October 5, 2007
Contents:
State Grants
Federal Grants
Awards & Scholarships
Foundation/Organization Grants
State Grants:
(none)
Federal Grants:
Family Professional Partnerships/CSHCN-Family Opportunity
Act "Family To Family Health Care Information and Education
Centers for Families of Children with Special Health Care Needs"
Funding Source: Health Resources & Services Administration
Funding Amount: Expected Number of Awards:11; Estimated Total
Program Funding:$1,000,000 ; Award Floor:$95,700
Eligibility: Any public or private entity, including an Indian
tribe or tribal organization (as those terms are defined at
25 U.S.C. 450b), faith based and community based organization
are eligible to apply for this federal funding opportunity
that can document previous experience to address and fulfill
review criteria in guidance. As cited in 42 CFR Part 51a.3
(a), any public or private entity, including an Indian tribe
or tribal organization (as those terms are defined at 25 U.S.C.
450b), faith based and community based organization are eligible
to apply for this federal funding opportunity that can document
previous experience to address and fulfill review criteria
in guidance.
Description: The purpose of this initiative is to reduce barriers
to community living for people with disabilities and to address
families' lack of access to the services, advocacy and assistance
they need as mandated in The Family Opportunity Act of 2005.
This initiative ultimately will assist families so that: "Families
of children with special health care needs will partner in
decision-making at all levels". Grants will fund state-wide,
family-run centers providing information, education, technical
assistance and peer support to families of CYSHCN. They will
be responsible for developing partnerships with those organizations
serving these children and their families and monitor the progress
of programs with responsibility for payment and direct services
of this population through a statewide data collection system.
Specifically, Congress has required that these centers will:
1) Assist families of CSHCN make informed choices about health
care in order to promote good treatment decisions, cost effectiveness
and improved health outcomes; 2) Provide information regarding
the health care needs of and resources available for CSHCN;
3) Identify successful health delivery models; 4) Develop with
representatives of health care providers, managed care organization,
health car purchasers, and appropriate State agencies, a model
for collaboration between families of CSHCN and health professionals;
5) Provide training and guidance regarding the care of CSHCN;
6) Conduct outreach activities to families, health professionals,
schools and other appropriate entities; and 7) Be staffed by
such families who have expertise in Federal and State public
and private health care systems and health providers. Core
values across all MCHB programs include family-centered care,
family/professional partnerships and cultural and linguistic
competence. These MUST be adequately integrated throughout
project policies and activities. MCHB will also require additional
data and technical assistance. Review criteria for all of these
issues will be described in the guidance.
Application Information: Funding Opportunity Number:HRSA-08-048
CFDA Number:93.110 Although a Letter/Email of Intent is not
required, it is to all applicants' advantage to send one so
that MCHB can send notification of technical assistance calls.
Link to Full Announcement https://grants.hrsa.gov/webExternal/SFO.asp?
ID=7276E71F-B1C6-4BFA-A18C-4C4C0F276AE3 Contact: Diana Denboba at DDenboba@hrsa.gov: 301-443-9332/
2372
Deadline: December 18, 2007
Solid Waste Management Grant Program
Funding Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Funding Amount: Expected Number of Awards:70 Estimated Total
Program Funding:
$3,500,000
Eligibility: An organization is eligible to receive a SWM grant
if it is a private, non-profit organization that has tax-exempt
status from the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS);
a Public body; a federally acknowledged or State-recognized
Native American tribe or group; an Academic institution; legally
established and located within one of the following: • a
state within the United States • the District of Columbia • the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico • a United States territory
;has the legal capacity and authority to carry out the grant
purpose; has a proven record of successfully providing technical
assistance and/or training to rural areas; has capitalization
acceptable to the Agency, and is composed of at least 51 percent
of the outstanding interest or membership being citizens of
the United States or individuals who reside in the United States
after being legally admitted for permanent residence; has no
delinquent debt to the Federal Government or no outstanding
judgments to repay a Federal debt; demonstrates that it possesses
the financial, technical, and managerial capability to comply
with Federal and State laws and requirements; contracts with
a nonaffiliated organization for not more than 49 percent of
the grant to provide the proposed assistance.
Description: Qualified organizations will
receive SWM grant funds to reduce or eliminate pollution of
water resources in
rural areas, and improve planning and management of solid waste
sites in rural areas. Funds may be used to: Evaluate current
landfill conditions to determine threats to water resources
in rural areas; provide technical assistance and/or training
to enhance operator skills in the maintenance and operation
of active landfills in rural areas; provide technical assistance
and/or training to help associations reduce the solid waste
stream; and provide technical assistance and/or training for
operators of landfills in rural areas which are closed or will
be closed in the near future with the development/implementation
of closure plans, future land use plans, safety and maintenance
planning, and closure scheduling within permit requirements.
