New York State August 2017 Senate Democratic Conference Volume 1, Issue 6 Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins

INFORMATION ON AVAILABLE FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL & PRIVATE GRANTS

athways To Funding is a monthly publication intended to provide organizations and individuals with P support in finding and applying for federal, State, local INSIDE THIS ISSUE: and private grants. Federal Grants……..……2-26

Distributed by the NYS Senate Democratic Conference, this State Grants…………….27-36 resource helps identify alternative funding opportunities, Local Grants….………..36-42 along with tips for easy navigation of the NYS Grants Private Grants…………42-57 Gateway—an online portal for announcing upcoming and available State grants—and announcements of upcoming webinars on grant writing, helpful hints and other useful information. Included is a sample list of available federal, state, local, and private grants that will be updated on a NEED ASSISTANCE? continuous basis. If you need additional assistance, please contact Non-profit, faith-based and community-based organizations, Celeste Knight by phone at no matter the size, are encouraged to apply for grants to (518) 455-2707 or email at sustain their vital programs. If you need additional assistance, [email protected]. please contact Celeste Knight by phone at (518) 455-2707 or email at [email protected]. FEDERAL GRANTS:

Expansion and Dissemination) in many partnership projects that NATIONAL SCIENCE awards for durations of three to five expand the capacity for creative FOUNDATION, INNOVATIVE years and total budgets up to $2 placemaking among audiences such million each. as artists and arts organizations, TECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCES urban planners, rural economic FOR STUDENTS AND Deadline: September 5, 2017 planners, public park managers, local TEACHERS (ITEST) civic leaders, community Contact: development practitioners, and As the nation expands its Phone: 703-292-8628 downtown managers. opportunities and possibilities Email: [email protected] through advances in science, Website: www.nsf.gov/pubs/2017/ NEA hopes to reach a wide range of technology, engineering and nsf17565/nsf17565.htm professional networks positioned to mathematics (STEM), the need for a facilitate the exchange of creative more diverse and well-prepared placemaking and community STEM workforce is also growing. The NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS—OUR TOWN: development knowledge and challenge of preparing citizens for the practices between fields. In this expanding workforce and the PROJECTS THAT BUILD fourth year of the program, NEA is changing workplace environments KNOWLEDGE ABOUT interested in expanding the types of calls for new innovations in STEM CREATIVE PLACEMAKING audiences targeted in projects. This education. ITEST is a research and may include, but is not limited to, development program that supports Grants to USA Nonprofits and IHEs additional types of cultural projects to promote pre-K-12 student to Increase Arts and Culture in Social organizations and artists, public interests and capacities to participate and Civic Engagement safety officials, Native American in the STEM and information and community development leaders, communications technology (ICT) Grants starting at $25,000 to USA public health practitioners, workforce of the future. The ITEST nonprofit and university-based art or transportation leaders, etc. NEA is program supports research on the design service organizations for the especially interested in projects design, development and development and dissemination of where the dissemination of creative implementation of innovative creative placemaking knowledge placemaking strategies and tools strategies for engaging students in through collaborative projects. ultimately empowers local residents. technology-rich experiences that Applications must register or renew increase student awareness of STEM the required account by August 21 These projects should expand the occupations, motivate students to and submit the required form by knowledge base about creative pursue education pathways to STEM September 11. placemaking to their members and occupations or develop disciplinary the field, and must reflect the based knowledge and practices or These projects should expand the following: promote critical thinking, reasoning capacity of artists and arts  Involvement of the organization's skills or communication skills needed organizations to be more effective at membership, audience, or for entering STEM workforce sectors. executing creative placemaking constituency, as appropriate. ITEST projects may adopt an projects, and to work more effectively  Systemic approach to building interdisciplinary focus that includes with economic and community knowledge about creative multiple STEM disciplines or focus development practitioners, and vice placemaking for the organization on a single discipline. versa, to improve the livability of the and broader field of community communities and create development. Eligibility: The following groups opportunities for all. may submit proposals: 1. universities  Clearly defined systems that and colleges; 2. nonprofit, These projects can be carried out by provide for the management of nonacademic organizations; 3. for arts service or design service new ideas, documentation, the profit organizations; and 4. state and organizations, and/or other national potential for learning, and local governments. or regional membership, policy, or sharing of technical assistance university-based organizations that programming. Funding: Depending on provide technical assistance to those  Clearly defined audience for available funding, ITEST anticipates doing place-based economic and technical assistance, and delivery making approximately two to four community development work, and of technical assistance. (Funding exploratory awards for up to two to expand the knowledge base about will not support only the creation years of up to $400,000 each; six to creative placemaking to their of technical assistance 12 strategies awards with durations of members and the field. knowledge. The knowledge must up to three years and total budgets up also be delivered). to $1.2 million each; and one to two In the first three years of funding this  The appropriate arts and/or place SPrEaD (Successful Project area of Our Town, NEA has invested -based experts to provide the 2 FEDERAL GRANTS (Cont.):

services included in the project. organizations and other national or institutions of higher education  Artistic excellence of the arts regional organizations that provide  Private institutions of higher organizations, or artists involved technical assistance to those doing education with the project. place-based work are expected to  Public and State controlled involve their memberships and institutions of higher education Projects may include activities in constituencies, as appropriate.  See RFP and/or Grant Guidelines creative placemaking for member for full eligibility Livability: Through Our Town organizations and individuals such  Special district governments as: projects, the Arts Endowment intends to achieve the following objective  State governments  Mentorships.  Training opportunities and from NEA’s strategic plan: Livability: American communities are Additional Eligibility Criteria: convenings, whether in-person or Organizations that may apply remote. strengthened through the arts. Successful Our Town projects will include:  Technical assistance and capacity impact livability by affecting  Arts and design organizations building for members. community priorities such as public that provide services to the field.  Research, policy analysis, and safety, health, blight and vacancy,  National and regional place- decision support tools that help environment, job creation, equity, based industry or university- to build a creative placemaking local business development, civic based organizations that provide knowledge base. participation, and/or community technical assistance to those  Other projects appropriate to the cohesion. The anticipated long-term doing place-based economic and/ organization's internal system of results for Livability projects are or community development work. learning. measurable community benefits, This may include housing, which might include: transportation, public safety, Projects may focus on delivering  Growth in overall levels of social public health, and economic technical assistance on a wide variety and civic engagement. development organizations who of creative placemaking topics such as  New avenues for expression and wish to engage in creative those project types covered in creativity. placemaking activities. 'Exploring Our Town', or under the  Design-focused changes in  An art-based membership Arts Engagement, Cultural Planning, organization must have a place- and Design area of Our Town. policies, laws, and/or regulations.  Job and/or revenue growth. based knowledge consultant/ organization/partner identified at NEA understands that creative  Positive changes in migration the time of application, or a place placemaking projects are often multi- patterns. -based membership organization year, large-scale initiatives. Please be must have an arts-based specific about which phase or phases Estimated Size of Grant: You knowledge consultant/ your request for funding will address. must request a grant amount at one organization/partner. All phases of a project are eligible for of the following levels: $25,000, support. $50,000, $75,000, or $100,000. To be eligible, the applicant organization must: Required Partnerships: Term of Contract: NEA support of a project may start on August 1,  Meet the Arts Endowment's Applications must identify a "Legal Requirements" including partnership with either an 2018, or any time thereafter. A grant period of up to two years is allowed. nonprofit, tax-exempt status at organization or consultant, and one the time of application. of the two partners must have Allow sufficient time to plan, execute, creative placemaking expertise. For and close out your project. The two-  Have a three-year history of example, an art-based membership year period is intended to allow an programming prior to the organization must have an economic applicant sufficient time to plan, application deadline. or community development execute, and close out its project, not  Have submitted acceptable Final knowledge consultant/organization/ to repeat a one-year project for a Report packages by the due date partner identified at the time of second year. (s) for all Arts Endowment application, or an economic or awards(s) previously received. community development Eligibility: membership organization must have  City or township governments Additional partners are encouraged an arts-based knowledge consultant/  County governments and may include an appropriate variety of entities such as colleges organization/partner.  Independent school districts Additional partners are encouraged and universities, or individuals.  Native American tribal and may include an appropriate governments (Federally variety of entities such as colleges and The designated state and recognized) jurisdictional arts agencies (SAAs) universities, or individuals. Arts service and design service  Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) and their regional arts status with the IRS, other than 3 FEDERAL GRANTS (Cont.):

