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November 11, 2008 |
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Here are the grant notices and rules GrantsWire editors have zeroed in on this week:
Arts/Culture
CMA Residency Partnership Programs
Children/Youth
2009 Power Grants
Economic Development
National Technical Assistance, Training, Research and Evaluation Program: Economic Development Research Project; Regional Innovation Systems
Education
Intel Schools of Distinction
Environment
Environmental Education Grants
Region 1 - EPA/Regional Dedicated Water Quality Program Funding
Engineering Excellence Through Hybrid Technology
Health
Clarification of Outpatient Hospital Facility (Including Outpatient Hospital Clinic) Services Definition
Family/Professional Partnership/CSHCN
Ryan White Title II Formula Grants Program
Family Professional Partnerships/CSHCN-Family Opportunity Act
Homeland Security
Fiscal Year 2009 Emergency Management Performance Grant
Fiscal Year 2009 Operation Stonegarden
Fiscal Year 2009 State Homeland Security Program - Tribal
Fiscal Year 2009 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program
Fiscal Year 2009 Urban Areas Security Initiative Nonprofit Security Grant Program
Fiscal Year 2009 Homeland Security Grant Program
Fiscal Year 2009 Freight Rail Security Grant Program
Fiscal Year 2009 Interoperable Emergency Communications Grant Program
Fiscal Year 2009 Port Security Grant Program
Fiscal Year 2009 Transit Security Grant Program
Fiscal Year 2009 Trucking Security Program
Fiscal Year 2009 Intercity Bus Security Grant Program
Fiscal Year 2009 Buffer Zone Protection Program
Fiscal Year 2009 Intercity Passenger Rail (AMTRAK) Program
Housing
Certain Operating Cost Adjustment Factors
Affordable Housing Built Responsibly
Rural Development/Services
General Policies, Types of Loans, Loan Requirements - Telecommunications
Telecommunications; General Policies, Types of Loans, Loan Requirements
Grant Program to Establish a Fund for Financing Water and Wastewater Projects Revolving Fund Program
Income Limit Modification
Direct Multi-Family Housing Loans and Grants
Social Services
Rescue & Restore Victims of Human Trafficking Regional Program
University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service
Transportation
Pipeline Safety: Technical Assistance Grants to Communities
Railroad Rehabilitation and Repair Grant Program
Veterans
State Veterans Home Construction
Disclaimer
Arts/Culture
CMA Residency Partnership Programs — Deadline: December 5, 2008. Eligibility: Organization-level members of Chamber Music America. Fund uses: To help chamber music organizations bring live ensemble performances to communities nationwide. Contact: Susan Dadian (Classical/Contemporary program), 212-242-2022 ext. 13;
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; Jeanette Vuocolo (Jazz program), 212-242-2022 ext. 17;
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More information: http://www.chamber-music.org/programs/grant.html.
Children/Youth
2009 Power Grants — Deadline: December 5, 2008. Eligibility: Tax-exempt nonprofit organizations serving children in the Trico service territory. Fund uses: To provide food and other basic needs to children and youth living in Trico Cooperative's service territory. Contact: Romi Wittman, 520-744-2944 ext. 1362;
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More information: http://www.trico.org/power_grants.html.
Economic Development
National Technical Assistance, Training, Research and Evaluation Program: Economic Development Research Project; Regional Innovation Systems — Deadline: December 1, 2008. Action: The Economic Development Administration extended the closing date for the submission of applications for a regional innovation systems research project under the fiscal year 2009 National Technical Assistance, Training Research and Evaluation program. Contact: Kerstin Millius, 202-482-3280;
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More information: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-26705.pdf.
Education
Intel Schools of Distinction — Deadline: February 17, 2009. Eligibility: K-12 schools that are publicly funded or nonprofit in nature. Fund uses: To award schools that have demonstrated excellent math and science programs. Contact: Intel Foundation, http://www.intel.com/education/site_support/contactus4.htm. More information: http://www.intel.com/education/schoolsofdistinction/index.htm.
Environment
Environmental Education Grants — Deadline: December 18, 2008. Eligibility: Nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education and independent school districts. Fund uses: To support environmental education projects that promote environmental stewardship and help develop knowledgeable and responsible students, teachers and citizens. Contact: Please see announcement for regional contact information. More information: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=43316&flag2006=false&mode=VIEW.
