In this edition of Minneapolis Promise Zone Updates:
- Grant Spotlight
- Pohlad Family Foundation's Homlessness Prevention Grants Program
- Recent Federal Grant and Partnership Opportunities
- About the Minneapolis Promise Zone
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 Grant Spotlight
Youth Street Outreach Program
Street Outreach Program works to increase young people’s personal safety, social and emotional well-being, self-sufficiency, and to help them build permanent connections with families, communities, schools, and other positive social networks. These services, which are provided in areas where street youth congregate, are designed to assist such youth in making healthy choices and to provide them access to shelter and services which include: outreach, gateway services, screening and assessment, harm reduction, access to emergency shelter, crisis stabilization, drop-in centers, which can be optional, and linkages/referrals to services.
- Deadline: June 20, 2018
- Award Ceiling: $150,000
Program for Investment in Micro-entrepreneurs
The SBA Administrator aims to establish a programs for the purposes of: (i) providing training and technical assistance to disadvantaged entrepreneurs; (ii) providing training and capacity building assistance to microenterprise development organizations (MDOs) and programs; (iii) aiding in Research and development of best practices for microenterprise and technical assistance programs for disadvantaged entrepreneurs; and (iv) for other activities as the SBA Administrator determines. This year, SBA will give additional consideration to those applicants that (1) provide training and technical assistance to economically disadvantaged entrepreneurs in rural areas; and (2) training and technical assistance to support entrepreneurship in HubZones.
- Deadline: June 01, 2018
- Award Ceiling: $250,000
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Pohlad Family Foundation's Homelessness Prevention Grants Program
For the first time in its 20-year history, the Pohlad Family Foundation will concentrate its giving on a strategic focus, housing stability, with the primary goal to prevent and end homelessness for families and youth in the Twin Cities seven-county metropolitan region.
We will invest $4M annually through our first grants program – Homelessness Prevention. This program is focused on services/strategies that have a direct impact on homelessness prevention for families and youth. We anticipate providing 20-30 grants ranging from $50,000 – $500,000 annually to organizations that serve the Twin Cities seven-county metropolitan region.
We will accept LOIs, of no more than two pages, by May 18, 2018. Based on the LOI review, we will invite organizations to submit a full proposal. Full applications for funding will be invited in June 2018 with final decisions in late September 2018. Please refer questions to:
Brian Paulson, BPaulson@pohladfoundation.org or 612-661-3801
Courtney Kiernat, ckiernat@pohladfoundation.org or 612-661-3803
More Information
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: US Department of Housing and Urban Development
FUP is a program under which HCVs are provided
to two groups: 1. Families for whom the lack of adequate housing is a primary
factor in the imminent placement of the family's child, or children, in
out-of-home care; or the delay in the discharge of the child, or children, to
the family from out-of-home care; and 2. Youths at least 18 years and not more
than 24 years of age (have not reached their 25th birthday) who left foster
care at age 16, or will leave foster care within 90 days, in accordance with a
transition plan described in section 475(5)(H) of the Social Security Act, and
is homeless or is at risk of becoming homeless at age 16 or older. As required
by statute, a FUP voucher issued to such a youth may only be used to provide
housing assistance for the youth for a maximum of 36 months.
A number of America’s veterans with
disabilities and who are low-income are in need of adaptive housing to help
them regain or maintain their independence. In partnership with the U.S.
Department of Veterans Affairs, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development intends to address these challenges in accordance with the Carl
Levin and Howard P. “Buck” McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 2015 (Pub. L. 113-291, enacted December 19, 2014) by awarding competitive
grants to nonprofit organizations that provide nationwide or statewide programs
that primarily serve veterans and/or low-income individuals. The grants may be
used to modify or rehabilitate eligible veterans’ primary residences.
Mainstream vouchers are a subset of the Housing
Choice Voucher program that are awarded competitively to serve persons with
disabilities.
