Cloud Computing Tools (Amazon) - Amazon is opening its cloud-computing network to higher education applicants to help teach advanced courses, tackle research endeavors, and explore new projects. The goal of the project is to help reduce expensive up-front and ongoing investments in infrastructure. Grants are available for teachers, researchers, students, and university information technology services. Awards will be in the form of credits that can be used in exchange for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Deadline: May 15, August 14, and November 13, 2009. Contact OSPR for more details.

Cottrell College Science/Cottrell Scholar (Research Corporation for Science Advancement) - The Cottrell Scholar Awards are designed for institutions and faculty members who are committed to excel at both teaching and research. These awards enable recipients to implement their plans to become outstanding scientists and educators as well as tomorrow's academic and scientific leaders. The awards also seek to reinforce faculty mentoring, communication, and a heightened appreciation for instruction in university science departments.
Awards are made to U.S. universities to further the teaching and research of faculty members in a Bachelor's and Ph.D. degree-granting department of astronomy, biochemistry, biophysics, chemistry, or physics, but not in a school of medicine or engineering. Applicants must be in the third full calendar year after their first tenure-track appointment (i.e., faculty members who assumed their first tenure-track position anytime in calendar year 2006 may apply only in 2008, observing the September deadline). Applications consist of both research and teaching proposals and will only be accepted on the current foundation form. Applications must conform to guidelines and directions, and need to be endorsed by the institution. Potential applicants can begin the online submission process by completing the online submission Eligibility Quiz. If eligible, you will be able to download the application materials.
All Cottrell Scholar Awards are in the amount of $100,000. Cottrell Scholar Award funds can be used at the discretion of the awardee for most direct costs, with limitations only on the range of acceptable expenditures. Funds from an award may be used to support both the teaching and research projects of the Cottrell Scholar. In addition, Scholars attend the Cottrell Scholar Conference, which is focused on their teaching activities, held annually in Tucson. Research Corporation covers expenses for the conference. Deadline: May 15. Announcement.

Learning & Leadership Grants (National Education Association Foundation) - This program provides opportunities for teachers, education support professionals, and higher education faculty and staff to engage in high-quality professional development and lead their colleagues in professional growth. Grants to individuals fund participation in professional development experiences such as summer institutes and action research. Grants to groups fund collegial study, including study groups, action research, lesson study, and mentoring experiences for faculty or staff new to an assignment. The grant amount is $2,000 for individuals and $5,000 for groups. Deadlines: Jun. 1, Oct. 15. Announcement.

Student Achievement Grants (National Education Association Foundation) - This program provides grants of $5,000 each to improve the academic achievement of students by engaging in critical thinking and problem solving that deepen knowledge of standards-based subject matter. The work should also improve students' habits of inquiry, self-directed learning, and critical reflection. Proposals for work resulting in low-income and minority student success with honors, advanced placement, and other challenging curricula are particularly encouraged. Grant funds may be used for resource materials, supplies, equipment, transportation, software, and scholars-in-residence. Deadlines: Jun. 1, Oct. 15. Announcement.

Creative Connections - Meet the Composer (MetLife Foundation) - It provides support for U.S. composers working in any style or genre of music or sound art to participate in public activities related to specific performances of their original music. Creative Connections applications are submitted by a U.S.-based sponsoring organization (a presenter, ensemble, dance company, etc.) requesting support for one or more composers participating in public activities organized, sponsored, and/or presented by the organization. Creative Connections supports composer activities including but not limited to pre- and post-performance discussions (in more formal concert venues); interaction with audience during and after the performance (in less formal concert venues); open workshops; radio, television, and Webcast or podcast interviews; community outreach events; and open rehearsals. Deadlines: Meet The Composer accepts applications according to the following quarterly schedule: April 1 for activities beginning July to August; June 1 for activities beginning September to December; October 1 for activities beginning January to March; and January 7 for activities beginning April to June. Applications will be accepted no earlier than one month prior to the appropriate deadline, and grants will be awarded in amounts of up to $5,000 each. Announcement.

