August 31, 2007
Contents:
State Grants
Federal Grants
Awards & Scholarships
Foundation/Organization Grants
State Grants:
Careers in Construction
Funding Source: Florida Department of Education (FDOE), Division
of Workforce Education
Funding Amount: $125,000 / One award is anticipated
Eligibility: Florida-based, statewide, not-for-profit foundation.
The Florida-based, statewide, not-for-profit foundation awarded
this funding shall have at least four years experience in
creating and operating programs at the high school level
that expose
interested students to employment opportunities in the construction
industry. The foundation shall have at the time of the grant
award a minimum of one thousand students participating in
their programs
Description: To promote careers in construction to high school
students along with the opportunities of the Florida Gold
Seal Vocational Scholars award.
Application Information: View announcement at: http://www.fldoe.org/workforce/dwdgrants/construction.asp
Contact: Nancy Cordill, 850-245-9898, Nancy.Cordill@fldoe.org.
Deadline: September 27, 2007
Carl D. Perkins, State Leadership, Professional Institute
Funding Source: Florida Department of Education (FDOE), Division
of Workforce Education
Funding Amount: $500,000 / One award is anticipated.
Eligibility: Florida’s public community colleges and
universities.
Description: To create a Professional Institute (PI) that will
provide equitable, statewide mini-grants for industry certification
to Career and Technical Education (CTE) teachers and professional
development activities: Develop, administer and implement a
procedure for mini-grant awards to assist CTE teachers in obtaining
industry certifications.Plan and coordinate professional development
activities statewide. The PI will work in conjunction with
a statewide Career and Technical Education Professional Development
Committee appointed by the Chancellor of Workforce Education.
The Committee will be composed of FDOE staff, career and technical
education practitioners, and others deemed appropriate by the
Chancellor.
Application Information: CFDA #: 84.048; Link to announcement
at FDOE website at http://www.fldoe.org/workforce/dwdgrants/2007/perkinsslaeafl07.asp or link to Word document: http://www.fldoe.org/workforce/dwdgrants/docs/RFP.doc Contact: Elsie Rogers, 850-245-9029, Elsie.Rogers@fldoe.org
Deadline: October 19, 2007 (The due date to
notify the Program Contact person, Elsie Rogers, of Intent-to-Apply
is October
5, 2007)
Federal Grants:
Summer of Service for Middle-School Aged Youth
Funding Source: U.S. Corporation for National and Community
Service
Funding Amount: Up to $900,000 for grants to support summer
of service activities. Grants may range in size from approximately
$100,000 to $200,000. Approximately 6 awards covering a period
not to exceed one year inclusive of May-August 2008. Cost Sharing:
Yes.
Eligibility: Native American tribal organizations (other than
Federally recognized tribal governments), Independent school
districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher
education, State governments, County governments, Public housing
authorities/Indian housing authorities, Private institutions
of higher education, Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with
the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Native
American tribal governments (Federally recognized), City or
township governments, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3)
status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
Eligible applicants include national, state, and multi-state
organizations that create new or expanded service-learning
opportunities in the summer programming of youth-serving organizations
that serve large numbers of youth from disadvantaged circumstances
at multiple sties. Applications from organizations not currently
receiving Corporation funding as well as from organizations
that are now receiving Corporation funds, including AmeriCorps,
Learn and Serve America, and Senior Corps are encouraged to
apply as well as submissions from organizations with little
or no experience with federal grants, where CNCS’s investment
could dramatically improve volunteer management capacity and
infrastructure. Eligible faith-based and other community-based
organizations are encouraged to apply. Organizations that currently
operate a Corporation-funded program or are applying for other
Corporation funding are eligible applicants. However, applicants
must differentiate between this grant’s proposed activities
and those of the currently-funded program or pending application.
The successful applicant must be experienced in working with
and planning activities for middle-school age youth. The applicant
must demonstrate: (1) ability to engage large numbers of youth
in the program; (2) ability to provide youth from disadvantaged
circumstances with meaningful service-learning opportunities
within their communities; (3) experience working with youth
from disadvantaged circumstances in out-of-school settings;
(4) ability to serve youth in the geographic location for which
the program is designed, and; (5) ability to apply the principals
of service-learning (http://www.servicelearning.org). Applicants
must demonstrate how the program design aligns with standards
set by local school boards for such programs.
