Grants Alert

• Date: 18 June 2015
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.30029
• Published date: 18 June 2015

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HHS releases SBIR omnibus

for NIH, CDC, FDA and ACF

The U.S. Department of Health and Human

Services has released an omnibus solicitation for

Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grants

through four of its agencies: the National Institutes

of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and

the Administration for Children and Families.

The three-phase program is intended to identify,

develop and make available commercial innovations

established with federal funding, the department

said, in hopes of: stimulating technological innovation

in the private sector; strengthening the role of small

business in meeting federal research or research

and development (R/R&D) needs; increasing the

commercial application of federally supported research

results; fostering and encouraging participation

by socially and economically disadvantaged small

business concerns and women-owned business

concerns; and improving the return on investment

from federally funded research for national economic

and social benets.

The rst two programmatic phases are supported

using SBIR funds, according to the solicitation:

Phase I establishes the technical/scientic merit

and feasibility of the proposed R/R&D efforts, and

Phase II continues the R/R&D efforts initiated

in Phase I. In Phase III, small business pursues

outside funding to meet the commercial objectives

formed from R/R&D funded in Phases I and II.

Awards limits for the SBIR program are set by

statutory guidelines, HHS said, and include Phase

I awards with total funding of up to $150,000 and

Phase II awards of up to $1 million.

The deadlines for submission of applications are

Sept. 5, 2015; Jan. 5, 2016; and April 5, 2016.

To read the complete list of program areas, visit

https://sbir.nih.gov/sites/default/les/2015-2_

SBIR-STTR-topics.pdf. ■

Grants alert

Literacy and Engagement with Historical

Records Grants (NARA)

Scope: The National Archives and Records Administration’s

National Historical Publications and Records Commission

(NHPRC) seeks applications for FY2016 Literacy and

Engagement with Historical Records Grants to encourage

citizen engagement with historical records, especially those

available online and/or projects that train people on how to

enhance digital literacy skills for using historical records.

Deadline: Draft applications, Aug. 3, 2015; final

proposals, Oct. 8, 2015.

Funds: $500,000 total for up to six grants ranging from

$50,000 to $150,000. A cost share is required.

Eligibility: College and universities; nonprofit

organizations; and state, local and Native American

tribal governments.

Areas: NHPRC said it encourages projects that create

models and technologies that other institutions can

adopt without cost. Successful projects may: create and

develop programs to engage people in basic archival

processes, such as enlisting “citizen archivists” in projects

to accelerate digitization and online public access to

historical records; or develop digital archives training for

the public, such as increasing individual understanding of

technology operations and concepts so that people can

engage in effective personal digital archiving.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# LITERACY-201510

Humanities Initiatives at Community Colleges

(NEH)

Scope: The National Endowment for the Humanities

seeks applications for Humanities Initiatives at

Community Colleges to strengthen the teaching and

study of the humanities in subjects such as history,

philosophy and literature.

Deadline: Aug. 24, 2015.

Funds: Awards of up to $100,000 for project periods of

up to 36 months.

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