November Funding Newsletter

Innovative Funding Partners' Recent Successes

• Urban League of Central Carolinas in partnership with Operation Gateway: $900,000 from BJA Second Chance Act Improving Reentry Education and Employment Outcomes Program
• Wabash General Hospital District: $153,474 from Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Rural Emergency Medical Services Training Program 

Top Grant Picks HRSA Rural Health Network Development Planning Program (Application Deadline: January 26, 2024) The purpose the Rural Health Network Development Planning Program (“Network Planning Program”) is to plan and develop integrated health care networks that collaborate to address the following legislative aims: (i) achieve efficiencies; (ii) expand access to and improve the quality of basic health care services and health outcomes; and (iii) strengthen the rural health care system. This program supports one year of planning and brings together members of the health care delivery system, particularly those entities that may not have collaborated in the past, to establish and/or improve local capacity in order to strengthen rural community health interventions and enhance care coordination. The Network Planning program uses the concept of developing networks as a strategy toward linking rural health care network members together to address local challenges, and help rural stakeholders achieve greater collective capacity to overcome challenges related to limited economies of scale for individual hospitals, clinics, or other key rural health care stakeholders. LEARN MORE

HUD FY 2023 Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grants (Application Deadlines: February 13, 2023, and March 4, 2024) Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grants support the implementation of comprehensive neighborhood revitalization plans that are expected to achieve the following three core goals: 1. Housing: Replace distressed public and assisted housing with high-quality mixed-income housing that is well-managed and responsive to the needs of the surrounding neighborhood; 2.  People: Improve outcomes of households living in the target housing related to employment and income, health, and children’s education; and  3. Neighborhood: Create the conditions necessary for public and private reinvestment in distressed neighborhoods to offer the kinds of amenities and assets, including safety, good schools, and commercial activity, that are important to families’ choices about their community. This NOFO has two deadline dates: one for new Implementation Grants and one for Supplemental Grants. The application due date for an Implementation Grant is February 13, 2024. Any application received after that deadline that is not applying for the Supplemental Grant funding is automatically ineligible. The pool of eligible applicants for a Supplemental Grant is limited to those previously awarded CN Implementation Grant recipients as stated in the Appendix. The due date for a Supplemental Grant application is March 4, 2024.  LEARN MORE  

Federal Healthcare & Behavioral/Mental Health Grants HRSA FY 2024 Quality Improvement Fund (Estimated Application Deadline: December 4, 2023) The purpose of QIF funding is to support health centers to develop and pilot innovative, patient centered, scalable models of care delivery to reduce health disparities and address the clinical and health related social needs of patients. LEARN MORE

HRSA Healthy Start Initiative: Eliminating Disparities in Perinatal Health (Application Deadline: December 15, 2023) The purpose of the Healthy Start Initiative – Eliminating Racial/Ethnic Disparities program is to improve health outcomes before, during, and after pregnancy and to reduce racial/ethnic differences in rates of infant death and adverse perinatal outcomes.HS is intended to support projects in communities and populations experiencing the greatest disparities in maternal and infant health outcomes. HS has two focus areas: 1) providing direct and enabling services (for example, screening and referrals, case management and care coordination, health and parenting education, and linkage to clinical care) to enrolled HS participants; and 2) convening Community Consortia (formerly known as Community Action Networks or “CANs”) comprised of diverse, multi-sector partners to advise and inform HS activities as well as to develop and implement plans to improve perinatal outcomes within the selected project area. HS continues to have an increased emphasis on addressing social determinants of health, such as access to adequate food, housing, and transportation, to improve disparities in maternal and infant health outcomes. LEARN MORE

HRSA Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP) (Estimated Application Deadline: January 5, 2024) The Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP) purpose is to develop a healthcare workforce that maximizes patient and family engagement to address gaps in health for older adults by integrating geriatrics and primary care and other appropriate specialties, including collaboration with community partners. LEARN MORE

CDC Implementation of Community Health Worker-Mediated Services for Re-Engagement to Care and Outreach for Persons with HIV in Rural Communities (REACH: Rural Re-Engagement and Care using CHWs for Persons with HIV) (Application Deadline: January 5, 2024) In this demonstration project, recipients will be funded to collaborate with HIV care providers to identify Persons with HIV (PWH) in rural communities who are not in care or have not achieved viral suppression and to implement a Community Health Worker (CHW)-mediated model of re-engagement to care and outreach services for PWH in rural communities. Recipients will employ and train CHWs to facilitate re-engagement of PWH in care who are not in care and outreach to those who are not virally suppressed to provide services that may include ART delivery, sample collection for standard HIV laboratory testing, transfer of self-collected specimens, as well as provide transportation services, arranging and scheduling telehealth visits and/or in person visits with an HIV medical provider and other providers (mental health, primary care) and offer evidence-based medication adherence support. Key outcomes in the project include an increased number of PWH in rural communities who are re-engaged to HIV care and treatment services for PWH not in care; provided outreach to those not virally suppressed to HIV; increased retention in care; increased ART (re)-initiation; increased adherence to ART; and increased viral suppression. LEARN MORE