organizations (RAOs) may serve as opportunity, including Our Town.  Costs to bring a project into partners in Our Town projects. Under these guidelines, funding is compliance with federal grant NEA funds can’t support any SAA not available for: requirements. This includes or RAO costs.  Costs incurred before or after the environmental or historical beginning of the official period of assessments or reviews and the All applicants must have a DUNS performance. hiring of individuals to write number (www.dnb.com) and be  General operating or seasonal assessments or reviews or to registered with the System for support. otherwise comply with the Award Management (SAM,  Costs for the creation of new National Environmental Policy www.sam.gov) and maintain an organizations. Act and/or the National Historic active SAM registration until the Preservation Act. application process is complete,  Direct grants to individuals. (NEA encourages applicant  Awards to individuals or and should a grant be made, organizations to honor or throughout the life of the award. organizations to involve individual artists in all possible recognize achievement. Finalize a new or renew an existing  Generally, professional training registration at least two weeks ways.)  Individual elementary or programs or courses in degree- before the application deadline. granting institutions. This action should allow you time secondary schools -- charter, to resolve any issues that may arise. private, or public -- directly.  Projects that replace arts Failure to comply with these Schools may participate as instruction provided by an arts requirements may result in your partners in projects for which specialist. inability to submit your application. another eligible organization  Literary publishing that does not Maintain documentation (with applies. Local education agencies, focus on contemporary literature dates) of your efforts to register or school districts, and state and and/or writers. renew at least two weeks before the regional education agencies are  Generally, publication of books, deadline. eligible. If a single school also is a exhibition of works, or other local education agency, as is the projects by the applicant Application Restrictions: case with some charter schools, organization's board members, the school may apply with faculty, or trustees. >>An organization may submit as a documentation that supports its  Exhibitions of, and other projects lead applicant two applications to status as a local education that primarily involve, single, Our Town. agency. individually-owned, private  Construction, purchase, or collections. >>A partnering organization may renovation of facilities. (Design  Projects for which the selection of serve as a partner on as many fees, preparing space for an artists or art works is based upon applications as they like. exhibit, installation or de- criteria other than artistic installation of art, and excellence and merit. Examples >>If two applications are submitted community planning are eligible. include festivals, exhibitions, or from a single lead applicant, the However, no National publications for which no jury/ capacity of the lead applicant to Endowment for the Arts or editorial judgment has been carry out and sustain two Our Town matching funds may be directed applied. projects will be considered in the to the costs of physical  Expenditures related to review of applications. construction or renovation or compensation to foreign toward the purchase costs of nationals and/or travel to or from Other National Endowment facilities or land.) foreign countries when those for the Arts Funding  Commercial (for-profit) expenditures are not in Opportunities: enterprises or activities, compliance with regulations including concessions, food, T- issued by the U.S. Treasury You may apply to other Arts shirts, or other items for resale. Department Office of Foreign Endowment funding opportunities,  Cash reserves and endowments. Assets Control. including Art Works and Challenge  Subgranting or regranting, except  Project costs supported by any America, in addition to Our Town. for state arts agencies, regional other federal funding. This In each case, the request must be arts organizations, or local arts includes federal funding received for a distinctly different project, or agencies that are designated to either directly from a federal a distinctly different phase of a operate on behalf of their local agency (e.g., NEH, HUD, project. If you have applied to the governments or are operating National Science Foundation, or NEA in the past and were not units of city or county an entity that receives federal recommended for funding, you may government. (See more appropriations such as the apply again to any funding information on subgranting.) Corporation for Public 4 FEDERAL GRANTS (Cont.):

Broadcasting or Amtrak); or 11:59 PM, Eastern Time. Register/ How to Prepare and Submit an indirectly from a pass-through renew by at least August 21. Submit Application: organization such as a state arts by at least September 1. https://www.arts.gov/grants- agency, regional arts organizations/our-town/how-to- organization, or a grant made to -Step 2 - Submit Materials to prepare-and-submit-an-application-b another entity. Applicant Portal: 9:00 AM, Eastern  Alcoholic beverages. Time September 18, 2017 to 11:59 Submit the SF-424 to Grants.gov:  Gifts and prizes, including cash PM, Eastern Time on September 25, https://www.arts.gov/grants- prizes as well as other items (e.g., 2017. organizations/our-town/step-1- iPads, gift certificates) with submit-the-sf-424-to-grants-gov-b monetary value. -Earliest Announcement of Grant  General miscellaneous or Award or Rejection: April 2018 Step 2 - Submit Materials Through contingency costs. Applicant Portal: -Earliest Beginning Date for National https://www.arts.gov/grants-  Contributions and donations to Endowment for the Arts Period of organizations/our-town/step-2- other entities. Performance: August 1, 2018 submit-through-applicant-portal-b  Fines and penalties, bad debt costs, deficit reduction. You are required to use Grants.gov. Deadline: September 25, 2017  Social activities such as Before you apply through Grants.gov 11:59 PM ET receptions, parties, galas. for the first time, you must be  Lobbying. registered. Contact:

 Marketing expenses that are not Registration with Grants.gov: Applicant Portal: directly related to the project. https://applicantportal.arts.gov/  Audit costs that are not directly -Is a multi-step process; -Takes time; allow two weeks; related to a single audit (formerly Email: [email protected] known as an A-133 audit). -Must be completed before you can submit your application. Voice/TTY: 202/682-5082  Rental costs for home office workspace owned by individuals Funding Restrictions: Individuals who do not use or entities affiliated with the conventional print should contact the applicant organization. https://www.arts.gov/grants- organizations/our-town/we-do-not- Arts Endowment's Accessibility Office  Visa costs paid to the U.S. fund at 202/682-5532 for help in government. acquiring an audio recording of these Other Information: guidelines. Pre-proposal Conference: NEA https://www.arts.gov/grants- CFDA Number: 45.024 will conduct a live "How to Apply" organizations/our-town/other- Funding or Pin Number: webinar on July 24, 2017, at 3:00 PM information 2017NEA01OT Eastern Time followed by a Q&A session. Award Information: URL for Full Text (RFP): https:// https://www.arts.gov/grants- www.arts.gov/grants-organizations/ NEA will conduct a live "Tips & Tricks organizations/our-town/projects-that our-town/projects-that-build- for Success" webinar on July 31, 2017, -build-knowledge-about-creative- knowledge-about-creative- at 3:00 PM Eastern Time followed by placemaking-award-information placemaking-grant-program- a Q&A session. description Applicant Eligibility: Pre-Application Information: https://www.arts.gov/grants- NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR NEA grants cannot exceed 50% of the organizations/our-town/projects-that THE ARTS—OUR TOWN: ARTS total cost of the project. All grants -build-knowledge-about-creative- ENGAGEMENT, CULTURAL require a nonfederal match of at least placemaking-applicant-eligibility 1 to 1. These matching funds may be PLANNING, AND DESIGN Application Review: PROJECTS all cash or a combination of cash and https://www.arts.gov/grants- in-kind contributions. You may organizations/our-town/projects-that Grants to USA Local Governments include in your Project Budget -build-knowledge-about-creative- and Nonprofits to Integrate the Arts matching funds that are proposed but placemaking-application-review into Community Revitalization not yet committed at the time of the GrantWatch ID#: 172668 application deadline. Award Administration:

https://www.arts.gov/grants- Grants starting at $25,000 to USA Application Calendar: organizations/our-town/projects-that and territories nonprofits and local -Step 1 - Submit SF-424 to -build-knowledge-about-creative- governments for collaborative arts Grants.gov: September 11, 2017 by placemaking-award-administration engagement, design, and cultural 5 FEDERAL GRANTS (Cont.): planning projects. Applicants must artists, or activates existing cultural including design charrettes, register or renew the required and community assets. design competitions, and account by August 21 and submit the  Public art that improves public community design workshops. required form by September 11. spaces and strategically reflects  Design of rehearsal, studio, or Projects should represent the distinct or shapes the physical and social live/work spaces for artists, quality and character of the local character of a community. including innovative new models community, and be jointly  Artist residencies that provide of artist space, such as co- implemented by a nonprofit in artists with the opportunity to working and shared spaces. partnership with a local government bring their creative skill sets to  Design of cultural facilities – new agency. non-arts institutions, including or adaptive reuse. residencies in government The National Endowment for the Arts offices, businesses, or other Livability: Through Our Town plans to support a variety of projects institutions. projects, the Arts Endowment across the country in urban to rural  Projects that provide artists intends to achieve the following communities of all sizes. Successful professional development and objective from the NEA strategic Our Town projects will impact access to markets and capital for plan: Livability: American livability by affecting community business development in communities are strengthened priorities such as public safety, communities, including support through the arts. health, blight and vacancy, for creative entrepreneurship. environment, job creation, equity,  Festivals and performances that Successful Our Town projects will local business development, civic impact livability by affecting participation, and/or community activate spaces not normally used for such purposes. community priorities such as public cohesion. safety, health, blight, and vacancy,

