1. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

Contact person: Reuben Snipper, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), Department of Health and Human Services, 200 Independence Avenue, SE, Room 404E, Washington, DC 20201; phone (202) 690-5880; fax (202) 690-6562; email: rsnipper@osaspe.dhhs.gov.

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) serves as the principal advisor to the Secretary of Health and Human Services on policy development, program analysis, and economic policy. The Office is responsible for the major decisions and support activities that encompass legislative development, planning, policy analysis, and research and evaluation oversight. ASPE periodically announces Federal grants on a wide range of topics. For information, contact: Adrienne Little, DHHS/ASPE, Room 415F; (202) 690-8794; fax (202) 690-6518; email: aspeinfo@osaspe.dhhs.gov.

2. U.S. Department of Justice - Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Contact person: Betty Chemers, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), Department of Justice, 633 Indiana Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20530; phone (202) 307-3677; fax (202) 307- 0091; email: chemersb@justice.usdoj.gov.

The Office of Juvenile and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is the central Federal agency responsible for juvenile justice system and juvenile delinquency prevention matters. It administers a diverse program to foster improvement in the Nation’s understanding of and response to delinquent youth and missing children. The Research and Program Development Division sponsors research on national trends in juvenile delinquency; promotes data collection and information sharing among juvenile justice agencies; identifies the developmental pathways to delinquent careers and the best methods for preventing, intervening, and treating delinquency; and analyzes practices and trends in the juvenile justice system.

3. U.S. Department of Agriculture - Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service

Contact person: Bronda Harrison, National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP), Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Department of Agriculture, 323 Aerospace Center, 901 D Street, SW, Washington, DC 20250-2241; phone (202) 401-1924; fax (202) 401-6488; email: bharrison@reeusda.gov.

The National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP) of the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, supports research on key problems of national and regional importance in the biological, environmental, physical, and social sciences relevant to agriculture, food, and the environment. The NRICGP supports a broad spectrum of research that bridges the basic and applied sciences and results in practical outcomes ensuring that U.S. agriculture and forestry are sustainable and that they remain competitive in the global arena.

4. U.S. Bureau of Census - Decennial Management Division

Contact person: John H. Thompson, Decennial Management Division, Bureau of Census, Room 3586, Federal Office Building 3, Silver Hill and Suitland Roads, Suitland, MD 20746; phone (301) 457-3946; fax (301) 763-3820; email: john.thompson@ccmail.census.gov.

In support of the Bureau of Census mission to serve as the preeminent collector of timely, relevant, and accurate data about the U.S. population, the agency supports a rich program of research. Recent projects have been supported mainly under indefinite quantity task order contracts, allowing the Bureau to channel over $20 million to technical and research organizations in support of work in statistical sampling; survey, cognitive, and motivational research; advanced computing technology; and so forth. Additional research into virtually any area of the Bureau of Census data and operations is conducted under Joint Project Agreements, Cooperative R&D Agreements, Interagency Personnel Agreements, and the American Statistical Association (AStatA)/NSF/Census Fellowship Program.

5. National Endowment for the Humanities

Contact person: Douglas Arnold, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) , 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 318, Washington, DC 20506; phone (202) 606-8466; fax (202) 606-8204; email: darnold@neh.fed.us.

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) provides grants to individuals and institutions for exemplary work to advance and disseminate knowledge in all the disciplines of the humanities; these grants include fellowships for individual research. According to the act that established the NEH, "The term 'humanities' includes, but is not limited to, the study of the following: language, both modern and classical; linguistics; literature; history; jurisprudence philosophy; archaeology; comparative religion; ethics; the history, criticism and theory of the arts; those aspects of social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods; and the study and application of the humanities to the human environment with particular attention to reflecting our diverse heritage, traditions, and history and to the relevance of the humanities to the current conditions of national life." The Endowment awards grants through three divisions and two offices: Preservation and Access, Public Programs and Enterprise, Research and Education, and Challenge Grants and Federal/State Partnership. Each application is assessed by knowledgeable persons outside the Endowment who are asked for their judgments about the quality and significance of the proposed projects.

