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| January 2012: Federal Funding | |
In This Issue:
Upcoming WorkshopsClick a workshop/webinar for more information or to register: Proposal Writing I
January 25 - 27
January 25 - 27
January 30 - February 1
January 31 - February 2
February 1 - 3
February 8 - 10
February 14 - 16
February 15 - 17
February 20 - 22
February 28 - March 1
NIH Proposal Development Workshops
January 30
February 16
February 23
Nonprofit & Educators Proposal Development Workshops
January 19 - 20
February 27 - 28
ONLINE! Webinars: Writing Winning Grants *Held from 2:00-4:00 PM (EST)*
January 20
January 23
February 9
February 17
February 20
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Note From the DirectorWe hope that you will find this monthly newsletter beneficial. It is not meant to be exhaustive or complete; rather it is an effort to aid you in your grant-seeking experience. We want to assist you in every step of the way and encourage your efforts. If you are in need of any further information, please write or call us. In the meantime, we would like to let you know that you will be receiving this publication once a month. Each issue will focus on a different area of funding, including federal, foundation, corporate and individual giving. We trust that this information will enhance your understanding of the myriad of changes that are taking place in grant funding. This should prove to be a rewarding experience in enhancing your ability to submit winning grant proposals. Mathilda E. Harris, Ph.D. |
Success From Our ParticipantsThe Grant Training Center is very interested in the progress our participants have made since taking any of our workshops and/or webinars. For those who will be taking our workshops and/or webinars, should you have been involved in grant writing, we also want to hear from you and the reasons that motivated you to take the training. Specifically, we are currently working on our next month's issue, which has a distribution of serveral thousand persons, including those who have taken our classes and webinars, donors, universities, non-profit organizations and national associations. If you would let us know of your grant activities and successes, we will include that information in the next issue, which is due for publication February 15. Should you wish to write a 100-300 word article on either your own, or your institution's grant writing activities, we will also include it. To submit an article for the newsletter, please send an email to Training.Coordinator@granttrainingcenter.com. 
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9 States Receive Funding to To Aid High Quality Early Education Programs
The nine states awarded funding were - California, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Washington. Each was announced at a White House event with over 100 early learning and development experts, educators, policymakers, and researchers. "In a matter of months, early education and child development experts throughout the country, together with state and local leaders, worked to build comprehensive plans for expanding access to high-quality early learning," said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. "All applicants showed tremendous dedication and drive to build stronger foundations and create greater opportunities for more children. Their work will help lead the way in ensuring excellent early learning and support for every child." The Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge, a key part of the Obama Administration's comprehensive early learning agenda, will support the work of the nine state grantees to develop new approaches to raising the bar across early learning centers and to close the school readiness gap. Awards will invest in grantees' work to build statewide systems of high-quality early learning and development programs. These investments will impact all early learning programs, including Head Start, public pre-K, childcare, and private preschools. Key reforms will include the following:
To learn more about the Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge, please visit the following link: EarlyLearning. For more information on other initiatives from the U.S. Department of Education, please visit their website at www.Ed.gov.
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$100 Million in Grants to Expand Homelessness Prevention for Veterans
"This new report is good news for the tens of thousands of Veterans we have helped find a home. Our progress in the fight against homelessness has been significant, but our work is not complete until no Veteran has to sleep on the street," said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki. "We have been successful in achieving this milestone due to strong leadership from the President and hard work by countless community organizations and our federal, state, and local partners who are committed to helping Veterans and their families get back on their feet." VA also announced that it will make $100 million in grants available to community agencies to prevent nearly 42,000 Veterans and their families from falling into homelessness or to quickly return them to stable housing. The funds are offered for fiscal year 2012 through agency's Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) program, a homeless-prevention and rapid re-housing program. Last year, VA provided $60 million through the SSVF program to community providers, which will affect nearly 22,000 people through 85 non-profit community agencies in 40 states and the District of Columbia. The program provides community organizations with funding for counseling, training, education assistance, direct time-limited financial assistance, transportation, child care, rent, utilities, and other services aimed at preventing homelessness or providing homes for participating Veterans and family members. In December 2011 and January 2012, VA will sponsor free workshops to review the grant application process. Community organizations interested in applying for funds under this program can use the website to find dates for workshops in Atlanta, Baltimore, Denver, San Francisco, and St. Louis. For more information on the SSVF program, please contact VA at 1-877-737-0111 or at SSVF@va.gov. The available funds were announced in a message posted in the Federal Register and at VA's website, www.va.gov. Private non-profit organizations and consumer cooperatives interested in the grants have until February 15, 2012 to submit completed applications.
