Grants

Grants to individuals, a group of individuals, or an organization, usually for a specific project. Monetary grants are given to assist in paying for education, or research and development projects. In some cases, grant awards do not require repayment.

Adult Education: National Leadership Activities
This program supports applied research, development, demonstration, dissemination, evaluation, and related activities that contribute to the improvement and expansion of adult basic education nationally.

Advanced Placement Incentive (API) Program
The API program awards competitive grants designed to increase the successful participation of low-income students in pre-advanced placement and advanced placement courses and tests.

Advanced Placement (AP) Test Fee Program
The AP Test Fee program provides grants to States to enable them to pay advanced placement test fees on behalf of eligible low-income students who (1) are enrolled in an advanced placement course; and (2) plan to take an advanced placement exam. The program is designed to increase the number of low-income students who take advanced placement tests and receive scores for which college academic credit is awarded.

Alaska Native Education Program
The program is designed to meet the unique educational needs of Alaska Natives and to support the development of supplemental educational programs to benefit Alaska Natives.

Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate Program (AGEP)
The program awards grants to institutions of higher learning in order for them to significantly increase the number of minority students enrolled in sciences, mathematics, engineering, and technology (SMET). The objective of the program is to develop and implement innovative models for recruiting, mentoring, retaining, and graduating minority students with doctoral degrees.

American Indian Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCU) Program
The TCCU program provides grants to eligible institutions of higher education to enable them to improve their academic quality, institutional management, and fiscal stability, and increase their self-sufficiency.

American Overseas Research Centers
This program provides grants to consortia U.S. institutions of higher education to establish or operate overseas research centers that promote postgraduate research, exchanges, and area studies.

Assistive Technology Act (AT Act) Technical Assistance Program
The purpose of the Assistive Technology Act of 1998 (AT Act) Technical Assistance Program is to award grants to entities to address issues raised by interested parties; collect data in order to provide information about AT devices and services that can be used for determining policy; and provide information on increased access to AT devices, AT services, and other disability-related resources.

Business and International Education Program
The Business and International Education Program provides grants to institutions of higher education to enhance international business education programs and to expand the capacity of the business community to engage in international economic activities.

Capacity Building for Traditionally Underserved Populations
The Capacity Building for Traditionally Underserved Populations program is designed to support projects that provide training, technical assistance, or related activities to improve services provided under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (Act), especially services provided to individuals from minority backgrounds.

Carol M. White Physical Education Program
The Carol M. White Physical Education Program provides grants to initiate, expand, and improve physical education programs, including after-school programs, for students in kindergarten through 12th grade in order to make progress toward meeting State standards for physical education.

Centers for Independent Living
This program provides support for planning, conducting, administering, and evaluating centers for independent living (centers) consistent with the State plan for establishing a statewide network of centers.

Centers for Independent Living--Training and Technical Assistance Center
To provide training and technical assistance with respect to planning, developing, conducting, administering, and evaluating centers for independent living.

Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) Program
The CCAMPIS Program supports the participation of low-income parents in postsecondary education through the provision of campus-based childcare services.

Collaborative Research Grants, National Endowment for the Humanity
Collaborative Research Grants support original research undertaken by a team of two or more scholars or research coordinated by an individual scholar that because of its scope or complexity requires additional staff and resources beyond the individual's salary.

College and Career Transitions Initiative (CCTI)
The purpose of the CCTI is to strengthen the role of community and technical colleges in easing student transitions between secondary and postsecondary education, and improving academic performance at both the secondary and postsecondary levels.

Community Technology Centers Program
The purpose of the Community Technology Centers program is to assist eligible applicants to create or expand community technology centers that will provide disadvantaged residents of economically distressed urban and rural communities with access to information technology and related training.

Cooperative Civic Education and Economic Education Exchange Program
The purpose of the Cooperative Education Exchange program is to improve the quality of civic education through cooperative civic education exchange programs with emerging democracies.

Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI)
The program awards grants to improve the quality of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education for all students and targets activities affecting learning environments, course content, curricula, and educational practices. The program has three tracks: Educational Materials Development, National Dissemination, Adaptation and Implementation. Grants may be awarded to 2 or 4-year colleges, universities, professional societies, consortia of institutions, and non-profit and for-profit organizations.

DC Choice Incentive Program
Program provides low-income parents residing in the District of Columbia (District) with expanded options for the education of their children. One or more grants will be awarded on a competitive basis to eligible applicants to establish a scholarship program to provide eligible students with expanded school choice options.

Demonstration Grants for Indian Children
The purpose of the Demonstration Grants program is to provide financial assistance to projects to develop, test, and demonstrate the effectiveness of services and programs to improve the educational opportunities and achievement of preschool, elementary, and secondary students.

Demonstration Projects to ensure Students with Disabilities receive a Quality Higher Education
The purpose of the demonstration program is to provide technical assistance and professional development for faculty and administrators in IHEs in order to provide them with the skills and supports that they need to teach students with disabilities. The program will also be used to widely disseminate research and training to enable faculty and administrators in other IHEs to meet the educational needs of students with disabilities.

Disability Rehabilitation Research Program (DRRP)
The purpose of the DRRP program is to plan and conduct research, demonstration projects, training, and related activities that help to maximize the full inclusion and integration of individuals with disabilities into society and to improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (the Act).

Early Childhood Educator Professional Development Program
The purpose of the Early Childhood Educator Professional Development Program is to enhance the school readiness of young children, particularly disadvantaged young children, and to prevent them from encountering difficulties once they enter school. The program is designed to improve the knowledge and skills of early childhood educators who work in communities that have high concentrations of children living in poverty.

Early Reading First
The purpose of the Early Reading First Program is to create preschool centers of excellence by improving the instruction and classroom environment of early childhood programs that are located in urban or rural high-poverty communities and that serve primarily children from low income families.

Elementary and Secondary School Counseling Programs
The purpose of this program is to focus Federal financial assistance on establishing and expanding elementary school counseling programs.

Elementary School Foreign Language Incentive Program
This program provides incentive payments for each public elementary school that offers its students a program designed to lead to communicative competency in a foreign language.

Energy-Related Laboratory Equipment Grant Program
The grant program awards available used or excess Energy-Related Laboratory Equipment (ERLE) to institutions of higher education for energy-related research. An institution is not required to have a currently funded project with the Department of Energy (DOE) to participate in this program.

English Language Acquisition: National Professional Development Program
This program provides grants for professional development activities that will improve classroom instruction for limited English proficient (LEP) children and assist educational personnel working with such children to meet high professional standards, including standards for certification and licensure as teachers who work in language instruction educational programs or serve LEP students.

Environmental Education Grant
The goal of the program is to support environmental education projects that enhance the public's awareness, knowledge, and skills to make informed decisions that affect environmental quality.

Environmental Justice's Small Grants
The program provides financial assistance to eligible community groups (i.e., community-based/grassroots organizations, churches, schools, other non-profit organizations, local governments, and tribal governments that are working on or plan to carry out projects to address environmental justice issues.

Faculty Awards for Research (FAR)
This NASA program was developed to increase the number of socially and economically disadvantaged and disabled students receiving advanced degrees and entering into careers in NASA-related fields. Recipients of these awards will be able to enhance their research capabilities through interaction with NASA researchers and faculty.

Field Initiated Program and Advanced Rehabilitation Research Training Project
We invite applications for new FY 2003 grant awards under the Field-Initiated (FI) Projects (84.133G) and Advanced Rehabilitation Research Training (ARRT) Projects (84.133P). We take this action to focus research attention on an area of national need.

Florida Space Grant Program
This NASA program supports the expansion and diversification of Florida's space industry, through providing grants, scholarships, and fellowships to students (graduate, undergraduate students, as well as supports K-12 activity) and educators (faculty) from Florida's public and private institutes of higher education.

