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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 Health and Human Services, Justice, and Labor, 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 HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Administration for Children and Families Qualified faith-based and other eligible applicants may apply for the Community Economic Development Program Operational Projects grant. The Office of Community Services (OCS) will award grants to Community Development Corporations (CDCs) that are experienced in implementing economic development projects. The grant will support job creation and business projects, as a strategy to address broader objectives such as arresting tendencies toward financial dependency, chronic unemployment, and community deterioration in both urban and rural areas. The purpose of the CED program is to provide technical and financial assistance for community economic development activities designed to address the economic needs of low-income individuals and families through the creation of employment and business opportunities. The lives of these persons are enhanced through the creation of permanent employment and business expansion. OCS seeks to fund projects that focus on sustained economic outcomes and implement strategies for achieving self sufficiency for families. In addition, funded projects must foster sustained employment opportunities for low-income populations within communities. CED projects may include business start-ups, business expansions, the development of new products and services and other commercial activities that have as the end results the creation of new jobs for low-income persons. For FY 2008, OCS will not consider applications that propose the creation of microenterprise businesses under this announcement. Incubator development is an allowable project as long as the focus of the incubator is on substantial job creation for low-income persons and industries in the high growth initiatives. Successful applications must provide evidence that: the project's objectives are supported by the established understanding of the needs of assistance of the target population and community; the results and benefits expected through the funding of this project are defined; a sound and logical approach to achieving these results is described, with supporting documentation that reflects a sustainable business model to maintain employment for individuals; third party and cooperative agreements that support the objectives of the project are provided; the application demonstrates the experience and capacity of the project management team and CDC that will implement the project; and, an evaluation plan will provide findings on the process and outcome measures for this project. A letter of intent should be received by May 22, 2008 while the closing date for application submission is June 25, 2008. The anticipated total funding is $29 million. Approximately 41-45 grants will be awarded. An individual award will not exceed $700,000. The project period will be five years. The full application can be accessed at http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2008-ACF-OCS-EE-0024.html. Qualified faith-based and other eligible applicants may apply for the Job Opportunities for Low-Income Individuals (JOLI) Program grant. The program helps low-income individuals achieve economic self-sufficiency by creating jobs to be filled by low-income individuals. JOLI applicants provide technical and/or financial assistance to private employers in the community to assist them in creating employment and business opportunities for individuals receiving TANF and other low-income individuals. In order to create these sustainable employment and other opportunities, funded projects should focus on: (1) new business ventures, (2) business expansion, and (3) self-employment/micro-enterprise projects. Applicants must state clearly both in the abstract and at the beginning of the project, which one of these three program strategies they will be using. While OCS will accept applications that propose projects containing more than one of these program strategies, OCS encourages applicants to focus on one. A letter of intent should be submitted by May 22, 2008 while the full application is due June 2, 2008. The anticipated total funding is $4,838,000 will be awarded for 9-11 grants. An individual award will not exceed $475,000. The project period will be 3 years. The full announcement can be accessed at
Qualified faith-based and other eligible applicants may apply for the Projects of National Significance: Family Support 360 for Military Families grant. This funding opportunity will enhance the capabilities of families in assisting children with developmental disabilities to achieve their maximum potential; support the increasing ability of children with developmental disabilities to exercise greater choice and self-determination and to engage in leadership activities in their communities; and ensure the protection of children with developmental disabilities' legal and human rights. For the purpose of this program announcement, the term "children" refers to individuals from birth to 25 years old. Military families of children with developmental disabilities have significant challenges. They need services and supports from a myriad of military and public and private providers, each with its own eligibility determination criteria and planning process. Due to the nature of the military lifestyle, families encounter separation and disruption when military personnel are relocated or deployed. They also face cultural issues where they often must develop new relationships and depend upon strangers for support. There are few places now with a comprehensive infrastructure to offer military families a seamless, one-point of entry (i.e., one-stop center) to establish eligibility and develop a family-centered plan to preserve and strengthen families. The successful applicant(s) will plan and implement a Family Support 360 Center for military families of children with developmental disabilities. A letter of intent should be received by May 27, 2008 and the full application is due June 24, 2008. An estimated $600,000 will be awarded to fund one to three grants. The average award size is $200,000. The project period will be five years. A link to the full announcement can be found at
