In this edition of Minneapolis Promise Zone Updates:
- Minneapolis Promise Zone Attends Neighborhoods Now
-
News and Events
- Affect Change by Attending a City Council Meeting
- Recent Federal Grant and Partnership Opportunities
- About the Minneapolis Promise Zone
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Minneapolis Promise Zone Attends Neighborhoods Now, Learns Racial Disparity Disruption Methods
 All five of the Minneapolis Promise Zone‘s AmeriCorps Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) attended a weeklong community educational series, called Neighborhoods Now, a few weeks ago. During their time spent at the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) they focused on building skills to cultivate power to change systems for racial equity and economic justice. A large component of building power is through the organization of people and resources. Door-knocking to reach out to residents, and in depth one-on-ones with leaders of the targeted community are an effective method to begin to create those networks of power. Participants of Neighborhoods Now practiced door-knocking as well as one-on-ones with each other to apply, after training, to their respective communities. MPZ VISTAs also built valuable connections with other organizers in North Minneapolis, which will enable the Promise Zone to increase racial equity and build a more inclusive economy.
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News
How Amazon's HQ2 Could Affect the Price to Rent in Minneapolis (10/23 - TwinCities Business)
Minneapolis business Wood From the Hood helps misfit trees find new life (10/22 - StarTribune)
Stunning new library in north Minneapolis was worth the 17-year wait (10/21 - StarTribune)
Black-owned company found success outside Minnesota. Now it's reinvesting in North Minneapolis (10/21 - TwinCities Pioneer Press)
Protests interrupt Minneapolis city council meeting (10/20 - Kare11)
Housing for Native Americans at Victoria and University, East Side micro-houses get funding boost (10/19 - TwinCities Pioneer Press)
Events
Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights: General Contractor Training
Fri, October 27: 8:30 a.m.-12 p.m.
University of Minnesota's UROC, 2001 Plymouth Avenue N.,
Coming to the Table: Instigating Racial Healing in Minnesota
Sat, October 28: 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.
North Regional Library 2nd Floor, 1315 Lowry Avenue N., Minneapolis
Prosperity Now: A Deeper Dive into Racial Wealth Equity Policies Webinar
Thu, November 2: 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
NACA: The Best Mortgage in America Homebuyer Workshop
Sat, November 4: 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Inside Parkway United Church of Christ, 3120 Washburn Avenue N., Minneapolis
National Foundations: Know Who and How: Find out what it takes to attract national funding!
Fri, November 10: 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
Saint Mary's University Center, 2540 Park Ave., Minneapolis
Minnesota Black Author Expo
Sat, November 18 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Northside Economic Opportunity Network, 1007 W Broadway, Minneapolis
Job Opportunities
Learn how you can enroll in no-cost skills or training in construction or healthcare
Every Wednesday at 10 a.m.
Summit Academy OIC, 935 Olson Memorial Highway, Minneapolis
More information
On-site Hiring Event
Mon, November 6: 1-3 p.m.
Minnesota Workforce Center, 7225 Northland Dr., Brooklyn Park
More information
Northside Residents Redevelopment Council
Administrative Position
More information
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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
HUD: Department of Housing and
Urban Development
HUD
expects to make at least 2 awards from the funds available under this NOFA:
Project 1 - Understanding Child Trajectories in HUD-Assisted Housing (HUD may
award one or more cooperative agreements for this project).Project 2 - The
Social and Economic Impacts of the Community Development Block Grant Program
(HUD may award one or more cooperative agreements for this project).
TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT
EPA: Environmental Protection
Agency
This
notice announces the availability of funds and solicits proposals from eligible
entities, including nonprofit organizations, to deliver Environmental Workforce
Development and Job Training programs that recruit, train, and place local,
unemployed and under-employed residents with the skills needed to secure
full-time employment in the environmental field. Please note that eligible
entities who received an EWDJT grant in Fiscal Year 2017 (FY17) are not
eligible to apply for funding in FY18.
