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HUD FY23 Choice Neighborhoods Planning Grants
(Application Deadline: June 6, 2023)
Choice Neighborhoods Planning Grants support the development of comprehensive plans to revitalize severely distressed public housing and/or HUD-assisted housing and the surrounding neighborhood. Communities will develop a comprehensive neighborhood revitalization strategy, or Transformation Plan, to achieve the program's three core goals: Housing, People and Neighborhood. The Transformation Plan will become the guiding document to carry out subsequent implementation of the plan for the target housing units while simultaneously directing the transformation of the surrounding neighborhood and positive outcomes for families.?LEARN MORE
ACF FY 2023 Basic Center Program
(Application Deadline: June 9, 2023)
The Basic Center Program (BCP) provides temporary shelter and counseling services to youth who have left home without permission of their parents or guardians, have been forced to leave home, or other homeless youth who might otherwise end up in the law enforcement or in the child welfare, mental health, or juvenile justice systems. BCPs work to establish or strengthen community-based programs that meet the immediate needs of runaway and homeless youth and their families. BCP grant recipients provide youth under 18 years of age with emergency shelter, food, clothing, counseling and referrals for health care. BCP grant recipients can provide up to 21 days of shelter for youth and seeks to reunite young people with their families, whenever possible, or to locate appropriate alternative placements.?Additional services may include: street-based services; home-based services for families with youth at risk of separation from the family; drug abuse education and prevention services; and at the request of runaway and homeless youth, testing for sexually transmitted diseases.?LEARN MORE
Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE): Higher Education Programs (HEP):?Rural Postsecondary and Economic Development (RPED) Grant Program
(Application Deadline: June 20, 2023)
The purpose of the RPED Grant Program is to improve rates of postsecondary enrollment, persistence, and completion among rural students through the development of career pathways aligned to high-skill, high-wage, and in-demand industry sectors and occupations in the region.??Eligible applicants are Institutes of?Higher Education?(IHEs)?that are public or private nonprofit IHEs, and public and private nonprofit organizations and agencies that partner with IHEs.?LEARN MORE
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Federal Healthcare & Behavioral/Mental Health Grants
SAMHSA Recovery Community Services Program
(Application Deadline: May 30, 2023)
The purpose of this program is to provide peer recovery support services to individuals with substance use disorders (SUD) or co-occurring substance use and mental disorders (COD), including those in recovery from these disorders. The program’s foundation is the value of lived experience of peers to assist others in achieving and maintaining recovery. These services, in conjunction with clinical treatment services, are an integral component of the recovery process for many people.?LEARN MORE
HRSA Medical Student Education Program
(Estimated Application Deadline: June 1, 2023)
The program is designed to prepare and encourage medical students in these schools to choose residencies and careers in primary care and serve tribal, rural, and/or medically underserved communities in those states after they graduate from residency. The goal of the program is to increase the number of primary care physicians practicing in the top quintile of states with a projected primary care provider shortage in 2025. Eligible applicants include Public and State controlled institutions of higher education.?LEARN MORE
HRSA Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training-Children Adolescents and transitional aged Youth Program for Professionals
(Estimated Application Deadline: June 1, 2023)
The purpose of BHWET-CAY Program for Professionals is to increase the number of behavioral health providers prepared to address the needs of children, adolescents, and transitional aged youth in high need high demand areas.?LEARN MORE
CDC?Enhancing STI and Sexual Health Clinic Infrastructure (ESSHCI)
(Application Deadline: June 5, 2023)
The purpose of this NOFO is to strengthen clinic infrastructure and expand access to comprehensive sexual health services.* Strategy A (core strategy for Y1) will foster community engagement and strategic partnerships to support expansion of sexual health services. Associated activities: build community connections to engage priority populations and mobilize public health partners, and develop a community-informed, clinic-level plan to increase access to quality comprehensive sexual health services. Strategy B (core strategy for Y1-5) will strengthen clinic infrastructure and provision of comprehensive sexual health services. Associated activities: conduct clinic infrastructure assessment, implement a clinic-level plan to increase access to sexual health services, implement additional evidence-based approaches to enhance clinic sexual health services, and assess and improve the patient clinic experience. Strategy C (optional strategy for Y1-5) will fund a subset of proposed short-term activities each budget period to expand access to STI prevention and other sexual health services supporting a syndemic approach.?LEARN MORE
SAMHSA Strategic Prevention Framework – Partnerships for Success for Communities, Local Governments, Universities, Colleges, and Tribes/Tribal Organization
(Application Deadline: June 5, 2023)
The purpose of this program is to help reduce the onset and progression of substance misuse and its related problems by supporting the development and delivery of community-based substance misuse prevention and mental health promotion services. The program is intended to expand and strengthen the capacity of local community prevention providers to implement evidence-based prevention programs.?LEARN MORE