ARTS &
HUMANITIES
NEA: National
Endowment for the Arts
The Arts Endowment’s support of a project may
start on July 1, 2019, or any time thereafter. A grant period of up to two
years is allowed. An organization may submit as a lead applicant two
applications to Our Town. A partnering organization may serve as a partner on
as many applications as they like. You may apply to other National Endowment
for the Arts funding opportunities, including Art Works and Challenge America,
in addition to Our Town. In each case, the request must be for a distinctly
different project, or a distinctly different phase of a project. If you have
applied to the NEA in the past and were not recommended for funding, you may
apply again to any funding opportunity, including Our Town. Description Our
Town is the National Endowment for the Arts’ creative placemaking grants
program. These grants support projects that integrate arts, culture, and design
activities into efforts that strengthen communities by advancing local
economic, physical, and/or social outcomes. Successful Our Town projects
ultimately lay the groundwork for systemic changes that sustain the integration
of arts, culture, and design into strategies for strengthening communities. Our
Town offers support for projects in two areas: • Place-Based Projects. Through
arts engagement, cultural planning, design, and/or artist/creative industry
support, these projects contribute to improved quality of life in local
communities. These projects require a partnership between a nonprofit
organization and a local government entity, with one of the partners being a
cultural organization. Matching grants range from $25,000 to $200,000, with a
minimum cost share/match equal to the grant amount. • Knowledge Building
Projects. These projects build and disseminate knowledge about how to leverage
arts, culture, and design as mechanisms for strengthening communities. These
grants are available to arts service or design service organizations, and/or
other national or regional membership, policy, or university-based
organizations. These projects require a partnership that will facilitate the
knowledge sharing and/or exchange. Matching grants range from $25,000 to
$100,000, with a minimum cost share/match equal to the grant amount.
NEH: National Endowment for the Humanities
The Digital Projects for the Public program
supports projects that interpret and analyze humanities content in primarily
digital platforms and formats, such as websites, mobile applications and tours,
interactive touch screens and kiosks, games, and virtual environments. The
projects must be designed to attract broad public audiences. All Digital
Projects for the Public projects should • present analysis that deepens public
understanding of significant humanities ideas; • incorporate sound humanities
scholarship; • involve humanities scholars in all phases of development and
production; • include appropriate digital media professionals; • reach a broad
public through a realistic plan for development, marketing, and distribution; •
create appealing digital formats for the general public; and • demonstrate the
capacity to sustain themselves. All projects should demonstrate the potential
to attract a broad, general, nonspecialist audience, either online or in person
at venues such as museums, libraries, or other cultural institutions.
Applicants may also choose to identify particular communities and groups,
including students, to whom a project may have particular appeal. NEH also
welcomes applications for non-promotional digital components of a larger
project. For these projects, you should explain how the digital platform will
enrich the users’ learning experience and engagement. For instance, if your
request is for a mobile experience that would operate within a museum or would
work in conjunction with a film, you should explain how this project element
will substantially add to the audience’s learning experience.
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. Tier I: Planning and Basic
Research Tier I provides awards up to $75,000 for a period of performance of
one to two years. This level supports the following activities: • planning and
preliminary work for large-scale research and development projects; and •
stand-alone basic research projects, such as case studies, experiments, or the
development of methods, models, and tools. Tier II: Advanced Implementation
Tier II provides awards up to $350,000 for a period of performance of one to
three years. This level supports projects at a more advanced stage of
implementation for the following activities: • the development of standards,
practices, methodologies, or workflows for preserving and creating access to
humanities collections; and • applied research addressing preservation and
access issues concerning humanities collections. Applications for Advanced
Implementation must demonstrate significant planning or prior research in one
or more relevant fields. Successful completion of a Tier I project is not a
prerequisite for applying for a Tier II award.
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.
SMALL BUSINESS
SBA: Small Business Administration
The Program for
Investment in Microentrepreneurs Act of 1999 (the PRIME Act) became law on
November 12, 1999 with the passage of Pub. L. No. 106-102 (15 U.S.C. § 6901
note). The PRIME Act authorizes the SBA Administrator to establish a program
for the purposes of: (i) providing training and technical assistance to
disadvantaged entrepreneurs; (ii) providing training and capacity building
assistance to microenterprise development organizations (MDOs) and programs;
(iii) aiding in Research and development of best practices for microenterprise
and technical assistance programs for disadvantaged entrepreneurs; and (iv) for
other activities as the SBA Administrator determines. This year, SBA will give
additional consideration to those applicants that (1) provide training and
technical assistance to economically disadvantaged entrepreneurs in rural
areas; and (2) training and technical assistance to support entrepreneurship in
HubZones.
Since its
establishment in 1953, SBA has served to aid, counsel, assist and protect the
interests of small businesses. While 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
training and technical assistance to small business concerns and nascent
entrepreneurs to promote growth, expansion, innovation, increased productivity
and management improvement.
The U.S. Small
Business Administration (SBA) plans to issue Funding Opportunity No.
OSBDC-2018-06 to invite application from existing SBDC recipient organization
currently funded under the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) program as
authorized by Section 21(n) of the Small Business Act, (15 USC Section 648);
Public Law 110-186, Section 107. Applicants will develop portable assistance
programs to support the start up and sustainability of small business concerns
in communities that are economically challenged as a result of a business or
government facility downsizing or closing, resulting in the loss of jobs or
small business instability.
