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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. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of 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 applicants may apply for two types of grants as part of the Community Services Block Grant Training and Technical Assistance Program: Capacity Building and Train-the-Trainers. The Capacity Building program grant will support activities that build capacity within the Community Services Network, in support of National Community Action Goal "5" (Agencies Increase their Capacity to Achieve Results). Projects should provide training and technical assistance to increase the capacity of local Community Action Agencies (CAAs) to achieve, measure their results and carry out the mandates of the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) Act. In partnership with State CSBG offices, funded projects should be focused on specific needs identified by agencies in their states and expected to assist with training and technical assistance in the areas of fiscal accountability, improving local board governance, modernizing information technology, and strengthening the relationships within the Community Services Network. The Office of Community Services (OCS) intends to support the continuation of the train-the-trainers approach to helping states and local eligible entities sustain and advance their implementation of Results Oriented Management Accountability (ROMA), which provides a framework for continuous growth and improvement among more than 1100 local community action agencies, and a basis for state leadership and assistance towards those ends. The successful applicant will demonstrate in their application a strong and effective history of teaching community action officials how to train others in ROMA concepts and techniques. Applicants must describe how they will provide follow-up assistance to new trainers, including consultation and sharing of new and updated information on training techniques and content. Additional activities include: creation and maintenance of a national trainer network; development and implementation of one or more OCS-sponsored ROMA conferences and training sessions for the Community Services Network; and development of a second curriculum supporting the implementation of ROMA in the Community Action network. Applications are due for both on July 7, 2008. A total of $300,000 will be awarded to a single applicant for the Train-the-Trainers program for a three-year project period. The full announcement can be found at
Qualified faith-based and other applicants may apply for any of the three priority funding opportunities under the FY2008 Discretionary Grants for the Family Violence Prevention and Services Program. The first priority area is for specialized outreach demonstration projects for services to underserved and diverse populations. Grantees will: identify underserved or diverse community to be targeted, the needs to be addressed in the targeted community, and the activities and assistance which will address those needs; provide technical assistance, training and consultation to be provided to improve the cultural relevancy of domestic violence service delivery, resource utilization, and promising techniques related to program implementation, service delivery, and evaluation within a specified population; utilize consultants, advisors and others with expertise relevant to or reflective of the targeted underserved community; present to other researchers and practitioners in the domestic violence field technical approaches and specific strategies for assistance that are national in scope, culturally specific in emphasis, and are recommendations of expert panels or working groups; coordinate their activities with other national advocacy and domestic violence organizations, national technical assistance resource centers, and clearinghouses; provide a detailed plan for project implementation; provide a work plan and evaluation schedule; and describe the organizational and administrative structure and the management plan within which the project will operate. A total of $1.7 million will be awarded for four grants. The second priority area, entitled Open Doors to Safety: Capacity-Building Grants for Domestic Violence Programs, is for applicants (including faith-based ones) that are recipients of the Family Violence Prevention and Services Grants to State Domestic Violence Coalitions. Eligible activities include: for the targeted population(s) with special needs, conducting analyses to identify needs and barriers to service, and designing program improvement strategies; community dialogues to identify and discuss populations of domestic violence victims who have complex needs, their barriers to access, outreach strategies, and responsive services and activities; planning and designing program changes, training, and service revisions or expansions to improve support for victims with complex needs; developing targeted program policies, protocols, or standards; service expansion, partnerships with community-based and faith-based organizations serving target populations not reached by the domestic violence organization; and/or, augmenting current domestic violence program services through collaboration with relevant organizations in order to better assist persons with complex needs. A total of $1 million will be awarded for five grants. The third priority area will support one project to provide technical support for recipients of the Open Doors to Safety: Capacity-Building Grants for Domestic Violence Programs. The successful applicant will identify and promote best practices for serving victim populations with a variety of complex needs and will convene workgroups to develop new program models; identify cross-cutting challenges and training requirements relative to victims with complex needs; maximize exchanges of resources, materials and talent; coordinate training, conference calls and peer support; consult with each Capacity-Building Grant recipient; assist with problem solving and program development; conduct population-specific training and offer individual and group technical assistance, local meetings and on-site consultations, and facilitate the annual meeting for grantee Coalitions. One grant of $200,000 will be awarded. Letters of intent are due June 30, 2008 and applications are due July 14, 2008. The grant announcement can be found at
