In this edition of Minneapolis Promise Zone Updates:
- Grant Spotlight
- Recent Federal Grant and Partnership Opportunities
- About the Minneapolis Promise Zone
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Support from OREI and ORG is used to fund high priority
research, education, and extension programs to solve critical challenges facing
the organic agriculture industry. OREI funding can help local businesses expand
their organic offerings as well as overcome policy and market roadblocks to
organic food adoption in North Minneapolis. ORG funding can also help
businesses who are transitioning into and adopting organic practices. This
grant is spot-lighted because it would help local food projects and/or businesses increase the
amount of healthy, organic food in North Minneapolis. More information can be
found on the nifa.usda.gov website.
This program aims to provide funding for up to seven
private, non-profit host organizations of a Women’s Business Center (WBC) that
have met their performance goals and is capable of starting a new,
community-based WBC. This funding is important to women entrepreneurs, especially women of color, in both emerging and established businesses because of the unique social and financial
disparities they face. This grant is spot-lighted because North Minneapolis has many women of color that could use the support of a Women's Business Center to turn their business ideas into a reality.
The Landmarks of American History and Culture program
defines landmarks as sites of historic importance and offers workshops for K12
educators to deepen their knowledge of the histories, cultures, and
perspectives of the American people. This grant is spot-lighted because North Minneapolis has a rich history present that isn't often highlighted in the school system here. The grant would provide the opportunity to explore and teach these narratives that are critical to
understanding American history and government. More information can be found on
neh.gov
Recent Federal Grant and Partnership Opportunities
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.
EDUCATION & STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering,
and Math
EPA: Environmental Protection Agency
15th Annual P3 Awards: A National Student Design
Competition Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) – as part
of its People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) Award Program – is seeking
applications proposing to research, develop, design, and demonstrate solutions
to real world challenges. The P3 competition highlights the use of scientific
principles in creating innovative technology-based projects that achieve the
mutual goals of improved quality of life, economic prosperity, and protection
of the planet – people, prosperity, and the planet. The EPA offers the P3
competition in order to respond to the needs of people in the United States
(U.S.)—e.g., those in small, rural, tribal, and disadvantaged communities.
Please see the P3 website for more details about this program. Proposed
projects must embody the P3 approach, which is that they have the intention and
capability to simultaneously improve the quality of people’s lives, provide
economic benefits, and protect the environment.
Eligibility Information: Public and private institutions
of higher education (limited to degree-granting institutions of higher
education) located in the U.S. (includes eligible institutions of higher
education located in U.S. territories and possessions) are eligible to apply to
be the recipient of a grant to support teams of undergraduate and/or graduate students.
Profit-making firms are not eligible to receive assistance agreements from the
EPA under this program. See full announcement for more details.
Additional information: https://www.epa.gov/research-grants/15th-annual-p3-awards-national-student-design-competition-focusing-people-prosperity
ARTS & HUMANITIES
NEH: National Endowment for the Humanities
The Landmarks of American History
and Culture program supports a series of one-week workshops for a national
audience of K-12 educators that enhance and strengthen humanities teaching at
the K-12 level. The program defines a landmark as a site of historic importance
within the United States and its territories that offers educators a unique and
compelling opportunity to deepen and expand their knowledge of the diverse
histories, cultures, traditions, languages, and perspectives of the American
people. Projects employ a place-based approach, teaching historic sites through
critical interpretation in order to explore central themes in American history
and government, as well as in literature, art, music, and related humanities
subjects. Each workshop accommodates thirty-six participants (NEH Summer
Scholars) and is offered twice during the summer (for a total of seventy-two
participants). Workshops may be hosted by institutions such as community
colleges, universities, four-year colleges, learned societies, libraries or
other repositories, centers for advanced study, cultural organizations,
professional associations, and schools or school systems. Host institutions
provide facilities and arrange for accommodations for participants, who receive
a stipend. NEH expects host institutions to furnish facilities conducive to
scholarly engagement with topics and sites.
