WASHINGTON, July 21 -- The U.S. Department of Education announced that it expects to award up to three grants for programs to encourage innovative history and civics education. The agency description of the grant states: "The purpose of this program is to promote new and existing evidence-based strategies to encourage innovative American history, civics and government, and geography instruction, learning strategies, and professional development activities and programs for teachers, principals,  more ST

WASHINGTON, July 23 -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced that it expects to award up to 125 grants for the hiring of a service coordinator to assess the needs of housing residents. The agency description of the grant states: "The Resident Opportunity & Self Sufficiency Service Coordinator (ROSS-SC) program is designed to assist residents of Public and Indian Housing make progress towards economic and housing self-sufficiency by removing the educational, professional more ST

WASHINGTON, July 24 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health has issued a funding opportunity announcement for career development in cancer research. The agency description of the funding opportunity announcement states: "This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites grant applications for the Research Specialist Award (R50) in any area of NCI-funded cancer research. This FOA is specifically for laboratory-based scientists. The Research Specialist more ST