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Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE): Higher Education Programs (HEP): Fund for The Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE): Postsecondary Student Success Grant Program (PSSG) is sponsored by U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE). This program aims to improve postsecondary student success.
While primarily focused on higher education, state departments of education can be involved in initiatives that bridge K-12 and postsecondary education.
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Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) Home Page | U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) Home Page Basic Needs for Postsecondary Students Program: Competitive grants to institutions of higher education, as defined by section 101 of the Higher Education Act (HEA) to support programs that address the basic needs of students and report on best practices.
Center for Best Practices to Support Single Parent Students (No longer funded) Center for Education Excellence for Black Teachers Program at HBCUs Center of Excellence in Spatial Computing Program is a grant program designed to help increase the number of highly qualified Americans available for hire within the high-tech labor pool.
Centers of Excellence for Veteran Student Success : encourages model programs to support veteran student success in postsecondary education by coordinating services to address the academic, financial, physical, and social needs of veteran students.
Center for the Study of Distance Education and Technological Advancement (No longer funded) Digital Learning Infrastructure and IT Modernization Pilot Program is a grant program designed to support IT modernization at HBCUs and MSIs, including technical assistance and partnerships with HBCUs and MSI to improve their digital learning infrastructure.
First in the World : provides grants to spur the development of innovations that improve educational outcomes, makes college more affordable for students and families, and develops an evidence base of effective practices. (No longer funded) Modeling and Simulation as authorized under section 891 of the HEA. To support grants to institutions of higher education seeking to establish or enhance modeling and simulation programs.
These technologies have numerous applications for Federal and State governments and their partners in the defense, education, and workforce training sectors, allowing them to generate data to help make decisions or predictions about their systems.
National Center for Information and Technical Support for Postsecondary Students with Disabilities Open Textbooks Pilot: supports projects at institutions of higher education that create new open textbooks or expand their use of open textbooks while maintaining or improving instruction and student learning outcomes.
Pilot Program for Cybersecurity Education Technological Upgrades for Community Colleges: supports technology upgrades for community colleges for the purpose of supporting cybersecurity programs.
(No longer funded) Postsecondary Student Success Program is a grant program designed to support individuals who have started but not completed postsecondary education with the opportunity that will lead to degrees, certification, and credentialing that will increase student outcomes, while simultaneously reengaging individuals with higher education and providing essential wrap-around services.
Research and Development Infrastructure (RDI) Program provides four-year Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs), and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) including Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs), Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions (ANNH), Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), Native American Serving Non-Tribal Institutions (NASNTIs), and/or Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs), or consortia led by an eligible institution, with funds to implement transformational investments in research infrastructure, including research productivity, faculty expertise, graduate programs, physical infrastructure, human capital development, and partnerships leading to increases in external funding.
Rural Postsecondary and Economic Development (RPED) Program Training for Realtime Writers : provides grants for the recruitment, training and assistance, and job placement of individuals who have completed a court reporting training program as real-time writers.
(No longer funded) Transitioning Gang-Involved Youth into Higher Education: provides gang-involved youth with postsecondary education opportunities that will lead to certification or credentials.
Instructions to register as a Reviewer: MS Word (39K) The FIPSE database is a publicly searchable database with information about current and past FIPSE competitive grant projects and non-competitive Congressionally-directed grants (earmarks) that FIPSE manages.
The database contains project abstracts, project director contact information, award amounts, grant funding dates, subject areas, and links to any project Web sites that have been established by grantees. The database is searchable by programs, subjects, institutions, state, zip code, funding year, organization and institution type, and institutional special designations. Key word and phrase searching are also available.
The FIPSE database is located at http://fipsedatabase. ed. gov .
Current project directors will be given a password to access the secure side of the database where they can file annual and final reports and manage activities related to their grants. Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) Page Last Reviewed: February 26, 2026
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Institutions of higher education and other public and private non-profit agencies and organizations. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows $1,750,000. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE): Higher Education Programs (HEP): Fund for The Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE): Postsecondary Student Success Grant Program (PSSG) is funded by U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
Yes — this listing is flagged as national in scope, so applicants across the U.S. may apply, subject to the sponsor's other eligibility criteria.
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Educational Technology, Media, and Materials for Individuals with Disabilities Program (Stepping-up Technology Implementation competition) is sponsored by U.S. Department of Education. This program aims to improve results for students with disabilities by promoting the development, demonstration, and use of technology; supporting educational activities of value in the classroom for students with disabilities; providing captioning and video description; and ens…
The Robotics Grant Program is a grant from the Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE) that funds school-based robotics programs for elementary, middle, and high school students. Awarded through a competitive application process, the program provides up to $3,500 to eligible local education agencies (LEAs) in Alabama. Applicants must be public school systems submitting on behalf of schools with K–12 students. The grant supports the purchase of robotics equipment and program development aligned with AMSTI guidelines. Applications are submitted online through the AMSTI Robotics Grant portal. The Fiscal Year 2026 application deadline was September 30, 2025. Questions should be directed to robotics@amsti.org. The program is managed by the Alabama State Department of Education under State Superintendent Eric G. Mackey.
NSF's Faculty Early Career Development Program — the CAREER award — has a July 22, 2026 deadline, a $400,000 floor, a five-year runway, and roughly 500 awards a year across every directorate. It is the most prestigious grant a pre-tenure scientist can win, and the one most often lost on the integration requirement rather than the research. Here is what the award actually funds, who is eligible, and how to build a proposal that treats research and education as one program instead of two.
Read articleThe NSF CAREER award puts a minimum of $400,000–$500,000 over five years behind a single untenured faculty member, and it is the credential that shapes a research career. Here is who is eligible, why the integration of research and education is the criterion that decides it, and how to approach the July 22, 2026 deadline.
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