Description: Summer of service activities are defined as high
quality, supervised, volunteer activities in multiple locations
during the summer (out-of-school) months. The participants
will be middle school youth (typically 10 to 14 years old)
from disadvantaged circumstances in urban and rural areas.
The purpose of this competition is to stimulate new or expanded
service-learning opportunities in the summer programming of
youth-serving organizations that already serve large numbers
of youth from disadvantaged circumstances at multiple sites.
Service learning opportunities are designed so that the youth
meet unmet needs in their communities. Youth participating
will be expected to: • Perform a minimum of 50 hours
of volunteer project planning, implementation, and reflection
with an adult or older person’s supervision, over a 2
to 8 week period between May and August, 2008 • Address
unmet needs in the communities in which they live through high-quality,
supervised, volunteer activities based on a service-learning
model that engages participants in structured, hands-on projects
while helping participants develop personal, civic, and/or
academic skills • Receive the President’s Volunteer
Service Award in recognition of their volunteer service The
successful applicant will be expected to: • Engage youth
in identifying, developing and reflecting on the service activities;
(more information on service learning models is available at
http://www.servicelearning.org• Design structured hands-on,
team-based projects • Implement these projects in a way
that creates awareness of and excitement for the power of youth
to contribute in meaningful way to the communities in which
they live. Preference may be given to applications that (a)
serve larger numbers of youth; (b) include a mentoring component
that connects service to a sustained mentoring relationship;
(b) include youth who are homeless or in foster care as participants;
(c) engage the same group of youth in volunteer activity beyond
the summer months; (d) demonstrate the ability to collaborate
with existing youth-serving organizations in planning and implementing
their proposed activities, including coordinating effective
communication and participation among all partners.
Application Information: FON: CNCS-GRANTS-082907-001; CFDA:
94.007
Link to website for information http://www.cns.gov/for_organizations/funding/nofa_detail.asp?tbl_nofa_id=51
or contact: Special Initiatives Hotline-202-606-7507 or email:
summerofservice@cns.gov or view Nofa PDF file http://www.cns.gov/pdf/07_0829_sos_nofa.pdf . The Corporation will host a technical assistance call to
answer questions from potential applicants. Applicants are
strongly encouraged to participate in the technical assistance
call. The call information is as follows: Date: September 12,
2007 ;Time: 2:00pm - 3:00 P.M. EasternTime; Call Leader: MR
BRENDAN MURPHY; Dial-In Number: 888-455-0603; Verbal Passcode:
MURPHY CALL . Applications are to be submitted electronically
using eGrants, the Corporation’s integrated, secure,
web-based system for applications. You may access eGrants at
http://www.nationalservice.gov/egrants/index.html. If you cannot
submit an application electronically due to technical difficulties
or limitations, submit a paper application, together with an
electronic version of the application on a CD Rom postmarked
by the October 10, 2007 to facilitate data entry into the eGrants
system, to the following address: Corporation for National
and Community Service, 1201 New York Avenue, N.W., Box Summer
of Service, Washington, D.C., 20525.
Deadline: October 10, 2007 (Please submit an email stating
your intent to apply to summerofservice@cns.gov by September
19 by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time)
BROWNFIELDS JOB TRAINING GRANTS
Funding Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Funding Amount: Awards: 13; Total Program Funding: $2,500,000;
Award Ceiling: $200,000. Cooperative Grant. No match required.
Eligibility: County governments, Others (see text field entitled "Additional
Information on Eligibility" for clarification in PDF file
below),City or township governments, State governments, Native
American tribal governments (Federally recognized) , Nonprofits
having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions
of higher education. Applicants that received a Brownfields
Job Training grant from EPA in Fiscal Year 2007 (announced
November 2006) are not eligible to apply in Fiscal Year 2008.