FOOD &
NUTRITION
USDA: Department of Agriculture
The purpose of this competitive undergraduate
scholarship grant program is to increase the multicultural diversity of the
food and agricultural scientific and professional workforce, and advance the
educational achievement of all Americans by providing competitive grants to
colleges and universities.Colleges and Universities can use this funding to
support undergraduate scholarships that increase the multicultural diversity of
the food and agricultural scientific and professional workforce, and advance
the educational achievement of all Americans by providing competitive grants to
colleges and universities. The Multicultural Scholars Program is available
every year.The program is open to Land Grants, colleges and universities with
significant minority enrollments that provide education in the food and
agricultural sciences. Research foundations maintained by an eligible college
or university are also eligible to submit undergraduate and/or D.V.M. training
proposals.
National
Institute of Food and Agriculture
The
Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Education and Workforce Development
(EWD) (formerly the Food, Agriculture, Natural Resources and Human Sciences
Education and Literacy Initiative, or ELI) focuses on developing the next
generation of research, education, and extension professionals in the food and
agricultural sciences. In FY 2018, EWD invites applications in four areas:
professional development opportunities for K-14 teachers and education
professionals; training of undergraduate students in research and extension;
fellowships for predoctoral candidates; and fellowships for postdoctoral
scholars. See EWD Request for Applications for specific details.
National
Institute of Food and Agriculture
Applications to the FY 2018 Agriculture and
Food Research Initiative - Sustainable Agricultural Systems (SAS) Request for
Applications (RFA) must focus on approaches that promote transformational
changes in the U.S. food and agriculture system within the next 25 years. NIFA
seeks creative and visionary applications that take a systems approach, and
that will significantly improve the supply of abundant, affordable, safe,
nutritious, and accessible food, while providing sustainable opportunities for
expansion of the bioeconomy through novel animal, crop, and forest products and
supporting technologies. These approaches must demonstrate current and future
social, behavioral, economic, health, and environmental impacts. Additionally,
the outcomes of the work being proposed must result in societal benefits,
including promotion of rural prosperity and enhancement of quality of life for
those involved in food and agricultural value chains from production to
utilization and consumption. See AFRI SAS RFA for details.
National
Institute of Food and Agriculture
The purpose of this competitive undergraduate
scholarship grant program is to increase the multicultural diversity of the
food and agricultural scientific and professional workforce, and advance the
educational achievement of all Americans by providing competitive grants to
colleges and universities.Colleges and Universities can use this funding to
support undergraduate scholarships that increase the multicultural diversity of
the food and agricultural scientific and professional workforce, and advance
the educational achievement of all Americans by providing competitive grants to
colleges and universities. The Multicultural Scholars Program is available
every year.The program is open to Land Grants, colleges and universities with
significant minority enrollments that provide education in the food and
agricultural sciences. Research foundations maintained by an eligible college
or university are also eligible to submit undergraduate and/or D.V.M. training
proposals.
Natural Resources Conservation Service
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 for
projects carried out in the state of Connecticut. A total of up to $225,000 is
available for CIG in FY 2018. All non-Federal entities (NFE) and individuals
are invited to apply, with the sole exception of Federal agencies. Projects may
be between one and three years in duration. The maximum award amount for a
single award in FY 2018 is $75,000.
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Within the states and territories, the
Cooperative Extension System has repeatedly served as the trusted community
organization that has helped to enable families, communities, and businesses to
successfully prepare for, respond to and cope with disaster losses and critical
incidents. Once a disaster has occurred, the local extension outreach includes:
1) Communicating practical science-based risk information, 2) Developing
relevant educational experiences and programs, 3) Working with individuals and
communities to open new communication channels, and 4) Mitigating losses and
facilitating recovery. NIFA intends to fund Special Needs projects to implement
applied scientific programs that serve public needs in preparation for, during
and after local or regional emergency situations.
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.
TRANSPORTATION
DOT: Department of Transportation
The FY 2018 Appropriations Act appropriated
$1.5 billion for National Infrastructure Investments previously known as TIGER
grants, and now renamed BUILD Transportation grants. As with previous rounds of
TIGER, funds for the FY 2018 BUILD Transportation program are to be awarded on
a competitive basis for projects that will have a significant local or regional
impact. The Act also allows DOT to use a small portion of the $1.5 billion for
oversight and administration of grants. If this solicitation does not result in
the award and obligation of all available funds, DOT may publish additional
solicitations. The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 specifies that BUILD
Transportation Discretionary Grants may not be less than $5 million and not
greater than $25 million, except that for projects located in rural areas the
minimum BUILD Transportation Discretionary Grant size is $1 million. There is
no statutory minimum grant size, regardless of location, for BUILD
Transportation Planning grants. Pursuant to the FY Consolidated Appropriations
Act, 2018, no more than 10 percent of the funds made available for BUILD
Transportation Discretionary Grants (or $150 million) may be awarded to
projects in a single State.
