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Federal funding opportunities
Dep't:
Energy
Agency:
Golden Field Office
Program:
Advanced Hydropower Technology Development and Deployment
Summary:
This is a Request for Information (RFI) not a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA). No funding is available with this RFI. Department of Energy and the Bureau of Reclamation are requesting input from the public on new, advanced hydropower technologies that are ready for demonstration and testing, or that are worthy of additional research and development investments. The term "advanced technology" means products that are not already widely available commercially and that offer substantial energy and environmental benefits to renewable energy portfolios in the U.S.
Deadline:
17 September 2010
URL:
Dep't:
Health and Human Services
Agency:
Indian Health Service
Program:
National Indian Health Outreach and Education
Summary:
The selected entity and/or entities will be required to:a. Complete a summary and written report of the key issues of the PPACA and IHCIA on the IHS, Tribal and Urban (I/T/U) system. Additionally, the selected entity and/or entities will develop material that will be used in educating individual Tribes and Tribal organizations on PPACA and IHCIA major provisions. These documents will be presented to the IHS for review and approval before being shared.b. Develop a detailed plan for outreach and communication to IHS, national Tribal organizations, and Tribes and Tribal organizations in each of the 12 IHS Areas using the documents developed pursuant to the preceding paragraph. Present this plan to the IHS for review and approval.c. The entities considering applying for this outreach and educational training and technical assistance can:1) Apply separately for selected portions offered or2) Partner with another organization and apply as one entity clearly delineating the portions being addressed by each partner.
Deadline:
8 September 2010
URL:
Dep't:
Homeland Security
Agency:
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Program:
Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) Grants
Summary:
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Grant Programs Directorate is responsible for the implementation and administration of the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) Grants. SAFER grants provide financial assistance to help fire departments increase their cadre of frontline firefighters or to rehire firefighters that have been laid off. The goal is to assist local fire departments with staffing and deployment capabilities so they may respond to emergencies whenever they occur, assuring their communities have adequate protection from fire and fire-related hazards. SAFER offers grants to support activities in two categories: (1) Hiring of Firefighters and (2) Recruitment and Retention of Volunteer Firefighters.
Deadline:
17 September 2010
URL:
Dep't:
N/A
Agency:
National Endowment for the Humanities
Program:
National Digital Newspaper Program
Summary:
NEH is soliciting proposals from institutions to participate in the development of a test bed for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Ultimately, over a period of approximately 20 years, NDNP will create a national, digital resource of historically significant newspapers from all the states and U.S. territories published between 1836 and 1922. This searchable database will be permanently maintained at the Library of Congress (LC) and be freely accessible via the Internet.
Deadline:
2 November 2010
URL:
Dep't:
Transportation
Agency:
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Program:
Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program
Summary:
The program provides financial assistance to State and local governments, including the District of Columbia, to reduce the number and severity of crashes and hazardous materials incidents involving commercial motor vehicles (CMV). The MCSAP strives to achieve this goal through consistent, uniform, and effective CMV safety programs. Investing grant monies in appropriate CMV safety programs increases the likelihood that safety defects, driver deficiencies, and unsafe motor carriers practices are detected and corrected before they become contributing factors to crashes. Beginning in August, 2005, FMCSA established the New Entrant Safety Assurance program requiring all new motor carriers (private and for-hire) domiciled in the United States and Canada and operating in interstate commerce to apply for registration as a new entrant. After a new entrant motor carrier satisfies all applicable pre-operational requirements, it will be subject to the new entrant safety monitoring procedures for a period of 18 months.
Eligibility:
State governments, County governments, City or township governments.
Deadline:
15 October 2010
URL:
State & local funding opportunities
State:
CA
Dep't:
Alcohol and Drug Programs
Agency:
N/A
Program:
Technical Assistance and Training for Alcohol and other Drug Agencies
Summary:
This is a Request for Proposal to provide Technical Assistance (TA) and training for alcohol and other drug (AOD) agencies, and to assist ADP in designing and implementing the statewide system of care, if awarded the federal grant. The result of this technical assistance contract will be improved quality performance in AOD agencies. Contingent on federal funding, the contract period will be for three years with years two and three being continued based upon the contractor’s performance, availability of federal funds, and if ADP elects to continue the contract. Bids should be submitted for an amount up to, but not to exceed, $592,719 for the full three year contract term. Except for changes allowed in Section 1.5 – the total costs of all tasks, subtasks and milestones cannot exceed $592,719 for the full three year contract term.
