Grammy Foundation Grants

The GRAMMY Foundation offers grants in music research and preservation. Letters of inquiry must be received by the Grammy Foundation no later than October. 1, 2012. If the project is recommended for further consideration, the applicant will be invited to submit a full application in early November. Full applications will be due within approximately four weeks of notification and grant awards will be announced in March 2013.

Scientific Research Projects: $20,000 Maximum Award

The GRAMMY Foundation Grant Program awards grants to organizations and individuals to support research on the impact of music on the human condition. Examples might include the study of the effects of music on mood, cognition and healing, as well as the medical and occupational well-being of music professionals and the creative process underlying music. Priority is given to projects with strong methodological design as well those addressing an important research question.

Archiving And Preservation Projects

The GRAMMY Foundation Grant Program awards grants to organizations and individuals to support efforts that advance the archiving and preservation of the music and recorded sound heritage of the Americas. The Archiving and Preservation area has two funding categories: 

1. Preservation Implementation: $20,000 Maximum Award
2. Planning, Assessment And/Or Consultation: $5,000 Maximum Award

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Healthy Habits: Timing for Developing Sustainable Healthy Behaviors in Children and Adolescents (R01)

The National Institutes of Health is seeking applications that employ innovative research to identify mechanisms of influence and/or promote positive sustainable health behavior(s) in children and youth (birth to age 18). Positive health behaviors may include: developing healthy sleep patterns, developing effective self-regulation strategies, adaptive decision-making in risk situations, practicing proper dental hygiene, eating a balanced and nutritious diet, engaging in age-appropriate physical activity and/or participating in healthy relationships. 

Award ceiling: $500,000
Deadline: September 7, 2014  

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NEH Summer Stipends

The National Endowment for the Humanities offers summer stipends to support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both.

Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources.

Summer Stipends support full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two months.

Summer Stipends support projects at any stage of development.

Summer Stipends are awarded to individual scholars. Organizations are not eligible to apply.

Deadline: September 27, 2012 for projects beginning May 2013

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Grant Opportunities from The Spencer Foundation

The Spencer Foundation seeks to investigate ways in which education, broadly conceived, can be improved around the world. From the first, the Foundation has been dedicated to the belief that research is necessary to the improvement in education. The Foundation is thus committed to supporting high-quality investigation of education through its research programs and to strengthening and renewing the educational research community through its fellowship and training programs and related activities.

The Spencer Foundation's research grants are organized under four areas of inquiry that identify broad topics  that have fundamental and abiding importance for educational improvement.

1. The Relation Between Education and Social Opportunity
2. Organizational Learning in Schools, School Systems, and Higher Education Systems
3. Teaching, Learning, and Instructional Resources
4. Purposes and Values of Education

Small Grant Proposal (budget < $40,000)
Deadlines: October 1, 2012 and November 19, 2012
How to apply

Major Grant Proposal (budget $40,001 - $500,000)
Deadlines: preliminary proposals welcome at anytime; if invited to submit a full proposal, deadline is December 1, 2012
How do apply

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Enhancing Developmental Biology Research at Undergraduate Institutions Academic Research Enhancement Award (R15)

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) encourages grant applications to strengthen the developmental biology research environment at educational institutions that provide baccalaureate or advanced degrees, but that have not been major recipients of NIH support. In addition, this FOA attempts to foster the development of novel or underutilized experimental model systems, and to motivate students through exposure to and participation in research projects designed to study fundamental processes underlying normal development. 


Grant deadline: September 10, 2014
Award ceiling: $300,000

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Grant-in-Aid Award

The Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation awards a limited number of Grants-in-Aid for research at teh Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum semi-annually. Grants may be used for research for dissertations, theses, senior papers, publications, and other projects.Funds are awarded for the sole purpose of helping to defray living, travel, and related expenses incurred while conducting research at the LBJ Library during the period for which the grant is awarded. Grants range from $500 to $2,500.

Grant periods are June 1 through December 31 for the Fall term and January 1 through August 31 for the Spring term.

Grant applications for the Spring term must be received by September 15; recipients will be announced at the end of November. Grant applications for the Fall term must be received by March 15; recipients will be announced at the end of May. 

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Higher Education Multicultural Scholars Program

The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) announces the availability of grant funds and requests applications for the Higher Education Multicultural Scholars Program (MSP) for fiscal year (FY) 2012 to conduct undergraduate and D.V.M. scholarship programs to meet national and international needs for training food and agricultural scientists and professionals, or professionals in rural economic, community, and business development. The amount available for support of this program is approximately $990,000.

This notice identifies the objectives for MSP projects, the eligibility criteria for projects and applicants, and the application forms and associated instructions needed to apply for an MSP grant. NIFA additionally requests stakeholder input from any interested party for use in the development of the next RFA for this program.

In FY 2012, special emphasis is placed on training that will address the changing demographics of the nation and the development of 21st century skills in USDA mission areas that include STEM (Science, Technology, Education, and Mathematics) disciplines and social sciences. The next generation workforce in USDA mission sciences will be multicultural, and as for all Americans, their educational development will require tools that creatively and innovatively contribute to their areas of emphasis, profession, and U.S. global competitiveness.

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Grant Deadline: August 29, 2012

Estimated Total Program Funding: $990,000

Award Ceiling: $600,000

Award Floor: $20,000