The main purpose of the Low-No Program is to
support the transition of the nation’s transit fleet to the lowest polluting
and most energy efficient transit vehicles. The Low-No Program provides funding
to State and local governmental authorities for the purchase or lease of
zero-emission and low-emission transit buses, including acquisition,
construction, and leasing of required supporting facilities.
EPA:
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality
is soliciting proposals nationwide for projects that achieve significant
reductions in diesel emissions in terms of tons of pollution produced by diesel
engines and diesel emissions exposure, particularly from fleets operating at or
servicing goods movement facilities located in areas designated as having poor
air quality. Further, priority for funding will be given to projects which
result in outcomes that benefit affected communities, those that engage
affected communities with respect to the design and performance of the project,
and those which can demonstrate the ability to promote and continue efforts to
reduce emissions after the project has ended.
TAX ASSISTANCE
Treasury: US Department of the Treasury
The Tax Counseling
for the Elderly (TCE) Program offers FREE tax help to individuals who are age
60 or older. Section 163 of the Revenue Act of 1978, Public Law No. 95-600,
92 Stat. 2810, November 6, 1978, authorizes this cooperative agreement. The Act
authorizes the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to enter into agreements with
private or public nonprofit agencies and organizations, which will provide
training and technical assistance to volunteers who provide FREE tax counseling
and assistance to elderly individuals in the preparation of their federal
income tax returns.
Internal Revenue
Service
This funding allows the Stakeholder
Partnerships, Education and Communication (SPEC)organization within the IRS to
provide grants to partner organizations to achieve the following program
objectives:• Enable the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program to
extend services to underserved populations in hardest-to-reach areas, both
urban and non-urban;• Increase the capacity to file returns electronically;•
Heighten quality control;• Enhance training of volunteers; and• Improve
significantly the accuracy rate of returns prepared at VITA sites. The VITA
Grant program supplements the work already being done in the VITA Program by
providing support to help organizations grow their existing programs for free
federal tax return preparation.
PUBLIC &
COMMUNITY HEALTH
HHS: Department of Health and Human Services
Administration for Children & Families - ACYF/FYSB
The Administration for Children and Families,
Administration on Children, Youth and Families' Family and Youth Services
Bureau (FYSB) announces the availability of funds under the Street Outreach
Program (SOP). SOPs work to increase young people’s personal safety, social and
emotional well-being, self-sufficiency, and to help them build permanent
connections with families, communities, schools, and other positive social
networks. These services, which are provided in areas where street youth
congregate, are designed to assist such youth in making healthy choices and to
provide them access to shelter and services which include: outreach, gateway
services, screening and assessment, harm reduction, access to emergency
shelter, crisis stabilization, drop-in centers, which can be optional, and
linkages/referrals to services. The award process for FY2018 SOP allows for
annual awards over a three-year project period, as funds are available.
Administration
for Community Living
It is well documented that the United States is becoming an increasingly
racially and ethnically diverse country. By 2050 there will be no ethnic
majority in the United States (U.S.). There is a need to ensure that the
disability community keeps pace with and is responsive to the rapidly changing
demographics of the country and the UCEDDs should play a critical role in such
an effort. The DD Act recognizes the important role that UCEDDs play in
enhancing the diversity of the workforce, requiring that UCEDDs enhance efforts
to recruit and retain underrepresented groups at all levels in order to respond
to the needs of nation and burgeoning diverse communities. It is essential now
more than ever to ensure that UCEDDs are well positioned to address the
unprecedented growth of diverse communities, including the growth in the number
of people with disabilities, to ensure the future yields prosperity for
all.