CDC Support and Scale Up of HIV Prevention Services in Sexual Health Clinics (Application Deadline: January 15, 2024) The purpose of this NOFO is to support the Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. (EHE) initiative by scaling up HIV prevention services in sexual health clinics. Recipients funded under this NOFO will: 1) strengthen clinic infrastructure and improve service delivery to address the syndemic of HIV & STIs, 2) foster strategic partnerships in support of EHE, and 3) conduct specialized evaluation studies on EHE-related clinic activities. LEARN MORE  

VA Grants for Adaptive Sports Programs for Disabled Veterans and Disabled Members of the Armed Forces (Equine Assisted Therapy) (Estimated Application Deadline: January 15, 2024) The Adaptive Sports Grant Program provides grants to eligible adaptive sports entities to plan, develop, manage, and implement programs to provide adaptive sports activities for Veterans and members of the Armed Forces with disabilities. For the purpose of this program, adaptive sports activities include: (1)  instruction, participation, and competition in adaptive sports; (2)  training and technical assistance to program administrators, coaches, recreation therapists, instructors, VA employees, and other appropriate individuals; (3)  coordination, Paralympic classification of athletes, athlete assessment, sport-specific training techniques, program development (including programs at the local level), sports equipment, supplies, program evaluation, and other activities related to the implementation and operation of the program. LEARN MORE

HRSA Advanced Nursing Education- Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (ANE SANE) (Estimated Application Deadline: January 17, 2024) The purpose of the ANE-SANE program is to increase the number of Registered Nurses (RNs), Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) and Forensic Nurses trained and certified as sexual assault nurse examiners (SANEs) in communities on a local, regional and/or state level. The goal of this program is to train providers to conduct sexual assault forensic examinations, which provide better health care for survivors, improve evidence collection, and lead to higher prosecution rates. LEARN MORE

HRSA Nurse Faculty Loan Program (NFLP) (Estimated Application Deadline: January 17, 2024) The purpose of this program is to support institutions committed to preparing advanced degree nursing students to serve as nurse faculty. The program seeks to increase the number of qualified nursing faculty nationwide. NFLP accomplishes this by providing funding to accredited schools of nursing to establish and operate a student loan fund and provide loans to students enrolled in advanced education nursing degree programs who are committed to becoming nurse faculty. In exchange for completion of up to four years of post-graduation full-time nurse faculty employment in an accredited school of nursing, the graduates receive cancellation of up to 85 percent of the original student loan amount (plus interest thereon) as authorized by the program. NFLP also encourages Advance Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) to serve as full-time preceptors within an academic-practice partnership framework. LEARN MORE  

HRSA Rural Residency Planning and Development Program (Estimated Application Deadline: January 18, 2024) The purpose of this program is to improve and expand access to health care in rural areas by developing new, sustainable rural residency programs or rural track programs (RTPs) that are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACMGE), to address the physician workforce shortages and challenges faced by rural communities. This program provides start-up funding to RRPD award recipients to create new rural residency programs that will ultimately be sustainable long-term through viable and stable funding mechanisms, such as, Medicare, Medicaid, and other public or private funding sources. LEARN MORE

HRSA Maternal and Child Health - Improving Oral Health Integration (MCH-IOHI) Demonstration Projects (Application Deadline: January 22, 2024) MCH-IOHI Projects will aim to improve access to integrated preventive oral health care (integrated POHC) in primary care services accessible to MCH populations at increased or higher risk for poor oral health. Funding will support an MCH-IOHI Alliance (Alliance), to include key state stakeholders such as policy, practice, and public health leaders; healthcare providers; healthcare payers; and public health surveillance experts. The Alliance will implement a two-tier, state and local, improvement approach that’ll address three core functions: 1) Policy and Practice; 2) Education and Outreach; and 3) Data, Analysis and Evaluation. State level improvements, in support of the local approach, will aim to inform state policy and practice decisions that promote integrated POHC (such as Medicaid payment for oral health services and health professions’ state practice acts);3 increase oral health literacy4 across the state using an organizational health literacy approach;5 and enhance the state’s oral health surveillance (for example, data collection and trends analysis). The local improvement approach will aim to establish, implement, and validate evidence-based models of integrated POHC in communities underserved by oral health care. MCH-IOHI Projects will take part in an MCH-IOHI Consortium-led learning collaborative. LEARN MORE