Cultural Planning: Cultural environment, job creation, equity, Projects should represent the distinct local business development, civic character and quality of their planning projects support the development of artistically excellent participation, and/or community communities, and must reflect the cohesion. The anticipated long-term following livability requirements: local support systems necessary for creative placemaking to succeed. results for Livability projects are  The needs of existing residents  Creative asset mapping. measurable community benefits, and institutions in the which might include:  Cultural district planning. community.  Growth in overall levels of social  A vision for enhancing the social  The development of master plans and civic engagement. and/or economic livability of the or community-wide strategies for public art.  New avenues for expression and community. creativity.  The development of plans or  Support for artists, design  Design-focused changes in professionals, and arts policies for integrating arts and cultural activities into policies, laws, and/or regulations. organizations that integrate the  Job and/or revenue growth. arts and design into the fabric of comprehensive strategies that civic life and/or community address local challenges and  Positive changes in migration plans. advance community goals patterns.

 Creative approaches to through processes that empower local residents. Estimated Size of Grant: You addressing community challenges must request a grant amount at one or priorities. of the following levels: $25,000, $50,000, $75,000, $100,000, Projects may include arts Design: Design projects that demonstrate artistic excellence while $150,000, or $200,000. engagement, cultural planning, and design projects such as: supporting the development of places where creative activities occur, or NEA will award very few grants at the $200,000 level; these will be only for Arts Engagement: Arts where the identity of place is created or reinforced. projects of significant scale and engagement projects support impact. artistically excellent artistic  Design of public spaces, e.g., parks, plazas, landscapes, production or practice as the focus of Term of Contract: NEA support creative placemaking work. This neighborhoods, districts, infrastructure, bridges, and artist of a project may start on August 1, includes artist-led projects that 2018, or any time thereafter. A grant impact livability. -produced elements of streetscapes. period of up to two years is allowed. Allow sufficient time to plan, execute, Innovative programming that fosters  Community engagement in planning and design processes and close out your project. The two- interaction among community year period is intended to allow an members, arts organizations, and that empower local residents, 6 FEDERAL GRANTS (Cont.): applicant sufficient time to plan, governments: state level territories. The territory's SAA may execute, and close out its project, government agencies, other state- serve as the local government not to repeat a one-year project for a designated entities, state higher primary partner. However, all grant second year. education institutions, regional funds must be passed on to the governments and entities, quasi- other partners. Eligibility: government organizations, regional  City or township governments planning organizations, and All applicants must have a DUNS  County governments business improvement districts. number (www.dnb.com) and be  Independent school districts registered with the System for For U.S. territories, if no local Award Management (SAM,  Native American tribal government exists, the territory www.sam.gov) and maintain an governments (Federally government can serve as the local active SAM registration until the recognized) government. application process is complete, and  Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) should a grant be made, throughout status with the IRS, other than To be eligible, the lead applicant the life of the award. Finalize a new institutions of higher education organization must: or renew an existing registration at  Private institutions of higher least two weeks before the education >>Meet the National Endowment application deadline. This action  Public and State controlled for the Arts "Legal Requirements," should allow you time to resolve any institutions of higher education including nonprofit, tax-exempt issues that may arise. Failure to  Special district governments status, at the time of application: comply with these requirements  State governments https://www.arts.gov/grants- may result in your inability to organizations/our-town/arts- submit your application. Maintain Additional Eligibility Criteria: engagement-cultural-planning-and- documentation (with dates) of your All applications require design-projects-award- efforts to register or renew at least partnerships that involve at least administration#legal two weeks before the deadline. two primary partners as defined by these guidelines: a nonprofit >>Have submitted acceptable Final Application Restrictions: organization and a local Report packages by the due date(s) governmental entity. One of the two for all National Endowment for the >>An organization may submit as a primary partners must be a cultural Arts award(s) previously received. lead applicant two applications to (arts or design) organization. Our Town. Additional partners are encouraged. Additional partners are encouraged and may include an appropriate >>A partnering organization may One of the two primary partners variety of entities such as arts serve as a partner on as many must act as the official applicant organizations and artists, design applications as they like. (lead applicant). This lead applicant professionals and design centers, must meet the eligibility state level government agencies, >>If two applications are submitted requirements, submit the foundations, nonprofit from a single lead applicant, local application, and assume full organizations, educational government, or within the same responsibility for the grant. institutions, real estate developers, geographic area, the capacity of the business leaders, community lead applicant, local government, or Eligible lead applicants are: organizations, council of geographic area to carry out and Nonprofit tax-exempt 501(c)(3) U.S. governments, rural planning sustain two Our Town projects will organizations with a documented organizations, transportation be considered in the review of three-year history of programming. agencies, special districts, applications. educational organizations, as well as Local governments. For the public and governmental entities. All applications must include a purposes of these guidelines, local Federal agencies cannot be formal statement of support for the governments are defined as monetary partners. project from the highest ranking counties, parishes, cities, towns, official of the local government villages, or federally recognized The designated state and participating in the project. Each tribal governments. Local arts jurisdictional arts agencies (SAAs) local government -- whether agencies or other departments, and their regional arts organizations applying as the lead applicant or as agencies, or entities within an (RAOs) may serve as partners, but the primary partner with a eligible local government may not primary partners, in projects. nonprofit organization -- is limited submit the application on behalf of National Endowment for the Arts to two applications. The local that local government. The funds can't support any SAA or RAO government must coordinate following do not qualify as local costs. There is an exception for U.S. internally to ensure that only two 7 FEDERAL GRANTS (Cont.): applications are submitted to the documentation that supports its  Exhibitions of, and other projects National Endowment for the Arts, status as a local education that primarily involve, single, rather than multiple applications agency. individually-owned, private through its various offices. The  Construction, purchase, or collections. submitted applications must be renovation of facilities. (Design  Projects for which the selection of identified as proposing the chosen fees, preparing space for an artists or art works is based upon projects by formal statements of exhibit, installation or de- criteria other than artistic support from the highest ranking installation of art, and excellence and merit. Examples official of the local government. If community planning are eligible. include festivals, exhibitions, or more than two applications are However, no National publications for which no jury/ submitted for a government, NEA will Endowment for the Arts or editorial judgment has been ask the highest ranking official to matching funds may be directed applied. select two applications to move to the costs of physical  Expenditures related to forward. construction or renovation or compensation to foreign toward the purchase costs of nationals and/or travel to or from Other National Endowment for facilities or land.) foreign countries when those the Arts Funding Opportunities:  Commercial (for-profit) expenditures are not in enterprises or activities, compliance with regulations You may apply to other National including concessions, food, T- issued by the U.S. Treasury Endowment for the Arts funding shirts, or other items for resale. Department Office of Foreign opportunities, including Art Works  Cash reserves and endowments. Assets Control. and Challenge America, in addition to Our Town. In each case, the request  Subgranting or regranting, except  Project costs supported by any must be for a distinctly different for state arts agencies, regional other federal funding. This project, or a distinctly different phase arts organizations, or local arts includes federal funding received of a project. If you have applied to the agencies that are designated to either directly from a federal NEA in the past and were not operate on behalf of their local agency (e.g., NEH, HUD, recommended for funding, you may governments or are operating National Science Foundation, or apply again to any funding units of city or county an entity that receives federal opportunity, including Our Town. government. (See more appropriations such as the information on subgranting.) Corporation for Public Under these guidelines, funding is  Costs to bring a project into Broadcasting or Amtrak); or not available for: compliance with federal grant indirectly from a pass-through organization such as a state arts  Costs incurred before or after the requirements. This includes environmental or historical agency, regional arts beginning of the official period of organization, or a grant made to performance. assessments or reviews and the hiring of individuals to write another entity.  General operating or seasonal assessments or reviews or to  Alcoholic beverages. support. otherwise comply with the  Gifts and prizes, including cash  Costs for the creation of new National Environmental Policy prizes as well as other items (e.g., organizations. Act and/or the National Historic iPads, gift certificates) with  Direct grants to individuals. Preservation Act. monetary value. (NEA encourages applicant  Awards to individuals or  General miscellaneous or organizations to involve organizations to honor or contingency costs. individual artists in all possible recognize achievement. ways.)  Contributions and donations to  Generally, professional training other entities.  Individual elementary or programs or courses in degree- secondary schools -- charter,  Fines and penalties, bad debt granting institutions. costs, deficit reduction. private, or public -- directly.  Projects that replace arts Schools may participate as  Social activities such as instruction provided by an arts receptions, parties, galas. partners in projects for which specialist. another eligible organization  Lobbying. applies. Local education agencies,  Literary publishing that does not  Marketing expenses that are not school districts, and state and focus on contemporary literature directly related to the project. and/or writers. regional education agencies are  Audit costs that are not directly eligible. If a single school also is a  Generally, publication of books, related to a single audit (formerly local education agency, as is the exhibition of works, or other known as an A-133 audit). projects by the applicant case with some charter schools,  Rental costs for home office the school may apply with organization's board members, faculty, or trustees. workspace owned by individuals 8 FEDERAL GRANTS (Cont.):

