In this edition of Minneapolis Promise Zone Updates:
- Wilkins Community Fellows Program
- Grant Spotlight
- Recent Federal Grant and Partnership Opportunities
- About the Minneapolis Promise Zone
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Wilkins Community Fellows Program
The Roy Wilkins Community Fellows program is an intensive one-week boot camp that provides individuals and nonprofit organizations serving Minneapolis communities of color an introduction to policy analysis and methods of evaluation to assess the effectiveness of programs specifically targeted at those communities. The annual workshop is led by Professor Samuel Myers, director of the Roy Wilkins Center for Social Justice and Human Relations at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs.
- The 2018 program will take place June 4 - 8.
Fellows are selected through a competitive process, and there is no cost to attend the workshop, which includes reading materials, parking, light breakfast, and lunch.
Applications must be submitted online by 10 p.m. CDT on April 30, 2018. For more information contact Blanca Monter at rwilkins@umn.edu.
Applicants must obtain approval from their employer to participate in this workshop if accepted. Applicants will be notified of the final decision via email on May 15, 2018.
 Grant Spotlight
Enhance Job Creation and Business Development for Individuals with Low Income
The Community Economic Development program seeks to fund projects that address the personal and community barriers that
must be overcome to help individuals with low incomes become self-sufficient. Funds can be
used for costs associated with participating business start-up or expansion activities. OCS is encouraging projects that align with the Promise Zones Initiative, Choice Neighborhoods Program, or under-served Communities Zones Initiative.
- Deadline: June 15, 2018
- Award Ceiling: $800,000
Choice Neighborhoods Planning and Action Grants
The Choice Neighborhoods program leverages significant public and private dollars to support locally driven strategies that address struggling neighborhoods with distressed public or HUD assisted housing through a comprehensive approach to neighborhood transformation. Local leaders, residents, and stakeholders, such as public housing authorities, cities, schools, police, business owners, nonprofits, and private developers, come together to create and implement a plan that revitalizes distressed HUD housing and addresses the challenges in the surrounding neighborhood.
- Deadline: June 12, 2018
- Award Ceiling: $1,300,000
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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.
HUD: US Department of Housing and Urban Development
With this publication, HUD is making available up to $5,000,000
for Planning Grants, including Planning and Action Grants.1. Planning Grants
are two-year grants that assist communities with severely distressed public or
HUD-assisted housing in developing a successful neighborhood transformation plan
and building the support necessary for that plan to be successfully
implemented.2. Planning and Action Grants are three and a half year planning
grants that pair planning with action. Experience shows that tangible actions
taken early on help communities build momentum for further planning and the
eventual transition from planning to implementation of that plan. These actions
improve neighborhood confidence, which in turn sustains the community's energy,
attracts more engagement and resources, and helps convince skeptical
stakeholders that positive change is possible. Under these grants, the planning
process activities would take place during the first 24 months of the grant
period. The planning process will identify Action Activities that will be carried
out during the latter portion of the grant period. Action Activities must build
upon the planning for the target housing and neighborhood.
VETERANS
DOL: Department of Labor
Employment and Training Administration
The project
aims to accomplish increasing and expediting attainment of state occupational
licenses by veterans and transitioning service members (TSMs) by identifying
gaps between military education and training in specific military occupations
as compared to the education required for related licensed civilian
occupations. For example, credit recommendations sometimes identify military
education as equivalent to 1 or 2 credits of a 3-credit course—leaving gaps
that are portions of courses. Where these identified gaps represent portions of
multiple required courses the project will develop a bridge curriculum, as open
educational resources, to address those gaps such that veterans can enter and
complete a program of study required to obtain a state license needed to
achieve their career objectives. Furthermore, the project seeks to identify
instances in which civilian education programs can waive required courses by
awarding credit for military training or giving veterans and TSMs advanced
standing within an existing training program.
