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Digest of Federal Grants with Faith-Based and Community Organization Eligibility
The grant opportunities this week for community and faith-based organizations are through programs administered by the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Health and Human Services, Justice, Labor, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Potential applicants should be aware that some grant programs require specific technical expertise, or experience in particular foreign countries. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Rural Utilities Service Qualified faith-based and other organizations are encouraged to apply for the Household Water Well System Grant. Successful applicants will use the grants to make loans to individual home owners to construct or upgrade a household water well system for an existing home. The funded organizations must contribute an amount equal to at least 10 percent of the grant request to capitalize the loan fund. Applicants must show that the project will provide technical and financial assistance to eligible individuals to remedy household well problems Priority will be given to the non-profit organizations that: demonstrate experience in promoting safe, productive uses of household water wells and groundwater; demonstrate significant management experience in making and servicing loans to individuals; contribute more than 50 percent of the grant amount in cash or other liquid assets in order to capitalize the revolving loan fund; propose to serve rural area containing the smallest communities with a high percentage of low-income individuals eligible for loans; and target areas which lack running water, flush toilets, and modern sewage disposal systems. Due to the limited amount of funds available, only one or two applications may be funded from FY 2008 funds. Previously funded grant recipients must apply for a different target area to be considered. Total funding will not exceed $993,000 over a 12 month period. The deadline for completed applications is May 31, 2008. A link to the full announcement can be found at
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Administration for Children and Families Qualified faith-based and other organizations are encouraged to apply for the Improving the Well-Being of Children – Native American Healthy Marriage Initiative (NAHMI) grant. The goal of the NAHMI is to increase the percentage of youth and young adults who have the skills and knowledge to make informed decisions about healthy relationships including skills that can help them eventually form and sustain a healthy marriage; increase the percentage of couples who are equipped with the skills and knowledge necessary to form and sustain healthy marriages; increase the percentage of Native American children who are raised by two parents in a healthy marriage environment that is also free of domestic violence; increase the percentage of involvement by absentee parents in the lives of their children, increase public awareness in Native American communities about the value of healthy marriages and responsible fatherhood; and encourage and support research on Native American healthy marriages and healthy marriage education. This program area seeks to fund projects that engage in the planning and implementation of approaches to remove barriers to forming lasting families and healthy marriages in Native communities. The announcement is divided into two priority areas: planning and implementation. The first priority area will include activities that: design and engage in a community planning process that identifies barriers to forming healthy marriages (including traditional Native American marriages); assess the needs and interest of the community to participate in a NAHMI project; assess existing absentee parenting programs; identify strategies to implement a NAHMI project; and develop projects that are designed to reduce or eliminate the challenges and barriers identified by the community. Activities under the second priority area include: marriage education/enrichment training; pre-marital education; relationship skills education on communication, conflict resolution, and commitment; and other support activities such as family outings, family strengthening groups, and weekend pre-marital/marital education retreats. A total of $500,000 will be awarded for 5-10 planning grants and $2 will be awarded for 10-16 implementation grants. The deadline for applications is March 26, 2008. For more information regarding specific priority areas and funding please view the full announcement at
Qualified faith-based and other organizations are encouraged to apply for the Native Language Preservation and Maintenance grant. The four priority areas in this announcement are: Native language assessment, Native language project planning, Native language project implementation, and Native language immersion project. Projects under the Native language assessment priority area will compile, collect and organize Native language data in order to have a current description of the community's language status obtained through a "formal" method (e.g., work performed by a linguist, and/or a language survey conducted by community members) or an "informal method" (e.g., a community consensus of the language status based on elders, Tribal scholars, and/or other community members). Applicants for Native language project planning will plan and design Native language projects, including projects: to plan and design Master/Apprentice programs; to plan and design comprehensive Native language immersion programs for a language nest or survival school; that plan, design and test curriculum for students, parents and language instructors; that plan and design teaching materials; that plan and design multi-media language learning tools; and that plan and design teacher certification programs. Successful applicants for the third priority area, Native language project implementation, will implement a Native language project to achieve the community's long-range language goal(s). Areas of interest include projects that: produce and disseminate culturally