APTS Grant Center Funding Newsletter-October 2010
October 14, 2010
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Join The APTS Grant Center Conference Call with the Knight Foundation
U.S. Department of Education Announces Promise Neighborhoods Planning Grant Recipients
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Announces Grant Recipients
Station in the Spotlight
New Website Overview
Share Your Success Stories
Open Federal Funding Opportunities
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Join The APTS Grant Center Conference Call with the Knight Foundation
“The flow of local news is as important as the flow of jobs, or the flow of traffic, or electricity. It is a resource essential to a properly functioning community – a resource we can no longer take for granted.” - Alberto Ibargüen, Knight Foundation CEO and President
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is a major investor in local journalism and media innovation. With the goal of helping to “define and meet the information needs of communities in a democracy,” Knight has invested $100 million in a Media Innovation Initiative in addition to its ongoing funding in journalist training, newsroom diversity, digital media and freedom of information. Among Knight’s initiatives is a five-year Community Information Challenge, which offers matching grants to foundations across America to support creative ways of informing and engaging communities. A recent grant went to the Hawaii Community Foundation for a project in partnership with PBS Hawaii.
Learn more about the Knight Foundation’s groundbreaking work during a conference call on Wednesday, October 27, at 2:00 p.m. EDT. The call will feature Eric Newton, Vice President for the Journalism Program at the Knight Foundation, as well as Polly Talen, Program Director for the Community Information Challenge; Robert Pennybacker, VP of Creative Services at PBS Hawaii; and Kalowena Komeiji, Director of Communications for the Hawaii Community Foundation. The call will include time for Q&A.
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U.S. Department of Education Announces Promise Neighborhoods Planning Grant Recipients
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced that 21 nonprofit organizations and institutions of higher education will receive one-year Promise Neighborhoods planning grants. Recipients will create plans to provide services that improve the educational achievement and healthy development of young people. The full list of recipients, including links to their abstracts, is available here.
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Announces Grant Recipients
The departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Agriculture announced the recipients of a combined $46 million in discretionary grants designed to encourage healthier lifestyles and increase low-income families' access to nutritious food. Much of that funding derives from President Obama's landmark health care reform legislation enacted this spring.
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As part of our effort to showcase public media projects and provide examples of successful funding and partnering initiatives, the Grant Center newsletter will highlight one station initiative each month. This month, the story is from Maryland Public Television (MPT). Their Early Childhood project demonstrates a successful partnership with a state department of education and a commitment to filling a need in their community.
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APTS recently redesigned its website, and as you may have noticed, this change also affected the Grant Center website. The content in the Grant Center website is the same, but there are a few new features:
• Grant Center Search: On the new website, users can search for a grant or foundation by entering specific criteria. To get started, click “Search the Grant Center” in the right navigation bar on the Grant Center homepage. Here, you can search for profiles by their status, topic, federal agency, or topic. When searching by status, remember that it can be helpful to browse closed and rolling grants, in addition to currently open programs. Grant programs and foundations that are closed are not currently accepting applications, but they may open again in the future. Having an understanding of what grant programs have existed before can help you get an idea of what is required from certain agencies and foundations. Most foundations have rolling deadlines and will appear in the results of a search for grants with a rolling status. Fewer search criteria will yield more search results.
From the right navigation bar, users can also search grant profiles by topic. Clicking on one of the topics listed will direct you to a list of federal grant and foundation profiles related to that topic area.
• What’s New: As new content is added to the Grant Center section of the website, it will appear on the front page. Make sure to check this section each time you log into the Grant Center, so that you’re aware of any new grant profiles or news articles.
• RSS Feed: In order to receive updates when new content is added to the Grant Center website, you can subscribe to the Grant Center RSS Feed.
If you dont have a password to access the Grant Center, please click here to request log-in information.
For a more detailed tour of the new website, you can view our September webinar.
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Did your station receive a grant? Has the APTS Grant Center been helpful to your station in achieving its funding goals? How can we improve our service? Please let us know by clicking here and telling us your story.
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Open Federal Funding Opportunities
Discovery Research K-12
Healthy Homes Production Program
Children, Youth and Families at Risk Sustainable Community Projects
Sparks Ignition Grants for Libraries and Museums
YouthBuild Grants
Laura Bush 21st Centuries Librarian Program
U.S.-Mexico Border Environmental Education, Outreach and Support Program
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Grant: Discovery Research K-12 (DR K-12)
Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Division: Education and Human Resources
Deadline: Required letters of intent are due November 5, 2010. Full proposals are due January 6, 2011.