Deadline:
9 September 2010
Contact:
(916) 324-7667
URL:
State:
FL
Dep't:
N/A
Agency:
Florida Agriculture in the Classroom
Program:
Volunteer Grants. Teacher Grants
Summary:
FAC distributes Volunteer Grants in the spring and Teacher Grants in the fall. Volunteer Grants are available to members of state and county Farm Bureaus, University of Florida/IFAS extension and 4-H agents, master gardeners, agriscience teachers and others who are members of a non-profit association striving to educate students in kindergarten through 12th grade about the importance of Florida agriculture. Teacher Grants are available to general education teachers kindergarten through 12th grade who have agriculture related classroom or schoolyard projects they would like to carry out.
Deadline:
1 October 2010
URL:
State:
IL
Dep't:
Public Health
Agency:
Center for Minority Health Services
Program:
Increasing Access to Health Care Services for Medically Underserved Minority Populations through Mobile Health Care
Summary:
Requesting proposals from health care providers that can provide preventative health screenings in an innovative and culturally and linguistically appropriate manner throughout the medically underserved areas of Illinois. The services will be provided in an environment that is non-threatening, targeted, culturally and linguistically appropriate, reality based, and tailored to ensure relevance to the circumstances and conditions of the target population through a partnership with the Wellness on Wheels Initiative. Successful applicants will have demonstrated their capacity and experience in the delivery of health care services within this environment.
Deadline:
13 September 2010
URL:
State:
NY
Dep't:
Health
Agency:
N/A
Program:
Eat Well Play Hard in Child Care Settings
Summary:
Minimum Eligibility Requirements: Only CCR&R agencies which are funded by the Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) may apply. Eligible CCR&R agencies must participate in CACFP. This project provides nutrition education, obesity prevention and physical activity interventions at licensed child care centers. The project targets Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) child care centers serving Food Stamp Program (FSP) recipients and FSP eligible individuals defined as child care centers in which at least 50% of the enrolled children are eligible for free or reduced price meals. This intervention targets those child care centers with high percentages of FSP participants and families living at or below 130% of the federal poverty level. Through a competitive Request for Applications (RFA) process, up to ten qualifying CCR&R agencies that sponsor CACFP will receive up to $100,000 each (based on reimbursement of actual expenditures) to implement nutrition education, obesity prevention and physical activity interventions. Each of the ten qualifying CACFP sponsors will implement the intervention in at least 15 individual sites during the contract year.
Deadline:
30 September 2010
URL:
State:
VA
Dep't:
Social Services
Agency:
N/A
Program:
Domestic Violence Services in Un-Served Communities (CVS-11-011)
Summary:
The purpose of this Request for Proposal is to solicit sealed proposals to award sub- grants to public and private non-profit, incorporated agencies and organizations in Virginia for the provision of direct crisis services to victims of domestic violence in the seven (7) localities currently un-served by a local domestic violence program. Organizations and agencies that are pending incorporation and/or pending approval of the 501 (c) 3 status of the IRS code as of October 5, 2010 are not eligible to apply.
Deadline:
5 October 2010
URL:
Foundation funding opportunities
Funder:
Alive & Thrive Initiative
Program:
Alive & Thrive Small Grants Program
Summary:
Alive & Thrive (A&T) is an initiative dedicated to reducing undernutrition and death caused by sub-optimal infant and young child feeding practices. The A&T Small Grants Program is one part of the larger A&T initiative. The A&T Small Grants Program, which is managed by UC Davis, was created to test and seed innovative ideas for scaling up effective and sustainable IYCF interventions. The overall goal is to identify new solutions that can be more widely adopted, by linking innovative research to program delivery. The A&T Small Grants Program aims to fund operational research projects that will identify novel approaches and overcome key barriers to improving IYCF at scale in low and middle-income countries. Approaches that can potentially be extended to different countries/settings are of greatest interest.
Deadline:
14 September 2010
URL:
Funder:
Institute for Research on Gambling Disorders
Program:
Project Grants
Summary:
Project Grants program offers opportunities for investigators from various disciplines and at all career levels. The Institute has designated prevention and treatment as priority research topics for 2010. We invite applications focused on a broad range of investigator-initiated research that develops and tests psychosocial or pharmacological approaches for prevention, intervention, treatment or relapse prevention of problem and pathological gambling. The Institute is especially interested in brief interventions targeted at underrepresented populations, such as minorities, young adults and persons with subclinical gambling disorders (e.g., at-risk for problem gambling). The Institute awards grants in three categories: Exploration Grants (up to $5,000 for one year), due June 1, 2010; Seed Grants (up to $25,000 for one year), due July 1, 2010; Large Grants (up to $75,000 per year for two years), due Sept. 1, 2010.