or entities affiliated with the projects that may involve a historic calendar applicant organization. site, structure, or district.  Visa costs paid to the U.S. Other Information: government. This review and approval process https://www.arts.gov/grants- may take up to several months to organizations/our-town/other- Pre-proposal Conference: NEA complete and may delay your information will conduct a live "How to Apply" project's start date. The results of the webinar on July 24, 2017, at 3:00 PM review may impact our ability to Award Information: Eastern Time followed by a Q&A make a grant award/our ability to https://www.arts.gov/grants- session. release grant funds. organizations/our-town/arts- engagement-cultural-planning-and- NEA will conduct a live "Tips & Tricks Application Calendar: design-projects-award-information for Success" webinar on July 31, 2017, at 3:00 PM Eastern Time followed by -Step 1 - Submit SF-424 to Applicant Eligibility: a Q&A session. Grants.gov: September 11, 2017 by https://www.arts.gov/grants- 11:59 PM, Eastern Time. Register/ organizations/our-town/arts- Pre-Application Information: Grants renew by at least August 21. Submit engagement-cultural-planning-and- cannot exceed 50% of the total cost of by at least September 1. design-projects-applicant-eligibility the project. All grants require a nonfederal match of at least 1 to 1. -Step 2 - Submit Materials to Application Review: These matching funds may be all cash Applicant Portal: 9:00 AM, Eastern https://www.arts.gov/grants- or a combination of cash and in-kind Time September 18, 2017 to 11:59 organizations/our-town/arts- contributions. PM, Eastern Time on September 25, engagement-cultural-planning-and- 2017. design-projects-application-review If you are recommended for a grant and your project may be subject to -Earliest Announcement of Grant Award Administration: the National Environmental Policy Award or Rejection: April 2018 https://www.arts.gov/grants- Act (NEPA) and/or the National organizations/our-town/arts- Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) -Earliest Beginning Date for National engagement-cultural-planning-and- and the National Endowment for the Endowment for the Arts Period of design-projects-award- Arts will conduct a review of your Performance: August 1, 2018 administration project to ensure that it is in compliance NEPA/NHPA. You are required to use Grants.gov. How to Prepare and Submit an Before you apply through Grants.gov Application: Some of the common project types for the first time, you must be https://www.arts.gov/grants- that garner a NHPA review are: registered. Registration with organizations/our-town/how-to- Grants.gov: prepare-and-submit-an-application >>A project involving or occurring -Is a multi-step process. near a district, site, building, -Takes time; allow two weeks. Submit the SF-424 to Grants.gov: landscape, structure or object that is -Must be completed before you can https://www.arts.gov/grants- 50 years old or older and therefore submit your application. organizations/our-town/step-1- included in or eligible for inclusion in submit-sf-424-to-grants-gov the National Register of Historic In the event of a major emergency Places (please note that in some (e.g., a hurricane or Grants.gov Submit Through Applicant Portal: instances, buildings or structures may technological failure), the NEA https://www.arts.gov/grants- be included in or eligible for inclusion Chairman may adjust application organizations/our-town/step-2- in the National Register of Historic deadlines for affected applicants. If a submit-through-applicant-portal Places that are less than 50 years deadline is extended for any reason, old). an announcement will be posted on FAQs: https://www.arts.gov/grants- the NEA website. organizations/our-town/frequently- >>The commissioning and asked-questions-arts-engagement installation of temporary or Funding Restrictions: permanent outdoor furnishings such https://www.arts.gov/grants- View this opportunity on Grants.gov: as benches or market structures or art organizations/our-town/we-do-not- https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/ such as a sculpture or mural. fund search-grants.html? keywords=2017NEA01OT >>An arts festival in a park. Application Calendar: https://www.arts.gov/grants- Deadline: September 9, 2017 >>Design planning and services for organizations/our-town/application- 11:59 PM ET

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Contact: Before starting your available career pathways and program will assist refugees to begin grant application, please review the developing individualized plans to professional careers that provide not funding source's website listed below gain employment and advance within only a salary but also greater job for updates/changes/addendums/ their chosen career field. security and the possibility of career conferences/LOIs. advancement. Allowable activities will include case Click here to register (TBD) for the management, training and technical To achieve this goal, the program will upcoming webinars and for an assistance, specialized English employ the career pathways archive of the webinar after it is language training, and mentoring. approach, which has shown promise concluded: Grantees may also provide refugee in enabling immigrants to gain entry https://www.arts.gov/videos/ participants with financial assistance into career fields in the US. webinars for costs related to the establishment or re-establishment of credentials, The Workforce Innovation and Applicant Portal: such as obtaining educational credits Opportunity Act (WIOA) of 2014 https://applicantportal.arts.gov/ or enrollment in required defines a career pathway as “a certification programs. Grantees are combination of rigorous and high- Email: [email protected] required to collaborate with quality education, training, and other professional associations, services that— Voice/TTY: 202/682-5082 universities, and others with expertise in this area to facilitate (A) aligns with the skill needs of Individuals who do not use career opportunities in ways that industries in the economy of the State conventional print should contact the supplement, rather than supplant, or regional economy involved; Arts Endowment's Accessibility Office existing services. (B) prepares an individual to be at 202/682-5532 for help in successful in any of a full range of acquiring an audio recording of these Refugee Career Pathways secondary or postsecondary guidelines. Overview: The Refugee Career education options, including CFDA Number: 45.024 Pathways (RCP) program is a new registered apprenticeships; Funding or Pin Number: program established by the Office of (C) includes counseling to support an 2017NEA01OT Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to individual in achieving the address the obstacles faced by individual’s education and career URL for Full Text (RFP): https:// resettled refugees in initiating goals; www.arts.gov/grants-organizations/ professional careers in their new (D) includes, as appropriate, our-town/arts-engagement-cultural- communities. While many refugees education offered concurrently with planning-and-design-projects- have previous professional experience and in the same context as workforce introduction in their country of origin, they often preparation activities and training for lack the degrees, certifications, and a specific occupation or occupational U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH knowledge specific to the U.S. job cluster; AND HUMAN SERVICES (HHS) - environment needed to attain (E) organizes education, training, and professional employment after other services to meet the particular ADMINISTRATION FOR resettlement. Even highly-skilled needs of an individual in a manner CHILDREN AND FAMILIES refugees are often required to take that accelerates the educational and (ACF) - OFFICE OF REFUGEE low-skilled jobs with little career advancement of the individual RESETTLEMENT (ORR) opportunity for advancement or skill to the extent practicable; REFUGEE CAREER PATHWAYS development. This in turn limits (F) enables an individual to attain a (RCP) PROGRAM refugees’ potential to achieve secondary school diploma or its economic self-sufficiency and to recognized equivalent, and at least Grants to USA Nonprofits, Agencies, benefit their communities by making one recognized postsecondary and IHEs to Help Refugees Obtain full use of the skills and experience credential; and Professional Employment they bring to their new home. (G) helps an individual enter or advance within a specific occupation Grants to USA nonprofit The goal of the RCP program is to or occupational cluster.” organizations, government agencies, support refugees in attaining the and IHEs for programs to assist knowledge and resources needed to The career pathways approach stems refugees in attaining self-sufficiency begin a professional career in their from the Building Linkages through through skilled or professional new community. Existing job training Career Clusters initiative developed employment that draws on previously programs for refugees often focus on by the US Department of Education -acquired skills, experience, and supporting initial job placement, and other partners in 1996. This knowledge. Recipient organizations which may not be adequate to secure approach recognizes that every career will aid refugees in learning about long-term self-sufficiency. The RCP field comprises a number of specific