HRSA Primary Care Training Enhancement - Rural Community Program Directors (Estimated Application Deadline: January 23, 2024) The purpose of the Primary Care Training and Enhancement - Rural Community Program Directors (PCTE-RCPD) program is to support primary care fellowship programs that train primary care physicians who have completed a residency in general internal medicine, family medicine, general pediatrics or combined pediatrics and internal medicine, in the skills necessary to be a successful residency program director of a rural primary care residency or a Teaching Health Center residency program. LEARN MORE  

HRSA Regional AIDS Education and Training Centers (Estimated Application Deadline: January 23, 2024) The purpose of this program is to provide funding for targeted, multidisciplinary education and training for health care professionals to provide health care services to people with HIV (PWH). The overarching goal of the AETC Program is to increase the number of health care providers who are educated and motivated to counsel, diagnose, treat, and medically manage PLWH and to help prevent HIV transmission. LEARN MORE

HRSA Primary Care Training and Enhancement- Physician Assistant Rural Training in Mental and Behavioral Health Program (PCTE PARM) (Estimated Application Deadline: January 26, 2024) The purpose of this program is to develop and implement clinical rotations for PA students in rural areas integrating behavioral health with primary care services. The NOFO will address the need to train primary care PAs in the prevention, identification, diagnosis, treatment, and referral services for mental and behavioral health conditions including substance use disorder. PA students will participate in a minimum two-month rotation integrating behavioral health and primary care with a focus on seeing patients with mental and behavioral health and/or substance use disorder. LEARN MORE  

HRSA Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training Program- Paraprofessionals (Estimated Application Deadline: January 29, 2024) The purpose of this program is to increase the supply of behavioral health paraprofessionals trained to work with children, adolescents, and transitional-aged youth at risk for behavioral health disorders by engaging and retaining families in mental health prevention and intervention programs. LEARN MORE  

HRSA Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training Program- Professionals (Estimated Application Deadline: January 29, 2024) The purpose of this program is to increase the supply of behavioral health professionals trained to work with children, adolescents, and transitional-aged youth at risk for behavioral health disorders by engaging and retaining families in mental health prevention and intervention programs. LEARN MORE  

HRSA Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part D - Women, Infants, Children and Youth Grant Supplemental Funding (Estimated Application Deadline: January 30, 2024) The purpose of this supplemental funding is to strengthen organizational capacity to respond to the changing health care landscape and increase access to high quality family-centered HIV primary health care services for low income women, infants, children and youth (WICY) with HIV. LEARN MORE  

HRSA FY 2024 Expanded Hours (Estimated Application Deadline: January 30, 2024) The purpose of the Expanded Services funding opportunity is to expand access to health center services and support health centers to meet identified patient needs by increasing the number of health center operating hours. LEARN MORE  

HRSA Supporting the Mental Health Among the Health Professions Workforce (Estimated Application Deadline: February 5, 2024) The purpose of the Promote Mental Health Among the Health Professional Workforce (PMHW) program is to support health care entities, including entities that provide health care services, such as hospitals, community health centers, and rural health clinics, or medical professional associations, to promote wellness, resilience, and mental health of the health care professional workforce using established or enhanced evidence-based or evidence-informed programs to transform organizational cultures. LEARN MORE

CDC Strengthening Immunization Program Implementation in Sub-National Consequential Geographies (Estimated Application Deadline: February 6, 2024) Funding and resources will be provided to the applicant to identify and vaccinate zero- and under-dose children, support polio eradication, measles mortality reduction and regional measles and rubella elimination, hepatitis B and maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination, and other vaccine-preventable diseases (VPD) surveillance; global laboratory networks for polio and measles/rubella; planning and implementation of supplemental immunization campaigns; and strengthening of immunization delivery systems and capacities in high priority countries. These functions are critical to achieving globally and regionally agreed goals for polio eradication, VPD elimination and reduction. Funding and resources may also be used to support activities to address other global health priorities in line with CDC goals. LEARN MORE

HRSA FY 2024 Ending the HIV Epidemic – Primary Care HIV Prevention (PCHP) (Estimated Application Deadline: February 6, 2024) Fiscal year (FY) 2024 Ending the HIV Epidemic-Primary Care HIV Prevention (PCHP) funding will support the expansion of HIV prevention services that decrease the risk of HIV transmission in underserved communities in support of Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. LEARN MORE