CDC Essentials for Childhood (EfC): Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences through Data to Action
(Application Deadline: June 12, 2023)
The three primary goals of this NOFO are to 1) enhance a state-level surveillance infrastructure that ensures the capacity to collect, analyze, and use ACE and PCE data to inform ACE prevention strategies and approaches; 2) support the implementation of data-driven, comprehensive, evidence-based ACE primary prevention strategies and approaches, particularly with a focus on health equity; and 3) conduct data to action activities on an ongoing basis to inform changes or adaptations to existing strategies or selection and implementation of additional strategies.?LEARN MORE
HRSA Primary Care Training and Enhancement-Language and Disability Access (PCTE-LDA) Program
(Estimated Application Deadline: June 15, 2023)
The purpose of the PCTE-Language and Disability Access (PCTE-LDA) program is to train primary care residents to provide language assistance services to individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP) or to train primary care residents to provide care for adolescents and young adults with physical disabilities and/or intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) transitioning from pediatric to adult care.?LEARN MORE
HRSA Nurse Education Practice Quality and Retention Program- Simulation Education Training
(Estimated Application Deadline: June 15, 2023)
The Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR)-Simulation Education Training (SET) program aims to enhance nursing education and practice with the use of simulation-based technology to advance the health of patients and families in the acute care setting to improve health outcomes. This program also intends to increase and strengthen the capacity student nurses from diverse backgrounds, (including underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities) to address the complex health care needs of populations for patient safety outcomes and improve health equity and health literacy of vulnerable and underserved populations.?LEARN MORE
HRSA Maternity Care Nursing Workforce Expansion (MatCare) Training Program
(Estimated Application Deadline: June 24, 2023)
The purpose of Maternity Care Nursing Workforce Expansion (MatCare) Program is to grow and diversify the maternal and perinatal health nursing workforce through education and training.?LEARN MORE
HRSA?Service Area Competition
(Application Deadline: June 26, 2023)
This notice announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Health Center Program’s Service Area Competition (SAC). The Health Center Program supports domestic public or private, nonprofit community-based and patient-directed organizations that provide primary health care services to the Nation’s medically underserved populations. The purpose of the SAC notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to ensure continued access to comprehensive, culturally competent, high-quality primary healthcare services for communities and populations currently served by the Health Center Program.?LEARN MORE
SAMHSA?Preventing Youth Overdose: Treatment, Recovery, Education, Awareness and Training
(Application Deadline: June 27, 2023)
The purpose of this program is to improve local awareness among youth of risks associated with fentanyl, increase access to medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) for adolescents and young adults screened for and diagnosed with opioid use disorder (OUD), and train healthcare providers, families, and school personnel on best practices for supporting children, adolescents, and young adults with OUD and those taking MOUD.?LEARN MORE
CDC?Community-Based Approaches to Reducing Sexually Transmitted Diseases (CARS)
(Application Deadline: June 27, 2023)
The purpose of this NOFO is to implement community engagement methods to achieve health equity, via the identification and implementation of structural strategies promoting personal health. Recipients will support healthy behaviors, facilitate community-clinical linkages to build support for interventions to prevent and reduce STD disparities, enhance and sustain partnerships, support communication strategies that promote STD program successes and leverage additional resources for STD, HIV, viral hepatitis control and prevention, and evaluate the efficacy of this intervention approach. The new FOA provides support in five focus areas:?(1) implementation of community engagement methods (e.g. community-based participatory research) to achieve health equity; (2) identification and implementation of systems and environmental change strategies that (a) promote sexual health and support healthy behaviors and (b) facilitate community-clinical linkages to build support for interventions to prevent and reduce STI disparities; (3) enhancement and sustainability of partnerships; (4) support for communication strategies to promote STD program successes and leverage additional resources for STI control and prevention; and (5) evaluation of the efficacy of this approach and intervention.?LEARN MORE
CDC?Addressing Conditions To Improve Population Health (ACTion)
(Application Deadline: June 30, 2023)
The CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) announces the availability of funds to state, local, territorial, and tribal jurisdictions, that are ready to take ACTion (Addressing Conditions To improve population health) in communities to implement policy, systems, and environmental change (PSE) interventions that address Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) to reduce chronic disease related disparities, risk factors, and inequities. This NOFO will incorporate the lessons learned from the fiscal year (FY) 21 (DP21-2111) and FY 22 (DP22-2210) SDOH Accelerator Grants to fund pilot ACTion projects focused on implementing established plans that include PSE interventions across four domains; the built environment, community-clinical linkages, food and nutrition security, and social connectedness.?LEARN MORE