CRIME, JUSTICE,
& PUBLIC SAFETY
USDOJ: Department of Justice
Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention
This
solicitation will support field-initiated, methodologically rigorous research
and/or evaluations focused on interactions between law enforcement and youth,
with practical implications for the identification and development of programs
and policies that ensure officer, youth, and community safety. This
solicitation encourages researchers to propose studies that contribute to the
development of scientific evidence about factors that facilitate or inhibit
positive police-youth interactions, as well as evaluations of the
implementation and effectiveness of trainings, programs, practices, or policies
designed to facilitate productive law enforcement and youth engagement.
Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention
This program
will support states and localities in developing and implementing strategies to
ensure that youth involved with the juvenile justice system have fair and equal
access to quality legal representation; ensure that offenders involved with the
juvenile justice system have resources that address the collateral consequences
of justice system involvement; and/or provide training for the juvenile
indigent defense bar, including public defenders and court-appointed counsel
working on behalf of juvenile indigent defendants.
INTERNATIONAL
SPORTS LEADERSHIP
DOS: Department of State
U.S. Mission to India
The Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Consulate General in
Mumbai (PAS Mumbai) seeks proposals for a project entitled “Basketball and
Leadership Camps for Empowering Underprivileged Youth.” Through its network
with schools or social organizations in the western India region (Chhattisgarh,
Goa, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra), the selected grantee will
secure partners and sporting venues for the camps and obtain/procure equipment
such as hoops, balls, and other gear as needed. The grantee would also identify
one U.S. basketball coach with experience conducting such camps to travel to
India for the programs. (Please refer to the full announcement available under
'related documents' tab)
DOS
Department of State
Bureau Of Educational and Cultural Affairs
The Office of Citizen Exchanges, Sports Diplomacy Division, in
the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announces an open competition
for the FY 2018 Global Sports Mentoring Program (GSMP). U.S. public and private
non-profit organizations meeting the provisions described in Internal Revenue
Code section 26 U.S.C. 501(c)(3) may submit proposals to conduct two separate
month-long professional development mentorship programs, Sport for Community
GSMP and the espnW GSMP, and a reciprocal overseas exchange involving
approximately 80 international and American participants in total. By
empowering women and people with disabilities, the GSMP directly supports U.S.
foreign policy goals, promotes social inclusion, and elevates the status of
marginalized populations. Through the mentorship experience, the GSMP
encourages mutually beneficial relationships between American sports executives
and leaders in the sports sector overseas. Further, the GSMP engages alumni
from previous years through sustained U.S. Embassy relationships, follow-on
individual grants, and monitoring and evaluation. Tapping into the power of
public-private partnerships and founded on participant-led business plans, the
GSMP positively impacts communities at home and abroad and creates a more
secure and democratic global playing field for all.
EDUCATION & STEM: Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Math
DOS: Department of State
Bureau Of Educational and Cultural Affairs
The Office of Citizen Exchanges, Professional Fellows Division,
of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA or “the Bureau”) invites
proposal submissions for the FY 2018 TechWomen program to empower, connect, and
support the next generation of women leaders in science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The exchange program uses a mentorship
model to support emerging STEM leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa, South and
Central Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa. Organizations applying for
this federal award should demonstrate the capacity to recruit, select, and place
in mentorships a total of approximately 100-110 women from select countries in
these regions to participate in a five- to six-week intensive peer-mentoring
program in the United States. The mentoring experience should focus on
advancing the status of professional women in the STEM fields through
project-based peer mentorships, skill building, networking opportunities, and
enhancement activities. Funding will also support follow-on activities in the
participants’ home countries that inspire and encourage girls and
university-age women interested or working in STEM-based careers, engage young
women using technology in their professions, and support former participants of
the program (“alumnae”). Special emphasis should be placed on finding creative
ways to involve alumnae in strengthening a network of female STEM
professionals, building professional standards and capacity, and inspiring the
next generation of girls interested in STEM careers by exposing them to female
role models. Award applicants must exhibit their ability to manage all program
logistics and overseas follow-on programming.
U.S. Mission to Vietnam
The U.S.
Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City Public Affairs Section (PAS) is pleased
to announce funding is available through the Public Diplomacy Federal
Assistance Awards program for the American Center in Ho Chi Minh City. Through
this funding opportunity the U.S. Consulate General aims to provide American
Center patrons high quality opportunities to practice their English and to
learn more about American culture. The program should be based on sound English
Language Teaching pedagogy, combining some structured instruction along with
ample time for speaking practice. Having a trained teacher is a critical
criterion for all proposals and preference, due to their cultural knowledge,
will be given to projects working with trained American teachers. All projects
will need to run during the regular office hours of the American Center, from
8am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.
U.S. Mission to India
The Public
Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi (PAS New Delhi) seeks proposals
for a project entitled “Let’s Get Serious: Comic Videos to Promote Study in the
U.S.” Under this project, a grantee will partner with a well-known Indian
comedian(s) to create a series of short videos responding to frequently asked
questions about higher education opportunities in the United States, the
application process and student life in the United States. The grantee will be
responsible for identifying and securing a comedian (or comic personality),
drafting and editing scripts, hiring supplementary actors if needed, arranging
all A/V and filming support, shooting the footage, editing and obtaining all
copyrights/permissions for dissemination. The grantee will create a minimum of
10 short videos, lasting between 30 seconds and 2 minutes, edited for best
viewing on a smartphone screen (vertical). All videos will be in English and
subtitled in English, with a Department of State and EducationUSA watermark.
PAS New Delhi will disseminate the videos on EducationUSA India and Mission
India’s official Facebook and YouTube pages. The target audience will be Indian
students, aged 17-35, who speak English and have aspirations to study abroad.
(Please refer to the full announcement available under 'related documents'
tab.)
FOOD &
NUTRITION
HHS: Department of Health and Human Services
Administration for Community Living
This funding opportunity is for competitive
grants to be awarded under the OAA Title IV authority to increase the evidenced
based knowledge base of nutrition providers, drive improved health outcomes for
program recipients by promoting higher service quality, and increase program
efficiency through innovative nutrition service delivery models. Funding will
support innovative and promising practices that move the aging network towards
evidenced based practices that enhance the quality, effectiveness of nutrition
services programs or outcomes within the aging services network. Innovation can
include service products that appeal to caregivers (such as web-based ordering
systems and carryout food products), increased involvement of volunteers (such as
retired chefs), consideration of eating habits and choice (such as variable
meal times, salad bars, or more fresh fruits and vegetables), new service
models (testing variations and hybrid strategies) and other innovations to
better serve a generation of consumers whose needs and preferences are
different. Innovative and promising practices may include the testing and
publishing of positive outcomes in which nutrition programs provide a
meaningful role in support of the health and long-term care of older individuals.
Outcomes should focus on methods to improve collaboration with local health
care entities, decrease health care costs for a specific population or decrease
the incidence of the need for institutionalization among older adults. Through
this program, funds may be used to help develop and test additional models or
to replicate models that have already been tested in other community-based
settings.
USDA: Department of Agriculture
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Food Safety Outreach Program (FSOP) for fiscal
year (FY) 2018 to develop and implement food safety training, education,
extension, outreach and technical assistance projects that address the needs of
owners and operators of small to mid-sized farms, beginning farmers,
socially-disadvantaged farmers, small processors, or small fresh fruit and
vegetable merchant wholesalers.
