10:31 a.m.
Greetings Colleagues,
Here are three opportunities from the federal government and one foundation opportunity
for your consideration. Hope your summer is going well.
Thank you.
--Iwan
US Environmental Protection Agency Children’s Healthy Learning Environments in Low-Income
and/or Minority Communities Due September 10. 2021.
https://www.epa.gov/children/childrens-healthy-learning-environments-low-...
The purpose of this Children’s Healthy Learning Environments in Low-Income and/or Minority
Communities solicitation (RFA) is to provide funds for capacity building activities to
address disproportionate children’s environmental health harms and risks in school and/or
childcare settings in, or that primarily serve, low-income and/or minority communities.
This RFA provides funding directly to organizations to support school- and/or childcare
center-based capacity building projects that help school communities understand and
address local environmental and public health issues that affect children. Projects must
take place in schools and/or childcare centers that are located in minority and/or
low-income communities and/or primarily serve student populations that are minority and/or
low-income (e.g., Head Start and Early Head Start programs, Title I schools, tribal
schools). OCHP will host an informational webinar for potential applicants on August 12,
2021, from 2:00pm – 3:00pm Eastern Time. To register, visit:
https://www.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_6j1fyoTZROSGD-L-yBSqOQ
US Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Effective
Educator Development (EED) Program: American History and Civics Education National
Activities (AHC-NA). Due August 18, 2021.
https://oese.ed.gov/offices/office-of-discretionary-grants-support-servic...
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/07/19/2021-15365/applicati...
The purpose of this program is to promote new and existing evidence-based strategies to
encourage innovative American history, civics and government, and geography instruction,
learning strategies, and professional development activities and programs for teachers,
principals, or other school leaders, particularly such instruction, strategies,
activities, and programs that benefit students from low-income backgrounds and other
underserved populations. The AHC-NA Program seeks to promote evidence-based approaches
that encourage innovative American history and civics education. In particular, the
program seeks to promote strategies, activities, and programs that benefit students from
low-income backgrounds and other underserved populations.
US Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Effective
Educator Development (EED) Program: American History and Civics Education-Presidential and
Congressional Academies for American History and Civics. Due August 18, 2021.
https://oese.ed.gov/offices/office-of-discretionary-grants-support-servic...
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/07/19/2021-15364/applicati...
The Academies Program supports the establishment of: (1) Presidential Academies for the
Teaching of American History and Civics that offer workshops for both veteran and new
teachers to strengthen their knowledge of American history, civics, and government
education (Presidential Academies); and (2) Congressional Academies for Students of
American History and Civics that provide high school students opportunities to enrich
their understanding of these subjects (Congressional Academies). The Academies Program
supports projects to raise student achievement in American history and civics by improving
teachers' and students' knowledge, understanding, and engagement with these
subjects through intensive workshops with scholars, master teachers, and curriculum
experts. Project activities should reflect the best available research and practice in
teaching and learning.
Sloan Foundation Support for Authors Researching, Writing Books aimed at Public
Understanding of Science and Technology Due Sept. 1,2021; Jan. 1, 2022; May 1, 2022.
https://sloan.org/programs/public-understanding/books
The Foundation remains committed to books, both for their intrinsic value as a matrix of
uniquely rich experience and deep learning, and for their adaptability to other media for
broader dissemination and popularization. The current book program began in 1996 and has
supported over 200 authors. For the prior two decades, the Foundation supported the Sloan
Series of Scientific Autobiographies in the 1980s and the Sloan Technology Series, begun
in 1994, which was continued under the current program.
Supported books tend to fall into the following categories:
* Books that elucidate important subjects where the science is confusing or
controversial;
* Books that profile important figures in science and technology;
* Books relating science and technology to daily life;
* Books exploring the numerous connections between science, technology, and art;
* Books about the relationship between women and science and technology;
* Books about the culture and philosophy of science.
The Foundation will sometimes deviate from these categories for book projects of unusual
scientific, artistic, or cultural importance.
Before submitting a full proposal, first send a letter of inquiry to Doron Weber at
weber@sloan.org<mailto:weber@sloan.org>. Only submit a full proposal if one is
invited in response to your letter. Book grants can be made to individuals or to
affiliated nonprofit organizations, such as a university. Book grants are typically
$50,000 or less.
Mr. Iwan Notowidigdo
Senior Grant Development Coordinator
The University of Texas at San Antonio
College of Education & Human Development (COEHD)
iwan.notowidigdo(a)utsa.edu
(Mobile: 347-231-5931)
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