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HUD Grants an Estimated $1.5 Billion for Funding to Local Homeless Programs
HUD is renewing the funding through its Continuum of Care programs to existing local programs as quickly as possible, and will award funds to new projects in early 2012. This is being done in order to prevent any interruption in federal assistance. The grants will provide permanent and transitional housing to the homeless, as well as services including: job training, health care, mental health counseling, substance abuse treatment and child care. "The grants we're awarding today will literally keep the doors of our shelters open and will help those on the front lines of ending homelessness do what they do best," said Donovan. "It's incredible that as we work to recover from the greatest economic decline since the Great Depression, the total number of homeless Americans is declining, in large part because of these funds."
To view a complete list of all the state and local homeless assistance programs awarded funding, please use the following link: RenewalGrants. For more information HUD's other initiatives, including its three-year Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing (HRPR) Program, please use the following link: RapidRe-Housing.
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EPA Announces 2012 Grant Solicitation for Environmental Justice Grants
EPA also announced that it is seeking applicants for $1 million in environmental justice small grants expected to be awarded in 2012. The agency's environmental justice efforts aim to ensure equal environmental and health protections for all Americans, regardless of race or socioeconomic status. The grants enable non-profit organizations to conduct research, provide education, and develop solutions to local health and environmental issues in communities overburdened by harmful pollution. The solicitation for the 2012 grants is now open and will close on February 29, 2012. Applicants must be incorporated non-profits or tribal organizations working to educate, empower and enable their communities to understand and address local environmental and public health issues. EPA will host three more pre-application teleconference calls on January 12, 2012, February 1, 2012 and February 15, 2012 to help applicants understand the requirements. For the full solicitation and a schedule of the pre-application teleconference calls, please use the following link: 2012Requests.
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NEH Awards $21 Million Through its Bridging Cultures Initiative
"The National Endowment for the Humanities supports projects that document and explore the human endeavor in its many forms," said NEH Chairman Jim Leach. "Whether it is preserving a valuable historical collection, enabling the production of a film or exhibition, or providing support for scholarly exploration of important topics in the humanities, the grants awarded today ensure that the shared stories of our past are available to communities across the nation for generations to come." The awards were announced in three special programs within the initiative, Bridging Cultures Through Film, Bridging Cultures at Community Colleges, and Bridging Cultures Implementation Grants for Public Programs. The funding granted will support a wide variety of projects, including:
Institutions, independent scholars in 43 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico will receive NEH support this award cycle. For a complete state-by-state listing of the grants, please visit the following link: NEHGrants. For a complete listing of the categories in from which the grants were awarded, please use the following link to the full announcement: BridgingCultures.
