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Here are the grant notices and rules GrantsWire editors have zeroed in on this week:
Agriculture
Implementation of the National Animal Identification System

Children/Youth
YSA Youth Venture Program
Combating Exploitive Child Labor Abroad Through Education

Community Service
2008 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service Continuation Grants

Education
Dollar General Back-to-School Grants

Employment/Training
Youthbuild Grant Applications

Environment
Reduce Risk and Impact of Wildfire in Idaho
Clean Energy and Air Quality Integration
Environmental Health Outcome Indicators

Health
Immunization Grants and Vaccines for Children Program
Rural Health Research Grant Program
National SIDS Infant Death Resource Center
High-End Instrumentation Grant Program
2008 Family Planning Services (Region 2 - New York, New York City)
2008 Family Planning Services (Region 4 - Florida, Greater Miami)
2008 Family Planning Services (Region 3 - Maryland, West Virginia)
2008 Family Planning Services (Region 3 - Southeast Pennsylvania)
2008 Family Planning Services (Region 5 - Ohio, Central Area)
2008 Family Planning Services (Region 5 - Minnesota)
2008 Family Planning Services (Region 6 - New Mexico)
2008 Family Planning Services (Region 6 - Arkansas)
2008 Family Planning Services (Region 6 - Louisiana)
2008 Family Planning Services (Region 7 - Iowa)
2008 Family Planning Services (Region 8 - Montana)
2008 Family Planning Services (Region 9 - Republic of the Marshall Islands)
2008 Family Planning Services (Region 10 - Alaska)
Predoctoral Research Training Fellowships in Alternative Medicine
2007 Community Partnerships to Eliminate Health Disparities
Cooperative Agreement with Organizations and Businesses to Protect Health
State Partnership Grant Program to Improve Minority Health

Recreation
Finish Line Youth Foundation Grants

Rural Development/Services
1890 Rural Entrepreneurial Outreach and Development Initiative

Social Services
SSA Homeless Outreach Projects and Evaluation

Telecommunications
Assess Impact of Free Access to Computers and the Internet

Transportation
Focus State and Focus City Pedestrian Safety Efforts

Welfare
National Poverty Research Center

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Agriculture

Implementation of the National Animal Identification SystemDeadline: September 4, 2007. Eligibility: Non-profit industry organizations, 1890 historically black colleges and universities, 1994 Tribal Land-Grant colleges and universities, tribal organizations and Hispanic-serving institutions. Fund uses: To provide education and outreach to stakeholders at all levels within the target area defined by the applicant, including effective use of existing outreach materials and resources. Contact: Eileen Berke, 301-734-8330; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=14440&mode=VIEW.

Children/Youth

YSA Youth Venture ProgramDeadline: August 13, 2007. Eligibility: Youth aged 12-20. Fund uses: To support young people (aged 12-20) who want to create new, sustainable, civic-minded organizations, clubs or businesses called Ventures. Contact: Youth Service America, 202-296-2992. More information: http://ysa.org/AwardsGrants/tabid/58/Default.aspx.

Combating Exploitive Child Labor Abroad Through EducationDeadline: July 25, 2007. Eligibility: Commercial, international, educational and nonprofit organizations. Fund uses: To combat exploitive child labor in Bolivia, Cambodia, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Morocco, the Philippines, Togo and Uganda. Contact: Lisa Harvey, 202-693-4570; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20071800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2007/pdf/E7-11526.pdf.

Community Service

2008 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service Continuation GrantsDeadline: July 12, 2007. Eligibility: 2007 Martin Luther King, Jr. day of Service grantees. Fund uses: To mobilize more Americans to observe the Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Holiday as a day of community service and encourage long-term commitment to service. Contact: James Willie, 202-606-6845; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=14433&mode=VIEW.

Education

Dollar General Back-to-School GrantsDeadline: August 10, 2007. Eligibility: Public and private schools. Fund uses: To help schools meet some of the financial challenges they face in implementing new programs or purchasing new equipment, materials or software for their school library or literacy program. Contact: Dollar General, 615-855-4000. More information: http://www.dollargeneral.com/community/communityinvestments.aspx.

Employment/Training

Youthbuild Grant ApplicationsAction: The Employment and Training Administration amended the notice of funding availability and solicitation of applications for Youthbuild grants first published on April 26, 2007. Contact: Donna Kelly, 202-693-3934. More information: http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20071800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2007/pdf/E7-11499.pdf.

Environment

Reduce Risk and Impact of Wildfire in IdahoDeadline: June 25, 2007. Eligibility: Unrestricted. Fund uses: To assist in the reduction and impact of wildfire on communities. Contact: Chris Shaver, 208-373-3817; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=14415&mode=VIEW.

Clean Energy and Air Quality IntegrationDeadline: August 7, 2007. Eligibility: State governments. Fund uses: To support innovative state and multi-state initiatives that demonstrate and quantify the co-benefits of energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies and programs. Contact: Lisa Kuzniar, 304-285-4242; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=14418&mode=VIEW.