Food and Agricultural Sciences National Needs Graduate Fellowships Grants Program - Special International Study or Thesis/Dissertation Research Travel Allowances
This program provides grant funding to enable Fellows to conduct thesis/dissertation research or to undertake studies at a site outside of the United States.

Fund for the Improvement of Education--Ready to Teach; Digital Educational Programming
The purpose of this program is to support grants to eligible entities to enable them to develop, produce, and distribute innovative educational and instructional programming that is designed for use by elementary schools or middle schools and based on challenging State academic content and student academic achievement standards in reading or mathematics.

Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE)- European Community/United States of America Cooperation Program in Higher Education and Vocational Education and Training
The purpose of this program is to promote a student-centered, transatlantic dimension to higher education and training in a wide range of academic and professional disciplines. The EC-US Program fosters student exchange within the context of multilateral curricular development.

Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) - Program for North American Mobility in Higher Education
The Program for North American Mobility in Higher Education is a grant competition run cooperatively by the governments of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The Program for North American Mobility in Higher Education fosters student exchange within the context of multilateral curricular development. Students benefit from having an added "North American" curriculum and cultural dimension to their studies through combination of trilateral curricular innovation and study abroad.

Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) - US-Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program
The US-Brazil Program fosters university partnerships through the exchange of undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff within the context of bilateral curricular development. Grants for the US-Brazil Program will provide four years of funding. Each country will support only participating institutions within its borders.

Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education--Comprehensive Program
The purpose of this program is to provide grants or enter into cooperative agreements to improve postsecondary educational opportunities.

Grants to Reduce Alcohol Abuse
The program provides grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to develop and implement innovative and effective alcohol abuse prevention programs for secondary school students.

Higher Education Multicultural Scholars Program - Special Experiential Learning Grants
This program is designed to further the development of student scientific and professional competencies through experiential learning programs that provide students with opportunities to solve complex problems in the context of real-world situations.

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)
This program awards research grants to investigators at historically black colleges and universities working in areas of interest to NASA.

Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP)
The program provides grants to enhance the quality of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) instructional and outreach programs at HBCUs as a means to broaden participation in the Nation's STEM workforce. Support is available for the implementation of comprehensive institutional approaches to strengthen STEM teaching and learning in ways that improve access to, retention within, and graduation from STEM programs.

Impact Aid Discretionary Construction Grant Program
The program provides grants to eligible Impact Aid districts to assist them in addressing their school facilities emergency and modernization needs. The intended recipient Impact Aid school districts have a limited ability to raise revenues for capital improvements because they have high percentages of Federally-connected students or a large percentage of Federal land. As a result, these districts find it difficult to respond when their school facilities are in need of emergency improvements or modernization.

Improving Literacy through School Libraries Program
The purpose of this program is to improve student literacy skills and academic achievement by providing students with increased access to up-to-date school library materials; a well-equipped, technologically advanced school library media center; and well-trained, professionally certified school library media specialists.

Indian Education Formula Grants
The program provides grants to support local educational agencies (LEAs) in their efforts to reform elementary and secondary schools programs that serve Indian students.

Indian Professional Development
The program seeks to (1) increase the number of qualified Indian individuals in professions that serve Indian people; (2) provide training to qualified Indian individuals to become teachers, administrators, teacher aides, social workers, and ancillary educational personnel; and (3) improve the skills of qualified Indian individuals who serve in the capacities described in (2). Activities may include, but are not limited to, continuing programs, symposia, workshops, conferences, and direct financial support.

Institute for International Public Policy Program
This program provides a single grant to assist a consortium of colleges and universities to establish an institute designed to increase the representation of minorities in international service, including private international voluntary organizations and the foreign service of the United States.

Institutional Research Awards (IRA) or Minority Universities
The objectives of this program is to expand opportunities and strengthen relationships with minority educational institutions, especially Hispanic-serving institutions and tribal colleges. The IRA Program provides grants to colleges and universities that currently conduct research in NASA-related fields and have a demonstrated record in graduating underrepresented minorities in science, engineering, and technology.

