In this edition of Minneapolis Promise Zone Updates:
- Coders and Community Organizers Work Together to Disrupt Inequity
- Minneapolis Homes Development Assistance RFP
- Doing Good in the Hood: Jordan Neighborhood Scholarship
- Public Works Seeks Applicants for Trainee Program
- Winter Warmth
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News and Events
- Recent Federal Grant and Partnership Opportunities
- About the Minneapolis Promise Zone
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On Saturday September 23rd, hundreds gathered in the second floor of the Union Depot in Saint Paul for the first day of Code Switch; a two-day hackathon where people used data and technology to collaborate on projects aimed to disrupt inequity in Minnesota. Community organizers and coders combined their different knowledge bases to innovate around five topic areas: civic engagement, economic opportunity, health and wellness, public safety, and immigrants and refugees. Students, entrepreneurs, city employees and members of the community came forward to share their project proposals. Kellen Rashad Nins was one of the many who shared; he has developed an app called Uposit which connects people to relevant social services, uplifts people, and emphasizes the value of the "human experience". At lunch members of the Minneapolis Promise Zone learned more about Kellen's story. After working at New Lens with predominantly African American youth of Baltimore, Maryland, Kellen was inspired to create a platform to counteract negative discourses surrounding communities of color through the dissemination of positive narratives. Kellen was one of many who utilized technology to combat systemic racial inequity. Learn more about Kellen Rashad Nins here.
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Minneapolis Homes Development Assistance RFP
The Minneapolis Homes program requests proposals for Development Assistance for new construction homes on City-owned vacant lots.
Important dates are:
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Monday, September 25, 2017 - RFP posted.
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Tuesday, October 3, 2017 from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. - In person training at North Regional Library, 1315 Lowry Ave. N. Minneapolis, MN 55411.
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Thursday, October 12, 2017 - Due date for question submittal.
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Friday, October 27, 2017 at 12 p.m. - Due date for electronic submittal of proposals.
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Doing Good in the Hood: Jordan Neighborhood Scholarship
"Doing
Good in the Hood" a Jordan Area Community Council Youth Scholarship. Are
you a Jordan Resident between the ages of 12-20 years old? Are you involved in
your neighborhood? Tell Jordan Community Council what a safe healthy community
means to you and what you are doing. Write a brief paragraph to win a JACC
scholarship. Please submit your entries by 5 p.m. on Monday October 16 to
andrea@jordanmpls.org
Public Works Seeks Applicants for Trainee Program
Do you know somebody who would like to work for the City of Minneapolis? Public Works is hiring for service worker 1 positions and service worker trainee positions. See the required qualifications and experience here. Applications will be accepted through October at minneapolismn.gov/jobs.
Join Hawthorne Neighborhood Council in their mission to help keep the children in need warm this winter by donating winter apparel. All sizes and styles are accepted. This event is first come, first served basis. Children must be present. Only items with tags will be accepted through December 2.
Drop-off sites are:
- Hawthorne Neighborhood Council: 2944 Emerson Avenue N.
- Farview Park: 621 29th Avenue N.
- Fourth Street Saloon: 328 W. Broadway Avenue
- WBC office: 1011 W. Broadway Avenue Street 202
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News
Events
Keep it Fresh! City Council Candidate Forum on Local Food - Hosted by Northside Fresh Tues, October 17: 5:30-8 p.m. Cora McCorvey Health & Wellness Center- 1015 4th Avenue N., Minneapolis
Appetite For Change Community Cooks Thu, October 19: 5-7:30 p.m. Breaking Bread Cafe- 1210 W. Broadway, Minneapolis
Jordan Area Community Council Annual Meeting Thu, October 19: 5:30 p.m. Location TBD
Instigating Racial Healing in MN Sat, October 28: 10:30 a.m.- 12 p.m. North Regional Library- 1315 Lowry Avenue N., Minneapolis
Minneapolis Homes Information: Buy-Build-Rehab Wed, November 8: 6-7:30 p.m. Davis Center- 1250 W. Broadway Avenue, Minneapolis
Minnesota Black Authors Expo Sat, November 18: 11 a.m.- 5 p.m. Northside Economic Opportunity Network- 1007 W. Broadway, Minneapolis
The following content is for informational purposes only. For additional details on the opportunities below, and to find additional opportunities, please visit www.grants.gov.
