#grants — Public Fediverse posts

Maui News: UH oral history center receives $538K for Maui projects. “Four grants totaling $538,000 will support University of Hawaii projects recording dozens of oral histories about Lahaina, water, women’s history and the Lahaina Jodo Mission. Researchers say documenting residents’ experiences, cultural knowledge and memories will help preserve Maui’s history for future generations and […]

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Applications are now being accepted for the Safe at Home (Minor Home Modification Grant) Program. This rental rehabilitation program helps repair rental units, including affordable rentals. Both grants and loans are available for modifications for general home improvement, safety, and livability. https://alamedapost.com/news/applications-open-for-residential-rehabilitation-program/

#AffordableHousing #alameda #grants #renters

Our Way West 2

This first map shows the Our Way West 1 post.

Here were our stops:

• A. Pentwater, Michigan
• B. Delphi, Indiana
• C. Montgomery City, Missouri
• D. Topeka, Kansas
• E. Dodge City, Kansas

This map shows the stops for this post: Our Way West 2. Here are our stops:

• A. Dodge City, Kansas
• B. Clayton, New Mexico
• C. Las Vegas, New Mexico
• D. Grants, New Mexico
• E. Williams, AZ

On 8/8/2026, after we left Dodge City, we drove to Clayton, New Mexico. This was a brand new state for each of us. This was an easy drive; however, Clayton, New Mexico was a very windy place!

We stayed at Coyote Keith’s RV Park. It was here we looked at the shadow of our camper and noticed our refrigerator vent cover on the roof flapping in the wind. We realized that the hail had destroyed this vent cover. Over the next couple of days, I made arrangements for us to get it fixed when we were in Williams, Arizona.

On 8/9/2026, we drove to KOA in Las Vegas, NM. It was another easy drive with the wind continuing. At times, our drive reminded me of the scene in the movie, “Forest Gump”. You know the one where he is walking in Monument Valley in Utah, and all you see is a ribbon of road in front and behind.

We were told that there are mountain bike trails which can be accessed right from the campground. Because we are not mountain bike riders, that’s all the information we collected.

This KOA gave me a bit of a quandary. The office staff were very friendly. The site was fine. However, the pool was out of service the time we were there – which wasn’t a big deal. The laundry was questionable. After 40 minutes and $2.00 for the dryers, each of our loads were still quite damp. Later, I noticed my socks were not clean. When the office person mentioned it to what was either a manager or the owner, that person made the comment that the dryer dried his clothes. Then he added “Mostly”. He then made the comment that with the amount of use these washer and dryers get, he has to have a repair person in every week. He then left without another word. Didn’t seem like very good customer service.

My quandary was whether to leave a review or not. My experience from writing an ebook and being the co-creator of an app, many people don’t bother to write a good review. However, if something is wrong or if there is anything they don’t like, there is a much higher probability they will write a review. I’ve told myself that I need to make an effort to leave positive reviews, not just ones that “complain about something”. Since I haven’t kept that deal with myself, I didn’t really want to leave the poor review.

This KOA also offered a paid breakfast the following morning. We took advantage of it. It was good; however, they had advertised breakfast burritos on the menu. Guess what. No breakfast burritos. There were scrambled eggs which was also listed on the menu. The number of customers at breakfast was few, so I wouldn’t expect or want them to offer everything and have food get wasted. I just think their advertised menu should reflect that. It wasn’t very expensive – $7.99 per person. And they did have sugar-free syryup. So, there were things to be happy about. In any case, I didn’t write any review. But from me to you – don’t do your laundry there.

After breakfast, on 8/10/2026, we drove to the KOA in Grants, New Mexico. This is where we first began to see the landscape change, and the area was definitely not as windy as the last couple of days. We started seeing mesas and coloring in the rocks.

The next morning on 8/11/2026, we had the free breakfast offered at the KOA. It wasn’t much – some pancakes and cereal, but it was free. We brought our own fruit. They also offered a jar of peanut butter, but there was nothing to spread it on. I have been known to eat a spoon of peanut butter, but I did not partake this time.

This KOA also has a trail with some black basalt lava rocks. The trail has some information about the rocks and the area; however, upon arrival it was way too hot for us to be outside anymore than necessary. The next morning,we had a date with another KOA.

Our date was with the KOA in Williams, Arizona. The drive into Flagstaff and then Williams was beautiful. I had planned for us to be there for four nights before arriving at our destination in the Grand Canyon. This would allow us to explore a bit and take care of laundry, shopping and any other errands. My next post will be about those four days at the Circle Pines KOA in Williams, Arizona which is located just 58 miles from Mather Campground in Grand Canyon National Park.

