September 19, 2008
Contents:
State Grants
Federal Grants
Awards & Scholarships
Foundation/Organization Grants
State Grants:
(none)
Federal Grants:
Nursing Workforce Diversity (Repeat)
Funding Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Health Resources & Services Administration
Funding Amount: It is estimated that for FY 2009, 17 competitive awards will be funded at approximately $279,000 per grant. Total Program Funding: $872,45l. Average Size of Award: $290,800.
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. Schools of nursing involved in project activities 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 increase nursing education opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds (including racial and ethnic minorities underrepresented among registered nurses) by providing student scholarships or stipends, pre-entry preparation, and retention activities. The NWD program supports projects that provide education opportunities for students to become registered nurses and/or opportunities for practicing registered nurses to pursue a baccalaureate degree in nursing. Eligible project participants consist of individuals who are from educationally or economically disadvantaged backgrounds (including racial and ethnic minorities underrepresented among nurses) and who express an interest in becoming a registered nurse. Eligible project participants consist of individuals who are from educationally or economically disadvantaged backgrounds (including racial and ethnic minorities underrepresented among nurses) and who express an interest in becoming a registered nurse. Projects are expected to include a cohort of nursing students who will graduate and be eligible to take the National Council Licensure Examination – Registered Nurse (NCLEX-RN) within the three-year project period. The program has three major components that applicants must address each year of the project: 1) Retention, 2) Pre-Entry Preparation, and 3) Student Scholarships and/or Stipends.
Application Information: FON: HRSA-09-107; CFDA: 93.178. Link to Full Announcement: https://grants.hrsa.gov/webExternal/SFO.asp?
ID=AF0E72B0-AF4A-4F01-9113-2E49A508FC35
Deadline: November 21, 2009
Nurse Education, Practice and Retention (Repeat)
Funding Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources & Services Administration
Funding Amount: Awards:71; Average Size of Award: $250,000; Estimated Total Program Funding: $24,000,000
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. 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.
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 E1) expanding enrollment in baccalaureate nursing programs; Purpose E2) developing and implementing internship and residency programs to encourage mentoring and the development of specialties; and, Purpose E3) 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: CFDA: 93.359. Link to announcement and RFP
https://grants.hrsa.gov/webExternal/SFO.asp?
ID=CD617CA9-0A3F-4206-8D88-7B738E8282CD
Deadline: November 3, 2008
Innovative Nurse Education Technologies (Repeat)
Funding Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Health Resources & Services Administration
Funding Amount: Awards:3; Award Ceiling: $650,000
Eligibility: Eligible applicants are schools of nursing, nursing centers, academic health centers, State or local governments, faith-based and community-based, tribes and tribal organizations and other private or public entities determined appropriate by the Secretary. The eligible applicant must be capable of carrying out the legislative purpose of the IENT program. Schools of Nursing must be accredited by a national nurse education accrediting agency or State approval agency recognized by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education. Schools of Nursing must be accredited by a national nurse education accrediting agency or State approval agency recognized by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education. For FY 2009, these agencies include the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission, Kansas Board of Nursing, Maryland Board of Nursing, Missouri Board of Nursing, Montana Board of Nursing, North Dakota Board of Nursing or New York Board of Nursing, the Division of Accreditation of the American College of Nurse-Midwives, and the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Programs of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists).
Description: Grants are awarded to eligible institutions to strengthen the capacity for registered nurse education to address the registered nursing shortage. The program requires an innovative regional approach in the use of new technologies to enhance nursing education which shall include competency based and/or distance learning methodologies. The regional approach should use technology to support learning and teaching for the benefit of learners, teachers, educational institutions and employers.
Application Information: FON: HRSA-09-209; CFDA: 93.359 . Link to Full Announcement
https://grants.hrsa.gov/webExternal/SFO.asp?
ID=7E2E0815-CE7F-4B92-9BE3-3C1B3C70B8D7
Deadline: October 27, 2008
State Primary Care Offices (Repeat)
Funding Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Bureau of Health Professions (BPHC)
Funding Amount: Awards: 53; Estimated Total Award: $194,453. Total Program Funding: $10,000,000. Five year program.
