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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, Education, and Health and Human Services, and by 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 Housing Service Qualified faith-based and other organizations are encouraged to apply for the Rural Housing Preservation Grants (HPG) program. The HPG program provides qualified public agencies and private nonprofit organizations with grant funds to assist very low- and low-income homeowners in repairing and rehabilitating their homes in rural areas. In addition, the HPG program assists rental property owners and cooperative housing complexes in repairing and rehabilitating their units if they agree to make such units available to low- and very low-income persons. Applicants wishing to apply for assistance must make its statement of activities available to the public for comment. The applicant(s) must announce the availability of its statement of activities for review in a newspaper of general circulation in the project area and allow at least 15 days for public comment. The start of this 15- day period must occur no later than 16 days prior to the last day for acceptance of pre-applications by USDA Rural Development. Applicants must also contact the Rural Development State Office serving the place in which they desire to submit an application to receive further information and copies of the application package. The closing time for this application is April 21, 2008. For additional information, including award information and program specific details please view the full announcement at http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rd/nofas/2008/rcdi2008.pdf. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools Qualified faith-based and other organizations in partnerships with State educational agencies (SEA) and/or local education agencies (LEA) are encouraged to apply for the Partnerships in Character Education Program Grant. Successful applicants will design and implement character education programs that can be integrated into classroom instruction and are consistent with State academic content standards. Such programs may be carried out in conjunction with other educational reform efforts, and must take into consideration the views of parents, students, students with disabilities (including those with mental or physical disabilities), and other members of the community. The closing date for applications is March 31, 2008. A total of $1,106,865 will be awarded with estimated annual award ranges are as follow: $500,000–$750,000 for SEA partnership and $250,000–$500,000 for LEA partnerships. The project period is up to 48 months. A link to the full announcement can be found at http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20081800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/ DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Administration for Children and Families Qualified faith-based and other organizations are invited to apply for the Abandoned Infants Assistance: Comprehensive Support Services for Families Affected by Substance Abuse and/or HIV/AIDS grant. The successful applicant will: develop and implement programs of comprehensive community-based support services for the target population as described in Public Law 100-505 (Abandoned Infants Assistance Act of 1988), as amended; evaluate the implementation and outcomes of these comprehensive support services; and develop these programs as identifiable sites that other States/locales seeking to implement comprehensive support services for this population can look to for guidance, insight, and possible replication. The purpose of Public Law 100-505 is to establish a program of local support services projects in order to: prevent the abandonment in hospitals of infants and young children; identify and address the needs of those infants and children who are, or might be, abandoned; develop a program of comprehensive support services for these infants and young children and their natural families; and recruit and train health and social services personnel, foster care families, and residential care providers to meet the needs of abandoned children and infants and children who are at risk of abandonment. The reauthorized legislation requires the Secretary to give priority to applicants located in States that have developed and implemented procedures for expedited termination of parental rights and placement for adoption of infants determined to be abandoned under State law. The due date for applications under this announcement is May 27, 2008. A total of $4, 275,000 will be awarded for up to 9 grants over a 48 month project period. For program specific requirements please view the full announcement available here http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2008-ACF-ACYF-CB-0045.html. Administration on Aging Qualified faith-based and other organizations are encouraged to apply for the Senior Medicare Patrol Projects (SMP). The goal of SMP Projects is to empower beneficiaries/consumers to prevent health care fraud through outreach and education. Program coverage must target vulnerable, hard-to-reach population beneficiaries, their families and other consumers. The purpose of this competition is to provide the opportunity to fund one statewide SMP Project in each of 25 eligible states and the District of Columbia for a project period of up to three years. SMP projects recruit and train retired professionals and other senior citizens on Medicare and Medicaid error, fraud and abuse. These volunteers work in their communities, senior centers and elsewhere to educate Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, family members, and caregivers to actively protect themselves against fraudulent, wasteful and abusive health care practices by reviewing their Medicare benefit statements and reporting suspected errors. Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries contact the projects with inquiries and complaints regarding Medicare, Medicaid and other health care or related consumer issues. Another key role of the SMP project is to address such inquiries and complaints, either by resolving matters directly or by referrals to appropriate entities. SMP projects refer numerous beneficiary complaints to state and national fraud control /consumer protection entities, including Medicare contractors, state Medicaid fraud control units, state attorneys general, the HHS Office of Inspector General, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The deadline for this announcement is April 11, 2008. Under this competition, up to twenty-six grants will be funded at a federal share of up to $180,000 per year and a project period of up to three years, contingent upon the availability of federal funds in the following eligible states and the District: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia. For additional details please view the full announcement at http://aoa.gov/doingbus/fundopp/announcements/2008/2008SMPAnnouncementfinalOGM.doc. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Qualified faith-based and other applicants are encouraged to apply for the Elimination of Health Disparities through Translation Research grant. Successful applicants will propose projects that accelerate the translation of research findings into public health practice through implementation, dissemination, and diffusion research within health disparity populations. Proposed health disparity translation research studies should identify one or more of the following: factors that inhibit or facilitate the translation of evidence-based public health interventions, policies, recommendations, etc.; methods and tools for the successful translation of evidence-based programs, practices, or policies that retain fidelity, and achieve positive outcomes for target populations; and, optimal strategies to enhance the widespread adoption and institutionalization of effective public health intervention programs, including the adaptability of interventions to other and larger health disparity populations. Wherever possible, studies that are interdisciplinary and include collaborations with traditional and non-traditional stakeholders that serve health disparity populations as a primary component of their mission are encouraged. A letter of intent is expected by April 2, 2008 and the completed application is due May 2, 2008. A total of $ 4.5 million will be awarded for up to 9 grants with the average award expected to be approximately $350,000-$450,000 per year. A link to the full announcement can be found at http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/CD08-001.htm. Qualified faith-based and other organizations are invited to apply for the Grants for Injury Control Research Centers. The grant will support applications from new or existing injury centers to conduct injury and violence prevention research, build the scientific base for the prevention and control of injuries and violence, integrate professionals from a wide spectrum of disciplines to perform injury and violence prevention research, and encourage research that involves intervention development and testing and intervention adoption and maintenance methods. Applications should address violence and injury reduction through research, education and training, community outreach, and the development and implementation of prevention/intervention programs that address pertinent injury and violence prevention and control problems in the community, state, and region where the center will be located. Successful applicants will have an understanding that injury control research centers should be multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary organizations that address training and research in a cross cutting and integrated manner that will impact the field of injury and violence prevention and control research. Centers should strive to strengthen the injury and violence prevention infrastructure by integrating resources at the state, local and national levels. Centers activities should also be designed to integrate research, education, and prevention projects that address unique problems of injury and violence prevention in the geographic region served as well as nationally. Letters of intent must be submitted by August 1, 2008 and applications are due September 1, 2008. A total of approximately $5.4 million will be awarded to six grants. Each application will be awarded at maximum of $905,500 for the first 12-month budget period. An applicant may request a project period of up to five years. For additional program specific details please view the full announcement at http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/CE09-001.htm. Health Resources and Services Administration Qualified faith-based and other organizations are being solicited for the Service Area Competitions grants. The purpose of this activity is to continue to support comprehensive primary and preventive health care service delivery to areas where existing Section 330 (of the Public Health Service Act) grantees have a project period ending in 2008. It is expected that each application submitted to serve one of these areas will represent a clear focus on maintaining access to care and reducing health disparities identified in the existing community and target population. Health Centers improve the health of the Nation’s underserved communities and vulnerable populations by assuring access to comprehensive, culturally competent, quality primary health care services. Health Center grants support a variety of community-based and patient-directed public and private nonprofit organizations and continue to serve an increasing number of the Nation’s underserved. Applications are being accepted for operational support for Community Health Centers, Migrant