University Small Grants Broad Agency Announcement

This is a five-year, open-ended Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) to solicit research proposals for the United States Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Directed Energy (RD) Directorate. This BAA is a university grant vehicle that can provide small grants of $100k or less to students/professors in a timely manner for the purpose of engaging U.S./U.S. territories’ colleges and universities in directed energy-related basic, applied, and advanced research projects that are of interest to the Department of Defense. 

The scope of the research will include the entire spectrum of directed energy technology that is applicable to the Air Force, including all tangentially-related directed energy research. The research shall include, but not be limited to: lasers; optics and beam control; high power microwaves, and directed energy effects, modeling and simulation.

Multiple awards of grants up to $100k are anticipated with a period of performance ranging from one to two years. Subject to the availability of funding, AFRL/RD plans to award a minimum of one grant per fiscal year. However, AFRL/RD does reserve the right to make multiple awards or no awards pursuant to this solicitation.

PROPOSAL DUE DATE AND TIME: This BAA will remain open for a period of five years from the date of publication. Proposals may be submitted at any time during that period. However, prospective offerors/applicants must call the technology points of contacts (POCs) listed in Paragraph C of the full text announcement to confirm funding is available for the technology area of consideration before submitting a proposal. Proposals are reviewed and evaluated as they are received. Closing Date: Apr. 1, 2017

The official announcement and description of this opportunity may be found on the funding agency's website:
http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=161214


Award limit: $100,000Deadline: 4/1/2017

Mid-Career Grant in Historic Preservation

Fitch Mid-Career grants of up to $15,000 are awarded annually to one or two mid-career professionals who have an academic background, professional experience and an established identity in one or more of the following fields: historic preservation, architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, environmental planning, architectural history and the decorative arts. The James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation will consider proposals for the research and/or the execution of the preservation-related projects in any of these fields. 

Deadline: September 15, 2013
Award amount: $15,000

Read entire solicitation

Documentary Film Proposals

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Media, Culture, and Special Initiatives program supports the production and distribution of social-issue documentary films that address important contemporary topics and are intended for a broad audience, particularly in the United States.

For the current round, initial online proposals will be accepted between July 15 and July 31, 2013. If a project is selected as a semi-finalist, the applicant will be notified by September 1 and asked to submit a full proposal and detailed budget. Funding decisions are expected in November.

Applicants may request any funding amount, but the typical grant range is between $50,000 and $200,000.

Link to full proposal

Various Climate Funding Opportunities

NOAA has compiled a list of Climate Funding Opportunities.  This document provides a snapshot of currently available, climate-related funding opportunities from NSF, NOAA, EPA, Fish and Wildlife, USGS, FEMA and various private foundations (as of June 3, 2013). 

Climate Funding Opportunities