relevant printed stories for children on mental and physical disabilities using the Native language of the community; facilitate and encourage intergenerational teaching of Native American language skills; train teachers, interpreters or translators of Native languages; disseminate culturally relevant materials to be used to teach and enhance the use of Native American languages; implement an immersion, mentor or distance learning model; produce, distribute or participate in television, radio or other media forms to broadcast Native languages; compile, transcribe and perform analysis or oral testimony; and implement an educational site-based immersion project. The fourth priority area, Native American language immersion projects, will only fund immersion projects for language nests or for language survival schools. A total of $500,000 will be awarded to 5-10 Native language assessment grants, $1 million for 10-20 Native language project planning grants, $1 million for 10-15 Native language project implementation, and $1 million for 3-5 Native American language immersion projects. For more information regarding specific priority areas and funding please view the full announcement at
Health Resources and Services Administration Faith-based and other qualified organizations are encouraged to apply for the Part D: Coordinated HIV Services and Access to Research for Women, Infant, Children, and Youth grant. This competition is open to Part D grantees with project periods ending July 31, 2008, and new organizations proposing to replace the current grantee. New organizations proposing to replace the current grantee must demonstrate that they have the capability to serve the same clients as the grantee they are proposing to replace; that they will serve the exact same geographic service area, and that they have the capability to serve the target population in a comprehensive, culturally competent, linguistically appropriate and family-centered manner. Please consult the full announcement for a list of areas currently being served. Successful applicants will directly provide, contract, or create a network of medical and social service providers who collaborate to supply services for the provision of primary medical care and support services for HIV-infected women, infants, children, and youth. Support services may include: family-centered care including case management; referrals for additional services, including referrals for inpatient hospital services, treatment for substance abuse, and mental health services; additional services necessary to enable the patient and the family to participate in the program established by the applicant including services designed to recruit and retain youth with HIV; and the provision of information and education on opportunities to participate in HIV/AIDS-related clinical research. An estimated 23 awards will range from $400,000 to $1,600,000 over a project period of 5 years. The deadline for this application is March 12, 2008. A link to the full announcement can be viewed here
National Institutes of Health Qualified faith-based and other organizations are encouraged to apply for a grant to establish Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers (P50). The principal aim of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers (ADRCs) should be to enhance the performance of innovative research on Alzheimer’s disease and related topics, including research that may lead to potential disease modifying therapy or behavioral or other symptom treatments. Successful applicants will focus research on better defining normal aging and the transition from normal aging to mild cognitive impairment to the earliest stages of dementia, whether Alzheimer’s disease itself or other dementias associated with aging. Attention should also be paid to mixed dementias and overlapping neurodegenerative syndromes that sometimes occur with Alzheimer’s disease, as well as co-occurring conditions in other organ systems that may contribute to clinical dementia. A total of $13.2 million will be awarded to 6-8 grants. For consideration a letter of intent must be submitted by April 7, 2008 and the full application is due May 5, 2008. A link to the full announcement can be found here
Qualified faith-based and other organizations are encouraged to apply for the NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health) Research Education Grants (R25) to foster the development of mental health researchers via creative and innovative research educational programs. The NIMH encourages educational programs that will attract, train, and advance the career development of scientists committed to research careers relevant to the mission of the NIMH. These programs may be designed as institutional, regional or national programs. Successful applicants will propose research education experiences at the following levels of professional career development: medical/graduate student, postdoctoral fellow, medical resident, and/or independent scientist. Because the nature and scope of the proposed research education program will vary from application to application, it is anticipated that the size and duration of each award will also vary. A letter of intent must be received by August 25, 2008 and the application deadline is September 25, 2008. A link to the complete announcement can be found here
Qualified faith-based and other organizations are encouraged to apply for the NLM (National Library of Medicine) Express Research Grants in Biomedical Informatics (R01). The grant will support informatics projects that involve the application of computer and information sciences to information problems in a biomedical domain. NLM defines biomedical informatics as the science of optimal organization, management, presentation and utililization of information relevant to medicine and biology. Informatics research produces concepts, tools and approaches that contribute to what is known about the capture, storage, integration, representation, management, dissemination and use of data, information and knowledge. Because the nature and scope of the proposed research will vary from application to application, it is anticipated that the size and duration of each award will also vary. The application deadline is February 5, 2008. For further information on the grant opportunity, including research areas of interest to NIH, applicants are referred to the announcement at
Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for two types of grants for Research on the Economics of Diet, Activity, and Energy Balance (R01 and R21). The R01 grants will support NIH research projects and the R21 grants will support exploratory and/or development research projects. Both grant opportunities will support projects that enhance the state-of-the-science on the causes of obesity and to inform federal decision making on effective public health interventions for reducing the rate of obesity in the United States. This announcement is also intended to promote collaborative activities between researchers trained in economics and researchers specializing in public health, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and other chronic diseases so that the desired goals can be more efficiently, quickly, and successfully attained. Especially encouraged for inclusion in the grant applications are research projects that include: economic analysis as part of a broader transdisciplinary research strategy that includes other social and behavioral sciences, planning, engineering and architecture, and the epidemiological, bio-statistical, medical, and biological disciplines as they are relevant to public health policy; econometric analyses that bring together data, especially longitudinal or panel data, from a range of disciplines to understand how community, how institutional and individual choices are made related to food intakes and physical activity; analysis of secondary data or collection of primary data to monitor natural experiments derived from policies designed or expected to reduce obesity, increase physical activity or otherwise contribute to healthy energy balance; and development of economic metrics and methods for measuring, monitoring and evaluating energy balance and its components. Applications for the next round of R01 funding are due February 5, 2008 and of R21 funding are due March 12, 2008. The program announcement for R01 grants is at
Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply to be Resource Core Transdisciplinary Prevention Research Centers. The grant will support the establishment of centralized resources and facilities shared by transdisciplinary teams of drug abuse prevention research investigators that are otherwise not available to individual projects. Resource Core Centers are expected to act as regional or national resources in their particular area of expertise, and to actively develop transdisciplinary research collaborations between applied prevention scientists and basic scientists. The centers should also provide the means to develop new research ideas and should encourage new investigators via pilot projects. Centers must focus on areas of research for which: there are significant gaps in the integration of knowledge from several disciplines; there is imminent potential for contributing to the development of new approaches to drug abuse prevention; and there is evidence that the thematic focus can benefit from transdisciplinary collaboration. Examples of scientific themes that might benefit from transdisciplinary collaborations are included in the request for applications. A total of $2.5 million will be awarded for 3-4 grants. Individual award amounts will range between $500,000 and $800,000 per year. Applicants may request a project period of up to five years. Letters of intent are due March 17, 2008 and applications are due April 15, 2008. The request for applications is at
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Faith-based and other organizations that are part of a community-based coalition may apply for a grant through the Drug Free Communities Support Program to work within their "target" communities to identify and address local substance abuse problems. Coalitions are expected to develop and utilize environmental strategies based on a community systems perspective that views a community as a set of persons engaged in shared social, cultural, political, and economic processes. Environmental strategies are based on the belief that substance abuse is a product of multiple environmental conditions and circumstances. According to this view, individuals do not engage in substance abuse solely on the basis of personal characteristics, but rather as a result of a complex set of factors in their environment. More specifically, environmental strategies seek to: limit access to substances, change the culture and contexts within which decisions about substance use are made, and/or reduce the prevalence of negative consequences associated with substance use (such as motor vehicle crashes, sexual assaults, etc.). While funds may be used for activities or interventions directed at specific individuals or small groups, the primary purpose of a Drug Free Communities grant is to strengthen the capacity of coalitions to reduce and prevent substance abuse in the community by generating positive, lasting environmental change. A total of $19 million will be awarded for 150 grants. Individual award amounts are estimated to be up to $125,000 per year for five-year project periods. Applications are due March 21, 2008. Complete details are in the solicitation for applications at
Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for the Older Adults Targeted Capacity Expansion (TCE) Grant Program. The grants will support projects that help communities provide direct services and build the necessary infrastructure to support expanded services for meeting the diverse mental health needs of older persons. The target population of older adults, for the purpose of this program, is defined as persons 60 years and older who are at risk for or are experiencing mental health problems. Grantees can use funds for infrastructure building and support as well as for the support of direct service delivery. Direct service delivery activities alone, without the parallel development of system infrastructure, will not be supported by this grant mechanism. Direct services should comprise at least 25 percent of grant funds; and infrastructure building and support should comprise at least another 25 percent of grant funds. Proposed project activities include: needs assessment; strategic planning; community outreach and education; building consensus among key stakeholders; organizational/structural change; inclusion of consumer and family participation in service and system planning; quality improvement efforts; and, efforts to identify and implement appropriate evidence-based practices relevant to the population served. A total of $4,154,000 will be awarded for ten grants. Individual award amounts are estimated to be up to $415,400 per year for projects lasting up to three years. Applications are due by March 28, 2008. Complete details are in the program announcement at
Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for the Services Grant Program for Residential Treatment for Pregnant and Postpartum Women. The grant will support projects that expand the availability of comprehensive, high quality residential treatment, recovery support, and family services for pregnant and postpartum women (postpartum refers to the period after childbirth up to 12 months) who suffer from alcohol and other drug problems, and their minor children impacted by perinatal and environmental effects of maternal substance use and abuse. In addition, grantees are encouraged to include fathers of the children, partners of the women, and other extended family members of the women and children in treatment in the target population when their inclusion in non-residential treatment services is deemed appropriate and beneficial. The program is designed to: decrease the use and/or abuse of prescription drugs, alcohol, tobacco, illicit and other harmful drugs (e.g., inhalants) among pregnant and postpartum women; increase safe and healthy pregnancies, improve birth outcomes, and reduce related effects of maternal drug abuse on infants and children; improve the mental and physical health of the women and children; improve family functioning, economic stability and quality of life; and, decrease involvement in and exposure to crime, violence, sexual and physical abuse, and child abuse and neglect. A total of $7.87 million will be awarded for sixteen grants. Project periods may be up to three years. Applications are due March 18, 2008. The program announcement is at
Qualified faith-based and other organizations may also apply for the Targeted Capacity Expansion Program for Substance Abuse Treatment and HIV/AIDS Services. These grants will support projects to enhance and expand substance abuse treatment and/or outreach and pretreatment services in conjunction with HIV/AIDS services in African American, Latino/Hispanic, and/or other racial and ethnic communities highly affected by the twin epidemics of substance abuse and HIV/AIDS. A total of $19.8 million will be awarded for up to fifty grants. Individual award amounts are up to $450,000 for treatment services and up to $350,000 for outreach and pre-treatment services. Projects periods are expected to be up to five years. Applications are due March 27, 2008. Further details can be found in the program announcement at
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Office for Victims of Crime Qualified faith-based and other eligible organizations are encouraged to apply for the National Field-Generated Training Technical Assistance and Demonstration Projects grant to develop or enhance training, technical assistance, and promising practices, models, and programs that build the capacity of victim service and other ancillary providers. Projects should focus on one of the following focus areas: elder abuse, sexual assault, victim restitution, child abuse, youth victimization, capacity building for victim service providers/organizations, victim services in corrections settings, domestic violence, stalking, the implications of DNA evidence for victims, and training and technical assistance on crime victims’ rights (not direct compliance or enforcement efforts). Awards will be made ranging from $50,000 to $500,000, depending on the nature, scope, and complexity of the project over a 12-36 month period. Applications are due May 29, 2008 and a link to the full announcement can be found at
Office of Violence Against Women Qualified faith-based and other organizations are encouraged to apply for the Legal Assistance for Victims Grant Program. The successful applicant will: implement, expand, and establish cooperative efforts and projects between domestic violence, dating violence and sexual assault victim services organizations and legal assistance providers to provide legal assistance for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and sexual assault; implement, expand, and establish efforts and projects to provide legal assistance for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and sexual assault by organizations with a demonstrated history of providing direct legal or advocacy services on behalf of these victims; and/or provide training, technical assistance, and data collection to improve the capacity of grantees and other entities to offer legal assistance to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and sexual assault. Priority will be given to applications which propose to provide victims with "holistic" legal representation. Holistic representation goes beyond a victim’s need for a protection order and includes representation in other legal proceedings directly related to a client’s experience of violence which are likely to increase the victim’s safety and security, such as: child support, child custody, legal separation/divorce, unemployment compensation, and/or housing. All awards are subject to the availability of appropriated funds and any modifications or additional requirements that may be imposed by law. Letters of intent are due February 20, 2008. The completed application must be submitted by March 5, 2008. A link to the full announcement can be found here at
