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The ROSES 2011 program is planning to administer grant amounts ranging from $100,000 to $1,000,000 depending on the extent of the proposed project's activities.

The awards will then be given in the form of grants, cooperative agreements, intra- or inter-agency transfers, all depending on the nature of the submitting organization.

Interested institutions are required to submit their proposals and applications electronically to the NSPIRE or Grants.gov website. Deadline for such submission will be on November 22, 2011.

Interested investigators will be qualified to participate to the ROSES 2011 program when they are affiliated with any of the following:

a) educational, industrial, and non-profit organizations

b) Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs)

c) University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs)

d) NASA Centers

e) Jet Propulsion Laboratories (JPL)

d) Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)

e) Other Minority Universities (OMUs)

f) small disadvantaged businesses (SDBs)

g) veteran-owned small businesses and service disabled veteran-owned small businesses

h) HUBZone small businesses, and women-owned small businesses (WOSBs

i) other government agencies

The ROSES 2011 program is essential to NASA because it is very much in keeping with their mission as an agency, which is to serve as the nation's forefront in exploring the vast and complex fields of aeronautics, aerospace, and earth science-related advances.

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United States Department of Housing and Urban Development: Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program
The Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program aims to improve regional planning efforts that integrate housing, transportation, economic development, and environmental infrastructure investment decisions, in order to increase the country's capacity to incorporate livability, sustainability and social equity into land use plans and zoning.

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Democracy, Human Rights, Rule of Law, and Freedom of Expression and the Press for Europe and Eurasia
The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Affairs has recently established a funding opportunity entitled Democracy, Human Rights, Rule of Law, and Freedom of Expression/Press for Europe/Eurasia, wherein they are seeking applications and proposals that aim to develop projects promoting democracy, human rights, rule of law, and freedom of expression/press in Europe and Eurasia.

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Department of Agriculture: Value Added Producer Grants
The Value-Added Producer Grants program is geared towards helping the Independent Producers of Agricultural Commodities, Agriculture Producer Groups, Farmer and Rancher Cooperatives, and Majority-Controlled Producer-Based Business Ventures in developing techniques that would create marketing opportunities and establish business plans involving viable marketing opportunities that involve the production of bio-based products from agricultural commodities.

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