A list of brownfields job training grants awarded in Fiscal
Year 2007 can be found on the Brownfields Website, http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/pilot.htm#previous.
Applicants who received a brownfields job training grant in
or before Fiscal Year 2006 are eligible to apply for this competition.
Description: This notice announces the availability of funds
and solicits applications from eligible entities and non-profit
organizations to provide environmental job training projects
that will facilitate the assessment, remediation, or preparation
of brownfield sites. Applicants must propose to serve a community
that currently receives, or has received, financial assistance
from EPA for brownfields assessment, revolving loan fund or
cleanup competitive grants. States and certain eligible Indian
Tribes currently receiving CERCLA Section 128 funding may propose
to serve any community within their jurisdiction where the
state or Indian Tribe is conducting site-specific brownfields
work (e.g., assessment or clean up activities) with state,
Indian Tribal or Federal CERCLA Section 128 funds.
Application Information: FON: EPA-OSWER-OBCR-07-10 ; CFDA:
66.815; Link to PDF http://www.epa.gov/oswer/docs/grants/epa-oswer-obcr-07-10.pdf Using http://www.Grants.gov, applicants may submit the complete
application package on-line with no hard copy or computer disks.
Please be sure to view the additional instructions that are
available for download on http://www.Grants.gov for this announcement
and which are included below. If you have any technical difficulties
while applying electronically, please call the toll free Contact
Center at 1-800-518-4726.
Deadline: October 19, 2007
Water Security Initiative Contamination Warning System Demonstration
Pilots
Funding Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Funding Amount: EPA anticipates awarding up to four cooperative
agreements for these demonstration pilots. Estimated Total
Program Funding: $31,000,000
Eligibility: EPA is soliciting applications only from local
governments or institutions (either public or private nonprofit
organizations) that operate community water systems (as defined
in 40 C.F.R.12§141.2) serving at least 750,000 people.
For-profit organizations are not eligible to apply for cooperative
agreements under this announcement. Nonprofit organizations
that lobby and are exempt from taxation under Section 501(c)(4)
of the Internal Revenue Code are not eligible to apply. EPA
may request that applicants provide verification of their nonprofit
statusDescription: to assist community water systems with demonstrating
and evaluating contamination warning system pilots.
Application Information: For more information see http://www.epa.gov/safewater/watersecurity/pubs/rfa_watersecurity_securityinitiative_amended.pdf
Deadline: September 10, 2007
Florida NRCS Farm Bill Support
Funding Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources
Conservation Service (NRCS), Florida State Office
Funding Amount: Total Program Funding: $400,000; Award Floor:
$10,000. The NRCS expects to award at least 1 and up to 14
cooperative agreements to eligible conservation partners. Total
estimated funding for all agreements is approximately $400,000.
Agreements will be awarded for a one-year period, with 4 option
years.
Eligibility: Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the
IRS, other than institutions of higher education, City or township
governments, Private institutions of higher education,
County governments, Individuals, Public and State controlled
institutions of higher education, Special district governments,
Small businesses, Native American tribal organizations (other
than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits that
do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions
of higher education , Native American tribal governments (Federally
recognized) For profit organizations other than small businesses,
State governments
Description: The NRCS is seeking assistance from eligible applicants
to contribute and partner in the conservation, maintenance
and improvement of natural resources in Florida. Applicants
will provide technical assistance to producers in planning,
surveying, designing, layout, construction inspections and
checkout of conservation practices associated with installation
of conservation systems
Application Information: FON: USDA-NRCS-FL-07-02; CFDA Number:
10.072 -- Wetlands Reserve Program; CFDA Number: 10.902 --
Soil and Water Conservation;
CFDA Number: 10.912 -- Environmental Quality Incentives Program;
CFDA Number: 10.913 -- Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program;
CFDA Number: 10.914 -- Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program;
CFDA Number: 10.918 -- Ground and Surface Water Conservation_
Environmental Quality Incentives Program; CFDA Number: 10.920
-- Grassland Reserve Program; CFDA Number: 10.921 -- Conservation
Security Program Link to full proposal at http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=15349&mode=VIEW under Full Announcement. Submit written proposals to: Jeffrey
Woods, Assistant State Conservationist (Programs), Lynn F.
