MEMORANDUM:

TO:                  Grants Officers, NJ Colleges & Universities

FROM:            Tom Hagaman, NJ Commission on Higher Education

DATE: Friday, May 15, 2009

SUBJECT:     FEDERAL GRANT OPPORTUNITIES

The table below lists federal agency grant funding opportunities open to public and/or private higher education institutions which have been announced in the last week.To get more information about a particular opportunity, click on the “Opportunity Title”.

Open Date	Opportunity Title	Agency	Funding Number
05/08/2009	NRL Wide Broad Agency Announcement BAA-N00173-01	Naval Research Laboratory	BAA-N00173-01
05/08/2009	Prairie Dog Colony Delineation In Montana	Department of the Interior	BLM-MT-NOI09-1023
05/08/2009	Office of Postsecondary Education; The U.S.-Russia Program: Improving Research and Educational Activities in Higher Education;Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 84.116S	U.S. Department of Education	ED-GRANTS-050809-001
05/11/2009	Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology	National Science Foundation	09-560
05/11/2009	Major Research Instrumentation Program	National Science Foundation	09-561
05/11/2009	NEA Arts on Radio and Television, FY 2010	National Endowment for the Arts	2009NEA01ARTV
05/11/2009	Joint NNSA AFRL Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Fiscal Year 2010 for Nuclear Explosion Monitoring Research Development (Solicitation for Proposals)	NNSA	DE-AR52-09NA29249A
05/11/2009	DHS Scientific Leadership Awards for Minority Serving Institutions Granting Bachelor Degrees	Office of Procurement Operations - Grants Division	DHS-09-ST-062-002
05/11/2009	Exploring Linkages Between Health Outcomes and Environmental Hazards, Exposures, and Interventions for Public Health Tracking and Risk Management	Environmental Protection Agency	EPA-G2009-STAR-B1
05/11/2009	Exploring Linkages Between Health Outcomes and Environmental Hazards, Exposures, and Interventions for Public Health Tracking and Risk Management	Environmental Protection Agency	EPA-G2009-STAR-B2
05/11/2009	Region 2 Wetland Program Development Grants	Environmental Protection Agency	EPA-R2-09WPDG
05/11/2009	Middle Rio Grande Bosque Initiative	U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service	FWS-FY2009-MRGBI
05/11/2009	American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 - Strengthening Communities Fund - State, Local, and Tribal Government Capacity Building Program	Administration for Children and Families	HHS-2009-ACF-OCS-SN-0092
05/11/2009	Research Opportunities In Space Life Sciences: Fundamental Space Biology - Animal Physiology	NASA Headquarters	NNH09ZTT003N
05/11/2009	Energy Audits and Renewable Energy Development Assistance Grants	Business and Cooperative Programs	RDCP-09-REAP-AUDITS
05/11/2009	Utah Conservation Innovation Aquaculture Grant 2009		USDA-NRCS-UTAH-CIG-FY09-AQUACULTURE
05/12/2009	Recovery Act Limited Competition: NCMHD Community Participation in Health Disparities Intervention Research Planning Phase (R24)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-MD-09-006
05/12/2009	Recovery Act Limited Competition: NCMHD Exploratory Centers of Excellence (P20)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-MD-09-007
05/12/2009	Recovery Act Limited Competition: NCMHD Dissertation Research Award to Increase Diversity (R36)	National Institutes of Health	RFA-MD-09-008
05/13/2009	NEOVISION2	DARPA - Defense Sciences Office	DARPA-09-58
05/13/2009	2009 DHS Scientific Leadership Awards for Minority Serving Institutions Granting Graduate Degrees	Office of Procurement Operations - Grants Division	DHS-09-ST-062-003
05/13/2009	Region 8 Wetland Program Development Grants	Environmental Protection Agency	EPA-REG-08-WPDG-2009
05/13/2009	Translational Programs in Lung Diseases (P01)	National Institutes of Health	PAR-09-185
05/14/2009	Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program	Bureau of Reclamation - Lower Colorado Region	09SF300006
05/14/2009	Technology Development Grants	Pipeline &Hazardous Material Safety Administration	DTPH56-09-SN-0004
05/14/2009	Help America Vote Act (HAVA) Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) to Assist Protection and Advocacy Systems (P & As) to Establish or Improve Voting Access for Individuals with Disabilities	Administration for Children and Families	HHS-2009-ACF-ADD-DH-0044
05/14/2009	Compassion Capital Fund (CCF) Demonstration Program	Administration for Children and Families	HHS-2009-ACF-OCS-EJ-0009
05/14/2009	NIJ FY 09 Predictive Policing Analytic and Evaluation Research Support	National Institute of Justice	NIJ-2009-2240

NOTE:

The scope of searches has been expanded to include “Unrestricted”, “Individuals”, and “Others” as well as Private and Public Institutions of higher education.For broader or more focused searches, visit http://www.grants.gov/search/advanced.do.