and local food sourcing for school meals. Grants can launch new farm to school programs or expand existing efforts. 

Deadline: February 10, 2025
CIVIC Innovation Challenge

Funder: National Science Foundation

 

Description: Supports planning and implementation of community-university partnerships for significant near-term impacts in one of two focus areas: building climate-resilient communities and bridging the gap between essential resources and services and community needs.

Deadline: February 12, 2025
Landmarks of American History and Culture for Higher Education 

Funder: National Endowment for the Humanities

 

Description: Supports a series of one-week residential, virtual, and combined format workshops across the nation to enhance how higher education faculty and humanities professionals incorporate place-based approaches to humanities teaching and scholarship.

Deadline: February 12, 2025
Computer Science for All 

Funder: National Science Foundation

 

Description: Supports partnerships and research that helps equip high school teachers to teach computer science, K-8 teachers to incorporate computer science and computational thinking in their classes, and school districts to create computing pathways across all grades.

Deadline: February 28, 2025
FY25 Minerva Research Initiative University Research Program 

Funder: Department of Defense

 

Description: The Minerva Research Initiative (Minerva) emphasizes questions of strategic importance to U.S. national security policy. It seeks to increase the Department’s intellectual capital in the social sciences and improve its ability to address future challenges and build bridges between the Department and the social science community. Minerva brings together universities and other research institutions around the world and supports multidisciplinary and cross-institutional projects addressing specific interest areas determined by the Department of Defense. The Minerva program aims to promote research in specific areas of social science and to promote a candid and constructive relationship between DoD and the social science academic community. 

Deadline: April 29, 2025
Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Computing in Undergraduate Education

Funder: National Science Foundation

 

Description: Supports partnerships to re-envision computing education to serve a broad group of students, in a scalable manner, with an emphasis on broadening the participation of groups who are underrepresented and underserved by traditional computing courses and careers.

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