NEH Summer Seminars and
Institutes grants broaden and deepen understanding of the humanities in
supporting professional development programs, specifically designed for a
national audience of K-12 educators or college and university faculty. The
programs provide one- to four-week opportunities for participants (NEH Summer
Scholars) to explore a variety of topics relevant to K-12 or undergraduate
education in the humanities. NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes • focus on the
study and teaching of significant texts and other resources; • provide models
of excellent scholarship and teaching; • contribute to the intellectual growth
of the of participants; and • build lasting communities of inquiry. An NEH
Summer Seminar or Institute may be hosted by a college, university, learned
society, center for advanced study, library or other repository, cultural or
professional organization, or school or school system. The host site must
provide facilities for collegial interaction and scholarship. The program must
be held only in the United States and its territories. Seminars and Institutes
are designed either for K-12 educators or for college and university faculty.
Programs for K-12 educators must involve someone with significant K-12
experience in both project planning and implementation and must respond to K-12
curricular needs. Seminars A Seminar provides an intimate and focused
environment in which sixteen participants study a specific humanities topic
under the guidance of one or two established scholars. Seminars have few, if
any, visiting faculty. They emphasize sustained interaction among the
participants and director(s) through discussion of common readings,
conversations about teaching, and advising on independent projects. Institutes
An Institute allows twenty-five to thirty-six participants to pursue an
intensive program of study under a team of scholarly experts, who present a
range of perspectives on a humanities topic. Participants and scholars mutually
explore connections between scholarship about and the teaching of the topic.
DOI: Department of the Interior
Save America's Treasures grants from the Historic
Preservation Fund provide preservation and/or conservation assistance to
nationally significant historic collections. Grants are awarded through a
competitive process and require a dollar-for-dollar, non-Federal match, which
can be cash or documented in-kind. The grants are administered by the National
Park Service (NPS) in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts
(NEA), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Institute of
Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
FIREFIGHTERS
DHS: Department of Homeland Security
The Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Grants Programs
Directorate is responsible for the implementation and administrations of the
Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) Program. The purpose of the AFG Program
is to enhance the safety of the public and firefighters with respect to fire
and fire-related hazards. The program guidance document provides potential
applicants with the details of the requirements, processing, and evaluation of
an application for financial assistance for eligible activities.
VETERANS
DOL: Department of Labor
DOL VETS supports local Stand
Down (SD) events that assist homeless veterans by providing a wide variety of
employment, social, and health services. A homeless veteran is a veteran, as
defined in 38 U.S.C. 101(2), who is “homeless” as that term is defined at 42
U.S.C. 11302(a)-(b), as amended by the Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid
Transition to Housing Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-22). Stand Down grant funds
must be used to enhance employment and training opportunities or to promote the
self-sufficiency of homeless veterans through paid work. Veterans experiencing
homelessness do not always have access to basic hygiene supplies necessary to
maintain their health and appearance. Lack of shelter limits their ability to
prepare for and present themselves at job interviews or be contacted for
follow-up. Basic services such as showers, haircuts, attention to health
concerns, and other collaborative services provided at SD events can give
participants a greater sense of self and an opportunity to improve their
chances of securing and maintaining employment. Each year, VETS sets funds
aside from the Homeless Veterans’ Reintegration Program (HVRP) budget activity
to award SD grants. Stand Down funding is a non-competitive grant awarded on a
first-come, first-served basis until available annual funding is exhausted.
VETS will continue to accept applications and process when additional funds
become available. The maximum amount that can be awarded, per applicant for a
geographic area, in a fiscal year (October 1 – September 30) is $7,000 for a
one-day event and $10,000 for a multi-day event.
WOMEN’S SMALL BUSINESSES
SBA: Small Business Administration
Since its inception in 1953,
the Small Business Administration (SBA) has served to aid, counsel, assist and
protect the interests of small businesses. While the SBA is best known for its
financial support of small businesses through its many lending programs, the
Agency also plays a critical role in providing funding to organizations that
deliver technical assistance in the form of counseling and training to small
business concerns and nascent entrepreneurs in order to promote growth,
expansion, innovation, increased productivity and management improvement. The
mission of the WBC Program is to act as the catalyst for providing in-depth,
substantive, outcome-oriented business services to women entrepreneurs, both
nascent and established businesses, a representative number of which are
socially and economically disadvantaged. This mission is accomplished through
the award of financial assistance to private, 501(c)- certified non-profit
organizations to enable them to affect substantial economic impact in their
communities, as measured by successful business start-ups, job creation and
retention, and increased company revenues. The purpose of this funding opportunity
announcement is to provide funding for up to six eligible non-profit
organizations (as defined in Section 3.2) to start a new, community-based
Women’s Business Center (WBC) in the geographic areas of SBA’s six District
offices that do not have a WBC in their respective service area. Eligible
applicants must be private, non-profit organizations with 501(c) tax-exempt
status from the U.S. Treasury/Internal Revenue Service and must provide
services to the population within one of the following states. Applicants
proposing to provide services within the District office territories must
provide services to the population within the counties listed.
