In this edition of Minneapolis Promise Zone Updates:
- How to Reduce Racial Disparities in Housing Policy
- Minnesota Job Creation Fund
- Increasing Access to Affordable Housing on the Northside
- Minneapolis Promise Zone Facilitates Increased Capital Investment
- Department for Housing and Urban Development Launches Envision Center
- Making Minnesota Conservation Improvement Programs More Effective
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News, Events, and Jobs
- Recent Federal Grant and Partnership Opportunities
- About the Minneapolis Promise Zone
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Minneapolis Promise Zone Learns How to Reduce Racial Disparities in Housing Policy
A
panel discussion was hosted at the Minneapolis Urban League with industry
experts on the three areas of homeownership inequity that contribute to the
racial wealth gap - redlining, discriminatory lending practices, and the
foreclosure crisis of the Great Recession. After the panel conversation,
roundtable discussions were conducted to share and explore personal experience
with the topics discussed.
The
panel consisted of Tyler Moroles, program analyst at the Minneapolis Public
Housing Authority (MPHA), Dr. Ed Goetz, director of the Center for Urban &
Regional Affairs (CURA), and Trent Bowman, vice-president of Community
Development at Kleinbank. The panel was moderated by Mallory Mitchell from
Minneapolis Urban League.
Although
red-lining discrimination is in the "past" due to the Community Reinvestment
Act (CRA), discrimination continues on both the neighborhood and the individual
level. This can manifest in micro-aggressions, red-tape, or the obfuscation of
applicable financial resources and programs for interested homebuyers.
The
panel discussed different housing policies that would help mitigate racial disparities on the local and federal level. Potential policies to advocate for included relaunching
the first time home buyer tax credit (Housing and Economic Recovery Act of
2008), which ended in 2010, as well as the implementation of inclusionary zoning so as to
increase the density (by allowing for expansion upwards). Introducing policies
or programs similar to those in other countries, such as the United Kingdom’s
baby bonds program (tax exempt savings plan to provide a child with a guaranteed
cash sum upon adulthood).
The Minneapolis Promise
Zone seeks to promote stable housing for all MPZ residents, as well as to
increase racial equity. The panel and the roundtable discussions served to
educate and connect individuals and organizations on the legacy of discriminatory
policies, as well as avenues for action.
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Minnesota Job Creation Fund
The Job Creation Fund provides financial incentives to new and expanding businesses that meet certain job creation and capital investment targets.
Companies deemed eligible to participate may receive up to $1 million for creating or retaining high-paying jobs and for constructing or renovating facilities or making other property improvements. In some cases, companies may receive awards of up to $2 million.
How to Apply to the Job Creation Fund
- Applications for the Job Creation Fund are accepted year-round.
Businesses must apply through the local government unit (city, county or township) where the project will be located. In consultation with DEED, the local government unit will determine whether the business meets minimum program requirements.
To assist with the process, complete this Job Creation Fund Eligibility and Application Checklist. Projects that meet the minimum requirements should contact Tom Washa, Program Manager at 651-259-7483 for an application.
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Increasing Access to Affordable Housing on the Northside
Completed Projects
1. The Eco Village Apartments Project was completed with 75 units of affordable housing at 50-60% of Area Median Income (AMI). Rents are $670-$995. Unit sizes range from studio to two-bedroom, as well as four three-bedroom town-home units. There are also four units to address long term homelessness priced at 30% AMI.
Ongoing Projects
1. Penn and Lowry Avenue northeast corner will be used as a staging and storage site for Met Council for the C-Line Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) construction work through May 2019 unless there is another viable proposal for that space. If the City needs to move forward on a project, the staging and storage would be moved to the northwest corner
2. West Broadway-West Building on the West Broadway Curve will have 69 units of mixed income rental units. The project includes a separate, privately financed town-home development that will consist of 20 market rate units.
3. Golden Valley Road and Penn Avenue (northwest corner) will be a mixed use development with 64 units of housing at 50-60% AMI.
If you questions about the any of projects listed above, please contact Tiffany Glasper, a Senior Project Coordinator at the City's department of Community Planning and Economic Development.
Minneapolis Promise Zone Facilitates Increased Capital Investment on the Northside
The Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) subcommittee of the Economic Development Working Group (EDWG) met Thursday, December 7th. Members of EDWG discussed how to most effectively fill the financing gaps experienced by Northside entrepreneurs and business owners. Members asked questions like what type of financial products should be offered, where should initial seed funds come from, who should administer the loans, and what kinds of borrowers should be targeted? Group members have been drafting the financial plan for approval by City staff and Council, and hope to deliver a final plan in the first quarter of 2018 after further group discussion. If all goes as planned, the RLF could be granting loans by July of 2018.
