Funding Opportunities

Grants.gov is your source to FIND and APPLY for federal government grants. At this site you can search for opportunities by Federal Agency, by Category, by Opportunity Number, and by Recovery Act opportunities.
http://www.grants.gov/

Jacksonville Public Library is proud to be one of the Foundation Center's Cooperating Collections, offering access to a wide variety of nonprofit resources including foundation directories, corporate giving directories, state funding directories, philanthropy journals, and publications on the current state of philanthropy.
http://jpl.coj.net/coll/nprjpl/index.html

Senator Bill Nelson's office can help individuals, businesses, organizations, and groups throughout the state of Florida find and apply for federal grants. The following provides basic information on locating grants and writing applications.
http://billnelson.senate.gov/services/grantsnew.cfm

Education RFPs Posted by the Foundation Center PND Digest
Each RFP listing provides a brief overview of a current funding opportunity offered by a foundation or other grantmaking organization. Interested applicants should read the full RFP at the grantmaker's Web site or contact the grantmaker directly for complete program guidelines and eligibility requirements before submitting a proposal to that grantmaker.
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_education.jhtml

A Directory of Foundation Listings found on Google.com
http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Philanthropy/Grants/Grant-Making_Foundations/

A Directory of Foundation Listings found on Yahoo.com
http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Issues_and_Causes/Philanthropy/Organizations/Grant_Making_Foundations/

Department of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health
MBRS Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (RISE) (R25) Grant
The Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS) Program was created in response to a legislative mandate of increasing the participation of underrepresented (UR) minority faculty, investigators and students engaged in biomedical and behavioral research, and to broaden the opportunities for their participation in biomedical and behavioral research. To accomplish this goal, the Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (RISE) program provides institutional grants to establish research education programs at minority-serving institutions that will increase the preparation and skills of UR students in the biomedical and behavioral sciences as they academically advance in the pursuit of the Ph.D. degree in these fields.

RISE Option I – This option is recommended for applicant institutions with a low or no track record of students graduating and pursuing Ph.D. degrees in biomedical and behavioral sciences and few or no faculty currently participating in funded biomedical research as principal investigators. Participants of the proposed programs should be only UG either at the associate-degree (A.D.) or the B.S./B.A. level. Institutions applying to this option are expected to (a) establish the fundamentals of research training, (b) improve the science curriculum, and (c) increase the retention and graduation in the sciences relevant to biomedical and/or behavioral research, i.e. provide the baseline and proposed increase so that the resulting percent change is clearly stated.
http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=49840

National Science Foundation
Cultural Anthropology
The Cultural Anthropology Program promotes basic scientific research on the causes and consequences of human social and cultural variation. The program solicits research proposals of theoretical importance in all substantive and theoretical subfields within the discipline of Cultural Anthropology. 
Due dates: January 15, 2010; August 15, 2010
http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=45592

National Science Foundation
Developmental and Learning Sciences
DLS supports fundamental research that increases our understanding of cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to children's and adolescents' development and learning.  Research supported by this program will add to our basic knowledge of how people learn and the underlying developmental processes that support learning, with the objective of leading to better educated children and adolescents who grow up to take productive roles as workers and as citizens.
Due dates: January 15, 2010; July 15, 2010
http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=46236

National Science Foundation
Division of Mathematical Sciences
The long-range goal of the Division of Mathematical Sciences 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.

The program is particularly interested in activities that improve:

• recruitment and retention: increasing the number and diversity of U.S. students who successfully pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees in mathematics and statistics;
• educational breadth: broadening graduate education and undergraduate education content in the mathematical sciences to prepare students for a wider range of career opportunities; and
• professional development: enhancing the professional skills of mathematical sciences postdoctoral associates, graduate students, and undergraduate students to better prepare them for both academic and nonacademic employment.

The program particularly seeks unsolicited proposals for activities that are:

• novel and potentially transformative, in that they promise extraordinary outcomes;
• portable, in the sense that they potentially can be duplicated at other institutions;
• sustainable, meaning that the activity can be continued in the absence of external funding;
• likely to have large impact in terms of the numbers of trainees affected; and
• exemplary, in that they can serve as national models for education through research involvement.

