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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, Housing and Urban Development, and Justice, 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 Services Block Grant Training and Technical Assistance Program: Special State Technical Assistance grant. The purpose of this program is to provide training and technical assistance resources to states to assist them in carrying out corrective action activities for at-risk agencies. The grant will support interventions in cases where an eligible entity is in a crisis situation. It will preclude the need for termination hearings and proceedings by stabilizing eligible entities in crises and correcting programmatic deficiencies, if possible. The closing date for applications under this announcement is June 20, 2008. Approximately $150,000 will be available for funding. Up to three grants of about $50,000 each will be made.The full announcement can be accessed at Qualified faith-based and other eligible applicants may apply for the Child Welfare Training: Curriculum Development and Evaluation for Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education grant. One grant will be awarded for a project to develop, field test, revise, implement, evaluate, and disseminate a competency and experientially-based curriculum for training child welfare professionals. This curriculum will address healthy marriage and relationship skills for populations underserved in the general population and overrepresented in the child welfare system. The Children's Bureau (CB) is particularly interested in the evaluation of the effectiveness of the curriculum and the possible expansion, replication and dissemination of the curriculum on a national level. The CB has funded child welfare curriculum development grants in the area of Healthy Marriage and Family Formation. While these grants have not yet ended, several valuable lessons have been learned. For example, prior to requesting funds it is essential the applicant already have an established and positive relationship with their local child welfare agency and policymakers in the counties. It is vital that there is a commitment and understanding between the college/university and the child welfare agency to promote worker involvement in the classes. The proposed curriculum will define healthy marriages and relationships in culturally relevant terms, and will address the economic, social, physical and mental health benefits of marriage. Students will learn the importance of conflict management and communication skills that are vital in a healthy relationship. The students' understanding of the importance and potential use of healthy marriage and relationship education and responsible fatherhood programs will increase. This curriculum will provide another effective tool for child welfare workers as they work to help families meet the safety, permanency and well-being needs of their children. The closing date for applications under this announcement is July 7, 2008. Approximately $250,000 is available to fund one award for a project period of 60 months. The full announcement can be found at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Qualified faith-based and other eligible applicants may apply for the Provision of Technical Assistance, Financial Support, and
Currently, the comprehensive Kenyan non-military uniformed services HIV/AIDS program is implementing interventions for members of the uniformed services and their families, prison system inmates, and surrounding communities.Rapid expansion of such programs in recent years in The closing date for applications under this announcement will be June 16, 2008. Approximately $10 million will be awarded for 1-3 grants for five-year project periods.The full announcement can be found at Qualified faith-based and other eligible applicants may apply for the Strengthening HIV Prevention Within HIV-Related Clinical and Community Services to Botswana under PEPFAR grant.The purpose of this announcement is to assist with strengthening the primary prevention components of existing major HIV-related services (both clinical and community based) that target large numbers of persons and couples living with HIV/AIDS. This grant will support the expansion of previous USAID funded activities to more program areas, such as tuberculosis, prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT), and private sector HIV treatment programs, and to increase the scale of the activity. The specific activities per sector or service will vary, depending on the needs and service infrastructure, but all will focus fundamentally on standardizing and strengthening the sexual transmission prevention components of these programs. In the PMTCT program, the focus may be more on supporting the promotion of family planning and unintended pregnancy prevention among HIV infected women and their partners. In counseling and testing settings, the activities will continue those initiated this year and may extend to additional areas, such as prevention interventions for discordant couples. Numerous opportunities for strengthening prevention within existing programs in the private, civil society, and government sectors also exist and will be explored as part of this agreement. Involvement of existing services will be selective and voluntary; participation will be cleared with the Government of Botswana and/or relevant individuals. The closing date for applications under this announcement will be June 16, 2008. Approximately $6,760,000 will be available to fund one award over a project period of five years. The average annual award will