Apply Major grantmaking in the Biosecurity program is concluded. The Foundation is no longer accepting letters of inquiry for grants through this program. Program Director: Paula Olsiewski Bio Grants Headlines Reassessing Flu Shots as the Season Draws Near New York Times A Call to Action on Influenza Minneapolis StarTribune Flu Shots May Not Protect the Elderly or the Very Young Scientific American VIDEO: What You Need to Know About Infectious Disease The National Academies Links Center for Biosecurity Charting the Future of Biosecurity: Ten Years After the Anthrax Attacks REPORT: A Framework for Voluntary Preparedness What is Your Readiness Quotient? Ready.gov Biotechnology Research in an Age of Terrorism (The Fink Report)
Recent grants in this program include: Organization Name Project Director Project Title Fund for The City of New York Mary McCormick Support for Sloan Awards for Excellence in Teaching Science and Mathematics in New York City Public High Schools. City Futures, Inc. Neil Scott Kleiman To develop and implement a strategy to leverage scientific and technological research in New York City into local economic development. Pratt Institute Eleanora Del Federico To strengthen the science of art conservation in New York City. Research Foundation of the City University of New York Theodore Brown To improve the ability of computer science undergraduates to transfer from two-year to four-year campuses at the City University of New York. Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Inc. Hope Cohen To support research about the siting of electricity substations in New York City by the Manhattan Institute's Center for Rethinking Development. Fund for The City of New York Barbara Cohn Berman For continued support of the Sloan Public Service Awards. Program Director: Paula Olsiewski Bio Apply
Apply Grants in the Civic Initiatives program fund: Unique opportunities to benefit the New York City metro area High-leverage projects in New York City that advance the goals of other Foundation grant programs. Inquiries about New York City projects that fit into one of the Foundation's other grant programs should be directed to the relevant program director. Inquiries about New York City projects that do not fit into one of the other program areas should be directed by email to Dr. Ted Greenwood . Inquiries about the Sloan Public Service Awards or the Sloan Awards for Excellence in Teaching Science and Mathematics should be directed by email to Dr. Michael Teitelbaum . For more information about letters of inquiry and other Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant application procedures, please visit our Apply for Grants page. Program Director: Paula Olsiewski Bio Grants Links Sloan Public Service Awards Sloan Awards for Excellence in Teaching Science and Mathematics
Apply The History of Science and Technology program is currently undergoing evaluation to identify possible new directions and funding priorities. Interested grantseekers with a relevant project idea should email a one page letter of inquiry to either Doron Weber or Jesse Ausubel . Before submitting a letter of inquiry, please review the Foundation's guidelines on what we do not fund . For more information about letters of inquiry or other Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant application procedures, visit our Apply for Grants page. Program Director: Doron Weber Bio Jesse Ausubel Bio Links The Center for History and New Media The Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive
Recent grants in this program include: Organization Name Project Director Project Title University of Central Florida Joel L. Hartman Support for the project to expand their ALN effort with special focus on local population. Babson College Elaine Allen Support to continue Sloan-C surveys of online education. Stevens Institute of Technology Robert N. Ubell Support to expand ALN programs with local corporations. Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering John Bourne Support to continue and expand services provided by Sloan-C operations for ALN providers. Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering John Bourne Support for first annual Sloan-C International Symposium for Emerging Technology Applications in Online Education. New School University Linda Dunne Support to add new online courses so that their Liberal Arts B.A. is 50% online. Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering John Bourne Funding for Sloan-C activities which support the ALN teaching community. University of Illinois at Chicago Clark Hulse Support for UIC to initiate a strong effort aimed at providing mixed online/classroom (blended) full degree programs for Chicago area local students. Purdue University Dale Harris Support for a statewide network anchored at 13 Purdue sites across the state of Indiana to provide blended engineering education statewide tuned for professionals in manufacturing. Estrella Mountain Community College Polly Maxfield Miller Support for a project that will result in over 50 new blended courses for local learners. National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges Bob Samors Support for a project to have university presidents and chancellors better understand the strategic possibilities of ALN. Golden Gate University Barbara Karlin Support for conversion of 96 courses to blend ALN for local learners. New Mexico State University Foundation Carmen L. Gonzales Support for a New Mexico-based ALN project aimed at American Indians in pueblos. Simmons College Susan C. Scrimshaw Support for a Local Area (Blended) Program for the Boston area. League for Innovation in the Community College Stella Perez Support to move project SAIL (Specialty Asynchronous Industry Learning), an online marketplace for buying, selling and exchanging online courses (with or without a faculty instructor) and to make it self-sufficient. Rutgers University Mary Gatta Support to continue consulting, sharing of practices and training to states so that online training becomes a commonly available option for low-wage workers across the country. University of Southern Maine Robert Hansen To develop 45 new ALN and Blended Courses and Programs University of Illinois at Springfield Harry J. Berman Support for development and implementation of 40 courses within three Local Area-ALN (Blended) degree programs and one certificate program. Pennsylvania State University Craig Weidermann Support for work with US Department of Labor to set up a multi-state online education and training pilot project. University of Wisconsin Robert Kaleta Support to expand their online programs for local populations. University of Massachusetts Foundation, Inc. Jacqueline Moloney Support to create and augment online course and program offerings for the Massachusetts local area. Pace University David Sachs Support to expand their Computer Science and Information Systems courses and degrees delivered online for metropolitan New York local learners. State University of New York at Albany Peter Shea Support to develop and implement education with enhanced online content for teachers in New York's Capital District. Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering John Bourne Support for 8th Annual Sloan-C summer workshop. Program Director: Gail Pesyna Bio History Apply