PUBLIC & COMMUNITY HEALTH
HHS:
Department of Health and Human Services
Administration for Children and Families - OCS
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Community Services (OCS) will award approximately $17.2 million in Community Economic Development (CED) discretionary grant funds to Community Development Corporations (CDC) for well-planned, financially viable, and innovative projects to enhance job creation and business development for individuals with low income. CED grants will be made as part of a broader strategy to address objectives such as decreasing dependency on federal programs, chronic unemployment, and community deterioration in urban and rural areas. CED projects are expected to actively recruit individuals with low income to fill the positions created by CED-funded development activities, to assist those individuals to successfully hold those jobs and to ensure that the businesses and jobs created remain viable for at least one year after the end of the grant period. CED-funded projects can be non-construction or construction projects, however, short-term construction jobs associated with preparing for business startup or expansion are not counted when determining the number of jobs created under the CED program as they are designed to be temporary in nature. OCS is encouraging applications from CDCs to target hurricane disaster areas, rural areas, and underserved areas: 21 states and territories that do not have active CED projects: Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Island of Guam, Mississippi, Nevada, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Oregon, Rhode Island, U.S. Virgin Islands, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and Wyoming. Furthermore, OCS is encouraging projects that align with the Promise Zones Initiative or Choice Neighborhoods Program, underserved Communities Zones Initiative or Choice Neighborhoods Program.
National
Institutes of Health
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA) is to encourage developmental and exploratory research
focused on determining the mechanisms for the variation in the prevalence of
Opioid Use Disorder (OUD), and understanding and reducing disparities in opioid
care in minority health and health disparity populations in the U.S. This
initiative will also seek to identify multi-level intervention strategies at
the institutional and systems level for addressing OUD in these populations.
Centers
for Disease Control - NCIRD
The purpose of
this NOFO is to provide support for communication and education activities to
promote and maintain accurate information about vaccines among stakeholders and
the general public Education of USDA/WIC staff about the latest vaccine
recommendations and vaccine access points to facilitate vaccination referrals
to WIC participant
Centers for Disease Control - NCIPC
Violence is
a major public health problem. Over 64,000 people died violently in the U.S. in
2016. These violent deaths included 44,965 suicides and 19,911 homicides.
Violent deaths have been estimated to cost nearly $214 billion in medical care
and lost productivity. Violence is preventable. Interventions, strategies, and
policies are increasingly available that stop violence before it happens.
Preventing violence is a critical public health goal because violence inflicts
a substantial toll on individuals, families, and communities throughout the US.
In order to prevent violence, we must first know the facts about violent
deaths. This NOFO builds on previous and current work within the Division of
Violence Prevention (DVP) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) to conduct surveillance of violence and to prevent violence.
ARTS &
HUMANITIES
NEH: National Endowment for the Humanities
The Research
and Development program supports projects that address major challenges in
preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources. These
challenges include the need to find better ways to preserve materials of
critical importance to the nation’s cultural heritage—from fragile artifacts
and manuscripts to analog recordings and digital assets subject to
technological obsolescence—and to develop advanced modes of organizing,
searching, discovering, and using such materials. This program recognizes that
finding solutions to complex problems often requires forming interdisciplinary
project teams, bringing together participants with expertise in the humanities;
in preservation; and in information, computer, and natural science. All projects
must demonstrate how advances in preservation and access would benefit the
cultural heritage community in supporting humanities research, teaching, or
public programming. Research and Development offers two funding tiers in order
to address projects at all stages of development and implementation.
Digital Humanities Advancement Grants (DHAG) support digital projects
throughout their lifecycles, from early start-up phases through implementation
and long-term sustainability. Experimentation, reuse, and extensibility are
hallmarks of this program, leading to innovative work that can scale to enhance
scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities. This
program is offered twice per year. Proposals are welcome for digital
initiatives in any area of the humanities. Through a special partnership with
NEH, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) anticipates providing
additional funding to this program to encourage innovative collaborations
between museum or library professionals and humanities professionals to advance
preservation of, access to, use of, and engagement with digital collections and
services. IMLS and NEH may jointly fund some DHAG projects that involve
collaborations with museums and/or libraries. Digital Humanities Advancement
Grants may involve • creating or enhancing experimental, computationally-based
methods, techniques, or infrastructure that contribute to the humanities; •
pursuing scholarship that examines the history, criticism, and philosophy of
digital culture and its impact on society, or explores the philosophical or
practical implications and impact of digital humanities in specific fields or
disciplines; or • revitalizing and/or recovering existing digital projects that
promise to contribute substantively to scholarship, teaching, or public knowledge
of the humanities.
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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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