be $1,352,000. A full announcement can be accessed at Qualified faith-based and other eligible applicants may apply for the Strengthening the Capacity of the Ministry of Health and District Health Teams to Integrate TB/HIV Interventions, Provide Quality Pediatric HIV Care, and Laboratory Support to HIV and TB Programs in the Republic of Rwanda under PEPFAR grant. The purpose of this announcement is to provide the Rwanda Ministry of Health (MOH) with the resources to strengthen quality HIV care, particularly in the areas of TB/HIV integration, early diagnosis, follow-up, and treatment of HIV-infected children, and the support for a laboratory network necessary to deliver quality HIV care. The recipient of this award is expected to provide expertise in these areas to support MOH, district health teams, and EP implementing partners in HIV care. By building capacity in these areas, this cooperative agreement will lay the groundwork for health system strengthening in The closing date for applications under this announcement is June 16, 2008. Approximately $5 million will be awarded to a single successful applicant for a five-year project.The full announcement can be accessed at Qualified faith-based and other eligible applicants may apply for the Support for Pediatric ART and HIV Care and Outreach in the Republic of Botswana under PEPFAR grant. The successful applicant will work closely with Government of Botswana facilities to improve and strengthen the delivery of pediatric anti-retroviral therapy (ART) services countrywide in order to support the national program, increase access to care and treatment of children, train non-pediatrician health care workers in the care of HIV infected children and maintain high standards of pediatric HIV/AIDS management in Botswana through guidelines and curriculum development. Starting from scratch with no HIV-experienced pediatricians five years ago, The successful applicant for this grant program will:support the establishment of a referral service center for the management of complicated HIV/AIDS cases in children in Botswana; develop and implement a mentoring/supportive supervision system with an outreach support component in order to standardize approaches to pediatric HIV/AIDS care and management; participate in the training of health care workers in pediatric HIV/AIDS management in collaboration with the national anti-retroviral therapy (ART) training courses and participate in the revision of the pediatric module of the Knowledge, Innovation, and Training Shall Overcome AIDS (KITSO) training curriculum; and review and evaluate pediatric care and treatment, designing educational materials and using them in training activities designed to improve and strengthen the delivery of pediatric ART services countrywide. The closing date for applications under this announcement is June 16, 2008. Approximately $3 million will be awarded to a single successful applicant for a five-year project period. The full announcement can be accessed at Health Resources and Services Administration Qualified faith-based and other eligible applicants may apply for the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders grant. The successful applicant will be expected to continue to coordinate services between the National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and community health centers to improve the prevention, identification, and support of individuals with fetal alcohol syndrome. In addition, the successful applicant will engage and include maternal and child health sites in this successful demonstration. Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders remains a substantial public health, medical and educational problem despite major research efforts to clarify the mechanisms of alcohol’s teratological effects, increased efforts at prevention, and studies to address adverse health problems resulting from prenatal alcohol exposure.Early detection, education, and intervention are essential to attain positive outcomes for individuals who manifest signs of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders as well as assisting women to address drinking problems and to abstain from alcohol during pregnancy. The closing date for applications under this announcement is June 10, 2008. Approximately $972,704 will be awarded to a single successful applicant for a one year project period. The full announcement can be accessed at National Institutes of Health Qualified faith-based and other eligible applicants may apply for the Collaborative HIV/AIDS Studies in the Middle East and North Africa grant. Successful applicants will form collaborations for exploratory and developmental work on HIV/AIDS in the low and middle income countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), as defined by the World Bank: Algeria, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Syria, Tunisia, West Bank and