OMH Healthy People 2030 Leading Health Indicators Initiative (Estimated Application Deadline: February 8, 2024) The Office of Minority Health (OMH) announces anticipated availability of funding to support the Leading Health Indicators Initiative (LHII) for innovative adaptations of evidence based/evidence informed practices designed to increase utilization of preventative healthcare and support services among racial/ethnic minority and disadvantaged communities. The LHII intends to demonstrate the effectiveness of collaborative partnerships that include trusted messengers, and public and healthcare entities in improving health outcomes relative to HP 2030 LHIs. Recent public health emergencies and natural disasters have demonstrated the importance of trusted messengers to facilitate access to and utilization of preventive health care services. Projects funded under the LHII will implement public health improvement models intended to improve health for 1-2 Healthy People 2030 LHIs in geographic areas targeted by the recipients. OMH also expects the initiative will result in enhanced capacity of public health, community, and government entities to address and reduce health disparities experienced by racial and ethnic minority, and disadvantaged communities. LEARN MORE

HRSA FY 2024 Accelerating Cancer Screening (AxCS) (Estimated Application Deadline: February 8, 2024) Fiscal year (FY) 2024 Accelerating Cancer Screening (AxCS) funding will Increase equitable access to cancer screening and referral for care and treatment by enhancing outreach, patient navigation, and other enabling services. LEARN MORE  

HRSA FY 2024 New Access Points (Estimated Application Deadline: February 12, 2024) The purpose of the New Access Point (NAP) funding is to provide operational support for new service delivery sites under the Health Center Program. These new sites will improve the health of the nation’s underserved communities and populations by expanding access to comprehensive, culturally competent, quality primary health care services. LEARN MORE

HRSA Maternity Care Nursing Workforce Expansion (Estimated Application Deadline: February 12, 2024) The purpose of the Maternity Care Nursing Workforce Expansion Program is to grow and diversify maternal and perinatal health nursing workforce by supporting the planning/development of new midwife training programs. LEARN MORE

HRSA Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program (Estimated Application Deadline: February 15, 2024) The purpose of the Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program is to improve the health outcomes and quality of life for populations at increased risk for the development of radiogenic cancers and/or disease resulting from exposure to radioactive materials through uranium mine industry work or fallout from nuclear arms testing. LEARN MORE

SAMHSA Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) (Estimated Application Deadline: February 15, 2024) The purpose of this program is to implement screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment services for children, adolescents, and/or adults in primary care and community health settings (e.g., health centers, hospital systems, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), preferred-provider organizations (PPOs), Federally Qualified Health Care (FQHC) systems, behavioral health centers, pediatric health care providers, Children’s Hospitals, etc.) with a focus on screening for underage drinking, opioid use, and other substance use. LEARN MORE

SAMHSA Assisted Outpatient Treatment Program for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness (Estimated Application Deadline: February 15, 2024) The purpose of this program is to implement and evaluate new AOT programs and identify evidence-based practices to reduce the incidence and duration of psychiatric hospitalization, homelessness, incarcerations, and interactions with the criminal justice system while improving the health and social outcomes of individuals with a serious mental illness (SMI). LEARN MORE

SAMHSA Community Programs for Outreach and Intervention with Youth and Young Adults at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis (Estimated Application Deadline: February 15, 2024) The purpose of this program is to provide trauma-informed, evidence-based interventions to youth and young adults (not more than 25 years of age) who are at clinical high risk for psychosis. Award recipients are expected to use evidence-based intervention to: 1) improve symptomatic and behavioral functioning; (2) enable youth and young adults to resume age-appropriate social, academic, and/or vocational activities; (3) delay or prevent the onset of psychosis; and (4) minimize the duration of untreated psychosis for those who develop psychotic symptoms. LEARN MORE

Foundation Healthcare & Behavioral/Mental Health Grants Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Evidence for Action: Indigenous Led Solutions to Advance Health Equity and Wellbeing (Application Deadline: Upcoming) This CFP is to support Indigenous-led systematic inquiry to enhance the health and wellbeing of Indigenous Peoples and generate approaches to improve health equity. Releases November 8, 2023. LEARN MORE  

Federal Education & Workforce Development Grants USDA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program Education and Workforce Development (Application Deadline: December 7, 2023) The Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Education and Workforce Development (EWD) focuses on developing the next generation of research, education, and extension professionals in the food and agricultural sciences. In 2023, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) requests applications for the AFRI’s Education and Workforce Development program areas to support: (1) professional development opportunities for K-14 educational professionals; (2) non-formal education that cultivates food and agricultural interest in youth; (3) workforce training at community, junior, and technical colleges; (4) training of undergraduate students in research and extension; (5) fellowships for predoctoral candidates and postdoctoral scholars. LEARN MORE

