Category: Grants

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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FY 15 COPS Anti-Gang Initiative

Agency: Department of Justice, Community Oriented Policing Services

Deadline: June 19, 2015

Available funding: $7,000,000 (Award range: $0 - $750,000)

Estimated number of awards: 10

Description: COPS Anti-Gang Initiative (CAGI) provides funds directly to the lead law enforcement agency on a multijurisdictional task force to address gang activity. Funds awarded through CAGI shall be used to support regional anti-gang task forces focusing on enforcement, prevention/education, and intervention of gang activity. Funding is limited and this solicitation is expected to be very competitive. Strong applications should demonstrate a multijurisdictional reach and participation in interdisciplinary team structures (i.e., task forces). The goal for this program is to advance public safety by increasing efforts to address gang activities. The COPS Office reserves the right to limit awards to one per state at the time of award announcement.

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FY 15 COPS Community Policing Development

Agency: Department of Justice, Community Oriented Policing Services

Deadline: June 19, 2015

Available funding: $4,000,000 (Award range: $75,000 - $1,000,000)

Estimated number of awards: Varies by topic area. See official announcement for details.

Description: Community Policing Development (CPD) funds are used to advance the practice of community policing in law enforcement agencies through training and technical assistance, demonstration project, the development of innovative community policing strategies, applied research, guidebooks, and best practices. The 2015 CPD program has been established to fund specific projects related to the following topic areas: (1) Micro-grant Initiative for Law Enforcement; (2) Critical Response Technical Assistance; (3) Community Policing Emerging Issues Forums; (4) President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing Field Initiated Projects; (5) Collaborative Reform Initiative Program Evaluation; and (6) Invitational Awards.

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FY 15 COPS Hiring Program

Agency: Department of Justice, Community Oriented Policing Services

Deadline: June 19, 2015

Available funding: $134.5 M (Award range: $0 - $3,125,000)

Estimated number of awards: 200

Description: The COPS Hiring Program (CHP) provides funding directly to law enforcement agencies to hire and/or rehire career law enforcement officers in an effort to increase their community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. 2015 CHP grants will cover up to 75 percent of the approved entry-level salary and fringe benefits of each newly-hired and/or rehired, full-time sworn career law enforcement officer over the three-year (36 months) grant period, with a minimum 25 percent local cash match requirement and a maximum federal share of $125,000 per officer position. CHP grant funding will be based on your agency’s current entry-level salary and fringe benefits for full-time sworn officers; any additional costs for higher than entry-level salaries and fringe benefits will be the responsibility of the grantee agency. All agencies’ requests will be capped at no more than five percent of their actual sworn force strength as reported at the time of updated application, up to a maximum of 25 officers. Agencies with a service population of 1 million or above may apply for up to 25 officer positions; agencies with a service population less than 1 million may apply for up to 15 officer positions. The request of any agency with a sworn force less than or equal to 20 will be capped at one officer.

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FY 15 Coastal Ecosystem Resiliency Grants Program

Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Deadline: July 2, 2015

Available funding: $4 M (Award range: $500,000 - $1 M)

Estimated number of awards: TBD

Description: The principal objective of the National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS) Coastal Ecosystem Resiliency Grants Program is to implement projects that use a proactive approach to improve or restore coastal habitat to: (1) Strengthen the resilience of our marine or coastal ecosystems to decrease the vulnerability of communities to extreme weather; and (2) support sustainable fisheries and contribute to the recovery of protected resources.

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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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