USDA?Delta Health Care Service Grant Program
(Application Deadline: July 3, 2023)
The Rural Business-Cooperative Service announces the availability of $3,000,000 in competitive grant funds for the FY 2022 Delta Health Care Services Grant (DHCS) Program as authorized under Section 379G of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 2008u), as amended by the Agricultural Act of 2018 (Pub. L. 115-334). The purpose of this program is to provide financial assistance to address the continued unmet health needs in the Delta Region, through cooperation among health care professionals, institutions of higher education, research institutions and economic development entities in the Delta Region.?LEARN MORE
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Federal Education & Workforce Development Grants
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Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE): Higher Education Programs (HEP): Institutional Service: Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP)
(Application Deadline: May 30, 2023)
The MSEIP is designed to effect long-range improvement in science and engineering education at predominantly minority institutions and to increase the participation of underrepresented ethnic minorities, particularly minority women, into scientific and technological careers, consistent with nondiscrimination requirements contained in Federal civil rights laws.?LEARN MORE
SAMHSA Treatment, Recovery, and Workforce Support Grant
(Application Deadline: May 30, 2023)
The purpose of this program is to implement evidence-based programs to support individuals in substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and recovery to live independently and participate in the workforce. Award recipients will be expected to ascertain gaps in the workforce and coordinate statewide employment and training activities for participants enrolled in their program with SUD in treatment and recovery.?LEARN MORE
EDA 2023 STEM Talent Challenge
(Application Deadline: June 12, 2023)
EDA’s Office of Innovation & Entrepreneurship is seeking applications from eligible applicants to create and implement innovative science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) work-based learning models (such as Registered Apprenticeships) that complement their respective region’s innovation economy. The STEM Talent Challenge seeks to develop or expand regional workforce capacity to support high-growth, high-wage entrepreneurial ventures, industries of the future (which usually includes industries that leverage emerging technologies), and other innovation—driven businesses that have a high likelihood of accelerating economic competitiveness and job creation in their respective regions and in the United States.?LEARN MORE
OSERS: OSEP: Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities--Preparation of Early Intervention and Special Education Personnel Serving Children with Disabilities who have High-Intensity Needs
(Application Deadline: June 13, 2023)
The purposes of this program are to (1) help address State-identified needs for personnel preparation in early intervention, special education, related services, and regular education to work with children, including infants, toddlers, and youth, with disabilities; and (2) ensure that those personnel have the necessary skills and knowledge, derived from practices that have been determined through scientifically based research, to be successful in serving those children.?LEARN MORE
Workforce Opportunities for Rural Communities (WORC) Round 5: A Grant Initiative for the Appalachian, Delta, and Northern Border Regions
(Application Deadline: June 13, 2023)
The Employment and Training Administration (ETA), U.S. Department of Labor (DOL, or the Department), announces the availability of approximately $44,200,000 in grant funds authorized by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) for the fifth round of Workforce Opportunity for Rural Communities (WORC) Initiative demonstration grants. The WORC Initiative provides grant funds to enable impacted communities to develop local and regional workforce development solutions aligned with existing economic development strategies and community partnerships to promote new, sustainable job opportunities and long-term economic vitality.??LEARN MORE
DOL Building Pathways to Infrastructure Jobs Grant Program
(Application Deadline: July 7, 2023)
The purpose of the DOL Building Pathways to Infrastructure Jobs Grant Program is to fund public-private partnerships to develop, strengthen, and scale promising and evidence-based training models in H-1B industries and occupations critical to meeting the goals of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and to maximize the impact of these investments. The United States (U.S.) will need a proficient workforce to fill the good-paying jobs created by this historic investment, and this grant program will train job seekers in advanced manufacturing; information technology; and professional, scientific, and technical services occupations that support renewable energy, transportation, and broadband infrastructure sectors. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Grant Program serves dual purposes by implementing and scaling worker-centered sector strategies to support the workforce necessary for successful implementation of the BIL. Applicants must choose one of the following tracks for this grant program: 1) Development Track: Developing and Implementing Local/Regional Worker-Centered Sector Strategy Programs; or 2) Scaling Track: Scaling Effective Worker-Centered Sector Strategy Programs. The goal of the Development Track is to use promising training models to invest in and establish local/regional partnerships that will implement sector-based training programs across one or multiple infrastructure-related sectors. This track will support equitable participation and growth of worker-centered sector-based training programs, particularly those serving rural and smaller communities and historically marginalized, underrepresented, and underserved populations. The goal of the Scaling Track is to scale an existing training model to the statewide or national level, that has shown demonstrated success in one infrastructure-related sector.?LEARN MORE