AmeriCorps - Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 AmeriCorps State and National Competitive Grants (Application Deadline: January 4, 2023) AmeriCorps improves lives, strengthens communities, and fosters civic engagement through service and volunteering. AmeriCorps brings people together to tackle some of the country’s most pressing challenges through national service and volunteerism. AmeriCorps members and AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers serve with organizations dedicated to the improvement of communities and those serving. AmeriCorps helps make service a cornerstone of our national culture. AmeriCorps grants are awarded to eligible organizations (Use Section C.1. Eligible Applicants) proposing to engage AmeriCorps members in evidence-based or evidence-informed interventions/practices to strengthen communities. An AmeriCorps member is an individual who engages in community service through an approved national service position. Members may receive a living allowance and other benefits while serving. Upon successful completion of their service, members earn a Segal AmeriCorps Education Award that they can use to pay for higher education expenses or apply to qualified student loans. LEARN MORE

USDA FY2024 Farm to School Grants (Application Deadline: January 12, 2024) The Patrick Leahy Farm to School Grant Program is designed to increase the availability of local foods in schools and help connect students to the sources of their food through education, taste tests, school gardens, field trips, and local food sourcing for school meals. Grants can launch new farm to school programs or expand existing efforts. The Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Farm to School Grant awards projects of 24 months in length for funding up to $500,000. Applicants are required to provide matching support of at least 25 percent of the total project budget in the form of cash or in-kind contributions. The RFA offers three tracks - Implementation, State Agency, and Turnkey - to support a variety of projects and implementation stages. Eligible applicants may include schools and other institutions that operate Child Nutrition Programs, Indian Tribal Organizations, agricultural producers or groups of agricultural producers, nonprofit entities, and State and local agencies. LEARN MORE

NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Directorate for STEM Education (Application Deadline: January 17, 2023) The National Science Foundation (NSF) plays a leadership role in developing and implementing efforts to enhance and improve STEM education in the United States. Through the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) initiative, the agency continues to make a substantial commitment to the highest caliber undergraduate STEM education through a Foundation-wide framework of investments. The IUSE: EDU is a core NSF STEM education program that seeks to promote novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. The program is open to application from all institutions of higher education and associated organizations. NSF places high value on educating students to be leaders and innovators in emerging and rapidly changing STEM fields as well as educating a scientifically literate public. In pursuit of this goal, IUSE: EDU supports projects that seek to bring recent advances in STEM knowledge into undergraduate education, that adapt, improve, and incorporate evidence-based practices into STEM teaching and learning, and that lay the groundwork for institutional improvement in STEM education. In addition to innovative work at the frontier of STEM education, this program also encourages replication of research studies at different types of institutions and with different student bodies to produce deeper knowledge about the effectiveness and transferability of findings. LEARN MORE

NEH Institutes for Higher Education Faculty Institutes for K-12 Educators (Estimated Application Deadline: February 14, 2024) The Institutes for Higher Education Faculty and Institutes for K-12 Educators programs are professional development programs that convene higher education faculty or K-12 educators from across the nation to deepen and enrich their understanding of significant topics in the humanities and enrich their capacity for effective scholarship and teaching. LEARN MORE

Foundation Education & Workforce Development Grants

The Teagle Foundation - The Knowledge for Freedom Initiative (Application Deadline: December 1, 2023) The Knowledge for Freedom initiative supports programs that invite underserved high school students to college to study humanity’s deepest questions about leading lives of purpose and civic responsibility. Funded programs bring low-income high school students onto a college campus for an intensive summer seminar in the humanities taught by college professors, with a focus on transformative texts in philosophy and literature connected by ideas or questions about the nature of government, freedom, and democracy. Programs then offer formalized assistance with college applications and direct students in a civic engagement or public service project, as well as further engage students by sponsoring events, facilitating mentorships, or by connecting them with opportunities to continue their civic engagement. Grants of varying amounts, ranging from $100,000-$300,000 over a 36-month period, will be made to each funded project participating in this initiative. The size of the grant will be based on the scope of the project. Colleges and universities interested in launching Knowledge for Freedom programs are encouraged to apply for planning grants, ranging from $10,000 to $25,000 over a 6-12 month period. LEARN MORE

