Project Grant NA16FL2452

The Northeast States Emergency Consortium was awarded a $374,168 Project Grant from the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Meteorologic and Hydrologic Modernization Development program (CFDA 11.467) to conduct the United States East Coast Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Project from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023. The grant aims to reduce the impact of tsunamis through maintaining cooperative partnerships to conduct meteorological training,...

Northeast Community Credit Union received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the Department of the Treasury Community Development Financial Institutions Fund. The grant was awarded on June 15, 2021 through the Community Development Financial Institutions Rapid Response Program (CDFI RRP, CFDA #21.024). The funding will support Northeast Community Credit Union's ability to provide financial products and services to its members and community through December 31, 2023, as it prepares for and...

The Northeast Council of Governments was awarded a $420,000 Project Grant from the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration under the Economic Development Support for Planning Organizations program (CFDA 11.302). The grant will support partnership planning activities from April 2021 through March 2024. Through this award, the Northeast Council of Governments will create a regional economic development plan to stimulate and guide the economic development efforts of the Aberdeen,...

Northeastern University was awarded a $250,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CONSENSUS AND DISTRIBUTED OPTIMIZATION IN NON-CONVEX ENVIRONMENTS WITH APPLICATIONS TO NETWORKED MACHINE LEARNING." Under the grant, Northeastern University will conduct research and education activities to advance the fundamental understanding of distributed non-convex optimization...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) awarded a $2,166,750 Cooperative Agreement to Northeast Community College to provide requested training and educational services for NRCS employees under the Conservation Stewardship Program (CFDA 10.924). Through this 5-year award, Northeast Community College will partner with the Community College Alliance for Agriculture Advancement (C2A3) to deliver a range of training and enrichment activities for NRCS staff....

Northeastern University was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) for the period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022. The grant funds the "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SATC: CORE: SMALL: FOUNDATIONS FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF PRIVATE LEARNING SYSTEMS" project to support investigator-initiated research and education in all areas of computing,...

The National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, awarded a $6,749,901 Cooperative Agreement to Northeast Community College to expand its existing framework and advance agricultural Career and Technical Education (CTE) nationwide. This 4-year grant aims to support the C2A3 Alliance in growing its agricultural CTE efforts at a national scale. The project will focus on providing conservation technical assistance, workforce development, and educational...

Northeastern University was awarded a $765,688 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research. The grant is part of the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DMREF: RHEOSTRUCTURALLY-INFORMED NEURAL NETWORKS FOR GEOPOLYMER MATERIAL DESIGN. Through this funding, Northeastern University will deliver research from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025 to develop rheostructurally-informed neural networks for geopolymer material...

The National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $9,466,934 cooperative agreement to the University of Vermont & State Agricultural College under the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program (CFDA #10.215) to support the Northeast Sustainable Research and Education program. The Northeast SARE program offers competitive grants to farmers, educators, service providers, researchers and others in Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a $3,057,651 Project Grant to Education Northwest under the Comprehensive Centers Program (CFDA 84.283) to establish a Regional Comprehensive Center for Region 11. The award period is from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025. The Comprehensive Centers Program supports the creation of centers that provide capacity-building services, including training, professional development, and technical assistance, to...