Northside residents know what kinds of businesses they would like to see, and what will make the area a thriving destination that continues to inspire neighborhood pride. The community’s many economic development professionals know how to get them there, and what will invigorate its commercial corridors without displacing current Northside residents. The RLF presents a great opportunity to stimulate equitable development, reducing the persistent disparities present in North Minneapolis.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development Launches Envision Center Initiative
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is asking for public comment on a new initiative that is designed to test the effectiveness of collaborative efforts by government, industry, and nonprofit organizations to accelerate economic mobility of low- income households in communities that include HUD-assisted housing. This will be accomplished through Envision Centers, centralized hubs for supportive services focusing on the four pillars of Economic Empowerment, Educational Advancement, Health and Wellness, and Character and Leadership.
Approximately 10 communities, selected from across the country, are anticipated to participate in the demonstration. The purpose of the demonstration is to explore the potential of a new service-delivery mechanism to provide HUD-assisted households the ability to benefit from life-changing opportunities that the advancement of the four pillars affords.
Residents will be able to engage with EnVision Center services in three ways:
- Through a physical EnVision Center
- Downloading the EnVision Center Mobile App
- Visiting an organization that is a part of the EnVision Network.
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Opportunities for Making Minnesota Low-Income
Conservation Improvement Programs More Effective
Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018, 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. CT
Results from a statewide
policy analysis and evaluation of low-income (LI) programs in Minnesota’s
utility Conservation Improvement Programs (CIP) portfolios are summarized in this webinar conducted by APPRISE Incorporated with CARD funding.
Undertaken in 2015, the purpose of this project is to help Commerce staff and
other stakeholders develop a better understanding of how LI CIP programs in
Minnesota operate and how they might be made more effective. Elements of the
project included a national best practices review; a regulatory and policy
analysis; interviews with LI CIP managers; and an examination and analysis of
current LI CIP programs with successful partnerships. Results led to
recommendations related to re-evaluating or clarifying current policy;
developing improved procedures, guidelines and/or policy; and possible ways to
improve communication and collaboration
News
Events
Beautiful Classy Driven: Jingle & Mingle Fri, December 22: 6-9 p.m. New Rules, 2015 N. Lowry Ave., Minneapolis
Heritage Tea House Grand Opening Holiday Party Fri, December 22: 6-10 p.m. Heritage Tea House Boutique, 360 University Ave. W., Saint Paul
Black Nativity December 20-24: Multiple Showings Penumbra Theatre, 270 N. Kent St., Saint Paul
Actualizing Equity: A Community Gathering Thu, January 18: 3-6 p.m. Cowles Auditorium, 301 19th Ave. S., Minneapolis
Notice and Publicizing Grant Requests for Proposal Policy Training Tue, January 30: 1-4 p.m. DEED Department of Administration, 50 Sherburne Ave., Saint Paul Room 116C
Jobs
Hennepin County Request for Proposal (RFP) Trauma-based services for black male youth near North Minneapolis community More Information
Minneapolis Public Schools Special Education Assistant More Information
3M Young Scientist Challenge 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.
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
NSF: National Science Foundation
The American National Election Studies (ANES) produce
high quality data from its own surveys on voting, public opinion, and political
participation. The mission of the ANES is to inform explanations of election
outcomes by providing data that support rich hypothesis testing, maximize
methodological excellence, measure many variables, and promote comparisons
across people, contexts, and time. The ANES serves this mission by providing
researchers with a view of the political world through the eyes of ordinary
citizens. The Political Science Program in the Directorate for Social,
Behavioral and Economic Sciences expects to make two awards for the 2020 Presidential
election cycle with the award to run from fiscal years 2018 to 2021.We
anticipate that NSF will make two awards totaling no more than $11.5 million
over four years. One will be for the traditional face-to-face survey. The
second will be for a web-based survey. While these will be independent awards,
the two awardees will be expected to work closely together. The expected start
date is July 2018. ANES started in 1948. Since then, the project has conducted
a survey during each presidential election. One of the unique attributes of
ANES is that for each election respondents have been surveyed prior to the
Presidential election and then after the election. These pre and post surveys
provide a unique look at how Americans participate in politics and why.
