.Welcome to the Funding Opportunities section. Here, you will be able to find news about the latest opportunities to acquire funding for institutional and collaborative projects. Make sure to stop by regularly in order to keep updated about the many opportunities you or your institution could have to start developing or implementing technology-related initiatives. 

Emphasis on two-year colleges. Focuses on the education of technicians for the high-technology fields. Encourages partnerships between academic institutions and employers to promote improvement in the education of science and engineering technicians at the undergraduate and secondary school levels. Supports curriculum development; professional development of college faculty and secondary school teachers; career pathways to two-year colleges from secondary schools and from two-year colleges to four-year institut ions; and other activities.

Secondary goal: articulation between two-year and four-year programs for K-12 prospective teachers that focus on technological education.

Also invites proposals focusing on applied research relating to technician education.

Deadlines: April 24, 2008 (Preliminary Proposal)/ October 16, 2008 (Full Proposal )

Average Award Size: $ 1,119,533.26

Program URL: http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20081800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-1378.htm

Distance learning and telemedicine loans and grants are specifically designed to provide access to education, training and health care resources for people in rural America. The Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) Program funds the use of advanced telecommunications technologies to help communities meet those needs. The grants, which are awarded through competitive process, may be used to fund telecommunications, computer networks and related advanced technologies. The anticipated amount available to fund grant awards in FY 2008 is $24,763,815.

Program URL: http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20081800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-2372.htm

Support is provided to provide grants or enter into cooperative agreements to improve postsecondary education opportunities by focusing on problem areas or improvement approaches in postsecondary education.

 

Program URL: http://www.jostens.com/company/community/index.asp

 The sponsor provides support to organizations that enhance the lives of youth and promote educational opportunities that significantly and positively impact children from birth through college.  

Deadline: 05/23/2008 

 

Program URL: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-07-410.html

The sponsor provides support for Research Education grant applications to facilitate the transfer and graduation of students of diverse backgrounds from master''''''''s to doctoral degree-granting institutions. The program promotes inter-institutional partnerships to improve the quality and quantity of students from underrepresented groups and or health disparities populations being trained as the next generation of biomedical and behavioral research scientists. This program will use the NIH Research Education (R25) grant mechanism.

 

 

Program URL: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-07-411.html

The sponsor provides support for Research Education grant applications to facilitate the transfer and graduation of students of diverse backgrounds from associate to baccalaureate degree-granting institutions. The program promotes inter-institutional partnerships to improve the quality and quantity of students from underrepresented groups and or health disparities populations being trained as the next generation of biomedical and behavioral research scientists. This program will use the NIH Research Education (R25) grant mechanism.