DOL?Critical Sector Job Quality Grants
(Application Deadline: July 10, 2023)
The purpose of this demonstration program is to support transformative efforts to improve job quality and availability of good jobs, particularly for the benefit of historically marginalized populations and communities that have experienced barriers to employment in good jobs. The primary focus of these demonstration grants is expanding job quality in the care, climate resiliency and clean energy transition, and hospitality sectors. These demonstration grants will support industry-led, worker-centered sector strategies built through labor-management partnerships aimed at improving job quality in key sectors.?These partnerships will address equity, job quality, and worker voice as they design training models and train workers for family-supporting jobs.?LEARN MORE
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Effective Educator Development Programs: American History and Civics Education National Activities (AHC-NA) Program
(Application Deadline: July 12, 2023)
The purpose of the AHC-NA program is to promote new and existing evidence-based strategies to encourage innovative American history, civics and government, and geography instruction, learning strategies, and professional development activities and programs for teachers, principals, or other school leaders, particularly such instruction, strategies, activities, and programs that benefit students from low-income backgrounds and other underserved populations.?LEARN MORE
DE Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: Industrial Assessment Center (IAC) Program – IACs at Trade Schools, Community Colleges, and Union Training Programs; and Building Training and Assessment Centers (BTAC) Program??
(Application Deadline: July 31, 2023)
The Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains (MESC) and Office of State and Community Energy Programs (SCEP) is issuing this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to establish new Industrial Assessment Centers (IACs) at community colleges, trade schools, and union training programs, as well as to create new Building Training and Assessment Centers (BTACs) at institutions of higher education, including Tribal colleges and universities. The new IACs and BTACs that will be created with this funding will build upon the demonstrated success of applied learning environments and hands-on training approaches of existing IACs. The IACs also will draw on the unique strengths, geographic reach, and faculty/student composition of trade schools, community colleges, union training programs, and other institutions of higher education. The new IACs will focus on high-quality skilled trades job pathways in fields such as industrial electrician, energy management, renewable energy, and advanced manufacturing, while providing hands-on support to small and medium manufactures. The new BTACs will expand these benefits to commercial and institutional buildings to help lower utility costs and allow companies to reinvest in businesses, employees, and community services. BTACs will train students and workers as engineers, architects, building scientists, building energy permitting and enforcement officials, and building technicians in energy-efficient design and operation.?LEARN MORE
EPA?2023 Clean School Bus (CSB) Grant Program
(Application Deadline: August 22, 2023)
EPA anticipates awarding approximately $400 million in Clean School Bus (CSB) funding, subject to the availability of funds, the quantity and quality of applications received, and other applicable considerations. To ensure a healthy grant competition, this NOFO includes two sub-programs, one for school district and Tribal applicants (School District Sub-program) and one for thirdparty applicants (Third-Party Sub-program) to serve at least four school district beneficiaries. EPA is providing two separate competitions under this single NOFO to address the unique needs and concerns of diverse recipients and encourage participation in the CSB grants program.?The CSB program aims to: 1) improve air quality by replacing highly polluting buses while accelerating the transformation to low and zero emission alternatives; 2) engage stakeholders in program development, 3) evolve the program, as needed, based on successes and lessons learned, 4) promote cost parity between bus technologies, 5) allow school districts multiple funding opportunities to apply for funding, 6) maximize the number of zero-emission and clean buses that get funded, and 7) ensure a broad geographic distribution of awards.?LEARN MORE
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
Federal Community and Economic Development Grants
BJA FY 23 Smart Reentry: Expanding Jail Programs and Services
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(Application Deadline: June 5, 2023)
With this solicitation, BJA seeks to fund units of local government and federally recognized Indian tribal governments to plan, implement, or expand effective reentry practices and service delivery systems within local correctional facility (nonprison) settings, including jails, and for incarcerated persons transitioning from these facilities to the community. This funding is available to support the development and provision of innovative evidence-based reentry programming and services that address individuals’ needs of individuals returning to the community from jail and that reduce recidivism for the local population. Services can be provided in a wide range of local correctional settings, including jails, halfway house, and in the community.?LEARN MORE
