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Funding Forecast Section Provides More Grant Prep Time
   FAM's Funding Forecast section is a unique feature to help subscribers resolve their top complaint in grantseeking – limited time between the release of a solicitation and the deadline. Most funders provide a month or two once a solicitation or RFP is released. FAM's Funding Forecast section helps...
posted 6/17/13 08:31 AM  read complete story

Senior Volunteer Programs Receive Funding Boosts
   FAM provides six months of advance notice.
posted 6/14/13 2:08 PM  read complete story

Colleges, Universities Vie for Child Care Funds
   FAM intel proves correct on new funding awards.
posted 6/3/13 07:47 AM  read complete story

Foundation Focuses on Four Broad Funding Categories
   High school, universities and hospitals have received capital support in past few years.
posted 5/29/13 09:42 AM  read complete story

Basic Center Grantmaking Starts
   FAM provides more than six months of advance notice.
posted 5/22/13 10:36 AM  read complete story

Influential Report Explores College Prep Funding Fixes
   A recent Brookings Institution event focused on improving higher education outcomes for low-income students and provided insights on improving efforts at the K-12 andhigher education levels. Brookings' Ron Haskins says the Obama administration and the previous Bush White House made important chan...
posted 5/14/13 12:25 PM  read complete story

Program Ensures Quality Principals
   Agency official has been keeping FAM updated for months.
posted 5/10/13 11:28 AM  read complete story

New ‘Promise’ Awards Uncertain
   An official at the Office on Innovation & Improvement (DoEd) tells FAM a decision on new Promise Neighborhoods awards remains very much up in the air. Right now, the official, who asked to remain anonymous, says a solicitation for new awards likely won't happen, based on the initial review of...
posted 4/29/13 09:53 AM  read complete story

Official Provides Details on Technology Funding
   An official at the Office of Special Education Programs (DoEd) tells us the Steppingstones of Technology Innovation for Students with Disabilities Program (CFDA Number: 84.8327A) is being phased out and replaced by the $3 million Stepping-UpTechnology Implementation Program (CFDA Number: 84.327S). ...
posted 4/23/13 12:38 PM  read complete story

Agency Serious About New Child Care Awards
   An Office of Postsecondary Education (DoEd) official assures FAM new awards will be made under the upcoming FY 2013 solicitation for its Child Care Access Means Parents in School Program (CFDA Number: 84.335). OPE's Antoinette Clark tells us the agency expects to make 100 new awards, in addition to...
posted 4/18/13 09:58 AM  read complete story