10 FEDERAL GRANTS (Cont.): job functions, which require different recognized credential or unfamiliarity the participant. levels of experience, education, and with specific workplace regulations – -Exams and/or training programs training. Practitioners of career and provide support and resources to required to acquire a credential pathway training emphasize mitigate these barriers. required for or helpful to obtaining educating job seekers on the types of employment in the participant’s positions they may be able to secure RCP Program Activities: chosen career field. If it is possible for in the short term, while creating a previously acquired credential to be actionable plans to advance within The RCP program will meet its recognized by US employers, a plan that field in the long term. objectives through the following detailing the steps needed for activities: recognition of this credential. Successful implementation of the -Local employers hiring for the career pathways approach relies upon Career Development Plans: positions described above. a strong network of local partners -A list of mentors and other potential with the capacity to address all A career development plan must be contacts able to provide guidance in aspects of individual career established for each participant based locating a job and succeeding in the development. Organizations on that participant’s skills, participant’s chosen field. implementing the RCP program will experience, credentials, and desired -Any costs associated with each item work in close cooperation with local career path. A selected career field described above. partners and service providers to must be one: that the participant can guide participants through program qualify for and attain at least an entry In addition, plans must include activities and ensure access to -level job while participating in the options for further career ongoing career support following RCP program, that provides development participants may pursue participation in the program. opportunities for professional following their participation in the advancement, and that has RCP program, and how they can save Program Scope and Activities: employment opportunities in the and plan for future career local community. The plan must lay development. The plan is intended to The RCP program will enable out a clear and realistic path to be a living document that will be refugees to overcome the obstacles qualifying for and attaining modified and improved throughout associated with obtaining skilled and/ employment in the participant’s the participants' involvement with the or professional employment following career field. The plan must include, as program. resettlement. Program objectives are: applicable: The plan must include a service >>Helping refugees achieve self- -A description of the career field the agreement to be signed by sufficiency by obtaining the means to participant intends to enter, along participants with information on the secure professional or skilled with any corresponding skills, role, responsibilities, and employment. experience, and credentials that will expectations of both the participants be beneficial in gaining employment and the implementing organization. >>Increasing refugees’ in that field. This agreement must also explain understanding of career pathways -Specific job titles for which the terms under which participants may and equipping them with the participant could qualify within the be suspended or removed from the knowledge and tools to succeed in term of the participants’ involvement program such as lack of active their chosen career path. with the RCP program, along with engagement in the program or any additional education, credentials, violation of program policies, and a Activities funded under this program or experience required to qualify. process for appeal. are service related. Through the RCP -Other potential barriers to entry in program, organizations will work the participant’s chosen career field Training and Technical Assistance: directly with refugees to apply the (such as limited English skills, lack of career pathways approach through familiarity with workplace standards, The RCP program will provide training and individualized technical or inexperience with job search refugee participants with training and assistance. They will assist refugees strategies) and a corresponding technical assistance that will enable and other eligible populations (as strategy to eliminate or mitigate these them to attain employment within referenced in Section I. Program barriers. their chosen career field. Specialized Description, Program Scope and -Specific educational courses and/or training must be available to Activities, Eligible Clients Defined) to programs of study to be completed by participants to enable them to identify opportunities to enter their the participant. overcome obstacles to employment chosen career field and make a plan -Opportunities to gain additional and to attain success in their careers. to advance in this field over time. experience such as on-the-job Training programs must be based on They will identify barriers to entering training, mid-career internships, or the needs of the local refugee this field – such as lack of a apprenticeships to be completed by population and the requirements for

11 FEDERAL GRANTS (Cont.): employment in the career fields on professional development parties are best suited to provide which the local program focuses. opportunities included in the training or other forms of direct Examples of potential training areas participant’s career development assistance to participants. Subawards include vocational English skills; plan. Whenever possible, payment must be limited to include only those familiarization with the U.S. should be made directly to the service costs needed to provide the specific workplace environment; and related provider. If participant services required by the program. A skills such as resume writing, reimbursement is necessary, the partnership may also include interviewing, and forming participant must have the expense agreements with organizations professional networks. approved in writing prior to already fully funded to provide purchase. The RCP program limits related services, in these cases In addition to group training, the direct financial assistance to $2,500 subaward funding would not be RCP program will provide career per budget period for each participant provided. counseling and technical assistance to - see Section IV.6. Funding participants on an individual basis. Restrictions for further information Estimated Total Program Individual technical assistance will regarding this limitation. Funding: $3,000,000 focus on development and continuous improvement of the participant’s Partnerships: The RCP program Number of Grants: Expected career development plan, and will be implemented with support Number of Awards: 12 completion of the steps contained in from a network of local community Estimated Size of Grant: -Award the plan. partners that focus on individual Ceiling: $250,000 Per Budget Period career advancement. Partner -Award Floor: $150,000 Per Budget The program will provide guidance to networks will include organizations Period participants as they attain the with demonstrated capacity in areas -Average Projected Award Amount: necessary educational credits, required to support individual career $250,000 Per Budget Period credentials, and professional advancement of refugee participants, Term of Contract: The anticipated experience to qualify for employment including: project start date is November 15, in their chosen field. The program  Job skills training 2017. will assist participants in overcoming  Refugee services obstacles to employment and making  Vocational English language The length of the project period is 36 adjustments when faced with training months with three 12-month budget difficulties in attaining career goals. periods. The program will connect  Career mentorship participants with employers,  Facilitation of career entry Awards for the second and third 12- mentors, and local employment- through apprenticeships, on the month budget periods will be made based service providers, and job training, etc. subsequent to approval of non- resources such as those provided competing continuation applications under WIOA that can provide Examples of such partners include: and will be subject to the availability additional guidance in attaining  Educational institutions - of funds, satisfactory progress by the employment and ongoing Professional associations - grantee, and a determination that professional development. American Job Centers continued funding would be in the  Employers best interest of the federal The program will also facilitate the  Refugee resettlement and support government. development of career pathway agencies resources for refugees, such as  Nonprofit organizations Eligibility: handbooks, licensing guides, and providing technical assistance in  City or township governments skills assessment tools to assist immigrant and refugee  County governments refugees in determining the most professional career development  Independent school districts effective means of career entry and  Experts in employment, career development in the context of the US  Indian housing authorities pathways, and/or specific  Native American tribal and local job environment. professions governments (Federally Direct Financial Assistance:  Professional mentors who have recognized) been successful in entering a  Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) Under the RCP program, there is the career field, potentially including status with the IRS, other than option to offer direct financial refugees and immigrants institutions of higher education assistance to refugee participants for  Nonprofits that do not have a 501 costs associated with career Partners may receive program (c)(3) status with the IRS, other advancement. All direct financial funding through a subaward basis as than institutions of higher assistance must be clearly related to appropriate. Subawards may be education proposed in cases in which third 12 FEDERAL GRANTS (Cont.):