BJA FY 23 Field Initiated: Encouraging Innovation
(Application Deadline: June 8, 2023)
With this solicitation, BJA seeks to support new and innovative strategies for preventing and reducing crime, improving community safety, and strengthening criminal justice system outcomes. BJA seeks to accomplish this by promoting collaborations with the field to identify, define, and respond to emerging or chronic crime problems or justice system challenges. BJA is looking for strategies that address these issues, including trying new approaches, addressing gaps in responses, building or translating research knowledge, or building capacity.?In particular, BJA is seeking applications that address the following goals, while also building approaches and tools that enhance criminal justice reforms that build public confidence in the criminal justice system and trust between residents and the criminal justice system: (1) Respond to precipitous increases in crime, including violent crime, and improve system capacity to track and respond to increases in these kinds of crime. (2) Address substance use disorders and/or efforts to prevent or respond to drug overdoses and fatalities. (3) Improve outcomes for justice system-involved individuals, including those who are currently or formerly incarcerated. (4)?Respond to an increase in hate crimes and/or increase access to justice and supportive services.?LEARN MORE
OJJDP FY 2023 Youth Violence Prevention Program
(Application Deadline: June 12, 2023)
With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to provide funding for applicants to develop and/or enhance strategies to prevent youth violence, including youth gang involvement and youth gang/group violence.?Applicants must describe how their proposed project/program will integrate and sustain meaningful youth and family partnerships into their project plan and budget.?LEARN MORE
BJA FY 23 Rural and Small Department Violent Crime Reduction Program
(Application Deadline: June 13, 2023)
OJP is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights and racial equity, increases access to justice, supports crime victims and individuals impacted by the justice system, strengthens community safety and protects the public from crime and evolving threats, and builds trust between law enforcement and the community. With this solicitation, BJA seeks to support small and rural agencies in their efforts to combat violent crime.?LEARN MORE
USDA Community Connect Grant Program
(Application Deadline: June 20, 2023)
The Community Connect Grant Program provides financial assistance to eligible applicants that will provide service at or above the Broadband Grant Speed to all premises in rural, economically-challenged communities where broadband service does not exist. The deployment of broadband services on a “community-oriented connectivity” basis stimulates economic development and provides enhanced educational and health care opportunities in rural areas. RUS will give priority to rural areas that demonstrate the greatest need for broadband services, based on the criteria contained herein.?LEARN MORE
USDA?Broadband Technical Assistance
(Application Deadline: June 20, 2023)
Broadband Technical Assistance provides competitive cooperative agreement funding to eligible entities to receive or deliver broadband technical assistance and training that promotes the expansion of broadband into rural areas. Examples of broadband technical assistance projects may include conducting feasibility studies, completing network designs, and developing broadband financial assistance applications. (The Agency encourages applicants to consider projects that will advance the following key priorities. (1) Assisting rural communities recover economically through more and better market opportunities and through improved infrastructure; (2) Ensuring all rural residents have equitable access to RD programs and benefits from RD funded projects; and (3) Reducing climate pollution and increasing resilience to the impacts of climate change through economic support to rural communities.?LEARN MORE
USDA?Rural Cooperative Development Grant
(Application Deadline: June 26, 2023)
The primary objective of the RCDG program is to improve the economic condition of rural areas by assisting individuals or entities in the startup, expansion or operational improvement of rural cooperatives and other business entities. Grants are awarded competitively on an annual basis to Rural Cooperative Development Centers who in turn provide technical assistance to individuals and entities.?LEARN MORE
DOE?Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: Energy Improvement in Rural or Remote Areas Funding Opportunity Announcement
(Application Deadline: June 28, 2023)
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, commonly referred to as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), authorizes DOE to invest $1 billion in energy improvements in rural or remote areas. DOE’s Energy Improvements in Rural or Remote Areas (ERA) Program will provide financial investment, technical assistance, and other resources to advance clean energy demonstrations and energy solutions that are replicable and scalable. ERA aims to fund clean energy projects with three specific goals: 1. Deliver measurable benefits to energy customers in rural or remote areas by funding replicable energy projects that lower energy costs, improve energy access and resilience, and/or reduce environmental harm; 2. Demonstrate new rural or remote energy system models using climate-resilient technologies, business structures that promote economic resilience, new financing mechanisms, and/or new community engagement best practices; and 3. Build clean energy knowledge, capacity, and self-reliance in rural America.?LEARN MORE
NEH?Public Impact Projects at Smaller Organizations
(Application Deadline: June 28, 2023)