Environmental Health Outcome IndicatorsDeadline: September 19, 2007. Eligibility: State, local and tribal governments, institutions of higher education and others. Fund uses: To develop indicators that reliably signal the impact on human health of changes in environmental conditions, management approaches or policies. Contact: Deborah Segal, 202-343-9797; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=14375&mode=VIEW.

Health

Immunization Grants and Vaccines for Children ProgramDeadline: August 14, 2007. Eligibility: Current grantees. Fund uses: To support efforts to help assure high immunization coverage levels and low incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases. Contact: CDC Technical Information Management Section, 770-488-2700; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=14452&mode=VIEW.

Rural Health Research Grant ProgramDeadline: June 15, 2007. Eligibility: Public, private and nonprofit organizations. Fund uses: To conduct and disseminate policy-relevant research on issues of national significance in the area of rural health services. Contact: HRSA Call Center, 301-998-7373; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=13925&mode=VIEW.

National SIDS Infant Death Resource CenterDeadline: July 16, 2007. Eligibility: Any public or private entity. Fund uses: To support a national information and education resource library for sudden infant death syndrome and other causes of infant death. Contact: HRSA Call Center, 877-464-4772; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ,. More information: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=14444&mode=VIEW.

High-End Instrumentation Grant ProgramDeadline: September 18, 2007. Eligibility: Institutions of higher education and nonprofit organizations. Fund uses: To fund the purchase of a single major item of equipment, costing at least $750,000, that will be used for biomedical research. Contact: NIH OER Webmaster, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=14421&mode=VIEW.

2008 Family Planning Services (Region 2 - New York, New York City)Deadline: March 1, 2008. Eligibility: State, local, and tribal governments, public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, and tribal and nonprofit organizations. Fund uses: To establish and operate voluntary family planning services projects. Contact: Renee Scales, 240-453-8822; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=14395&mode=VIEW.

2008 Family Planning Services (Region 4 - Florida, Greater Miami)Deadline: June 1, 2008. Eligibility: State, local and tribal governments, tribal organizations and nonprofit organizations. Fund uses: To establish and operate voluntary family planning services projects. Contact: Edecia Richards, 404-562-7900; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=14399&mode=VIEW.

2008 Family Planning Services (Region 3 - Maryland, West Virginia)Deadline: December 1, 2007. Eligibility: State, local and tribal governments, tribal organizations and nonprofit organizations. Fund uses: To establish and operate voluntary family planning services projects. Contact: Dickie Lynn Gronseth, 215-861-4656; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=14396&mode=VIEW.

2008 Family Planning Services (Region 3 - Southeast Pennsylvania)Deadline: March 1, 2008. Eligibility: State, local and tribal governments, tribal organizations and nonprofit organizations. Fund uses: To establish and operate voluntary family planning services projects. Contact: Dickie Lynn Gronseth, 215-861-4656; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=14397&mode=VIEW.

2008 Family Planning Services (Region 5 - Ohio, Central Area)Deadline: November 1, 2007. Eligibility: State, local and tribal governments, tribal organizations and nonprofit organizations. Fund uses: To establish and operate voluntary family planning services projects. Contact: Marjie Witman, 312-886-3864; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=14403&mode=VIEW.

2008 Family Planning Services (Region 5 - Minnesota)Deadline: September 1, 2007. Eligibility: State, local and tribal governments, tribal organizations and nonprofit organizations. Fund uses: To establish and operate voluntary family planning services projects. Contact: Marjie Witman, 312-886-3864; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=14402&mode=VIEW.

2008 Family Planning Services (Region 6 - New Mexico)Deadline: September 1, 2007. Eligibility: State, local and tribal governments, tribal organizations and nonprofit organizations. Fund uses: To establish and operate voluntary family planning services projects. Contact: Evelyn Glass, 214-767-3088; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=14404&mode=VIEW.

2008 Family Planning Services (Region 6 - Arkansas)Deadline: November 1, 2007. Eligibility: State, local and tribal governments, tribal organizations and nonprofit organizations. Fund uses: To establish and operate voluntary family planning services projects. Contact: Evelyn Glass, 214-767-3088; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=14405&mode=VIEW.

2008 Family Planning Services (Region 6 - Louisiana)Deadline: March 1, 2008. Eligibility: State, local and tribal governments, tribal organizations and nonprofit organizations. Fund uses: To establish and operate voluntary family planning services projects. Contact: Evelyn Glass, 214-767-3088; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=14406&mode=VIEW.

2008 Family Planning Services (Region 7 - Iowa)Deadline: March 1, 2008. Eligibility: State, local and tribal governments, tribal organizations and nonprofit organizations. Fund uses: To establish and operate voluntary family planning services projects. Contact: Betty Chern-Hughes, 816-426-2924; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=14408&mode=VIEW.