Collaborations must involve The closing date for applications under this announcement is June 16, 2008. 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 full application can be accessed at Qualified faith-based and other eligible applicants may apply for the Dissemination, Implementation, and Operational Research for HIV Prevention Interventions grant. The successful applicant will conduct research to enhance the science of technology transfer, dissemination, implementation, and operational research for evidence-based HIV-prevention interventions in the Applications studying the process for both primary and secondary HIV prevention interventions are encouraged. However, much of the published literature for dissemination research for HIV prevention has used primary prevention interventions, so less is known about what unique factors may be germane to the implementation of interventions developed for use in community and clinical settings that serve HIV-positive men, women, and families. In this announcement, there are five categories of projects where additional research activities could assist in the effective and efficient implementation of HIV prevention interventions: dissemination strategies, adoption of interventions, implementation fidelity and adaptation, intervention effectiveness, and sustainability of interventions. Appropriate outcome(s) involving one or more of these categories may be assessed at the individual, provider, or organizational level. The closing date under this application will be June 5, 2008. 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 full announcement can be accessed at DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT In addition to the funding opportunities listed in last week’s Roundtable e-newsletter, HUD has released more program announcements from the SuperNOFA.Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for the Healthy Homes Demonstration Program grant. The purpose of the Healthy Homes Demonstration Program is to develop, demonstrate, and promote cost-effective, preventive measures to correct multiple residential safety and health hazards that produce serious diseases and injuries in children and other sensitive subgroups such as the elderly, with a particular focus on low income households. Projects will: identify and remediate priority health hazards in high risk target housing where environmental conditions may contribute to a child’s illness or risk of injury; support public education and outreach that furthers the goal of protecting children and other vulnerable populations from environmentally induced illnesses; develop a professional workforce that is trained in healthy homes principles; evaluate the efficacy of healthy homes program activities and facilitate the dissemination of findings, with a focus on evidence-based best practices; increase public awareness of housing related environmental health and safety hazards that threaten the health of children and other vulnerable populations; and further the principles of environmental justice and fair housing by increasing the availability of safe, low income housing. A total of $4,375,000 will be awarded to approximately four to five grants. Individual awards will not exceed $875,000. Applications are due July 17, 2008.The program announcement is available at Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for a Lead Outreach Program grant. The purpose of this Lead Outreach Grant Program is to promote efficient and effective outreach, education, and training for the public concerning the hazards and sources of lead-based paint poisoning, particularly for low-income children, and to reduce or eliminate such hazards. All applicants should direct their proposed activities to achieving the following, especially among at-risk populations: increase enrollment of low-income units in HUD or other lead hazard treatment programs; increase number of residents, housing owners, community leaders, maintenance and rehabilitation workers, and other related persons who are aware of and able to identify lead-based paint hazards; develop easy to use and sustainable systems for reporting and addressing lead hazards; and develop effective partnerships between public and private entities, including grassroots, community-based and faith-based organizations, dedicated to reducing lead hazards. Approximately $1.5 million will be awarded to five to eight grants. Applications are due July 17, 2008.The program announcement is available at Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for Lead Technical Studies and Healthy Homes Technical Studies grant. The purpose of this announcement is to fund technical studies to improve existing methods for detecting and controlling lead-based paint and other housing-related health and safety hazards, to develop new methods to detect and control these hazards, and to improve our knowledge of lead-based paint and other housing-related health and safety hazard. HUD is funding studies to improve HUD’s and the public’s knowledge of lead-based paint hazards and other housing-related health and safety hazards, and to improve or develop new hazard assessment and control methods, with a focus on key residential health and safety hazards (discussed in the full program announcement). The overall goal of the Lead Technical Studies grant program is to gain knowledge to improve the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of methods for evaluation and control of residential lead-based paint hazards, while the Healthy Home Initiative seeks to: mobilize public and private resources, involving cooperation among all levels of government, the private sector, grassroots community-based organizations, including faith-based organizations, and other non-profit organizations, to develop the most promising and cost-effective methods for identifying and controlling housing-related hazards; and build local capacity to operate sustainable programs that will continue to prevent, minimize, and control housing-related hazards in low- and very low-income residences when HUD funding is exhausted. HUD anticipates that approximately $4.3 million will be available. Of this, approximately $2.2 million is for Lead Technical Studies and approximately $2.1 million is for Healthy Homes Technical Studies. Approximately 3 to 5 awards will be made under each program, ranging from approximately $350,000 to a maximum of $1 million each for the entire period of performance. Applications are due July 3, 2008. The full announcement can be found at Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for an Operation Lead Elimination Action Program (LEAP) grant. The purpose of program is to leverage private sector resources to eliminate lead poisoning as a major public health threat to children under age six living in eligible privately owned housing units. Funds will be awarded to applicants that will accomplish the following objectives: maximize both the number of children less than six years of age protected from lead poisoning and the number of housing units where lead-hazards are controlled; target lead hazard control efforts in housing in which children are at greatest risk of lead poisoning in order to reduce elevated blood lead levels in children less than six years of age; promote cost-effective lead hazard control methods and approaches that can be replicated; build local capacity to safely and effectively address lead hazards during lead-hazard control and renovation, remodeling, and maintenance activities by integrating lead safe work practices; promote integration of this grant program with housing rehabilitation, maintenance, weatherization, and other energy conservation activities; affirmatively further fair housing and environmental justice; develop a comprehensive community based approach to address lead hazards in housing by mobilizing public and private sector resources including grassroots community-based non-profit and faith-based organizations; promote collaboration, data sharing, and targeting between health and housing departments; establish a system or process that will facilitate lead-safe units to be affirmatively marketed to families with young children; and, to the greatest extent feasible, promote job training, employment, and other economic opportunities for low-income and minority residents and businesses that are owned by and/or employ minorities and low-income persons. Approximately $ 17.5 million will be awarded with individual award amounts ranging from $500,000 to a maximum of $2 million. The deadline for applications is July 10, 2008.The full announcement can be found at DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Community Capacity Development Office Qualified faith-based and other eligible applicants may apply for the Community Capacity Development Office (CCDO) Weed and Seed Communities Competitive Program grant.The Weed and Seed initiative is a community-based, comprehensive multi-agency approach to law enforcement, crime prevention, and neighborhood restoration that aims to prevent, control, and reduce violent crime, criminal drug-related activity, and gang activity in neighborhoods with persistent high levels of serious crime and corresponding social problems. The “Weed” portion of the initiative focuses on crime control involving law enforcement and community policing.The “Seed” portion of the initiative focuses on community revitalization involving prevention, intervention, and treatment services and neighborhood restoration. A Weed and Seed Community (WSC) must be developed in partnership with a variety of key local organizations and the local United States Attorney’s Office. The process for developing the strategy begins with convening a Steering Committee, identifying community partners, notifying the U.S. Attorney, and collaborating on a strategy that addresses identified problems. WSCs must develop a 5- year strategic plan; adopt and achieve performance measures in accordance with the 5-year strategy; and include on the Steering Committee residents from the community, decision makers responsible for control (i.e., law enforcement, corrections, judiciary, and prosecution), support resources (i.e., social services/mental health, drug treatment, housing, employment readiness, health, remedial education, etc.), and neighborhood service providers (public/private) active in the proposed Weed and Seed area. A strong application incorporates the use of evidence-based programs; utilizes primarily leveraged resources to implement the 5-year strategy (i.e., uses leveraging of public/private resources from other areas to address control and support needs in the proposed designated area, as appropriate); and focuses on pervasive issues such as prisoner reentry, youth violence, and the control of gun violence, gangs, and drugs in the community. The size and population density of a designated focus area should be of sufficient magnitude to present a clear and compelling problem that warrants the dedication and concentration of existing community resources. The average population in a WSC is approximately 20,000 residents; CCDO will consider communities with a population between 7,500 and 50,000 (and will consider rural communities or Indian tribes with a population between 3,000 and 50,000). Draft application materials must be sent to the applicant’s local U.S. Attorney by August 19, 2008. All applications are due September 9, 2008. All Weed and Seed awards will last for 12 months and approximately $1 million will be made available to each community.The full announcement can be found at Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Qualified faith-based and other eligible applicants may apply for the Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) Membership Support Services for Nonprofit Missing Children’s Organizations grant. The goal of this program is to develop or sustain a national membership organization for nonprofit organizations serving missing children’s families and providing related services that identify