Promise Zone
Preference Points
If a discretionary funding opportunity indicates Promise Zone
(PZ) preference points are available, please visit http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/promisezone/WCMSP-190631
for additional information on forms and contacts to request preference point
certification from the City of Minneapolis Promise Zone. Please submit your preference point request at least two weeks prior to the application deadline for Promise Zone certification approval consideration.
If a funding
opportunity does not indicate PZ preference points, you are still encouraged to
contact the Promise Zone Manager, Julianne Leerssen
(612-225-7721), about potential partnership opportunities to strengthen your
application.
HOUSING AND JOBS
HUD:
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Purpose: The purpose
of the Jobs Plus Pilot program is to develop locally-based, job-driven
approaches to increase earnings and advance employment outcomes through work
readiness, employer linkages, job placement, educational advancement,
technology skills, and financial literacy for residents of public housing. The
place-based Jobs Plus Pilot program addresses poverty among public housing
residents by incentivizing and enabling employment through earned income
disregards for working families, and a set of services designed to support work
including employer linkages, job placement and counseling, educational
advancement, and financial counseling. Ideally, these incentives will saturate
the target developments, building a culture of work and making working families
the norm. The Jobs Plus Pilot program consists of the following three core
components: Employment-Related Services Financial Incentives; Jobs Plus Earned
Income Disregard (JPEID) Community Supports for Work Applicants are encouraged
to develop key partnerships to connect participants with any other needed
services to remove barriers to work. An Individualized Training and Services
Plan (ITSP) should be developed for each participant to establish goals and
service strategies, and to track progress. Background HUD, the Rockefeller
Foundation, and the MDRC, through a public-private partnership, designed and
supported the Jobs Plus program model between 1998 and 2003. HUD has issued two
separate evaluation reports on the demonstration, in an effort to identify and
document the most promising approaches to increasing employment among families
in public housing. Each evaluation showed ongoing positive effects for
residents when the program was well-implemented and included the three core
elements. More information on the findings can be found at http://www.mdrc.org/project/jobs-plus-community-revitalization-initiative-public-housing-families#overview
BANKING
AND COMMERCE
Treasury:
Department of the Treasury
Through the
Bank Enterprise Award Program (BEA Program), the U.S. Department of the
Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund)
supports FDIC-insured financial institutions around the country that are
dedicated to financing and supporting community and economic development
activities. The BEA Program complements the community development activities of
insured depository institutions (i.e., banks and thrifts) by providing monetary
awards for increasing investments in CDFIs and for increasing qualified
lending, investment, and service activities within economically distressed
communities. Providing BEA Program awards for increasing community development
activities leverages the CDFI Fund’s dollars and puts more capital to work in
distressed communities throughout the nation.
DOC:Department of Commerce
This Broad Agency Announcement is a
mechanism to encourage research, education and outreach, innovative projects,
or sponsorships that are not addressed through NOAA’s competitive discretionary
programs. This announcement is not soliciting goods or services for the direct
benefit of NOAA. Funding for activities described in this notice is contingent
upon the availability of Fiscal Year 2018, Fiscal Year 2019, and Fiscal Year
2020 appropriations. Applicants are hereby given notice that funds have not yet
been appropriated for any activities described in this notice. Publication of
this announcement does not oblige NOAA to review an application beyond an
initial administrative review, or to award any specific project, or to obligate
any available funds
BROWNFIELDS
EPA: Environmental Protection Agency
The Small Business Liability Relief and
Brownfields Revitalization Act (“Brownfields Law”, P.L. 107-118) requires the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to publish guidance for grants to
assess and clean up brownfield sites. EPA’s Brownfields Program provides funds
to empower states, communities, tribes, and nonprofits to prevent, inventory,
assess, clean up, and reuse brownfield sites. Under these guidelines, EPA is seeking
proposals for Revolving Loan Fund Grants only. If you are interested in
requesting funding for Assessment Grants and/or Cleanup Grants, please refer to
announcement EPA-OLEM-OBLR-17-07 (Assessment Grant Guidelines) or
EPA-OLEM-OBLR-17-09 (Cleanup Grant Guidelines) posted separately on
www.grants.gov and www.epa.gov/brownfields/apply-brownfields-grant-funding.