EDUCATION & STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering,
Math
DOC: Department of Commerce
NIST is soliciting
applications from eligible colleges and universities in the U.S. and its
territories, nominating undergraduate students to participate in the SURF
Program. The SURF Program will provide research opportunities for undergraduate
students to work with NIST scientists and engineers, to expose the students to
cutting-edge research and promote the pursuit of graduate degrees in science
and engineering.
NSF: National Science Foundation
Communities in the United
States (US) and around the world are entering a new era of transformation in
which residents and their surrounding environments are increasingly connected
through rapidly-changing intelligent technologies. This transformation offers
great promise for improved wellbeing and prosperity, but poses significant
challenges at the complex intersection of technology and society. The goal of
the NSF Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC) program solicitation is to accelerate
the creation of the scientific and engineering foundations that will enable
smart and connected communities to bring about new levels of economic
opportunity and growth, safety and security, health and wellness, and overall
quality of life. This goal will be achieved through integrative research
projects that pair advances in technological and social dimensions with
meaningful community engagement. For the purposes of this solicitation,
communities are defined as having geographically-delineated boundaries; such as
towns, cities, counties, neighborhoods, community districts, rural areas, and
tribal regions consisting of various populations, with the structure and
ability to engage in meaningful ways with proposed research activities
The NRI-2.0 program builds
upon the original National Robotics Initiative (NRI) program to support
fundamental research in the United States that will accelerate the development
and use of collaborative robots (co-robots) that work beside or cooperatively
with people. The focus of the NRI-2.0 program is on ubiquity, which in this
context means seamless integration of co-robots to assist humans in every
aspect of life. The program supports four main research thrusts that are
envisioned to advance the goal of ubiquitous co-robots: scalability, customizability,
lowering barriers to entry, and societal impact. Topics addressing
scalability include how robots can collaborate effectively with multiple humans
or other robots; how robots can perceive, plan, act, and learn in uncertain,
real-world environments, especially in a distributed fashion; and how to
facilitate large-scale, safe, robust and reliable operation of robots in
complex environments. Customizability includes how to enable co-robots to adapt
to specific tasks, environments, or people, with minimal modification to
hardware and software; how robots can personalize their interactions with
people; and how robots can communicate naturally with humans, both verbally and
non-verbally. Topics in lowering barriers to entry include development of
open-source co-robot hardware and software, as well as widely-accessible
testbeds. Topics in societal impact include fundamental research to establish
and infuse robotics into educational curricula, advance the robotics workforce
through education pathways, and explore the social, economic, ethical, and
legal implications of our future with ubiquitous collaborative robots.
Collaboration between academic, industry, non-profit, and other organizations
is encouraged to establish better linkages between fundamental science and
engineering and technology development, deployment, and use. The NRI-2.0
program is supported by multiple agencies of the federal government including
the National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and the U.S. Department of Defense
(DOD). Questions concerning a particular project's focus, direction and
relevance to a participating funding organization should be addressed to that
agency’s point of contact, listed in section VIII of this solicitation.
USDA: Department of Agriculture
NRCS is announcing the availability of CIG to stimulate
the development and adoption of innovative conservation approaches and
technologies. Applications will be accepted from eligible entities in any of
the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Caribbean Area (Puerto Rico and
the U.S. Virgin Islands), and the Pacific Islands Area (Guam, American Samoa,
and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands). A total of up to $10
million is available for CIG in FY 2018. All United States (U.S.)-based
non-Federal entities (NFE) and individuals are invited to apply, with the sole
exception of Federal agencies. Projects may be between 1 and 3 years in
duration. The maximum award amount for a single award in FY 2018 is $2 million.
ARTS & HUMANITIES
NEA: National Endowment for the Arts
An organization may submit
only one application through one of the following FY 2019 categories: Art Works
or Challenge America. If an organization applies to the Challenge America
category, it may not submit another application to the Art Works category. The
Arts Endowment's support of a project may start on or after January 1, 2019.
Generally, a period of performance of up to two years is allowed. Art Works
Program Description To support artistically excellent projects that celebrate
our creativity and cultural heritage, invite mutual respect for differing
beliefs and values, and enrich humanity. Matching grants generally range from
$10,000 to $100,000. A minimum cost share/match equal to the grant amount is
required.
NEH: National Endowment for the Humanities
The Public Scholar Program
supports well-researched books in the humanities intended to reach a broad
readership. Some humanities scholarship is necessarily specialized, but the
humanities can also engage broad audiences in exploring subjects of general interest.
