VOLUME 25, NO.

Grant Alerts
ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH UNIT

Adult Drug Court Discretionary Grant Program (CFDA No.

16.585)
Purpose: To provide financial and technical assistance, and to
develop and implement drug courts that effectively integrate evidence-based substance abuse treatment, mandatory drug testing,
sanctions and incentives, and transitional services in a judicially
supervised court setting with jurisdiction over substance-abusing
offenders.
Eligibility: State governments, county governments, city or
township governments, and special district governments.
Funding: $45 million.
Deadline: 2/28/2017.
Contact: support@grants.gov.
Cyberinfrastructure for Emerging Science and Engineering
Research (CFDA No. 47.070)
Purpose: To support early-stage efforts by collaborative teams
of domain scientists and cyberinfrastructure developers/implementers to identify and address cyberinfrastructure needs in new
research areas through the development and deployment of pilot,
experimental, and innovative hardware or software systems or
other unique cyberinfrastructure activities that enable new pathways to discovery.
Eligibility: Unrestricted.
Funding: Not specified.
Deadline: Proposals accepted anytime.
Contact: E-mail: grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov.
Economic Development Assistance (EDA) Programs, FY 2017
(CFDA Nos. 11.300, 11.307)
Purpose: To provide investments that support construction, nonconstruction, and technical assistance, and to leverage existing regional assets and support the implementation of economic development strategies that advance new ideas and creative approaches
to advance economic prosperity in distressed communities.
Eligibility: State governments; county governments; city or
township governments; special district governments; independent
school districts; public and state-controlled institutions of higher
education; public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities;
Native American tribal organizations; nonprofits; private institutions of higher education; for-profit organizations, other than
small businesses; and small businesses.
Funding: Not specified; awards of up to $3 million.
Deadline: No deadline.
Contact: Website: http://www.eda.gov/contact/
Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training
(EWDJT) Grants, FY17 (CFDA No. 66.815)
Purpose: To recruit, train, and place local, unemployed, and
under-employed residents with the skills needed to secure fulltime employment in the environmental field.

JANUARY 2017

Eligibility: State governments; county governments; city or

township governments; special district governments; independent school districts; public and state-controlled institutions
of higher education; public housing authorities/Indian housing
authorities; Native American tribal organizations; nonprofits;
private institutions of higher education; for-profit organizations,
other than small businesses; and small businesses.
Funding: $3 million.
Deadline: 2/24/2017.
Contact: Tel. (202) 566-1564;
E-mail: congdon.rachel@epa.gov.
Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water (FEW)
Systems (CFDA Nos. 10.310, 47.041, 47.049, 47.050, 47.070,
47.074, 47.075, 47.076, 47.079, 47.083)
Purpose: To significantly advance our understanding of the
food-energy-water system through quantitative, predictive, and
computational modeling, including support for relevant cyberinfrastructure; to develop real-time, cyber-enabled interfaces
that improve understanding of the behavior of FEW systems and
increase decision support capability; to enable research that will
lead to innovative solutions to critical FEW systems problems;
and to grow the scientific workforce capable of studying and
managing the FEW system, through education and other professional development opportunities.
Eligibility: Nonprofit, non-academic organizations: independent museums, observatories, research labs, professional
societies, and similar organizations in the U.S. associated with
educational or research activities; and universities and colleges,
including two-year institutions.
Funding: $40 million.
Deadline: 3/6/2017.
Contact: E-mail: grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov.
Maximizing Access to Research Careers Undergraduate
Student Training in Academic Research (CFDA No. 93.859)
Purpose: To enhance the pool of underrepresented students
earning baccalaureate and Ph.D. degrees in biomedical research
fields and ultimately to contribute to the diversification of the
nations scientific workforce.
Eligibility: State governments; county governments; city or
township governments; special district governments; independent school districts; public and state-controlled institutions
of higher education; public housing authorities/Indian housing
authorities; Native American tribal organizations; nonprofits;
private institutions of higher education; for-profit organizations,
other than small businesses; and small businesses.
Funding: Not specified.
Deadline: 5/24/2018.