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Public Programs is accepting applications for the Public Impact Projects at Smaller Organizations program. This program supports small and mid-sized museums and cultural organizations in the creation of public humanities programming and strengthens their capacity to develop such programming.?LEARN MORE
DOT Safe Streets and Roads for All Funding Opportunity
(Application Deadline: July 10, 2023)
The purpose of this notice is to solicit applications for Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grants. Funds for the fiscal year (FY) 2023 SS4A grant program are to be awarded on a competitive basis to support planning and demonstration activities, as well as projects and strategies to prevent death and serious injury on roads and streets involving all roadway users, including pedestrians; bicyclists; public transportation, personal conveyance, and micromobility users; motorists; and commercial vehicle operators.?LEARN MORE
ACF?Community Economic Development Planning Grants
(Application Deadline: July 12, 2023)
The objective of the CED Planning Grants is to stimulate new projects in underserved and under-resourced communities. OCS intends to center equity in this funding opportunity, focusing these resources in persistent high-poverty areas with struggling economies that have been unable to put forth a viable CED project in the past. The goal of this funding opportunity is to provide CDCs with financial assistance for administrative capacity building. The awards will be a crucial step in connecting CDCs with CED resources for social and revenue reinvestment in local communities to help spark economic growth. OCS is encouraging applications from CDCs that target urban and rural areas.?LEARN MORE
CHIPS Incentives Program – Commercial Fabrication Facilities
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The CHIPS Incentives Program aims to catalyze long-term economically sustainable growth in the domestic semiconductor industry in support of U.S. economic and national security. This is the first Notice of Funding Opportunity under this program. It seeks applications for projects for the construction, expansion, or modernization of commercial facilities for the front- and back-end fabrication of leading-edge, current-generation, and mature-node semiconductors.?LEARN MORE
Foundation Community and Economic Development Grants
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation - Economic mobility focused on needs of community – Small Businesses
(Application Deadlines: June 23, 2023)
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation supports nonprofit organizations addressing issues fundamental to economic mobility and social progress in low- and moderate-income communities in Asheville, NC. Small Businesses play an important role in the overall health of our nation’s economy. In response to the challenges small business owners face in today’s environment, we’re supporting nonprofits assisting entrepreneurs especially minority and indigenous owned, as they address their short term needs and strengthen their overall recovery. Examples: (1) Technical assistance supporting business planning (short and long term). (2) Operational capacity of CDFIs delivering essential growth capital to entrepreneurs. (3) Supporting organizations assisting minority-owned small businesses. (4) Creating business incubators and accelerators that provide mentorships, resources, and networks entrepreneurs need to launch, fund and grow their businesses. (5) Assisting economic development efforts that promote small business growth and healthy commercial corridors. (e.g. Mainstreet).?LEARN MORE
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The Bank of America Charitable Foundation - Economic mobility focused on needs of community – Neighborhood Revitalization
(Application Deadlines: June 23, 2023)
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation supports nonprofit organizations addressing issues fundamental to economic mobility and social progress in low- and moderate-income communities in Asheville, NC. Vibrant communities are places where individuals can thrive and succeed and can live and work with safe, decent housing, transportation to jobs, strong business corridors and thriving arts and culture districts. We support local and regional revitalization efforts, taking a holistic approach to building inclusive communities, creating economic opportunity and livable neighborhoods. Examples: (1) Revitalization, preservation, and stabilization initiatives that engage community stakeholders in building livable communities. (2) Transit-oriented development efforts that connect individuals to jobs, services, schools, and economic opportunity. (3) Community arts and cultural institutions that provide economic opportunity and contribute to the vitality and livability of communities. (4) Resiliency of communities supporting short- and long-term plans to prepare, withstand and recover from extreme weather events and the long-term impacts of climate change. (5) Environmental efforts through the preservation, creation or restoration of open space, parks, and community gardens. (6) Supporting organizations/initiatives that bring energy efficiency and renewable energy advances to LMI/BIPOC communities.?LEARN MORE
Federal Human Services Grants
OVC FY 2023 Anti-Trafficking Housing Assistance Program (Services and Training and Technical Assistance)
(Application Deadline: May 30, 2023)
OJP is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights and racial equity, increases access to justice, supports crime victims and individuals impacted by the justice system, strengthens community safety and protects the public from crime and evolving threats, and builds trust between law enforcement and the community. To enhance capacity to identify, assist, and provide services to all victims of human trafficking, OVC leads the Nation in supporting victim-centered and trauma-informed programs, policies, and resources that promote justice, access, and empowerment. With this solicitation, OVC seeks to provide funding for housing services for victims of human trafficking, as defined by 22 U.S.C. § 7102(11).?LEARN MORE