Eligibility: Cooperative Agreement. Eligible entities include States or territories, State agencies, or other statewide public or nonprofit organizations that operate solely within one State or territory. These entities must provide statewide coverage for primary health care issues and represent or have relationships with the broad range of primary health care delivery systems and programs in the State
Description: In HRSA, BCRS’s mission is to improve the health of the Nation’s underserved communities and vulnerable populations by promoting the recruitment and retention of qualified and culturally competent health professionals in the healthcare system and supporting communities’ efforts to build more integrated and sustainable systems of care. The purpose of this funding is to improve Primary Care Service Delivery and workforce availability in the State or territory to meet the needs of underserved populations by supporting the coordination of local, state, territorial, and federal resources. Successful applicants will be expected to work with: health centers, professional organizations, public and private entities; and other community-based providers of comprehensive primary care. Each recipient is expected to be an effective unit of state government that positively affects state policies and resources addressing primary care for the underserved, or an entity that can meet the eligibility requirements and can meet the same objectives, including access to other state agencies and state data resources. Each recipient is expected to conduct an overall statewide primary care needs assessment that identifies the communities with the greatest unmet health care needs, disparities, and health workforce shortages, and also identifies the key barriers to access health care for these communities. Using available databases and through additional data analysis, the assessment should identify geographic areas and populations at county and sub-county levels. Recipients must also demonstrate an active collaborative partnership with the Primary Care Associations (PCAs), State Offices of Rural Health (SORH), and other appropriate entities to provide technical assistance to communities and organizations interested in expanding access to care for the underserved.
Application Information: FON: HRSA-09-121; CFDA: 93.130 Link to Full Announcement
https://grants.hrsa.gov/webExternal/SFO.asp?
ID=D12C7408-F27E-4B8E-A0F2-344F5049EA72
Deadline: November 17, 2008
Nurse Anesthetist Traineeships
Funding Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; The Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA)
Funding Award: 75 awards; Average Size of Awards: $26,667.00, Total program funding: $2,000,000.
Eligibility:. Eligible applicants are schools of nursing, academic health centers, and other private or public entities that provide registered nurses with full-time Master’s degree nurse anesthesia programs accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs. Grants are awarded to eligible institutions for traineeships for licensed registered nurses enrolled as full-time students beyond the twelfth month of study in a Master's degree nurse anesthesia program. The traineeship program is a formula program so all approved applicants will be funded.
Description: For traineeships for licensed registered nurses enrolled as full-time students beyond the twelfth month of study in a Master's degree nurse anesthesia program.
Application Information: CFDA: 93.124; Link to announcement: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=LP6d03Xp
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Deadline: November 14, 2008
Brownfields Job Training Grants(Repeat)
Funding Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Funding Amount: The total estimated funding available under this competitive opportunity is $2,500,000. EPA anticipates award of 12-13 cooperative agreements, whose maximum value each shall not exceed $200,000
Eligibility: Eligible governmental entities include a general purpose local unit of government; a land clearance authority or other quasi-governmental entity that operates under the supervision and control of, or as an agent of, a general purpose unit of government; a governmental entity created by a state legislature; a regional council or group of general purpose units of local government; a redevelopment agency that is chartered or otherwise sanctioned by a state; a state; an Indian Tribe (other than in Alaska), or an Alaskan Native Regional Corporation and an Alaska Native Village Corporation as those terms are defined in the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1601 and following); and the Metlakatla Indian Community. Intertribal consortia, except consortia comprised of ineligible Alaskan tribes, are eligible to apply as well. Eligible nonprofit organizations include any corporation, trust, association, cooperative, or other organization that is operated mainly for scientific, educational, service, charitable, or similar purpose in the public interest; is not organized primarily for profit; and uses net proceeds to maintain, improve, or expand the operation of the organization. Workforce Investment Boards that meet these criteria may be eligible nonprofit organizations. Public and nonprofit private educational institutions are eligible to apply. However, nonprofit organizations described in Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code that engage in lobbying activities as defined in Section 3 of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 are not eligible to apply. For-profit or proprietary training organizations or trade schools are not eligible to apply.