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In terms of the "competitive not discussed" problem --- yes, 💯. I have been talking to a lot of colleagues about this (because my grants also are ending up in this unpleasant space) and everyone agrees that these are the grants that need the most discussion. Some of these reasons include

- these are the grants that are addressing complex special issues that people don't understand and would benefit from the broader expertise on the panel.

- these are the grants where a reviewer made a mistake (such as not understanding the purpose of an R21 😠!)

- these are the grants that have disagreements between reviewers, where one reviewer liked them and one reviewer didn't. Most of these grants are not in this 25%-50% space because all three reviewers think they are a 33% Rather they are often because some reviewers liked it a lot, and a some hated it.*

* Historically, disagreements like this would lead someone to "rescue" the grant for discussion because they wanted a fair review to address the discrepancy. However, over the last decade or so, #NIH has moved from grant review as "provide feedback on the science" to grant review as "order quality for funding decisions", and study section chairs have been asking people "Will this move the grant enough to matter? If not, then do we need to spend the time on it?" Since funding is now at something insane like 5%, people are reluctant to ask study section to spend time discussing a grant to move it from 33% to 20%.

This is also coming from colleagues on study section who observe that study section spends a lot time discussing grants everyone agrees on (particularly at the good-score end).

#grants #grantReviews

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Syracuse University: NEH Grant-Funded Project Will Digitize Pre-Revolutionary War Papers. “Two Syracuse University faculty members have received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to digitize portions of the Jeffrey Amherst Papers—a rare, 54-volume trove of 18th-century documents charting British, American colonial and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy relations in the […]

The Supporting Act Foundation is opening two grant programs:

1. The Artist Grant: 10 x 10,000 € grants to emerging artists from underrepresented groups whose practices involve, incorporate, or benefit their communities

2. The Impact Grant: 10 x 50,000 € grants to arts-focused nonprofits that work to support emerging artists from marginalised communities

Available to artists & orgs based in BE, FR, DE, GR, IE, IT, NL, PT, ES, GB

https://thesupportingact.org/programs

#grants #europe #arts #nonprofit

NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers

https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-ending-key-grant-budding-clinical-researchers

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321353

#HackerNews #NIH #Grants #ClinicalResearch #FundingScienceInnovation

University of Hawaii: Preserving Maui’s stories: UH Center for Oral History lands $538K in new funding. “A surge of new funding is highlighting the critical mission of one of Hawaiʻi’s most significant digital archives. Multiple grants are flowing into the College of Social Sciences’ Center for Oral History (COH) in recognition of its vital work to preserve the history, voices and […]

Council on Library and Information Resources: Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices Application Now Open. “The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is now accepting applications for the fifth cycle of Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices (DHC:AUV), generously underwritten by the Mellon Foundation. The program awards grants ranging from […]

The Stage: Streetwise Opera awarded £189K grant to collate 25th anniversary archive. “Through recordings, photographs, scores, programmes and designs, Streetwise Opera will document its history of work with people who have experienced homelessness to co-create new opera from diverse voices.”

Council on Library and Information Resources: CLIR Awards Nearly $1 Million in Recordings at Risk Grant Funds. “The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is pleased to announce the thirteenth cohort of projects for Recordings at Risk, CLIR’s program that funds the digitization of rare and unique audio and audiovisual materials. An independent review panel selected 24 projects […]

Delaware group grants $570K to support Latino communities https://www.allforgardening.com/1928569/delaware-group-grants-570k-to-support-latino-communities/ #delaware #DelawareLatinos #GardeningDelaware #grants

#NIH is terminating #grants again, this time focused on #healthdisparities. The letter explains that #Bhattacharya’s priorities include “measurable health outcomes” and “solution-oriented approaches” in #health research
Letter says agency is “adjusting its extramural research portfolio, which includes terminating grant awards”
Terminations come as #WhiteHouse #OMB is moving forward with regulation that would give political appointees power to cancel #peerreviewed grants.
https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-director-bhattacharya-kills-more-health-disparities-grants

FIT: FIT and Columbia Work Together on a New Sustainable Fiber. “FIT, in partnership with Columbia University, has been awarded an $11.5 million grant from the Bezos Earth Fund to develop a high-performance, sustainable textile fiber grown by bacteria.”

