Updates
Meetings, Actions
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Event |
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Attending |
Topic |
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Meeting |
9/19/2011 |
Springfield |
ISBE, IDNR, IEPA |
Administrative Planning |
| All |
Meeting |
10/5/2011 |
Springfield |
IDNR, IEPA, Governor's Office |
Administrative Planning |
| All |
Meeting |
10/20/2011 |
Springfield |
IDNR, IEPA |
Administrative Planning |
| All |
Meeting |
11/14/2011 |
Bartlett |
IDNR, IEPA |
Administrative Planning |
| All |
Presentations |
11/16/2011 |
Chicago |
Chicago Wilderness Education Team and Members, IDNR |
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Grant Opportunities
Agriculture and Food Research Initiative -
Childhood Obesity Prevention (CFDA No. 10.310)
Purpose: To reduce the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents 2-19 years of age.
Eligibility: Public, private, and state controlled institutions
of higher education; Native American tribal organizations; nonprofits, other than institutions of higher education; for profit organizations other than small businesses; and small business.
Funding: $5 million.
Deadline: 6/5/12.
Contact: Tel. (202) 401-5048
E-mail: electronic@nifa.usda.gov.
Digitizing Historical Records (CFDA No. 89.003)
Purpose: To digitize nationally significant historical record collections and make the digital versions freely available online.
Eligibility: State, county, city, township, or special district governments; private, public, and state controlled institutions of higher education; and nonprofits.
Funding: $700,000.
Deadline: 6/7/12.
Contact: Tel. (202) 357-5022
E-mail: delaconcepcion@nara.gov.
Learning Labs in Libraries and Museums Grants (CFDA No. 45.312)
Purpose: To support planning and design activities for spaces that foster experimentation and creativity for middle- and high-school youth in library- and museum-based, out-of-school-time settings grounded in evidence-based research on youth, and designed to support youth learning in such 21st century skills such as critical thinking; problem solving; communication; collaboration; and science, technology, engineering, and math.
Eligibility: Must be a qualified library or museum as described in full announcement.
Funding: $1.2 million.
Deadline: 6/15/12.
Contact: Margaret Glass,
Tel.: (202) 783-7200 x 129;
E-mail: mglass@astc.org.
Preservation and Access Education and Training Grants (CFDA No. 45.149)
Purpose: To help the staff of cultural institutions, large and small, obtain the knowledge and skills needed
to serve as effective stewards of humanities collections;
also support educational programs that prepare the next generation of conservators and preservation professionals, as well as projects that introduce the staff of cultural institutions to new information and advances in preservation and access practices.
Eligibility: State, county, city, township, and special district governments; private, public, and state controlled
institutions of higher education; Native American
tribal organizations; and nonprofits.
Funding: $350,000.
Deadline: 6/28/12.
Contact: Tel. (202) 606-8570;
E-mail: preservation@neh.gov.
Research and Evaluation on Education
in Science and Engineering (CFDA No. 47.076)
Purpose: To advance research at the frontiers of science, technology,
engineering, and math (STEM) learning and education; and to provide the foundational knowledge
necessary to improve STEM learning and education in current and emerging learning contexts, both formal and informal, from childhood through adulthood, for all groups, and from before school through to graduate school and beyond into the workforce.
Eligibility: Unrestricted.
Funding: $10 million.
Deadline: 7/17/12.
Contact: E-mail:
grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov.
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