Merrill, Contract Specialist, USDA-Natural Resources Conservation
Service, 2614 NW 43RD Street, Gainesville, FL 32606-6611 Applicants
may submit proposals electronically through Grants.gov website
Deadline: September 27, 2007
Residency Training in Primary Care
Funding Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA)
Funding Amount: Awards: 48; Estimated Total Funding: $8,565,679;
Average Size of Award: $175,000
Eligibility: Public or nonprofit private hospitals, accredited
schools of medicine or osteopathic medicine, or public or private
nonprofit entities, including faith-based and community-based
organizations that meet this criterion, are eligible to apply.
Description: To plan, develop, and operate or participate (including
provision of financial assistance) in approved residency programs
in family medicine, general internal medicine, and/or general
pediatrics. See announcement for eligibility in each area.
Application Information: FON: HRSA-08-042; CFDA: 93.884; Link
to announcement for complete Request for Funding document:
https://grants.hrsa.gov/webExternal/SFO.asp?ID=F7218B12-5D3F-4EC0-AAD0-189505D8DA4F
Contact information: Shane Rogers, (301)443-1467, srogers@hrsa.gov
Deadline: December 10, 2007
Awards & Scholarships
Nominations For Inventors- 13th Lemelson-MIT Prize Award
and Second Annual Award for Sustainability
Funding Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Funding Award: $100,000 for Sustainability Award, $500,000
for Prize
Eligibility: For Prize Award: U.S. citizens or permanent residents,
Inventors who are mid-career and rising in their respective
fields; For those who are college graduates, mid-career means
having received their bachelor's degrees no earlier than 25
years prior to July 1 of the year that the prize is awarded;
Owners of two U.S. patents, one of which is a product or process
that provides a significant benefit (potential or realized)
to society ,Inventors in one (or more) of the following categories:
medicine and healthcare, computers and telecommunications,
consumer products, energy and environment, or industrial products,
Individuals who are an inspiration to young people, through
their creativity, outreach or mentoring activities. Candidates
may be individuals or two collaborating inventors, and they
must be nominated by one of their peers. Winners will be invited
and encouraged to participate in Lemelson-MIT Program activities,
including youth outreach opportunities to inspire young people
to pursue creative lives and careers. For Sustainability Award:
U.S. citizens, permanent residents, or foreign nationals currently
working legally in the United States; Inventors who have created
a product, process or material; made a technology more affordable;
redesigned a system; or otherwise demonstrated remarkable technological
inventiveness in addressing local or global sustainability
in the United States and/or abroad; Inventors who can provide
evidence that their inventions have been adopted for practical
use; Inventors working in an area that ultimately improves
the quality of air, water or soil; or pertains to health, energy,
agriculture, shelter, biodiversity or ecosystem management;
Individuals who are inspirational to young people, through
their creativity, outreach or mentoring activities
Candidates may be individuals or two collaborating inventors,
and they must be nominated by one of their peers. U.S. patents
are not required, but are desirable for this award. Winners
will be invited and encouraged to participate in Lemelson-MIT
Program activities, including youth outreach opportunities
to inspire young people to pursue creative lives and careers.
Description: The Lemelson-MIT prize, known as the "Oscars
for Inventors," is awarded to inventors of any product
or process that can offer significant value to society, while
the Sustainability Award targets inventions that work to expand
economic opportunity and community well-being in developing
and/or developed countries, protect and restore the natural
environment and offer solutions to the complex problems of
sustainability that the world faces.
Application Information: Full details and the nomination requirements
visit website at: http://web.mit.edu/invent/.
Deadline: November 2, 2007
Building Healthy Communities for Active Aging National Recognition
Program Awards
Funding Source: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s
Aging Initiative is spearheading this multi-agency effort developed
in partnership with: The President’s Council on Physical
Fitness and Sports,The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and
Prevention,The National Council on Aging’s Center for
Healthy Aging,The National Blueprint Office,Active for Life
and the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, through its Active
for Life program, is supporting a Healthy Communities for Active
Aging Learning Network for participating communities and tribes,
and the National Blueprint and the CDC Healthy Aging Research
Network is providing technical assistance.
