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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 Grant Spotlight
Regional
Solicitation Application for Federal Transportation Funds Opens May 14
Projects support
congestion relief, safety, transit advantages
Communities across the region can now apply
for a portion of about $200 million in federal funds for local highway, bridge,
transit, bicycle, and pedestrian projects. Whether for existing infrastructure
or new improvements, projects focus on outcomes like moving more people more
effectively, managing congestion, and improving air quality.
The Metropolitan Council’s Transportation
Advisory Board (TAB) leads the process of soliciting, evaluating, and selecting
submitted projects, then sends those projects recommended for funding to the
Council for agreement. Applications are due on July 13, 2018, and the TAB is
tentatively scheduled to approve funding recommendations in mid-January of
2019.
Sign up for online
application training
Council staff will conduct online application training at
Council Offices at 390 Robert St. in Saint Paul in the Lower Level Room C
Computer Lab. Please contact Elaine
Koutsoukos, TAB Coordinator, to reserve your computer
station for one of the following dates.
- Wednesday, May 23, from
9:00-10:30 a.m. or 2:00-3:30 p.m.
- Thursday, May 31, from
1:00-2:30 p.m. or 3:00-4:30 p.m.
- Friday, June 1, from
9:00-10:30 a.m.
- Thursday, June 7, from
9:00-10:30 a.m.
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The following content is for informational purposes only. For additional details on the opportunities below, and to find additional opportunities, please visit www.grants.gov.
Promise Zone
Preference Points
If a discretionary funding opportunity indicates Promise Zone
(PZ) preference points are available, please visit http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/promisezone/WCMSP-190631
for additional information on forms and contacts to request preference point
certification from the City of Minneapolis Promise Zone. Please submit your preference point request at least two weeks prior to the application deadline for Promise Zone certification approval consideration.
If a funding
opportunity does not indicate PZ preference points, you are still encouraged to
contact the Promise Zone Manager, Julianne Leerssen
(612-225-7721), about potential partnership opportunities to strengthen your
application.
PROMISE ZONE PREFERENCE POINTS
HHS: Department of Health and Human Services
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.
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.
ARTS & HUMANITIES
NEA: National Endowment for the Arts
An organization may submit only one application through
one of the following FY 2019 categories: Art Works or Challenge America. If an
organization applies to the Challenge America category, it may not submit
another application to the Art Works category. The Arts Endowment's support of
a project may start on or after June 1, 2019. Generally, a period of
performance of up to two years is allowed. Program Description Art Works is the
National Endowment for the Arts’ principal grants program. Through
project-based funding, we support public engagement with, and access to,
various forms of excellent art across the nation, the creation of art that
meets the highest standards of excellence, learning in the arts at all stages
of life, and the integration of the arts into the fabric of community life.
Projects may be large or small, existing or new, and may take place in any part
of the nation’s 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories.
HOUSING
DOE: Department of Energy
Golden Field Office
DE-FOA-0001824: Building America Industry Partnerships
and Research Priorities for High Performance Housing Innovation - 2018 The
mission of BTO’s Residential Buildings Integration (RBI) Program is to
accelerate energy performance improvements in existing and new residential
buildings using an integrated building systems approach to achieve peak energy
performance. The RBI Program’s market outcome goal is to reduce, by 2025, the
energy used for space conditioning and water heating in single-family homes by
40% from 2010 levels. RBI’s focus on space conditioning and water heating
offers the best opportunities for influencing residential energy use. With this
FOA, RBI will select building science project teams in 2018 for the Building
America Program to accelerate energy performance improvements in existing and
new residential buildings using an integrated building systems approach, and
achieve optimal home energy performance. These Building America teams will work
with industry partners and real world homes to develop and validate
technologies and practices that achieve optimal energy and cost performance
while effectively managing related risks (e.g., indoor air quality and moisture
durability).
