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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 State, 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 applicants may apply for a Street Outreach Program grant. The purpose of the program is to conduct outreach services designed to build relationships between grantee staff and street youth. These efforts will provide support services that will assist youth in moving and adjusting to safe and appropriate alternative living arrangements to become independent, self-sufficient, contributing members of society. SOPs must be designed to address the homelessness issue of street youth, build trusting relationships with street youth, and encourage them to leave the streets. Grantees must operate a program that will deliver outreach and education services to street youth, up to age 21, who have been subjected to, or are at risk of being subjected to sexual abuse, prostitution, or sexual exploitation where street youth congregate. Activities include but are not limited to: street-based outreach and education, access to emergency shelter, survival aid, individual assessments, treatment and counseling, prevention and education activities, information and referrals, crisis intervention, and follow-up support. Street youth must have guaranteed access to age appropriate emergency shelter for those youth willing to come in off the street. Street outreach staff must have access to the emergency shelter. Shelters can be provided through a referral network, but street outreach staff must have 24-hour access to the shelter in order to maintain interaction with youth while they are there. The deadline for applications under this announcement is July 17, 2008. Approximately $2 million will be available to make twenty to forty awards over a project period of three years. Individual awards will not exceed $200,000 within a twelve month budget period. The full announcement can be found at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Qualified faith-based and other applicants may apply for Characterizing Alveolar Capillary Dysplasia (ACD) in Well-Defined Populations to Increase Awareness among Health Care Providers grant. ACD is a developmental anomaly of the pulmonary vasculature and generally described as the failure of formation of the normal air-blood diffusion barrier in the newborn lung. Life expectancy for infants with ACD is short, and anecdotal evidence indicates ACD is often misdiagnosed. The purpose of this program is for the development and distribution of awareness materials to assist neonatologists and intensive care pediatricians in the proper diagnosis of ACD. Activities will focus on a plan to determine criteria to characterize and distinguish phenotypes and strategies to target appropriate audiences with awareness materials. These planning components will be used to guide the development and dissemination of ACD awareness materials. This announcement is only for non-research activities supported by CDC. If research is proposed, the application will not be reviewed. Awardee activities are described in the full announcement. A letter of intent should be received no later than June 30, 2008 and the deadline for applications is July 11, 2008. Approximately $200,000 will be awarded to a single successful applicant over a period of one year. The full announcement can be found at Qualified faith-based and other applicants may apply for Strengthening HIV Counseling and Testing Services in the United Republic of Tanzania under the President’s Emergency Plans for AIDS Relief grant. The successful applicant will expand implementation of provider-initiated testing and counseling (PITC) at a collaborating medical facility, establish a static voluntary counseling and testing (CT) site in a high demand area, and conduct targeted mobile or community testing as outlined in national policy guidelines. For PITC, clinical staff from the collaborating medical facility will receive the knowledge and skills required to support testing and counseling for clients attending outpatient departments, inpatient departments, STI clinics and TB clinics at a minimum. At the static facility, an emphasis should be placed on demand creation, enhancing the skills of counselors to conduct specialized services. The provision of mobile CT services should be guided by existing epidemiologic, behavioral and facility data to proactively reach the most at-risk and underserved populations. Strategies to achieve these goals include orienting providers and clients on the new PITC guidelines, training providers using the national PITC curriculum, creating a demand for static CT services, and coordinating with non-governmental organizations and agencies conducting outreach among high-risk groups.
The program also will ensure the following: technical assistance and mentorship for the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and the National AIDS Control Program in improving CT service delivery and adoption of new initiatives (e.g., lay counselors); support for a training/learning center that addresses core principles of CT; appropriate supportive supervision for all CT staff; organizational capacity to conduct CT-relevant public health evaluations to tailor services, as needed; strengthened delivery of couples and pediatric testing; a consistent supply chain for essential HIV-testing commodities working with a USG-funded partner; a systematic approach to monitor and evaluate CT services; and collaboration with the Ministry of Health to integrate CT measures into a health management information system.
