Silicon Valley entrepreneur Peter Thiel has announced that the Thiel Foundation is accepting applications for a new class of "20 Under 20" Thiel Fellows.

Thiel Fellowships provide two-year grants of $100,000 to 20 people under 20 years of age so that they can leave the classroom and pursue innovation.

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The William T. Grant Foundation seeks to fund high-quality empirical research with the goal of improving the lives of youth between 8 and 25 years of age in the United States. To help accomplish this goal, the foundation is requesting Letters of Inquiry for its Request for Proposals on Understanding the Acquisition, Interpretation, and Use of Research Evidence in Policy and Practice.

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This program supports projects that provide an essential underpinning for scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities. Thousands of libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country maintain important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture, and digital objects.

 

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The Special Grant Program in the Chemical Sciences provides funding for innovative projects in any area consistent with the Foundation's broad objective to advance the chemical sciences.

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The Transitions to Independent Environmental Health Research (TIEHR) Career Development Award is a 3-year bridge scholar development program for newly independent faculty.  This award is intended to provide junior faculty the pilot funding and salary support during this critical period of career development so that he/she can further develop his/her independent research program and, subsequently, successfully compete for research funding in the environmental health sciences at the completion of the award.

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THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION has funding available to nonprofit and public agencies to implement projects to improve the educational and developmental outcomes of children in America's most distressed communities and to transform those communities.

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“Grow Dakota - Education for a Strong Economy”  SD EPSCoR Funds-2013 The purpose of the Request for Proposal (RFP) is to solicit proposals to increase career opportunities and achievement of secondary school students by enhancing, expanding and developing new programs and opportunities in specific Career Clusters.

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Wells Fargo and the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation have announced Environmental Solutions for Communities, a new grant program to help communities in the United States create a more sustainable future through responsible environmental stewardship.

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The AARP Foundation Women's Scholarship Program is helping win back opportunity for low-income, 50+ women by funding education, training, and skills upgrades that can lead to better employment and increased financial security for women and their families.

 

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The American Youth Leadership Program will provide high school students and adult educators from the United States with an opportunity to travel abroad on a three- to four-week-long exchange program to gain firsthand knowledge of foreign cultures and to collaborate on solving global issues.

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Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources in the humanities. Projects may be at any stage of development.

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The Bush Foundation fellowship program is designed to provide an opportunity for individuals in the foundation's service area (MN, SD, ND) to increase their capacity for and improve their practice of leadership while working with others to solve tough problems in their communities.

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The Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program is a major research and development effort that supports innovative partnerships to improve K-12 student achievement in mathematics and science. MSP projects are expected to raise the achievement levels of all students and significantly reduce achievement gaps in the STEM performance of diverse student populations. MSP projects contribute to what is known in K-12 STEM education.

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Program Description: The NCNR Comprehensive Grant Program provides funding to eligible proposers to support research involving Neutron Research and Spectroscopy specifically aimed at assisting visiting researchers at the NCNR, developing new instrumentation for Neutron Research, conducting collaborative research with NIST scientists, and to conduct other outreach and educational activities that advance the use of neutrons by U.S. academia and industrial scientists. This will entail stationing scientific staff at the NCNR who, in collaboration with NIST and visiting scientists, advance these objectives. Proposers and team members must possess the education, experience, and training to pursue and advance the field of Neutron Scattering efficiently. In addition, the proposer and team members must possess a demonstrated record of excellence in research involving neutron scattering methods.
 

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The list of Title II-eligible partner school district has been updated to reflect the most recent SAIPE data.

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