Grant funds may not be used to: Recruit reapplications/applications
for any loan and/or grant program including RUS Water and Waste
Disposal Loan and/or Grant Program; duplication of current
services, replacement or substitution of support previously
provided such as those performed by an association's consultant
in developing a project; fund political activities; pay for
capital assets, the purchase of real estate or vehicles, improve
and renovate office space, or repair and maintain privately-owned
property; pay for construction or operation and maintenance
costs of water and waste facilities; and pay costs incurred
prior to the effective date of grants made under this subpart.
Application Information: FON: RDUP-SWMGRANT-100207; CFDA: 10.762
Link to Full Announcement http://www.usda.gov/rus/water/SWMG.htm
Deadline: December 31, 2007
Technical Assistance and Training Grant For Water and Waste
Disposal
Funding Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Funding Amount: Expected Number of Awards: 17 ;Estimated Total
Program Funding:
$17,000,000
Eligibility: Eligibility criteria for TAT grants is as follows:
(a) Entities eligible for grants must be private nonprofit
organizations with tax exempt status, designated by the Internal
Revenue Service. A nonprofit organization is defined as any
corporation, trust, association, cooperative, or other organization
that: (1) Is operated primarily for scientific, education,
service, charitable, or similar purposes in the public interest.
(2) Is not organized primarily for profit. (3) Uses its net
proceeds to maintain, improve, and/or expand its operations.
(b) Entities must be legally established and located within
a state as defined in § 1775.2. (c) Organizations must
be incorporated by December 31 of the year the application
period occurs to be eligible for funds. (d) Private businesses,
Federal agencies, public bodies, and individuals are ineligible
for these grants. (e) Applicants must also have the proven
ability, background, experience (as evidenced by the organization’s
satisfactory completion of project(s)similar to those proposed),
legal authority, and actual capacity to provide technical assistance
and/or training on a regional basis to associations as provided
in § 1775.33. To meet the requirement of actual capacity,
an applicant must either: (1) Have the necessary resources
to provide technical assistance and/or training to associations
in rural areas through its staff, or (2) Be assisted by an
affiliate or member organization which has such background
and experience and which agrees, in writing, that it will provide
the assistance, or (3) Contract with a nonaffiliated organization
for not more than 49 percent of the grant to provide the proposed
assistance.
Description: The objectives of the Technical Assistance and
Training Grants are to: - Identify and evaluate solutions to
water and waste disposal problems in rural areas. - Assist
applicants in preparing applications for water and waste grants
made at the State level offices. - Improve operation and maintenance
of existing water and waste disposal facilities in rural areas.
Funds may be used to pay expenses associated with providing
technical assistance and/or training (TAT) to identify and
evaluate solutions to water problems relating to source, storage,
treatment, and distribution, and to waste disposal problems
relating to collection, treatment, and disposal; assist applicants
that have filed a preapplication with RUS in the preparation
of water and/or waste disposal loan and/or grant applications;
and to provide training that will improve the management, operation
and maintenance of water and waste disposal facilities. Grant
funds may not be used to recruit applications, duplicate current
services such as those performed by a consultant in developing
a project, fund political activities, pay for capital assets,
purchase real estate or vehicles, improve and renovate office
space or repair and maintain privately owned property, pay
construction or O&M costs, and pay costs incurred prior
to the effective date of grants made. (Note? Rural areas are
defined as any area not in a city or town with a population
in excess of 10,000, according to the latest decennial census
of the United States.)
Application Information: Funding Opportunity Number:RDUP-TAT-GRANT-100307-FY08;
CFDA Number:10.761 Link to announcement: http://www.usda.gov/rus/water/tatg.htm
Deadline: December 31, 2007
Health Careers Opportunity Program
Funding Source: Health Resources & Services Administration
Funding Amount: Awards: 4; Estimated Total Program Funding:
$3,728,065
Eligibility: Eligible applicants include schools of medicine,
osteopathic medicine, public health, dentistry, veterinary
medicine, optometry, pharmacy, allied health, chiropractic,
podiatric medicine, public or non-profit private schools that
offer graduate programs in behavioral and mental health, programs
for the training of physician assistants, and other public
or private nonprofit health or educational entities, including
faith-based organizations and community-based organizations.