Centers for Disease Control - NCHHSTP
CDC announces the availability of fiscal year
2019 funds for a cooperative agreement for health departments to implement and
strengthen STD prevention and control programs. The purpose of this notice of
funding opportunity (NOFO) is to prevent and control three major STDs
chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis. This NOFO supports strategies and
activities to: eliminate congenital syphilis; prevent antibiotic resistant
gonorrhea; reduce primary and secondary syphilis; prevent STD-related pelvic
inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy, and infertility; address STD-related
outbreaks; and reduce STD-related health disparities. Priority populations for
this NOFO include adolescents and young adults, men who have sex with men, and
pregnant women. Priority strategies and activities include: Conduct STD
surveillance; respond to STD-related outbreaks; identify persons with STDs and
link them and their partners to care and to treatment through targeted disease
investigation and intervention; promote CDC-recommended screening, diagnosis,
and treatment practices among relevant providers; disseminate local data and
information to the health care community and general public; monitor and
develop STD-related policy; develop and strengthen multi- sector partnerships
to support STD prevention and control; support HIV prevention goals and
collaborate with health department HIV programs; and analyze and use data for
increased program insights and program improvement.
National
Institutes of Health
Partnerships to Advance Cancer Health Equity
(CPACHE) Program. The CPACHE Program develops and maintains comprehensive,
long-term, and mutually beneficial partnerships between institutions serving
underserved health disparity population and underrepresented students (ISUPSs)
and NCI-designated Cancer Centers (CCs). The program aims to achieve a stronger
national cancer program and address challenges in cancer and cancer disparities
research, education and outreach, as well as their impact on underserved
populations. The institutions in each partnership are expected to work
collaboratively to: 1) increase the cancer research and cancer research
education capacity of the ISUPSs; 2) increase the number of students and
investigators from underrepresented populations engaged in cancer research; 3)
improve the effectiveness of CCs in developing and sustaining research programs
focused on cancer health disparities and increase the number of investigators
and students conducting cancer health disparities research; and 4) develop and
implement cancer-related activities that benefit the surrounding underserved
communities.
Centers for
Disease Control - NCCDPHP
The Partner Actions to Improve Oral Health
Outcomes program is a five-year cooperative agreement to continue CDC
investment in and support of oral health promotion and disease prevention
programs. The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to build
the strength and effectiveness of state and territorial oral health programs to
prevent and control oral diseases and related conditions. Partner Actions to
Improve Oral Health Outcomes will have two components. Applicants may choose to
apply for component 1 only, component 2 only, or both. Under component 1, the
recipient will implement priority strategies such as providing technical
assistance and capacity building resources for states, conducting state oral
health program assessments, and conducting assessments and providing technical
assistance to territorial oral health programs. Note: Funds for the assessment
and technical assistance strategy for territorial oral health programs are
available ONLY for year 1 of the period of performance. Funds for State oral
health infrastructure and capacity building are available for each year of the
period of performance. Under component 2, the recipient will work with five
programs selected under NOFO DP18-1810 to implement medical-dental integration
activities that integrate oral health with other chronic disease programs. The
recipient will provide technical assistance for medical-dental integration
programs, and collect and information supporting the effectiveness of
medical-dental integration programs and strategies. The proposed program will
replace and build upon NOFO DP13-1313 [FY2013-FY2018]. Successful
implementation and execution of the NOFO strategies will result in decreases in
dental caries, oral health disparities, and co-morbid chronic diseases.
Administration
for Community Living
The Developmental Disabilities Assistance and
Bill of Act (DD Act), requires that the programs authorized under the law are
culturally competent to ensure that individuals with developmental
disabilities, regardless of background, are full participants in all aspects of
community life. According to the DD Act, Sec. 101. [42 USC 15001] c Policy. “It
is the policy of the United States that all programs receiving assistance under
this title shall be carried out in a manner consistent with the principles that
Services, supports, and other assistance should be provided that demonstrate
respect for personal preferences, and cultural differences; Specific efforts
must be made to ensure that individuals with developmental disabilities from
racial and ethnic minority backgrounds and their families enjoy increased and
meaningful opportunities to access and use community services, individualized
supports available to other individuals with developmental disabilities and
their families; Recruitment efforts in disciplines related to developmental
disabilities in pre-service training, community training, practice,
administration, and Policymaking must focus on bringing larger numbers of
racial and ethnic minorities into the disciplines in order to provide
appropriate skills, knowledge, role models, and sufficient personnel to address
the growing needs of an increasingly diverse population.”
Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services Administration
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) is accepting
applications for fiscal year (FY) 2018 Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
Grant Program. Eligible children for services include children from birth
to not more than 12 years of age, who are at risk for, show early signs of, or
have been diagnosed with a mental illness including a serious emotional disturbance.