 Private institutions of higher professional experience and refugees pending with the Department of education without professional experience who Homeland Security/United States  Public and State controlled are interested in developing the skills Citizenship and Immigration Services institutions of higher education to pursue a specific career. When or Department of Justice/Executive  Public housing authorities returning to a profession held prior to Office for Immigration Review and resettlement is not feasible in the with respect to whom a final, non-  Special district governments short term, implementing appealable, and legally enforceable  State governments organizations will inform refugees order of removal, deportation or  Additional Eligibility Criteria: about alternative career fields and exclusion has not been entered; positions that enable them to use 5. Lawful permanent residents Eligible applicants for refugee their skills in a similar but more provided the individuals previously programs under the Immigration and accessible capacity. held one of the statuses identified Nationality Act § 412(c)(1)(A) are above. (Note that this does not refer "public and private nonprofit For the purpose of this FOA the term to Amerasians who are admitted as agencies" such as: "refugee" refers to individuals with lawful permanent residents. See #6 the following statuses who are eligible below.);  State governments for ORR Refugee Resettlement 6. Certain Amerasians from Vietnam  County governments Program benefits (see 45 CFR § who are admitted to the U.S. as  City or township governments 400.43(a) (1)- (6) or statutory immigrants pursuant to § 584 of the  Special district governments provisions cited below): Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs  Independent school districts 1. Individuals paroled as refugees or Appropriations Act, 1988 (as  Public and state-controlled asylees under § 212(d)(5) of the contained in § 101(e) of Public Law institutions of higher education Immigration and Nationality Act (Pub. L.) 100-202), as amended  Native American tribal (INA); (8U.S.C. § 1101 note); governments (federally 2. Refugees admitted under § 207 of 7. Iraqi and Afghan Special recognized) the INA; Immigrants per section 1244(g) of  Native American tribal 3. Asylees whose status was granted Div. A of Pub. L. 110-181, as amended organizations (other than under § 208 of the INA; (8 U.S.C. § 1157 note) and section 602 federally recognized tribal 4. Cuban and Haitian entrants, in (b) (8) of Div. F of Pub. L. 118-8, as governments) accordance with the requirements in amended (8 U.S.C. § 1101 note);  Public housing authorities/ 45 CFR § 401.2; 8. Victims of a severe form of Indian housing authorities a. Any individual granted parole trafficking in persons per the Victims  Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) IRS status as a Cuban/Haitian Entrant of Trafficking and Violence Protection status (other than institutions of (Status Pending) or granted any other Act of 2000, Pub. L. No. 106-386, as higher education) special status subsequently amended, 22 U.S.C. § 7105(b) (1)(A)  Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) IRS established under the immigration and (c); status (other than institutions of laws for nationals of Cuba or Haiti, higher education) regardless of the status of the ORR assistance and services must be individual at the time assistance or provided to refugees without regard  Private institutions of higher services are provided; to race, religion, nationality, gender, education b. A national of Cuba or Haiti who or political opinion. was paroled into the U.S. and has not Additionally, ORR has designated as Faith-based and community acquired any other status under the eligible for the RCP program only organizations that meet the eligibility INA and with respect to whom a final, refugees who are not yet citizens and requirements are eligible to receive non-appealable, and legally who have been the US for not more awards under this funding enforceable order of removal, than 5 years at the time of opportunity announcement. deportation, or exclusion has not enrollment. Prior approval for been entered; exceptions to the 5-year requirement Applications from individuals c. A national of Cuba or Haiti who is may be requested if good cause can (including sole proprietorships) and the subject of removal, deportation, be shown as to why an individual who foreign entities are not eligible and or exclusion proceedings under the has been in the US for a longer period will be disqualified from competitive INA and with respect to whom a final, of time must be considered a priority review and from funding under this non-appealable, and legally for services under the program. announcement. enforceable order of removal, Pre-Application Information: deportation, or exclusion has not Electronic are due via Grants.gov by Eligible Clients Defined: been entered; 11:59 PM ET, on the August 29, 2017 d. A national of Cuba or Haiti who due date. Potential program participants has an application for asylum All applicants must have a DUNS include both refugees with previous 13 FEDERAL GRANTS (Cont.):

Number and an active registration doctoral degree in STEM or STEM implies their intent to pursue with the System for Award education. graduate study in a research-based Management. Obtaining a DUNS program in STEM or STEM Number may take 1 to 2 days. The program goals are: 1) to select, education. All applicants are expected recognize, and financially support, to either be enrolled in a research View this opportunity on Grants.gov: early in their careers, individuals with based master’s or doctoral program https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/ the demonstrated potential to be high or have adequate preparation to search-grants.html?keywords=HHS- achieving scientists and engineers, begin graduate-level study and 2018-ACF-ORR-ZM-1224 and 2) to broaden participation in research by summer or fall of the year science and engineering of the award is accepted. From the date Deadline: The deadline for underrepresented groups, including of Acceptance through Completion or receipt of paper applications is 4:30 women, minorities, persons with Termination of the Fellowship, PM ET on the August 29, 2017 due disabilities, and veterans. NSF applicants accepting the award date. Paper applications received especially encourages women, (Fellows) must be affiliated with a from applicants that have not members of underrepresented graduate degree-granting institution received approval of an exemption minority groups, persons with accredited in, and having a campus from required electronic submission disabilities, veterans, and located in, the United States, its will be disqualified from competitive undergraduate seniors to apply. territories, or possessions, or the review and from funding under this Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. announcement. GRFP is a critical program in NSF's overall strategy to develop the Over the course of the five-year GRFP Contact: Before starting your globally-engaged workforce necessary fellowship period, Fellows are grant application, please review the to ensure the Nation's leadership in encouraged to apply for professional funding source's website listed below advancing science and engineering development opportunities offered for updates/changes/addendums/ research and innovation. The ranks of through the program: Graduate conferences/LOIs. NSF Fellows include numerous Research Opportunities Worldwide, Ryan Foster individuals who have made or GROW, and the Graduate P: (202) 260-6949 transformative breakthrough Research Internship Program, or F: (202) 401-5772 discoveries in science and GRIP. GROW provides supplemental [email protected] engineering, become leaders in their funding for Fellows to take advantage chosen careers, and been honored as of expertise, facilities, data, and field Administration for Children and Nobel laureates. sites located abroad; to develop an Families international network of Office of Refugee Resettlement The Graduate Research Fellowship collaborators early in their career; to Division of Refugee Services Program (GRFP) awards Fellowships address problems of a global nature Mary E. Switzer Building for graduate study leading to research that require international 330 C Street, SW. -based master's and doctoral degrees cooperation; and to be prepared to Washington , DC 20201 in STEM or in STEM education. collaborate successfully in CFDA Number: 93.576 GRFP supports individuals proposing international teams upon joining the Funding or Pin Number: HHS-2018- a comprehensive holistic plan for United States science and ACF-ORR-ZM-1224 graduate education that takes into engineering workforce. GRIP URL for Full Text (RFP): https:// account individual interests and provides supplemental funding for ami.grantsolutions.gov/index.cfm? competencies. A holistic plan Fellows to participate in mission- switch=foa&fon=HHS-2018-ACF- describes the experiences, attributes, related, collaborative research under ORR-ZM-1224 and academic achievements that, the guidance of host research when considered in combination, mentors at federal facilities and NATIONAL SCIENCE show how the applicant has national laboratories. In addition to FOUNDATION (NSF) demonstrated potential for significant developing research expertise, research achievements in STEM or in Fellows can enhance their GRADUATE RESEARCH STEM education. Thus, an applicant professional skills, develop new FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM must provide a detailed profile of her networks, and prepare for a wide (GRFP) or his relevant educational and array of career options in areas of research experiences and plans for national needs. GROW and GRIP are Fellowships to USA Graduate graduate education in such a way as critical opportunities that contribute Students for STEM and STEM to demonstrate this potential for to NSF's overall strategy to develop Education Degrees significant achievements. the globally-engaged workforce necessary to ensure the Nation's Three years of support is provided by Prospective applicants are advised leadership in advancing science and the program for graduate study that that submission of an application engineering research and innovation. leads to a research-based master's or 14 FEDERAL GRANTS (Cont.):