Proposal Window: May 15, 2010 – June 15, 2010
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503233

National Science Foundation
Education and Interdisciplinary Research (EIR)
This program supports activities in conjunction with NSF-wide programs such as Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER), Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU), and programs aimed at women, minorities, and persons with disabilities. Further information about all of these programs and activities is available in the Crosscutting Investment Strategies section of the NSF Guide to Programs.
Application deadline is the last Wednesday in September annually.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5610&org=NSF&more=Y#more

National Science Foundation
Probability
The Probability Program supports research on the theory and applications of probability. Subfields include discrete probability, stochastic processes, limit theory, interacting particle systems, stochastic differential and partial differential equations, and Markov processes. Research in probability which involves applications to other areas of science and engineering is especially encouraged. 
Proposal Window: October 23, 2010 – November 7, 2010
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5555

National Science Foundation
Law and Social Science
The Law and Social Science Program at the National Science Foundation supports social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules, institutions, processes, and behaviors. These can include, but are not limited to, research designed to enhance the scientific understanding of the impact of law; human behavior and interactions as these relate to law; the dynamics of legal decision making; and the nature, sources, and consequences of variations and changes in legal institutions. The primary consideration is that the research shows promise of advancing a scientific understanding of law and legal process. Within this framework, the Program has an "open window".
Application deadlines: January 15 and August 15, annually
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5422

National Science Foundation
Social Psychology
The Social Psychology Program at NSF supports basic research on human social behavior, including cultural differences and development over the life span. Among the many research topics supported are: attitude formation and change, social cognition, personality processes, interpersonal relations and group processes, the self, emotion, social comparison, and social influence, and the psychophysiological and neurophysiological bases of social behavior.
Application deadlines: January 15 and July 15, annually
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5712

National Science Foundation
Political Science
The Political Science Program supports scientific research that advances knowledge and understanding of citizenship, government, and politics. Research proposals are expected to be theoretically motivated, conceptually precise, methodologically rigorous, and empirically oriented. Substantive areas include, but are not limited to, American government and politics, comparative government and politics, international relations, political behavior, political economy, and political institutions.
Application deadlines: January 15 and August 15, annually
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5418

National Science Foundation
Economics
The Economics program supports research designed to improve the understanding of the processes and institutions of the U.S. economy and of the world system of which it is a part. This program also strengthens both empirical and theoretical economic analysis as well as the methods for rigorous research on economic behavior. It supports research in almost every area of economics, including econometrics, economic history, environmental economics, finance, industrial organization, international economics, labor economics, macroeconomics, mathematical economics, and public finance.
Application deadlines: January 18 and August 18, annually
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5437

National Science Foundation
Sociology
The Sociology Program supports basic research on all forms of human social organization -- societies, institutions, groups, and demography -- and processes of individual and institutional change. The Program encourages theoretically focused empirical investigations aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social processes. Included is research on organizations and organizational behavior, population dynamics, social movements, social groups, labor force participation, stratification and mobility, family, social networks, socialization, gender roles, and the sociology of science and technology. The Program supports both original data collections and secondary data analysis that use the full range of quantitative and qualitative methodological tools. Theoretically grounded projects that offer methodological innovations and improvements for data collection and analysis are also welcomed.
Application deadlines: January 15 and August 15, annually
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5369

National Science Foundation
Statistics
The Statistics Program supports research in statistical theory and methods, including research in statistical methods for applications to any domain of science and engineering. The theory forms the base for statistical science. The methods are used for stochastic modeling, and the collection, analysis and interpretation of data. The methods characterize uncertainty in the data and facilitate advancement in science and engineering.
Proposal window: October 23, 2010 – November 7, 2010
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5556

Department of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health
NIH Small Research Grant Program (Parent R03)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Investigator-Initiated Small Grant (R03) funding opportunity supports small research projects that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources. Investigator-initiated research, also known as unsolicited research, is research funded as a result of an investigator submitting a research grant application to NIH in an investigators area of interest and competency.
Application deadlines: February 16; June 16; October 16, annually
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-10-064.html