WOMEN & BUSINESS
USAID: Agency for International Development
USAID’s Policy on Gender Equality and Female Empowerment
lays out a comprehensive commitment to leveling the playing field for women and
men. Through this Addendum to the VISP APS, USAID seeks to address
several of the known barriers to women’s economic empowerment and equality that
growth-oriented women entrepreneurs tend to face. Among those barriers include:
1) underdeveloped leadership skills; 2) lack of access to tailored business
advisory services; and 3) insufficient connection to networks that can help
them grow their business, access credit and expand their markets. This is
aggravated by a further lack of advisors, role models, and business connections
that can help fill the skills gap. This activity is designed to
expand the person-to-person advice and connections that women have identified
as fundamental to growth and resilience.
FOOD & NUTRITION
USDA: Department of Agriculture
Office of Trade Programs
Purpose. The EMP assists U.S. entities in
developing, maintaining, or expanding exports of U.S. agricultural
commodities and products by funding activities that enhance emerging markets’
food and rural business systems, including reducing trade barriers. The EMP is
intended primarily to support export market development efforts of the private
sector, but EMP resources may also be used to assist public
organizations.
Office of Trade Programs
Purpose: The QSP is designed to encourage the development
and expansion of export markets for U.S. agricultural commodities
by assisting
U.S. entities in providing commodity samples to potential
foreign importers to promote a better understanding and appreciation for the
high quality of U.S. agricultural commodities.
CRIME, JUSTICE, RE-ENTRY, & PUBLIC SAFETY
ONDCP: Office of National Drug Control Policy
The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP),
Executive Office of the President, is seeking applications from a non-profit
entity as described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code with
expert knowledge and extensive experience in training drug court and other
criminal justice practitioners on the application of evidence-based practices
to address addiction among people involved in the criminal justice
system.
ONDCP’s Drug Court Training and Technical Assistance
Grant support training and technical assistance (TTA) that helps states, state
courts, local courts, units of local government with drug courts or considering
drug courts develop, maintain, and enhance alternatives to incarceration for
individuals with addiction. The President’s priority is to enhance public
safety by providing those who have engaged in criminal activity with greater
opportunities to lead productive lives by addressing a range of issues,
including mental health, vocational training, job creation, after-school programming,
substance abuse, and mentoring through evidence-based rehabilitation
programs. ONDCP seeks to reduce drug use and its consequences through
evidence-based practices, and this grant will apply these principles to the
criminal justice system.
USDOJ: Department of Justice
Bureau of Justice Assistance
This solicitation presents competitive awards to create
multidisciplinary teams to assess and address areas of risk for wrongful
conviction and to review and assess post conviction claims of innocence.
Applicants will lead collaborative teams of prosecutors, conviction integrity
units and innocence programs to complete the work. The solicitation will also
seek a training and technical assistance provider to provide support to
selected projects through training and hands on technical assistance.
Office for Victims of Crime
OVC is seeking applicants to enhance the quality and
quantity of services available to assist victims of human trafficking, as
defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, as amended. Purpose
Area 1 will fund victim service providers with a demonstrated history of
providing comprehensive services to victims of human trafficking. Purpose Area
2 will fund victim service providers with a demonstrated history of providing
comprehensive services to a sustained caseload of a large number of victims of
human trafficking. Purpose Area 3 is designed to strengthen the capacity of
victim service providers who have experience serving victims of human
trafficking and/or related populations but who currently have a limited capacity
to implement the comprehensive services model. OVC will conduct one
pre-application webinar on May 24, 2018, from 1:00–2:00 p.m. e.t. Register at www.ovc.gov/grants/webinars.html
Bureau of Justice Assistance
Widespread use of opioids has devastated many communities.
In response to this epidemic, the FY 2018 Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Site-based
Program is designed to support our nation’s first responders and provide for
the needs of crime victims; support diversion and alternatives to incarceration
programs for non-violent individuals who come in contact with the justice
system as a result of the abuse of illicit and prescription opioids; implement
and enhance prescription drug monitoring programs; promote cross-system
planning and coordination of service delivery; and reduce the incidence of
fatal overdoses associated with opioid use. Effective responses must be
comprehensive and address the needs of the individual who is abusing drugs, as
well as any children and loved ones who may be experiencing trauma, violence,
and victimization.