The deadline for applications is July 7, 2008. A total of $2.5 million is available to fund a single successful applicant over a project period of five years. The approximate average award is estimated at $500,000. The full announcement can be found at Health Resources and Services Administration Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for either of the two grants under the Maternal and Child Health Research Program. The first, Extramural MCH Research Program, will support applied research relating to maternal and child health services, including services for children with special health care needs, which show promise of substantial contribution to advancement of the current knowledge pool, and when used in states and communities should result in health and health services improvements. Findings from the research supported by the program are expected to have potential for application in health care delivery programs for mothers and children. Research proposals should address critical MCH questions such as public health systems and infrastructure, health disparities, quality of care, and promoting the health of MCH populations, which also support the goals of the Health Resources and Services Administration. The second grant is the Secondary Data Analysis Studies Program. Funds will be used to support applied research relating to maternal and child health services that utilizes exclusively the analysis of existing secondary data. These projects should have the potential to improve health services and delivery of care for maternal and child health populations. Approximately $900,000 will be available to fund three grants with three-year project periods for Extramural MCH Research. Approximately $800,000 is available to fund up to eight grants with one-year project periods for Secondary Data Analysis Studies. Both grants have an application deadline of August 4, 2008. The request for applications is at National Institutes of Health Qualified faith-based and other applicants are encouraged to apply for the Continuation, Expansion and Merging of the Biliary Artesia Research Consortium (BARC) and the Cholestatic Liver Consortium (CLiC) to Form the Childhood Liver Disease Research and Education Network (ChiLDREN) grant. This Network will consist of up to fifteen clinical sites, four biological cores and a single data coordinating center and is intended to support research in pediatric liver diseases so as to facilitate the discovery of new diagnostic, etiologic and treatment options for children with liver diseases including those that undergo liver transplantation. In addition, the network is aimed at training the next generation of investigators in rare pediatric liver diseases and educating the scientific and public communities about these diseases. A letter of intent should be received no later than October 24, 2008 while applications under this announcement are due November 25, 2008. A total of $5 million will be awarded to fifteen clinical centers and one data coordinating center. The full announcement can be found at Qualified faith-based and other applicants may apply for any of three [R01, R03, and R21] research grants on the Economics of Treatment and Prevention Services for Drug & Alcohol Abuse. The R01 award mechanism will support NIH Research Project Grants, the R03 award mechanism is for NIH Small Grants and the R21 award mechanism is for NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grants. Grants under the three awards will focus on the economics of prevention and treatment services for drug and alcohol abuse. Such research projects might emphasize any of the following subjects: financing and purchasing of drug and alcohol treatment and prevention services; economic incentives used to improve the quality and economic efficiency of treatment and prevention services; alternative delivery systems and managed care; cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness, or cost-utility analyses; service costs, production, and economic efficiency; or research to develop or improve methods to be used in the economic study of drug and alcohol services. The deadline for applications under the R01 announcement is October 5, 2008 while the deadline for the R03 and R21 is October 16, 2008. Awards issued under all announcements are contingent upon the availability of funds and the submission of a sufficient number of meritorious applications. The R01 announcement can be found at Qualified faith-based and other applicants may apply for a grant under the Population Research Infrastructure Program. Funds will be used to foster and enhance the research capabilities of established population research centers that are highly productive and influential in the areas of research within the mission of the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch, Center for Population Research, at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of NIH. Applicants may request funds to support infrastructure development and/or research designed to: enhance the quality and quantity of population research conducted at an institution; and develop new research capabilities to advance population research through innovative approaches. Illustrative examples of population research topics can be found in the request for applications. A total of $1.8 million will be awarded to 1-5 grants. Letters of intent are due October 20, 2008 and applications are due November 19, 2008. The request for applications can be found at Qualified faith-based and other applicants may apply for the Transmission and