Great American Bake Sale (Share Our Strength Foundation) - The program seeks to help ensure that low-income children receive nutritious food during critical times when they are out of school and particularly vulnerable to hunger. The Great American Bake Sale is a national campaign in which volunteers hold bake sales to help end childhood hunger. 
The Great American Bake Sale grants program will support efforts to increase participation among low-income children in summer and after-school meal programs. Share Our Strength is specifically interested in increasing participation in meal programs that utilize USDA reimbursement through the Summer Food Service Program, National School Lunch Program, or Child and Adult Care Food Program.
Two types of grants will be offered. Grants for Program Sponsors will be awarded to organizations that directly sponsor USDA-reimbursed after-school and/or summer meal programs for children. Grants will specifically support efforts to increase participation in the organization's USDA summer and after-school meal programs. Grants for Advocacy will be awarded to organizations that work to increase participation in USDA-reimbursed after-school and summer meal programs through outreach and advocacy. Organizations engage in advocacy when they work with schools, community organizations, local businesses, and with a range of government officials to increase participation in summer and after-school meal programs. Both types of grants will range from $1,000 to $10,000 each.

Deadline: June 1, 2009 to September 30, 2009. Announcement.

Nature of Learning - Outdoor Classroom Program - the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation is accepting applications from organizations interested in initiating a Nature of Learning program in their communities. The Nature of Learning is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Wildlife Refuge System's community-based environmental education initiative. The program uses National Wildlife Refuges as outdoor classrooms to promote a greater understanding of local conservation issues, encourage an interdisciplinary approach to learning, and utilize field experiences and student-led stewardship projects to connect classroom lessons to real world issues. The program also involves a partnership among local schools, community groups, natural resource professionals, and local businesses. Deadline: Jun. 15. Announcement.

Bring Contemporary French Cinema to U.S. College Campuses - FACE (French American Cultural Exchange), a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting contemporary creative work in the context of French-American cultural and educational exchange, has announced a new season of the Tournées Festival, a program designed to bring contemporary French cinema to college and university campuses in the United States. Qualifying candidates must plan to show the films for which they are seeking the support of the Tournées Festival as part of a festival, and screenings of all films must take place within a one-month period. The festival should consist of a minimum of five films. The films may be presented as part of a larger festival of French or international films. The Tournées Festival distributes a total of over $200,000 in grants annually. Schools that show films in 35mm will receive a grant of $2,300 to show their five films ($460 per film). Schools that show films on DVD will receive a grant of $1,800 to show their five films ($360 per film). Schools that show a combination of DVD and 35mm prints will receive a grant corresponding to each film's format. Deadlines: June 30 for film festivals in the fall semester, and October 1 for film festivals in the spring semester. Announcement.

New Technology for Jazz - The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation is accepting applications for Jazz.NEXT, a program developed in partnership with the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to support planning and the implementation of fully developed projects that make innovative use of new technologies in audience development, communications, distribution, marketing, and network building for jazz performance.
Planning grants of up to $25,000 each will be awarded to nonprofit organizations and individuals working to develop concepts, identify resources, expertise, and partnerships (when applicable), and compile detailed financial plans. Applications for planning grants will be accepted for consideration only in the first grant round of the program.
Implementation grants, generally ranging from $10,000 to $75,000 each, will be awarded to projects offering the most promising approaches to jazz audience development, communications, distribution, marketing, and network building that utilize new technologies developed either through a Jazz.NEXT planning grant or conceived outside of the program, but deemed ready for immediate implementation. Applicants may apply for an implementation grant in either the first or second grant round of the program.
Applicants must have demonstrated some prior experience working with technology in addressing audience development, communications, creation and presentation, marketing and promotion, networking, or other capacity-building endeavors. Applicants may partner with other jazz artists or organizations on their planning and implementation projects, but only one artist or organization can act as the applicant. Deadline: Jul. 6. Announcement.

Low-Income Initiatives & Solutions (Entergy Charitable Foundation) - The Foundation seeks programs that provide for innovative and measurable ways to positively impact families and their ability to support those most vulnerable, the children and the elderly. Such programs may include, but are not limited to:

    * Sustaining families and self-sufficiency
    * Technical assistance and training for non-profits
    * Housing
    * Home-ownership preparation
    * Energy management and awareness
    * Innovative use and promotion of alternative sources of energy

Deadlines: Aug. 1. Applications should NOT be submitted more than one month prior to the deadline (i.e., for the August 1st deadline, July 1st is the earliest date applications are accepted). Announcement.

Arts and Culture Open Grants Program (Entergy) - The arts are expressions of ourselves – our heritage, feelings and ideas. To cultivate that, we support a diverse range of locally based visual arts, theater, dance and music institutions. Our long-term goal is to increase the access to contemporary art for a wider public, including children and the financially disadvantaged. Deadline: open. Announcement.

