In this edition of Minneapolis Promise Zone Updates:
- Recent Federal Grant and Partnership Opportunities
- About the Minneapolis Promise Zone
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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.
HOUSING
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Program Description The purpose of the Lead
Based Paint Hazard Reduction (LHR) grant program is to assist states, cities,
counties/parishes, Native American Tribes or other units of local government in
undertaking comprehensive programs to identify and control lead-based paint
hazards in eligible privately-owned rental or owner-occupied housing
populations. 2. Program Objectives Funds will be awarded to applicants to
accomplish the following objectives: a. Maximize the number of children under
the age of six years protected from lead poisoning and the number of housing
units where lead hazards are controlled; b. Target lead hazard control efforts
in housing in which children less than 6 years of age are at greatest risk of
lead poisoning (pre-1960), which both currently and historically has included
children residing in low-income and minority neighborhoods, to reduce the risk
of elevated blood lead levels in these children less; c. Utilize cost-effective
lead hazard control methods and approaches that ensures the long-term safety of
the building occupants; d. Build local capacity to safely and effectively
address lead hazards during lead hazard control, and renovation, remodeling,
and maintenance activities by appropriate trained and certified individuals; e.
Develop comprehensive, community-based approaches to integrating this grant
program within other local initiatives through public and private partnerships
that address housing related health and safety hazards and or serve low income
families with children under the age of 6; f. Affirmatively further fair
housing and further environmental justice. Note that besides being an “objective”
of this NOFA, the obligation to affirmatively further fair housing is also a
civil rights related program requirement; g. Establish data sharing, and
targeting between health and housing departments; Specifically, for the
following required reporting data pieces: (ER Visits, Asthma Incidence, ect of
enrolled applicants and general pop of target area) h. Establish and implement
a detailed process of monitoring and ensuring that units made lead-safe units
are affirmatively marketed, and priority given, to families with young children
under the age of 6 years of age for up to three years; i. Direct Job training,
employment, contracting, and other economic opportunities generated by this
grant will be directed to low- and very-low income persons, particularly those
who are recipients of government assistance for housing, and to businesses that
provide economic opportunities to low- and very low-income persons in the area
in which the project is located. For more information, see 24 CFR 135; j.
Gather pre and post treatment data that supports and validates lead hazard
control investments; and k. Comply with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
of 1973 (“Section 504”) and its implementing regulations at 24 CFR 8, and
Titles II and III of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Each of these
prohibits discrimination based on disability.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Small Business Administration
The Women’s Business Center (WBC) Program was established by
the Women’s Business Ownership Act of 1988 (Public Law No. 100-533) as the
Women’s Business Demonstration Pilot, providing grants to private non-profit
organizations to aid and encourage the development and growth of small
women-owned businesses through long-term training and counseling. The program was expanded and made permanent
in 2007 when the WBC Sustainability Grant Program, established in 1999, was
replaced with the WBC Renewal Grant Program.
Small Business Administration
Department of Energy - Office of Science
Office of Science
This FOA describes two distinct funding
opportunities for DOE Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and the Small
Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Phase I
Release 1.
Grant opportunities are announced pursuant to
the Small Business Innovation Development Act of 1982 (Public Law 97-219), the
Small Business Research and Development Enhancement Act of 1992 (Public Law
102-564), and the SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2011 (Public Law 112-81).
Small businesses (see definition in Section III – Eligibility Information) with
strong research capabilities in science or engineering are encouraged to apply.
Some topics may seek manufacturing-related innovations in accordance with
Executive Order 13329, “Encouraging Innovation in Manufacturing.”
The objectives of the SBIR/STTR programs
include increasing private sector commercialization of technology developed
through DOE-supported research and development (R&D), stimulating
technological innovation in the private sector, encouraging participation by
women-owned and minority-owned small businesses, and improving the return on
investment from Federally-funded research for economic and social benefits to
the nation. DOE will support high-quality research or R&D on innovative
concepts concerning important mission-related scientific or engineering
problems and opportunities that have high potential for commercialization. The
DOE SBIR/STTR Programs do not support either basic science or demonstration
projects.
TRANSIT
Department of Transportation
DOT Federal Highway Administration
The principal goal of the proposed Agreement is to provide
funding to TRB, collected by FHWA from the State Departments of Transportation
(DOTs), to support the administration and research activities of the NCHRP,
with an increased emphasis on implementation of research results. The TRB will administer and conduct research
on various topics selected under the NCHRP, after projects are approved
annually by the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials
(AASHTO) Special Committee on Research and Innovation (R&I). The proposed
Cooperative Agreement will enable the States to continue to leverage their
research dollars by collaborating in an array of nationally-focused research
projects, with an increased emphasis on implementation of research results.