USDA?Rural Housing Preservation Grant
(Application Deadlines: June 5, 2023)
The HPG program is a grant program which provides qualified public agencies, private nonprofit organizations, which may include but not be limited to, Faith-Based and Community Organizations, and other eligible entities grant funds to assist very low- and low-income homeowners in repairing and rehabilitating their homes in rural areas. In addition, the HPG program assists rental property owners and cooperative housing complexes in repairing and rehabilitating their units if they agree to make such units available to low- and very low-income persons.?LEARN MORE
OJJDP FY 2023 Family Treatment Court Program
(Application Deadlines: June 6, 2023)
With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to build the capacity of local courts, units of local government, and federally recognized Tribal governments to establish new family treatment courts or enhance existing family treatment courts. These courts increase collaboration with substance use treatment providers and child welfare systems to ensure the provision of treatment and other support services for families, and to improve child, parent, and family outcomes.?LEARN MORE
ACF Ethnic Community Self-Help Program
(Application Deadline: June 9, 2023)
The Administration for Children and Families, Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) announces funding under the Ethnic Community Self-Help (ECSH) Program. The goal of this program is to support Ethnic Community-Based Organizations (ECBOs) in providing refugee populations with critical services to assist them in becoming integrated members of American society. Under the ECSH Program, the following three main objectives must be implemented: 1) to strengthen ECBOs’ provision of culturally and linguistically appropriate services to refugees within five years after their initial resettlement; 2) to support ECBOs' organizational development and engagement in capacity building by encouraging their collaboration with established refugee service providers and mainstream organizations; and 3) to support ECBOs in promoting community building and civic participation by refugee individuals and refugee community members.?LEARN MORE
USDA?SNAP Process and Technology Improvement Grants 2023
(Application Deadlines: June 15, 2023)
The purpose of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Process and Technology Improvement Grants (PTIGs) is to support efforts by State agencies and their community-based and faith-based partners to develop and implement projects that use technology to improve the quality and efficiency of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) application and eligibility determination systems.?Objectives include (1) Modernize SNAP customer service and client communication to improve accessibility, transparency, and responsiveness in processing applications and determining eligibility. Proposals will use technology-based tools to help improve the customer experience and access to SNAP. (2) Improve administrative infrastructure and day-to-day SNAP operations in processing applications and determining eligibility. Proposals will employ technology to maintain or improve service levels, ease administrative burden, and incorporate lessons learned about effective use of technology and new ways of working from the COVID-19 pandemic. (3) Invest in technology and systems to encourage cross-collaboration and cross-enrollment between SNAP and other Federal, State, and local assistance programs. Proposals will improve access to benefits for eligible populations and improve State administration between programs, as allowable by program requirements.?LEARN MORE
HUD?Lead Risk Assessment Demonstration (LRAD)
(Application Deadlines: June 20, 2023)
The purpose of this NOFO is to develop a lead-based paint risk assessment demonstration grant program for public housing agencies to conduct lead hazard screens or lead-based paint risk assessments of units in which a family receiving assistance under section 8(o) of the U.S. Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)) resides or expects to reside, and has or expects to have a child under age 6 residing in the unit, while preserving rental housing availability and affordability.?LEARN MORE
ACF?FY 2023 Street Outreach Program
(Application Deadlines: June 20, 2023)
The SOP provides street-based services to runaway, homeless, and street youth who have been subjected to or are at risk of being subjected to sexual abuse, prostitution, sexual exploitation, and severe forms of human trafficking in persons.?These services, targeted in areas where street youth congregate, are designed to assist such youth in making healthy choices and providing them access to shelter as well as basic needs, including food, hygiene packages and information on a range of available services.?LEARN MORE
ACF Family Violence Prevention and Services Culturally Specific Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Discretionary Grants
(Estimated Application Deadline: June 26, 2023)
This new funding opportunity will award twelve cooperative agreements to implement culturally relevant sexual assault and domestic violence services for individuals and families impacted by domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence and family violence. The intent of the FVPSA Culturally Specific Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault discretionary grant program is to build and sustain organizational capacity in delivering trauma-informed, developmentally sensitive, culturally relevant services for children, individuals, and families affected by sexual assault, domestic violence and other traumas. This discretionary grant program will build upon the progress of culturally specific and community-based sexual assault and domestic violence programs in reducing the pervasive and harmful impact of violence and trauma by implementing culturally relevant, trauma-informed, and evidence-informed interventions for individuals and families who are from diverse, underserved, and historically marginalized communities.?LEARN MORE
