WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service announced that it expects to award up to three grants for the development and adoption of innovative conservation approaches and technologies in Pacific Islands area. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $150,000. The categories of funding activity are a) agriculture, b) environment and c) natural resources. Eligible Applicants: Public housing authorities/Indian housing auth  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service announced that it expects to award up to three grants for the development and adoption of innovative conservation approaches and technologies in Montana. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $225,000 with a ceiling of $75,000. The categories of funding activity are a) agriculture, b) environment and c) natural resources. Eligible Applicants: City or township governments; Nat  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service announced that it expects to award up to two grants for the development and adoption of innovative conservation approaches and technologies in Alaska. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $469,750. The categories of funding activity are a) agriculture, b) environment and c) natural resources. Eligible Applicants: Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities; Private  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service announced that it expects to award up to two grants for the development and adoption of innovative conservation approaches and technologies in New Mexico. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $50,000. The categories of funding activity are a) agriculture, b) environment and c) natural resources. Eligible Applicants: Individuals; County governments; Native American tribal org  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health announced that it expects to award a grant for immune cell engineering for targeted therapy and disease monitoring in type 1 diabetes. The agency description of the grant states: "This initiative will support the engineering of immune cells to target the human pancreatic compartment to report on previously inaccessible information about diabetes initiation and progression, and to deliver envir  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 -- The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor announced that it expects to award up to two grants for projects to strengthen civil society in Ukraine. The award ceiling for this funding opportunity is $750,000. The category of funding activity is Foreign Assistance Act. Information on Eligibility: DRL welcomes applications from U.S.-based and foreign-based non-profit organizations/nongovernment organizations (NGO) and public international orga  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Community Living announced that it expects to award a grant for a rehabilitation research and training center on interventions to promote community living among people with disabilities. The agency description of the grant states: "The purpose of the RRTCs, which are funded through the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects and Centers Program, is to achieve the goals of, and improve the effecti  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health has issued a funding opportunity announcement for tuberculosis vaccine research. The agency description of the grant states: "This funding opportunity announcement aims to support the design of novel tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidates that exploit innovative approaches and their advancement into preclinical animal model testing. This funding opportunity will use a milestone driven, biphasic   more