Building Community and Capacity for Data-Intensive Research in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences and in Education and Human Resources (BCC-SBE/EHR) http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/
Successful "proposals should focus on the development of communities and infrastructure within which identified research may effectively proceed rather than the conduct of research itself."
Our office would be very pleased to help you with any collaborative work to develop and submit a proposal.