Qualified faith-based and other applicants may apply for the Supporting Evidence-Based Home Visitation Programs to Prevent Child Maltreatment grant. The Administration for Children and Families announces the availability of support through competitive grants to eligible entities to support the infrastructure needed for the widespread adoption, implementation, and continuation of evidence-based home visitation programs. Grant funds will be used for efforts to expand and enhance home visitation programs based on proven effective models. This grant program provides an opportunity to develop, build upon and/or enhance the existing infrastructure to support high quality evidence-based home visitation programs. With the increased emphasis on identifying evidence-based programs and practices, equal attention also must be placed on mechanisms and support needed for the successful dissemination of research-based programs, and their adoption and implementation in direct practice. While learning more about the factors that contribute to successful implementation of evidence-based practices, these grants also will simultaneously provide States and Tribes with opportunities to begin planning concrete quality improvement strategies. Finally, this grant program will contribute to the knowledge base regarding best practices in the adoption, implementation, and sustaining of evidence-based home visitation programs and practices. The deadline for applications will be July 21, 2008. $8.5 million has been made available for up to 21 grants. Individual awards will range from $100,000 to $500,000. The project period will be five years. The full announcement can be found at
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Qualified faith-based and other applicants may apply for the Program Implementation and Capacity Building Support for a Four Component Prevention Program in the Republic of Zambia under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief grant. The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is seeking a partner with experience working in the Republic of Zambia implementing age-appropriate local-language behavior change communication programs that promote and support behavior change through radio programs and related community based reinforcement activities. The successful applicant should have additional experience in the implementation of programs that are able to reinforce and track the impact of the program provided in the radio programming and community reinforcement programs. The program should have four distinct components: a Radio Serial Drama (RSD) that provides listeners with authentic and realistic examples of people attempting to change risky behaviors including having multiple and concurrent sexual partnerships that may lead to HIV infection; community oriented reinforcement activities engaging wide community participation; program monitoring and evaluation of project outcomes to determine if and where behavior change is taking place; and the Families Matter (FM) aspect designed to equip parents with tools to help overcome barriers to parent-child discussion about sexuality and sex risk factors. The successful applicant will implement a comprehensive prevention program addressing abstinence, being faithful, other prevention, and use of condoms in the Western and Southern Provinces of Zambia. The program will employ the Modeling and Reinforcement approach to explore and address factors that perpetuate HIV transmission in the reproductive age groups (15-24 and 25+), promote the “Abstinence and Be faithful” approach through advocating delay in sexual debut, fidelity, address cultural factors particular to Zambia that continue to perpetuate HIV transmission among married and single people, promote circumcision for males to reduce their risk for contracting HIV, increase awareness of personal risk for becoming infected with HIV, including alcohol abuse, and promote safer sex through the use of condoms. The deadline for this announcement is June 23, 2008. $7 million has been made available to fund one award over a period of five years. The approximate annual award will be $1.2 million. The full announcement can be found at