and promulgate best practices in serving families of missing children. Its objectives are to develop and promulgate membership criteria for eligibility, and encourage information sharing and communication among current and potential member organizations. The successful applicant will: plan and execute an annual membership meeting and annual training conference for member organizations, provide structure and support for establishing membership criteria and processes, develop and implement a strategic plan for the membership organization, promote the identification of best practices among nonprofit missing children’s organizations, and facilitate communication among member organizations. The deadline for applications is June 6, 2008. OJJDP will award up to $225,000 to the successful applicant for each of five years of the five year period. The full announcement can be found at UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Qualified faith-based and other eligible applicants may apply for the Niger Girl’s Primary Education MCC grant. The United States Agency for International Development, West Africa Regional Mission (USAID/WA) is seeking applications from qualified organizations to implement a program to promote girls’ primary school education in the The Government of Niger (GON) wants to use MCC resources to apply the lessons learned with a pilot program, the Basic Education Support Program that built on existing projects in girls’ educationto improve significantly primary school completion rates for girls.A two-pronged approach is being considered: the construction of girl-friendly schools in up to 200 communities in the two regions of Tillaberi and Zinder; and, interventions aimed at improving the quality of education.The school sites will be identified following an open consultation process between the Ministry of Education, regional and sub-regional bodies and local communities. Activities to be implemented in support of the achievement of program objectives should include the following areas: conduct GON’s girls’ education communication strategy at local and national levels to increase the enrollment and completion rates of girls’ in primary school; assist up to 200 targeted communities with the design and implementation of their local action plans; develop capacity of education officials in teaching of reading subjects for girls and to provide support to monitoring, evaluation and reporting activities; provide gender-sensitive and gender equality training and materials to teachers and school officials, community leaders and associations in French and local languages; implement activities to motivate school-age girls and teachers to improve school performance; provide functional literacy training to Associations of Mother-Student Associations and community management boards; improve quality of teaching and performance of girls and boys in basic reading and writing at all levels of primary school; facilitate at least one public advocacy program with policy makers and parliamentarians regarding gender equality and the importance of girls’ education; design and promote ways to provide incentive packages to female teachers to accept jobs in rural areas; and build and equip up to 200 new classrooms and other support facilities according to the specific needs of each site. USAID/WA intends to provide approximately $18 million in funding to a single successful applicant for a three-year project period.The full announcement can be accessed at http://www07.grants.gov/search/announce.do;jsessionid=LyvLnsngqZKng5vlzh0fgh7L1n Qualified faith-based and other eligible applicants may apply for the Nutrition Rapid Response Capacity in Ethiopia grant. Under this announcement, USAID will consider applications for nutrition-focused rapid assessment and response mechanisms.Applications should contain both of these components with a single objective for nutrition. The proposed interventions should integrate both nutrition and assessment interventions into joint activities. Proposed activities should address a demonstrated emergency need of the beneficiary population.Given Ethiopian contact of chronic malnutrition, proposed interventions should outline triggers for emergency response and beneficiary selection. The closing date under this announcement is November 10, 2008. Up to $1 million will be awarded to a single successful applicant for a one year project period. The full announcement can be accessed at Qualified faith-based and other eligible applicants may submit concept papers for the Public-Private Alliances to Improve Women’s Cause of Morbidity and Mortality during Reproductive Years grant. USAID invites interested prospective partner organizations to form Global Development Alliances to carry out activities in support of USAID’s international development objectives. Successful proposals will bring at least a 1:1 resource leveraging to focus on priority development activities within USAID’s manageable interest.However, proposals with greater resource leverage ratios (generally 2:1 or more) are more competitive. Proposals which involve corporate funding partners will also be seen as more competitive. Each regional bureau has identified its programmatic funding priorities and are outlined in the announcement.While concept papers in non-priority areas may be submitted under this APS, it is unlikely that such proposals will be considered for funding. Applications are due September 30, 2008. Individual awards will range between $50,000 and $10,000,000. Please see the full program announcement for additional details available at
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