Google Cybersecurity Clinics Fund (Application Deadline: March 1, 2024) The Google Cybersecurity Clinics Fund, a Google initiative in collaboration with the Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics, will support U.S.-based colleges, universities, and community colleges with up to $1 million each in funding to increase access and opportunities for students interested in pursuing careers in cybersecurity. Support will be provided to selected institutions to host cybersecurity clinics that train students from diverse backgrounds to strengthen the digital defenses of under-resourced critical public infrastructure organizations, like small hospitals, nonprofits, local governments, small businesses, and other community organizations. The supported clinics will address two simultaneous needs: building cybersecurity capacity and resilience in their communities and training the next generation of cybersecurity talent with real-world job experience. In addition to funding, selected organizations will also receive access to Google’s technical expertise and certificates. Any nonprofit or public higher education institution is eligible to apply. LEARN MORE

Federal Community and Economic Development Grants USDA 2024 Wood Products Infrastructure Assistance Program (Application Deadline: December 1, 2023) The USDA Forest Service is announcing the availability of $23.3 million to provide financial assistance to facilities that purchase and process byproducts from ecosystem restoration projects in areas at risk of unnaturally severe wildfire or insect or disease infestation through funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). The intent is to substantially decrease the cost of conducting restoration projects involving vegetation removal on federal and Tribal lands and invest in surrounding communities. These ecosystem restoration byproducts could include trees and woody biomass harvested through timber sales, thinning, hazardous fuels reduction treatments, or other restoration management activities. Funding priority will be to provide financial assistance to an entity seeking to establish, reopen, retrofit, expand, or improve a sawmill or other wood-processing facility that will utilize the byproducts from projects on federal land, Tribal forestland, and Tribal rangeland that have been identified as at risk for fire, insect, or disease and a high priority for ecological restoration. To be eligible for funding, the project facility must be in close proximity to federal or Tribal lands and procure high percentages (approximately 50% or greater) of raw materials from federal or Tribal lands. Successful applicants will address how financial support will enable increased utilization of byproducts from ecosystem restoration projects on federal or Tribal lands that are in close proximity to a wood products processing facility and how this assistance will help reduce restoration costs. LEARN MORE

USDA 2024 Community Wood Energy and Wood Innovation Program (Application Deadline: December 15, 2023) The intent of the CWEWIP is to support forest health and stimulate local economies by expanding renewable wood energy use and innovative wood products manufacturing capacity. The Forest Service solicits proposals for projects that will achieve the following: (1) Expand thermally led community wood energy or innovative wood product opportunities; (2) Improve Forest health; and (3) Stimulate local economies. This funding opportunity is intended for shovel ready projects that will not require additional funding or time to complete after the award period. Examples of eligible projects include, but are not limited to: (1) Install a thermally led community wood energy system for heating, cooling, and/or electricity that replaces fossil fuels such as coal, oil, propane, or natural gas. (2) Purchase and install manufacturing equipment at a mass timber production facility. (3) Expand a sawmill to add higher value production lines that incorporate innovative technologies and cost cutting measures. (4) Purchase and install equipment at a new facility to produce biofuels from forest residues. LEARN MORE

USDA Wood Utilization Assistance (Application Deadline: December 15, 2023) The intent of the Wood Innovations Funding Opportunity is to stimulate, expand, and support wood products markets and wood energy markets. Projects can include, but are not limited to: 1. Completing requirements, such as engineering designs, cost analyses, and permitting necessary, in the later stages of commercial construction projects that use wood as a primary building material and in the later stages of wood energy project development to secure financing. Early phase project development proposals will not be competitive. 2. Developing manufacturing capacity, other necessary wood products infrastructure, and markets for wood products that support forest ecosystem restoration. 3. Showcasing quantifiable environmental and economic benefits of using wood as a sustainable building material in an actual commercial building and the projected benefits achieved if replicated across the United States based on commercial construction market trends. 4. Establishing statewide wood utilization teams and statewide wood energy teams. Only proposals from States without an existing (or former) team will be considered. 5. Developing a cluster of wood energy projects in a geographic area or specific sector (e.g., prisons, hospitals, universities, manufacturing sector, or industrial sector). 6. Overcoming market barriers and stimulating expansion of wood energy in the commercial sector. LEARN MORE

NEH FY2023 Historic Preservation Fund- Save America's Treasures Preservation Grants (Application Deadline: December 19, 2023) Save America’s Treasures grants from the Historic Preservation Fund provide preservation and/or conservation assistance to nationally significant historic properties and collections. Grants are awarded through a competitive process and require a dollar-for-dollar, non-Federal match, which can be cash or documented in-kind. The grant program is administered by the National Park Service (NPS) in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). LEARN MORE

Department of Energy Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Weatherization Program Assistance (WAP) Enhancement & Innovation (Application Deadline: January 5, 2024) This FOA seeks applications to expand the impact of DOE's existing residential weatherization programs by utilizing leveraged resources and enhanced community partnerships to perform deep energy retrofits of low-income residential buildings and empower local community representation within the energy workforce. DOE seeks proposals that drive innovative approaches to program coordination and service delivery, while fostering the collaboration of dynamic and diverse teams. Applicants can apply for one of the following three topic areas: 1) Multifamily Housing 2) Single Family and Manufactured Housing and 3) Workforce Development. LEARN MORE  