The Small Business Liability Relief and
Brownfields Revitalization Act (“Brownfields Law,” P.L. 107-118) requires the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to publish guidance to assist
applicants in preparing proposals for grants to assess and clean up brownfield sites.
EPA’s Brownfields Program provides funds to empower states, communities,
tribes, and nonprofits to prevent, inventory, assess, clean up, and reuse
brownfield sites. EPA provides brownfields funding for three types of grants:
Brownfields Assessment Grants, Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grants,
and Brownfields Cleanup Grants. Under this RFP, EPA is seeking proposals for
Cleanup Grants, only, to provide funds to carry out cleanup activities at a
specific brownfield site owned by the applicant.
BUSINESS, EDUCATION, and STEM: Science,
Technology, Engineering, Math
NSF: National Science Foundation
The LEAP HI program challenges the
engineering research community to take a leadership role in addressing
demanding, urgent, and consequential challenges for advancing
America's prosperity, health and infrastructure. LEAP HI proposals
confront engineering problems that are too complex to yield to the efforts of a
single investigator --- problems that require sustained and coordinated effort
from interdisciplinary research teams, with goals that are not achievable
through a series of smaller, short-term projects. LEAP HI projects perform
fundamental research that may lead to disruptive technologies and methods, lay
the foundation for new and strengthened industries, enable notable improvements
in quality of life, or reimagine and revitalize the built environment. LEAP HI
supports fundamental research projects involving collaborating investigators,
of duration up to five years, with total budget between $1 million and $2
million. LEAP HI proposals must articulate a fundamental research problem with
compelling intellectual challenge and significant societal impact, particularly
on economic competitiveness, quality of life, public health, or essential
infrastructure. One or more CMMI core topics must lie at the heart of the
proposal, and integration of disciplinary expertise not typically engaged in
CMMI-funded projects is encouraged. LEAP HI proposals must highlight
engineering research in a leadership role. LEAP HI proposals must demonstrate
the need for a sustained research effort by an integrated, interdisciplinary
team, and should include aresearch integrationplan and timeline for research
activities, with convincing mechanisms for frequent and effective
communication.
Engineering for Civil Infrastructure
(ECI) program supports fundamental research that will shape the future of our
nation's constructed civil infrastructure, subjected to and interacting with
the natural environment, to meet the needs of humans. In this context, research
driven by radical rethinking of traditional civil infrastructure in response to
emerging technological innovations, changing population demographics, and
evolving societal needs is encouraged. The ECI program focuses on the physical
infrastructure, such as the
soil-foundation-structure-envelope-nonstructural building system;
geostructures; and underground facilities. It seeks proposals that advance
knowledge and methodologies within geotechnical, structural, architectural,
materials, coastal, and construction engineering, especially that include
collaboration with researchers from other fields, including, for example,
biomimetics, bioinspired design, advanced computation, data science, materials
science, additive manufacturing, robotics, and control theory. Research may
explore holistic building systems that view construction, geotechnical,
structural, and architectural design as an integrated system; adaptive building
envelope systems; nonconventional building materials; breakthroughs in
remediated geological materials; and transformational construction processes.
Principal investigators are encouraged to consider civil infrastructure subjected
to and interacting with the natural environment under "normal"
operating conditions; intermediate stress conditions (such as deterioration,
and severe locational and climate conditions); and extreme single or multi
natural hazard events (including earthquakes, windstorms, tsunamis, storm
surges, sinkholes, subsidence, and landslides). Principal investigators are
expected to bear in mind broader impacts associated with, for example,
economic, environmental, habitant comfort, and societal benefits, which may
include implications for resource and energy efficiency, life cycle,
adaptability and resilience, and reduced dependence on municipal services and
utilities.
