Office of Education Funding Announcements

NOAA Announces New Environmental Literacy Grants (ELG) Funding Opportunity for Building Capacity of Informal and Formal Educators

Updated February 11, 2013

The application package for NOAA-SEC-OED-2013-2003614 is now available in Grants.gov.

NOAA's Office of Education conducted two informational webinars on February 5 and February 6, 2013. You can access the February 6 webinar, the preferred version, here and the Q&A session here.

You can also access the February 5 webinar here and the Q & A here.

*Funding Opportunity*

NOAA’s Office of Education (OEd) has issued a request for applications for projects designed to build the capacity of informal educators (including interpreters and docents) and/or formal educators (pre- or in-service) to use NOAA data and data access tools to help K-12 students and/or the public understand and respond to global change. Successful projects will enhance educators' ability to use the wealth of scientific data, data visualizations, data access technologies, information products, and other assets available through NOAA (plus additional sources, if desired) to engage K-12 students and/or other members of the public in a minimum of two U.S. states or territories.

This funding opportunity identifies two priority categories of eligible applicants, both of equal importance. Eligible applicants for Priority 1 are collaborative teams of two or more U.S. institutions. Eligible applicants for Priority 2 are collaborative teams of two or more non-profit U.S. aquariums, of which at least one must be accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA). Collaborative applicant teams in both Priority 1 and Priority 2 are strongly encouraged to include at least one applicant that has not previously received a grant from NOAA's Environmental Literacy Grants program. Proposed projects in each priority must be between two and five years in duration and have combined federal requests of $500,000 - $1,000,000 for all years of the project.

*Deadlines*

The deadline for applications to this funding opportunity is 11:59:59 pm EST on March 12, 2013. Applications must be submitted online via www.grants.gov. It is anticipated that awards under this announcement will be made by September 30, 2013 and that the projects funded under this announcement will have a start date no earlier than October 1, 2013.

*Informational Webinar*

Two informational webinars with the program officers will occur on February 5, 2013 from 3:00 to 5:00 pm EST and February 6, 2013, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm EST. By noon EST on February 1, 2013, interested applicants should register by contacting oed.grants@noaa.gov and including in the Subject line of the email: "Register for Educator Capacity Building FFO Webinar" and providing the interested party's name, institution, telephone number, email address and preferred webinar date in the body of the email. You will receive an email response from oed.grants@noaa.gov with the log-in information and date for the webinar. Whenever possible, individuals from the same institution should try to join the webinar from the same computer/phone line.

*Additional Information*

To read the full funding announcement, visit www.grants.gov.

 

NOAA’s Environmental Literacy Grants (ELG) program plans to release a new funding opportunity in January of 2013.

Updated December 27, 2012

The goal of the funding opportunity will be to build the capacity of informal and/or formal educators to use NOAA data and data access tools to help K-12 students and/or the public understand and respond to global environmental change. Two priority categories of eligible applicants will be identified, both of equal importance. One priority will be open to collaborative teams of two or more U.S. institutions, while the other priority will be open to collaborative teams exclusively composed of two or more non-profit U.S. aquariums. Applicant teams may request up to $1 million for a 2 to 5 year project period. NOAA anticipates an application deadline in early March, with funding decisions made by September 30, 2013.

More information will be posted on this website when the funding opportunity is officially released. You can also send an email to oed.grants@noaa.gov to join the ELG mailing list to receive notification when the funding opportunity opens.