Region 1 - EPA/Regional Dedicated Water Quality Program Funding — Deadline: December 15, 2008. Eligibility: State, local and tribal governments, institutions of higher education and individuals. Fund uses: To support the coordination and acceleration of research, studies, experiments, investigations and demonstration projects to improve the capacity of New England states to effectively and efficiently assess total maximum daily loading capacities for impaired water bodies throughout the region, and to develop state water quality standards for New England water bodies. Contact: Danny Rodriguez, 617-918-1510;
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More information: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=43319&flag2006=false&mode=VIEW.
Engineering Excellence Through Hybrid Technology — Deadline: December 15, 2008. Eligibility: State, local and tribal governments and institutions of higher education. Fund uses: To collaborate with EPA in studies and investigation projects in support of EPA's Clean Automotive Technology Program. Contact: Kimberly Derksen, 734-214-4272;
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More information: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=43294&flag2006=false&mode=VIEW.
Health
Clarification of Outpatient Hospital Facility (Including Outpatient Hospital Clinic) Services Definition — Effective: December 8, 2008. C.F.R.: 42 C.F.R. Part 440. Action: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services made a final rule to align the Medicaid definition of outpatient hospital services more closely to the Medicare definition in order to improve the functionality of the applicable upper payment limits; provide more transparency in determining available hospital coverage in any state; and generally clarify the scope of services for which federal financial participation is available under the outpatient hospital services benefit category. Contact: Jeremy Silanskis, 410-786-1592. More information: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-26554.pdf.
Family/Professional Partnership/CSHCN — Deadline: December 19, 2008. Eligibility: Public and private entities. Fund uses: To help state Title V Children with Special Health Care Needs programs and their partners implement family/professional partnerships. Contact: Diana Denboba, 301-443-2370;
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More information: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=43295&flag2006=false&mode=VIEW.
Ryan White Title II Formula Grants Program — Deadline: January 5, 2009. Eligibility: Applicants who submitted an abstract in the first stage of the two-stage application submission process who were notified of HRSA's receipt of their proposal and invited to submit a complete 80-page application. Fund uses: To develop or enhance access to the comprehensive continuum of care. Contact: Douglas Morgan, 301-443-6745;
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More information: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=43283&flag2006=false&mode=VIEW.
Family Professional Partnerships/CSHCN-Family Opportunity Act — Deadline: December 19, 2008. Eligibility: Public and private entities. Fund uses: To help families of children with special health care needs partner in decision-making at all levels. Contact: Diana Denboba, 301-443-9332 ext. 2370;
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More information: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=43290&flag2006=false&mode=VIEW.
Homeland Security
Fiscal Year 2009 Emergency Management Performance Grant — Deadline: December 19, 2008. Eligibility: State governments. Fund uses: To assist state and local governments to enhance and sustain all-hazards emergency management capabilities. Contact: FEMA Call Center, 866-927-5646;
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More information: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=43306&flag2006=false&mode=VIEW.
Fiscal Year 2009 Operation Stonegarden — Deadline: March 20, 2009. Eligibility: State governments. Fund uses: To enhance cooperation between federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies in a joint mission to secure the United States borders along routes of ingress from international borders, including travel corridors in states bordering Mexico and Canada, as well as states and territories with international water borders. Contact: FEMA Call Center, 866-927-5646;
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More information: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=43311&flag2006=false&mode=VIEW.
Fiscal Year 2009 State Homeland Security Program - Tribal — Deadline: March 20, 2009. Eligibility: Tribal governments. Fund uses: To provide supplemental funding to directly eligible tribes to help strengthen the nation against risks associated with potential terrorist attacks. Contact: FEMA Call Center, 866-927-5646. More information: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=43307&flag2006=false&mode=VIEW.
Fiscal Year 2009 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program — Deadline: March 20, 2009. Eligibility: State governments. Fund uses: To enhance catastrophic incident preparedness in selected high-risk, high-consequence urban areas. Contact: FEMA Call Center, 866-927-5646;
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More information: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=43300&flag2006=false&mode=VIEW.