Health Centers, Health Care for the Homeless centers, and Public Housing Primary Care centers to serve in various locations. Please refer to the full announcement for additional details concerning funding and due dates. For additional details regarding the targeted services areas please see Appendix F of the full application. A link to the full application can be found here https://grants.hrsa.gov/webExternal/DisplayAttachment.asp?ID=39C2A642-BD37-4F7E-B945-CD1E1D8FBCF3. National Institutes of Health Qualified faith-based and other organizations are encouraged to apply for the Cooperative Centers for Translational Research on Human Immunology and Biodefense grant. The goal of this funding opportunity is to support research on human immunology as it applies to potential agents of bioterrorism or emerging/re-emerging infectious diseases. The immediate objectives are to support basic and translational research on human immunological responses to National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Category A, B, or C Priority Pathogens, their toxins, or other emerging and re-emerging diseases; and to create the stable, flexible, and centralized infrastructure needed to promote and coordinate multi-disciplinary research in human immunology as it relates to defense against these agents. A letter of intent should be received by June 18, 2008 and the closing date for applications is July 18, 2008. It is anticipated that approximately $25 million in total costs will be available to support this program and that 7-9 awards will be made. The project period may not exceed five years. A link to the full announcement with additional details can be found here
Qualified faith-based and other organizations are encouraged to apply for the two types of research grants entitled, International Research on Venue-Based Interventions for HIV/AIDS and Alcohol Use (R01 and R21). This funding opportunity issued by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) of NIH solicits Research Project (R01) and Exploratory/Developmental (R21) grant applications for proposals to conduct collaborative international research on alcohol abuse and HIV/AIDS, with a specific focus on research that examines the impact of environmental factors on concurrent drinking and high risk sexual behavior. The primary focus of this announcement is to develop and test new interventions, which may also include exploratory descriptive studies that lead to the development of venue-based interventions. There is considerable epidemiological evidence linking alcohol-related high risk sexual behavior with HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Ethnographic research has provided rich descriptions of social, cultural, and economic contexts in which people engage in alcohol-related sexual risk behaviors. More specifically, alcohol use characteristics (e.g., binge drinking, episodic drinking, etc.) have been linked with sexual risk-taking that occurs in a range of high risk environments. This FOA seeks to explore alternative strategies for developing and testing interventions that are ecologically sound and address the role of alcohol in increasing HIV risk behaviors in geographically identified contexts. Alcohol use settings and aggregate risks found within these settings have been implicated as a focus for converging social, substance abuse, and sexual networks. There is a need for further research to further extend the understanding of environmental facilitators of risk for HIV infection within these settings and locations, which are often in urban areas which draw men and women for employment. Populations engaging in high risk sexual behaviors consequent to alcohol use, particularly heavy episodic or binge drinking, can include, but are not limited to, male bar patrons and their sex partners; male and female commercial sex workers and clients; transport corridor workers (e.g., long distance truck drivers, merchant marines, etc.); fishermen; and employed military personnel, among others. A total of $3 million will be awarded to 10-12 grants. It is anticipated that interventions will be identified within 5 to 7 different countries. Letters of intent for are due April 9, 2008 and the completed application package is due May 9, 2008. A link to the R01 announcement can be found at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AA-08-011.html and for the R21 at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AA-08-012.html. Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration Qualified faith-based and other applicants are encouraged to apply for the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative Community Treatment and Services Center Grants. The purpose of the Initiative is to improve treatment and services for all children and adolescents in the United States who have experienced traumatic events. The NCTSI is designed to address child trauma issues by creating a national network of grantees that work collaboratively to develop and promote effective community practices for children and adolescents exposed to a wide array of traumatic events. The Community Treatment and Services (CTS) Centers, as part of this network, will implement and evaluate effective trauma-focused and trauma-informed treatment and services in community settings and in youth-serving service systems and collaborate with other network centers on clinical issues, service approaches, policy, financing and training issues. Trauma-informed interventions include clinical treatments, services and practices that intervene directly with children and their families or that address trauma by intervening with the professionals, organizations and service systems that serve children who witness or experience traumatic events. Grants will be provided to community organizations or programs that primarily provide or support treatment and services in their community, or specialty child service settings, for