Integrated Research, Education, and Extension Competitive Grants Program
This program provides funding for integrated, multifunctional agricultural research, extension, and education activities.

International Research and Studies Program
This program supports surveys, studies, and instructional materials development to improve and strengthen instruction in modern foreign languages, area studies, and other international fields to provide full understanding of the places in which the foreign languages are commonly used.

Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Program
The purpose of this program is to carry out a coordinated curriculum of scientifically based research, demonstration projects, innovative strategies, and similar activities designed to build and enhance the ability of elementary and secondary schools nationwide to meet the special educational needs of gifted and talented students.

Language Resource Centers Program
The program provides assistance to establish, strengthen, and operate centers that serve as resources for improving the Nation's capacity for teaching and learning foreign languages.

Local Flexibility Demonstration Program
The program provides up to 80 local educational agencies (LEAs) with high-quality local flexibility demonstration proposals an opportunity to enter into local flexibility demonstration agreements ("Local-Flex" agreements) with the Secretary. The LEAs that the Secretary selects to participate in the Local-Flex program will have the flexibility to consolidate certain Federal formula grant funds in order to assist them in meeting the State's definition of adequate yearly progress and the LEA's specific measurable goals for improving student achievement and narrowing achievement gaps.

Mentoring Programs
This mentoring program provides assistance to children with the greatest need: (1) assist these children in receiving support and guidance from a mentor; (2) improve the academic performance of the children; (3) improve interpersonal relationships between the children and their peers, teachers, other adults, and family members; (4) reduce the dropout rate of the children; and (5) reduce the children's juvenile delinquency and involvement in gangs.

Microbial Genome Sequencing Program
The purpose of this interagency program is to solicit applications to conduct high-throughput sequencing of genomes of microbes that are of fundamental biological interest, as well as those that are important to the productivity and sustainability of agriculture, natural resources (e.g. soil and water), and forestry, and to the safety and quality of the nation's food supply.

Migrant Education Even Start Program (MEES)
The program is designed to help break the cycle of poverty and improve the literacy of participating migratory families by integrating early childhood education, adult literacy or adult basic education (including English language training, as appropriate), and parenting education into a unified family literacy program.

Migrant Education Program (MEP) Consortium Incentive Grants
The program provides incentive grants to State Educational Agencies (SEAs) that participate in consortium arrangements with another State or appropriate entity to improve the delivery of services to migrant children whose education is interrupted.

NASA's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR)
This NASA program supports states with modest research infrastructures so that they may develop more competitive research capabilities within their academic institutions. The goal is to mobilize leaders in an effort to build public support for a science and technology enterprise.

National Research Initiative Integrated Program
This program provides grants to support research, extension, and education that address critical emerging U.S. agricultural and rural issues. Priority program areas established to address these emerging issues are: 1) Functional Genomics of Agriculturally Important Organisms (animals, insects and mites, microbes, and plants); 2) Air Quality; 3) Human Nutrition and Obesity; 4) Animal and Plant Biosecurity and; 5) National Training Program for Agricultural Homeland Security.

Native Hawaiian Higher Education Program
This program provides direct grants to Native Hawaiian educational organizations or educational entities with experience in developing or operating Native Hawaiian programs or programs with instruction conducted in the Native Hawaiian language. It enables such organizations or entities to provide a program of baccalaureate and post baccalaureate fellowship assistance to Native Hawaiian students.

National Resource Centers
This program provides grants to institutions of higher education or consortia of institutions of higher education to establish, strengthen, and operate comprehensive and undergraduate language and area/international studies centers.

National Security Education Program (NSEP) Institutional Grants Awards
The grants are awarded to institutions of higher education to develop or strengthen their capabilities to teach critical languages, cultures, area, and international fields. The goal is to equip Americans (faculty and students) with an understanding of less commonly taught languages and cultures which builds a critical base of future leaders both in the marketplace and in government service.