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Mentoring Research Partners Solicitation (CFDA No.

16.726)
Purpose: To support researchers who seek to partner with
OJJDP-funded mentoring organizations to conduct programspecific data collection and evaluation and improve mentoring
organizations ability to collect and analyze program-specific
data and measures about the delivery and impact of their mentoring services.
Eligibility: State governments; county governments; city or
township governments; special district governments; independent school districts; public and state-controlled institutions
of higher education; public housing authorities/Indian housing
authorities; Native American tribal organizations; nonprofits;
private institutions of higher education; for-profit organizations,
other than small businesses; and small businesses.
Funding: $450,000.
Deadline: 2/22/2017.
Contact: E-mail: grants@ncjrs.gov.
NEA FY2018 Literature Fellowships: Prose (CFDA No.
45.024)
Purpose: To offer grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable
recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and
general career advancement. Applications are reviewed through
an anonymous process in which the only criteria for review are
artistic excellence and artistic merit.
Eligibility: Individuals.
Funding: Not specified; awards of up to $25,000.
Deadline: 3/8/2017.
Contact: E-mail: webmgr@arts.gov.
NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and
Mathematics Program (CFDA No. 47.076)
Purpose: To fund scholarships and to advance the adaptation,
implementation, and study of effective evidence-based curricular
and co-curricular activities that support recruitment, retention,
transfer (if appropriate), student success, academic/career pathways, and graduation in STEM.
Eligibility: Institutions of higher education.
Funding: $95 million.
Deadline: 3/29/2017.
Contact: E-mail: grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov.
Regional Energy Technology Innovation Ecosystems Characterization Assessments (CFDA No. 81.250)
Purpose: To provide new insights as to how an integrated
regional strategy could promote affordable, reliable innovative
energy technology; create jobs; increase entrepreneurial activity
and new venture financing; and promote economic growth and
prosperity; and to provide data-driven insights and analysis, relying, in part, on inputs from current and potential energy innova-

tion ecosystem participants within the proposed region.

Eligibility: State governments, county governments, city or
township governments, special district governments, public and
state-controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal organizations,
nonprofits, and private institutions of higher education.
Funding: $800,000.
Deadline: 2/28/2017.
Contact: E-mail: jacqulyn.wilson@netl.doe.gov.
Safeguarding Children of Arrested Parents (CFDA No.
16.738)
Purpose: To support outreach efforts, training, and technical assistance and to specifically address practices that could mitigate
the potential of creating trauma associated with a parents arrest
and/or other investigation actions carried out by law enforcement.
Eligibility: State governments, county governments, city or
township governments, special district governments, public and
state-controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal organizations, nonprofits, and private institutions of
higher education.
Funding: $300,000.
Deadline: 2/16/2017.
Contact: E-mail: support@grants.gov.
Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (CFDA
Nos. 47.041, 47.049, 47.050, 47.070, 47.074, 47.075, 47.076,
47.079, 47.083)
Purpose: To initiate a highly reusable and interoperable cyberinfrastructure architecture that integrates large-scale computing,
high-speed networks, massive data archives, instruments and
major facilities, observatories, experiments, and embedded sensors and actuators, across the nation and the world, to help make
great strides towards revolutionizing virtually every science and
engineering discipline.
Eligibility: Nonprofit, non-academic organizations: independent museums, observatories, research labs, professional
societies, and similar organizations in the U.S. associated with
educational or research activities; and universities and colleges,
including two-year institutions.
Funding: $17.5 million.
Deadline: 3/7/2017.
Contact: E-mail: grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov.
Summer Seminars and Institutes (CFDA No. 45.163)
Purpose: To support professional development programs in the
humanities for school teachers and for college and university
faculty that provide models of excellent teaching.
Eligibility: State governments, county governments, city or
township governments, special district governments, public and
state-controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal organizations, nonprofits, and private institutions of
higher education.
Funding: Not specified; awards of up to $225,000.
Deadline: 3/1/2017.
Contact: Tel. (202) 606-8471; E-mail: sem-inst@neh.gov.
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