Federal Grant Opportunities: April 5, 2017

This summary has been brought to you
by the Office of Congressman Paul D. Tonko (NY-20).
If the grant for which you're applying accepts Congressional letters of support, please contact our office to find out how Rep. Tonko can support your request. Grant deadlines and guidelines may change. Please check with the awarding agency before applying.

Federal Funding Announcements:
This summary includes new or updated opportunities in the following areas. Please click on the topic below to view all grant announcements:

  1. Agriculture, Food and Nutrition
  2. Arts and Culture
  3. Business, Jobs and Workforce Development
  4. Children, Youth, Families and Older Americans
  5. Community Development
  6. Crime Prevention, Justice and Public Safety
  7. Education
  8. Energy and Environment
  9. Health
  10. Housing and Homelessness
  11. Infrastructure and Transportation
  12. International Development
  13. Science and Technology

 

Recent Grant and Contract Awards:

Recipient

Amount

Granting Agency

Julie Mark Cohen: A Study of Knowledge Flow and Recurring Costly Infrastructure Failures

$19,113

National Science Foundation

Jennifer Crodelle: Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

$150,000

National Science Foundation

Health Research, Inc.: HIV Care Formula Grant Program

$86,026,216

HHS Health Resources and Services Administration

Health Research, Inc.: Regional Genetics Networks

$345,180

HHS Health Resources and Services Administration

Health Research, Inc./ NYS Department of Health: Comprehensive HIV Prevention Project for Health Departments

$3,554,808

HHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

NYS Department of Health: Program to Reduce Environmental Exposures at Targeted Sites

$573,050

HHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

NYS Office for the Aging: NYS Health Insurance Information Counseling and Assistance Program

$820,699

HHS Administration For Community Living

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Building a Humanities Minor - Construction and Critique in Digital Technology

$64,670

National Endowment for the Humanities

Schenectady Community Action Program: Head Start

$1,092,030

HHS Administration for Children and Families

Skidmore College: Aquatic Metropolis - Mapping Water and Urban Form at Viceregal Mexico City (summer stipend)

$6,000

National Endowment for the Humanities

SUNY Albany: Physics and Dynamics of the Tropical Cyclone Cirrus Canopy

$574,167

National Science Foundation

Union College: Phenotypic and Genomic Patterns of Divergence across a Young Drosophila Species Complex

$103,562

National Science Foundation - Collaborative Research, RUI, SG

TOTAL:

$93,329,495



 


Featured Funding Opportunities and Grant Assistance:

Starting or growing a veteran-owned business? Sign up for the Boots to Business Reboot, an entrepreneurship training program for veterans and their spouses. Boots to Business Reboot is a two-step training program that provides participants an overview of business ownership as a career vocation, an outline and knowledge on the components of a business plan, a practical exercise in opportunity recognition, and an introduction to available public and private sector resources. Saturday, April 8, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, at the Arsenal Partnership’s Veteran Business Outreach Center. Click here to register. For more information, contact Amy Amoroso, 518-326-6328, aamoroso@arsenalpartnership.com 

Are you looking to expand your business, but lack the necessary capital? The SEED Program may be able to help! SEED (Small Enterprise Economic Development) is a character based micro-loan program that is funding entrepreneurs based off of character of the entrepreneur and capacity of the business. Applications for the Spring Session of the SEED Program are now being accepted. Application deadline is May 10, 2017. For more information, contact Kate Baker, 518-380-5073, kbaker@.edu

Wednesday, April 26, 2017, 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM, at Fulton Montgomery Community College. Representatives from the U.S. Small Business Administration, USDA Rural Development as well as our state partners will discuss how to directly access tools and resources from the federal, state and local level and how this can help you grow your business. Topics will include: Available programs, program funding, applications, application deadlines as well as answering your questions. There is no cost to attend this event. Please RSVP by Friday, April 21, using the Eventbrite link: https://regionalbusinessforum.eventbrite.com

Find and use Census data for everyday purposes, including informing business planning, supporting grant proposals and research projects, planning of local schools and hospitals, and much more! Whether you’re looking for economic or demographic data, the U.S. Census Bureau can teach you how to get what you need for various projects. The webinar workshops, listed here, will provide information and computer-oriented training in various topic areas.

The latest issue of PND Connections is now available.

The Weekly NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices, NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts, 03-31-2017 Edition is now available.

The Weekly NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices, NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts, 03-24-2017 Edition is now available.

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This summary has been brought to you
by the Office of Congressman Paul D. Tonko (NY-20).

Does one of these grants accept Congressional Letters of Support?
Please contact our office to find out how Rep. Tonko can support your request.

Grant deadlines and guidelines may change.
Please check with the awarding agency before applying.

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