FOOD & NUTRITION
USDA: Department of Agriculture
NIFA supports programs to address critical organic
agriculture issues, priorities, or problems through the integration of research
and extension activities and programs to evaluate both the environmental
impacts of organic agriculture and the environmental services provided. The
Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA) established the National Organic Program
(NOP) in 1990. Final rules for implementing this legislation came out in 2000
and nationwide organic standards for certification under a national organic
label were first established in 2002. Current market participants report that
shortages of organic products constrain the growth of both individual firms and
the overall organic sector. NIFA addresses the needs of organic agriculture
through both the provision of formula grants to universities and colleges and through
competitive funding. The Integrated Organic Program (IOP) is a competitive
program that has included the Organic Transitions Program since 2001 and the
Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative (OREI) from 2009 to 2012.
CRIME, JUSTICE, & PUBLIC SAFETY
USDOJ: Department of Justice
National Institute of Corrections
Live Internet broadcasting is
training/education between trainers/facilitators at one location and
participants as they receive instruction at other locations via technology. NIC
uses internet broadcasting economically to reach audiences from federal, state,
tribal, and local corrections and criminal justice agencies, as well as
partners and vested stakeholders who have a common interest in and/or contact
with offender populations. The typical consumer of our broadcast is
participating via a laptop, tablet, mobile device, or desktop computer system
in their office or a remote location. They may also be participating as a group
at a site that is projecting the broadcast via a larger screen in a training
room at a facility site. NIC is expanding its use of video into the micro video
learning realm with the use of live to tape productions of information
dissemination and training, in easily consumable “bites” of learning of 5, 10, 15,
20, or 30 minutes or up to 1 hour in length, depending upon the defined
performance outcome. Micro video learning as NIC is defining it is learning
that is short term, chunked to follow the science of learning and performance
into practice, and is easily accessed by the learner when they need it “just in
time”.
HHS: Department of Health and Human Services
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Eligible applicants are state, local, and tribal
governments with direct involvement with the adult treatment drug court/Tribal
Healing to Wellness Court, such as: • State governments; the District of
Columbia, Guam, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands,
the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic
of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau are also eligible to apply.
• Governmental units within political subdivisions of a state, such as a
county, city or town, and individual adult treatment drug courts. • Federally
recognized American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) tribes, tribal organizations,
and consortia of tribes or tribal organizations. Tribal organization means the
recognized body of any AI/AN tribe; any legally established organization of
AI/ANs which is controlled, sanctioned, or chartered by such governing body, or
which is democratically elected by the adult members of the Indian community to
be served by such organization, and which includes the maximum participation of
AI/ANs in all phases of its activities. Consortia of tribes or tribal
organizations are eligible to apply, but each participating entity must
indicate its approval. A single tribe in the consortium must be the legal
applicant, the recipient of the award, and the entity legally responsible for
satisfying the grant requirements. Eligible adult drug court models include
Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts, Driving While Intoxicated (DWI)/Driving
Under the Influence (DUI) Courts, Co-Occurring Drug and Mental Health Courts,
Veterans Treatment Courts, and Municipal Courts using the problem-solving
model. Public and private nonprofit organizations, such as SUD treatment
providers, have a pivotal supporting role in treatment drug court programs and
may be sub-recipients/contractors to the applicant. However, they are not the
catalysts for entry into drug courts and are, therefore, restricted from
applying. SAMHSA strongly believes that the court is in the best position to
administer this program because the court partners with selected treatment
providers on the course of treatment for drug court clients.
