| Federal Programs
Related to HBCUs
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| GRANTS.GOV ...
The primary link to all Federal grant programs |
Grants.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply
for more than $400 billion in Federal grants. Grants.gov is THE single
access point for over 1000 grant programs offered by all Federal
grant-making agencies. The US Department of Health and Human Services
is proud to be the managing partner for Grants.gov, an initiative
that is having an unparalleled impact on the grant community.
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| Department
of Agriculture -- Food and Nutrition Summer Institute (FNSI) |
The USDA Food and Nutrition
Summer Institute, FNSI, is an example of action research to develop
methods for the design, implementation, evaluation and improvement
of community-based interventions through partnerships with Historically
Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and others. FNSI was created
to help nutrition programs at HBCUs to meet research, education and
workforce challenges of the 21st century and, ultimately, enhance
the public health and general well-being within the community.
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| Department
of Defense -- Defense Technical information Center -- HBCUs/MI Program |
The DTIC® HBCU/MI program provides
access to scientific and technical information products and services
to faculty, staff, and students of Historically Black Colleges and
Universities (HBCU), Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI), Tribal Colleges
and Universities (TCU) and other Minority Institutions (MI) . The
products and services provided are to assist institutions with developing
and improving their scientific and technical curriculum and research
programs and to strengthen their abilities to compete for federal
grants and contracts.
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| Department
of Education -- Historically Black College and University Capital Financing
Program |
This program (1) authorizes
the Department to select a private for-profit Designated Bonding Authority
(DBA), which will issue up to $375 million in bonds and use the corpus
to make loans to creditworthy historically black colleges and universities
(HBCUs) for capital projects related to instruction, research, or
housing of students, faculty or staff; (2) Provides financial insurance
to guarantee up to $375 million in loans to qualifying HBCUs; and
(3) Establishes the HBCU Capital Financing Advisory Board to advise
the secretary and the DBA on the most efficient ways to implement
construction, renovation, or maintenance financing.
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| Department
of Education -- Institutional Development and Undergraduate Education
Service |
From its inception, one of
the primary missions of the Title III programs has been to support
the nation's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
The Title III programs have been expanded to support American Indian
Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities, and Alaska Native and
Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions. The Title III program also includes
the Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program.
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| Department
of Education -- Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program |
The program provides grants
to effect long-range improvement in science education at predominantly
minority institutions and to increase the flow of underrepresented
ethnic minorities, particularly minority women, into science and engineering
careers.
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| Department
of Education -- Strengthening Historically Black Colleges and Universities
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The purpose of this program is to provide financial
assistance to establish or strengthen the physical plants, financial
management, academic resources, and endowments of historically black
colleges and universities (HBCUs).
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| Department
of Education -- Strengthening Black Graduate Institutions Program |
The Strengthening Historically
Black Graduate Institutions Program provides grants to the institutions
listed under Eligibility to assist these institutions in establishing
and strengthening their endowment funds, academic resources and student
services so that they may continue to participate in fulfilling the
goal of equality of educational opportunity in graduate education.
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| Department
of Energy --HBCU/OMI Core Program |
The environment of academia
in collaboration with industry is well suited to undertake innovative
research and development of advanced concepts related to fossil energy
utilization and conversion. Through this effort, HBCU/OMI are encouraged
to expand their involvement over the full spectrum of DOE/FE supported
fossil energy R&D programs (i.e., oil, coal, gas, the environment,
and other related technical and business areas) and build bridges
between traditional U.S. industry interests and HBCU/OMI objectives
and capabilities.
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Department of Housing and Urban Development |
- Homes and Communities
The HBCU Program helps HBCUs expand their role
and effectiveness in helping their communities with neighborhood
revitalization, housing, and economic development. HUD views HBCUs
as key partners in rebuilding America's neighborhoods, and annually
invites HBCUs to compete for funds to assist in revitalization efforts.
- Offfice of
University Partnerships
In 1994 HUD established the Office of University
Partnerships (OUP) in an effort to encourage and expand the growing
number of partnerships formed between colleges and universities
and their communities.
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NIH -- EnHIOP |
The mission of the Environmental Health Information
Outreach Program (EnHIOP) is to enhance the capacity of minority
serving academic institutions to reduce health disparities through
the access, use and delivery of environmental health information
on their campuses and in their communities.
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| NASA's Ninority University-SPace Interdisciplinary Network (MU-SPIN) |
To help train the next generation of NASA's minority scientists and engineers, NASA created the Minority University-SPace Interdisciplinary Network (MU-SPIN). MU-SPIN was started in 1990 by the Office of Equal Opportunity Programs and has remained a highly effective tool as it has continually grown and evolved over the past decade. The program serves America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) and Tribal Colleges.
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| National
Science Foundation (NSF) |
This program provides awards
to build the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
(STEM) education and research capacity at Historically Black Colleges
and Universities (HBCUs) as a means to broaden participation in
the Nation's STEM workforce. Support is available for Implementation
Projects, Planning Grants, Education Research Projects, and Targeted
Infusion Projects.
Please note the QEM/HBCU-UP
Technical Assistance Project affiliated with this program
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Army Materiel Command -- HBCUs/MI Program |
The U. S. Army Materiel Command
(AMC) is committed to maximizing partnerships with minority institutions,
which include Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs),
Hispanic serving Institutions, and Tribal Colleges & Universities
(TCUs). These partnerships will serve our vital needs and help achieve
our common goals. AMC developed this website as a tool for making
the connections that may lead to those partnerships.
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Army Research Laboratory's (ARL) -- HBCUs/MI Program |
The objective of the U.S. Army
Research Laboratory's (ARL's) Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority
Institutions (HBCU/MI's) program is to address the projected shortfall
of scientists and engineers among the diverse populations of the 21st
century, to leverage HBCU/MI technical capabilities to fulfill ARL
requirements, and to expand the involvement of HBCU/MI's in ongoing
research at ARL. ARL presently has Education Partnerships with six
HBCU/MI.
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