The DMR Partnerships for Research and
Education in Materials Research (PREM) program aims to enable, build, and grow
partnerships between minority-serving institutions and DMR-supported centers
and/or facilities to increase recruitment, retention and degree attainment
(which defines the PREM pathway) by members of those groups most
underrepresented in materials research, and at the same time support excellent
research and education endeavors that strengthen such partnerships.
The purpose of the Cyberlearning for Work
at the Human-Technology Frontier program is to fund exploratory and synergistic
research in learning technologies to prepare learners to excel in work at the
human-technology frontier. This program responds to the pressing societal need
to educate and re-educate learners of all ages (students, teachers and workers)
in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) content areas to
ultimately function in highly technological environments, including in
collaboration with intelligent systems. Innovative technologies can reshape
learning processes, which in turn can influence new technology design. Learning
technology research in this program should be informed by the convergence of
multiple disciplines: education and learning sciences, computer and information
science and engineering, and cognitive, behavioral and social sciences. This
program funds learning technology research in STEM and other foundational areas
that enable STEM learning.
HHS: Department of Health and Human
Services, National Institutes of Health
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA) is to provide opportunities for eligible small business
concerns (SBCs) to submit STTR grant applications to develop interactive
digital media science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) resources
that address student career choice and health and medicine topics for: (1)
pre-kindergarten to grade 12 (P-12) students and pre- and in-service teachers
("Teachers") or (2) Informal science education (ISE), i.e., outside
the classroom, audiences. Interactive digital media (IDM) are defined as
products and services on digital computer-based systems which respond to the
user's actions by presenting content such as text, moving image, animation,
video, audio, and video games. There is a large body of evidence that IDM
technology has the potential to support learning in a variety of contexts from
primary and secondary schools, to universities, adult education and workplace
training. IDM is widely used to train, educate, and encourage behavioral
changes in a virtual world format where progressive learning, feedback on
success and user control are combined into an interactive and engaging
experience. It is anticipated that this STTR FOA will facilitate the
translation of new or existing health and medicine-based, P-12 STEM curricula
and museum exhibits into educational Interactive Digital Media STEM (IDM STEM)
resources that will provide a hands-on, inquiry-based and learning-by-doing
experience for students, teachers and the community.
The NIH Research Education Program (R25)
supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The
over-arching goal of this NIGMS R25 program is to support educational
activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet
the nations biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs. To this end,
this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) encourages the development of
innovative educational activities for pre-kindergarten to grade 12 (P-12),
pre-service and in-service teachers (Teachers) and students from underserved
communities with a focus on Courses for Skills Development, Research
Experiences, Mentoring Activities, Curriculum or Methods Development and
Outreach. To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this FOA will support
creative educational activities with a primary focus on Information on current
SEPA projects can be found at:
https://www.nigms.nih.gov/Research/crcb/sepa/Pages/default.aspx and
http://nihsepa.org. Applicants are strongly encouraged to consult with the SEPA
Scientific/Research Contact to be advised on the appropriateness of the
intended P-12 STEM or ISE project for SEPA program objectives and the
priorities of the NIGMS.
PUBLIC HEALTH and COMMUNITY TRAUMA
HHS: Department of Health and Human
Services
This announcement solicits applications
for the Health Center Program's Service Area Competition (SAC). The Health Center Program supports
patient-directed public and private nonprofit organizations that provide
primary and preventive health care services to the Nation's medically
underserved. The purpose of the SAC
funding opportunity is to ensure continued access to comprehensive, culturally
competent, quality primary health care services for communities and vulnerable
populations currently served by the Health Center Program.
National Institutes of Health
In this funding opportunity announcement
(FOA), we invite prospective applicants to propose research addressing
treatment of pregnant women with opioid use disorder and pharmacokinetic and
pharmacodynamic studies of medications used for maternal treatment.
This Funding Opportunity Announcement
(FOA) encourages applications to study the ethical, legal and societal issues
(ELSI) of human genome research in African populations. Of particular interest
are projects that propose focused bioethical, legal, and social science
analyses of new or emerging issues.