Deadline:
1 September 2010
URL:
Funder:
Lemelson-MIT Program
Program:
Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability
Summary:
The $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability honors inventors whose products or processes impact issues of global relevance, as well as issues that impact local communities in terms of meeting basic health needs, and building sustainable livelihoods for the world's poorest populations. To foster technological invention in the area of sustainability, the Award 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.
Deadline:
5 October 2010
URL:
Funder:
National Energy Education Development Project
Program:
Bright Ideas Grants
Summary:
Credentialed teachers, professors, instructors, principals, deans, department heads, district administrators and facilities managers may apply to receive $1000, $2,500, $5000, or $10,000 grants to promote environmental stewardship in any of the five following categories.
Region:
Central and northern California
Deadline:
20 September 2010
Contact:
800-875-5029
URL:
Funder:
Service Learning Texas
Program:
Healthy Habitats
Summary:
This program offers the opportunity to engage students in service-learning initiatives to benefit wildlife and the environment in the state. Activities funded through this grant must help young people in fifth grade, middle school, or high school research needs, develop and implement a plan, and take action to improve and/or restore the natural environment. Students involved in the grant program should collaborate with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and at least one other community partner. Year one awards of up to $5,000 and year two awards of up to $10,000 are available. Public schools and open enrollment charter schools throughout Texas, as well as nonprofit organizations and state and local agencies that work with youth, are eligible to apply.
Region:
Texas
Deadline:
30 September 2010
URL:
Funder:
SkillWorks
Program:
Call for Green Sector Concept Papers
Summary:
SkillWorks is a nationally recognized initiative, led by local and national foundations, the City of Boston, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, addressing the skills gap that leaves too many job seekers and workers in poverty while employers are unable to meet their needs for a skilled workforce. Launched in 2003, SkillWorks seeks to enhance economic competitiveness and reduce poverty by strengthening the ability of the workforce development system to meet the needs of employers and low-skilled adults. Through this solicitation of concept papers, SkillWorks is seeking new and existing ideas for job training and placement projects in water management, waste management, recycling, deconstruction, and energy efficiency admin support. SkillWorks’ Green Jobs Initiative has the below funding available for projects in theses green industries. Up to $10,000 for planning grants to develop partnerships that advance green collar career pathways and access of low-income, lower-skilled workers to those pathways; Up to $75,000 for implementation of workforce partnerships working to advance green collar career pathways and access of low-income, lower-skilled workers to those pathways; and Up to $50,000 for research and project-based support resulting in labor market information that will help inform training programs and the field.
Region:
Eligible applicant organizations are non-profit or for-profit organizations primarily serving the people of Greater Boston and/or providing statewide labor market information.
Deadline:
31 August 2010
URL:
News & information
Nonprofit executive directors in East Bay may apply for fellowship
Are you an executive director of a nonprofit based in the East Bay who wants to improve your leadership and management skills? Enhance the capacity of your organization? Build collaborative relationships with other nonprofit leaders? If yes, LeaderSpring invites you to apply to a two-year, on-the-job Fellowship program. Applications are due Friday, September 24, 2010. For more information, visit www.leaderspring.org or contact LeaderSpring at (510) 286-8949 or drew@leaderspring.org. Read more...
Lee County, FL, seeks Grant Consultant
Lee County is requesting proposals from "qualified" proposers to provide the following: monitor local, State and Federal renewable and clean energy grant opportunities for Lee County, coordinate and apply for grants and partner with Lee County entities to meet the compliance of the grantor for submission of grant deadlines. Proposer should demonstrate knowledge and experience of the Federal and State grant process and be able to provide this service in an accelerated manor with described timelines. Contact: Cindy Logan 239.533.5450. Read more...
Brown County, WI, United Way launches computer grant program
A computer grant program will provide more than $4,000 in equipment to residents and community service agencies unable to afford new hardware. The Brown County United Way approached CyberWorks, 2022 E. Mason St., to re-create a similar partnership it had with IBM that ended last year, said Howard Endow, Brown County United Way community impact manager. Local nonprofit organizations can apply for the grant or nominate community members they think would benefit from the technology. The grant allows a group or an individual to receive one of two Acer brand laptops or one of two custom-built desktops. Each has the latest versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system and Microsoft Office. Recipients will be selected based on how much of an impact it will have on the community or a person's life, Endow said. Organizations that would allow clients to use the computer are preferred, he said, but the organization wants to spread the giving as much as possible.http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20100812/GPG0101/8120585/Brown-County-United-Way-launches-computer-grant-program Read more...