PUBLIC AND COMMUNITY HEALTH
HHS: Department of Health and
Human Services
The
Communities Building Healthier Environments for a Stronger Nation Initiative
(‘Communities Initiative’) intends to demonstrate the effectiveness of
community-based networks in improving health outcomes among racial and ethnic
minority and/or other disadvantaged populations. This program seeks to improve
health outcomes through the establishment of integrated networks that
collaboratively employ evidence-based disease management and preventive health
activities; build the capacity of communities to address social determinants
and barriers to healthcare access; and increase access to and utilization of
preventive health care, medical treatment, and supportive services. The
Communities Initiative specifically targets the unmet healthcare and supportive
service needs of racial and ethnic minority populations at highest risk for
poorer health outcomes. Health services provided under the Communities
Initiative will not be denied to any person based on race, color, or national
origin. Populations at highest risk include, but are not limited to,
individuals who are newly diagnosed and lack a medical home; individuals who
experience difficulty in adhering to a prescribed medical treatment plan;
individuals with a chronic disease that is not well managed; and individuals
that are unstably housed. Specific health areas to be addressed by the
Communities Initiative include asthma, cardiovascular disease, diabetes,
HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B or C, obesity/overweight, and mental disorders. Community
health programs are required to address social determinants of health, and
improve coordination of health, social, and supportive services to
significantly improve health outcomes among minority and/or disadvantaged
communities. Applicants must choose two but no more than three chronic
conditions to be the focus of the proposed intervention, but should justify
this choice based on the population targeted and the interrelation of the
chronic conditions. Project plans relative to health areas must include
screening and early detection; implementation of evidence-based prevention and
intervention programs; chronic disease management; linkage to medical treatment
and follow-up; and coordination of applicable health, social and support
services. Project plans must also address social determinants relative to selected
health areas that directly facilitate the onset or transmission of disease or
impact adherence to prescribed medical treatment plans.
The
announcement seeks applications from public and private nonprofit entities to
establish and operate voluntary family planning services projects, which shall
provide family planning services to all persons desiring such services, with
priority for services to persons from low-income families. The Title X statute
specifies that local and regional public or private nonprofit entities may
apply directly to the Secretary for a Title X family planning services grant
under this announcement. Family planning services include clinical family
planning and related preventive health services; information, education, and
counseling related to family planning; and, referral services as indicated.
Copies of the Title X statute, regulations, legislative mandates, Program
Guidelines, and Program Policy Notices may be downloaded from the Office of
Population Affairs web site at http://www.hhs.gov/opa/familyplanning.
Systemic lupus erythematosus
(SLE) is an autoimmune disease that disproportionately affects racial and
ethnic minority, including American Indian/Alaska Native, and disadvantaged
populations. The purpose of the Health Education Lupus Program (HELP) is to
eliminate lupus related health disparities among racial and ethnic minority
populations and disadvantaged population disproportionately affected by this
disease. Many, if not most, of the affected population a) live in communities
without experienced providers; 2) can have other simultaneous comorbidities; 3)
receive services covered by available public insurance, i.e., Medicaid or
Medicare, if eligible; and 4) have not been exposed to a culturally and
linguistically appropriate public awareness messages regarding lupus. Six to
nine eligible applicants will be funded to a) increase and improve culturally
and linguistically appropriate awareness to the general public; improve
training and curriculum development for required certified education units
(CEU) focused on lupus for health care providers , including certified and
licensed community health workers or other certified and licensed health-care
paraprofessionals; improve lupus diagnosis and treatment and address
comorbidities co-occurring with lupus; and develop lupus self-management
curriculum for minority and disadvantaged populations living in urban and rural
territories and training; or b) expand the implementation of a culturally and
linguistically appropriate education program on clinical trials focused on
lupus that educates and recruits racial and ethnic minority, including American
Indian/Alaska Native, and/or disadvantaged populations to participate in
clinical trials focused on lupus.
The
National Vaccine Program Office would like to announce the anticipated
availability of funds for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 cooperative agreement awards]
under the authority of section 1702(a) of the Public Health Service Act. The
FOA will solicit applications for projects conducting research through
implementing and evaluating interventions related to fostering informed vaccine
decision making by assessing or addressing vaccine confidence or hesitancy,
particularly via vaccine education and communication. The work funded by NVPO
cannot also be funded by other awards. The 2010 National Vaccine Plan (NVP)
recognizes the importance of communication activities that are strategic,
science-based, transparent, and culturally appropriate when it comes to
utilizing communication to enhance informed vaccine decision making and
vaccination acceptance. The National Vaccine Program Office (NVPO) collaborates
with federal partners to provide strategic direction for the coordination of
the vaccine and immunization enterprise for the National Vaccine Plan (NVP) implementation. NVPO will partner with 2-3
organizations to collaborate on projects that will fall specifically under goal
3 of the NVP (i.e., support communications to enhance informed vaccine
decision-making) as well as within the recommendations of the National Vaccine
Advisory Committee June 2015 Report: Assessing the State of Vaccine Confidence
in the United States: Recommendations from the National Vaccine Advisory
Committee. That report emphasized the importance of developing measurement tools, as well as interventions for supporting healthcare providers, communities, and policies which foster confidence in vaccines.
https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/nvpo/nvac/reports/nvac-vaccine-confidence-public-health-report-2015.pdf.