Native American and Alaska Native Children in School Program
The purpose of the program is to provide grants that support language instruction educational programs for limited English proficient children from Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Native American Pacific Islander backgrounds. Projects that are designed for children who are learning and studying Native American languages shall have, as a project outcome, increases in English proficiency and a second language.

Native Hawaiian Education Program
The purpose of the program is to support innovative projects that provide supplemental services that address the educational needs of Native Hawaiian children and adults.

Other Minority Universities (OMU)
This program was developed to increase participation in NASA-sponsored research and education programs at institutions that are serving a substantial number of minorities, and/or women, and/or disabled students.

Parental Information and Resource Centers Program
The purpose of the program is to support school-based and school-linked parental information and resource centers (PIRCs) that-- (1) Implement effective parental involvement policies, programs, and activities that will improve children's academic achievement; (2) Develop and strengthen partnerships among parents, teachers, principals, administrators, and other school personnel in meeting the educational needs of children; and (3) Develop and strengthen the relationship between parents and their child's school.

Parent Information and Training Program
Establishes programs to provide training and information to enable individuals with disabilities, and the parents, family members, guardians, advocates, or other authorized representatives of the individuals, to participate more effectively with professionals in meeting the vocational, independent living, and rehabilitation needs of individuals with disabilities.

Parent Information and Training Program--Technical Assistance
The program provides coordination and technical assistance for establishing, developing, and coordinating the Parent Information and Training Projects funded under Title III of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (Act).

Parent Training and Information Centers
The purpose of this program is to ensure that parents of children with disabilities receive training and information to help improve results for their children.

Professional Development for Art Educators
The Professional Development for Art Educators program makes grants to eligible entities for the implementation of high-quality professional development programs in elementary and secondary education. This program will fund professional development model programs based upon innovative instructional methods, especially those linked to scientifically based research.

Program for Gender Equity (PGE) in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
The program provides substantial resources in the form of grants to elementary, middle and high schools, undergraduate and graduate institutions, and to teachers and faculty to support development/design of programs to attract girls and women into science, technology, engineering, and math related fields of study.

Program of Research on Reading Comprehension
The program expands scientific knowledge of how students develop proficient levels of reading comprehension, how reading comprehension can be taught most optimally, and how reading comprehension can be assessed in ways that reflect as well as advance our current understanding of reading comprehension and its development.

Projects with Industry (PWI)
The program creates and expands job and career opportunities for individuals with disabilities in the competitive labor market by engaging the talent and leadership of private industry as partners in the rehabilitation process. PWI projects identify competitive job and career opportunities and the skills needed to perform those jobs, create practical settings for job readiness and training programs, and provide job placements and career advancement services.

Pollution Preventive Incentive for States (PPIS)
The program provides financial assistance to state and tribal programs to help develop and sustain state P2 program activities and pioneer new P2 approaches in the states. EPA believes state-based environmental programs have the best opportunity to promote P2 because states have closer, more direct contact with industry and are more aware of local needs.

Public Charter Schools Program (PCSP)
The purpose of the program is to increase national understanding of the charter school model and to expand the number of high-quality charter schools available to students across the Nation by providing financial assistance for the planning, program design, and initial implementation of charter schools; evaluating the effects of charter schools, including the effects on students, student academic achievement, staff, and parents; and encouraging States to provide support to charter schools for facilities financing in an amount more commensurate to the amount States have typically provided for traditional public schools.

Reading First
The program provides assistance to State and local educational agencies to establish scientifically based reading programs. The goal is to ensure that children in kindergarten through third grade learn to read well.

Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers (RERC) Program
The program is designed to improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers (RRTC) Program
The purpose of the program is to improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (the Act), as amended.

Research Fellowships Program
The purpose of this grant program is to build research capacity by providing support to highly qualified individuals, including those who are individuals with disabilities, to conduct research about the rehabilitation of individuals with disabilities.

