<p>The Institutional Challenge Grant encourages research institutions to build sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. Applications are welcome from partnerships in youth-serving areas such as education, justice, child welfare, mental health, immigration, and workforce development. The purpose of this award is to encourage research institutions to build sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes.
<p>The program is intended to enrich the academic experiences by promoting arts education for students, including disadvantaged students and students who are children with disabilities.
<p>The inaugural call for pre-proposals is focused on supporting team based research addressing the topic teachers learning to facilitate communication in the classroom (e.g., eliciting student explanations, guiding collaborative discussions, making effective use of questions).
<p>For partnership grantees, services must include providing financial aid information, encouraging enrollment in challenging coursework in order to reduce the need for remediation at the postsecondary level, implementing<br>activities to improve the number of students who obtain a high school diploma and complete applications for and enroll in a program of postsecondary education.
<p>Five year activity whose overall objective is to contribute to USAID/Ethiopia's goal of improving the reading proficiency of 15 million children. READ II also intends to achieve two cross-cutting and complementary objectives: demonstrate interventions that can meaningfully and measurably prepare a range of vulnerable students for learning and contribute to the implementation of a structured gender approach to increase boys' and girls' grade retention and grade progression at key grades in key regions or zones.
<p>The AAUP Foundation is organized and operated for charitable purposes including, but not limited to, establishing and supporting principles of academic freedom and the quality of higher education in a free and democratic society.<br>Through its grant program, the Foundation provides financial support to individuals or organizations that support the charitable purposes of the Foundation.
<p>The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising earlycareer researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand junior researchers’ expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas. This award includes a mentoring component, as well as an emphasis on community and collaboration. Scholars Program applicants should have a track record of conducting high-quality research and an interest in pursuing a significant shift in their trajectories as researchers.
<p>This Announcement solicits applications for Reentry Projects. The purpose of these grants is to use evidence-based and informed interventions, or new interventions that theory or research suggests are promising, (or a combination of both) to improve employment outcomes of adults ages 25 and older that were formerly incarcerated in the adult criminal justice system and released within 180 days or young adults between the ages of 18 to 24 who have been involved in the juvenile or adult justice system.
<p>Synopsis of Program: The Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program seeks to advance new approaches to and evidence-based understanding of the design and development of STEM learning opportunities for the public in informal environments; provide multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences; and advance innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments.
<p>The AZ Developmental Disabilities Council issues competitive grants based on the goals of their Five-Year State Plan:Â Self-advocacy, Integrated Employment and Inclusion. The purpose of this grant is to enable individuals with developmental disabilities to become independent, productive, integrated and included into their communities.