Bureau of Justice Statistics
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) seeks applications
for the administration of the Federal Law Enforcement Agency Deaths in Custody
Reporting Program (FDCRP), 2018-2021. The purposes of the FDCRP program is to
(1) collect complete and accurate information on all federal arrest-related and
detained or incarcerated deaths; (2) implement a consistent data collection
program across all federal law enforcement agencies, and (3) increase
efficiency and timeliness of data collection, analysis, and dissemination of
findings. In addition, BJS is seeking assistance in updating and maintaining
the FDCRP survey instruments as well as the federal law enforcement agency
frame which includes agency contact information. With this solicitation, BJS
seeks a data collection agent for the deaths that occur during fiscal years
2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021.
Office for Victims of Crime
This project will be awarded as a cooperative agreement
of $600,000 to an organization to provide financial and technical assistance to
approximately 90 communities nationwide to conduct public education and
awareness activities on crime victims' rights and services in their
jurisdictions during the 2019 National Crime Victims' Rights Week (NCVRW). The
OVC Director will make all final decisions about which communities the
intermediary will fund. Depending on grantee performance and funding
availability, additional funding may be provided for the planning and execution
of the 2019 NCVRW Community Awareness Projects (CAP).
Bureau of Justice Assistance
Second Chance Act programs are designed to help
communities develop and implement comprehensive and collaborative strategies
that address the challenges posed by incarcerated adults re-entering their
communities and the workforce, as well as recidivism reduction. Several years
ago, BJA initiated a pilot project, the “Integrated Reentry and Employment
Strategies” project that sought to test an innovative approach to reduce
recidivism and increase job readiness for offenders returning from
incarceration and to integrate best practices in reentry and employment.
Building upon the pilot project, the FY 2018 Adult Reentry and Employment
Strategic Planning Program will provide funding for strategic planning grants
to replicate the framework developed in the pilot project.
Office for Victims of Crime
OVC will award each eligible state victim compensation
program an annual grant equal to 60 percent of the amount the program awarded
in state-funded victim compensation payments during the fiscal year two years
prior to the present fiscal year, other than amounts awarded for property
damage. The primary purpose of these grants is to supplement state efforts to
provide financial compensation to crime victims throughout the Nation for costs
resulting from crime, and to encourage victim cooperation and participation in
the criminal justice system. Funds under this program shall be used by the
states for awards of compensation benefits to crime victims, with the following
exception: states may retain up to 5 percent of their total grant for
administrative and training purposes. Apply by May 30, 2018.
Bureau of Justice Assistance
The purpose of the Capital Case Litigation Initiative
(CCLI) is to assist states with: (1) enhancing the ability of prosecutors to
effectively represent the public in state capital cases; (2) developing and
implementing appropriate standards of practice and qualifications for state and
local prosecutors who litigate capital cases; (3) minimizing the potential for
error in the trial of capital cases; and (4) improving the quality of legal
representation provided to indigent defendants in state capital cases. BJA
achieves this purpose by funding national training and technical assistance
(TTA) providers that work with states, prosecutors, and defense counsel in
capital cases.
PUBLIC & COMMUNITY HEALTH
HHS: Department of Health and Human Services
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.
