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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES Sponsor Name: NSF (National Sponsor Name: National Science Foundation) / Division Science Foundation of Social and Economic Sciences Deadline Date: 04/12/2017 Sponsor Name: National Endowment for the Arts Deadline Date: 01/25/2018 Program Title: NEA Art Works Creativity Connects, FY2018 Program Title: Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS) Contact: Cheryl L. Eavey, 703) 292-7269, [email protected] Website: https://www.nsf.gov/ pubs/2014/nsf14574/ nsf14574.htm Synopsis: The Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS) Program is an interdisciplinary program in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences that supports the development of innovative, analytical, and statistical methods and models for those sciences. MMS seeks proposals that are methodologically innovative, grounded in theory, and have potential utility for multiple fields within the social and behavioral sciences. As part of its larger portfolio, the MMS Program partners with a consortium of federal statistical agencies to support research proposals that further the development of new and innovative approaches to surveys and to the analysis of survey data. Program Title: ADVANCE: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers Deadline: 05/04/2017 Contact: CDFI Fund, [phone], [email protected] Sponsor Name: NSF (National Science Foundation)/ Division of Ocean Sciences Deadline: 04/17/2017 Program Title: Management and Operation of the Ocean Observatories Initia- tive (OOI) Contact: Dr. Bauke Houtman, [phone], Website: https://www.arts.gov/ [email protected] grants-organizations/art-works/ [email protected] Website: https://www.nsf.gov/ creativity-connects-projects Website: https://www.nsf.gov/ pubs/2017/nsf17524/ pubs/2016/nsf16594/ nsf17524.htm nsf16594.htm Contact: Jessie DeAro, [phone] Synopsis: The goals of the ADVANCE program are (1) to develop systemic approaches to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic STEM [1] careers; (2) to develop innovative and sustainable ways to promote gender equity that involve both men and women in the STEM academic workforce; and (3) to contribute to the research knowledge base on gender equity and the intersection of gender and other identities in STEM academic careers. The ADVANCE program contributes to the development of a more diverse science and engineering workforce because of the focus on equity for STEM academic faculty who are educating, training, and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. Synopsis: Art Works: Creativ- ity Connects grants require a partnership between an arts program and a non-arts organi- zation. The Arts Endowment's support of a project may start on or after June 1, 2018. Gen- erally, a period of performance of up to two years is allowed. An organization that submits an application to Art Works: Creativity Connects is still eli- gible to submit an application to other National Endowment for the Arts funding opportuni- ties. In each case, the request must be for a distinctly differ- ent project or a distinctly dif- ferent phase of the same pro- ject, with a different period of performance and costs. An organization may submit only one application for an Art Works: Creativity Connects grant. Program Description Creativity Connects is an initia- tive that shows how the arts contribute to the nation’s crea- tive ecosystem, investigates how support systems for the arts are changing, explores how the arts can connect with other sectors that want and utilize creativity, and invests in inno- vative projects to spark new, collaborative ideas. Synopsis: The OOI is a large scale ocean observing system constructed and deployed under NSF sponsorship and oversight as a Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction (MREFC) Project. The system includes an integrated network of cabled and uncabled arrays of instrumentation, distributed in various coastal and global ocean locations, to facilitate Ocean Sci- ence research. Since construction was completed in 2016, the OOI has been in operational status at an approximate funding level of $55,000,000 ($55M) per year. 7