The purpose of this program is to improve outcomes for these children by
developing, maintaining, or enhancing infant and early childhood mental health
promotion, intervention, and treatment services, including: (1) programs for
infants and children at significant risk of developing, showing early signs of,
or having been diagnosed with a mental illness, including a serious emotional
disturbance (SED) and/or symptoms that may be indicative of a developing SED in
children with a history of in utero exposure to substances such as opioids,
stimulants or other drugs that may impact development; and (2)
multigenerational therapy and other services that strengthen positive
caregiving relationships. Programs funded under this FOA must be
evidence-informed or evidence-based, and culturally and linguistically
appropriate. SAMHSA expects this program will increase access to a full
range of infant and early childhood services and build workforce capacity for
individuals serving children from birth to age 12. Programs must describe
a pathway to sustainability and will be expected to develop a plan for the
dissemination of the program to other sites and settings.
National
Institutes of Health
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA)
encourages research grant applications focusing on identification and
management of behavioral symptoms and mental health conditions in individuals
with intellectual disabilities (ID). Specific areas of interest for this
funding opportunity are (1) proposals to develop and validate assessment tools
that reliably identify behavioral symptoms or diagnose mental health conditions
in individuals with ID, and (2) proposals studying the pharmacokinetics, safety
and efficacy of specific psychotropic medications for treatment of behavioral
symptoms or mental health conditions in individuals with ID.
National
Institutes of Health
The purpose of this funding opportunity
announcement (FOA) is to enhance the participation of individuals from diverse
backgrounds underrepresented in cardiovascular, pulmonary, hematologic and
sleep disorders research across the career development continuum. The NHLBIs
T32 Training Program for Institutions That Promote Diversity is a Ruth L.
Kirschstein National Research Service Award Program intended to support
training of predoctoral and health professional students and individuals in
postdoctoral training institutions with an institutional mission focused on
serving health disparity populations not well represented in scientific
research, or institutions that have been identified by federal legislation as
having an institutional mission focused on these populations, with the
potential to develop meritorious training programs in cardiovascular,
pulmonary, and hematologic diseases, and sleep disorders. The NHLBIs T32
Training Program for Institutions That Promote Diversity is designed to expand
the capability for biomedical research by providing grant support to
institutions that have developed successful programs that promote diversity,
serve health disparity populations, and that offer doctoral degrees in the
health professions or in health-related sciences.
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 the fiscal year (FY) 2018 Minority Fellowship Program (Short Title:
MFP). The purpose of this program is to reduce behavioral health
disparities and improve healthcare outcomes for racial and ethnic minority populations
by: (1) increasing the knowledge of behavioral health professionals on
issues related to treatment and recovery support for individuals who are from
racial and ethnic minority populations and have a substance use disorder (SUD);
(2) improving the quality of SUD treatment services delivered to racial and
ethnic minority populations; and (3) increasing the number of culturally
competent professionals in psychology focusing on services appropriate for
those with SUDs, addiction psychiatry, and addiction medicine who teach,
administer services, conduct research, and provide direct SUD services to
racial and ethnic minority populations.
The SUD treatment and recovery needs of racial and ethnic
minority communities in the United States have been historically unmet due to
the scarcity of practitioners equipped to address this population’s
needs. The MFP increases the number of behavioral health professionals
with knowledge of issues related to treatment and recovery support for SUD
among racial and ethnic minority populations. This program aims to
specifically expand the training of professionals with a focus in psychology,
addiction psychiatry, and addiction medicine.
Centers for
Disease Control - NCCDPHP
CDC announces the availability of fiscal year
2018 (FY18) funds to implement DP18-1813 Racial and Ethnic Approaches to
Community Health (REACH). This 5-year initiative is to improve health, prevent
chronic diseases, and reduce health disparities among racial and ethnic
populations with the highest risk, or burden, of chronic disease, specifically
for African Americans/Blacks, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Native
Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islanders, American Indians, and Alaska Natives, by:
Supporting culturally tailored interventions to address the preventable health
behaviors of tobacco use, poor nutrition and physical inactivity Linking
community and clinical efforts to increase access to health care and preventive
care programs at the community level Supporting implementation, evaluation and
dissemination of practice- and evidence-based strategies on the four topic
areas of tobacco, nutrition, physical activity, and community-clinical
collaborations that ultimately lead to reduced health disparities in chronic
conditions of hypertension, heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, and obesity Funding
will support recipients that: Have a history of successfully working with an
established community coalition to address issues relating to health or other
disparities. Select strategies that address the health disparities in the
community based on results from a community health needs assessment process.
Have organizational capacity to effectively, efficiently, and immediately
implement locally tailored evidence- and practice-based strategies
Centers for Disease Control - NCCDPHP
CDC announces the availability of Fiscal Year
(FY) 2018 funds to implement CDC-RFA-DP18-1809: High Obesity Program. The
growing body of evidence suggests that obesity is one of the most significant
challenges facing the public health system. If this continues, obesity and the
many complications it causes will increase the disease burden in the United
States. Poor nutrition and low levels of physical activity affect overall
health and are significant risk factors for obesity and other chronic diseases.