children, adolescents and their families who have experienced trauma. Highest priority will be given to applicants located in the Gulf Coast area (i.e., Louisiana, Florida, Texas, Alabama and Mississippi) and providing services in areas impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and who have previous experience in providing such services. SAMHSA also strongly encourages all applicants to consider the unique needs of returning veterans and their families in developing their proposed project. The closing date for applications is April 29, 2008. A total of $3 million will be awarded to up to 7 grants with awards expected to average $400,000 per year. A link to the full announcement can be found here http://www.samhsa.gov/grants/2008/sm_08_010.aspx. Qualified faith-based and other organizations are encouraged to apply for the Technical Assistance Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention (TA Center) Grant. The purpose of this program is to support the federally funded Safe Schools/Healthy Students grant program and Linking Actions for Unmet Needs in Children’s Health (Project Launch) grant programs. The Safe Schools/Healthy Students grant program provides funds to local educational agencies to plan, implement, evaluate and sustain a comprehensive plan of programs, activities, services and curricula to foster resilience, promote mental health, and prevent substance abuse, youth violence and mental/behavioral disorders. The SS/HS program is grounded in the belief that people’s lives can be enhanced through effective interventions that foster well-being and resilience at the individual, family and community levels. Structurally, the SS/HS program brings together representatives from many diverse stakeholder groups seeking cooperation from an array of public health, mental health, education, law enforcement, justice and social service systems, as well as families and youth, to work towards the mutual goals of promoting safety, well being, and healthy development. Project Launch grant program supports a vision of communities in which families participate in a seamless set of local programs, supports and services that promote healthy early childhood development, supportive family environments. The Project Launch grant program will provide funds to localities through State agencies in order to plan for and implementing a range of prevention activities that include: the development of a comprehensive plan to integrate behavioral and physical health; integration of early childhood systems of care to blend services and supports from health, mental health, substance abuse, education, and social services; and development of community based networks for preventative and primary care that coordinates and integrates behavioral and physical health service delivery. Successful grantees must build integrated and comprehensive health/mental and behavioral health/substance use prevention and promotion programs, practices and services. Grantees must be able to demonstrate a partnership between local mental health, primary health care, substance abuse prevention, social services and early childhood/elementary educational systems. These partnerships and plans must be developed and agreed upon by local partners in keeping with existing State plans. The TA Center will provide an array of technical assistance services that will improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability of projects in both grant programs. The TA Center will be expected to perform the following functions: provide multifaceted technical assistance services across a wide variety of topics for all grantees; provide centralized administration, management and coordination of TA services for all grantees; provide localized site specific and cross site technical assistance in a variety of formats and media for all grantees; establish processes for identifying best practices and resource development and sharing these across all grantee sites; provide technical assistance that demonstrates competency with respect to all types of diversity; create linkages for Project Launch grantees with State mental health directors, and State child and maternal health directors; and provide communications technical assistance to Project Launch grantees. The closing date for applications is April 22, 2008. A total of $6.6 million is available for funding one center over a five-year project period. For additional details please view the full announcement http://samhsa.gov/Grants/2008/sm_08_003.doc. UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Qualified faith-based and other organizations are encouraged to apply for the Community Mobilization in Jordan School Construction and Rehabilitation Program grant. The Jordan School Construction and Rehabilitation Program (JSP) is a construction and rehabilitation program, funded by USAID and implemented by CDM International (an architectural/engineering firm), that commenced in August 2006 and is anticipated to end in August 2010. The program’s main goal is to build 28 new schools and rehabilitate 100 schools around the Kingdom. These schools are clustered into four phases with different timelines and scopes. The selection of sites for construction and rehabilitation followed specific criteria which had strong emphasis on over-crowdedness in poor and disadvantaged areas in Jordan. USAID intends to follow a unique approach in the implementation of school construction where the primary stakeholders (students, teachers, principals, parents and other community members) are involved in every phase of the program, providing their insight, opinions, specific needs, expectations and also available skills. This process of community participation and mobilization should essentially initiate a partnership that will last well beyond the life of JSP. The deadline for applications is March 26, 2008. Please see the full announcement for