DEADLINE: August 11, 2008 (June 1, 2009 earliest beginning date for Arts Endowment period of support)

The Access to Artistic Excellence grant program through the National Endowment for the Arts encourages and supports artistic creativity, preserves our diverse cultural heritage and makes the arts more widely available in communities throughout the country. While projects in this category may focus on just one of these areas, the Arts Endowment recognizes that many of the most effective projects encompass both artistic excellence and enhanced access. The Arts Endowment is particularly interested in projects that extend the arts to underserved populations -- those whose opportunities to experience the arts are limited by geography, ethnicity, economics or disability.

DEADLINE: August 27, 2008 (for projects beginning April 2009)

Implementation grants offered through America's Historical and Cultural Organizations program at the National Endowment for the Humanities allow institutions to provide the public with opportunities to explore the humanities through activities such as exhibitions, reading and film discussion series, catalogs, lectures, symposia and websites.

DEADLINE: July 9, 2008

The Division of Environmental Biology in the Biological Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation supports fundamental research on populations, species, communities, and ecosystems. Scientific emphases include: