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PHILLIPS FUND GRANTS FOR NATIVE AMERICAN RESEARCH

Scope: The Phillips Fund of the American Philosophical Society provides grants for research in Native American linguistics and ethnohistory, and the history of studies of Native Americans, in the continental United States and Canada. Grants are not made for projects in archaeology, ethnography, psycholinguistics, or for the preparation of pedagogical materials. The committee distinguishes contemporary ethnography from ethnohistory as the study of cultures and culture change through time. The grants are intended for such extra costs as travel, tapes, films, and informants' fees, but not for general maintenance or the purchase of books or permanent equipment.
Eligibility: The committee prefers to support the work of younger scholars, who have received the doctorate. Applications are also accepted from graduate students, for research on master's or doctoral dissertations. The committee will seldom approve more than two awards to the same person within a five-year period.
Funds: The average award is about $1,400; grants rarely exceed $2,000. Grants are ordinarily given for one year following the date of the award.

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RFP - Start-up Grants - First Nations Development Institute

COS Unique Id: 52618
Sponsor: First Nations Development Institute Eagle Staff Fund
Sponsor Type: Private Foundation
Deadline Note: Continuous - there are no deadlines for applying for Seed Grants.
Eligibility: First Nations defines Native American to include federal, state, and non-recognized Indian tribes; Alaska Native tribes, villages, or groups; Native Hawaiian groups, and indigenous groups from U.S. territories and possessions. All projects must be linked through the provision of a service or project, to a reservation or rural Native community. Eligible entities are:

• Tribal or Native governments
• Tribal enterprises or reservation or rural Native nonprofit enterprises
• Tribal or rural Native community-controlled development organizations
• Tribal or rural Native community-controlled health, education, or social program or institutions
• Native arts and crafts associations, cooperatives, and guilds
• Intertribal or regional Native groups or organizations
• Native grassroots efforts and community programs.
  

Grant request will not be considered from organizations with a current ESF grant or from other organizations that have failed to comply with reporting requirements or other conditions of a previous ESF grant.
Citizenship or Residency: United States
Activity Location: United States
Requirements: Minority Academic Institution or Government or Nonprofit
Abstract: The Eagle Staff Fund (ESF), created by the First Nations Development Institute to address unique Native community economic development needs, is an engaged grantmaking program providing technical assistance and grants to tribes and rural Native nonprofits.
The ESF will not fund organizational core support; scholarships; construction and renovation activities; capital or endowment campaigns; major equipment; media campaigns or programs except as part of an overall project; lobbying activities; research activities without practical development application; litigation; and, activities that have already taken place.
Start up grants are for project implementation. Applicants must exhibit evidence of feasibility or viability of a project and illustrate plans for implementation. An executive summary of a business or strategic plan is required at application submission.
Contact Address:
First Nations Development Institute
The Stores Building
11917 Main Street
Fredricksburg, VA 22408
Phone: (540) 371-5615
Fax: (540) 371-3505

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COS Unique Id: 52334
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), Department of the Army, U.S. Army Environmental Center (USAEC), Cultural resources Program assistance Announcement
Sponsor Type: Federal, U.S.
Deadline Note: Continuous - This is a continuously open announcement. The Program Assistance Announcement (PAA) will be revised as needed and amendments of this announcement will be advertised on the USAMRAA web site http://www-usamraa.army.mil/ and in the Commerce Business Daily.
Eligibility: Proposals are sought from public and private educational institutions, museums, federally recognized Indian tribes, private nonprofit organizations, state and local governments, and private industry.
Citizenship or Residency: United States
Activity Location: United States
Requirements: Small Business, Academic Institution or Government or Nonprofit Ph.D./M.D./Other Professional
Abstract: This Program Assistance Announcement (PAA) is intended to solicit proposals for Cultural Resource Support Cooperative Agreements on either a worldwide (OCONUS), national (CONUS), regional, or state-by-state basis. The Cooperative Agreements will allow organizations to provide cultural resources technical assistance directly to Army installations, major commands, and headquarters.
For the topic "Native American Consultation Support", the Army is interested in creating partnerships with stakeholders through cooperative agreements. Potential support areas include:

• consultation support under NAGPRA Section 5 on the inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects
• consultation support under NAGPRA Section 6 on the summary of unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony
• consultation support under NAGPRA Section 7 for the repatriation of the above mentioned materials
• consultation support under NAGPRA Section 3c for the discovery of the above mentioned materials during the course of an intentional excavation
• consultation support under NAGPRA Section 3d for the inadvertent discovery of above mentioned material during the course of normal installation activities
• consultation support under EO 13007 for sacred sites
• consultation support under NHPA for identification, evaluation, and treatment for properties of traditional religious and cultural importance
• consultation support under ARPA for permit requests that may involve Indian religious or cultural sites and identification of sites of religious or cultural importance

Contact Address:
U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity
ATTN: PAA 00-2
820 Chandler Street
Fort Detrick, Maryland 21702-5014

[email protected]

Sponsor Reference No.: USAEC PAA 00-2

 http://www-usamraa.army.mil/baa/baalist.htm

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Indian Education Professional Development (ED)

Scope: The Education Department is inviting applications to increase the number of qualified Indian individuals in professions that serve Indian people by providing in-service administrator training and pre-service administrator training.
Funds: $5 million for 13 awards of $300,000 to $500,000. ED may set aside $1 million fo in-service projects and $4 million for pre-service projects. The project period is 2 years.
Eligibility: Higher education institutions, including Indian higher education institutions; state and local education agencies in consortium with higher education institutions; and American Indian tribes or organizations in consortium with higher education institutions.
Areas: Professional development for current administrators must enhance skills in more than one of the following areas: standards and assessments; integrating research-based methods and techniques into the curriculum, mentoring, coaching and evaluating teachers, site-based management; or reform efforts to improve teacher quality. Pre-service training should lead toward completion of a master's degree within 2 years and provide graduates with one-year of induction services while working in schools with significant Indian student populations.
Contact: For applications, Education Publications Center, (877) 433-7827, fax (301) 470-1244. For program information, Cathie Martin, (202) 260-3774.

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Handsel Foundation

Scope: The Handsel Foundation is particularly interested in Native American economic development and animal welfare.
Deadline: None: Interested applicants should submit an inquiry letter or make a telephone inquiry before submitting a formal proposal.
Funds: About $125,000 awarded annually. Grants range from $3,000 to $25,000
Eligibility: US non-profit organizations are eligible.
Areas: Proposed projects should be clearly defined, with specific objectives, and expect to have a meaningful impact in solving a particular problem.
Recent Grants: $4,000 to the American Indian Higher Education Consortium in Alexandria, VA, for publication of the American Indian Higher Education Journal, $20,712 to the Hearing Impaired Press in Berkeley, CA.
Contact: Diane Johnson, President, Handsel Foundation, PO Box 1322, Freeland, WA 98249; 360-331-7282; fax, 360-331-5793

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Many thanks to Phyllis Ball, Urban Affairs Program, Michigan State University, W153 Owen Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824, 517--363-6699, [email protected] - for supplying much of this information.

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