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Qualified faith-based and other eligible applicants may apply for the National Organization Activities for Cancer Control in Underserved Populations grant. Through the National Program of Cancer Registries, the CDC has since 1994 sought to support statewide, territorial and jurisdictional population-based central cancer registries in the development, promotion, maintenance, and communication of uniform data standards for population-based central cancer registration; to improve the completeness, timeliness and quality of cancer data through the certification of population-based central cancer registries and; to improve central cancer registry operations through the development of best practices. Successful applicants funded under this announcement will: facilitate, manage and support committees and associated workgroups that through consensus develop and promote best practices for registry operations and uniform data standards for cancer registration in the United States; facilitate, manage and support the certification of population based cancer registries in the United States; establish and maintain relationships with national organizations to promote recognition and support of population based central cancer registries in the United States; maintain and disseminate the standard EDITS metafiles, conversion programs across all coding and data exchange versions; participate in the bi-annual CDC Cancer Conference; and participate in an annual post-award meeting in Atlanta, Georgia to share information, clarify expectations, and establish regular conference calls to discuss issues and report progress. The closing date for application submission is June 24, 2008. The participating centers intend to commit $ 2,500,000 over five years. The approximate average award will be $500,000. The project period length will be five years. The full announcement can be accessed here
National Institutes of Health Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for a research grant to investigate Adverse Metabolic Side Effects of Second Generation Psychotropic Medications Leading to Obesity and Increased Diabetes Risk. Applications should focus on: increasing the understanding of the nature, rates, and pathophysiology of adverse metabolic effects of psychotropic medications; elucidating biomedical and psychosocial risk factors for the development of metabolic adverse effects of psychiatric therapeutics; and develop interventions to prevent and/or mitigate metabolic adverse effects across the lifespan. The maximum individual award amount is $500,000 per year with project duration of up to five years (maximum of $2.5 million for entire project). Letters of intent are due September 22, 2008 and applications are due October 22, 2008. The program announcement is at
Qualified faith-based and other eligible applicants may apply for two types of research grants on the Functional Characterization of Genetic Variants and Interactions: The Genes, Environment and Health Initiative (R03 and R21). The National Institute on Drug Abuse, on behalf of the NIH Genes, Environment and Health Initiative, encourages functional characterization of genetic variants that have been statistically nominated to be associated with a particular outcome through common, complex disease gene discovery approaches, such as genome-wide association studies, candidate gene approaches, or sequencing studies. The successful applicant will conduct research relating genetic variation to biological mechanism, or disease causality. The R03 award mechanism is for NIH small grants while the R21 award mechanism is for projects that are more innovative in nature and may not have preliminary data. Letters of intent for each grant type should be submitted by September 17, 2008 and applications are due October 17, 2008. A total of $5 million in total costs ($10 million over the total project period of two years) will be awarded for 9-13 grants for both the R03 and R21 categories. The R03 can be accessed at
Qualified faith-based and other eligible applicants may apply for the Medications Development for Cannabis-Related Disorders (R01) grant. Nearly one million people are seeking treatment for marijuana dependence every year and sufficient research has been carried out to confirm that the use of cannabis can produce serious physical and psychological consequences. Currently, there are no medications approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of Cannabis-Related Disorders (CRDs). Scientific advances are making possible the development of medications to treat CRDs. They include the discovery of an endogenous cannabinoid system with specific receptors and endogenous ligands, advances in the preclinical and human laboratory methods to study the effects of medications on CRD, and the availability of new compounds that target the cannabinoid system and marketed medications whose mechanisms of actions may have potential therapeutic effects for these disorders. Applications may focus on the pharmacotherapy of one or various CRDs or clinical manifestations of the disorders. For example, research may focus on marijuana dependence or specifically on marijuana withdrawal. Clinical applications may include human laboratory studies to develop models for testing medications targeting single or multiple manifestations of the CRDs, and the interaction of cannabinoids with other medications, pharmacokinetic and/or pharmacodynamic studies of potentially therapeutic compounds. Applications may also focus on the specific symptoms of the disorder such as withdrawal, craving or relapse, complications such as cognitive impairment, sleep disorders/disruption of normal rhythms or the clinical surrogates of their use such as depression and other mood disorders. A letter of intent should be submitted by August 11, 2008 while the full application is due September 10, 2008. A total of $3 million will be awarded for six grants. The full announcement can be accessed at