FOOD AND NUTRITION
USDA: Department of Agriculture
The Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive
(FINI) Grant Program for fiscal year (FY) 2018 to support projects to increase
the purchase of fruits and vegetables among low-income consumers participating
in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by providing incentives
at the point of purchase.
The purpose of the SCRI program is to
address the critical needs of the specialty crop industry by awarding grants to
support research and extension that address key challenges of national,
regional, and multi-state importance in sustaining all components of food and
agriculture, including conventional and organic food production systems.
The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010
(HHFKA) amended Section 18 of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act
(NSLA) to establish a Farm to School Program in order to assist eligible
entities, through grants and technical assistance, in implementing farm to
school programs that improve access to local foods in eligible schools. To
fulfill the farm to school mandate in the HHFKA, $5 million is provided to the
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) on an annual basis to support
grants, technical assistance, and the Federal administrative costs related to
USDA’s Farm to School Program. The USDA Farm to School Program is housed within
the Food and Nutrition Services’ (FNS) Office of Community Food Systems (OCFS).
This request for applications (RFA) provides additional details regarding the
grants component of the USDA Farm to School Program. Authorizing language in
the HHFKA directed the Secretary of Agriculture to award competitive grants
for: (i) Training; (ii) Supporting operations; (iii) Planning; (iv) Purchasing
equipment; (v) Developing school gardens; (vi) Developing partnerships; and,
(vii) Implementing farm to school programs. The Secretary of Agriculture was
also directed through the HHFKA to ensure geographical diversity and equitable
treatment of urban, rural, and tribal communities, as well as give the highest
priority to funding projects that, as determined by the Secretary – (a) Make
local food products available on the menu of the eligible school; (b) Serve a
high proportion of children who are eligible for free or reduced price lunches;
(c) Incorporate experiential nutrition education activities in curriculum
planning that encourage the participation of school children in farm and
garden-based activities; (d) Demonstrate collaboration between eligible
schools, nongovernmental and community-based organizations, agricultural
producer groups, and other community partners; (e) Include adequate and participatory
evaluation plans; (f) Demonstrate the potential for long-term program
sustainability; and, (g) Meet any other criteria that the Secretary determines
appropriate.
ARTS and HUMANITIES
NEH National Endowment for the Humanities
The Sustaining Cultural Heritage
Collections (SCHC) program helps cultural institutions meet the complex
challenge of preserving large and diverse holdings of humanities materials for
future generations by supporting sustainable conservation measures that
mitigate deterioration, prolong the useful life of collections, and support
institutional resilience: the ability to anticipate and respond to natural and
man-made disasters. Cultural institutions, including libraries, archives,
museums, and historical organizations, face an enormous challenge: to preserve
humanities collections that facilitate research, strengthen teaching, and
provide opportunities for life-long learning.
Debate, exchange of ideas, and working
together—all are basic activities that advance humanities knowledge and foster
rich scholarship that would not be possible by researchers working on their
own. The Collaborative Research grant program encourages collaboration that
proposes diverse approaches to topics, incorporates multiple points of view,
and explores new avenues of inquiry that lead to publications and other
resources for scholarly audiences and/or general audiences. Collaborative
Research grants support groups of two or more scholars engaging in significant
and sustained research in the humanities. The program seeks to encourage
interdisciplinary work, both within the humanities and beyond.
IMLS: Institute of Museum and Library
Services
The Museums for America (MFA) program
supports projects that strengthen the ability of an individual museum to serve
its public.
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About the Minneapolis Promise Zone
Promise Zones are federally designated, high poverty communities where the federal government partners with local leaders to increase economic activity, improve educational opportunities, and leverage private investment. The Minneapolis Promise Zone (MPZ) plan is a comprehensive, community-driven revitalization strategy that builds on and aligns numerous initiatives to address the persistent unemployment, crime, housing blight, and poor educational outcomes that affect that area.
Contact information: Juli Leerssen, (612) 225-7721
For more information, please visit www.minneapolismn.gov/promisezone
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