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On March 27, the Department of Education published in the Federal Register a “Notice of Final Priorities, Requirements, Definitions, and Selection Criteria” (NFP) for the Investing in Innovation Fund (i3) and a Notice Inviting Applications (NIA) for i3 Development grants. As in the past couple years, the Department will conduct the FY 2013 Development grants competition through a two-staged process, with applicants first submitting brief (up to seven-page) pre-applications, and applicants making it through the pre-application phase then submitting full applications. The deadline for pre-applications is April 26 (pre-application package), and organizations planning to submit a pre-application are asked (but not required) to submit a notice of intent to apply by April 16.1 The Department expects to publish application notices for the other two i3 grant categories – Scale-up grants and Validation grants – later this spring.
The purpose of this memo is to summarize (1) the most significant elements of the NFP, focusing particularly on changes to the proposed priorities, requirements, definitions, and selection criteria that the Department published in December; and (2) the most significant elements of the NIA.