Pathogenesis of HIV in Women grant. The purpose of this program is to support research that will enhance knowledge of transmission and pathogenesis of HIV infection in women through investigations of biologic mechanisms that impact HIV transmission, disease acquisition, progression, and manifestations in women. Women and girls compose approximately half of the 33 million people in the world who were living with HIV at the end of 2007. Applications are sought that address sex/gender-dependent differences in HIV-infected and/or at-risk women at every age and all stages of the reproductive cycle and in one or more of the following scientific areas: immunology, virology, epidemiology, pathogenesis of HIV disease, response to and complications of therapy, and genetics. Although certain research projects may require recruitment of specific populations of HIV-infected women that are not available through existing networks or cohorts, applicants are strongly encouraged to establish collaborations to access reposited human samples, data, and/or female study subjects enrolled in existing NIH-sponsored programs or cohorts. A letter of intent should be received no later than July 15, 2008 and the deadline for applications is August 15, 2008. Awards issued under this announcement are contingent upon the availability of funds and the submission of a sufficient number of meritorious applications. 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 found at Office of Public Health and Science Qualified faith-based and other applicants may apply for funding for a grant entitled In Community Spirit – Prevention of HIV/AIDS for Native/American Indian and Alaska Native Women Living in Rural and Frontier Indian Country Program grants. This initiative is intended to pilot a collaborative partnership approach between the grantee and local health or social service providers, e.g., community health centers, rural health centers, family planning clinics, Indian Health Service facilities, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), community based organizations, faith based organizations, public assistance programs, and local health departments. It is expected that this prevention education pilot program will provide accurate, culturally, and linguistically appropriate information to women at risk for or living with HIV/AIDS, and will integrate the strengths of traditions, values, culture, and spirituality of the indigenous communities of the target population. Funding will be directed at activities designed to improve the delivery of services to women disproportionately impacted by HIV/AIDS. Activities include: establish partnership(s) with local entities after reviewing city/county/state data on HIV incidence among women populations, exploring challenges and trends which enable risks and vulnerabilities of women living in rural and frontier Indian Country; develop and implement a gender specific model “education and prevention counseling” program to provide accurate prevention education to women living in rural and frontier Indian Country; develop prevention education training modules on critical HIV/AIDS primary and secondary prevention and education information; establish Memoranda of Understanding with tribal entities, local health care entities, social services, local small businesses, community and faith based organizations as partners to implement referral coordination for counseling, HIV testing, well woman screenings, and other social service needs; and develop a plan to continue the program activities and community linkages beyond OPHS funding. Applications are due July 15, 2008. Approximately $240,000 will be awarded to three grants with two-year project periods. The complete announcement can be found at Qualified faith-based and other applicants may apply for funding under two programs: (1) Prevention for HIV Infected Women Living in Puerto Rico and (2) HIV Prevention for Women Living in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The first grant seeks to prevent secondary transmission among women who practice high risk behaviors, to increase access to care for women living with HIV, to increase knowledge of protective behaviors of HIV infected women, and to reduce isolation of women living with HIV infection. It is expected that this program will demonstrate the effectiveness of collaborative partnership approach between a community based organization(s) and a local health or social service provider(s); coalitions and support groups for HIV infected women; and gender-specific and culturally appropriate approaches. The second grant, HIV Prevention for Women Living in the U.S. Virgin Islands, seeks projects that will provide accurate and comprehensive information on HIV/AIDS prevention and healthy behaviors to maintain both mental and physical good health for women living in the U. S. Virgin Islands. The primary intent is to increase knowledge on preventing HIV among women and to increase understanding of self protective behaviors through a series of facilitated discussions. It is expected that this program will demonstrate the effectiveness of collaborative partnership approach between a community based organization(s) and a local health or social service provider(s); and gender-specific and culturally appropriate approaches. Applications are due July 15, 2008. Approximately $400,000 will be awarded to two grants for projects in the U.S. Virgin Islands and two grants for projects in Puerto Rico. The complete announcement can be found at DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Qualified faith-based and other applicants may apply for the OJJDP FY 08 Juvenile Drug Court Training and Technical Assistance Program grant. The goal of the Program is to build the capacity of states, state courts, local courts, units of local government, and Indian tribal governments to develop, maintain, and enhance drug courts for substance-abusing juvenile offenders. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is seeking a training and technical assistance provider to deliver training and technical assistance to juvenile drug courts and family drug courts that are interested in learning about and implementing Brief Interventions and Referrals to Treatment (BIRT). The deadline for applications under this announcement is July 3, 2008. It is anticipated that an award of up to $600,000 will be made for a project period of up to 24 months. The full announcement can be found at DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of Global Change Qualified faith-based and other applicants are encouraged to apply for the China Solicitation Request for Assistance grant. As part of the U.S. Government’s participation in the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, the Department of State seeks proposals from U.S. and Chinese organizations interested in contributing to the Partnership’s goals through innovative public-private partnerships. These goals include reducing greenhouse gas emissions, advancing sustainable economic growth, reducing poverty, creating new investment opportunities, building local capacity, and improving economic and energy security. Additional program details may be found by viewing the full announcement. The deadline for applications under this announcement is July 11, 2008. The Department of State will fund projects up to 36 months in duration. Grants will be awarded in the range of $250,000 to $2,000,000. The full announcement can be found at UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Qualified faith-based and other applicants may apply for the Batey Community Development grant. Bateyes were originally work camps built by the Dominican government on or near sugar cane plantations to house their workers. Some built over seventy years ago, these work camps or bateyes principally housed seasonal migrant Haitian workers. The decline of sugar production in the eighties led to the privatization and closure of numerous government-owned sugar cane plantations and mills. Consequently, most of the workers, though originally hired for seasonal work, remained in the bateyes, and these work camps evolved into rural communities. Funds from this grant opportunity will be used by projects to provide development support in publicly owned bateyes. The purpose of this project is to increase the standard of living for residents in selected pilot batey communities. This will be achieved through integrated development activities focused in the sectors of health, basic education, shelter improvements and water and sanitation while affording environmental protection, and leveraging additional support in other sectors such as economic growth and agriculture. Applicants are invited to outline a comprehensive development program for pilot bateyes (justifying their selection of batey communities). The deadline for applications under this announcement is July 21, 2008. USAID intends to award a single grant not to exceed $5 million in total funding to be allocated over a two-year period. The full program announcement can be found at Qualified faith-based and other applicants may apply for Indigenous Based Biodiversity Conservation Program grant. The goal of this announcement is to implement a three-year program to conserve biodiversity in indigenous areas of the Brazilian Amazon. USAID is pleased to announce a new indigenous based conservation program to support the local governments and civil societies of the Brazilian Amazon in their efforts to conserve the Basin’s unique and globally important resources. The Brazilian Amazon is the world’s largest intact area of tropical forest and contains immeasurable environmental and cultural wealth. Conserving and sustainably developing this natural and social wealth represents both an immense opportunity and challenge. This program is designed to address the shared responsibility of the U.S. for promoting local stewardship of globally important biodiversity. The key focus of this announcement is the protection and management of conservation or special use areas and their respective buffer zones under the usufruct of indigenous peoples, their communities and organizations. USAID/Brazil will work in partnership with indigenous communities and their representative groups, non-governmental organizations, local governments, and public and private organizations to support their efforts to conserve the Amazon’s globally important biodiversity of indigenous areas. Through the provision of technical and financial assistance USAID will seek to build capacity for sustainable livelihoods, improving natural resource governance and developing conservation programs and policies in concert with the local, regional and national priorities and interests for indigenous conservation. USAID/Brazil wishes to foster the creation of forest based communities of practice with the commitment, capacity, and cooperation to be effective stewards of indigenous areas of the Brazilian Amazon containing globally important biological, cultural, and social diversity. The closing date for applications under this announcement is July 17, 2008. USAID intends to provide approximately $9 million in funding over a three year period. The full announcement can be found at Qualified faith-based and other applicants may also apply for the Program to Provide Technical Support in Strengthening Services for Disabled in Danang and Surrounding Areas grant. Although statistics vary tremendously based on the basis of definitions used, a recent Vietnamese General Statistics Office (GSO) survey showed that around 13.5% of the population of Vietnam, or about 11 million people, have disabilities. Through technical assistance and direct funding for NGO activities, USAID has been responsible for raising awareness at the national, provincial, community and family levels regarding the needs and abilities of children and adults with disabilities in Vietnam. USAID/Vietnam encourages creativity and innovative approaches in the design of programs proposed under this request. Applicants are free to submit concept papers that focus on one or more of the following results areas: improved capacity for rehabilitation services; education, social and employment services and; establishing a model center for disabilities. Successful applicants will respond to the different gender norms, inequalities and practical realities that affect women’s and men’s different behaviors and their ability for socioeconomic advancement and access to support services. The first initial review of concept papers will be June 26, 2008 and the final closing date will be December 4, 2008. The maximum funding available for this program for year one is approximately $1 million. The full announcement with additional information can be found at Qualified faith-based and other applicants may apply for Reproductive Health/Family Planning and Child Survival Services grant. The project builds upon over 20 years of USAID support to the Government of Uganda and the NGO/private sector in the area of family planning, maternal child health and child survival. The goal of this funding opportunity is to increase use of quality reproductive health/family planning and child survival services at the facility and community levels in selected districts. The deadline for applications under this announcement is July 31, 2008. Approximately $39 million will be awarded to a single successful applicant for a five-year project. The link to the full program announcement can be found at Qualified faith-based and other applicants may apply for the Somalia Education and Water Program grant. The purpose of this program is to provide basic education and water services while supporting government institutions and community groups. The integrated activity is expected to improve access to quality education, water and sanitation services. This activity will also furnish an Education advisor to the Transitional Federal Government. The proposed program will utilize an integrated approach to improve access to basic education and clean water throughout Somalia. The integrated approach will utilize communities and local governments as a focal point to improve education and water services. The program will focus on five inter-related activities: schools rehabilitated and constructed; water and sanitation facilities improved; improving teaching and learning; support school education committees; and strengthen Somali capacities to improve education, water and sanitation services. Further details on each of these activity areas can be found in the program announcement. The deadline for applications under this announcement is July 21, 2008. A total of $12 million will be awarded for one or more three-year projects. The full announcement can be found at Qualified faith-based and other applicants may also apply for US-China Clean Energy Partnership grant. The program will support public-private partnership activities that assist China in achieving its national energy efficiency goals and reduce its growing contributions to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, while at the same time addressing China’s local and regional air pollution and unsustainable energy consumption patterns.
In supporting this overarching goal, the program will pursue the following objectives: support a discrete set of activities that promote adoption of low-cost clean energy technology options that can demonstrate significant increases in end-use (demand-side) energy efficiency and reductions in energy consumption, ultimately measured in terms of specific GHG emissions reductions achieved (or near-term potential for such reductions) per dollar spent through the program; help China meet its goal of decreasing energy intensity by 20% by focusing on demand-side energy efficiency activities; utilize Global Development Alliance(s) to leverage a minimum 1:1 in matching resources for program implementation (although higher matches will be favorably considered) strengthen environmental governance capacity, including compliance and enforcement practices, monitoring and reporting systems, regulatory incentives, and/or voluntary programs; and provide an effective, China-based platform for replicating and sustaining program successes. Ideally, the applicant will utilize existing relationships with Chinese counterparts to ensure smooth program launch and implementation. The closing date for applications is July 17, 2008. Approximately $2 million will be awarded for one or more grants with three-year project periods. The full announcement can be found at http://www07.grants.gov/search/announce.do;jsessionid=LNJGWyv1CDKzvGdld18yCd
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