CLOSED: NSF Funding Opportunity: The Informal Science Education Program, preliminary proposal due July 22

Community-based mentoring Programs with science, math and technology may be interested in this NSF STEM funding opportunity.

The Informal Science Education (ISE) program supports innovation in anywhere, anytime, and any age group lifelong learning, through investments in research, development, infrastructure and capacity-building for STEM learning outside formal school settings. Preliminary Proposals are due July 22, 2010 and full Proposals: December 07, 2010. Funding amounts and duration and depend on the type of project: Initial Research; Pathways; Full-Scale Development; Broad Implementation, and Communicating Research to Public Audiences.

***Note that the ISE program is one of several annual NSF STEM funding streams with RFPs issued at different times that might be beneficial to track. Others include:

The Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program invests in projects designed to address the growing demand for professional and information technology workers through the design, implementation,scale-up, and testing of technology-intensive educational experiences for students and teachers, and through relatedresearch studies.
The Discovery Research K-12 (DR-K12) program enables significant advances in preK-12 and teacher learning of theSTEM disciplines through research and development on innovative resources, models, and technologies for use bystudents, teachers, administrators and policy makers.
The Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE) program advances research at thefrontiers of STEM learning, education, and evaluation, in order to provide foundational knowledge for improving STEM