Qualified faith-based and other eligible applicants may apply for an R01 Research Project grant for the Methods for Prevention Packages Program (MP3). The successful applicant will conduct multidisciplinary research programs that: devise optimal HIV prevention packages (combination interventions) for specific populations; design clinical studies to rigorously examine the safety and efficacy of these packages in the target population; and perform pilot studies to demonstrate that the proposed prevention package is acceptable to the target population and the study design is appropriate and feasible. This research will require a team approach with expertise in behavioral and biomedical methods of HIV prevention, epidemiology, and clinical trial design and implementation. Input from mathematical modeling expertise is also strongly encouraged to develop and justify the proposed prevention package. A letter of intent should be received by June 25, 2008 and the closing date for application submission is July 25, 2008. Up to $4.5 million will be awarded for 4-6 grants. The full announcement can be accessed at
Qualified faith-based and other eligible applicants may apply for the Multi-Drug Combinations to Promote Neurological Recovery in Traumatic Brain Injury (R01) grant. The successful applicants will propose preclinical studies using multi-drug therapies to attenuate neurological injury and/or to enhance recovery after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Projects will identify combinations of pharmacologic agents that effectively treat the array of physiological changes associated with TBI to improve functional outcome and recovery after head injury. The overarching goal of this FOA is to develop new therapies that attenuate the multitude of diffuse and focal injuries associated with TBI and improve neurological recovery. This FOA will support the development of pre-clinical data to determine optimal dosing and schedules for combinations of drugs, such as, but not limited to, progesterone, estrogen, thyrotropin, erythropoetin, and statins for TBI. These data will provide the basis to launch clinical trials in humans using these optimal combinations. A letter of intent should be received by October 28, 2008 and the closing date for application submission is November 28, 2008. A total of $2 million will be awarded for five grants. The full announcement can be accessed at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HD-08-003.html. Qualified faith-based and other eligible applicants are invited to apply for the Novel HIV Therapies: Integrated Preclinical/Clinical Program (IPCP) grant. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of NIH invites applications from consortia of institutions/organizations to form research collaborations between NIAID, academia, and the private sector for the purpose of moving new therapeutic concepts from the laboratory to the clinic for initial testing. Project activities include innovative preclinical studies to identify new HIV therapies, and the translation of innovative treatment concepts to the clinic for proof-of-concept studies. Each application must be composed of a minimum of three interrelated research projects and an Administrative Core; one or more Scientific Cores may be proposed. At least one research project must be contributed by the private sector partner if the applicant institution is from academia; conversely, at least one research project must be contributed by an academic partner if the applicant institution is from the private sector. Applications not meeting the above described requirements, with regard to number and types of projects/cores, will be considered non-responsive and the application will not be reviewed. A letter of intent should be submitted by June 11, 2008 and the closing date for application submission is July 11, 2008. A total of $2.8 million will be awarded for 1-2 new awards. The full announcement can be accessed at
Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for two types of research grants on Transdisciplinary Research on Fatigue and Fatigability in Aging. R01 types of grants are for NIH Research Project programs and R21 grants are for Exploratory/Developmental programs. Applicants for both types of grants will conduct transdisciplinary approaches that could lead to increased understanding of mechanisms contributing to, assessment of, or potential interventions for, increased fatigue or fatigability in older persons. Research from a variety of fields has the potential to generate important insights into mechanisms of, contributors to, and potential interventions for, fatigue and fatigability. These fields include, but are not limited to, biometrics, cardiology, cell and molecular biology, endocrinology, epidemiology, exercise physiology, neurology, neuropsychology, nursing science, nutritional science, oncology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, psychiatry, psychoneuroimmunology, and psychology. Interested applicants are referred to the requests for applications for examples of research topics that NIH may consider. Applications for R01 grants are due June 5, 2008. Applications for R21 are due June 16, 2008. The amount of individual award amounts is dependent on the scope and scale of the proposed research. The request for applications for the R01 grants is at