Administration for Children and Families - ACYF/CB
The purpose of this funding opportunity (FOA)
announcement is to fund five-year demonstration projects that support the
development, implementation, and evaluation of strategies that embrace
proactive efforts to build on the strengths of families, including those at
high risk for child maltreatment. The projects will enhance the capacity of
communities to address the well-being needs of families before more formal
strategies, practices, or activities are warranted. The FOA will address site
specific barriers in order to reduce the number of referrals to the public
child welfare agency. The cooperative agreements will fund activities that
include the planning necessary to implement a multi-system collaborative to
support community-based and prevention-focused services; the coordination of a
network of community-based services to foster the development of a continuum of
preventative services; maximize availability and access to resources using
innovative approaches to leverage and coordinate existing funding streams;
innovative outreach to identify and link families to community-based resources,
empower families to support their children’s healthy social and emotional
development; active participation with the designated evaluation Technical
Assistance (TA) provider in a rigorous site-specific evaluation to improve
processes and services, to demonstrate linkages between proposed strategies,
practices, or activities, and improved outcomes; and conduct a local evaluation
that analyzes the implementation and outcomes of the projects.
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 Mental Health Technology Transfer Center
Cooperative Agreements (Short Title: MHTTC). The purpose of this program
is to establish one MHTTC National Coordinating Center, ten (10) MHTTC Regional
Centers, one MHTTC Tribal Affairs Center, and one MHTTC Hispanic and Latino
Center to develop and maintain a collaborative network to support resource
development and dissemination, training and technical assistance, and workforce
development to the field and CMHS grant recipients. It is expected that MHTTC
Cooperative Agreements will coordinate and manage CMHS’s national efforts to
ensure that high-quality, effective mental health disorder treatment and
recovery support services, and evidence-based practices are available for all
individuals with mental disorders including, in particular, those with serious
mental illness.
Centers for Disease Control - NCCDPHP
This NOFO will support the design, testing, and
evaluation of novel approaches to address evidence-based strategies aimed at
reducing risks, complications, and barriers to prevention and control of
diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) in high-burden populations. Work will
occur in state and local/city/county health departments with a population of
900,000 or more where significant reach may be achieved. Consortia of smaller
local/city/county health departments may submit one application that, together,
includes a population of 900,000 or more (using July 2012 U.S. Census
estimates). High burden populations are those that data indicate are affected
disproportionately by high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, or
prediabetes due to socioeconomic or related factors. Category A includes
diabetes management and type 2 diabetes prevention strategies. Category B
includes CVD prevention and management strategies. Applicants may apply for
Category A, Category B, or both via a single and clearly delineated
application. In both categories, applicants will select from a menu of
strategies, and should focus in areas where they have capacity to achieve
greatest reach and impact. Applicants proposing to work in both categories
should divide funds equally, and apply selected Category A and B strategies in
the same populations/settings, so that work may be mutually reinforcing.
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 Certified Community Behavioral Health
Clinics (CCBHCs) Expansion Grants (Short Title: CCBHC Expansion Grants).
The purpose of this program is to increase access to and improve the quality of
community behavioral health services through the expansion of CCBHCs. CCBHCs
provide person- and family-centered services and are available in the 24 states
that participated in the FY 2016 Planning Grants for Certified Community
Behavioral Health Clinics (SM-16-001). The CCBHC Expansion grant program must
provide access to services for individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) or
substance use disorders (SUD), including opioid disorders; children and
adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED); and individuals with
co-occurring disorders (COD). SAMHSA expects that this program will
improve the behavioral health of individuals across the nation by providing
comprehensive community-based mental and substance use disorder services;
treatment of co-occurring disorders; advance the integration of behavioral
health with physical health care; assimilate and utilize evidence-based
practices on a more consistent basis, and promote improved access to high
quality care.
National Institutes of Health
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages
applications to improve health outcomes for women, infants and children, by
stimulating interdisciplinary research focused on maternal nutrition and
pre-pregnancy obesity. Maternal health significantly impacts not only the
mother but also the intrauterine environment, and subsequently fetal development
and the health of the newborn.