Community Improvement/Enrichment Open Grants Program (Entergy) - Entergy supports community-based projects that focus community enrichment and improvement. A few examples include civic affairs, blighted housing improvements, and neighborhood safety. By giving to communities in this way, we actually help them become more self-sufficient. Deadline: open. Announcement.

Healthy Families Open Grants Program (Entergy) - Children need a good start to grow into healthy, well-adjusted adults. With that in mind, we give to programs that have a direct impact on children educationally and emotionally. We’re also interested in family programs, like those that better prepare parents to balance the demands of work and home. Deadline: open. Announcement.

Investor Education Grants (FINRA [Financial Industry Regulatory Authority] Investor Education Foundation) - The foundation invites nonprofit groups and researchers to apply for funding for projects that support its mission of providing Americans with the knowledge, skills, and tools necessary for financial success. The foundation is interested in funding projects that will reach and actively engage at-risk audiences such as seniors and first-time investors by offering them access to unbiased information about the markets and fundamental financial issues. Of particular interest to the foundation in 2009 are projects that focus on using behavioral finance to improve saving and investing, meeting the financial and investor education needs of underserved audiences, new marketing and distribution channels for financial and investor education, and helping Americans manage their finances in retirement. The foundation has set no minimum or maximum for the number of grants to be funded or for the amounts of the grant awards.
Before submitting a full grant proposal, applicants must submit a simple, three-page project concept form. Eligible applicants whose projects closely align with the foundation's priorities will be invited to submit a full grant proposal. Project concept forms will be accepted at any time during the calendar year. Deadline: open. Announcement.

Development and Improvement of the Measurement of Classroom Quality (William T. Grant and Spencer Foundations) - This RFP is part of the foundations' broader effort to build theory and evidence about how classrooms affect youth and how to improve those effects. The foundations will support a small group of research projects, one to three years in duration, with award amounts ranging from $50,000 to $500,000 each, including all direct and indirect costs. The foundations will consider several types of proposals: a) new, stand-alone measurement development studies; b) add-on studies in which new measurement development work supplements an existing field study; and c) further analysis of existing data to improve measurement. Due Date: open; Announcement.

Grant Making Program in Health (Kresge Foundation) - The quality of an individual’s health is determined, in large part, by where he or she lives. Healthy communities foster the physical and emotional well being of their residents. The Kresge Foundation’s Health Program works in partnership to influence and assist in the creation of safe, healthy communities for under served populations. Due Date: open; Announcement.

Grant Making Program in Environment (Kresge Foundation) - Environmental conservation is one of The Kresge Foundation’s nine overarching values. We believe the effects of climate change on the natural world is among the paramount concerns of our time, one that presents formidable challenges and risks as well as opportunities for innovation. Our Environment Program works in partnership with like-minded organizations to protect the planet and promote its long-term sustainability for future generations. Due Date: open; Announcement.

Development and Improvement of the Measurement of Classroom Quality (William T. Grant and Spencer Foundations) - This RFP is part of the foundations' broader effort to build theory and evidence about how classrooms affect youth and how to improve those effects. The foundations will support a small group of research projects, one to three years in duration, with award amounts ranging from $50,000 to $500,000 each, including all direct and indirect costs. The foundations will consider several types of proposals: a) new, stand-alone measurement development studies; b) add-on studies in which new measurement development work supplements an existing field study; and c) further analysis of existing data to improve measurement. Due Date: open; Announcement.

Active Living Research/Healthy Eating Research Rapid-Response Grants (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) - These programs support research to identify promising policy and environmental strategies for increasing physical activity, promoting healthy eating and preventing obesity. This call for proposals (CFP) supports time-sensitive, opportunistic studies to evaluate changes in policies or environments with the potential to reach children who are at highest risk for obesity, including African-American, Latino, Native American, Asian American and Pacific Islander children (ages 3 to 18) who live in low-income communities or communities with limited access to affordable healthy foods and/or safe opportunities for physical activity. Research studies may focus on one or both sides of the energy balance equation—on physical activity (including sedentary behavior), healthy eating or both. Studies funded under this CFP are expected to advance RWJF’s efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015. Grant periods are expected to begin twelve to fourteen weeks after receipt of the full proposal. Up to $800,000 total will be awarded for rapid-response research grants in 2008. The maximum amount for a single grant is $150,000, with a maximum funding period of up to twelve months. Deadlines: rolling - Letters of Intent. Announcement.