Category: Education

Improved Reentry Education

Agency: Department of Education

Deadline: August 12, 2015

Available funding: $2,700,000. Award range: $200,000 - $350,000

Estimated number of awards: 9

Description: The purpose of the Improved Reentry Education (IRE) program is to support demonstration projects in prisoner reentry education that develop evidence of reentry education’s effectiveness. IRE seeks to demonstrate that high-quality, appropriately designed, integrated, and well-implemented educational and related services provided in institutional and community settings are critical in supporting educational attainment and reentry success for individuals who have been incarcerated.

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Improving Undergraduate STEM Education

Agency: National Science Foundation

Deadline: November 3, 2015 (exploration & design tier). January 13, 2016 (development & implementation tier)

Available funding: $110 Million. Award range: $300,000 - $3 Million

Estimated number of awards: 140

Description: A well-prepared, innovative science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce is crucial to the Nation’s health and economy. In addressing these STEM challenges and priorities, the NSF invests in evidence-based and evidence-generating approaches to understanding STEM learning; to designing, testing, and studying instruction and curricular change; to wide dissemination and implementation of best practices; and to broadening participation of individuals and institutions in STEM fields. The goals of these investments include: increasing the number and diversity of STEM students, preparing students well to participate in science for tomorrow, and improving students’ STEM learning outcomes.

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Skills for Success Program

Agency: Department of Education

Deadline: July 29, 2015

Available funding: $2,000,000. Award range: $400,000 - $600,000

Estimated number of awards: 4-5

Description: The Skills for Success Program supports Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) and their partners in implementing, evaluating, and refining tools and approaches for developing the non-cognitive skills of middle-grades students in order to increase student success. Grants provide funding for the implementation, evaluation, and refinement of existing tools and approaches (e.g., digital games, growth mindset classroom activities, experiential learning opportunities) that integrate the development of students’ non-cognitive skills into classroom-level activities and existing strategies designed to improve schools.

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Investing in Innovation (i3) Validation Grants

Agency: Department of Education

Deadline: August 4, 2015

Available funding: Award range: $0 - $12,000,000

Estimated number of awards: Validation grants: 2-4

Description: The Investing in Innovation Fund (i3) program is designed to generate and validate solutions to persistent educational challenges and to support the expansion of effective solutions to serve substantially larger numbers of students. The central design element of the i3 program is its multi-tier structure that links the amount of funding that an applicant may receive to the quality of the evidence supporting the efficacy of the proposed project. Applicants proposing practices supported by limited evidence can receive relatively small grants that support the development and initial evaluation of promising practices and help to identify new solutions to pressing challenges.

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Investing in Innovation (i3) Scale-Up Grants

Agency: Department of Education

Deadline: August 4, 2015

Available funding: Award range: $0 - $20,000,000

Estimated number of awards: Scale-Up grants: 0-1

Description: The Investing in Innovation Fund (i3) program is designed to generate and validate solutions to persistent educational challenges and to support the expansion of effective solutions to serve substantially larger numbers of students. The central design element of the i3 program is its multi-tier structure that links the amount of funding that an applicant may receive to the quality of the evidence supporting the efficacy of the proposed project. Applicants proposing practices supported by limited evidence can receive relatively small grants that support the development and initial evaluation of promising practices and help to identify new solutions to pressing challenges.

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Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program

Agency: USDA, Rural Utilities Service

Deadline: July 6, 2015

Available funding: $19,000,000 (Award range: $50,000 - $500,000)

Estimated number of awards: 65

Description: Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) grants are specifically designed to provide access to education, training and health care resources for rural Americans. The DLT Program provides financial assistance to encourage and improve telemedicine services and distance learning services in rural areas through the use of telecommunications, computer networks, and related advanced technologies to be used by students, teachers, medical professionals, and rural residents.

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First in the World Program-Validation Grants

Agency: Department of Education

Deadline: June 30, 2015

Available funding: Approx. $40 M (Award range: $6 M - $10 M)

Estimated number of awards: 0-5

Description: The First in the World (FITW) program is designed to support the development, replication, and dissemination of innovative solutions and evidence for what works in addressing persistent and widespread challenges in postsecondary education for students who are at risk for not persisting in and completing postsecondary programs, including, but not limited to, adult learners, working students, part-time students, students from low-income backgrounds, students of color, students with disabilities, and first-generation students. The focus of the FITW program is to build evidence for what works in postsecondary education by testing the effectiveness of these strategies in improving student persistence and completion outcomes.

This notice invites applications for Validation grants only. Validation grants provide funding to support the expansion and replication of projects supported by moderate evidence of effectiveness to a scaled multi-site sample, which would include multiple institutions of higher education, including multiple institutions within a State system.

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First in the World Program-Development Grants

Agency: Department of Education

Deadline: June 30, 2015

Available funding: Approx. $20 M (Award range: $1 M - $3 M)

Estimated number of awards: 6-8

Description: The First in the World (FITW) program is designed to support the development, replication, and dissemination of innovative solutions and evidence for what works in addressing persistent and widespread challenges in postsecondary education for students who are at risk for not persisting in and completing postsecondary programs, including, but not limited to, adult learners, working students, part-time students, students from low-income backgrounds, students of color, students with disabilities, and first-generation students. The focus of the FITW program is to build evidence for what works in postsecondary education by testing the effectiveness of these strategies in improving student persistence and completion outcomes.

This notice invites applications for Development grants only. Development grants will support new or substantially more effective practices for addressing widely shared challenges. Applications for Development grants must be based on Strong Theory. The Department has published a separate notice inviting applications for Validation grants.

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