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) [cid:b4e4e835-c057-403a-abbd-3b0045d5a9f6]