Description: to provide environmental job training projects that will facilitate the assessment, remediation, or preparation of brownfield sites. Eligible applicants must identify and propose to serve a community that currently receives, or has received, financial assistance (federal, state, or tribal) for brownfields assessment, revolving loan fund, cleanup, site-specific response program work, and/or EPA-funded targeted brownfields assessments. Proposed training programs must target unemployed and underemployed individuals residing in brownfields-impacted communities. Applicants must establish procedures to ensure that graduates will be employed in brownfields and/or environmental work that involve the assessment, cleanup, and/or redevelopment of contaminated sites with a focus on the graduates’ respective communities. The estimated project period for awards resulting from this solicitation is April 1, 2009, through March 31, 2011. All projects must be completed within the negotiated project performance period of 24 months.
Application Information: CFDA 66.815. FON: RFP# EPA-OSWER-OBLR-08-10;Link to funding announcement: http://www.epa.gov/oswer/grants-funding.htm#EPA-OSWER-OBLR-08-10
Deadline: October 15, 2008
Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service Projects (Repeat)
Funding Source: The Corps Network, through the support of the U.S. Corporation for National and Community Service
Funding Amount: The network will disseminate a total of $80,000 to approximately twenty-five sub-grantees. Award amounts will range from $1,000 to $10,000 each. Applicants must provide a non-federal match of at least 70% of the total cost of the project
Eligibility: Eligible subgrantees for this funding are, by law, any entity otherwise eligible for assistance under the national service laws. The applicable laws include the National and Community Service Act of 1990 and the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973. Grants will be available to The Corps Network membership and non-network organizations. Network organizations – The Corps Network Organizational Members.
Non-network organizations – Organizations other than The Corps Network Organizational members including:•The Corps Network Affiliate Members
•Community-based nonprofits, government agencies and faith-based organizations •Youth organizations, K-12 schools, school districts, and public or private colleges and universities •AmeriCorps, Senior Corps, and Learn and Serve America programs
Description: Projects for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (http://www.mlkday.gov ) on January 19, 2009. The network will fund organizations that plan and implement service projects that mobilize a diverse group of volunteers to address conditions of poverty in their community. Preference is given to organizations mobilizing the greatest numbers of volunteers. Applicants must enlist at least two hundred volunteers for every $1,000 requested.
Application Information: For specific questions, please email Tanya Simpson, Grants & Projects Director, at TSimpson@corpsnetwork.org.Completed applications should be sent to Tanya Simpson, Grants & Projects Director, The Corps Network, 666 Eleventh Street NW, Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20001 Link to website: http://www.corpsnetwork.org/MLKDayofService.asp; Link to RFP document: http://www.corpsnetwork.org/upload/File/MLK%2009/RFP%20082108.doc .
Deadline: September 23, 2008
Awards & Scholarships
2008 Nominations for Veronica Best Social Service Professionals Grants
Funding Source: Superstar Foundation
Funding Award: 5 awards of $2000 each.
Eligibility: applicant must be a direct social service professional
Description: to celebrate and invigorate social service professionals who are the best in their fields through public recognition and financial rewards. It is the first nonprofit organization to call attention to and respond to the need to better compensate individual, high-performing social service staff. Awards are across five categories: Youth development, including Early Childhood Learning, After-school/out-of-school youth services, Adult men’s services, Adult women’s services. The awards will be to high-performing social service professionals who have demonstrated a substantial impact on social change
Family services
Application Information: For more information visit “The Story” at http://www.superstarfoundation.org/ for application requirements, mailing information and to print application.
Deadline: October 31, 2008
Coca-Cola Scholarships
Funding Source: Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation
Funding Amount: Each year, the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation awards a total of $3 million in achievement-based four-year scholarships to 250 outstanding high school seniors from communities across the nation. The Foundation annually awards 200 Regional scholarships of $10,000 each and 50 National scholarships of $20,000 each
Eligibility: Current high school (or home-schooled) seniors attending school in the US.