Description: The Discovery Research K-12 (DR K-12) program seeks to enable significant advances in pre K-12 student and teacher learning of the STEM disciplines through development, study and implementation of resources, models and technologies that eventually can and will be used effectively in many sites and circumstances across the nation. Resources include instructional and assessment materials for students and teachers, and they may come in print, multi-media, networked or virtual forms. Models include curricular frameworks and learning progressions, teacher education and professional development program designs, academic standards and other guides for learning and teaching. Technologies include tools for cyberlearning such as computer software, labware, networking and collaboration utilities, web-based resources, online gaming, virtual learning environments and portable digital media, as well as scientific tools like sensors for data capture or laboratory studies.
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Grant: Healthy Homes Production Program
Agency: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Division: Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control
Deadline: November 8, 2010
Description: The Healthy Homes Production Program is part of HUD’s overall Healthy Homes Initiative. The program takes a comprehensive approach to addressing multiple childhood diseases and injuries in a home and is part of HUD’s Healthy Homes Strategic Plan. The purpose of the Healthy Homes Production Program is to identify and correct significant housing-related health and safety hazards in low-income housing.
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Grant: Children, Youth and Families at Risk Sustainable Community Projects
Agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Division: National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
Deadline: November 10, 2010
Description: The goal of the Children, Youth and Families at Risk (CYFAR) Sustainable Community Projects (SCP) program is to marshal resources of the Land-Grant and Cooperative Extension Systems so that, in collaboration with other organizations, they can develop and deliver educational programs that equip youth who are at risk for not meeting basic human needs with the skills they need to lead positive, productive and contributing lives. Only Cooperative Extension offices at 1890 Land-Grant Institutions, 1862 Land-Grant Colleges and Universities and the University of the District of Columbia are eligible to apply. This program has two strategic objectives.
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Grant: Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries and Museums
Agency: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Deadline: November 15, 2010
Description: The Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries and Museums program is a new IMLS funding opportunity that encourages libraries, archives and museums to challenge existing assumptions about how they operate and the services they provide. These small grants support the deployment, testing and evaluation of promising and groundbreaking new tools, products, services or organizational practices. Applicants may propose activities or approaches that involve risk, as long as the risk is balanced by significant potential for improvement in the ways cultural heritage institutions serve their communities.
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Grant: YouthBuild Grants
Agency: U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)
Division: Employment and Training Administration (ETA)
Deadline: December 3, 2010
Description: YouthBuild is a youth and community development program that simultaneously addresses several core issues facing low-income communities: housing, education, employment, crime prevention and leadership development. Grants will be awarded to organizations to oversee the provision of education and employment services to disadvantaged youth in their communities. YouthBuild grantees will tap the energies and talents of disadvantaged youth to increase the supply of permanent affordable housing for homeless individuals and low-income families, and to help youth develop the leadership, learning and high-demand occupational skills needed to succeed in today’s global economy.
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Grant: Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program
Agency: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Deadline: December 15, 2010
Description: The Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program invests in the nation’s information infrastructure by funding projects designed to address the education and training needs of the professionals who help build, maintain and provide public access to the world’s wide-ranging information systems and sources. The program supports projects to develop faculty and library leaders, to recruit and educate the next generation of librarians and archivists, to conduct research, to attract undergraduate students to consider careers in libraries and archives, to build institutional capacity in graduate schools of library and information science, and to assist in the professional development of librarians and archivists. The program also seeks to help librarians develop the information and digital literacy of their communities, as well as other critical skills their users will need to be successful in the 21st century.
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Grant: U.S.-Mexico Border Environmental Education, Outreach and Support Program
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Division: Office of Air and Radiation (OAR)
Deadline: January 10, 2011. EPA requests that applicants submit an informal Intent to Apply notice by November 15, 2010, but this submission is optional.
Description: The EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation is soliciting applications to create and manage a U.S.-Mexico Border Environmental Education Partnership Program located in the U.S. section of the border region. This program will provide environmental education opportunities relating to abatement and control of air pollution for student populations in primary school, secondary school, and undergraduate and graduate schools in science, engineering and other relevant fields. Students will be encouraged to undertake air quality-related training regarding air quality issues characteristic of those found in the U.S.-Mexico border region. The long-term purpose of the education program is to better communicate environmental risks to vulnerable populations along the U.S.-Mexico border and increase the quality, number and diversity of air pollution control specialists available to work on U.S.-Mexico border air quality problems.
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Questions? Please email or call Ellen Holloway: eholloway@apts.org, 202-654-4214, or Karen Spitzfaden: kspitzfaden@apts.org, 202-654-4207, or visit our website: www.apts.org/grantcenter