Qualified faith-based and other applicants may apply for the a grant entitled PACT - Providing AIDS Care and Treatment in the Democratic Republic of Congo under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. The purpose of this announcement is to improve services and client health outcomes by strengthening the service capacity of selected sites in the Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), health facilities network that provides family based HIV prevention, care and treatment. In addition, this award will support public health evaluations designed to gather quality data to make evidenced-based program and policy decisions. The applicant will focus on the following activities: improving comprehensive prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) services; increasing use of counseling and testing services given to partners of pregnant women, newborns of HIV+ women, TB patients, severely ill or chronically ill children and first line family members through multiple methods including community-based educational efforts; increasing use of palliative care services for HIV+ individuals including women who recently delivered in PMTCT maternity facilities, their newborns and first line family members; increasing use of HIV/TB co-infection services; increasing use of antiretroviral therapy (ART) treatment; improving the referral system for HIV+ individuals; improve the capacity of health facilities staff to adequately respond to increases in HIV services uptake; improving recordkeeping of HIV services delivered; conduct public health evaluations that identify access barriers or inefficiencies in delivering comprehensive continuum of HIV services; facilitate information sharing and exchange on HIV medical services and management of these services; and, establish an exit strategy to assure continuation of services after the end of this funding opportunity final budget cycle. An award of $1.8 million will be awarded to a single successful applicant for a five-year project. Applications are due June 23, 2008. The program announcement is at
Qualified faith-based and other applicants may also apply for the Provision of Clinical Care and Anti-Retroviral Treatment Training, Capacity Building, Mentorship and Technical Assistance to Emergency Plan Partners in Viet Nam under President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief grant. The purpose of this announcement is to follow on the work done by the Harvard Medical School through the Viet Nam/CDC/Harvard Medical School AIDS Partnership (VCHAP) to provide training, capacity building, mentorship and technical assistance for HHS/CDC, the Viet Nam Ministry of Health, and Emergency Plan partners on HIV/AIDS care and treatment and related services such as palliative care services, including pain and end of life management, and drug substitution therapy. Specifically, the recipient will provide in-service training in adult and pediatric HIV/AIDS care and treatment for doctors and nurses, including training on care and treatment in the drug-addicted patient. Applicants should describe strategies that will be undertaken to work with HHS/CDC, other Emergency Plan agencies, the Vietnamese Ministry of Health, the Viet Nam Administration for HIV/AIDS Control, and other international partners to develop a coordinated training plan. Approximately $10 million is available under this program to fund one award. The average annual award will not exceed $2 million. The project period for awards under this program is up five years. The full announcement can be found at
Health Resources and Services Administration Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for any of the three priority funding areas of the Community-based Doula Program. Doulas are trained and experienced women who provide continuous physical, emotional, and informational support to a woman before, during, and immediately following childbirth. Under the first two priority areas, urban and rural community-based doula services, the successful applicants will identify and train indigenous community workers to mentor pregnant women during the months of pregnancy, birth and at least twelve weeks post-partum, (optimally one year post-partum). In addition, under the third priority area, an award will be made to an organization with expertise in replicating community-based doula programs, to offer outreach, training, technical assistance and evaluation services to doula grantees in order to maximize project effectiveness and care quality across all projects. Up to three grants of $200,000 each will be awarded for priority 1 awards, up to three grants of $200,000 each will be awarded for priority 2 awards, and one award of $295,583 will support priority 3. Applications are due July 1, 2008. The request for applications can be found at
Qualified faith-based and other applicants may apply for the State Public Health Coordinating Center for Autism grant. The purpose of the Combating Autism Act Initiative (CAAI) State Public Health Coordinating Center is to improve the health of infants, children, and adolescents who have, or are at risk for developing, autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and other developmental disabilities (DD). The goal of the CAAI projects is to enable all children to reach their full potential by developing a system of services that includes screening children early for possible ASD and other DD; conducting early, interdisciplinary, evaluations to confirm or rule out ADS and other DD; and, if a diagnosis is confirmed, providing evidence-based, early interventions. In order for State Autism Demonstration grantees to effectively achieve CAAI goals, the State Public Health Coordinating Center plays a crucial role in completing an environmental scan, to include needs/gaps, of State Title V agencies and partners activities related to ASD and other DD; establishing a resource center that involves an ongoing effort to collect and compile information on State public health activities related to ASD and other DD and serves as an informational resource to States, consumers, and other interested entities; developing and disseminating, through a vehicle that allows for ongoing interchange, a public health policy framework for States for addressing ASD and other DD; providing technical assistance to State Autism Demonstration grantees and other public health agencies, including State Title V programs, to enhance services and supports to children, youth, and families; and building and sustaining partnerships with CAAI partners and service systems already serving children with ASD and other DD. The deadline for applications is July 3, 2008. An award of $250,000 will be given to a single successful applicant over a three-year project. The full announcement can be found here
