Grants Alert
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.30157 |
| Published date | 07 December 2017 |
| Date | 07 December 2017 |
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DOT announces Forces to
Flyers research initiative
U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)
Secretary Elaine L. Chao has announced the
creation of Forces to Flyers, a new research
initiative aimed at supporting military veterans
who are interested in becoming commercial pilots.
"There is a commercial pilot shortage due to the
increased demand for air travel," Secretary Chao
said recently in a statement. "The Forces to Flyers
research initiative is a new strategy to address
the pilot shortage by offering interested military
veterans a path to becoming commercial pilots. In
order for America to continue to be a world leader
in aviation, we must search for ways to address
our country's pilot shortage, invest in our Nation's
workforce, and ensure that our veterans have the
support they need as they transition to the next
phase of their careers," Secretary Chao said.
The department said during the three-year
initiative, researchers will also identify barriers
to training and employment, and design and
implement an initiative that can provide ight
training to individuals interested in becoming
commercial pilots. A major priority of the research
initiative will be preserving and increasing air
service to rural and small communities by assisting
and encouraging new pilots to enter the career
pipeline, DOT said.
The department anticipates that participants in
the initiative will receive ight training extending
from the rst ight lesson through the training
necessary to become a Certied Flight Instructor
or Certied Flight Instructor-Instrument. Once a
participant receives their CFI or CFI-I, DOT said
they will have the ability to gain employment as
a ight instructor while obtaining the ight hours
needed to qualify for an Airline Transport Pilot
Certicate (ATP) and become an airline pilot.
DOT said details regarding how to become
involved in the Forces to Flyers research initiative
will be made available at a future date. Interested
applicants may email forcestoyers@dot.gov to sign
up for updates on the new program. ■
Grants alert
National Digital Newspaper Program (NEH)
Scope: The National Endowment for the Humanities
seeks applications for the National Digital Newspaper
Program (NDNP) to create a national digital resource
of historically significant newspapers published
between 1690 and 1963, from all the states and U.S.
territories.
Deadline: Jan. 11, 2018.
Funds: Cooperative agreements of up to $325,000
each for a two-year period.
Eligibility: Colleges and universities; nonprofit
organizations; and state, local and Native American
tribal governments. The program gives priority to
applications from those states and territories that have
not received NDNP funding.
Areas: NEH said over a period of two years,
successful applicants will select newspapers—
published in their state or territory between 1690 and
1963—and convert approximately 100,000 pages into
digital files (preferably from microfilm), according to the
Library of Congress technical guidelines.
➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 20180111-PJ
Public Humanities Projects (NEH)
Scope: The National Endowment for the Humanities
seeks applications for the Public Humanities Projects
to support projects that bring the ideas and insights of
the humanities to life for general audiences.
Deadline: Jan. 10, 2018.
Funds: Awards range from $40,000 to $400,000
depending on the category. See the announcement for
complete details.
Eligibility: Colleges and universities; nonprofit
organizations; and state, local, special district and
Native American tribal governments.
Areas: NEH said applications should follow the
parameters set out below for one of the following three
formats: Community Conversations, which support
one- to two-year-long series of communitywide in-
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