Research on Education - Finance, Leadership, and Management
The intent of these grants is to provide national leadership in expanding fundamental knowledge and understanding of education from early childhood education through postsecondary study.

Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities National Coordinator Program
The program provides grants to local educational agencies to recruit, hire, and train individuals to serve as drug prevention and school safety program coordinators in schools with significant drug and school safety problems.

Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative
Under this program, the Departments of Education (ED), Health and Human Services (HHS), and Justice (DOJ) will support the enhancement of comprehensive community-wide strategies for creating safe and drug-free schools and promoting healthy childhood development.

School Dropout Prevention Program
The purpose of the program is to support effective, sustainable, and coordinated school dropout prevention and reentry programs in high schools with annual school dropout rates greater than the State average annual school dropout rate and in the middle schools that feed students into these high schools.

School Leadership Program
The program is designed to assist high-need local educational agencies (LEAs) in the development, enhancement, or expansion of innovative programs to recruit, train, and mentor principals (including assistant principals) to serve in high-need schools.

Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program
The purpose of the program is to stimulate technological innovation in the private sector, strengthen the role of small business in meeting Federal research or research and development (R/R&D) needs, increase the commercial application of U.S. Government Agencies supported research results, and improve the return on investment from Federally-funded research for economic and social benefits to the Nation.

Small, Rural School Achievement Program
The program is designed to help rural districts that may lack the personnel and resources to compete effectively for Federal competitive grants and that often receive grant allocations in amounts that are too small to be effective in meeting their intended purposes.

Special Education--Personnel Preparation to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities and Technology and Media Services for Individuals with Disabilities
The purposes of these programs are (1) to help address State-identified needs for qualified personnel to work with children with disabilities and ensure that these personnel have the skills and knowledge that are needed to serve these children; and (2) to improve results for children with disabilities by promoting the development and use of technology, support educational media activities designed to be of educational value to children with disabilities, and provide support for some captioning, video description, and cultural activities.

Special Education--Research and Innovation to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities Program
The purpose of this program is to produce, and advance the use of, knowledge to improve educational and early intervention results for infants, toddlers, and children with disabilities.

Special Education--Research and Innovation to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities, Personnel Preparation to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities, and Technical Assistance and Dissemination to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities
The purposes of these programs are (1) to produce, and advance the use of, knowledge to improve the results of education and early intervention for infants, toddlers, and children with disabilities; (2) to help address State-identified needs for qualified personnel to work with children with disabilities and ensure that those personnel have the skills and knowledge derived from practices that have been determined through research and experience to be successful; and (3) to provide technical assistance and information to improve early intervention, educational, and transitional services and results for children with disabilities and their families; and address systemic-change goals and priorities.

Special Education--State Program Improvement Grant Program
The purpose of the program is to assist State educational agencies and their partners with reforming and improving their systems for providing educational, early intervention, and transitional services, including their systems for professional development, technical assistance, and dissemination of knowledge about best practices, to improve results for children with disabilities.

Special Education--Technical Assistance and Dissemination to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities
The purpose of this program is to provide technical assistance and information--through such mechanisms as institutes, regional resource centers, clearinghouses, and programs that support states and local entities in building capacity--to (1) improve early intervention, educational, and transitional services and results for children with disabilities and their families; and (2) address systemic-change goals and priorities.

Special Education--Technical Assistance and Dissemination to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities Program
This program provides technical assistance and information that (1) supports states and local entities in building capacity to improve early intervention, educational, and transitional services and results for children with disabilities and their families; and (2) addresses goals and priorities for changing State systems that provide early intervention, educational, and transitional services for children with disabilities and their families.

Teacher Quality Enhancement Grants Program--State Grants
The program provides grants to states to promote improvements in the quality of new teachers with the ultimate goal of increasing student achievement in the Nation's pre K-12 classrooms.

Teacher Quality Enhancement Grants Program--Teacher Recruitment
This program provides grants to states and partnerships to promote improvements in the quality of new teachers with the ultimate goal of increasing student achievement in pre K-12 classrooms.

