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NSF Broadening Participation Portfolio

Background

NSF has taken a variety of approaches to broaden participation across its many
programs. While broadening participation is included in the NSF review criteria,
some program announcements and solicitations go beyond the standard criteria.
They range from encouraging language to specific requirements. Investments
range from capacity building, research centers, partnerships, and alliances to the
use of co-funding or supplements to existing awards in the core research
programs.

The portfolio represented below is divided into three categories: (1) programs that are primarily focused on broadening participation, (2) programs that have broadening participation as one of several emphases, and (3) Dear Colleague Letters expressing interest in specific aspects of broadening participation.

**Broadening Participation Portfolio**
	Program Name	Publication No.	Directorate	Division
Broadening Participation Focused Programs
1	ADVANCE: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers	12-584	All	All
2	Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate	12-554	EHR, MPS	HRD
3	Broadening Participation Research Initiation Grants in Engineering 2012	11-576	ENG	CBET, CMMI, ECCS, EEC, IIP
4	Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) and HBCU Research Infrastructure for Science and Engineering (RISE)	12-533	EHR	HRD
5	EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Inter-Campus and Intra-Campus Cyber Connectivity	10-598	All	All
6	Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research: Workshop Opportunities (EPS-WO)	12-588	All	All
7	General & Age-Related Disabilities Engineering (GARDE)		ENG	CBET
8	Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program	12-519	EHR	HRD
9	Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP)	12-564	EHR	HRD
10	NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	12-529	EHR	DUE
11	Opportunities for Enhancing Diversity in the Geosciences (OEDG)	10-599	GEO	AGS, EAR, OCE
12	Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials	11-562	MPS	DMR
13	Partnerships in Astronomy & Astrophysics Research and Education	08-562	MPS	AST
14	Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology	12-497	BIO
15	Research in Disabilities Education	12-542	EHR	DRL, HRD
16	Research on Gender in Science and Engineering	10-516	EHR	HRD
17	SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowships	12-591	SBE	SMA
Broadening Participation Emphasis Programs
1	Advancing Informal STEM Learning	12-560	EHR	DRL
2	American Competitiveness in Chemistry-Fellowship	10-535	MPS	CHE
3	Centers for Chemical Innovation	12-572	MPS	CHE
4	Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence	10-527	GEO	OCE
5	Computing Education for the 21st Century	12-609	CISE, EHR, OCI	CCF, CNS, IIS
6	EMERGING FRONTIERS IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION 2012	11-571	BIO, ENG, MPS	MCB, EFRI, DMR, DMS
7	Engineering Research Centers	11-537	ENG	EEC
8	Graduate Research Fellowship Program	12-599	All	All
9	Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers	12-597	EHR	DRL
10	Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program	11-533	All	All
11	Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program-CIF21 Track	12-555	BIO, CISE, EHR, ENG, GEO, MPS, OCI, OIA, OISE, OPP, SBE	DGE
12	International Research Experiences for Students	12-551	All	All
13	Major Research Instrumentation Program:	11-503	All	All
14	Materials Research Centers and Teams	10-568	MPS	DMR
15	Math and Science Partnership	12-518	EHR	DUE
16	Mentoring Through Critical Transition Points in the Mathematical Sciences	11-542	MPS	DMS
17	Ocean Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships	11-586	GEO	OCE
18	Ocean Sciences Research Initiation Grants	11-578	GEO	OCE
19	Postdoctoral Fellowships in Polar Regions Research	09-612	OPP	ANT, ARC
20	Research Experiences for Undergraduates	12-569	All	All
21	Research Training Groups in the Mathematical Sciences	11-540	MPS	DMS
22	Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships	11-522	All	All
23	Science of Learning Centers	07-7278	All	All
Dear Colleague Letters
1	Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS) - SBIR/STTR Phase II Supplements	DCL 06-003	ENG	IIP
2	Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS) - BIO supplements	DCL 06-027	BIO	All
3	SBIR/STTR Supplemental Funding for Community College Research Teams	DCL 08-029	ENG, EHR	IIP, HRD, DUE
4	Supplemental Opportunity for SBIR/STTR Mentoring	DCL 09-004	ENG	IIP
5	Broadening Participation in Computing Alliance Program (BPC-A)	N/A	CISE	CNS
6	MPS Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate - Graduate Research Supplements	DCL 12-021	MPS	AST, CHE, DMR, DMS, PHY
7	Stimulating Research Related to the Science of Broadening Participation	DCL 12-037	SBE	BCS, SES
8	Prepare, Engage, and Motivate a Diverse STEM Workforce	DCL 12-034	EHR	HRD
9	Balancing the Scale: NSF's Career-Life Balance (CLB) Initiative	N/A	All	All
10	Career-Life Balance (CLB) Initiative	DCL 12-065	All	All
11	Supplemental Opportunity for Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer for CREST/HBCU-RISE Collaborations	DCL 12-069	ENG, EHR	IIP, HRD
12	Research Experiences for Veterans/Teachers	DCL 12-073	ENG	All
13	Engineering Research Experiences for Veterans	DCL 12-074	ENG	CMMI, CBET, ECCS
14	Research Experience for Teachers (RET): Funding Opportunity in the Biological Sciences	DCL 12-075	BIO	All
15	Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS): Funding to Broaden Participation in the Biological Sciences	DCL 12-078	BIO	All
16	Announcement of Efforts to Increase Hispanic Participation in STEM Fields	DCL 12-081	BIO, CISE, EHR, ENG	All
17	Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Program	DCL 12-088	MPS	DMR