National Institutes of Health
The
purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support
investigative and collaborative research focused on developing and evaluating
simulation modeling and systems science to understand and address minority
health and health disparities.
This
funding opportunity announcement (FOA) encourages exploratory /developmental
research grant applications (R21) to investigate the fundamental science of
mind and body approaches, including mind/brain-focused practices (e.g.,
meditation, hypnosis), body-based approaches (e.g., acupuncture, massage,
spinal manipulation/mobilization), meditative exercise (e.g., yoga, tai chi, qi
gong), art and music therapies, or integrative approaches combining several
components. Studies of pharmacologic approaches exclusively are not included in
the scope of this FOA.
The
purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to fund highly
innovative and promising research aimed at developing multi-level physical
activity intervention programs acting on at least two levels of the
socioecological model and designed to increase health-enhancing physical
activity: 1) in persons or groups that can benefit from such activity; and 2)
that could be made scalable and sustainable for broad use across the nation.
This FOA provides support for up to two years (R21 phase) for research planning
activities and feasibility studies, followed by a possible transition to
expanded research support (R33 phase) for optimizing the intervention and
conducting larger-scale feasibility studies. Transition to the R33 depends on
the completion of applicant-defined milestones, as well as program priorities
and the availability of funds.
The
purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to fund highly
innovative and promising research that tests multi-level physical activity
intervention programs acting on at least two levels of the socio-ecological
model and designed to increase health-enhancing physical activity: 1) in
persons or groups that can benefit from such activity; and 2) that could be
made scalable and sustainable for broad use across the nation. This FOA
provides support for up to 5 years for research planning, intervention
delivery, and follow-up activities.
Centers for Disease Control -
NCIRD
In an effort to support the development and
improvement of public health capacity of Immunization Information Systems (IIS)
and their staff, the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
(NCIRD) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), supported a
pilot volunteer group of IIS in 2001 to explore the use of the IIS data to
achieve public health goals. Following the success of this pilot, NCIRD
formally established the IIS Sentinel Site Project, providing supplemental
funding to awardees with high quality IIS data. Six awardees were funded during
2004-2007, eight during 2008-2012, and six during 2013-2017. Data from the IIS
Sentinel Site Project have been increasingly used to monitor vaccine coverage,
assess uptake of new vaccines, monitor vaccine shortages, assess compliance
with national recommendations, and conduct other vaccine-related analyses.
Centers for Disease Control -
NCIPC
Violence is a serious, yet
preventable, public health problem. Intimate partner violence (IPV) (see
glossary for a list of definitions of italicized words) affects millions of
women, men, and children. In the United States, 1in 4 women and 1 in 9 men
experience contact sexual violence, physical violence, and/or stalking by an
intimate partner with a negative impact such as injury, fear, concern for
safety, or needing services (Smith et al, 2017). The Center for Disease Control
and Prevention's (CDC) National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey
(NISVS) data showed many victims of IPV began experiencing these forms of
violence prior to adulthood (Smith, et al, 2017). About 7% of women and 4% of
men in the US reported their first experience of IPV before age 18 (Smith et
al, 2017). Community and societal-level prevention activities can address risk
and protective factors associated with IPV and may have the broadest public
health impact. Authorized by the Family Violence and Prevention Services Act
(FVPSA), CDC has funded the Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancements and
Leadership Through Alliances (DELTA) Program since 2002. The DELTA program
funds State Domestic Violence Coalitions (SDVCs) to implement statewide IPV
prevention efforts, while also providing assistance and funding for local
communities to implement IPV prevention activities.
Centers for Disease Control -
OPHPR
CDC
seeks to enhance the Nation's ability to rapidly mobilize and respond to
specific public health emergencies, which may include infectious disease
outbreaks, pandemics, and other public health emergencies that exceed the
capacity of jurisdictional public health resources. From experience through
previous emergency events, CDC recognizes the impact that initial funding and
immediate response can have in mitigating negative health outcomes. Thus, CDC
is creating this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to rapidly fund
pre-approved applicants to address immediate and time-sensitive needs that are
integral to specific public health responses. This NOFO is intended to fund
jurisdictional public health departments for response to HHS Secretarial
declared and nondeclared public health emergencies and other public health
emergencies which CDC deems in accordance with the purpose of the NOFO.