Obesity in the United States affects 78.6 million (35%) adults and 12.7 million
(17%) children and accounts for approximately $147 billion in annual health
care costs. The burden of obesity and other chronic diseases negatively affects
our nation's businesses, economy, and military readiness and is higher among
certain racial/ethnic populations and geographical locations. This five-year
program provides resources for land grant universities to leverage community
extension services to implement evidence-based strategies that increase access
to places that provide healthier foods and safe and accessible places for
physical activity in counties with an adult obesity rate of over 40%.
Administration for Children and Families - ACYF/CB
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA) is to solicit proposals for a grant to develop and expand
text and chat-based capabilities for child maltreatment prevention, resource
sharing, detection, and reporting. In doing this work, the grantee is required
to (1) Determine best practices and protocols pertaining to the use of text and
chat-based technology within the child abuse and neglect reporting context; (2)
Identify effective strategies for appropriate communication, identity
verification, and privacy protection for youth who may be victims of
maltreatment; and (3) Develop strategies for effectively sharing resources with
youth who may be experiencing maltreatment. The protocols and strategies should
be widely disseminated and applicable to national hotline environments.
Applicants must possess the capacity to coordinate with hotlines administered
by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) such as the National
Domestic Violence Hotline and the National Human Trafficking Hotline. This
grant will be for one 24-month project period.
Centers for
Disease Control - NCEH
To increase the number of states and
territories with fully implemented newborn screening programs.
Office of the
Assistant Secretary for Health
The purpose of this funding opportunity
announcement (FOA) is to replicate and scale up programs that include the
protective factors shown to be effective in the prevention of risk behaviors,
including teen pregnancy. The overall goal is to promote healthy adolescence
and to address youth sexual risk holistically or across the interrelated
factors that promote optimal health and result in healthy decision-making and
teen pregnancy prevention. Target populations Applicant should target
participants and communities most at risk. Applicants should select a
population(s) within a community that has a teen birth rate, STD rate, sexual
activity rate, or other measure of sexual risk that is either at or above the national
average as published in a current federal report or one that has not
experienced a decline commensurate with national declines. Each selected
community must be defined by clear geographic boundaries in order to assure
that the number of youth served can be identified and sexual risk rates can be
monitored.
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
The purpose of this funding opportunity
announcement is to develop and test new and innovative strategies to prevent
teen pregnancy, promote healthy adolescence and address youth sexual risk
holistically to result in healthy decision making and future thriving by
enhancing protective factors with youth, with supplementary focus possible at
the systems-level and/or with families and/or caregivers. Projects are expected
to have high potential to enhance protective factors shown to improve the
health of adolescents aged 10-19. Projects will be funded to evaluate and test
programs or strategies to improve adolescent health and address youth sexual
risk holistically by focusing on protective factors.
CRIME, JUSTICE,
& PUBLIC SAFETY
DOS: Department of State
Bureau of
International Narcotics-Law Enforcement
The illicit sale of fentanyl, fentanyl
analogues, and other synthetic drugs is incredibly profitable, and their high
potency in small quantities presents a low risk to traffickers. To respond to
this challenge, the U.S. government's understanding of the production, transit,
and sale of these drugs and their precursor chemicals must continually
increase. We will support a data analytics provider that can produce reliable
information to inform our future capacity building programming efforts to
combat transnational organized crime. The combination of technology and
investigative research on transnational criminal organizations has various
potential applications, such as building partner capacity by giving countries
leads on various transnational criminal networks, identifying target cells
before problems infiltrate neighboring areas, using network overviews for
strategy information, and providing training on a limited basis.
Bureau of
Counterterrorism
Build the capacity of the Somali Police Force
to prevent, respond to, and investigate terrorism through professional,
multi-functional trained and mentored Joint Investigative Teams (JITs) based in
Mogadishu and Baidoa.
USDOJ: Department of Justice
Bureau of Justice
Assistance
The focus of this program is to enhance the
capacity of state, local, tribal, and territorial criminal justice systems to
prevent, investigate, respond, and prosecute economic, high-technology, and
white collar crimes through specialized training and technical assistance. The program
also supports the crime prevention of these types of crimes through education
and training of law enforcement, corrections, probation/parole, prosecutors,
first responders, and members of the community. The training classes are
provided both in a classroom setting and online allowing state, local, tribal,
and territorial officers, investigators, and prosecutors to attend the classes
at no charge to their agency. The program also provides technical assistance to
agencies, upon request, to assist with specific needs or investigative support.