HUD?Lead Hazard Reduction Capacity Building Grant Program
(Application Deadlines: June 26, 2023)
The purpose of the Lead Hazard Control Capacity Building Grant Program is to assist states, Federally-recognized Native American Tribes (that have an U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-authorized lead abatement certification program), cities, counties/parishes, or other units of local government which have not received a HUD lead hazard control grant or been a sub-recipient of such a grant since January 1, 2010 in developing the infrastructure necessary to undertake comprehensive programs to identify and control lead-based paint hazards in eligible privately owned rental or owner-occupied housing.?LEARN MORE
HUD Youth Homeless Demonstration Program
(Application Deadline: June 27, 2023)
The purpose of the YHDP is to implement projects that demonstrate how a comprehensive approach to serving homeless youth age 24 and under can dramatically reduce youth homelessness. The population to be served by this demonstration program is youth experiencing homelessness, including unaccompanied and pregnant or parenting youth. In order to effectively implement a system that addresses the needs of youth experiencing homelessness, Continuums of Care (CoCs) must understand the subgroups of unaccompanied youth and incorporate those understandings into the YHDP CCP and awarded projects. This will require CoCs to use innovative practices to design better projects and strong comprehensive plans to prevent and end youth homelessness. HUD will select up to 24 communities to participate in the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) to develop and execute a coordinated community approach to preventing and ending youth homelessness.?LEARN MORE
USDA?Community Facilities Technical Assistance and Training Grant
(Application Deadlines: June 30, 2023)
The Agency will make grants to public bodies and private nonprofit corporations, (such as States, counties, cities, townships, and incorporated towns and villages, boroughs, authorities, districts, and Indian tribes on Federal and State reservations) to provide associations Technical Assistance and/or training with respect to essential community facilities programs. The Technical Assistance and/or training will assist communities, Indian Tribes, and Nonprofit Corporations to identify and plan for community facility needs that exist in their area. Once those needs have been identified, the Grantee can assist in identifying public and private resources to finance those identified community facility needs.?LEARN MORE
FY 2023 Runaway and Homeless Youth - Prevention Demonstration Program (RHY-PDP)
(Estimated Application Deadline: July 24, 2023)
The Runaway and Homeless Youth Prevention Demonstration Program (RHY-PDP) program supports the design and delivery of community-based demonstration initiatives to prevent youth and young adults from experiencing homelessness. Through development and coordination of partnerships with youth and young adult services providers, community organizations and private and public agencies the RHY-PDP will: 1) Identify young people at risk of experiencing homelessness; 2) Design and develop a comprehensive community response and coordinated strategic plan to prevent youth homeless; 3) Implement the robust, holistic services plan to respond to the diverse needs of youth who may be at risk of homelessness and their families.?LEARN MORE
HUD?Veterans Housing Rehabilitation and Modification Pilot Program
(Application Deadline: August 31, 2023)
The purpose of the Veterans Housing Rehabilitation and Modification Pilot Program (VHRMP) is to explore the potential benefits of awarding grants to nonprofit organizations to rehabilitate and modify the primary residence of veterans who are low-income and have disabilities.?A number of America’s veterans who are low-income and have disabilities are in need of adaptive housing to help them regain or maintain their independence, are unable to fund significant home repairs, or are burdened by utility costs.?The VHRMP provides competitive grants of up to $1 million each to nonprofit organizations that provide nationwide or statewide programs that primarily serve veterans and/or low-income individuals. The grants may be used to modify or rehabilitate eligible veterans’ primary residences or to provide grantees’ affiliates with technical, administrative, and training support in connection with those services.?LEARN MORE
Foundation Human Services Grants?
Enterprise and the Wells Fargo Foundation - Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge
(Application Deadline: June 6, 2023)
In an effort to scale needed housing solutions, Enterprise and the Wells Fargo Foundation have teamed up to launch a new $20 million competition. The Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge will identify and propel implementation-ready innovations that transform current practices and reimagine access to affordable homes. Eligible applicants are competing for individual grants of $1 million, $2 million and $3 million to scale ideas that lay the groundwork for system-wide change. Winners also will receive two years of technical assistance to turn their ideas into real-world programs.?LEARN MORE
Home Depot - Veteran Housing Grants Program
(Application Deadlines: July 9, 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. We award 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.?LEARN MORE
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For more information on these and other funding opportunities, please contact Innovative Funding Partners at?[email protected] ?or contact one of our Senior Partners directly: