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Digest of Federal Grants with Faith-Based and Community Organization Eligibility
The grant opportunities this week for community and faith-based organizations are through programs administered by the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Health and Human Services, Justice, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for the Rural Community Development Initiative (RCDI). These grants will be made to qualified intermediary organizations that will provide financial and technical assistance to recipients to develop their capacity and ability to undertake projects related to housing, community facilities, or community and economic development. Funds may be used to: provide technical assistance to develop recipients' capacity and ability to undertake projects related to housing, community facilities, or community and economic development; develop the capacity of recipients to conduct community development programs; develop the capacity of recipients to conduct development initiatives; develop the capacity of recipients to increase their leveraging ability and access to alternative funding sources by providing training and staffing; develop the capacity of recipients to provide the technical assistance component for essential community facilities projects; assist recipients in completing pre-development requirements for housing, community facilities, or community and economic development projects by providing resources for professional services; improve recipient's organizational capacity by providing training and resource material on developing strategic plans, board operations, management, financial systems, and information technology; purchase computers, software, and printers at the recipient level when directly related to the technical assistance program being undertaken by the intermediary; or provide funds to recipients for training-related travel costs and training expenses related to RCDI. A total of $6,286,500 is available to fund this program. Applicants must provide matching funds in an amount at least equal to the Federal grant. Applications are due September 6, 2007. The program announcement is at DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Qualified faith-based and other organizations that are interested in applying for the Compassion Capital Fund (CCF) Communities Empowering Youth (CEY) Program are invited to participate in a conference call on June 14, 2007 at 1 pm Eastern Standard Time. Topics to be discussed on this conference call will include: the types of projects and activities that are allowable under the program; how to submit an application; what makes a strong proposal; and how grantees will be selected. To register for the call, please go to Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for Community Services Block Grant Training and Technical Assistance Program: Special State Technical Assistance. 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. A total of $360,000 is available to find this program. Applications are due July 23, 2007. The program announcement is at Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for Discretionary Funds for Projects to Establish Individual Development Account (IDA) Programs for Refugees. The Refugee IDA Program represents an anti-poverty strategy built on asset accumulation for low-income refugee individuals and families with the goal of promoting refugee economic independence. In particular, the objectives of this program are to: encourage regular saving habits among refugees; promote their participation in the financial institutions of this country; promote refugee acquisition of assets to build individual, family, and community resources; increase refugee knowledge of financial and monetary topics; assist refugees in advancing their education; increase home ownership among refugees; and assist refugees in gaining access to capital. These new projects will accomplish these objectives by establishing programs that combine the provision of matched savings accounts with financial training and counseling. A total of $2,818,799 is available to fund between ten and fifteen projects over the first year. Applications are due July 9, 2007. The program announcement is at http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2007-ACF-ORR-ZI-0037.html. Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for Head Start Healthy Marriage Initiative Project Grants. These grants will provide Head Start and Early Head Start grantees with funding to offer marriage education services to their current service population, as well as Head Start eligible families in their service areas. Grants will extend access to voluntary marriage education services to low-income individuals who would not otherwise have these services available. It will provide an opportunity for Head Start and Early Head Start grantees to partner with other organizations in their communities to offer a full range of practical skill-building sessions on communication, joint decision making, parenting, managing of family budgets, conflict resolution, and other elements to enhance family stabilization. The target audience for services is fragile families, including low-income families, single parents, teenage parents, unwed and/or new or expectant parents. Services may be offered to those contemplating marriage and to couples wishing to strengthen their relationships. In addition, services that focus on the teaching of communication skills, problem solving, and conflict resolution skills may be offered to adolescent siblings of Head Start eligible children in the context of healthy dating and peer relationships with application to marriage later in life. Up to $8 million is available to fund up to 40 projects. Letters of intent are due June 19, 2007. Applications are due July 19, 2007. Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for Projects of National Significance: Youth Information, Training and A total of $1.5 million is available to fund this program. Letters of intent are due June 22, 2007. Applications are due July 23, 2007. The program announcement is at http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2007-ACF-ADD-DN-0018.html. Administration on Aging Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for Model Approaches to Statewide Legal Assistance Systems. This program will provide support in developing approaches that will maximize the use of federal, state, and other funds by incorporating the utilization of low-cost legal services mechanisms into the state legal services planning and development process. Such coordinated models can insure maximum impact from limited resources by directing low-cost services such as helplines to those elders who are capable of putting the advice and information to use to protect their rights and independence; directing Title III-B resources to those who are the most needy, who require special outreach, who need in-depth assistance/representation and who have very limited capacity to advocate on their own behalf; and developing and promoting other resources such as pro-bono or reduced-fee wills panels in ways that supplement and reduce demands on the Older Americans Act (OAA) resources. Each project will receive up to $100,000 annually over a three year period. Applications are due July 13, 2007. The program announcement is at http://www.aoa.gov/doingbus/fundopp/fundopp.asp. Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply to become a National Consumer Protection Technical Resource Center. The center will provide for training, technical assistance, and promotional events in support of the SMP (formerly Senior Medicare Patrol) program. SMP projects train and mobilize senior volunteers to provide consumer education to beneficiaries in their communities. Projects target health care fraud control education and outreach activities to vulnerable beneficiaries, their families, caregivers and other consumers. The goal of the SMP program is to empower individuals to prevent, identify, and report potential Medicare and Medicaid fraud, to both protect Medicare and Medicaid dollars and protect consumers from the loss of personal income and health status due to fraud, error or abuse. A total of $600,000 is available annually to fund one project for up to three years. Letters of intent are due June 29, 2007. Applications are due July 20, 2007. The program announcement is at Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for Pension Counseling and Information Projects. The counseling projects provide individuals who reside, have worked in, or have some other connection to the regional service area with the following services: drafting administrative pension claims and appeals, and support through administrative proceedings; identifying and pursuing pension benefits from sponsors that have discontinued their plan, changed names, merged with another company or gone out of business; answering basic questions about rights and remedies under all public and private pension systems throughout the service region; and operating a region-wide outreach program to ensure public awareness of project services, emphasizing outreach to those who need pension counseling services the most. Projects receive legal training, case consultation and operational coordination and support from the national technical project. A total of $787,500 is available annually to fund up to five projects. Applications are due July 20, 2007. The program announcement is at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply to conduct an Evaluation of the Use of Rapid Testing For Influenza in Outpatient Medical Settings. The purpose of this project is to evaluate how rapid tests for influenza are being implemented and used in clinical practice in outpatient medical settings such as community clinics, solo and group practice physician offices, and hospital emergency rooms across the A total of $600,000 is available to fund this program. Applications are due August 6, 2007. The program announcement is at Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings. The NIOSH recognizes the value of supporting high quality scientific meetings that are relevant to its scientific mission and to the public health. A scientific meeting is defined as a gathering, symposium, seminar, conference, workshop or any other organized, formal meeting where persons assemble to coordinate, exchange, and disseminate information or to explore or clarify a defined subject, problem, or area of knowledge. Award amounts are contingent on the availability of funds. Letters of intent are due July 1, 2007. Applications are due August 15, 2007. The program announcement is at Health Resources and Services Administration Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for the Targeted State Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Oral Health Service Systems Grant Program. The purpose of this program is to support the state’s capacity to expand preventive and restorative oral health service programs for Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) eligible children, and other underserved children and their families. State strategies specifically will address improvement within one or more of the following three program areas: increasing the number of children receiving age one dental visits; expanding services to children with special health care needs; and, increasing the number of children completing restorative treatment needs identified through sealant programs. Up to $3.2 million is available to fund up to 20 projects. Applications are due July 6, 2007. The program announcement is at National Institutes of Health Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for two types of projects to conduct Behavioral and Social Science Research on Understanding and Reducing Health Disparities (R01 and R21). This program will encourage behavioral and social science research on the causes and solutions to health and disabilities disparities in the U. S. population. Health disparities between, on the one hand, racial/ethnic populations, lower socioeconomic classes, and rural residents and, on the other hand, the overall U.S. population are major public health concerns. Emphasis is placed on research in and among three broad areas of action: public policy, health care, and disease/disability prevention. Particular attention is given to reducing “health gaps” among groups. Proposals that utilize an interdisciplinary approach, investigate multiple levels of analysis, incorporate a life-course perspective, and/or employ innovative methods such as system science or community-based participatory research are particularly encouraged. Between 20 and 30 projects will be funded under this program. R01 award amounts are contingent on the availability of funds. R21 projects may receive up to $275,000 over a two year period. Letters of intent for both types of awards are due August 20, 2007. Applications are due September 19, 2007. The R01 program announcement is at Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for two types of grants on Omics and Variable Responses to CAM: Secondary Analysis of CAM Clinical Trials (R01 and R21). This initiative will be used to stimulate omics analysis by CAM investigators. Multiple National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) and other NIH CAM clinical studies have appropriately banked patient samples from several sources including a variety of tissues. Therefore, this initiative will encourage use of these already acquired samples from well-designed clinical studies for identification of genomic, proteomic and metabolomic and other omic variants that may be markers or classifiers for the level of response to CAM interventions. Trials need not exhibit significant differences between arms. This analysis may be applied to studies with negative results as a function of high patient variability in the treatment arm, which may represent responder/nonresponder phenotypes. Since this work would use samples already collected, the participants may not be consented for genetic studies and would have to be reconsented and samples de-identified. R01 award amounts are contingent on the availability of funds. R21 projects may receive up to $275,000 over a two year period. Applications for both types of grants are due August 14, 2007.
Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply to conduct Research on Interventions that Promote Research Careers. The purpose of this program is to support research that will test assumptions regarding existing or potential interventions that are intended to increase the preparedness for careers in biomedical and behavioral research, with a particular interest in those interventions specifically designed to increase the number of underrepresented minority students entering careers in biomedical and behavioral research. The proposed research need not be restricted to underrepresented minority students. Comparative research which analyses the experience of all ethnicities in order to place that of underrepresented students in context and to learn whether and how interventions should be tailored to make more underrepresented students successful in biomedical careers may well be particularly illuminating and is, therefore, encouraged. A total of $2.4 million is available to fund between six and eight projects. Letters of intent are due September 24, 2007. Applications are due October 22, 2007. The program announcement is at Office of Minority Health Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for the Community Partnerships to Eliminate Health Disparities Demonstration Grant Program. The Community Partnerships Program is designed to support activities that address, and will subsequently eliminate, racial and ethnic health disparities through community-level activities that promote health, reduce risks, and increase access to and utilization of preventive health care and treatment services. In Fiscal Year 2007 the Community Partnerships Program will support community-based programs that implement activities through collaborative arrangements among minority serving community-based organizations, health care facilities, and other community entities. This program is intended to ascertain the effectiveness of collaborative community-based interventions, implemented at the grassroots level, on reducing health disparities among racial and ethnic minority populations, and demonstrate the effectiveness of the collaborative partnership approach in: developing, implementing and conducting demonstration projects in high-risk minority communities which coordinate integrated community-based educational screening and outreach services, and include linkages for access, and treatment to minorities in high-risk, low-income communities; reducing social cultural and linguistic barriers to health care; and implementing and/or adapting existing promising practices/model programs for targeted minority communities. A total of $5,850,000 is available to fund between 23 and 29 projects. Applications are due July 11, 2007. The program announcement is at Office of Population Affairs Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for Family Planning Services Grants. This program seeks applications from public and nonprofit private entities to establish and operate voluntary family planning services projects, which shall provide family planning services to all persons desiring such services. Family planning services include clinical family planning and related preventive health services; information, education, and counseling related to family planning; and referral services. The 2008 program priorities are as follows: assuring ongoing high quality family planning and related preventive health services that will improve the overall health of individuals, with priority for services to individuals from low-income families; assuring access to a broad range of acceptable and effective family planning methods and related preventive health services that include natural family planning methods, infertility services, and services for adolescents; highly effective contraceptive methods; breast and cervical cancer screening and prevention services that correspond with nationally recognized standards of care; STD and HIV prevention education, counseling, testing, and referral; adolescent abstinence counseling; and other preventive health services; assuring compliance with state laws requiring notification or the reporting of child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape, or incest; encouraging participation of families, parents, and/or legal guardians in the decision of minors to seek family planning services; and providing counseling to minors on how to resist attempts to coerce minors into engaging in sexual activities; and addressing the comprehensive family planning and other health needs of individuals, families, and communities through outreach to hard-to-reach and/or vulnerable populations, and partnering with other community-based health and social service providers that provide needed services. A total of $81.1 million is available to fund this program. Application deadline vary by geographical area, so interested applicants are referred to the program announcement, which is at DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for the Tribal Courts and Judges Assistance Program: Technical Assistance and Training Coordination and Implementation. Activities will include: managing, maintaining, and participating in the Tribal Courts Assistance Program (TCAP) Advisory Board, which meets two to three times per year; sustaining a cadre of appropriate providers to conduct a wide array of technical assistance and training activities; working closely with FY 2007 TCAP award recipients and assisting them and tribal judges with court and information system assessments, providing input on developing more efficient court policies and procedures, and helping build capacity to compete for and better manage tribal justice system grants; planning and conducting up to 20 training events covering core subject areas involving entry-, medium-, and advanced-level court-related courses; providing speakers and conducting trainings at selected conferences and