Office of
Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention
The purpose of this project is to support
methodologically rigorous research and evaluations with practical implications
for family drug courts including identifying strategies and approaches to
address the opioid epidemic.
Bureau of Justice Assistance
The purpose of the Adult Drug Court
Discretionary Grant Program is to provide financial and technical assistance to
states, state courts, local courts, units of local government, and Indian
tribal governments to develop and implement drug courts that effectively
integrate evidence-based substance use disorder treatment, mandatory drug
testing, sanctions and incentives, and transitional services in a judicially
supervised court setting with jurisdiction over substance-misusers to include
addressing the opioid epidemic. BJA is accepting applications for FY 2018
grants to either establish new drug courts or enhance existing drug court
programs using evidence-based principles and practices, as well as statewide level
grants. BJA also supports courts that integrate the National Association of
Drug Court Professionals (NADCP) adult drug court standards into existing drug
court services.
Bureau of Justice Assistance
The Intellectual Property Enforcement Program
(IPEP), administered by BJA, is designed to provide national support and
improve the capacity of state, local, and tribal criminal justice systems to
address IP enforcement, including prosecution, prevention, training, and
technical assistance. Awards will be made by BJA to support law enforcement
agencies in coordinating the goals, objectives, and activities of their IP
enforcement task forces in close collaboration with the relevant state, local,
tribal, and federal agencies, to include local U.S. Attorney's Offices (USAOs).
The improved coordination of IP enforcement efforts among federal, state, and
local authorities is a central goal of the Strategic Plan and is of primary
importance to DOJ. As a result, projects funded under this solicitation must
align with the mission of the DOJ IP Task Force, and establish and/or enhance
state and local IP enforcement task forces that include relevant law
enforcement agencies and federal agencies (to include, where appropriate, local
offices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI], U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigation [ICE HSI], and U.S.
Attorneys.
Bureau of Justice
Statistics
Analysis of Publicly Available Court Data
(APACD) is a developmental effort to evaluate the availability, quality, and
representativeness of publicly available court data in the U.S., determine any
gaps in publicly available data and suitable alternative sources of data, and
propose a nationally representative sampling plan to collect court data to
support the production of national estimates of court activity. Because this
work is developmental, applicants should consider assessing data availability
for all levels of courts (e.g., municipal or limited jurisdiction courts,
general jurisdiction courts, single-tiered courts, and appellate courts), as
well as the collection of criminal misdemeanor and felony court data and all
civil court data. This solicitation specifically excludes the collection of
juvenile court data, and leaves the decision to collect some or all family
court data to the applicant.
Bureau of Justice
Assistance
The Justice and Mental Health Collaboration
Program (JMHCP) supports innovative cross-system collaboration to improve
responses and outcomes for individuals with mental illnesses or co-occurring
mental health and substance abuse disorders who come into contact with the
justice system. BJA is seeking applications that demonstrate a collaborative
project between criminal justice and mental health partners from eligible
applicants to plan and implement justice and mental health strategies
collectively designed between justice and mental health. Statutory Authority:
This program is authorized by the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime
Reduction Act of 2004 (MIOTCRA) (Pub. L. 108-414) and the Mentally Ill Offender
Treatment and Crime Reduction Reauthorization and Improvement Act of 2008 (Pub.
L. 110-416).
NATURAL RESOURCES
EPA:
Environmental Protection Agency
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is
soliciting proposals from eligible applicants to develop or refine
state/tribal/local government wetland programs as described in Section I,
FUNDING OPPORTUNITY DESCRIPTION, of this announcement. States, tribes, local
government agencies, interstate agencies, and intertribal consortia are
eligible to apply under this announcement, as further described herein.
Universities that are agencies of a state government are eligible, but must include
documentation demonstrating that they are chartered as part of a state
government in the proposal submission. Non-profit organizations are not
eligible to compete under this RFP.
DOI:
Department of the Interior
National Park
Service
In accordance with 54 U.S.C. § 100703,
Cooperative Study Units, this funding opportunity is limited to public or
private educational institutions that are part of the Cooperative Ecosystem
Studies Units Network.
National Park
Service
Questions must be submitted in writing via
email only to steve_livingston@nps.gov. The subject line of the email must
reference “P18AS00174.” All questions and answers will be consolidated into one
document and disseminated through an amendment to the NOFO through the
grants.gov website. The deadline for questions is May 18, 2018. The NOFO
amendment of the consolidated questions and answers will be disseminated a few
days following May 18, 2018.
EDUCATION
ED: Department
of Education
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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
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