Grant Opportunities

September

Minnesota Campus Comact Grants

The purpose of these grants is to increase the quality, impact and sustainability of community service-learning efforts and campus-community collaboration initiatives (possibly via networking technologies). The focus varies; currently, it is on start-up programs, quality improvement, and college access and success.

$5,000-20,000

September

University of Minnesota Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry and Scholarship Program (GIA)

This program is administered by the Office of the Dean of the Graduate School. Its goal is to promote the scholarly and artistic activities of faculty members and graduate students and to foster academic excellence within the University.

$2,000-34,000

September 15

Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grants

This program supports and assists artists at various stages in their careers. It encourages artistic development, nurtures artistic creativity, and recognizes the contributions individual artists make to the creative environment of the state of Minnesota. Music, photography, new media, and literary arts applications will be awarded in fiscal year 2006.

$2,000-6,000 (one-year grant)

Late October

Archibald Bush Foundation Programs¹

The foundation provides funding for faculty development programs at the University.

varies

October 31

Boeing Charitable Contributions

Boeing focuses its higher education charitable contributions on recruitment, research, and policy initiatives aimed at improving the quality of higher education and enlarging the pool of well-educated graduates. It supports major grants, scholarships, and minority and women's programs. For four-year colleges and universities, innovative proposals relating to the following areas will be considered:

• engineering, business, technology, mathematics, and selected science programs (e.g., physics);
• faculty preparation and development programs;
• collaborative academic programs;
• curriculum development efforts; and
• funding for laboratory equipment that directly supports learning and academic performance.

varies

November

Corporation for Public Broadcasting American History and Civics Initiative

The sponsor aims to address critical shortfalls in middle and high school students' knowledge of American history, our political system, and and their roles as citizens by catalyzing new partnerships among public television, filmmakers and other content developers, the education community, the high technology sector, and others to design new, groundbreaking media projects.

research and development average award: $75,000; prototype creation average award: $350-750,000

November

National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grants

The challenge grants help institutions and organizations secure long-term improvements in and support for their humanities programs and resources. Awards are made to museums, public libraries, colleges, research institutions, historical societies and historic sites, public television and radio stations, universities, scholarly associations, state humanities councils, and other nonprofit entities. Because of the matching requirements, these awards also strengthen the humanities by encouraging nonfederal sources of support. Both federal and nonfederal funds must provide long-term benefits to the humanities. Challenge grant funds should not merely replace funds already being expended on the humanities, but instead should reflect careful strategic planning. Funds may be used for faculty or staff development programs and materials.

$30,000-800,000

November

National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grants

Funding is provided for research that uses the knowledge, methods, and perspectives of the humanities to enhance understanding of science, technology, and medicine and that significantly adds to knowledge and understanding in the humanities.

$25,000-100,000 per year

Mid-December (anticipated)

U.S. Department of Education English Language Acquisition grants

Funds are provided for professional development activities that will improve instruction for students with limited English proficiency (LEP). Funds may also be used to improve the skills of higher education faculty members through the design of new media/technology-enhanced learning materials.

varies

National Science Foundation Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement Program

The Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program seeks to improve the quality of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education for all undergraduate students. Based on a cyclic model of knowledge production and improvement of practice, CCLI supports efforts related to conducting research on STEM teaching and learning, creating new learning materials and teaching strategies, developing faculty expertise, implementing educational innovations, assessing learning, and evaluating innovations. The program supports three types of projects representing three different phases of development, ranging from small exploratory investigations to comprehensive projects.

University of Minnesota TEL Grant Program

The Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost (OSVPP) and the Office of Information Technology (OIT) sponsor the Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) Grant Program to assist instructors involved in TEL projects and to build TEL expertise within the University's instructorate. The program is administered by the TEL Council and managed through Academic Computing, OIT, and the Digital Media Center (DMC), OIT.

University of Minnesota Office for University Women Special Grants

The goal of this program is to support a more inclusive, diverse University community with an enhanced campus climate for women . The grants are intended to foster and support community, awareness, and institutional change.

Xcel Energy Foundation Supporting Education grants¹

The foundation supports projects that enrich performance in math and science and promote partnerships among students, educators, businesses, and nonprofits.

U.S. Department of Agriculture Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service Higher Education Challenge Grants Program

The sponsor provides support to stimulate and enable colleges and universities to provide the quality of education necessary to produce baccalaureate or higher degree-level graduates capable of strengthening the nation's food and agricultural, scientific, and professional work force.

National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Humanities Workshops

These grants support local and regional professional development programs for K-12 teachers and post-secondary institution faculty members. The grants may be used to develop and apply related technologies.

ADC Foundation grants¹

These grants are awarded to organizations that impact K-12 or higher education, for projects leading to systemic improvements in the teaching or learning of mathematics and science or enhancements to the "pipeline" that prepares students for work in technology-oriented industry.

Cargill Corporate Gifts to Higher Education¹

Cargill funds various educational initiatives, including:

• agriculture, business, engineering, and information technology classroom and laboratory technology improvements;
• challenge and scholarship awards program;
• diversity scholarship programs; and
• management information systems curriculum and faculty development programs.

HP Technology for Teaching Grant Initiative¹

This Hewlitt Packard initiative is designed to support the innovative use of mobile technology in K-16 education, and to help identify K-12 public schools and two- and four-year colleges and universities that HP might support with future grants. The 2005 HP Higher educational technology for Teaching Grant award includes several elements.

Lumina Foundation for Education Grants

The foundation provides funding for projects that promote access, attainment, and adult learning.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grants

The foundation provides support for programs that strengthen education in science and technology to increase interest in these fields and understanding of careers in these fields. Increasingly important are opportunities presented by electronic technologies for learning outside the classroom . This program is divided into the following sections: education for scientific and technical careers; increasing Ph.D.s for underrepresented minorities; promoting women in science and engineering; other programs for women and minorities; retention of students in higher education; and public understanding of science and technology.

University of Minnesota Development of Intercollegiate Research Proposals and Networks awards

This program is from the Office of the Vice President for Research. Its objectives are "to develop preliminary networks of interdisciplinary or interscholastic teams, to increase faculty members knowledge of sponsors' interdisciplinary and strategic funding directions, and to enable faculty members to respond more quickly and collaboratively to emerging directions in research." Awards are given in four categories:

1. travel support;
2. preliminary development of collaborative teams or networks;
3. support for colloquia or meetings; and
4. administrative support to facilitate submission of large, multi-investigator proposals.

University of Minnesota Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing research grants

Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing (ISW) is the research and publications program within the Center for Writing at the University of Minnesota. ISW supports research into writing across the curriculum by funding research grants, by publishing the work of grant recipients and speakers, and by promoting discussion throughout the University community on the study and teaching of writing.