Funding Award: Winners will be announced at the 7th Annual
New Partners for Smart Growth: Building Safe, Healthy and Livable
Communities Conference in Washington, D.C., February 2008.
Eligibility: Awards will be presented to communities that demonstrate
the best and most inclusive overall approach to implementing
smart growth and active aging at the neighborhood, tribe, municipality,
county, and/or regional levels. Applicants must be public-sector
entities in the United States and coordinate with their local
Area Agency on Aging. Public-sector entities include all levels
of elected governments, from city councils to state legislatures
and their subdivisions such as planning departments and other
executive branch divisions
Description: Two types of awards will be made—the Commitment
Award and the Achievement Award. The Commitment Award recognizes
communities that have developed and begun to initiate a specific
plan to implement smart growth and active aging principles.
The Achievement Award will be given for overall excellence
in building healthy communities for active aging.The principal
goal of the Building Healthy Communities for Active Aging Award
program is to raise awareness across the nation about healthy
synergies that can be achieved by communities combining Smart
Growth and Active Aging concepts. Smart Growth is characterized
by development patterns that create attractive, distinctive,
walkable communities that give people of varying age, wealth,
and physical ability a range of safe, affordable, convenient
choices in where they live and how they get around. Growing
smart also ensures that existing resources are used efficiently
and that lands and buildings that shape communities are preserved.
For information on Smart Growth visit http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/ . Active Aging takes place when older adults regularly participate
in a variety of structured and unstructured physical activities.
Communities can promote Active Aging by implementing a diverse
array of accessible physical-activity programs, and helping
to make more accessible self-directed physical-activity opportunities
for those 50-plus. All of these opportunities should emphasize
activities that increase endurance, strength, flexibility,
and balance, while adhering to the principles of injury prevention.
Self-directed activities include walking, biking, fitness trails
and similar activities that are appropriate for participants
at various levels of fitness and functional ability. For more
information on Active Aging, please visit the websites at http://www.activeforlife.info/default.aspx For information on EPA Aging Initiative visit: http://www.epa.gov/aging/
Application Information: Link to website for guidelines, entry
rules and application forms http://www.epa.gov/aging/bhc/awards/ . Application forms and supplementary materials should be sent
to the following address: Kathy Sykes, Senior Advisor, Aging
Initiative Excellence in Building Healthy Communities for Active
Aging, Office of Children's Health Protection, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave. NW, Room 2512N (Ariel Rios North), Washington, D.C. 20460
Deadline: October 19, 2007
The Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship
Funding Source: Skoll Foundation
Funding Award: The Skoll Awards provide later-stage, or mezzanine,
funding, which is generally structured as a $1 million award
paid out over three years, subject to payment limitations
described below under Budget Guidance. See website for more
information
at http://www.skollfoundation.org/skollawards/eligibility.asp
Eligibility: To receive a Skoll Award, an organization must
be a legally incorporated entity. The Skoll Foundation recognizes
that social entrepreneurs work in the business sector as
well as in the nonprofit arena. For-profit or hybrid organizations
may apply for funding if the grant or program-related investment
would contribute to a charitable purpose and activities.
Organizations
that do not have U.S. IRS 501(c)(3) nonprofit status, including
organizations based in other countries, will be asked to
submit additional documentation at the appropriate time.
Description: The foundation's Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship
support social entrepreneurs whose work has the potential
for large-scale influence on critical challenges of our time:
environmental
sustainability, health, tolerance and human rights, institutional
responsibility, economic and social equity, and peace and
security
Application Information: The Skoll Foundation is now accepting
applications and grants awards on a year-round basis. To
be considered for funding in advance of the 2008 Skoll World
Forum,
applicants must submit their online application no later
than September 24, 2007. Applications submitted after that
date
will continue to be reviewed and funded throughout the year,
with awards publicly celebrated at the subsequent Skoll World
Forum. View Application process at http://www.skollfoundation.org/skollawards/how_to_apply.asp
Deadline: September 24, 2007
Foundation/Organization
Grants:
Small Grant Program for Counties to Develop Jail Diversion
Programs for People with Mental Illnesses
Funding Source: National Association of Counties in its fourth
year of an Eli Lilly & Company funded project to provide
this grant program to counties.
