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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

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Recent Grant and Contract Awards:

Recipient	Amount	Granting Agency
Albany International Airport: Construct Deicing Containment Facility	$898,200	Department of Transportation - Federal Aviation Administration
College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering: Formal Methods Based Algorithmic Synthesis of More-Than-Moore Nano-Crossbars for Extreme-Scale Computing	$84,896	National Science Foundation - XPS: EXPL: FP: Collaborative Research
Duanesburg Fire District #2: Operations and Safety	$14,724	Department of Homeland Security - Assistance to Firefighters
Fulton-Montgomery Community College: FMCC TECH-Lane NSF ATE Project	$397,673	National Science Foundation
NYS Department of Environmental Conservation: Interstate Management of Marine Fisheries in NYS	$179,949	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
NYS Department of Transportation: Emergency Relief (ER), June - July 2013 Flooding	$5,000,000	Federal Highway Administration
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Crystalline Atomically Thin Layers for Photonic Applications	$2,000,000	National Science Foundation - EFRI 2-DARE
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Demand-Response PEV Charging Control in Smart Grids for Renewable Supply Utilization and Hedging and Transfer of Forecast Risk	$398,298	National Science Foundation
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Redesigning Video Streaming Infrastructure to Systematically Reduce Mobile Device Video Display Energy Consumption in the Video-rich Era	$200,000	National Science Foundation - Collaborative Research
Skidmore College: A New Computer Science Faculty Teaching Workshop	$33,040	National Science Foundation - Collaborative Research
Skidmore College: Research - National Study Investigating the Precise Medical Cause of Cardiac Deaths in the Fire Service	$1,434,199	Department of Homeland Security - Assistance to Firefighters
St. Joseph's School (Albany): Certified Rehabilitation Work on Historic Buildings	$10,000,000	National Park Service - Federal Historic Tax Credits
SUNY Albany: Connecting Idea Threads across Communities for Sustained Knowledge Building	$1,342,537	National Science Foundation - DIP
SUNY Research Foundation: Assessing the Predictability of Tropical Cyclone Intensity using HWRF	$200,000	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
TOTAL	$22,183,516

 

Featured Funding Opportunities and Grant Assistance:

Interested in Building or Repairing a Home in Rural New York?  USDA Rural Development Seeks Applications for Grants & Loans- Prospective and current homeowners in Amsterdam, NY are now eligible to apply for USDA funding to purchase, build, or repair a home. USDA Rural Development’s Single Family Housing Program funds can also be used to make energy efficiency improvements or make a home handicap accessible.  For more information please call the Rural Development Schoharie office at (518) 295-8600, ext. 4 or click here.

 

The Residential Agriculture Discount Program is an electricity rate discount applied to the electricity delivery charge, available September 1, 2014, to eligible National Grid residential agriculture customers, as a result of funding through the New York Power Authority (NYPA) ReCharge New York Program.  Click here for more information.  

 

Grant Writing and Grant Management Tool Kit for Self-Advocates- The Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD) developed Grant Writing and Grant Management Tool Kit for Self-Advocates to help self-advocacy organizations apply for grants.  The toolkit provides information on how self-advocacy organizations can become more independent and guidance on how to become a tax-exempt non-profit organization (501c3).  Its content is based on feedback from self-advocates who received funding from the ACL Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities to administer self-advocacy organizational development grants, which served as pilot projects for federal funding of self-advocacy organizations.

 

Fall National SBIR/STTR Conference- Attention technology entrepreneurs, the Fall National SBIR/STTR Conference (NSC) will take place November 11 - 13 at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center in Austin, TX.  At this conference, attendees will learn from senior SBIR/STTR leaders and successful small businesses how to compete for SBIR/STTR funding in two dozen federal agencies.  Click here to see the event homepage.

 

The latest issue of Foundation Center Arts Funding Watch is now available.

 

The latest issue of Foundation Center Education Funding Watch is now available.

 

The latest issue of Philanthropy News Digest is now available.

 

The latest issue of Philanthropy News Digest RFP Bulletin is now available.

 

The Department of Commerce Week at Glance:United States and Africa are Open for Business is now available.

 

The Department of Commerce Week at Glance: U.S. – India Strategic Dialogue is now available.

 

The Small Business Administration Bulletin August 3^rd Edition is now available.

 

The Small Business Administration Bulletin August 10^th Edition is now available.