Facilitation Awards for Scientists and education allowance of $12,000 to year the application is submitted, Engineers with Disabilities (FASED) the graduate degree-granting except 1) applicants who have provide funding for special assistance institution for each Fellow who uses completed a joint baccalaureate- or equipment to enable persons with the fellowship support in a fellowship master's (BS/MS) program and have disabilities to work on NSF- year. not completed any further graduate supported projects as described in the study outside the joint program NSF Proposal and Award Policies and Term of Contract: Each unless the graduate coursework was Procedures Guide (PAPPG; NSF 17- Fellowship consists of three years of required to establish or maintain 1), Chapter II.D.4. Fellows with support during a five-year fellowship credentials in a profession such as disabilities may apply for assistance period. teaching; or 2) applicants that have after consulting the instructions in had an interruption in graduate study the document NSF 16-104: Eligibility: See RFP and/or of at least two consecutive years prior Administrative Guide for Fellows and Grant Guidelines for full eligibility to November 1 of the year the GRFP Coordinating Officials. application is submitted and have Additional Eligibility Criteria: completed no additional graduate The GRFP supports the NSF Career- Confirmation of acceptance in a study as of August 1 of the year the Life Balance Initiative (NSF 13-099) graduate degree program in science application is submitted. by offering limited paid and unpaid or engineering is required at the time -Current NSF employees. leave options for Fellows facing of Fellowship acceptance, no later dependent-care issues (childbirth/ than May 1 of the year the award is Additional Eligibility Info: adoption and elder care). NSF accepted. Prospective Fellows must Described in detail below are the enables career-life balance through a enroll in a university, college, or three defining eligibility variety of mechanisms. nonprofit academic institution of requirements for the Graduate higher education accredited in, and Research Fellowship Program: (1) U. Fellows may request access to having a campus located in, the S. citizenship, (2) degree cyberinfrastructure resources, United States, its territories, or requirements, and (3) field of study. including supercomputing time, possessions, or the Commonwealth of Applicants are advised to read the through the Extreme Science and Puerto Rico that offers advanced entire program solicitation carefully Engineering Discovery Environment degrees in STEM or STEM education to ensure that the requirements are (XSEDE). no later than fall of the year the understood. Applicants must self- award is accepted. All Fellows from certify that they plan to pursue or are Honorable Mention: The NSF the date of Acceptance through pursuing a graduate degree in a accords Honorable Mention to Completion or Termination of the supported field of study and that they meritorious applicants who do not Fellowship must be affiliated with a meet all eligibility criteria for GRFP. receive Fellowship awards. This is graduate degree-granting institution considered a significant national accredited in, and having a campus 1. Citizenship academic achievement. located in, the United States, its territories, or possessions, or the Applicants must be United States Graduate students with Honorable Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. citizens, nationals, or permanent Mention may request access to Categories of applicants that are residents of the United States by the XSEDE cyberinfrastructure resources ineligible: application deadline. in support of research undertaken toward completion of the graduate >>Those who do not hold United The term "national" designates a program of study that occurs within States citizenship, national, or native resident of a commonwealth or the 5-year period following receipt of permanent resident status by the territory of the United States, such as Honorable Mention. application deadline. American Samoa. It does not refer to a citizen of another country who has Estimated Total Program >>Those who were previously applied for United States citizenship Funding: $138,000 awarded a Fellowship from the NSF and who has not received U.S. Graduate Research Fellowship citizenship by the application Number of Grants: The NSF Program and accepted it. deadline. expects to award 2,000 Graduate Research Fellowships per fiscal year >>hose who did not accept the NSF 2. Degree Requirements under this program solicitation Graduate Research Fellowship and pending availability of funds. failed to notify NSF by the published Applicants are eligible to apply: 1) as deadline for accepting the Fellowship. undergraduates or post Estimated Size of Grant: -Those who have completed the baccalaureates not enrolled in Currently, NSF provides a stipend of requirements for any graduate or graduate school and who will have $34,000 to the Fellow and a cost-of- professional degree by August 1 of the adequate preparation to attend

15 FEDERAL GRANTS (Cont.): graduate school in the fall that begins -Applicants who have completed -Applicants must not have completed after they apply to GRFP; or 2) as more than twelve months of graduate more than 12 months of full-time graduate students who have not study or have earned a previous graduate, post-baccalaureate completed more than 12 months of a graduate or professional degree are graduate, and professional study by graduate program in a supported eligible only if they have had an August 1, of the year the application is field of study. interruption in graduate study of at submitted. Pre-graduate participation least two consecutive years prior to in summer activities (e.g., bridge Below are additional guidelines to November 1 of the year the programs, field studies, lab rotations) determine eligibility: application is submitted. To be offered by a graduate program prior eligible, applicants must have to the start of the fall graduate a) Not Currently Enrolled in completed no additional graduate program are not included in this Graduate School: study by August 1 of that year. total. Applicants must address the reasons -No prior graduate school enrollment for the interruption in graduate study -There is no credit hour limit for in the Personal, Relevant Background students who have completed only -Undergraduate students typically and Future Goals Statement. full-time graduate study; eligibility apply prior to starting a graduate for full-time students is based on the program, which is usually in the fall -Applicants in joint BS/MS programs length of time enrolled in the of their senior year or the fall of the are eligible to apply prior to graduate program. academic year that they anticipate completion of any further graduate receiving a bachelor’s degree. study. The bachelor’s degree must be -All graduate, post-baccalaureate and conferred before fall of the award professional study is counted towards -At the time of application, year. Joint baccalaureate-master’s the allowed 12 months of graduate undergraduate student applicants are programs are those where an study, including all full-time and part expected to be on track to receive a institution offers students admission -time master’s and doctoral degree bachelor's degree prior to fall of the to both an undergraduate and programs, and non-degree graduate- following year to demonstrate graduate degree program level and professional coursework. adequate preparation to begin concurrently. Pursuing separate The one exception is for graduate graduate study and research by the undergraduate and master’s degrees coursework required to establish or following fall. at the same institution does not maintain credentials in a profession constitute a joint baccalaureate- such as teaching; such coursework is -Bachelor's degree holders without master’s program. Completion of any not included in the 12-month limit. any graduate study can apply at any graduate study outside of the joint time. program disqualifies an applicant Field of Study: unless the graduate coursework is With prior graduate school required to maintain (non-degree) Fellowships are awarded for graduate enrollment: skills or credentials in a profession study leading to research-based such as teaching; such coursework is master's and doctoral degrees in -As a general rule, applicants must not included in the 12-month limit. science, technology, engineering or not have completed more than 12 mathematics (STEM) or in STEM months of full-time graduate study or -Applicants in joint BS/MS programs, education. An individual's proposed its equivalent as defined by the are eligible to apply in the final year research and graduate study must be universities attended as of August 1 of of their program or after completion in a STEM field or in STEM the year the GRFP application is of the program. education. Fellows must enroll in a submitted. graduate degree program consistent b) Currently Enrolled in Graduate with the relevant field of study -All graduate, post-baccalaureate and School proposed in their application and to professional study is counted towards undertake a course of study leading to the allowed 12 months of graduate Part time: a research-based master’s or doctoral study, including all full-time and part degree. The guidelines below should -time master’s and doctoral degree -Graduate students who are enrolled be used to assess eligibility according programs, and non-degree graduate- in part-time graduate study (or a to the field of study. Applicants are level and professional coursework. combination of part-time and full- encouraged to carefully read the The one exception is for graduate time graduate study) can apply before exceptions, as applications ruled coursework required to establish or completing more than 24 semester ineligible will be returned without maintain credentials in a profession hours or 36 quarter hours or their review. such as teaching; such coursework is equivalent. not included in the 12-month limit. Full time: The following programs, areas of graduate study, and research are

16 FEDERAL GRANTS (Cont.): ineligible for Fellowship support. research directed at medical use that Research are eligible. These include research -October 27, 2016: Psychology, Social Individuals are not eligible to apply if projects in bioengineering to aid Sciences, STEM Education and they will be enrolled in a practice- persons with disabilities, or to Learning oriented professional degree program diagnose or treat human disease, -October 28, 2016: Chemistry, such as medical, dental, law, and provided they apply engineering Mathematical Sciences, Physics and public health at any time during the principles to problems in medicine Astronomy fellowship. Examples of typically while primarily advancing -October 23, 2017: Life Sciences, ineligible degree programs include engineering knowledge. Applicants Geosciences MBA, MPH, MSW, JD, MD, and planning to study and conduct -October 24, 2017: Computer and DDS. Joint or combined professional research in these areas of Information Science and degree-science programs (e.g., MD/ bioengineering should select Engineering, Engineering, Materials PhD or JD/PhD) and dual biomedical engineering as the field of Research professional degree-science programs study. -October 26, 2017: Psychology, Social are also not eligible. Applicants who Sciences, STEM Education and will be enrolled in a graduate degree Pre-Application Information: Learning program while on a leave of absence Fellowship applications must be October 27, 2017: Chemistry, from a professional degree program submitted electronically using the Mathematical Sciences, Physics and or professional degree/graduate NSF FastLane Graduate Research Astronomy degree joint program are not eligible Fellowship Program Application -October 22, 2018: Life Sciences, for a Graduate Research Fellowship. Module according to the deadline Geosciences corresponding with the Primary Field -October 23, 2018: Computer and Individuals are not eligible to apply if of Study selected in the application. Information Science and they will be enrolled in an area of Engineering, Engineering, Materials graduate study focused on clinical Deadline: October 23, 2017 5:00 Research practice, for example, counseling, PM - Life Sciences, Geosciences; -October 25, 2018: Psychology, Social social work, as well as patient- 10/24/17 - Computer and Sciences, STEM Education and oriented research, epidemiological Information Science and Learning and medical behavioral studies, Engineering, Engineering, Materials -October 26, 2018: Chemistry, outcomes research and health Research; 10/26/17 - Chemistry, Mathematical Sciences, Physics and services research. Ineligible clinical Mathematical Sciences, Physics and Astronomy studies include investigations to Astronomy; 10/27/17 - Chemistry, provide evidence leading to a Mathematical Sciences, Physics and Reference letters must be submitted scientific basis for consideration of a Astronomy electronically by the reference writers change in health policy or standard of Description: Fellowships to USA and through the FastLane GRFP care, and includes pharmacologic, territories students to support Application Module and must be non-pharmacologic, and behavioral doctoral or master’s degree research received by the reference letter interventions for disease prevention, in the STEM fields, as well as STEM deadline. If fewer than two reference prophylaxis, diagnosis, or therapy. education. This program selects letters (none or one) are received by Graduate study focused on students early in their graduate the reference letter deadline, the community and other population- careers according to a demonstrated application will be returned without based medical intervention trials are potential for significant achievements review. also ineligible. in STEM research of STEM education. Reference letters are due at 5:00 PM Individuals are not eligible to apply if Eastern Time (ET) on the following they will conduct biomedical research Applications must be received by dates: for which the goals are directly health 5:00 PM local time, as determined by -2016: November 3 (Thursday) - related, such as etiology, diagnosis the applicant’s mailing address -2017: November 2 (Thursday) or treatment of physical or mental provided in the application. -2018: November 1 (Thursday) disease, abnormality, or malfunction in humans and other animals. Application Deadline(s) (received by Contact: Before starting your Research activities using animal 5 p.m. local time of applicant’s grant application, please review the models of disease, for developing or mailing address): funding source's website listed below testing of drugs or other procedures for updates/changes/addendums/ for treatment of disease, and -October 24, 2016: Life Sciences, conferences/LOIs. statistical modeling for which the Geosciences Register with FastLane to apply: purpose is diagnosis or epidemiology -October 25, 2016: Computer and https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/ also are not eligible for support. Information Science and fastlane.jsp There are areas of bioengineering Engineering, Engineering, Materials

