Federal Programs that Support Engagement

Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies

Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service

  • Higher Education Challenge Grants

    Sponsoring Agency
    CSREES - USDA
    Total Program Funding
    $5,500,000.00
    Main reason for funding
    Teaching

  • Multicultural Scholars Program & Experiential Learning Grants

    Sponsoring Agency
    CSREES - USDA
    Total Program Funding
    $990,000.00
    Main reason for funding
    Students, teaching

  • Tribal Colleges Education Equity Grants

    Sponsoring Agency
    CSREES - USDA
    Total Program Funding
    $2,250,000.00
    Main reason for funding
    Students, teaching, institutional

  • Hispanic Serving Institutions Education Grants

    Sponsoring Agency
    CSREES - USDA
    Total Program Funding
    $600,000.00
    Main reason for funding
    Students, teaching, institutional

Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies

Learn and Serve

  • Higher Education Learn and Serve America Grants

    Sponsoring Agency
    CNCS
    Total Program Funding
    $9,188,438
    Main reason for funding
    Students, teaching, service-learning

Interior and Related Agencies

Environmental Protection Agency

  • Environmental Education Grants Program

    Sponsoring Agency
    EPA
    Total Program Funding
    $2,780,786
    Main reason for funding
    Students, teaching

Science, State, Justice, Commerce and Related Agencies

National Science Foundation

  • Partnerships in Innovation

    Sponsoring Agency
    NSF
    Total Program Funding
    $9,000,000.00
    Main reason for funding
    Research

  • Broadening Participation in Computing

    Sponsoring Agency
    NSF
    Total Program Funding
    $14,000,000.00
    Main reason for funding
    Research

  • Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program

    Sponsoring Agency
    NSF
    Total Program Funding
    $7,000,000.00
    Main reason for funding
    Research

  • Research Experiences for Undergraduates

    Sponsoring Agency
    NSF
    Total Program Funding
    $33,000,000.00
    Main reason for funding
    Research

  • Tribal Colleges and Universities Program

    Sponsoring Agency
    NSF
    Total Program Funding
    $6,000,000.00
    Main reason for funding
    Research

  • Communicating Research to Public Audiences

    Sponsoring Agency
    NSF
    Total Program Funding
    $1,500,000.00
    Main reason for funding
    Research

  • Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers Program

    Sponsoring Agency
    NSF
    Total Program Funding
    $5,200,000.00
    Main reason for funding
    Research

Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies

Department of Education

  • Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education - Comprehensive Program

    Sponsoring Agency
    DoE - OPSE
    Total Program Funding
    $21,988,980.00
    Main reason for funding
    Institution

  • Educational Opportunity Centers

    Sponsoring Agency
    DoE - TRIO
    Total Program Funding
    $48,972,000.00
    Main reason for funding
    students, access, outreach

  • Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program

    Sponsoring Agency
    DoE - TRIO
    Total Program Funding
    $41,935,000.00
    Main reason for funding
    students, access, outreach

  • Student Support Services

    Sponsoring Agency
    DoE - TRIO
    Total Program Funding
    $274,858,000.00
    Main reason for funding
    student support, retention, and graduation rates

  • Talent Search Program

    Sponsoring Agency
    DoE - TRIO
    Total Program Funding
    $144,887,000.00
    Main reason for funding
    students, access, outreach

  • TRIO Dissemination Partnership Program

    Sponsoring Agency
    DoE - TRIO
    Total Program Funding
    $4,368,000.00
    Main reason for funding
    college access, collaborative partnerships

  • Upward Bound Program

    Sponsoring Agency
    DoE - TRIO
    Total Program Funding
    $279,744,000.00
    Main reason for funding
    1st year students transition, access, support

Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies

Urban Partnership Academic Centers of Excellence, National Institutes of Health: Academic Research Enhancement

  • Academic Research Enhancement Award Program

    Sponsoring Agency
    NIH
    Total Program Funding
    unknown
    Main reason for funding
    Research

  • Urban Partnership Academic Centers of Excellence Grant Program

    Sponsoring Agency
    CDC
    Total Program Funding
    $1,700,000.00
    Main reason for funding
    Research, outreach

Transportation, Treasury, the Judiciary, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies

Office of University Partnerships

  • Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian Institutions Assisting Communities

    Sponsoring Agency
    OUP
    Total Program Funding
    $2,970,000.00
    Main reason for funding
    Institution, outreach

  • Hispanic Serving Institutions Assisting Communities

    Sponsoring Agency
    OUP
    Total Program Funding
    $5,940,000.00
    Main reason for funding
    Institution, outreach

  • Historically Black Colleges and Universities

    Sponsoring Agency
    OUP
    Total Program Funding
    $8,900,000.00
    Main reason for funding
    Institution, outreach

  • Tribal Colleges and Universities Program

    Sponsoring Agency
    OUP
    Total Program Funding
    $2,500,000.00
    Main reason for funding
    Institution, outreach

Science, State, Justice, Commerce and Related Agencies

Economic Development Administration

  • Economic Development Administration University Center Program

    Sponsoring Agency
    DOC
    Total Program Funding
    $6,839,529.00
    Main reason for funding
    Funding for enhancing local economic development

Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies

Office of Post Secondary Education

Interior and Related Agencies

National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts

  • Challenge Grants

    Sponsoring Agency
    NEH
    Total Program Funding
    unknown
    Main reason for funding
    programs in the humanities (could include an outreach or engagement component)

  • Education Programs

    Sponsoring Agency
    NEH
    Total Program Funding
    unknown
    Main reason for funding
    programs in the humanities (could include an outreach or engagement component)

  • Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth

    Sponsoring Agency
    NEA
    Total Program Funding
    unknown
    Main reason for funding
    arts programs for youth, could incorporate service-learning or outreach

  • Access to Artistic Excellence

    Sponsoring Agency
    NEA
    Total Program Funding
    unknown
    Main reason for funding
    arts programs for youth who normally would not have access, could include a service-learning or civic engagement component

  • Challenge America: Reaching Every Community Fast-Track Review Grants

    Sponsoring Agency
    NEA
    Total Program Funding
    unknown
    Main reason for funding
    Extend the reach of arts to underserved populations