Such scholarship might present a narrative history, tell the stories of
important individuals, analyze significant texts, provide a synthesis of ideas,
revive interest in a neglected subject, or examine the latest thinking on a
topic. Books supported by this program must be grounded in humanities research
and scholarship, making appropriate use of primary and/or secondary sources.
They must also be written in a readily accessible style, addressing significant
humanities themes in a way that will appeal to a large audience of general
readers. Applications to write books directed primarily to scholars are not
appropriate for this program. By establishing the Public Scholar Program, NEH
has entered a long-term commitment to encourage scholarship in the humanities
for general audiences. The program is open to both individuals affiliated with
scholarly institutions and to independent scholars, researchers, and writers.
Projects may be at any stage of development.
NARA: National Archives and Records Administration
The National Historical
Publications and Records Commission seeks proposals to publish documentary
editions of historical records. Projects may focus on the papers of major
figures from American history or cover broad historical movements in politics,
social reform, business, military, the arts, and other aspects of the national
experience. The historical value of the records and their expected usefulness
to broad audiences must justify the costs of the project. The goal of this
program is to provide access to, and editorial context for, the historical
documents and records that tell the American story. Applicants should
demonstrate familiarity with the best practices recommended by the Association
for Documentary Editing or the Modern Language Association Committee on
Scholarly Editions. All new projects (those which have never received NHPRC
funding) must publish a digital edition which provides online access to a
searchable collection of all documents. (Ebooks or volumes in PDF do not
qualify for the purposes of this grant program.) New projects may also prepare
print editions as part of their overall publishing plan, but the contents of
those volumes must be published online within a reasonable period of time
following print publication. The NHPRC encourages projects to provide free
access to online editions. Projects that do not have definitive plans for
digital dissemination and preservation in place at the time of application will
not be considered. Grants are awarded for collecting, describing, preserving,
compiling, transcribing, annotating, editing, encoding, and publishing
documentary source materials online and in print. Because of the focus on
documentary sources, grants do not support preparation of critical editions of
published works unless such works are just a small portion of the larger
project. All applicants should be aware that the application process is highly
competitive.
IMLS: Institute of Museum and Library Services
National Leadership Grants for
Libraries (NLG-L) support projects that address significant challenges and
opportunities facing the library and archives fields and that have the
potential to advance theory and practice. Successful proposals will generate
results such as new tools, research findings, models, services, practices, or
alliances that will be widely used, adapted, scaled, or replicated to extend
the benefits of federal investment. We have two FY18 NLG-L funding
opportunities, each with two separate deadlines. In addition to the opportunity
described in this Notice of Funding Opportunity, a separate NLG-L funding
opportunity was announced in July 2017 with a preliminary proposal application
submission due date in September 2017. Both opportunities are subject to the
availability of funds and IMLS discretion and procedures.
The goal of the Museums for
America (MFA) program is to support projects that strengthen the ability of an
individual museum to serve its public. Museums Empowered: Professional
Development Opportunities for Museum Staff is a special MFA initiative with the
goal of strengthening the ability of an individual museum to serve its public
through professional development activities that cross-cut various departments
to generate systemic change within the museum.
CRIME, JUSTICE, & PUBLIC SAFETY
USDOJ: Department of Justice
The Legal Assistance for
Victims (LAV) Grant Program is intended to increase the availability of civil
and criminal legal assistance needed to effectively aid adult and youth victims
of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking who are
seeking relief in legal matters relating to or arising out of that abuse or
violence, at minimum or no cost to the victims. LAV Grant Program funds may not
be used to provide criminal defense services. Grant funds may be used to
provide direct legal services to victims of sexual assault, domestic violence,
dating violence, and stalking in matters relating to or arising out of that
abuse or violence. The objective of the LAV Grant Program is to develop
innovative, collaborative projects that provide quality representation to
victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking.
HHS: Department of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health
This initiative supports
research to test the effectiveness of combined strategies to both detect and intervene
to reduce the risk of suicide behavior, suicide ideation, and non-suicidal
self-harm (NSSI) by youth in contact with the juvenile justice system.
Opportunities for detection and prevention start at early points of contact
(e.g., police interaction, the intake interview) and continue through many
juvenile justice settings (e.g., pre-trial detention, juvenile or family court
activities, court disposition, placement and on-going care in either
residential or multiple community settings.) This FOA invites intervention
strategies that are designed to be delivered in typical service settings using
typically available personnel and resources, to enhance the implementation of
interventions that prove effective, enhance their future uptake in diverse settings,
and thereby reduce risk of suicide and self-harm in this population. This FOA
is published in parallel to a companion R34 FOA (PAR-xx-xxx) supporting pilot
studies in preparation for the larger-scale studies described here.