When children are placed in out-of-home care (also called
foster care), it is important that child welfare agencies find safe, permanent
homes for them as quickly as possible. In many circumstances, children can be
reunited with their families, but in some cases, children find homes with
relatives or adoptive families. Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSRs) have
consistently found that many child welfare systems need to improve their
adoption work, as evidenced by their difficulty in achieving substantial
conformity on permanency outcomes. These shortcomings include failure to make
concerted efforts towards timely permanency for adoption and preserving family
connections; inadequate engagement of parents, children and youth in case
planning; limited and ineffective service provision; insufficient frequency and
duration of child visitations/parenting time; punitive uses of
visitation/parenting time; delays in establishing the goal of adoption; a lack
of meaningful concurrent planning; and lengthy appeal processes for contested
termination of parental rights. These permanency outcomes relate to basic
social work, legal, and judicial practices that impact adoption outcomes and
also have effects on the safety and well-being of children in care. The purpose
of this funding opportunity is to award up to five 5-year cooperative
agreements for the development, implementation, and evaluation of strategies
that focus on better adoption outcomes by improving basic social work, legal,
and judicial practice in order to eliminate systemic barriers to: adoption;
preventing entry into foster care; and other forms of permanency. Due to the
intersection of permanency, safety, and well-being, an effective system reform
effort focused on improving adoption outcomes by improving concurrent planning
and reducing time to permanency will also require attention to safety and
well-being outcomes. Therefore, through these grant awards, the Children’s
Bureau (CB) aims to support states with resources to implement and sustain
child welfare system improvement efforts, including technical assistance
support, in order to assist grantees in strengthening outcomes related to
permanency, safety, and well-being. Applicants are required to use CFSR
findings, Program Improvement Plans (PIPs), Child and Family Services Plans,
Title IV-E Foster Care Eligibility Review, Annual Progress and Services
Reports, and Court Improvement Program (CIP) Plans and CIP Self-Assessments to
identify barriers, challenges, and potential solutions to: supporting placement
of children in kinship care arrangements, preadoptive, or adoptive homes;
permanency planning and achievement; ensuring child safety; enhanced engagement
with and service delivery to children and families, including fathers;
enhancing case planning; and/or maintaining family relationships and
connections. During the project period, grantees will address these barriers
and challenges through the development, implementation, and evaluation of
intervention strategies that focus on improving basic child welfare practice,
that help ensure family-focused approaches, meaningful engagement, high quality
legal representation, and CFSR systemic factors. Applicants will be required to
partner with the Administrative Office of the Courts, CIP, local courts, and
other systems that are involved with state or county-level child welfare
initiatives and must demonstrate buy-in from appropriate leadership.
DOD: Department of Defense
Dept. of the Army -- USAMRAA
The FY18 TBDRP Investigator-Initiated Research Award (IIRA) intends to
support highly rigorous, high-impact studies that have the potential to make
important contributions to Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases research,
patient care, and/or quality of life. This award mechanism promotes a wide range
of research from basic through translational, including preclinical studies in
animal models or human subjects, as well as correlative studies associated with
an existing clinical trial to establish proof-of-principle for further
development in future studies. Applications should include a well-formulated,
testable hypothesis based on strong scientific rationale that is established
through logical reasoning, preliminary data, and critical review and analysis
of the literature.
Dept. of the Army -- USAMRAA
The FY18 TBDRP Idea
Award (IA) intends to support conceptually innovative, high- risk/potentially
high-reward research in the early stages of development that could lead to
critical discoveries or major advancements that will accelerate progress in
improving outcomes for individuals affected by Lyme disease and/or other
tick-borne illnesses. This award mechanism promotes new ideas that represent
innovative approaches to Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases research
and have the potential to make an important contribution toward the TBDRP mission.
Applications should include a well-formulated, testable hypothesis based on
strong scientific rationale that is established through inferential reasoning
and/or critical review and analysis of the literature.
WETLANDS
EPA: Environmental Protection Agency
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is
soliciting proposals from eligible applicants for projects that develop or
refine state/tribal/local government wetland programs as a whole, or individual
components of those programs. Proposals for projects submitted under this
announcement for Wetland Program Development Grants (WPDGs) must address the
National Priority Area identified in Section I.B of the announcement.
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
For more information, please visit www.minneapolismn.gov/promisezone
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