organizational meetings; planning and conducting “The National Restorative Justice Conference” and the follow-up to the “Walking on Common Ground Summit;” providing scholarships for up to 100 tribal representatives (including non-grantees) who are interested in attending BJA/TCAP trainings; developing and delivering up to three training/briefing sessions on an ad hoc, BJA-assigned basis; conducting distance-learning technical assistance, as appropriate, to complement classroom training; and developing and disseminating written materials and publications that support and complement the training sessions. One project will be awarded $1.42 million over an 18 month period. Applications are due June 28, 2007. The program announcement is at National Institute of Justice Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply to become Criminal Justice Technology Centers of Excellence. NIJ seeks qualified applicants to establish and operate five criminal justice Technology Centers of Excellence in the areas of communications technologies; forensic technologies; information and geospatial technologies; sensors, surveillance, and biometric technologies; and weapons and protective systems technologies. As part of the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center System, these Centers of Excellence will--with respect to their specific technology areas--support the NIJ research, development, testing, and evaluation process by providing scientific and technical support to NIJ’s research and development efforts; supporting the demonstration, transfer, and adoption of appropriate technology into practice by law enforcement and corrections agencies, courts, and public crime laboratories; assisting in the development and dissemination of technology guidelines and standards; and providing technology assistance, information, and support to law enforcement and other appropriate criminal justice agencies. A total of $20 million is available to fund five Centers. Applications are due July 3, 2007. The program announcement is at Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for the Gang Prevention Coordination Assistance Program. The purpose of this program is to support and enhance the coordination of existing community-based gang prevention and intervention programs and strategies that are closely aligned with local law enforcement efforts. Community-based gang prevention and intervention often involve multiple organizations and programs working in partnership to deliver complimentary services to the same or similar target populations. Effective coordination can help identify existing programs and resources and maximize their impact through information sharing, mutual referrals, joint case management, and collective action. The goal of this program is to reduce gang activity in targeted communities through improved coordination of existing resources and activities that support multiple complimentary anti-gang strategies. This will be done by providing resources to strengthen the coordination function in existing multi-strategy anti-gang initiatives with anticipated outcomes of improved identification, use, and integration of existing local, state, and federal programs and resources. Up to 12 awards of up to $200,000 each will be made under this program. Applications are due June 22, 2007. The program announcement is at U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for the Behavior Change and Social Marketing (BCSM) Program in Rwanda. The primary objectives of this program are to: develop and manage a cost-effective marketing, sales and distribution network that improves access among key populations to branded products related to HIV/AIDS, malaria, reproductive health and child survival; develop and implement health communication activities that enhance behavior and promote health seeking behaviors among Rwandans on issues related to HIV/AIDS, malaria, reproductive health and child survival; develop and enhance services and referrals, particularly mobile HIV counseling and testing, to most at risk populations; cultivate the management and technical capacity of Rwandan institution(s) to manage and implement similar programs in the future through a transfer of technical skills and capacity building; and to increase the availability of data and evidence available to inform programming around key issues in HIV/AIDS, malaria, reproductive health and child survival. A total of $4 million is available to fund this program over the next five years. Applications are due July 19, 2007. The program announcement is at http://apply.grants.gov/apply/UpdateOffer?id=8961. Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply forthe Strengthen Rule of Law Program in Nepal. The purpose of the Strengthen Rule of LawProgram is to build the capacity of institutions in the justice sector, topromote alternative dispute resolution and to improve access to justice. These three program elements defined asobjectives in this program description are key components to a successfultransition to peace and a consolidation of democracy and good governance in Nepal.Those objectives are: to improveadministration of justice in the courts by improving the capacity of courtstaff, prosecutors and judges who embrace modern court management reforms anddeliver timely justice to the public to promote a transparent and independentjudiciary; to promote alternative dispute resolution through court-referredmediation by consolidating and replicating efforts by the courts and theprivate sector; and to provide increased access to justice for women, poor,disenfranchised and children by expanding the public defense system andinstitutionalizing legal aid. A total of $1,291,000 is available to fund this program overthe next two years.Applications are dueJuly 16, 2007. The program announcementis at http://apply.grants.gov/apply/UpdateOffer?id=8934. |
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