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for the Development of Comprehensive Drug/Alcohol and Mental Health Treatment Systems for Persons Who are Homeless grant through SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. The successful applicant will conduct projects to expand and strengthen treatment services for persons who are homeless (including those who are chronically homeless), who also have substance use disorders, mental disorders, or co-occurring substance use and mental disorders. In addition, a portion of the total grant amount for this program will be awarded to projects that increase the number of homeless persons placed in stable housing and who receive treatment services for alcohol, substance use, and co-occurring disorders. For the purpose of this program, supportive housing is defined as housing that is permanent, affordable and linked to health, mental health, employment, and other support services that provides consumers with long-term, community-based housing options. This housing approach combines housing assistance and intensive individualized support services to chronically homeless individuals with substance use disorders, mental disorders, or co-occurring substance use and mental disorders. Grantees may not use grant funds to pay for housing. Therefore, applicants proposing to provide services in supportive housing must demonstrate the ability to place clients in supportive housing and must provide documentation of the source of funding for the housing component each year of the grant Of the $10 million available for this program, SAMHSA/CSAT is targeting up to $4.5 million per year for services in supportive housing provided that the applications are of sufficient quality. Up to 13 grants will be awarded for the general category of Treatment for Homeless and up to 12 for the services in supportive housing category. Individual award amounts may be up to $400,000 per year with project periods up to five years. Applications are due by May 29, 2008. The request for applications is at
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE National Institutes of Justice Qualified faith-based and other eligible applicants may apply for the Using DNA Technology to Indentify the Missing grant. The use of DNA to help identify the missing is a key priority under the President’s DNA Initiative (Advancing Justice through DNA Technology). DNA technology can provide valuable information to assist in determining the source of unidentified human remains. In recent years, newer DNA technologies have substantially increased the successful analysis of aged, degraded, limited, or otherwise compromised biological evidence. As a result, biological samples, including skeletal remains, once thought to be unsuitable for testing, may now yield DNA profiles. Additionally, samples that previously generated inconclusive DNA results may now be amenable to reanalysis using newer methods. The goal of the "Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing" solicitation is twofold: (1) to assist eligible entities in performing DNA analysis on unidentified human remains and/or reference samples to support the efforts of States and units of local governments to identify missing persons and (2) to enter resulting DNA profiles into the CODIS+mito index of the FBI’s National DNA Index System. Applications are due May 23, 2008. All funding is subject to availability. The full announcement can be found here
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Bureau of International Labor Affairs Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for the Combating Exploitive Child Labor through Education in Guinea, Jordan, Madagascar, Nicaragua, and Yemen grant. Successful applicants will seek to ensure children’s long-term withdrawal and prevention from engaging in exploitive child labor through the provision of direct educational services. Applicants should design projects that complement ongoing efforts to promote education in the target country; strengthen existing education and/or training programs; and, where appropriate, replicate or enhance successful models to serve a greater number of children and communities. Applicants may propose other project interventions, such as teacher training and the inclusion of child labor issues in school curriculum, in order to improve the quality of education and/or training programs and ensure that they are responsive to the needs of (former) child laborers entering/returning to school. Applicants should develop strategies to increase the perceived relevance of existing education and/or training programs for children engaged in, or at risk of entering, exploitive child labor; their families; and their communities. A total of $20.5 million will be awarded for at least five grants, including up to $3.5 million for projects in Guinea, up to $4 million for Jordan, up to $4.5 million for Madagascar, up to $5 million for Nicaragua, and up to$3.5 for projects in Yemen. Applications are due June 24, 2008. Complete details can be found in the program announcement at
AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Qualified faith-based and other eligible applicants are invited to apply for the Annual Program Statement (APS) for NGO Security Management Initiatives grant. USAID and the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) mandate is to save lives, alleviate human suffering, and reduce the economic and social impact of disasters worldwide. In order to facilitate the achievement of this goal, implementing partners providing humanitarian assistance must be able to effectively manage their own security needs. In fiscal year 2008, OFDA’s strategy will be to increase the NGO community’s awareness of generally recognized good security practices, build their capacity to implement good practices, improve institutional support for comprehensive security management, and promote appropriate collaboration among humanitarian actors. OFDA is soliciting applications under this APS to implement this strategy. OFDA encourages applications that propose creative, innovative and "cutting-edge" initiatives. The closing date for application submission is September 22, 2008. USAID/OFDA plans to award up to approximately $600,000 to support programs covering a period of up to 24 months. The full program announcement with additional details can be found at