The purpose of this initiative
is to support research to develop and test youth violence prevention
interventions that incorporate racism/discrimination prevention strategies for
one or more health disparity populations. The target age range includes middle
school to high school-aged youth, corresponding to an approximate age range of
11 to 18.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
The Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
(CSAT) is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2018 Offender Reentry
Program (ORP) grants. The purpose of this program is to expand substance use
disorder (SUD) treatment and related recovery and reentry services to sentenced
adult offenders/ex-offenders with a SUD and/or co-occurring substance use and
mental disorders, who are returning to their families and community from
incarceration in state and local facilities including prisons, jails, or
detention centers (hereafter known as “the population of focus”). For the
purpose of this FOA, sentenced adult offenders/ex-offenders are defined as
persons 18 years of age or older (or adults as defined by your state or tribal
law) under the jurisdiction of the criminal justice system who have been
sentenced to incarceration as adults. If your state or tribe uses a different
age range for adult offenders, you must document how the age of “adults” is
defined in your state or tribal justice system. Applicants are expected to form
stakeholder partnerships that will plan, develop and provide a transition from
incarceration to community-based SUD treatment and related reentry services.
SAMHSA’s interest is to actively support offender reentry stakeholder
partnerships so that clinical needs are met and clients are treated using
evidence-based practices. By providing needed treatment and recovery services,
this program is intended to reduce the health and social costs of substance use
and dependence to the public, and increase the safety of America’s citizens by
reducing substance use related crime and violence. Additional anticipated
outcomes include: increased number of individuals served; increased abstinence
from substance use; increased employment rates; decreased recidivism rates;
increased housing stability; decreased criminal justice involvement; improved
individual and family functioning and well-being; increased social
connectedness; and decreased risky behaviors.
COMMUNITY & PUBLIC HEALTH
HHS: Department of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health
This funding opportunity
announcement (FOA) encourages researchers to partner with community groups, using
Community Engaged Research (CEnR) methodologies that will enhance relationships
and lead to better intervention development and positive health outcomes.
The purpose of this Funding
Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage research applications to develop
and pilot test the effectiveness and implementation of family navigator models
designed to promote early access, engagement and coordination of mental health
treatment and services for children and adolescents who are experiencing early
symptoms of mental health problems. For the purposes of this FOA, NIMH defines
a family navigator model as a health care professional or paraprofessional
whose role is to deploy a set of strategies designed to rapidly engage youth
and families in needed treatment and services, work closely with the family and
other involved treatment and service providers to optimize care and monitor the
trajectory of mental health symptoms and outcomes over time. Applicants are
encouraged to develop and pilot test the navigator models ability to promote
early access, engagement and coordination of mental health treatment and
services for children and adolescents as soon as symptoms are detected. Of
interest are navigator models that coordinate needed care strategies, determine
the personalized match to the level of needed service amount, frequency and
intensity, and harness novel technologies to track and monitor the trajectory
of clinical, functional and behavioral progress toward achieving intended
services outcomes. This FOA is published in parallel to a companion FOA,
PAR-18-428 which uses the R01 funding mechanism.
This Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA), issued by the National Institute of Nursing Research
(NINR), is intended to encourage Research Project Grant (R01) applications that
employ innovative research to identify mechanisms of influence and/or promote
positive sustainable health behavior(s) in children and youth (birth to age
18). Positive health behaviors may include: developing healthy sleep patterns,
developing effective self-regulation strategies, adaptive decision-making in
risk situations, practicing proper dental hygiene, eating a balanced and
nutritious diet, engaging in age-appropriate physical activity and/or
participating in healthy relationships. Applications to promote positive health
behavior(s) should target social and cultural contexts, including, but not
limited to: schools, families, communities, population, food industry,
age-appropriate learning tools and games, social media, social networking,
technology and mass media. Topics to be addressed in this announcement include:
effective, sustainable processes for influencing young people to make healthy
behavior choices; identification of the appropriate stage of influence for
learning sustainable lifelong health behaviors; the role of technology and new
media in promoting healthy behavior; identification of factors that support
healthy behavior development in vulnerable populations; and, identification of
mechanisms and mediators that are common to the development of a range of
habitual health behaviors. Given the many factors involved in developing
sustainable health behaviors, applications from multidisciplinary team that
include nurse scientists are strongly encouraged. The goal of this FOA is to
promote research that identifies and enhances processes that promote
sustainable positive behavior or changes social and cultural norms that
influence health and future health behaviors.