Qualified faith-based and other organizations may submit a concept paper for Education, Training and Enhanced Services to End Violence Against and Abuse of Women with Disabilities Grant Program. Successful applicants will provide training, consultation, and information on domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking against individuals with disabilities, and enhance direct services to such individuals. Concept papers must address activities that fall within at least one of the following statutory purpose areas: to provide personnel, training, technical assistance, advocacy, intervention, risk reduction and prevention of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking against disabled individuals; to conduct outreach activities to ensure that disabled individuals who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking receive appropriate assistance; to conduct cross-training for victim service organizations, governmental agencies, and nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations serving individuals with disabilities about risk reduction, intervention, prevention and the nature of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking for disabled individuals; to provide technical assistance to assist with modifications to existing policies, protocols, and procedures to ensure equal access to the services, programs, and activities of victim service organizations for disabled individuals; to provide training and technical assistance on the requirements of shelters and victim services organizations under federal anti-discrimination laws; to modify facilities, purchase equipment, and provide personnel so that shelters and victim service organizations can accommodate the needs of disabled individuals; to provide advocacy and intervention services for disabled individuals who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking; or to develop model programs providing advocacy and intervention services within organizations serving disabled individuals who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking. A total of 6-15 grants will be awarded with individual award amounts of up to $600,000 for a three-year project period. Letters of intent are due January 31, 2008 and concept papers are due February 28, 2008. The program announcement is at
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Employment and Training Administration Faith-based and other qualified organizations are encouraged to apply for the High-Growth Job Training Initiative Grants for the Energy Industry and Construction and Skilled Trades in the Energy Industry funding announcement. Under the President’s High Growth Job Training Initiative (HGJTI), the Department of Labor announces the availability of approximately $10 million in grant funds for high-impact regional approaches to meet the workforce challenges of the energy industry and/or address the shortage of construction and skilled trade workers needed to maintain and expand the energy industry infrastructure. The President’s HGJTI is a strategic effort to prepare workers for new and increasing job opportunities in high growth, high-demand, and economically vital industries and sectors of the American economy. Grants funded under this announcement are expected to contain at least six critical elements: strategic regional partnerships; systemic solutions to industry-identified workforce challenges; connections to regional economic and talent development strategies; shared and leveraged resources; clear and specific outcomes; and clear strategies for sustainability beyond the federal investment. It is anticipated that average individual awards will fall within the range of $500,000 to $1 million. The closing date for this application is March 25, 2008. Please view the full announcement for more information at http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20081800/edocket.access.gpo.gov UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for the Food and Nutrition Interventions for People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) program in Rwanda. Successful applicants will integrate the nutrition activities of the food distributing organizations that are already distributing food to malnourished Rwandans with the goal of assisting those living with HIV/AIDS. Organizations wishing to apply must have significant food resources available for distribution in Rwanda. Project activities include the following: provide assistance to community-based associations of PLWHA and their caregivers, which are currently recipients of food assistance, in order to improve the "package" of services available to association members and thereby increase the number of PLWHA receiving more comprehensive palliative care and support; strengthen the capacity of the associations they are currently working with; develop other services, commodities or appropriate components of a community based palliative care model; and, improve/strengthen the linkages between these community-based associations and the clinical sites. A total of $16 million will be awarded for one or more five-year projects. Applications are due February 19, 2008. Complete details are in the program announcement at http://apply07.grants.gov/apply/opportunities/instructions/ Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for a grant entitled: Transforming Sierra Leone: Linking Democratic Governance, Economic Growth and Natural Resource Management, While Empowering Women and Youth and Building Institutional Capacities. The successful applicant(s) will implement a new integrated development assistance program. Activities will be comprehensive, integrated, and multi-sector approach using two objectives: governing justly and democratically, and economic growth. The focus of proposed projects will be: local government and decentralization; agricultural sector productivity in support of overall economic growth, job creation and income generation; and natural resources and biodiversity insofar as this impacts future productivity. A total of $13,244,000 is expected to be awarded for one or more grants for four-year projects periods. Applications are due March 31, 2008. The request for applications is at
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