6. American Council of Learned Societies

Contact person: Andrzej Tymowski, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), 228 East 45th Street, New York, NY 100117-3398; phone (212) 697- 1505, ext. 138 (grants); fax (212) 949-8058; email: grants@acls.org; homepage: http://www.acls.org.

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) supports research in the humanities and the social sciences through awards to individual scholars. Of the ACLS programs, the general Fellowship Program helps make it possible for scholars to devote six to twelve continuous months to research. In addition, ACLS sponsors several programs to encourage area and international social science and humanities research. In addition to the information provided at the Poster Session, information can be obtained from Ruth Waters, Office of Fellowships and Grants.

7. Council for International Exchange of Scholars - Fulbright Scholar Program, USIA Fulbright Senior Scholar Program

Contact person: Pat Fesci, USIA Fulbright Senior Scholar Program, Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), 3007 Tilden Street, NW, Suite 5M, Washington, DC 20008-3009; phone (202) 686- 7871; fax (202) 362-3442; email: ciesl@ciesnet.cies.org; homepage: http://www.cies.org.

The Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) cooperates with the United States Information Agency in the administration of the Fulbright Senior Scholar Program. Each year over 800 grants are offered to U.S. academics and professionals for advanced research, university lecturing or combined lecturing, and research in approximately 130 countries around the world. The program also brings over 800 visiting scholars to U.S. institutions for research and/or lecturing annually.

8. Civic Education Project

Contact person: Rachel Schofer, Civic Education Project (CEP), PO Box 205445, Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520; phone (203) 781-0263; fax (203) 781- 0265; email: cep@cep.yale.edu; homepage: http://cep.yale.edu.

The Civic Education Project is an international not-for-profit organization committed to assisting in the revitalization of the social and policy sciences throughout Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. With 120 volunteer faculty teaching in 14 countries, CEP is a leading force in higher education reform in the region.

9. William T. Grant Foundation

Contact person: Dale Blyth, William T. Grant Foundation, 515 Madison Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10022-5403; phone (212) 752-0071; fax (212) 752-1398.

The Foundation’s primary mission is enhancing children’s development and metal health, defined broadly. It pursues this goal primarily by support of research in medical or social-behavioral scientific disciplines. The Foundation supports a variety of studies whose goals are to understand and prevent some of the major problems of children and youth, to facilitate successful child and adolescent development, and to assure optimal preparation for the transition to adulthood. The Foundation is especially interested in interdisciplinary research. Support from the Foundation is available in several forms, all of which are investigator- initiated: Research on the Development of Children, Adolescents, and Youth; Research to Evaluate Broadly-Based Social Interventions; Faculty Scholars Program; Small Grants Program.

10. National Humanities Alliance

Contact person: John Hammer, National Humanities Alliance (NHA), 21 Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 604, Washington, DC 20036; phone (202) 296-4994; fax (202) 872-0884; email: jhammer@cni.org.

The National Humanities Alliance (NHA) is not a grantmaking organization. NHA is a source of information for federal grantmaking programs of interest to scholars.

The NHA is a coalition of 85 scholarly and professional associations; organizations of museums, libraries, historical societies, higher education, and state humanities councils; university and independent centers for scholarship and other organizations concerned with national humanities policies. The alliance monitors and lobbies Congress and the Executive Branch for support for scholarly research, education, and public humanities. The NHA also works to assure scholarly access to information especially in terms of intellectual property laws and regulations, and federal policies affecting access to libraries, archives, and, in general, government information. Finally, NHA seeks to demonstrate to policy makers that scholarly research can inform and lead to better public policy. (The American Sociological Association is an active member of the National Humanities Alliance.)

11. International Research & Exchanges Board

Contact person: Kelly Wienne, International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX), 1616 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006; phone (202) 628-8188; fax (202) 628-8189; email: kwieme@irex.org.

Founded in 1968, the International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) provides field access for U.S. specialists to scholars, policy makers, and research resources of the Newly Independent States, Central and Eastern Europe, and Mongolia.

With funding from the U.S. Information Agency, the Department of State, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, IREX offers opportunities for Ph.D. candidates and senior scholars to conduct in-depth field research for periods ranging from one to 12 months.