Funding Opportunities

Notice of Public Interest (NOPI) Transformation Initiative: Sustainable Communities Research Grant Program
Deadline: March 4, 2011
The purpose of the Transformation Initiative: Sustainable Communities Research Grant Program (SCRGP) is to fill key data and information gaps, and to begin to develop and evaluate policy alternatives that communities can adopt to facilitate decision making about various community investments. Additionally, HUD believes that the results from the program will enable it to develop a broader sustainability agenda beyond current departmental priorities, as well as any future efforts or initiatives that may be considered based on the results of the research. Interest will be published requesting applications for grants to support the research obtained from these demonstrations. Click here for more information.

Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
Deadline: April 12, 2011
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is pleased to announce that it is seeking applications for funding basic scientific research that underlies the multidisciplinary field of forensic science. This program furthers the Department's mission by sponsoring research to provide objective, independent, evidence-based knowledge and tools to meet the challenges of crime and criminal justice, particularly at the State and local levels. With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals for funding basic scientific research in the physical, life, and cognitive sciences that is designed to increase the knowledge underlying forensic science disciplines intended for use in the criminal justice system. Click here for more information.

Homeless Families Demonstration Small Grant Research Program
Deadline: March 1, 2011
The purpose of this NOPI is to enhance the demonstration project conducted by the Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) that focuses on Homeless Families by providing a vehicle for conducting a number of small research projects aimed at collecting additional/supplemental information and analyses. PD&R is also conducting several other major demonstrations in the following areas: Family Self-Sufficiency; Pre-Purchase Homeownership Counseling; and Sustainable Building Practices in Indian Country. In the near future, Notices of Public Interest will be published requesting applications for grants to support the research obtained from these demonstrations. Click here for more information.

Healthy Behaviors in Women and Families
Deadline: February 22, 2011
This announcement solicits applications for the Healthy Behaviors in Women and Families demonstration grant program. The purpose of this grant is to develop and demonstrate creative, innovative approaches that are effective at reducing the incidence and prevalence of overweight and obesity in women and their families through the adoption and maintenance of healthy lifestyle changes. Click here for more information.

Research and Evaluation in Justice Systems
Deadline: March 17, 2011
This solicitation seeks proposals to examine topics relevant to State and/or local criminal and juvenile justice systems policy and practice. Specific focus areas under this solicitation for Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 include: a multi-State study on the impact of incarceration on families of adults confined to penal institutions; a national study on State budget shortfalls and prison closings; and multi-State research on automated reporting systems and kiosk supervision. Application titles should clearly denote the specific focus area selected. Applications addressing other areas of research related to criminal and/or juvenile justice systems policy and practice also may be considered. However, applicants are strongly encouraged to consider NIJ's stated priority areas as they are outlined in this solicitation. Click here for more information.

Research On Ethical Issues In Human Subjects Research(R03)
Deadline: May 7, 2011
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) invites research grant applications to investigate ethical issues in human subjects research. This FOA will utilize the Small Research Grant (R03) mechanism and runs in parallel with FOAs of identical scientific scope, PA-06-369 and PA-06-368 that solicit applications under the R01 and R21 grant mechanisms, respectively. The R03 grant mechanism supports different types of projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology. Click here for more information.

Human Social Cultural and Behavioral Sciences (HSBC) Applied Research and Advanced Technology Development
Deadline: June 13, 2011
In 2008 the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) established the Human Social Culture Behavior (HSCB) Modeling Program. The mission of this six-year program is to research, develop, and transition technologies, tools, and systems that will help operations planners, intelligence analysts, operations analysts, and wargamers represent, understand, and forecast socio-cultural behavior at the strategic, operational and tactical level. The HSCB Program has the following objectives:            · Advance understanding of the influence of socio-cultural factors on behavior as it applies to military-relevant contexts and environments, and provide empirically validated theories that can be instantiated in computational models. · Provide new methods and technology, validated computational models, and software to assist warfighters and others in considering socio-cultural behavior factors for analysis, planning, and operations. · Develop methods and tools for flexible delivery of training of socio-cultural knowledge, skills, and abilities at tactical and operational levels.            · Develop methods and tools for the collection, generation, standardization, integration, and transfer of socio-cultural data for use in computational models and decision support systems. Cutting across all of these objectives is the core goal of the HSCB Program, to support the integration of methods and tools developed into existing systems so as to provide the warfighter with improved capabilities to operate in a varied and dynamic socio-cultural behavior landscape. The four topic areas identified in the BAA support the four objectives above and have been broken out into Applied Research and Advanced Technology Development focus areas; however the topics are not considered to be mutually exclusive and White Papers and proposals that address multiple topics are encouraged. Click here for more information.

FAHS-BECK FUND FOR RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION: FACULTY/POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH GRANT PROGRAM
Deadlines: April 15, November 1
Grants of up to $20,000 are available to help support the research of faculty members or post-doctoral researchers affiliated with non-profit human service organizations in the United States and Canada. Areas of interest to the Fund are: studies to develop, refine, evaluate, or disseminate innovative interventions designed to prevent or ameliorate major social, psychological, behavioral or public health problems affecting children, adults, couples, families, or communities, or studies that have the potential for adding significantly to knowledge about such problems. Click here for more information.

NIJ Visiting Fellows Program
Deadline: April 28, 2011
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seeks proposals for important research work and scholarship as part of the 2011 NIJ Visiting Fellows Program. Awards made under the NIJ Visiting Fellows Program will bring leading researchers and others into residency at NIJ to make important scholarly contributions in their chosen fields of criminology or criminal justice research and to work with the NIJ Director and staff to help shape the direction of NIJ's research programs. NIJ will recruit Research Fellows, who have worked mainly in academic or other research settings, and Policy Fellows, who have worked mainly in a criminal justice policy or practice setting. NIJ will also recruit Partnership Fellows-a Research Fellow and a Policy Fellow who will work together on a joint research project. During their Fellowship at NIJ, Visiting Fellows will work on a significant piece of scholarship that has the potential to significantly advance criminology or criminal justice research, such as a major "capstone" effort culminating a line of research or some work in a new area that has significant potential to transform our understanding of crime and justice. Click here for more information.

FAHS-BECK FUND FOR RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION: DOCTORAL DISSERTATION GRANT PROGRAM
Deadline: April 15, November 1
Grants of up to $5,000 are available to help support dissertation expenses of doctoral students in the United States and Canada whose studies have the potential for adding significantly to knowledge about problems in the functioning or well being of children, adults, couples, families, or communities, or about interventions designed to prevent or alleviate such problems. Click here for more information.

AGESW Pre-Dissertation Initiative

Deadline: May 1, 2011

The Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work (AGESW) Pre-Dissertation Initiative is accepting applications to provide support for a second cohort of ten doctoral students who have completed the first year of doctoral studies. The goal of the Initiative is to support dissertation and career development in gerontological social work research and education. Recipients will receive more than ten hours of programming delivered by nationally recognized experts in gerontological social work research and teaching designed to prepare participants for an academic career in gerontological social work. The program will be delivered at the 2011 Gerontological Society of America (GSA) conference. Awardees will be selected by the AGESW Pre-Dissertation Advisory Council. Click here for more details.

Sexual Victimization Reported by Adult Correctional Authorities, 2007-2008
(From National Criminal Justice Reference Service)
Allen J. Beck, Ph.D., Paul Guerino
Examines 2007 and 2008 data from the Survey of Sexual Violence (SSV). Conducted since 2004, the SSV is an annual collection of official records on incidents of inmate-on-inmate and staff-on-inmate sexual victimization. This report presents counts of nonconsensual sexual acts, abusive sexual contacts, staff sexual misconduct, and staff sexual harassment reported to correctional authorities in adult prisons, jails, and other adult correctional facilities. Appendix tables include counts of sexual victimization, by type, for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, all state systems, and surveyed jail jurisdictions. An in-depth examination of substantiated incidents is also presented, covering the number and characteristics of victims and perpetrators, location, time of day, nature of the injuries, impact on the victims, and sanctions imposed on the perpetrators. Click here for more information.

New Child Welfare Outcomes Data Website

The Children's Bureau has launched a new website featuring data from the Child Welfare Outcomes Reports. The site makes the latest Child Welfare Outcomes data available for you to view in a variety of ways according to your needs. Child Welfare Outcomes data for 2006 through 2009 are currently available. The site features a custom report builder which allows users to select the specific State(s), data, and data years that they would like to view. It allows users to select the format in which they would like their data displayed: graph, table, or map outputs. Users also have the capability to compare data across States.

Report from Barcelona: Fostering Social Inclusion to End Homelessness
(From Homelessness Resource Center)
How do different European cities address homelessness? This article provides a snapshot from Barcelona, Spain. The city of three million has been strongly impacted by the global economic recession and rising numbers of foreclosures. To address homelessness, the city has increased staffing and resources for homeless programs. The city has also launched a social inclusion initiative that is a collaboration between the city government, non-governmental organizations, and charities. Click here for the full report by author Richard Schweid.

ICPSR New Data

Below is a list of new data collection additions to the ICPSR data archive:

Assessing Punitive and Cooperative Strategies of Corporate CrimeControl for Select Companies Operating in 1995 Through 2000 [United States]

Eurobarometer 71.1: European Parliament and Elections, Economic Crisis, Climate Change, and Chemical Products, January-February 2009

Interest Group Activism on the Web: The Case of Environmental Organization

Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJ-DATS): HIV/HEPATITIS Prevention for Re-Entering Drug Offenders

Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJDATS): Detention to Community (DTC), 2006-2008 [United States]

Candidate Countries Eurobarometer 2003.5, November-December 2003: Identities and Values, Financial Services and Consumer Protection, and Time Use in the Countries Applying for European Union Membership

Click on the individual links to see complete data resource.