Tips for neighborhood leaders applying for grants https://www.allforgardening.com/1920153/tips-for-neighborhood-leaders-applying-for-grants/ #BlockParty #CommunityGarden #funding #garden #gardener #gardening #grants #IndianaHumanities #MeridianKessler #NeighborhoodAssociations #PublicArt #UnderHero

💧🔬 Ah, the pursuit of the most pretentious H2O, where $120k #grants you hydrogen and oxygen atoms so "official" even #Aquaman would blush. Meanwhile, mere mortals are left wondering if they should mortgage their house for a sip of this elite liquid, or just stick with their tap water and its pedestrian 0°C freezing point. 💸💦
https://signoregalilei.com/2026/07/26/the-most-official-water-costs-120000-a-gallon/ #pretentiouswater #eliteh2o #tapwater #luxuryliquid #HackerNews #ngated

I don't know what's happening at #NIH and #CSR, but the #GrantReviews no longer make sense. The last four reviews that me and my trainees have gotten include scores that don't match the identified strengths and weaknesses and include "weaknesses" that don't match the grant.

As in one reviewer docking us for "they only use one technique" when we do both recordings and opto, and in fact one of the other reviewers complained that we didn't identify the full virus or stimulation protocol we would use (it's the same technique we've used in previous publications). Or one reviewer complaining that the training plan doesn't include outside lab experiences and the other reviewer complaining that the workshops the trainee proposed to go to are listed in the training plan as "professional development" rather than "computational training".

I don't know if this is because the reviews aren't being discussed anymore and so are not cross-corrected, if the reviewers are new and don't actually know how to review, if the people are sending them to AI, or if people are so busy that they don't care. Or maybe its that they don't think it matters anymore since #NIH apparently isn't funding #grants with good scores either.

Grant scores have always been a sampling measure from a central tendency + noise. And the noise has always been high. But the reviews used to be about the grant itself. They just don't seem to be anymore.

The system is broken. At what point is it no longer worth writing grants, since it's a huge amount of work and literally takes us away from doing the actual science? And what are the other options?

Is it too late to learn how to rob banks?

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Posting this a bit late, but I was very glad (and relieved) to hear that one of my former PhD students, Stijn Cambie, was granted one of this year's FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellowships, to independently carry out his research programme for the next three years. (These are getting much harder to get, especially for fundamental, i.e. non-applied, research projects.)

https://www.fwo.be/en/results-outreach/announcement-of-results/275-new-postdoctoral-fellowships-awarded/

Congratulations Stijn!

#combinatorics #stijn #fwo #grants

@newyorktimes reports that the #Trump administration has admitted to #canceling #federal #grants to #states that didn't vote for him. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/business/trump-state-grants-canceled.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0FA.p4Je.j4uScpQjBS39&smid=url-share

#Impeach, #convict, and #remove him from office NOW!

In contrast, the admin left untouched hundreds of additional #energy #grants in #states that were represented by #Republicans & had backed #Trump in the last election, EVEN THOUGH the Energy Dept had recommended canceling them, the federal government confirmed in the July #court filing.

#MafiaState #law #democracy #UNITEDStates #RussVought #Project2025 #RevengePolitics

“With one exception,” a lawyer for the #Energy Dept conceded in a #court filing this month, “the 284 terminated #grants had a recipient location &/or at least one place of performance in a state that awarded its electoral votes to #KamalaHarris in the 2024 election & has 2 #Democratic-caucusing senators.”

The lawyer acknowledged that none of the grants were included in the October terminations “based on any programmatic, statutory, cost-reduction or performance-based factor.”

#Trump #law

But in Oct, the White House budget office, led by #Project2025’s #RussVought, terminated only 284 of those grants. In a social media post announcing the news, Vought pointed to the motivations: “Nearly $8 billion in Green New Scam funding to fuel the Left’s climate agenda is being canceled,” he claimed.

Months later, in #court filings, federal officials indicated there was little else that had informed the final decision about which #grants to cancel.

#Trump #MafiaState #law #RevengePolitics

The #Trump admin’s latest concession about the #grants came in a #lawsuit filed by a group of #California #researchers challenging various federal agencies that have canceled #Biden era #funding.

After reviewing its spending, the Trump #Energy Dept last fall created a list that recommended canceling >600 grants awarded by the Biden admin for a wide range of novel energy projects. That list included funding for projects in #states represented by both #Republicans & #Democrats.

#MafiaState #law

The saga illustrates the stakes as the #Trump admin is completing a set of rules that would provide the president even GREATER CONTROL over more than $1 TRILLION in annual #federal #grants. To critics, the new #regulation would only make it easier for Trump to strike wider tranches of congressionally approved #funding over #political differences.

#MafiaState #law #democracy #UNITEDStates #RussVought #Project2025 #RevengePolitics