National Institutes of Health Qualified faith-based and other applicants may apply for the NHLBI Progenitor Cell Biology Consortium Planning Awards grant. This funding opportunity announcement issued by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of NIH constitutes the first step in a three-step application process for the NHLBI Progenitor Cell Biology Consortium. The goal of the Consortium is to identify and characterize progenitor cell lineages, to direct the differentiation of stem and progenitor cells to desired cell fates, and to develop new strategies to address the unique challenges presented by the transplantation of these cells. Applicants will submit short white paper applications outlining in broad terms the applicant’s vision for participation in the Consortium. Applications should contain multidisciplinary proposals that bring together two or more synergistic projects at a single institution. Awardees will be required to attend a meeting in Bethesda where they will be given the opportunity to interact with other awardees, to explore potential synergies, and to develop teams. Following this meeting, these teams will be invited to apply for funding to participate in the Consortium. Applications are due by August 15, 2008. A total of $500,000 will be awarded for 25 grants. The full announcement can be found at
Qualified faith-based and other applicants may apply for any of the three types of Secondary Analysis of Existing Alcohol Epidemiology Data grants. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) will support projects that propose to conduct secondary analysis of existing data sets to enhance the understanding of the patterns of alcohol consumption and the epidemiology of alcohol-related problems, as well as the risk and protective factors associated with them. R01 applicants are for NIH Research Project grants, R21 applications are for NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research grants, and R03 are for NIH Small grants. Research objectives of this program announcement include, but are not limited to: studying patterns of alcohol consumption and the distribution of alcohol-related problems in the population as a whole and in specific sub-populations; studying risk and protective factors for alcohol-related problems in the population as a whole and in specific subpopulations; elucidating disparities among racial/ethnic groups with respect to alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems; and understanding the natural history, course, and short- and long-term outcomes of alcohol consumption. Data used in secondary analyses may be obtained from current or past investigator-initiated research activities or from other public or private sources. Research that employs analytic techniques which demonstrate or promote methodological advances in alcohol-related epidemiologic research is also of interest. The deadline for the R01 announcement is October 5, 2008 while both the R03 and R21 will be due on October 16, 2008. All funding is subject to availability. The full announcement for the R01 can be found at
Office of Public Health and Science Qualified faith-based and other organizations may apply for the Intergenerational Approaches to HIV/AIDS Prevention Education with Women across the Lifespan Pilot Program grant. The program goals are to: develop a cross-generational HIV/AIDS prevention education program to establish effective and/or increase communication about sexual health between African American, Native American/American Indian, Hispanic/Latino, and Asian/Pacific Islander women at risk for or living with HIV/AIDS with other female family and/or kinship network members 12+ years old; provide opportunities for African American, Native American/American Indian, Hispanic/Latino, and Asian/Pacific Islander women and other female members of the family 12+ years old to know their serostatus; and address the age-, gender-, cultural-, spiritual-, and language-specific needs of African American, Native American/American Indian, Hispanic/Latino, and Asian/Pacific Islander women and other female members of the family 12+ years old regarding their sexual health issues, particularly HIV/AIDS prevention so they may decrease their risks for disease. A total of $1.2 million will be awarded to four grants. Applications are due June 30, 2008. The request for applications can be found at
