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Find similar grantsNorth Carolina Science Museums Grant Program is sponsored by North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. Provides grants to science museums across North Carolina to enhance STEM education opportunities, particularly in low-resource communities.
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N. C. Science Museums Grant Program Awards $2.
4 Million to 58 Institutions Across the State | NC DNCR From the mountains to the coast, 58 institutions across the state have been awarded a total of $2. 4 million in grants as part of the North Carolina Science Museums Grant Program. The program is one of the many ways that the State of North Carolina invests in sustaining and advancing one of the most diverse and widespread networks of science museums in the country.
Grants were awarded based on criteria that promote the priorities of state government, with a primary goal of enhancing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education opportunities for the public, particularly in low-resource communities. “The North Carolina Science Museums Grant Program helps fund critical science education in all parts of our state,” said Pamela B. Cashwell, secretary of the N.
C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (DNCR). “These grants will increase access to STEM experiences no matter where you live in North Carolina.
” The awards, which ranged from $11,338. 50 to $75,000, were applied to the 2025–2026 fiscal year budgets of these institutions with similar awards in the new fiscal year. A full list of institutions receiving grant awards is below.
“North Carolina has more science museums than any other state and this funding supports them as they advance informal science education," said Denise Young, director of the N. C. Museum of Natural Sciences, a division of DNCR.
Economic Distress Tier 2025-27 Bald Head Island Conservancy Cape Fear Botanical Garden Cape Fear Museum of History and Science Children's Museum of Wilmington Core Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center Cowan Museum of History and Science Discovery Place Kids - Rockingham Fascinate-U Children's Museum Imagination Station Science & History Museum Museum of Coastal Carolina Port Discover: Northeastern North Carolina's Center for Hands-on Science Roanoke/Cashie River Center Rocky Mount Children’s Museum & Science Center Sturgeon City Environmental Education Center Allison Woods Outdoor Learning Center Animal Park at the Conservators Center Charlotte Museum of Nature Cognition Interactive Children's Museum & Makerspace Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden Discovery Place Kids - Huntersville Greensboro Science Center Miriam P.
Brenner Children’s Museum Morehead Planetarium and Science Center Museum of Life and Science North Carolina Botanical Garden North Carolina Children's Museum Piedmont Farm Animal Refuge Reynolda House Museum of American Art and Gardens Rowan Wild Nature Center at Dan Nicholas Park The Schiele Museum of Natural History UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens Aquarium & Shark Lab by Team ECCO Asheville Museum of Science Cradle of Forestry in America Hands On!
Children's Museum Highlands Nature Center & Botanical Garden KidSenses Children's Interactive Museum Mount Airy Museum of Regional History Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute Western North Carolina Nature Center Wilson Center for Nature Discovery at Grandfather Mountain For more information about the North Carolina Science Museums Grant Program or to apply for the next grant cycle, visit ncmuseumgrant. naturalsciences. org .
About the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources The N. C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (DNCR) manages, promotes, and enhances the things that people love about North Carolina – its diverse arts and culture, rich history, and spectacular natural areas.
At more than 100 sites across the state, the department enhances education, stimulates economic development, improves public health, expands accessibility, and strengthens community resiliency. For more information, please visit www. dncr.
nc. gov .
Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Nonprofit science museums in North Carolina. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
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Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education & Human Resources (IUSE: EHR) Program is sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF). This program promotes novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. It supports projects that bring recent advances in STEM knowledge into undergraduate education, adapt, improve, and incorporate evidence-based practices, and lay the groundwork for institutional improvement in STEM education. Professional development for instructors to ensure adoption of new and effective pedagogical techniques is a potential topic of interest.
The National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program (NLG-L) supports projects that address critical needs of the library and archives fields and have the potential to advance practice and strengthen library and archival services for the American public. Successful proposals will generate results such as new models, tools, research findings, services, practices, and/or alliances that can be widely used, adapted, scaled, or replicated to extend and leverage the benefits of federal investment. Applications to IMLS should both advance knowledge and understanding and ensure that the federal investment made generates benefits to society. Specifically, the goals for this program are to generate projects of far-reaching impact that: • Build the workforce and institutional capacity for managing the national information infrastructure and serving the information and education needs of the public. • Build the capacity of libraries and archives to lead and contribute to efforts that improve community well-being and strengthen civic engagement. • Improve the ability of libraries and archives to provide broad access to and use of information and collections with emphasis on collaboration to avoid duplication and maximize reach. • Strengthen the ability of libraries to provide services to affected communities in the event of an emergency or disaster. • Strengthen the ability of libraries, archives, and museums to work collaboratively for the benefit of the communities they serve. Throughout its work, IMLS places importance on diversity, equity, and inclusion. This may be reflected in an IMLS-funded project in a wide range of ways, including efforts to serve individuals of diverse geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds; individuals with disabilities; individuals with limited functional literacy or information skills; individuals having difficulty using a library or museum; and underserved urban and rural communities, including children from families with incomes below the poverty line. Application Process: The application process for the NLG-L program has two phases; applicants must begin by applying for Phase I. For Phase I, all applicants must submit Preliminary Proposals by the September 20th deadline listed for this Notice of Funding Opportunity. For Phase II, only selected applicants will be invited to submit Full Proposals, and only those Invited Full Proposals will be considered for funding. Invited Full Proposals will be due March 20, 2024. Funding Opportunity Number: NLG-LIBRARIES-FY24. Assistance Listing: 45.312. Funding Instrument: G. Category: AR,HU. Award Amount: $50K – $1M per award.
The California Department of Education (CDE) Early Education Division is making approximately .7 million available to expand California State Preschool Program (CSPP) services statewide, appropriated under the 2021 Budget Act. Eligible applicants are local educational agencies (LEAs), including school districts, county offices of education, community college districts, and direct-funded charter schools—both current CSPP contractors and new applicants. Funding supports full-day/full-year or part-day/part-year preschool services for income-eligible children beginning in FY 2024–25. Awards are allocated by county based on Local Planning Council priority areas and application scores, with redistribution provisions if county allocations are underutilized.