Below please find a list of Upcoming Funding Opportunities with private philanthropic foundations for you to share with faculty. Faculty who plan to submit to any of these programs or have additional questions should contact Donna Van Pelt at the ISU Foundation, 294-1280 dvanpelt@foundation.iastate.edu.

• Spencer Foundation - RFP for Evidence for the Classroom 6/11/2013 Preproposal

The foundation will support research studies that address the following central question, “How do K-8 teachers use student performance data for instructional decisions and how do organizational and individual factors affect that use?”

Grants of $50,000-$300,000 - www.spencer.org/resources/content/2/1/4/documents/RFP.pdf

• The William T. Grant Foundation - Scholars Program 7/8/2013

The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports promising early career, tenure track researchers (max. seven years from terminal degree) from diverse disciplines who have demonstrated success in conducting high-quality research and are seeking to further develop and broaden their expertise.

Candidates are nominated by their institutions and must submit five-year research plans that enhance understanding of youth settings and youth development or how research evidence is used in policy and practice that affect youth. ISU may nominate one scholar per college and the dean’s approval is required.

Grants are $350,000 - www.wtgrantfoundation.org/funding_opportunities/fellowships/william_t__g...

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Healthy Eating Research 7/10/2013 Concept

Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity: The program supports research on environmental and policy strategies with strong potential to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among lower-income and racial and ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity.

Grants are $100,000 for 12-18 month duration - http://pweb1.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp_HER2013.pdf

• Howard Hughes Medical Institute 7/16/2013

New awards for science education: awards will enable professors to develop and implement science education activities. To be eligible, applicant must be a PI on one or more active, national peer-reviewed research award of at least three-year duration (i.e. NIH, NSF, American Cancer Society) and must have undergraduate teaching responsibilities.

NOTE: Interested applicants must establish eligibility by June 4, 2013. Grants capped at $1 million - www.hhmi.org/grants/individuals/professors.html

• Spencer Foundation - Small Research Grants 7/23/2013

Spencer also has a small research grant competition related to education. There are five areas of inquiry.

Grants up to $50,000 - www.spencer.org/content.cfm/areas-of-inquiry

• William T. Grant Foundation - Research Grants 8/1/2013 Letter of Intent

The William T. Grant Foundation accepts letters of intent in its research focus areas. 1) Social Settings—how youth settings work, how they affect youth development, and how they can be improved and 2) Use of Research Evidence.

Grants range $100,000-$600,000. An application guide and information about current research areas of interest may be found at: www.wtgrantfoundation.org/funding_opportunities/research_grants/use-of-r...

• Cottrell Scholar Award 8/1/2013

Awards for tenure-track faculty members whose primary appointment is in a bachelor’s - and Ph.D.-granting department of astronomy, biochemistry, biophysics, chemistry, or physics. Eligibility for this cycle is limited to faculty members who started their first tenure-track position anytime in calendar year 2010. Successful applicants must demonstrate a strong commitment to undergraduate education and high prospects for becoming a national leader in their field of research. Proposals consist of both educational and research plans.

Grants are $75,000 - www.rescorp.org/grants-and-awards/cottrell-scholar-awards/how-to-apply/g...

• Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation - Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry 8/14/2013

Applications are accepted from principal investigators with well-established research efforts in environmental science or engineering. These research activities need not be located in traditional departments in the chemical sciences, and collaboration across departments and institutions is encouraged. Applications most likely to be of interest should describe innovative fundamental research in the chemical sciences or engineering related to the environment. (e.g. the climate, the atmosphere, aquatic or marine settings, toxicology, soil or groundwater.) Also of interest are chemistry-related energy research (renewable sources, sequestration, etc.), and new or green approaches to chemical synthesis and processing, with a clearly stated relation to the environment.

Grants are $120,000 for postdoc stipend - www.dreyfus.org/awards/postdoctoral_program.shtml

• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Ongoing Letter of Inquiry

The Sloan Foundation makes grants in six program areas. Those applicable to Iowa State are included in these broad areas (see website for specific programs): www.sloan.org/major-program-areas

• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Ongoing Letter of Inquiry

The foundation accepts letters of inquiry for projects within these initiatives: Discovery and Translational Sciences, Enteric and Diarrheal Diseases, HIV, Malaria, Neglected Infectious Diseases, Pneumonia, Tuberculosis.

Grand Challenges Explorations Round 12 Opens September 2013 - www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/General-Information/Grant-Opportunities

More information available at: http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/waterqualityicgp.cfm