Teaching American History Grant Program
The program provides grants to support raising student achievements by improving teachers' knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of traditional American history. Grant awards assist local educational agencies (LEAs), in partnership with entities that have extensive content expertise, to develop, document, evaluate, and disseminate innovative, cohesive models of professional development. By helping teachers to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of traditional American history as a separate subject matter within the core curriculum, these programs will improve instruction and raise student achievement.

Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access Program
This program supports projects that will develop innovative techniques or programs using new electronic technologies to collect information from foreign sources. Grants will be made to access, collect, organize, preserve, and widely disseminate information on world regions and countries other than the United States that address our Nation's teaching and research needs in international education and foreign languages.

The Cultural Partnerships for At-Risk Children and Youth Program
The program supports school-community partnership programs designed to improve the educational performance of at-risk children by providing arts education services and programs, especially programs incorporating arts education standards.

The Rehabilitation Long-Term Training Program
The program provides financial assistance for; (1) projects that provide basic or advanced training leading to an academic degree in areas of personnel shortages in rehabilitation as identified by the Assistant Secretary; (2) projects that provide a specified series of courses or program of study leading to award of a certificate in areas of personnel shortages in rehabilitation as identified by the Assistant Secretary; and (3) projects that provide support for medical residents enrolled in residency training programs in the specialty of physical medicine and rehabilitation.

Transition to Teaching Program
The program supports the recruitment and retention of highly qualified mid-career professionals, school paraprofessionals, and recent college graduates as teachers in high-need schools, through use of existing, or development and enhancement of new, alternative routes to certification.

Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program
The program provides grants to strengthen and improve undergraduate instruction in international studies and foreign languages.

Underground Railroad Educational and Cultural Program
This program provides grants to support research, exhibition, interpretation, and collection of artifacts related to the history of the Underground Railroad.

Upward Bound Math and Science Program
The program is designed to strengthen the math and science skills of participating students. The goal of the program is to help students recognize and develop their potential to excel in math and science while encouraging them to pursue postsecondary degrees in the fields of math and science.

Upward Bound Program
The program seeks to motivate and generate skills in students that assist them in enrolling and graduating from institutions of postsecondary education. The program provides opportunities for participants to succeed in pre-college performance and ultimately in higher education pursuits. The program provides high school students from low-income families, high school students from families in which neither parent holds a bachelors degree, and low-income, first-generation military veterans who are preparing to enter postsecondary education.

Vertical Integration of Research and Education in the Mathematical Sciences (VIGRE)
The Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) competitively awards grants institutions with Ph.D.-granting departments in the mathematical sciences. The long-range goal of the VIGRE program is to increase the number of well-prepared U.S. citizens, nationals, and permanent residents who pursue careers in the mathematical sciences. VIGRE is designed to stimulate innovative educational projects that integrate research with educational activities; enhance interaction among undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral associates, and faculty members; broaden the educational experiences of its students and postdoctoral associates to prepare them for a wide range of career opportunities; and motivate more students to pursue an education in the mathematical sciences.

Vocational Rehabilitation Service Projects for American Indians with Disabilities
The program provides vocational rehabilitation services to American Indians with disabilities who reside on or near Federal or State reservations, consistent with their individual strengths, resources, priorities, concerns, abilities, capabilities, and informed choices, so that they may prepare for and engage in gainful employment, including self-employment, telecommuting, or business ownership.

Voluntary Public School Choice Program
This program provides grants to eligible applicants to assist them in establishing or expanding a program of voluntary public school choice in order to provide parents, particularly parents whose children attend low-performing schools, with greater choice in their children's education.

Women's Educational Equity Program
The program provides financial assistance: to promote gender equity in education; to enable educational agencies to meet the requirements of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; and to promote equity in education for women and girls who suffer from multiple forms of discrimination based on sex and race, ethnic origin, limited English proficiency, disability, or age.