NEH Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions (Application Deadline: January 11, 2024) The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access is accepting applications for the Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions program. The purpose of this program is to help small and mid-sized institutions improve their ability to preserve and care for their humanities collections. The program encourages applications from small and mid-sized institutions that have never received an NEH grant. LEARN MORE

NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grants (Application Deadline: January 11, 2024) The Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program supports innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities. LEARN MORE

NEH Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections (Application Deadline: January 12, 2024) The Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections program helps cultural institutions meet the complex challenge of preserving large and diverse holdings of humanities materials for future generations by supporting environmentally sustainable preventive care measures that mitigate deterioration, prolong the useful life of collections, reduce energy consumption, and strengthen institutional resilience to disasters resulting from current and future effects of climate change or human activity. LEARN MORE

NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture (Application Deadline: February 14, 2024) The Landmarks of American History and Culture program supports a series of one-week residential, virtual, and combined format workshops across the nation to enhance and strengthen how K-12 educators, higher education faculty, and humanities professionals incorporate place-based teaching and learning in the humanities. LEARN MORE

Federal Human Services Grants    HUD Fair Housing Initiatives Program - Education and Outreach Initiative (Application Deadline: November 30, 2023) The Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP) makes available approximately $9,466,347 to develop, implement, carry out, and coordinate education and outreach programs designed to inform members of the public about their rights and obligations under the provisions of the FHA. Under this NOFO, activities are divided into five categories: (1) Education and Outreach Initiative (EOI) National – National Media Campaign Component - The national fair housing media campaign will focus on advancing racial equity and access to housing opportunities, especially in underserved communities. The campaign will also focus on educating the public about the forms of inequities based on race and national origin that can occur in real estate-related transactions, including in the residential lending and appraisal markets. The campaign will provide information on how to file a housing discrimination complaint through HUD. (2) EOI - Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Component - This NOFO includes funding for fair housing organizations to create materials and/or update and disseminate existing materials to reflect the clarification that after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Bostock decision (Bostock v. Clayton Cty., 140 S. Ct. 1731 (2020)), the FHA bars discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. (3) EOI - Advancing Racial Equity Component - This component will fund local and community-based education and outreach projects to promote racial desegregation, equity and justice in housing, and to address barriers that may arise when people protected under the FHA exercise their fair housing rights to expand their housing choice, consistent with the purpose of the FHA. (4) EOI - Targeted Fair Housing Component - This component targets organizations that demonstrate a need in their geographic area to work directly with populations of persons with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) to ensure they are aware of and understand their rights under the FHA. (5) EOI - General Component - This component provides funding for general fair housing education and outreach activities to inform people of their rights and responsibilities under the FHA. LEARN MORE

HUD Fair Housing Initiatives Program – Private Enforcement Initiative (Application Deadline: November 30, 2023) The Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP) funds non-profits and other fair housing organizations and currently provides funds to eligible organizations through competitive grants under several initiatives to carry out education and outreach and enforcement activities to prevent or eliminate discriminatory housing practices and to inform individuals of their rights and responsibilities under the Fair Housing Act (FHA). Private Enforcement Initiative (PEI) provides funding to private, non-profit fair housing enforcement organizations that meet statutory requirements to conduct testing, investigate violations and obtain enforcement of the rights granted under the FHA or State or local laws that are substantially equivalent to the rights and remedies provided in the FHA. This NOFO announces the availability of $16,704,318.47 through the PEI Multi-Year Funding Component to fund new FY2023 grant awards. The PEI Multi-Year Component provides grants of up to $400,000 per year per grantee for a three-year duration, with future years’ funding subject to appropriations. LEARN MORE  