Research areas under this agreement will include: (1) highway planning,
financing, and administration; (2) highway and bridge design, materials,
construction, roadside development and barrier systems; and (3) traffic
operations and control, illuminations and visibility, traffic planning, and
safety. The results of this research will be used by the States, the
transportation community in general, and FHWA to maintain and improve the
Nation’s highway infrastructure and promote highway safety.
EDUCATION & STEM:
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, & MATH
National Science Foundation
A well-prepared, innovative science,
technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce is crucial to the
Nation's health and economy. Indeed, recent policy actions and reports have
drawn attention to the opportunities and challenges inherent in increasing the
number of highly qualified STEM graduates, including STEM teachers. Priorities
include educating students to be leaders and innovators in emerging and rapidly
changing STEM fields as well as educating a scientifically literate populace.
Both of these priorities depend on the nature and quality of the undergraduate
education experience. In addressing these STEM challenges and priorities, the
National Science Foundation invests in evidence-based and evidence-generating
approaches to understanding STEM learning; to designing, testing, and studying
instruction and curricular change; to wide dissemination and implementation of
best practices; and to broadening participation of individuals and institutions
in STEM fields. The goals of these investments include: increasing the number
and diversity of STEM students; preparing students well to participate in
science for tomorrow;, and improving students' STEM learning outcomes. NSF’s
Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) initiative, launched in Fiscal
Year 2014, supports a coherent set of investments to address immediate
challenges and opportunities that are facing undergraduate STEM education, as
well as those that anticipate new structures (e.g. organizational changes, new
methods for certification or credentialing, course re-conception, cyberlearning,
etc.) and new functions of the undergraduate learning and teaching enterprise.
The NSF-wide IUSE initiative acknowledges the variety of discipline-specific
challenges and opportunities facing STEM faculty as they strive to incorporate
results from educational research into classroom practice and work with
education research colleagues and social science learning scholars to advance
our understanding of effective teaching and learning. The Directorate for
Geosciences (GEO) contributes to the IUSE initiative through the Improving
Undergraduate STEM Education: Pathways into Geoscience (IUSE: GEOPATHS) funding
opportunity. IUSE: GEOPATHS invites proposals that specifically address the
current needs and opportunities related to undergraduate education within the
geosciences community. The primary goal of the IUSE: GEOPATHS funding
opportunity is to increase the number of undergraduate students interested in
pursuing undergraduate degrees and/or post-graduate degrees in geoscience
through the design and testing of novel approaches for engaging students in
authentic, career-relevant experiences in geoscience. In order to broaden
participation in the geosciences, engaging undergraduate students from
traditionally underrepresented groups or from non-geoscience degree programs is
a priority. The IUSE: GEOPATHS solicitation features two funding tTracks: (1)
Engaging students in the geosciences through extra-curricular experiences and
training activities (GEOPATHS-EXTRA), and (2) Improving pathways into the geosciences
through institutional collaborations and transfer (GEOPATHS-IMPACT).
Department of the Interior
National Park Service
This announcement is not a request for
applications.
This announcement is to provide public notice
of the National Park Service’s intention to award a single source justified
cooperative agreement.
National Park Service
THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS. This
announcement is to provide public notice of the National Park Service’s
intention to award a task agreement under a previously competed or single
source justified master cooperative agreement.
Master Cooperative Agreement Number P15AC00012 was entered
into by and between the Department of the Interior, National Park Service,
(NPS), and Citizens Conservation Corps for the purpose of providing education,
stewardship and employment opportunities to young people. The goal of the
project is to provide training and career development opportunities that enable
a youth intern to build meaningful connections to Boston Harbor Islands
National Recreation Area, the National Park Service and a dynamic array of conservation
and service oriented park partners (e.g., Massachusetts Department of
Conservation and Recreation, Boston Harbor Now). This will be done through learning-based
service that matches youth skills and career development interests with
authentic public lands projects and professionals best able to facilitate
meaningful real-world training. The
youth intern will develop career readiness skills, a resource stewardship ethic
supported by actionable knowledge and skills, and a commitment to service that
benefits community and country.
The participating youth intern will 1) coordinate at least
forty (40) programs at the park Welcome Center; 2) plan, prototype and evaluate
at least five new engagement activities at the Welcome Center;; 3) plan and
execute at least five community engagement programs; 4) collect visitor use
data to inform decision making about park programming and facilities; and 5)
coordinate completion of critical deferred maintenance projects to improve
visitor safety and satisfaction at the park Welcome Center. The park receives
the ancillary benefits of enhanced visitor programming, improved community
engagement and accomplishment of deferred maintenance projects that would not
otherwise happen.