2008 Family Planning Services (Region 8 - Montana)Deadline: March 1, 2008. Eligibility: State, local and tribal governments, tribal organizations and nonprofit organizations. Fund uses: To establish and operate voluntary family planning services projects. Contact: Jill Leslie, 303-844-7856; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=14410&mode=VIEW.

2008 Family Planning Services (Region 9 - Republic of the Marshall Islands)Deadline: March 1, 2008. Eligibility: State, local and tribal governments, tribal organizations and nonprofit organizations. Fund uses: To establish and operate voluntary family planning services projects. Contact: Nancy Mautone-Smith, 415-437-7984; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=14401&mode=VIEW.

2008 Family Planning Services (Region 10 - Alaska)Deadline: March 1, 2008. Eligibility: State, local and tribal governments, tribal organizations and nonprofit organizations. Fund uses: To establish and operate voluntary family planning services projects. Contact: Janet Wildeboor, 206-615-2776; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=14411&mode=VIEW.

Predoctoral Research Training Fellowships in Alternative MedicineEligibility: For-profit organizations, nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, foreign institutions and eligible federal agencies. Fund uses: To help ensure diverse pools of highly trained scientists will be available in appropriate research areas in complementary and alternative medicine. Contact: NIH OER Webmaster, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=14422&mode=VIEW.

2007 Community Partnerships to Eliminate Health DisparitiesDeadline: July 11, 2007. Eligibility: State, local and tribal governments, tribal organizations, institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations, public and Indian housing authorities and independent school districts. Fund uses: To improve the health status of targeted minority populations by eliminating disparities. Contact: Sonsiere Cobb-Souza, 240-453-8444; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=14376&mode=VIEW.

Cooperative Agreement with Organizations and Businesses to Protect HealthDeadline: August 1, 2007. Eligibility: Private, national nonprofit organizations that focus on health concerns with experience in improving and protecting employee health and productivity. Fund uses: To develop and apply evidence-based practices with national business and occupational health organizations to protect health, prevent disease and disability and promote healthy behaviors. Contact: CDC Procurement and Grants Office, 770-488-2700; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=14385&mode=VIEW.

State Partnership Grant Program to Improve Minority HealthDeadline: July 11, 2007. Eligibility: State or territorial offices of minority health. Fund uses: To help improve minority health and eliminate health disparities by addressing data needs, partnership development, systems development and health areas. Contact: Sonsiere Cobb-Souza, 240-453-8444; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=14370&mode=VIEW.

Recreation

Finish Line Youth Foundation GrantsDeadline: September 29, 2007. Eligibility: Nonprofit organizations. Fund uses: To support nonprofit organizations that provide community-based access to athletics for youth under the age of 18, as well as camps that give youth the chance to be active, especially camps that provide services to disadvantaged or disabled youth. Contact: Micca Leppert, 317-899-1022, ext. 6799; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://www.finishline.com/store/youthfoundation/guidelines.jsp.

Rural Development/Services

1890 Rural Entrepreneurial Outreach and Development InitiativeDeadline: July 30, 2007. Eligibility: 1890 Institutions. Fund uses: To encourage 1890 Institutions to provide technical assistance for business creation, conduct entrepreneur education programs and promote USDA Rural Development programs in economically challenged rural communities. Contact: Edgar Lewis, 202-690-3407; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20071800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2007/pdf/E7-11408.pdf.

Social Services

SSA Homeless Outreach Projects and EvaluationDeadline: July 31, 2007. Eligibility: Existing homeless outreach grantees under the HOPE program whose current budget periods end Oct. 31, 2007. Fund uses: To demonstrate methods to improve the quality of assistance that medical and social service providers give to homeless individuals who file claims for Social Security benefits. Contact: Gary Stammer, 410-965-9501; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=14445&mode=VIEW.

Telecommunications

Assess Impact of Free Access to Computers and the InternetDeadline: September 14, 2007. Eligibility: State, local and tribal governments, nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education and all types of libraries, except federal and for-profit libraries. Fund uses: To study the impact of free access to computers, the Internet and related services at public libraries on individuals, families and communities. Contact: Mary Downs, 202-653-4682; mdowns.imls.gov. More information: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=14442&mode=VIEW.

Transportation

Focus State and Focus City Pedestrian Safety EffortsDeadline: July 20, 2007. Eligibility: State governments. Fund uses: To support education and enforcement in Focus State and City pedestrian safety efforts. Contact: Chelly Johnson-Jones, 202-366-1943; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=14467&mode=VIEW.

Welfare

National Poverty Research CenterDeadline: July 16, 2007. Eligibility: University-based institutions. Fund uses: To support faculty research and training, enhance campus-wide awareness of issues related to poverty, and support and mentor students in poverty and low-income policy-related careers. Contact: Don Oellerich, 202-690-8410; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it More information: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=14065&mode=VIEW.

 
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