The purpose of this Funding
Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage innovative exploratory and
developmental health services research to improve minority health and/or reduce
health disparities at the health care system-level as well as within clinical
settings.
This Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA) invites applications to conduct innovative and feasible
studies to test strategies to accelerate the adoption of guideline-based
recommendations into clinical practice among populations with health disparities.
Applications that propose strategies with a focus on providers who care for
clinical populations with excess burden of cardiovascular, lung, blood, and
sleep diseases and disorders, in concert with the health care delivery systems
in which they practice, are strongly encouraged. Applications that test
systems, infrastructures, and strategies to implement guideline-based care for
NHLBI disorders in clinical care settings are also of high programmatic
interest.
The purpose of this Funding
Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to provide support for innovative and
promising intervention research designed to improve smoking cessation outcomes
among socioeconomically disadvantaged populations. Specifically, this FOA is
intended to stimulate research efforts aimed at the development of smoking
cessation interventions that: 1) are targeted to socioeconomically
disadvantaged populations, and 2) could be made scalable for broad population
impact. Applicants may propose projects that develop and test novel cessation
interventions with the potential to be scaled up, as well as projects that
focus on enhancing the effectiveness, quality, accessibility, utilization, and
cost-effectiveness of currently scaled smoking cessation interventions. This
FOA provides funding for up to 2 years for protocol development and early
phase, pilot, or exploratory projects.
The purpose of this Funding
Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support investigative and collaborative
research focused on understanding and addressing disparities in surgical care
and outcomes, in minority and health disparity populations. While the goal is
to better understand and explore effectiveness of clinical intervention
approaches for addressing surgical disparities, this initiative will also seek
to identify multi-level strategies at the institutional and systems level.
This initiative will support
health services, intervention, and implementation research to understand and
reduce racial/ethnic, geographic, and socioeconomic HIV disparities in US
women. Projects may address HIV prevention, screening and diagnosis, and/or
treatment. Projects may involve primary data collection and/or secondary
analysis of existing data.
The purpose of this initiative
is to support community-based and healthcare setting-based research to
understand the individual, interpersonal, community and societal factors that
influence patterns of PrEP attitudes, access, availability, and adherence among
health disparity populations in the US. Projects may involve primary
quantitative/qualitative data collection and/or secondary analysis of existing
data.
This Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA) solicits innovative, targeted basic behavioral and social
science and intervention development research to reduce incident HIV infections
and improve the health of those living with HIV. This FOA encourages research
designed to (a) conduct basic behavioral and social science research that is
needed to advance the development of HIV prevention and care interventions, (b)
translate and operationalize the findings from these basic studies to develop
interventions and assess their acceptability and feasibility and (c) conduct
tests of the efficacy of HIV prevention and care interventions. This FOA uses
the R01 grant mechanism while PA-18-272 uses the R21 mechanism.
The purpose of this Funding
Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to promote innovative research that addresses
one or both of the following objectives: Devise optimal strategies to improve
the identification of persons unaware of their HIV-1 infection and successfully
link them to HIV testing, treatment, and prevention interventions. Develop and
examine the feasibility and acceptability of novel integrated interventions of
biomedical and behavioral strategies that substantially reduce the likelihood
of onward HIV transmission in these populations.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
The Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Centers for Mental Health Services
(CMHS), Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), and Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
are accepting applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2018 Minority Fellowship
Program (Short Title: MFP). The purpose of this program is to: (1) increase the
knowledge of mental and/or substance use disorder behavioral health
professionals on issues related to prevention, treatment, and recovery support
for individuals who are from racial and ethnic minority populations and have a
mental or substance use disorder; (2) improve the quality of mental and
substance use disorder prevention and treatment services delivered to racial
and ethnic minority populations; and (3) increase the number of culturally
competent mental and substance use disorders professionals who teach,
administer services, conduct research, and provide direct mental and/or
substance use disorder services to racial and ethnic minority populations. It
is expected that MFP will reduce behavioral health disparities and improve
health care outcomes for racial and ethnic minority populations.
Centers for Disease Control
The goal of this demonstration
project is to reduce time between community-based testing and linkage to HIV
care, treatment, and effective biomedical HIV prevention among black and
Hispanic/Latino men who have sex with men who receive HIV testing services
through community-based programs. Although outcomes along the HIV care
continuum have generally improved over time, persistent racial and geographic
disparities in access to HIV care, rates of viral load suppression, and
HIV-related health outcomes have complicated HIV prevention efforts in the
United States.
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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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