Department of the Interior
National Park Service
Evaluate the current status of the Services
programs, facilities and services to determine the needs for education, TA and
research that improve the accessibility. Evaluate the current status of
education, TA and research in the area of accessibility in order to determine
where changes and additions are needed. Develop and implement a national
training and education program for the Service and other park and recreation
professionals at the federal, state, local and private levels to increase
awareness and knowledge of methods to ensure people with disabilities have
equal access to park and recreation facilities, programs and opportunities.
Department of the Interior
National Park Service
This agreement establishes a partnership with
No Barriers Youth to provide park-based outdoor recreational and educational
experiences for youth who are hearing or visually impaired and/or
socio-economically underserved. No Barriers Youth is a division of No Barriers
USA that serves students of differing abilities from all socioeconomic
backgrounds, along with educators and families, to connect youth to the
outdoors where they can develop a sense of purpose and confidence, grow through
challenges and adversity, and give back as leaders who serve.
Department of Energy
Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy
High Intensity Thermal Exchange Through Materials and
Manufacturing Processes (HITEMMP)(SBIR/STTR) Agency Overview: The Advanced
Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E), an organization within the
Department of Energy (DOE), is chartered by Congress in the America COMPETES
Act of 2007 (P.L. 110-69), as amended by the America COMPETES Reauthorization
Act of 2010 (P.L. 111-358) to: “(A) to enhance the economic and energy security
of the United States through the development of energy technologies that result
in— (i) reductions of imports of energy from foreign sources; (ii) reductions
of energy-related emissions, including greenhouse gases; and (iii) improvement
in the energy efficiency of all economic sectors; and (B) to ensure that the
United States maintains a technological lead in developing and deploying
advanced energy technologies.” ARPA-E issues this Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA) under the programmatic authorizing statute codified at 42
U.S.C. § 16538. The FOA and any awards made under this FOA are subject to 2
C.F.R. Part 200 as amended by 2 C.F.R. Part 910. ARPA-E funds research on and
the development of high-potential, high-impact energy technologies that are too
early for private-sector investment. The agency focuses on technologies that
can be meaningfully advanced with a modest investment over a defined period of
time in order to catalyze the translation from scientific discovery to
early-stage technology. For the latest news and information about ARPA-E, its
programs and the research projects currently supported, see:
http://arpa-e.energy.gov/. Program Overview: The HITEMMP (High Intensity
Thermal Exchange through Materials, and Manufacturing Processes) program will
develop novel approaches and technologies for design topologies, materials, and
manufacturing of high temperature, high pressure, and highly compact heat
exchangers. These heat exchangers will enable efficient and power dense power
generation cycles for applications in transportation, electricity generation,
and industrial sectors. If successful, the materials and manufacturing advances
from the HITEMMP program may also yield broader benefits in other operating
regimes, and in applications beyond heat exchangers and power cycles. The
HITEMMP program targets heat exchangers to operate in environments where
temperatures and pressures are simultaneously in excess of 800°C and 80 bar,
with operating lifetimes of tens of thousands of hours. These heat exchangers
must offer superior thermal performance and low pumping power requirements, and
must also be cost competitive and durable (per metrics prescribed in Section
I.D of the FOA). These performance goals are beyond the capability of any existing
technologies, but ARPA-E believes that recent advances in materials,
topological design methodologies, and manufacturing technologies can be
leveraged to realize the desired extreme-environment heat exchanger capability.
Specific developments include: •The identification and development of materials
capable of withstanding extreme temperature and pressure conditions while
featuring attractive thermo-mechanical and manufacturability properties; •Advances
in additive and/or subtractive manufacturing techniques to enable the
cost-effective realization of small structural feature sizes, smooth surface
finishes, and other enabling heat exchanger characteristics; and • The refinement and application of advanced
design methodologies to leverage new material capabilities while incorporating
manufacturing constraints. ARPA-E has issued this FOA to encourage the
formation of multi-disciplinary teams to work to overcome the materials,
design, and manufacturing technology barriers that have thus far prevented the realization
of catalyzing the development of the desired extreme environment heat exchanger
capability. ARPA-E has identified two categories of recuperator-type heat
exchangers (> 800°C and > 1100°C, corresponding to metallic and to
ceramic/composite materials sets, respectively) as challenge problems. Each
category has performance metrics, as described in Section I.D of this FOA.