Fiscal Year 2009 Urban Areas Security Initiative Nonprofit Security Grant Program — Deadline: March 20, 2009. Eligibility: State governments and nonprofit organizations. Fund uses: To provide funding support for target-hardening activities to nonprofit organizations that are at high risk of terrorist attack. Contact: FEMA Call Center, 866-927-5646;
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More information: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=43301&flag2006=false&mode=VIEW.
Fiscal Year 2009 Homeland Security Grant Program — Deadline: March 20, 2009. Eligibility: State governments. Fund uses: To build and sustain national emergency preparedness capabilities in order to respond to natural disasters, terrorist attacks and other threats to national security. Contact: FEMA Call Center, 866-927-5646;
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More information: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=43299&flag2006=false&mode=VIEW.
Fiscal Year 2009 Freight Rail Security Grant Program — Deadline: January 13, 2009. Eligibility: County and city governments, private colleges and universities, individuals and small businesses. Fund uses: To help strengthen the nation's critical infrastructure against risks associated with potential terrorist attacks. Contact: FEMA Call Center, 866-927-5646;
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More information: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=43309&flag2006=false&mode=VIEW.
Fiscal Year 2009 Interoperable Emergency Communications Grant Program — Deadline: January 13, 2009. Eligibility: State governments. Fund uses: To improve interoperable emergency communications between states, including communications in collective response to natural disasters, acts of terrorism and other man-made disasters. Contact: FEMA Call Center, 866-927-5646;
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More information: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=43310&flag2006=false&mode=VIEW.
Fiscal Year 2009 Port Security Grant Program — Deadline: January 13, 2009. Eligibility: Port areas and ferry lines determined by the Department of Homeland Security to be at high risk for a terrorist attack. Fund uses: To strengthen the nation's critical infrastructure against risks associated with potential terrorist attacks. Contact: FEMA Call Center, 866-927-5646;
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More information: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=43314&flag2006=false&mode=VIEW.
Fiscal Year 2009 Transit Security Grant Program — Deadline: January 13, 2009. Eligibility: Transit systems in cities that are determined by the Department of Homeland Security to be at high risk for a terrorist attack. Fund uses: To protect critical surface transportation infrastructure and the traveling public from acts of terrorism, major disasters and other emergencies. Contact: FEMA Call Center, 866-927-5646;
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More information: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=43312&flag2006=false&mode=VIEW.
Fiscal Year 2009 Trucking Security Program — Deadline: January 13, 2009. Eligibility: Applicants who have a current security plan subject to Title 49 C.F.R. Part 172.800 or trucking companies that transport Tier I Commodities as defined by TSA through the issuance of Highway Security-Sensitive Materials security action items. Fund uses: To enhance and make more secure the shipment of Highway Security-Sensitive Materials that have the potential to cause significant fatalities and injuries or significant economic damage when released or detonated during a transportation security incident. Contact: FEMA Call Center, 866-927-5646;
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More information: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=43313&flag2006=false&mode=VIEW.
Fiscal Year 2009 Intercity Bus Security Grant Program — Deadline: January 13, 2009. Eligibility: Private operators providing fixed-route or charter transportation by an over-the-road bus servicing an Urban Area Security Initiative jurisdiction. Fund uses: To support the work of operators of fixed route intercity and charter bus services in cities and other areas determined to be at high risk for a terrorist attack. Contact: FEMA Call Center, 866-927-5646;
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More information: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=43297&flag2006=false&mode=VIEW.
Fiscal Year 2009 Buffer Zone Protection Program — Deadline: January 13, 2009. Eligibility: State governments. Fund uses: To build security and risk-management capabilities at the state and local levels that will help protect critical infrastructure and key resources from acts of terrorism. Contact: FEMA Call Center, 866-927-5646;
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More information: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=43302&flag2006=false&mode=VIEW.
Fiscal Year 2009 Intercity Passenger Rail (AMTRAK) Program — Deadline: January 13, 2009. Eligibility: The National Passenger Railroad Corporation (Amtrak). Fund uses: To help strengthen the nation's critical infrastructure against risks associated with potential terrorist attacks. Contact: FEMA Call Center, 866-927-5646;
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More information: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=43298&flag2006=false&mode=VIEW.