Eligible applicants include schools of medicine, osteopathic
medicine, public health, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry,
pharmacy, allied health, chiropractic, podiatric medicine,
public or non-profit private schools that offer graduate programs
in behavioral and mental health, programs for the training
of physician assistants, and other public or private nonprofit
health or educational entities, including faith-based organizations
and community-based organizations
Description: The goal of the Health Careers Opportunity Program
(HCOP) is to assist individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds
to undertake education to enter a health profession. The HCOP
program works to build diversity in the health fields by providing
students from disadvantaged backgrounds an opportunity to develop
the skills needed to successfully compete, enter and graduate
from health professions schools. The legislative purposes,
from which HCOP funds maybe awarded are: 1)identifying, recruiting
and selecting individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds for
education and training in a health profession; 2)facilitating
the entry of such individuals into such a school; 3)providing
counseling, mentoring, or other services designed to assist
such individuals to complete successfully their education at
such a school; 4) providing, for a period prior to the entry
of such individuals into the regular course of education at
such a school, preliminary education and health research training
designed to assist them to complete successfully such regular
course education at such a school, or referring such individuals
to institutions providing such preliminary education; 5)publicizing
existing sources of financial aid available to students in
the education program of such a school or who are undertaking
training necessary to qualify them to enroll in such a program;
6)paying scholarships, such as the Secretary may determine,
for such individuals for any period of health professions education
at a health professions school; 7)paying stipends for such
individuals for any period of education in student-enhancement
programs (other than regular courses), except that such a stipend
may not be provided to an individual for more than 12 months;
8)carrying out programs under which such individuals gain experience
regarding a career in a field of primary health care through
working at facilities of public or private nonprofit community-based
providers of primary health services; 9)conducting activities
to develop a larger and more competitive applicant pool through
partnerships with institutions of higher education, school
districts and other community-based entities
Application Information: FON: HRSA-08-057; CFDA: 93.822; Link
to announcement: https://grants.hrsa.gov/webExternal/SFO.asp?
ID=0F10D7A7-5157-48BC-867B-F6B935D1E330
Deadline: February 22, 2008
New Access Points (NCP) for Delivery of Primary Health Care
Services
Funding Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA); Bureau
of Primary Health Care
Funding Amount: 75 awards totaling $46,000,000; The HRSA has established an annual
cap of $650,000 for section 330 support of new access points. Applicants may
request Federal section 330 grant support up to $150,000 in Year 1 only for one-time
minor capital costs for equipment and/or alterations/renovations however, the
total request for section 330 support MUST NOT exceed the established annual
cap of $650,000 in Year 1, Year 2 or Year 3. Cost Sharing: Yes
Eligibility: Organizations eligible to compete include public or nonprofit private
entities, including tribal, faith-based and community-based organizations. All
applicants are expected to demonstrate compliance with the applicable requirements
of section 330 of the PHS Act, the implementing regulations, and HRSA Program
Expectations. Applications may be submitted for consideration from new organizations
or organizations currently receiving funding under section 330. Faith-based and
community organizations are eligible to apply
Description: An important element of the Health Resources and Services Administration’s
commitment to improving and expanding access to needed primary health care services
is the support of new access points for the delivery of primary health care services
for the underserved through operational support under the Health Center Program
(i.e., Community Health Center (CHC), Migrant Health Center (MHC), Health Care
for the Homeless (HCH), and Public Housing Primary Care (PHPC) Programs) authorized
under section 330 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, as amended This activity
is a key factor in the President's Health Centers Initiative, a multi-year plan
to strengthen the health care safety net by establishing or expanding health
centers in 1,200 of the Nation's neediest communities through Health Centers
funded under Section 330 of the Public Health Service Act. The purpose of this
activity is to support the establishment of new service delivery sites for medically
underserved populations to receive comprehensive primary and preventive health
care services. Through the Health Center Program, funded organizations will offer
access to comprehensive primary and preventive health care and social services
(including mental health, substance abuse, and oral health care services) to
populations currently with limited or no access to such services. Federally funded
health centers may offer services to the general community; migrant and seasonal
farmworkers and their families; homeless people, including children and families;
and/or public housing residents. All services must be provided to all persons
without regard to an individual's ability to pay. Each application for support
to establish a new access point must identify a population in need of primary
health care services and propose a specific plan to increase access to care and
reduce disparities identified in the population or community to be served.:
Application Information: FON: HRSA-08-077:NAP ;Link to announcement: https://grants.hrsa.gov/webExternal/SFO.asp?ID=2FABCACB-0300-46D3-958F-1BB9D021CA11Guidance and Programmatic Contact: Preeti Kanodia, Public Health Analyst, Office
of Policy and Program Development, Telephone: 301/594-4300
Fax: 301/594-4997, preeti.kanodia@hrsa.hhs.gov. HRSA is requiring applicants
for this funding opportunity to apply electronically through Grants.gov, http://www.grants.gov/.
All applicants must submit in this manner unless the applicant is granted a written
exemption from this requirement in advance by the Director of HRSA’s Division
of Grants Policy. Applicants must request an exemption in writing from DGPWaivers@hrsa.gov,
and provide details as to why they are technologically unable to submit electronically
though the Grants.gov portal
Deadline: December 18, 2007
Improving Health and Educational Outcomes of Young People
Funding Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Funding Amount: Approximately $32,025,000 will be available
in fiscal year 2008 to fund approximately 85 awards.