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Bureau of Justice Assistance Qualified faith-based and other applicants may apply for the Cyber Crime and Training and Technical Assistance Program grant. The program serves communities by providing training, technical assistance, and related support that leverages cooperative efforts between electronic and cyber crime training and technical assistance service providers. Funds can be used for expansion or enhancement of training and technical assistance programs that have national scope. This may include programs providing investigative support to local law enforcement agencies. The FY 2008 program will focus on funding national training and technical assistance efforts to: provide training curricula specializing in high-tech crime to include intelligence, cyber, and computer forensics; provide innovative delivery methodologies of curricula to include e-training, roll call training, academy training of both new recruits and experienced officers, prosecutors, and other justice system employees; provide train-the-trainer classes to expand the ability of more individuals to receive training without the cost of extensive travel; provide support to fusion centers and analysts in both the areas of training and support materials; develop and distribute educational materials for public safety at all levels to include administrators, investigators, and line officers; provide technical assistance to public safety agencies in the area of investigation, training, intelligence, and computer forensics; and identify new crime trends in the area of high-tech crime and develop methodologies for addressing needs of the field through training, education, and use of technology. Funded programs must demonstrate effective collaboration and coordination between other similarly funded projects and other electronic and cyber crime initiatives throughout the nation. If the project does not currently have partnership structures and practices in place, the application must clearly state how this will be accomplished so value from each program contributes toward a national electronic and cyber crime service delivery strategy. The deadline for this announcement is June 23, 2008. Approximately $4.86 million is available under this program. BJA may make as few as one or as many as three awards. The project period for awards under this program is up to 12 months. The full announcement can be found at
Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Qualified faith-based and other applicants may apply for the Latino Youth Mentoring Program grant to establish a school-based peer mentoring program (a mentoring club) for high school youth. Mentors are adolescents already acclimated to high school and the surrounding community, who serve as peer mentors to new students and incoming ninth graders. The goals of the program are to: prevent gang participation and violence by at-risk Latino youth by offering them an alternative that fulfills their developmental adolescent needs and leaves no desire for gang affiliation; and reduce or prevent delinquency, violence, dropping out of school, and truancy. Successful applicants will include local school districts with a demonstrable Latino gang problem committed to or already working with nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and other community partners to provide mentoring services to at-risk youth. Targeted programs will feature schools with large populations of non-native, Hispanic youth. Up to 4 awards of up to $500,000 each will be made to support this 3-year project. Interested applicants should also be aware that an in-kind match of space should be provided by school where the program will be implemented. Applications are due June 20, 2008. The program announcement is at
Qualified faith-based and other applicants may apply for the National Mentoring Programs grant. Successful applicants will propose the implementation of ready initiatives that will assist in the development and maturity of community programs to provide mentoring services to populations that are underserved due to locations, shortage of mentors, special physical or mental challenges of the targeted population, or other such situations identified by the community in need of mentoring services. This initiative also seeks to promote collaboration among national youth service organizations that support mentoring activities and community organizations committed to supporting mentoring services. Applicants will implement, monitor, and assess mentoring strategies. They are strongly encouraged to incorporate best practices based on research and to consider a variety of mentoring approaches that are national in scope. Priority will be given to organizations who have mentoring programs ready for implementation, who can monitor and collect performance measure data from all affiliates and associated programs and use the data to achieve successful outcomes, who work in areas of high community disadvantage as designated by use of OJJDP’s SMART tool, and who can demonstrate collaboration with at least two of the following institutions: schools, law enforcement, a community- or faith-based organization, a national program focused on activities complementary to mentoring (e.g., job training, literacy, parenting), or an afterschool learning program. All applications are due by June 20, 2008. All awards are subject to the availability of funds. The full announcement can be found here
UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Qualified faith-based and other applicants may apply for a grant to implement the Iraq Community Action Program, Phase III. The successful applicant will facilitate the creation and training of community action groups responsible for identifying and prioritizing community needs, mobilizing community and other resources, and monitoring project implementation. Another central objective of CAP III will be to strengthen the capacity of the lowest levels of local government to draw on the Government of Iraq’s own resources to meet community-identified needs. A total of $100 million will be awarded for up to five grants for 12-month project periods, with an option to extend for two years, subject to performance and availability of follow-on funding. Concept papers are due July 15, 2008. Complete details can be found in the program announcement at
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