U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that loans and loan guarantees will be made available for the construction, improvement, and acquisition of facilities and equipment for broadband service in eligible rural communities. No less than $2.157 billion in loans is available, $2.032 billion for direct cost-of-money loans, $46 million for direct 4 percent loans, and $79 million for loan guarantees. [Applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis] [Funding]
Funding Opportunities
Rural Broadband Access Loans and Loan Guarantees Program - USDA Rural Development
Application deadline:
12/31/2020 Summer Food Service Program - U.S. Department of Agriculture
Application deadline:
12/31/2020 The Program was created to ensure that children in lower-income areas could continue to receive nutritious meals during long school vacations, when they do not have access to school lunch or breakfast. [Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.] [Funding]
Exploratory and Developmental Grant to Improve Health Care Quality through HIT - Agency for Health Care Research and Quality
Application deadline:
12/31/2020 The purpose is to support short-term preparatory, pilot or feasibility studies that will inform larger scale real world health IT implementation and use or the conduct of more comprehensive health IT implementation research. Materials from AHRQ's January 13, 2009 Technical Assistance Conference Call on Health IT Funding Opportunity Announcements. [Applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis; Cycle I due date 1-16-09; Cycle II due date 6-16-09; Cycle III due date 10-16-09] [Funding]
Family Respite Care Grant - Alzheimer's Foundation of America
Application deadline:
11/01/2012 Grant helps alleviate the cost of respite care for families caring for loved ones with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia. Funds may be used for in-home care, adult day programs or other types of respite. Deadlines: Spring cycle May 1; Fall cycle November 1. [Funding]
Sara Lee Foundation
Application deadline:
12/31/2020 Funding priority on grants to nonprofits that create collaborative and innovative initiatives focused on fighting hunger. Also is given to collaborative and innovative initiatives focused on women in diverse, low-income communities that result in living wages. [Applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis] [Funding]
Otto Bremer Foundation
Application deadline:
12/31/2020 The Foundation funds a variety of work important to a community's future giving the highest priority to those opportunities with the potential to move a community forward in meaningful, powerful and broad-based ways. This broadness of vision is intentional in order to encourage innovative responses to community opportunities and challenges. Grants are made only to organizations whose beneficiaries are residents of Minnesota, North Dakota or Wisconsin, with priority given to communities that are homes and neighbors to Bremer banks. [Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.] [Funding]
Faces of Distracted Driving - U.S. Department of Transportation
Application deadline:
12/31/2012 If you have a distracted driving story to share, please upload a video to YouTube and email the link to faces@distraction.gov. Whether you want to talk about a loved one you lost, a crash that changed your life, or what you would say to someone who texts or talks on a cell phone while driving, we want to hear it and share it with others on Distraction.gov. [Challenge]
Smart Health and Wellbeing - National Science Foundation
Application deadline:
02/06/2012 NSF seeks to address fundamental technical and scientific issues that would support much needed transformation of healthcare from reactive and hospital-centered to preventive, proactive, evidence-based, person-centered and focused on wellbeing rather than disease. The issues to be addressed include, but are not limited to, sensor technology, networking, information and machine learning technology, modeling cognitive processes, system and process modeling, and social and economic issues. Effective technology-based solutions must satisfy a multitude of constraints arising from clinical needs, social interactions, cognitive limitations, barriers to behavioral changes, heterogeneity of data, semantic mismatch and limitations of current cyberphysical systems. [Funding]