Housing
Certain Operating Cost Adjustment Factors — Effective: February 11, 2009. Action: The Department of Housing and Urban Development established operating cost adjustment factors used to adjust Section 8 rents renewed under the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act. Contact: Judith May, 202-402-3239. More information: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-26655.pdf.
Affordable Housing Built Responsibly — Deadline: March 1, 2009. Eligibility: Tax-exempt public charities in the United States and Canada. Fund uses: To support environmentally friendly housing for low- and moderate-income families. Contact: The Home Depot Foundation, 770-384-3889;
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More information: http://www.homedepotfoundation.org/grants.html.
Rural Development/Services
General Policies, Types of Loans, Loan Requirements - Telecommunications — Effective: December 22, 2008. C.F.R.: 7 C.F.R. Part 1735. Action: The Rural Utilities Service amended its regulations to modify the "Times Interest Earned Ratio" requirements that an applicant must comply with when receiving a telecommunications loan. Contact: Jerry H. Brent, 202-720-1025;
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More information: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-26318.pdf.
Telecommunications; General Policies, Types of Loans, Loan Requirements — Comments: December 5, 2008. C.F.R.: 7 C.F.R. Part 1735. Action: The Rural Utilities Service proposed a rule that will modify the "Times Interest Earned Ratio" requirements that an applicant must comply with when receiving a telecommunications loan. Contact: Jerry H. Brent, 202-720-1025;
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More information: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-26317.pdf.
Grant Program to Establish a Fund for Financing Water and Wastewater Projects Revolving Fund Program — Deadline: May 31, 2009. Eligibility: Private nonprofit organizations. Fund uses: To help communities bring safe drinking water and sanitary, environmentally sound waste disposal facilities to rural Americans in greatest need. Contact: Anita O'Brien, 202-690-3789. More information: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-26322.pdf.
Income Limit Modification — Effective: January 20, 2009. C.F.R.: 7 C.F.R. Part 1980. Action: The Rural Housing Service amended its existing income limit structure for the Single Family Housing Guaranteed Loan Program by changing the existing Rural Development eight-tiered income structure to a simplified two-tiered structure. Contact: Joaquin Tremols, 202-720-1465;
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More information: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-25849.pdf.
Direct Multi-Family Housing Loans and Grants — Effective: November 4, 2008. C.F.R.: 7 C.F.R. Part 3560. Action: The Rural Housing Service revised its existing regulation governing Rural Rental Housing loans and grants. Contact: Cynthia Reese-Foxworth, 202-720-1940. More information: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-25965.pdf.
Social Services
Rescue & Restore Victims of Human Trafficking Regional Program — Deadline: December 22, 2008. Eligibility: Unrestricted. Fund uses: To establish local anti-trafficking coalitions. Contact: Maggie Wynne,
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More information: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=43323&flag2006=false&mode=VIEW.
University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service — Deadline: January 16, 2009. Eligibility: University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service. Fund uses: To carry out four core functions: interdisciplinary pre-service preparation and continuing education of students and fellows; community services, including training, technical assistance, and demonstration and model activities; research; and dissemination of information. Contact: Jennifer G. Johnson,
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More information: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=43288&flag2006=false&mode=VIEW.
Transportation
Pipeline Safety: Technical Assistance Grants to Communities — Action: The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration established the criteria and competitive procedures that will be used in awarding grants under the Technical Assistance Grants program to local governments and community groups for engineering and other technical assistance related to pipeline safety matters. Contact: Steven Fischer,
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More information: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-26506.pdf.
Railroad Rehabilitation and Repair Grant Program — Deadline: January 16, 2009. Eligibility: State governments. Fund uses: To repair and rehabilitate Class II and Class III railroad infrastructure damaged by hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters in areas in which the president declared a major disaster after January 1, 2008. Contact: Alice Alexander, 202-493-6363. More information: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-26478.pdf.
Veterans
State Veterans Home Construction — Deadline: August 15, 2009. Eligibility: State governments. Fund uses: To support the construction or renovation of state veteran homes. Contact: Sanitria L. McKenzie, 202-461-6752;
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More information: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=18528&flag2006=true&mode=VIEW.
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