Funding Amount: maximum of 5 seed grants of up to $5,000 to
assist counties with developing and implementing plans to divert
people with mental illnesses from jails into community-based
treatment programs
Eligibility: A county is eligible to apply if: • They
are a current NACo member county,• They can demonstrate
that some effort has been made to address the issue of the
mentally ill in county jails,• The county plays a significant
leadership role in the development and implementation of the
grant activities,• The Chairperson of the Board of County
Commissioners approves the grant application. A signature is
required.• The proposal exhibits some substantive/quantifiable
results.• They commit in advance to participating in
an orientation session conference call. Grant money will be
awarded with consideration to geographically and demographically
diverse counties, including frontier, rural, and underserved
communities.
Description: Grants will support a variety of activities including
assessing the counties' needs for mental health treatment programs,
reviewing evidence-based approaches and promising practices
in jail diversion, and the formation of strategic planning
groups comprising local criminal justice and mental health
systems officials. This year, preference will be given to plans
proposing services to facilitate access to federal benefits,
such as SSI/SSDI and Medicare/Medicaid, in order to help individuals
with mental illnesses obtain medication, health care, housing,
food, and employment. The funding could be used to support
the formation of a planning group, which must include representatives
from both mental health and criminal justice systems. The funding
could also be used to develop and/or implement a strategic
county-wide plan for diverting individuals with mental illness
from local jails, develop a continuum of community-based resources
and services to care for individuals with mental illness, and/or
develop CIT or mental health court type programs. There are
several evidenced-based approaches for criminal justice diversion,
including Crisis Intervention Team (CIT), mental health courts,
and re-entry or jail discharge planning to assist mentally
ill offenders to reintegrate into the community. state association
may also apply for the seed grants and may use the funding
to host a forum or training for county officials on the topic
of jail diversion. The forum or training should focus on helping
counties develop a plan for action for addressing the issue
in their counties. Applicants are encouraged to design or enhance
projects that include one or more of the above mentioned existing
strategic diversion interventions. Proposed projects should
focus on county leadership in convening key stakeholder groups
and creating or strengthening collaborative efforts between
local criminal justice and mental health systems.
Application Information: Link to NACO announcement: http://www.naco.org/Template.cfm?Section=New_Technical_Assistance&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=24486 . For questions concerning the process or application, please
contact Justin Carmody, Community Services Associate, NACo’s
Community Service Division at jcarmody@naco.org or (202) 942-4279.
Applications must be mailed electronically and followed by
a hard copy sent via postal mail to: Justin Carmody Email:
jcarmody@naco.org National Association of Counties, 25 Massachusetts
Avenue, NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20001
Deadline: September 28, 2007
Veterans Entrepreneurship Support Grant
Funding Source: Veterans Corporation (TVC)
Funding Amount: Grants will be made in six-month or twelve-month
periods. Multi-year grants will not be accepted. The maximum
grant amount is $50,000. Organizations can apply for multiple
grants.
Eligibility: Applicants for funding under TVC's Development
Grants program must be United States 501(c)(3) organizations
or other organizations identified as tax-exempt by the IRS.
Grants will not be awarded to individuals or to organizations
that serve an exclusively religious purpose.
Description: This initiative will support educational projects
and organizations that address the entrepreneurial needs
of Veterans, including Service-Disabled Veterans and members
of
the National Guard and reserve forces, who are starting or
growing small businesses or preparing a business for deployment.
Organizations may apply for general program grants in two
program categories (education and outreach). Visit main website
at
http://www.veteranscorp.org/developmentgrants/
Application Information: Visit http://www.veteranscorp.org/developmentgrants/main_programs.html for more information on guidelines.
Deadline: open |