U.S. citizens; U.S. nationals; U.S. permanent residents; Temporary Residents (in a legalization program); Refugees; Asylees; Cuban-Haitian entrants; or Humanitarian paroles. Seniors anticipating completion of a high school diploma during the academic year in which application is made. Seniors planning to pursue a degree at an accredited U.S. postsecondary institution. Seniors carrying a minimum 3.0 GPA at the end of their junior year of high school.
Description: The Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation evaluates applicants on the basis of demonstrated leadership in academics, school, community and civic activities, as well as personal character and the motivation to serve and succeed.
Application Information: Link to website for application information: https://www.coca-colascholars.org/cokeWeb/index.jsp
Deadline: October 31, 2008
2009 Lewis Hines Awards For Service to Children and Youth
Funding Source: National Child Labor Committee
Funding Award: 10 recipients-five professionals and five volunteers. Awardees will be brought to New York City for a media-covered ceremony where their outstanding public service will be recognized and each will receive an award of $1,000.
Eligibility: PROFESSIONAL nominees must work full-time or part-time and receive pay for the activity or service they are nominated for performing. VOLUNTEER nominees must be unpaid volunteers in relation to the activity or service they are nominated for performing.
Description: The awards seek to identify not the one-time hero, but the individual who has made a commitment to the well-being, growth, and development of youth. That commitment may be carried out in a paid job or through volunteering. Professional nominees must work full-time or part-time and receive pay for the activity or service they are nominated for performing. Volunteer nominees must be unpaid volunteers in relation to the activity or service they are nominated for performing. Services and programs nominees may be providing include: juvenile crime prevention; pediatric AIDS awareness and support services; rehabilitation programs for incarcerated youth; health care programs; constructive alternatives to gang violence; drug abuse counseling; family mediation and crisis intervention; teen counseling, programs and services for children with disabilities, research, treatment, and prevention of childhood diseases; employment and training programs for at-risk youth; education (teachers may be nominated, but not for regular classroom teaching); quality child care; tutoring and mentoring programs; child abuse prevention and treatment; alternative education programs; awareness programs to prevent child abduction; programs for homeless children; foster parent services; centers for runaway youth; fundraising and board involvement in agencies serving youth; community-based organizations such as Big Brothers/ Big Sisters and 4-H Clubs; and recreational and athletic programs; and child advocacy and lobbying.
Application Information: Submission of one or two nominations accepted. Link to website for application documents at http://www.nationalchildlabor.org/2009LHA-Packet.doc . Link to website for more information about the awards at: http://www.nationalchildlabor.org/index.html
Deadline: October 22, 2008
The Lemelson-MIT Prize For Invention
Funding Source: Lemelson and MIT
Funding Award: One Award: $ 500,000
Eligibility: U.S. citizens or permanent residents, Inventors who are mid-career and rising in their respective fields, 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, Inventors who are an inspiration to young people, through their creativity, outreach or mentoring activities. 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. Candidates may be individuals or two collaborating inventors, and they must be nominated by one of their peers.
Description: The $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize recognizes individuals who translate their ideas into inventions and innovations that improve the world in which we live.
Dubbed the "Oscar for Inventors," the Lemelson-MIT Prize is awarded to outstanding mid-career inventors, who have developed a patented product or process of significant value to society, which has been adopted for practical use, or has a high probability of being adopted. By recognizing and funding younger, mid-career inventors, the prize is designed to spur inventive careers and provide role models for future generations of inventors.
Application Information: For application instructions and information visit: http://web.mit.edu/invent/a-prize.html If you have any questions regarding the nomination process, please email the Lemelson-MIT Program Officer, lemelson_awards@mit.eduDeadline: October 3, 2008
Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability
Funding Source: Lemelson and MIT
Funding Award: One award: $100,000
Eligibility: 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 sustainability across the development continuum. Inventors who can provide evidence that their inventions have been adopted for practical use. Inventors working in an area that ultimately improves quality of life (e.g., quality of air, water or soil; or pertains to health, energy, agriculture, shelter, biodiversity or ecosystem management). Inventors 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. Patents are not required for this award, since, in some cases, a key to sustainable impact may require not patenting a technology; however, the caliber of the technology should be such that it could be patented.