History The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s program in online education, known as Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALN), was established in 1992 to explore education alternatives for people who cannot easily attend regularly scheduled campus classes. Once feasibility of online education as an effective method had been established, the Foundation then focused on expanding course and degree offerings across a range of disciplines at a range of institutions e.g major universities, smaller degree-granting institutions and community colleges. Rapid evolution of the newly accessible internet, and equivalent advances in computers, software and communication bandwidth aided the rapid rise of online education as an important element of learning in both higher education and corporate training. It is now penetrating education applications for K-12 also. The 2008 Sloan Survey of Online Learning found that about 3.7 million learners, or over 20% of all students enrolled in American accredited, degree-granting institutions, took at least one course online . Over the past six years that this survey has been conducted, enrollments in online courses have increased at a 20% per year rate. A majority of chief academic officers at institutions surveyed, now believe online learning is as effective as traditional, face-to-face instruction, and number so positively inclined continues to increase year to year. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina the Sloan Consortium demonstrated its quick-reaction capability. Within one week it secured a $1.1 million Sloan Foundation grant to assemble a virtual university and provide tuition-free courses to displaced students. Known as Sloan Semester , the virtual university offered nearly 1500 online courses from 175 institutions nationwide to 2000 students. Today the foundation’s Anytime, Anyplace Learning program is continues to support high quality online education and training through the many services provided by Sloan-C. Member institutions of Sloan-C are the leaders in providing online education and their course and degree offerings continue to grow. Sloan-C also supports special efforts aimed at quality education anytime/anyplace for the minority community; it additionally supports initiatives aimed at other special populations; for example its assistance to the U.S. Army during the formative period of eArmyU, and its initiatives in corporate training and education online for workers in selected industries such as telecommunications (see www.NACTEL.org ) and electric power generation and distribution (see www.epceonline.org ). Membership in Sloan-C is available through their web-site. Program Director: Gail Pesyna Bio Grants Apply Links The Sloan Consortium
Apply In the nineteen years since the beginning of the Anytime Anyplace Learning program, online learning has blossomed into a common, well-integrated feature of American post-secondary education. Though the Foundation will continue to work with the Sloan Consortium and other partners to ensure the continued availability of online learning and to secure inroads built through Foundation efforts, no new grant funding in available through this program. Program Director: Gail Pesyna Bio Grants History Links The Sloan Consortium
Recent grants in this program include: Organization Name Project Director Project Title Memorial University of Newfoundland Paul Snelgrove To conduct activities integrating and summarizing findings from all component programs of the Census of Marine Life. Louisiana State University Robert S. Carney To further the explorations and conduct the synthesis phase of the continental margins project of the Census of Marine Life. Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) Edward Urban To help the Census of Marine Life synthesize and disseminate its technological achievements and to share lessons of the Census with other major international ocean research programs. Consortium For Ocean Leadership, Inc. Robert Gagosian To operate the International Secretariat and Steering Committee in support of the final phase of the Census of Marine Life. Duke University Patrick N. Halpin To implement consistent and effective mapping and visualization across the Census of Marine Life. Program Director: Jesse Ausubel Bio Visit the Census Apply
Apply Grantmaking in the Census of Marine Life program is complete. No new grant proposals in this program are being considered. Program Director: Jesse Ausubel Bio Grants Visit the Census Spotlight Read the highlights report of the first Census of Marine Life more Headlines Zombie Worm Has No Mouth, but Feasts on Whale Bones MSNBC Links Ocean Biogeographical Information System National Geographic Map of CoML Findings Watch Videos of the Census Events in London
Recent grants in this program include: Organization Name Project Director Project Title Carnegie Mellon University Lester B. Lave Support for a final three years of the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cynthia Barnhart To renew support for a final three years of the Global Airline Industry Center. Carnegie Mellon University James D. Herbsleb Renewal support for Sloan Software Industry Center. Columbia University Eli Noam Final grant support for the Sloan Telecommunications Industry Center. National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. Kathryn L. Shaw Support to develop understanding of productivity differences between the U.S. and Europe by combining cross-country industry analysis with in-depth field studies of firms. Georgia Tech Research Corporation Patrick S. McCarthy Support for a final three years of the Center for Paper Business and Industry Studies. University of California, San Diego Roger Bohn Final support for Information Storage Industry Center. Program Director: Gail Pesyna Bio IndustryStudies.org Apply