Administration for Children and
Families - ORR
The
Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within the Administration for Children and
Families (ACF) invites eligible entities to submit competitive grant
applications for funding under the Refugee Family Child Care Microenterprise
Development Project (RFCCMED). Through the RFCCMED program, ORR will provide
funding for applicants which, through internal capacity and partnerships, will
provide refugee participants with training and technical assistance in
professional child care, microenterprise development, and financial literacy;
assist refugee participants in navigating the child care licensing process; and
provide direct financial assistance as needed to enable participants to prepare
their homes for child care business operation. The three main objectives of
RCCMED are to 1) help refugees to achieve economic self-sufficiency by
establishing licensed FCC businesses; 2) help refugee families gain access to
licensed FCC businesses which will meet the early care and developmental needs
of refugee children; and 3) assist refugees in learning how to navigate
mainstream child care services.
Projects to establish and
manage Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) for low-income refugee
participants. Eligible refugee participants who enroll in these projects will
open and contribute systematically to IDAs for specified Savings Goals,
including home ownership, business capitalization, vehicles for educational or
work purposes, professional certification, and education (limited to
postsecondary and/or continuing education, college entrance exam fees, Test of
English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and GED preparation and test fees).
Grantee organizations may use ORR funds to provide matches for the savings in
the IDAs of up to $2,000 per individual refugee and $4,000 per refugee
household. Applications will be screened and evaluated as indicated in the
published funding opportunity announcement. Selection of awards will be
contingent on the outcome of the competition and the availability of funds. The
"match"; mentioned in this announcement does not refer to the
applicant finding additional funds to match funds being provided by the Federal
government; it is the portion of federal funds to be allocated for matching
clients' IDA savings. Successful grantees will be expected to coordinate their
policies and procedures for developing and administering refugee IDA projects
with ORR and with the existing refugee IDA network.
INNOVATION AND STEM: Science,
Technology, Engineering, Math
NSF: National Science
Foundation
The
Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH) Program supports
interdisciplinary research that examines human and natural system processes and
the complex interactions among human and natural systems at diverse scales.
Research projects to be supported by CNH must include analyses of four
different components: (1) the dynamics of a natural system; (2) the dynamics of
a human system; (3) the processes through which the natural system affects the
human system; and (4) the processes through which the human system affects the
natural system. CNH also supports research coordination networks (CNH-RCNs)
designed to facilitate activities that promote future research by broad
research communities that will include all four components necessary for CNH
funding. Following are examples of the kinds of projects that might be
supported with CNH support: -A project might study interactions between the
natural vegetation and soil erosion in a specific type of area, the
interactions between land use and social governance in the area, how changes in
vegetation and soil affect land use and governance, and how land use and
governance impact on the vegetation and erosion. -A project might study the
population dynamics of marine fish and their prey in a fishery, interactions
between the behavior of fishers and economic markets for fish, how changes in
the abundance of fish impact the economic markets, and how fishing pressure
impacts the population dynamics of fish and other marine species.
USDA: Department of Agriculture
Forest Service
Important
Dates: October 18, 2017 - Issuance of Request for Proposals. January 22, 2018 -
Proposal submission deadline. May 1, 2018 - Approximate date to notify
applicants of results. July 1, 2018 - Approximate date of award. Synopsis of
Funding Opportunity: The U.S. Forest Service requests proposals to substantially
expand and accelerate wood energy and wood products markets throughout the
United States to support forest management needs on National Forest System and
other forest lands. This Request for Proposals focuses on the following
priorities to: • Reduce hazardous fuels and improve forest health on National
Forest System and other forest lands. • Reduce costs of forest management on
all land types. • Promote economic and environmental health of communities.
Funding will be awarded in two separate categories. Grant Category 1: Expansion
of Wood Energy Markets - The intent of this category is to: 1. Stimulate,
expand, or support wood energy markets that depend on forest residues or forest
byproducts generated from all land types. Projects can include, but are not
limited to: a. Develop a cluster of wood energy projects in a geographic area
or specific sector (e.g., prisons, hospitals, universities, manufacturing
sector, or industrial sector). b. Overcome market barriers and stimulate
expansion of wood energy in the commercial sector. 2. Complete requirements,
such as engineering designs, cost analyses, and permitting, necessary in the
later stages of wood energy project development to secure financing. Grant
Category 2: Expansion of Wood Products Markets - The intent of this category is
to promote markets that create or expand the demand for non-energy based wood
products. Preference will be given to projects that support commercial building
markets or other markets that use innovative wood products. Wood energy
projects will not be considered under this category because those projects can
apply for funding under Grant Category 1. Demonstration projects and applied
research will be considered, but applicants are strongly encouraged to first
consult with their designed Forest Service Regional Biomass Coordinator to
determine whether such projects will be competitive. Specific details,
including the application and instructions, can be viewed and downloaded at the
website listed below.
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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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