Applicants are expected to select one of the two categories. In each category,
ARPA-E anticipates that teams will initially execute an
analytical/computational design effort, will reduce key risks through
small-scale heat exchanger module experiments, and will demonstrate a heat
exchanger with the desired performance and durability at 50 kW thermal (kWth)
scale. To obtain a copy of the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) please go
to the ARPA-E website at https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov. ARPA-E will not review
or consider concept papers or full applications submitted through other means.
For detailed guidance on using ARPA-E eXCHANGE, please refer to the ARPA-E
eXCHANGE User Guide (https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov/Manuals.aspx).
PUBLIC &
COMMUNITY HEALTH
Department of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA)
solicits resource grant applications for projects that will bring useful,
usable health information to health disparity populations and their health care
providers. Access to useful, usable, understandable health information is an
important factor when making health decisions. Proposed projects should exploit
the capabilities of computer and information technology and health sciences
libraries to bring health-related information to consumers and their health
care providers. Because this FOA focuses on providing health information to
health disparity populations, institutions with demonstrated commitment to the
needs of health disparity communities (including Tribal Colleges and
Universities (TCU), Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU),
Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) and other institutions in rural and socially
disadvantaged areas) are encouraged to apply.
Department of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to
foster the advancement of the research mission of the Division of Digestive
Diseases and Nutrition, NIDDK by soliciting research concepts that for pilot
and feasibility clinical study proposals would need further assessment of
identified protocol operational challenges would enhance operational
feasibility of achieving successful completion of a subsequent larger clinical
study; or for clinical translational science proposals, promote exploratory and
novel science through the use of human subjects. The following studies will not
be supported by this FOA: those that have obesity as a component of the study
proposal (please refer to the Office of Extramural Research Grants and Funding
to search for multiple obesity related Funding Opportunity Announcements at
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/oer.htm); and translational studies that utilize
animal models.
Department of Health and Human Services
Indian Health Service
Only current Tribal Epidemiology Center (TEC) grantees are
eligible to apply for the competing supplemental funding under this
announcement and must demonstrate that they have complied with previous terms
and conditions of the TEC program.
Additional information is provided in the Notice of Funding
Opportunity, published in the Federal Register.
Department of Health and Human Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - ERA
The purpose of this research project is to use medical and
pharmacy claims data in real-time to: 1) identify HIV-infected patients who
have stopped filling anti-retroviral (ARV) prescriptions and to target these
individuals for adherence and retention intervention(s) (Category A); and 2)
identify persons living with HIV (including pregnant women) and to ensure these
individuals are receiving ARV therapy - Medical and Pharmacy Claims (Category
B).
ARTS & HUMANITIES
Institute of Museum and Library Services
The goals of National Leadership Grants (NLG)
for Museums are to support projects that address critical needs of the museum
field and that have the potential to advance practice in the profession so that
museums can strengthen services for the American public. This work may be
achieved through projects at various stages of maturity (exploring, piloting,
scaling, or mainstreaming).
Institute of Museum and Library Services
The goals of the Museum Grants for African
American History and Culture program (AAHCprogram) are to build the capacity of
African American museums and support the growth anddevelopment of museum
professionals at African American museums.The AAHC program supports projects
that nurture museum professionals, build institutionalcapacity, and increase
access to museum and archival collections at African American museumsand
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). IMLS welcomes
applications frommuseums of all sizes and geographic areas whose primary
purpose, as reflected in their mission,is African American art, life, history,
and culture.Projects may be structured at any of several stages of maturity:
exploratory, piloting, scaling, ormainstreaming. A proposed project’s
activities may be brand new to the institution, or they mayimplement learnings,
perspectives, or competencies acquired during a previous project. A projectmay
be an effort to intensify the impact of an approach that has been tested and
found to beeffective, or it may be structured as an opportunity to expand a
function or activity that has beendeemed successful.
National Endowment for the Arts
An individual may submit only one application
for FY 2020 funding. You may not apply for both a Translation Project under
this deadline (December 5, 2018) and a Literature Fellowship (in prose or
poetry) under the 2019 deadline (when fellowships in prose are offered). The
Arts Endowment’s support of a project may begin any time between November 1,
2019, and November 1, 2020, and extend for up to two years. Grant Program
Description Through fellowships to published translators, the National
Endowment for the Arts (NEA) supports projects for the translation of specific
works of prose, poetry, or drama from other languages into English. We
encourage translations of writers and of work that are not well represented in
English translation. All proposed projects must be for creative translations of
literary material into English. The work to be translated should be of interest
for its literary excellence and value. Priority will be given to projects that
involve work that has not previously been translated into English.
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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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