PUBLIC & COMMUNITY HEALTH
CPSC: Consumer Product Safety Commission
This announcement solicits applications for the Pool
Safely Grant Program, as authorized by Pub. L. No. 110-140, Virginia Graeme
Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act (VGB Act), section 1405. The CPSC anticipates
awarding up to, but no more than, $1.1 million in FY 2018 through competitive
project grant awards to eligible state and local governments that meet the
requirements under the VGB Act, for a 2-year project period. This announcement
provides potential applicants with the details of requirements for applying,
processing, and evaluating applications for financial assistance under the FY
2018 PSGP program.
HHS: Department of Health and Human Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
(NCIPC) is soliciting investigator-initiated research that will help expand and
advance our understanding about what works to prevent violence by rigorously
evaluating primary prevention strategies, programs, and policies to address
specific gaps in the prevention of teen dating violence, intimate partner
violence, sexual violence, and youth violence. This initiative is intended to
support the evaluation of primary prevention strategies, programs or policies
that target universal or selected high-risk populations (i.e., populations that
have one or more risk factors that place them at heightened risk for
perpetration of violence). Funds are available to conduct such studies focused
on preventing the perpetration of youth violence and/or teen dating/intimate
partner/sexual violence as detailed elsewhere in this announcement.
Health Resources and Services Administration
The purpose of this program is
to support eligible entities to meet the cost of traineeships for individuals
in Nurse Anesthesia degree programs. Nurse Anesthetists are on the front
lines of the opioid epidemic, especially in rural areas, where they are often
the sole provider of anesthesia services. As part of their training,
these individuals learn about multi-modal pain management and opioid addition
and treatment, which are a key part of helping communities address the opioid
crisis. Grants are awarded to accredited institutions that educate
registered nurses to become nurse anesthetists; recipient institutions, in
turn, disburse funds to students in the form of traineeship support. The funds
for the NAT Program are distributed among all eligible applicant institutions
based on a formula. This funding opportunity will help address U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) clinical priority of addressing opioid
abuse by providing funds to support Student Registered Nurse Anesthetists
(SRNAs) training or continuing education related to pain management, opioid
abuse prevention and treatment. SRNAs may use traineeship funds during the
period for which the traineeship is provided for full or partial costs of the
tuition and fees, books/e-books, reasonable living expenses (stipends) and to
attend workshops or conferences on topics including, but not limited to,
reduced opioid abuse, multi-modal pain management, and recovery.
This notice solicits
applications for the Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics (DBP) Training
Program. The purpose of the DBP Training Program is to enhance the
behavioral, psychosocial, and developmental components of pediatric care by
supporting DBP fellowship programs to train health care professionals to use
valid and reliable screening and diagnostic tools, in addition to providing
evidence-based interventions for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
and other developmental disabilities (DD).
Administration for Community Living
The Administration on Aging
(AoA) within the Administration for Community Living (ACL), U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) forecasts the possible availability of Fiscal
Year (FY) 2018 funds to make three-year grants to approximately 10 entities to
develop capacity, bring to scale, and sustain evidence-based programs that
empower older adults and adults with disabilities to better manage their
chronic conditions. ACL intends to compete these 10 grants via two options
(both with 36-month grant periods): (A) Sustainable Systems Grants:
approximately six grants of $500,000 to $900,000 focused on developing
integrated, sustainable systems for delivering evidence-based chronic disease
self-management education and self-management support programs. (B)
Capacity-Building Grants: approximately four grants of $50,000 to $150,000 to
build capacity to introduce and deliver evidence-based chronic disease
self-management education and self-management support programs within
underserved areas and/or populations.
The Administration on Aging
(AoA) within the Administration for Community Living (ACL), U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) forecasts the possible availability of Fiscal Year
(FY) 2018 funds to make three-year grants to approximately 10 entities to
develop capacity, bring to scale, and sustain evidence-based falls prevention
programs that will help to reduce the number of falls, fear of falling, and/or
fall-related injuries in older adults. ACL aims to compete these 10 grants via
two options (both with 36-month grant periods): (A) Sustainable Systems Grants:
approximately six grants of $400,000 to $600,00 focused on developing
integrated, sustainable systems for delivering falls prevention programs; (B)
Capacity-Building Grants: approximately four grants of $50,000 to $150,000 to
build capacity to introduce and deliver falls prevention programs within
underserved areas and/or populations.
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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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