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Grant OpportunitiesCURRENT FEDERAL FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES National Institutes of Health (NIH) - Early Stage Technology Development for Cancer Research (R21) The National Institutes of Health's National Cancer Institute (NCI) is accepting applications for exploratory research projects focused on the inception and development of early stage, highly innovative, technologies or emerging technologies with significant transformative potential that has not yet been explored in a cancer-relevant use. An emerging technology is defined (for the purpose of this FOA) as one that has passed the initial developmental stage, but has not yet been evaluated within the context of a cancer-relevant intended use and requires significant modification for the proposed application. The emphasis of this FOA is on technologies with a high degree of technical innovation with the potential to significantly affect and transform investigations exploring the molecular and cellular bases of cancer. Letter of Intent Due Date: January 23, 2012; April 21, 2012; August 18, 2012 Application Due Date: February 23, 2012; May 21, 2012; September 18, 2012, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant origination For funding information and the full announcement, please follow the link: NCI. National Science Foundation (NSF) - Historically Black Colleges & Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) To meet the nation's accelerating demands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) talent, more rapid gains in achievement, success and degree production in STEM for underrepresented minority populations are needed. The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) is committed to enhancing the quality of undergraduate STEM education and research at HBCUs as a means to broaden participation in the nation's STEM workforce. To this end, HBCU-UP provides awards to develop, implement, and study innovative models and approaches for making dramatic improvements in the preparation and success of HBCU undergraduate students so that they may participate successfully in STEM graduate programs and/or careers in STEM disciplines. Support is available, but not limited to the following:
Letter of Intent Due Date: January 20, 2012 Full Proposal Deadline Date: March 12, 2012 For funding information and the full announcement, please follow the link: HBCU-UP. Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) - Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries & Museums The Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries and Museums are a special funding opportunity within the Institute of Museum and Library Services' (MLS) National Leadership Grants program. These small grants encourage libraries, museums, and archives to test and evaluate specific innovations in the ways they operate and the services they provide. Sparks Grants support the deployment, testing, and evaluation of promising and groundbreaking new tools, products, services, or organizational practices. You may propose activities or approaches that involve risk, as long as the risk is balanced by significant potential for improvement in the ways libraries and museums serve their communities. Successful proposals will address problems, challenges, or needs of broad relevance to libraries, museums, and/or archives. Application Closing Date: February 01, 2012 For funding information and the full announcement, please follow the link: SPARK. Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) - Children & Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is now accepting applications for State Implementation Grants through its program, Systems of Services for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN). This grant program inproves access to a quality, compreshensive, coordinated community-based systems of services for CYSHCN and their families that is family-centered and culturally competent. Letter of Intent Due Date: Letter of Intent not required Application Due Date: March 1, 2012 For funding information and the full announcement, please follow the link: CYSHCN. National Science Foundation (NSF) - Partnerships for Innovation The National Science Foundation's (NSF) role of supporting discovery research across all fields of science and engineering is closer and more relevant to economic development at this time than at any time in our past.By establishing and expanding partnerships, research from institutions of higher education can be translated into innovation. Thus, the impact of research can be increased by moving it to realistic deployment, linking new knowledge to economic growth and other societal benefits. The NSF Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) program is an umbrella for two complementary subprograms: one of which involves an earlier stage that focuses on building innovation capacity and the other involves a later stage that focuses on the acceleration of innovative research. The former emphasizes the transformation of knowledge to market-accepted innovations created by the research and education enterprise, while the latter emphasizes the translation of research to commercialization by NSF-funded research alliances. A research alliance is defined as a research partnership formed for mutual benefit, and funded by NSF, between/amongst universities and other entities. In the final analysis, both programs, while focusing on different stages are concerned with the movement of academic research into the marketplace. Application Due Date: March 1, 2012 For funding information and the full announcement, please follow the link: Innovation.
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As a part of the U.S. Department of Education and Heath and Human Services' joint Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge Grants program, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has announced the nine states that will receive funding from the $500 million in grants available.
Through working with over 4,000 community agencies across the country, the Departments of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) have announced a new national report showing that homelessness among Veterans has been reduced by nearly 12 percent between January 2010 and January 2011.
U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan has announced $1.47 billion to continue funding to more than 7,100 current local homeless programs in service across the country. This funding, which is an increase of $62 million more than the last year, will ensure that these housing and service programs remain operating in 2012 and are a critical part of the Obama Administration's strategic plan to prevent and end homelessness.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it awarded more than $1 million in grants to 46 non-profit and tribal organizations in support of addressing environmental justice issues nationwide. The 2011 grants support activities including projects to protect children in the Boston-area from lead poisoning and asthma, conduct research on air quality in a portside Philadelphia community, and provide support to residents on the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota to repair failing septic systems and identify water that is unsafe to drink. More information on the Environmental Justice Small Grants program, and a list of grantees can be found at the following link: 
As part of the National Endowment for the Humanities' (NEH) Bridging Cultures initiative, the agency has announced $21 million in funding for 215 humanities projects. The initiative encourages projects that explore the ways in which cultures from around the globe, as well as the many subcultures within America�s borders, have influenced American society.
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