Qualified faith-based and other eligible applicants are invited to apply for the Farmer-to-Farmer Program (FTF) Leader with Associates (LWA) grant. Successful applicants will manage FTF volunteer programs, and have the capacity to field highly qualified volunteers to support international agricultural development, with an emphasis on improving private agricultural operations. Recipients of funding under this RFA may implement programs relating to all aspects of agricultural production and post-harvest activities, such as processing, marketing, credit and input supply, as well as improved agri-business management, environmental conservation, and improved policy and regulatory regimes. The program goal shall be to generate rapid, sustained and broad-based economic growth in the agricultural sector. A secondary goal shall be to increase the American public's understanding of international development issues and programs and international understanding of the U. S. and U. S. development programs. The closing date for application submission is June 2, 2008. USAID anticipates providing approximately $7.5 million for each of the Leader with Associate Cooperative Agreements over a five-year period. The full program announcement with additional details can be found at
Qualified faith-based and other eligible applicants are invited to apply for the Improving Ecuador’s Coastal Parks thru Short Term Employment of Flooding Victims grant. USAID’s biodiversity strategy in Ecuador is to improve the management of natural areas in ways that provide direct benefits to local residents, such as tourism, protection of water sources, and generation of income. Public infrastructure in the parks and protected areas was extensively damaged by flooding that began in early February 2008. Nature-based tourism is a long-term source of revenue for remote rural areas, and enforcement of park boundaries may be especially important when economic stress increases the pressure for illegal extraction. The protected areas are also linked to current flooding through extensive deforestations, which is believed to have contributed to the severity of the flooding. At a minimum, deforestation of the steep and fine-grained hillsides of the region presents a risk to roads and other infrastructure below. The successful applicant will provide short-term employment for flooding victims through a biodiversity conservation program to improve or recover the biological functions and minor physical infrastructure within and adjacent to parks and protected areas in the coastal zone. The closing date for application submission is May 28, 2008. USAID plans to award up to approximately $1 million to support one recipient over a 12 month period. For additional details please view the full announcement here
Qualified faith-based and other eligible applicants may apply for the Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (CHIP) grant. The grant will support projects to introduce, scale-up and further develop high impact maternal, newborn, and child health interventions, including the program approaches to effectively deliver those interventions, to achieve measurable reductions in under-five and maternal mortality and morbidity. Activities will: increase availability and use of appropriate high-impact maternal, neonatal and child health interventions, including supportive family planning interventions, through delivery approaches that fit the program and health system capabilities and based on the epidemiologic, cultural and geographic needs of each country; support USAID’s participation in global leadership in maternal, neonatal and child health, including further development and promotion of improved approaches to increase coverage of health, nutrition, and supportive family planning interventions; and assist private voluntary organizations/non-governmental organizations and their local partners supported by the Child Survival and Health Grants Program, and The President’s Malaria Initiative programs to design, implement, monitor and evaluate innovative, effective, and scalable community-oriented strategies that deliver integrated high impact interventions to vulnerable populations. The closing date for application submission is May 23, 2008. USAID plans to award up to approximately $600 million to support programs covering a period of five-years. The full announcement can be found at
Qualified faith-based and other eligible applicants may apply for the Tuberculosis Research to Enhance the Prevention, Detection, and Management of TB Cases grant. The overall goal of this activity is to stimulate the development and implementation of tools and approaches that enhance the prevention, detection, and management of TB. Through this grant the USAID will support research to optimize the effectiveness of existing technologies and approaches while supporting late-stage clinical trials, field evaluations and operational research to bring new tools and approaches to the fore. It will also ramp up efforts to prepare the field for the introduction of new technologies, testing novel techniques to deliver these tools/approaches at country-level, and to address barriers to access to services. It is anticipated that by 2011, a new vaccine that will prevent the disease among adolescents and adults may be ready for demonstration trials in the field, potentially warranting targeted support through this agreement. USAID will capitalize on this new project to continue to move successes from research into policy and practice. Six technical areas will be supported during this project. For each of the areas, TB can be read to include drug sensitive and drug resistant disease, and TB in HIV-infected individuals. The project will support a continuum of research, spanning from multi-site clinical trials to the translation of research results into policy. The project will not fund basic science, early-stage clinical trials, or research not directly relevant to developing countries. While this project may fund demonstration projects to introduce new tools into country settings, it will not fund the scale-up of use of proven tools, as this is the comparative advantage of other existing projects funded by USAID and other partners. The closing date is June 27, 2008. USAID expects the level of funding that will be used to support this grant to be a total of $80 million over the five-year period. The full announcement can be found at
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