Congressman Paul D. Tonko

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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

Recent Grant and Contract Awards:

Recipient

Amount

Granting Agency

Fulton Montgomery Community College: TRIO Student Support Services

$220,000

Department of Education

General Electric Company (Niskayuna): Model-Based Extracted Water Desalination System for Carbon Sequestration

$749,322

Department of Energy -  National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)

General Electric Company (Niskayuna): Superalloy for Heavy Duty Gas Turbine Wheels for Improved Combined Cycle Efficiency

$749,999

Department of Energy -  National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)

Health Research, Inc./ NYS Department of Health: NY Actions to Prevent and Control Diabetes, and Promote School Health

$1,558,510

CDC - National Center for Chronic Diseases Prevention and Health Promotion

Health Research, Inc./ NYS Department of Health: NYS Cancer Prevention & Control Program

$8,269,773

CDC - National Center for Chronic Diseases Prevention and Health Promotion

Health Research, Inc./ NYS Department of Health: NYS Coverdell Acute Stroke Prevention Program

$750,000

CDC - National Center for Chronic Diseases Prevention and Health Promotion

Health Research, Inc./ NYS Department of Health: NYS Organized Approaches to Increase Colrectal Cancer Screening

$1,647,900

CDC - National Center for Chronic Diseases Prevention and Health Promotion

Health Research, Inc./ NYS Department of Health: Prevent, Control and Promote School Health

$1,467,826

CDC - National Center for Chronic Diseases Prevention and Health Promotion

Health Research, Inc./ NYS Department of Health: State and Local Public Health Actions to Prevent Obesity, Diabetes, Heart Disease and Stroke

$3,519,494

CDC - National Center for Chronic Diseases Prevention and Health Promotion

Health Research, Inc./NYS Department of Health: Statewide Partnership Initiative, Minority Health

$200,000

HHS - Office of Minority Health

Health Research, Inc./NYS Department of Health: Strengthening an Intra-agency Multidiscipline Rapid Response Team in NYS

$300,000

HHS – Food and Drug Administration

NYS Association of Fire Chiefs: Recruitment

$42,831

FEMA – Assistance to Firefighters SAFER

NYS Association of Fire Chiefs: Sprinkler Awareness and Smoke Alarm projects

$244,052

FEMA – Assistance to Firefighters

NYS Department of Education: Independent Living State Grants

$1,259,160

HHS - Administration on Disabilities

NYS Department of Health: Maternal and Child Health Services

$9,345,331

HHS - Health Resources and Services Administration

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: A Dynamic Bayesian Approach to Real-Time Estimation and Filtering in Grasp Acquisition and Other Contact Tasks

$369,239

National Science Foundation - NRI: Collaborative Research

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Image-Based Ecological Information System (IBEIS) for Animal Sighting Data for NEON

$105,999

National Science Foundation - EAGER-NEON

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Link between Temperature-Dependent Elasticity and Viscosity of Glass-forming Liquids

$612,126

National Science Foundation

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Micro and Nanoscale Thin Film Pyroelectric Materials via Strain Engineering

$119,999

National Science Foundation - EAGER

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Transportation Network Identification: Information Fusion via Stochastic Optimization

$144,500

National Science Foundation - Collaborative Research

Schenectady Family Health Services: Health Center Cluster

$321,823

HHS - Health Resources and Services Administration

SUNY Albany: A Dynamic Bayesian Approach to Real Time Estimation and Filtering in Grasp Acquisition and Other Contact Tasks

$220,997

National Science Foundation - NRI: Collaborative Research

SUNY Albany: Big Weather Web - A Common and Sustainable Big Data Infrastructure in Support of Weather Prediction Research and Education in Universities

$246,111

National Science Foundation - Collaborative Research: SI2-SSI

SUNY Albany: Immigration Enforcement and the Health of Immigrants and their Children

$216,589

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

SUNY System Administration: SUNY Replication Project

$50,000

National Science Foundation - I-Corps L

TOTAL

$32,731,581

 

 

Featured Funding Opportunities and Grant Assistance:

The IRS is hosting a webinar on Business Taxes for the Self-Employed on Wednesday, August 26th at 2:00 p.m. EDT.  New entrepreneurs and growing businesses can get back to the basics during this free, one-hour webinar.  To register, click on the following link:

https://www.webcaster4.com/Webcast/Page/445/9489

 

The USDA Rural Development Section 502 Direct Loan Program provides low and very low income people the opportunity to acquire, build, rehabilitate, or improve single family dwellings in rural areas.  Under this program, borrowers receive a loan directly from USDA Rural Development.  The standard term for a section 502 loan is 33 years.  However, loans may be made for a shorter term, and in some cases for 38 years.  Each loan is made at a fixed rate established by the Agency and payment subsidies are available to many (income eligible) borrowers to reduce monthly loan payments.  For more information contact: USDA Rural Development, 2530 State Route 40, Greenwich, NY  12834.  Phone: (518) 692-9940 ext.4, TDD (315)477-6447.

 

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.

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