additional program details. Subject to the availability of funds, USAID/Jordan intends to provide approximately $600,000 in total USAID funding to be allocated over a period of two years with a start date of June 2008. A link to the full announcement can be found here http://www07.grants.gov/search/downloadAtt.do;jsessionid=HGhXcCvWTVtvMnzpwBG Qualified faith-based and other organizations are encouraged to apply for the Enabling Quality, Access and Transparency in Education for Senegal funding opportunity. USAID/Senegal is seeking applications from qualified applicants to implement a program to increase access to a quality education, especially for girls and vulnerable children, and to improve governance in the education system. Attainment of these results contributes to USAID/Senegal’s education strategic objective of better educated youth in Senegal. Implementation activities will be conducted at the community, regional, and national levels. The innovative approaches proposed by Applicants must be supported by a robust monitoring and evaluation plan that includes results-oriented indicators which measure program performance and impact. The deadline for applications is April 22, 2208. USAID anticipates awarding one five-year grant as a result of this announcement up to $40 million. Additional details can be found in the full announcement at http://www07.grants.gov/search/downloadAtt.do;jsessionid=HMdTWDvFVDnHlXsvDLKHZD Qualified faith-based and other organizations are encouraged to apply for the Kosovo Anti-Trafficking Program (KAP) Grant. The main purpose of the Kosovo Anti-Trafficking Program is to improve the long-term reintegration services and increase participation of community stakeholders in prevention activities. The goal is to maintain a low number and possibly even reduce the current number of victims of trafficking. This will be accomplished by providing comprehensive reintegration activities combined with concrete prevention activities that will reduce the vulnerability of potential persons to the phenomenon of trafficking. It will also be accomplished by tackling the root causes of trafficking and thereby provide a long-term prevention intervention for communities and individuals that especially vulnerable to being trafficked. The program will support the Government of Kosovo activities to implement the future action plan to combat trafficking in human beings. The closing date for this application is April 14, 2008. A total of $2 million will be awarded for one or more grants with three-year project periods. For more details on the program objectives and expected project results, please see Section C of the full announcement. A link to the full announcement can be found at http://www07.grants.gov/search/downloadAtt.do;jsessionid=HMmbJs6hspT7s8S9ZV6qZP8 Qualified faith-based and other organizations are encouraged to apply for the USAID/Southern Africa Office of Economic Growth-Skills Development Activity grant. USAID/Southern Africa’s Further Education and Training (FET) skills development program will provide support for the dynamic reforms and rapid changes taking place in South Africa’s FET sector. The FET sector is a vocationally-oriented level of secondary-tertiary education that resides at the “junction” of primary/secondary education and university-level studies. The objective of the program is to support South African efforts in strengthening the FET college sector to: create and sustain career-enhancing education and training programs that are responsive to the current and future skills needs of South Africa’s local, regional, and international employers; and support networks of South African public and private civil society stakeholders as they identify skills needs and create and sustain equitable, effective skills development programs, especially for youth. The focus of the program and activities will be on the FET sector, through FET colleges and their students, lecturers, and support staff, in collaboration with the Department of Education (DoE) and private sector organizations. Support will be provided to selected FET colleges in consultation with the DoE and the colleges themselves. The aim is to increase employability of students and create a better match between skills offered by the FET colleges and those needed by future employers. It is anticipated that the main emphasis areas of the program will be to: assist youth to increase their knowledge and understanding of the opportunities afforded by the FET colleges; assist FET colleges and their students to successfully transition to the new National Certificates (Vocational) programs; assist selected FET colleges to provide a wide range of support and referral services to students; assist FET colleges with recruitment, retention, and “through-put” of students, ensuring a successful academic experience for FET students; build capacity of FET colleges to link with business, industry, and other advanced education and training programs; help FET colleges build capacity to partner with programs that create and incubate small enterprises; assist FET colleges to track progress of students after they leave the colleges, feeding into monitoring and evaluation of overall impact of FET programs; support youth in colleges to be further engaged in HIV and AIDS prevention and treatment measures; assist colleges to emphasize, standardize and expand current HIV and AIDS programs through student support and counseling centers; and provide targeted technical support to the DoE and selected FET colleges to develop support services for students and outreach to potential employers. The closing date for this application is April 15, 2008. USAID intends to commit approximately $6,764,000 for a three-year project. A link to the full announcement can be found at http://www07.grants.gov/search/announce.do;jsessionid=HMmbJs6hspT7s8S9ZV6qZP8 |
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