Eligibility: Eligible Applicants for FOA DP08-801 include:
State Education Agencies (SEA) – all 50 states, the District
of Columbia, and Puerto Rico; State Health Agencies (SHA) – all
50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico; Local
Education Agencies (LEA) – 31 eligible agencies which
includes: Broward County Public Schools (Ft. Lauderdale, FL),
Miami-Dade County Public Schools (Miami, FL), Orange County
Public Schools (Orlando, FL), The School District of Palm Beach
County (West Palm Beach, FL), Hillsborough County Public Schools
(Tampa, FL), Duval County Public Schools (Jacksonville, FL),
Territorial Education Agencies (TEA) Tribal Governments (TG).
Applicants are encouraged to coordinate their activities through
cross-agency partnerships, such as between education and health
agencies; across programmatic areas, such as HIV, sexually
transmitted disease (STD), and teen pregnancy prevention, or
physical activity, nutrition, and tobacco use prevention; by
establishing or supporting coalitions; and/or across components
of a Coordinated School Health Program.
Description: The purpose of the program is to improve the health
and well-being of youth and prepare them to be healthy adults.
Funding is made available to fund the following five Priority
areas: Priority 1: Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS); Priority
2: HIV Prevention (HIV);Priority 3: Coordinated School Health
Programs and Promotion of Physical Activity, Nutrition, and
Tobacco-Use Prevention (CSHP and PANT),Priority 4: Asthma Management
(AM), Priority 5: National Professional Development (NPD)
Application Information: FON: CDC-RFA-DP08-801. Link to full
announcement: http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/DP08-801.htm Full announcement is also on the CDC website at http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/FOAs.htm.
Deadline: Letter of Intent Deadline: October 23, 2007 ;Application
Deadline: November 21, 2007
Nurse Education, Practice and Retention
Funding Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services;
Health Resources & Services Administration
Funding Amount: Awards: 38; Estimated Total Program Funding:
$12,000,000; Average Size of Award: $250,000
Eligibility: Eligible applicants are schools of nursing, nursing
centers, academic health centers, State or local governments,
Indian Tribes or Tribal organizations, other public or private
non-profit entities including faith-based and community organizations,
and for-profit organizations capable of carrying out the legislative
purpose. For Purpose E1, which focuses on expanding enrollment
in baccalaureate nursing programs, the only eligible applicant
organizations are accredited 4-year collegiate schools of nursing.
Schools of nursing must be accredited by the National League
for Nursing Accrediting Commission, Inc. (NLNAC) or the Commission
on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) to be eligible applicants.
Description: Grants are awarded to eligible institutions for
projects to strengthen and enhance the capacity for nurse education,
practice and retention to address the nursing shortage. Applicants
must select and focus on one of the nine purposes in the grant
application. The Education priority area includes Purpose 1-expanding
enrollment in baccalaureate nursing programs; Purpose 2-developing
and implementing internship and residency programs to encourage
mentoring and the development of specialties; and, Purpose
3) providing education in new technologies, including distance
learning methodologies. The Practice priority area includes
Purpose P1)establishing or expanding nursing practice arrangements
in non-institutional settings to demonstrate methods to improve
access to primary health care in medically underserved communities;
Purpose P2)providing care for underserved populations and other
high-risk groups; Purpose P3)providing managed care, quality
improvement, and other skills needed to practice in existing
and emerging organized health care systems; and, Purpose P4)developing
cultural competencies among nurses. The Retention priority
area includes Purpose R1)career ladder bridge programs which
promote career advancement for registered nurses and nursing
personnel; and, Purpose R2)enhancing patient care delivery
systems through improving the retention of registered nurses
and enhancing patient care.
Application Information: FON:HRSA-08-028; CFDA: 93.359 Link
to Full Announcement https://grants.hrsa.gov/webExternal/SFO.asp?
ID=7B3F0A47-D2F2-44AE-AE62-894FC9A29C9E . Grants must be submitted through http://www.grants.gov website.
Contact: Catherine Rupinta; email crupinta@hrsa.gov; (301)
443-6193
Deadline: December 6, 2007 8 p.m.
Awards & Scholarships
(none)
Foundation/Organization
Grants:
Veteran Entrepreneur Support Grants
Funding Source: The Veterans Corporation
Funding Amount: Up to $50,000
Eligibility: Applicants for funding must be United States
501(c)(3) organizations or other organizations identified
as tax-exempt
by the IRS
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 http://www.veteranscorp.org/developmentgrants/main_programs.html for more information.
Application Information: Visit http://www.veteranscorp.org/developmentgrants/guidelines_submission.html for application guidelines, forms and submission information.
If you have any questions, please contact Mr. Patrick Bowers
at (202) 449-4687. or by email at pbowers@veteranscorp.org.
Deadline: Open
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