Description: The $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability honors inventors whose products or processes are in areas that impact issues of global relevance, and also issues that may have more local significance, such meeting basic human needs and building sustainable livelihoods for the world’s poor people. To foster technological invention in the area of sustainability, the Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability celebrates outstanding inventors whose technological products or processes collectively: enhance human development; mitigate human environmental impact; and/or provide adaptations to environmental changes that are unalterable in the near term. These types of changes often adversely impact the most vulnerable populations. U.S. citizens, permanent residents, or foreign nationals currently working legally in the United States.
Application Information: For information on application process visit: http://web.mit.edu/invent/a-award.html If you have any questions regarding the nomination process, please email the Lemelson-MIT Program Officer, lemelson_awards@mit.edu. Deadline: October 3, 2008
Foundation/Organization
Grants:
Funding Amount: minimum grant $5000.
Eligibility: To determine if your organization is eligible to request funding through the State Giving Program, please review the program’s guidelines to determine eligibility.
http://walmartstores.com/CommunityGiving/8169.aspx
Description: The Wal-Mart Foundation will award grants to support unmet needs that are not directly addressed by any of our current programs. The Foundation has created State Giving Advisory Councils, made up of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. associates, for every state and Washington, D.C. The Advisory Councils will determine the needs within their state, review all eligible state specific grant applications and make funding recommendations to the Wal-Mart Foundation. The Foundation has adopted four areas of focus: Education, Job Skills Training, Environmental Sustainability and Health. While the Wal-Mart Foundation encourages funding requests that align with its four areas of focus – programs that do not align with the four areas of focus will also be given full consideration. Education-Includes a program or initiative that addresses the educational needs of under-served young people ages 12-30. Examples are programs focused on drop-out prevention and improving college access or retention. Job Skills Training-Includes a program or initiative that provides professional training, counseling and support services to help people improve their work-related skills. Examples are career counseling services and job skills training. Health- Includes a program or initiative that works to improve access to healthcare and to promote healthy lifestyles. Examples are free healthcare clinics, immunization programs and health education organizations. Environmental Sustainability-Includes a program or initiative that is designed to help people become more personably sustainable or to help support the environment. Examples are parks, recycling programs, outdoor classrooms, and environmental educational initiatives.
Application Information: To apply visit website at: http://walmartstores.com/CommunityGiving/8168.aspx
Deadline(s): September 25 and December 19, 2008
Verizon Foundation Grants Program-Literacy, Health and Safety
Funding Amount: $5000-10,000
Eligibility: Eligible tax-exempt organizations. Proposals will be considered from elementary and secondary schools* (public and private) that are registered with the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Proposals may also be considered from eligible tax-exempt organizations in the subsection 170(B)(1)(a)(i) - Church, provided that the proposal will benefit a large portion of a community without regard to religious affiliation and does not duplicate the work of other agencies in the community.
To be eligible for funding consideration organizations must: not duplicate or significantly overlap the work of public agencies on the federal, state or local level. Serve the community without discrimination on the basis of age, color, citizenship, disability, disabled veteran status, gender, race, religion, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, military service or status or Vietnam-era veteran status. Keep books available for regular independent outside audit and make the results available to all potential contributors. Comply with applicable laws regarding registration and reporting. Observe the highest standards of business conduct in its relationships with the public.
Description: Priority Funding Areas: Education; Literacy; Domestic Violence Prevention, Healthcare and Accessibility and Internet Safety
Application Information: Online application process and guidelines can be found at http://foundation.verizon.com/grant/application.shtml or http://foundation.verizon.com/grant/guidelines.shtml or other information under “Grant Center” tab at http://foundation.verizon.com/.
Deadline: November 1, 2008
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