HUD Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity Program (SHOP) (Application Deadline: December 4, 2023) This SHOP NOFO announces the availability of $ 12,500,000 in FY2022 SHOP Grant funds to be awarded to national and regional non-profit organizations and consortia to facilitate and encourage innovative homeownership opportunities on a national, geographically diverse basis through the provision of self-help homeownership housing programs. Applicants must propose to use a significant amount of SHOP Grant funds in at least two states. Individuals are not eligible to apply for SHOP Grant funds. SHOP Grant funds must be used for land acquisition, infrastructure improvements, and for reasonable and necessary planning and administration costs (not to exceed 10 percent). The construction or rehabilitation costs of each SHOP unit must be funded with other leveraged public and private funds. The average SHOP Grant expenditure for the combined costs of land acquisition and infrastructure improvements must not exceed $25,000 per SHOP unit. SHOP units must be decent, safe, and sanitary non-luxury dwellings that comply with state and local codes, ordinances, and zoning requirements.  The SHOP units must be sold to homebuyers at prices below the prevailing market price. Homebuyers must be low-income and must contribute a significant amount of sweat equity towards the development of the SHOP units. A homebuyer’s sweat equity contribution must not be mortgaged or otherwise restricted upon future sale of the SHOP unit. Volunteer labor is also required SHOP Grantees may award SHOP Grant funds to local non-profit affiliate organizations to carry out the Grantee’s SHOP program. These affiliate organizations must be located within the Grantee’s service area. LEARN MORE

Nicholas and Zachary Burt Memorial Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Prevention Grant Program (Application Deadline: December 15, 2023) Nicholas and Zachary Burt Memorial Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Prevention Grant Program. This program aims to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning of children and the elderly in dwelling units and other facilities by providing funding to state, local, and tribal governments that support the installation of CO alarms and training and public education programs to promote the health and public safety of citizens throughout the United States. LEARN MORE

HUD ROSS (Resident Opportunity and Self-Sufficiency) Service Coordinator Program - FY2023 (Application Deadline: December 18, 2023) The Resident Opportunity and Self Sufficiency Service Coordinator (ROSS-SC) program is designed to assist residents of Public and Indian Housing make progress towards economic and housing self-sufficiency by removing the educational, professional and health barriers they face.  Self-sufficiency is defined as an individual’s ability to support their household by maintaining financial, housing, and personal/family stability.  To achieve self-sufficiency, an individual moves along a continuum towards economic independence and stability; such movement is facilitated by the achievement of individual educational, professional, and health-related goals. To help residents make progress towards self-sufficiency, HUD provides ROSS-SC grant funding to eligible applicants to hire a Service Coordinator who assesses the needs of Public and Indian housing residents and links them to local training and supportive services that will enable participants to move along the self-sufficiency continuum.  In the case of elderly/residents with disabilities, the Service Coordinator also links them to congregate and other supportive services which enable them to age/remain in place in addition to providing other desired training and supportive services which are made available to other residents.  In addition, with the ROSS-SC grant, HUD provides funding for grantees to provide direct services to further support the work of the ROSS-SC and ultimately, the goals of the ROSS program. LEARN MORE

Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA) Competitive Grant: Housing Interventions (HINT) to End the HIV Epidemic (Application Deadline: January 31, 2024) This funding will provide communities an opportunity to create and implement new projects that align with initiatives aimed at ending the HIV epidemic, and elevate housing as an effective structural intervention in ending the epidemic. HUD is seeking projects with exemplary and innovative qualities, including incorporation of Housing First principles, community-level coordination, data collection with emphasis on stable housing and positive health outcomes, the use of cultural humility in providing housing and services, and a systemic approach to advance equity in underserved communities that can serve as a national place-based model. LEARN MORE

HUD Section 811 Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities (Capital Advance) (Application Deadline: February 12, 2024) The Section 811 Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities Program aims to expand the supply of integrated affordable housing by providing Capital Advance funding for the development of permanent supportive rental housing for very-low-income persons with disabilities who are 18 years of age or older and less than 62 years of age at entry. The program also provides project rental subsidies in the form of a Project Rental Assistance Contract (“PRAC”) to maintain ongoing affordability over at least the next forty years. Proposals must promote the long-term housing security and facilitate community integration of persons with disabilities. HUD aims to provide Capital Advance funding to those applicants who meet the goal of developing permanent supportive housing. Capital Advance funds must be used to finance construction, reconstruction, moderate or substantial rehabilitation, or acquisition of a structure with or without rehabilitation. Capital Advance funds bear no interest and repayment is not required if housing remains available for occupancy by Very-Low-Income Disabled Persons for at least 40 years. LEARN MORE

Foundation Human Services Grants 

The Home Depot Foundation - Veteran Housing Grants (Application Deadline: December 15, 2023) The Foundation's Veteran Housing Grants Program awards grants to nonprofit organizations for the new construction or rehabilitation of permanent supportive housing for veterans. Awards typically range from $100,000 to $500,000. The Foundation awards grants throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. Rural areas will be considered, but priority will be given to “large cities” defined as populations over 300,000 people. Specifically, there is a focus on projects in the following cities: Los Angeles, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY; Houston, TX; Detroit, MI; San Diego, CA; Denver, CO; Chicago, IL; Atlanta, GA; and Tampa, FL. LEARN MORE 

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