17 FEDERAL GRANTS (Cont.):

Susan Brennan foster job creation, and attract private assets that will achieve at least one of (866) 673-4737 investment in economically the following investment priorities: [email protected] distressed areas of the United States. Under this NOFA, EDA solicits a) Collaborative Regional Innovation Erick Jones applications from applicants in order (866) 673-4737 to provide investments that support Projects that increase the [email protected] construction, non-construction, development and growth of planning, technical assistance, and innovation clusters1 which, based on Gisele Muller-Parker revolving loan fund projects under objective economic data, are existing (866) 673-4737 EDA’s Public Works and EAA regional competitive strengths. Such [email protected] programs. initiatives must engage relevant stakeholders; facilitate collaboration CFDA Number: 47.041 - EDA’s programs provide among urban, suburban, and rural Engineering / 47.049 - Mathematical economically distressed communities (including tribal) areas; provide and Physical Sciences / 47.050 - and regions with comprehensive and stability for economic development Geosciences / 47.070 - Computer and flexible resources to address a wide through long-term intergovernmental Information Science and variety of economic needs, and are and public/private collaboration; and Engineering / 47.074 - Biological designed to lead to the creation and support the growth of existing and Sciences / 47.075 - Social Behavioral retention of jobs and increased emerging industries. and Economic Sciences / 47.076 - private investment. EDA’s programs Education and Human Resources / support local and regional economic b) Public/Private Partnerships 47.079 - Office of International development efforts to establish a Science and Engineering / 47.083 - foundation for vibrant economies Projects that use both public and Office of Integrative Activities (OIA) throughout the United States. private sector assets and Funding or Pin Number: NSF 16-588 Through these programs, EDA complementary investments by other supports bottom-up strategies that government/public entities and/or URL for Full Text (RFP): https:// build on regional assets to spur nonprofits. www.nsf.gov/funding/ economic growth and resiliency. EDA pgm_summ.jsp? encourages its grantees throughout c) National Strategic Priorities pims_id=6201&org=NSF&sel_org=N the country to develop initiatives that Projects that: SF&from=fund present new ideas and creative approaches to advance economic i. Encourage job growth and business ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT prosperity in distressed communities. expansion in manufacturing, ADMINISTRATION (EDA), U.S. including advanced manufacturing, sustainable manufacturing, and DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE EDA Investment Priorities: manufacturing supply chains; (DOC) FY 2017 ECONOMIC Through the competitive grant ii. Assist communities severely DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE process outlined in this funding impacted by the declining use of coal PROGRAMS opportunity, all proposed projects are through activities and programs that evaluated to determine the extent to support economic diversification, job Grants to USA nonprofits, which they align with EDA’s creation, capital investment, and government agencies, IHEs, tribes, investment priorities, create or retain workforce development and re- and district organizations to support high-quality jobs, leverage public and employment opportunities; economic development and job private resources, demonstrate the iii. Increase economic resiliency, creation in economically distressed ability to start the proposed project including resilience to the effects of regions throughout the country. promptly and use funds quickly and natural disasters and climate change; Applicants are strongly encouraged to effectively, and provide a clear scope iv. Assist with natural disaster contact the relevant program officer of work and specific, measureable mitigation and recovery; prior to applying. This program is outcomes. v. Are aimed at restoring or intended to leverage existing regional improving urban waters and the assets and promote the EDA’s investment priorities are communities that surround them; implementation of economic designed to provide an overarching and development strategies that advance framework to guide the agency’s new ideas and creative approaches to investment portfolio to ensure its National Strategic priorities also advance economic prosperity in investments have the greatest impact. include assistance and support for: distressed communities. Competitive applications will be a. Information technology responsive to the evaluation criteria infrastructure (for example, EDA provides strategic investments listed in Section E.2.a. of this NOFA, broadband or smart grid); on a competitive merit basis to and will fund projects which create b. Communities severely impacted by support economic development, 18 FEDERAL GRANTS (Cont.): industry restructuring; eligibility of specific kinds of projects, representative listed in Section G. of c. Job-driven skills development; is available through EDA staff. this NOFA. d. Access to capital for small- and medium-sized and ethnically diverse EDA staff provides technical a) Public Works enterprises; assistance to prospective applicants e. Innovations in science and health to assist in proposal development and Through the Public Works program, care; and application submission. Applicants EDA provides catalytic investments f. Advancement of science and are strongly encouraged to contact to help distressed communities build, research parks, other technology the EDA representative listed for design, or engineer critical transfer, or technology their applicable state in Section G. of infrastructure and facilities that will commercialization efforts. this NOFA to clarify technical matters help implement regional involving their proposed project, its development strategies and advance d) Global Competitiveness alignment with EDA’s mission and bottom-up economic development investment priorities, and all other goals to promote regional prosperity. Projects that support high-growth relevant publicly available The Public Works program provides businesses and innovation-based information relating to technical resources to meet the construction entrepreneurs to expand and matters before submitting a proposal and/or infrastructure design needs of compete in global markets, especially or application to EDA. communities to enable them to investments that expand U.S. exports, become more economically encourage foreign direct investment, Except for a “Strategy Grant” as competitive. Prior examples of promote the repatriation of jobs back described below, each project funded investments EDA supported through to the U.S, and position U.S. firms to under Public Works and EAA must be the Public Works program include become leaders in global industries. consistent with the region’s current projects supporting water and sewer Comprehensive Economic system improvements, industrial e) Environmentally-Sustainable Development Strategy (CEDS) or parks, high-tech shipping and Development equivalent EDA-accepted regional logistics facilities, workforce training economic development strategy that facilities, business incubators and Projects that promote job creation meets EDA’s CEDS or strategy accelerators, brownfield and economic prosperity through requirements. Applicants must redevelopment, technology-based enhancing environmental quality and clearly detail how the proposed facilities, wet labs, multi-tenant developing and implementing green project will support the economic manufacturing facilities, science and products, processes, places, and development needs and objectives research parks, and buildings as part of the green outlined in the CEDS or equivalent telecommunications infrastructure economy. This includes projects that strategy. Applicants should identify and development facilities. encourage job growth, business the CEDS or strategy and provide a expansion, and innovations in energy copy of this planning document, As noted above, investments made -efficient technologies and clean either by attaching the document to through the Public Works program energy, including alternative fuel the application or by submitting a must be aligned with a current CEDS technologies. hard copy. In addition, applicants or EDA-accepted regional economic should highlight where and how the development strategy and clearly lead f) Underserved Communities proposed project will be aligned with, to the creation or retention of long- integrated into, and/or will further term high-quality jobs. For example, Investments that strengthen diverse leverage other public and private under this program, EDA may communities that have suffered investments in the community and provide funding to a consortium of disproportionate economic distress region. eligible recipients to support the and job losses and/or are rebuilding construction of a technology center to become more competitive in the Under this NOFA, applicants may that provides laboratory, office, and global economy, including economic also seek funding in the form of a manufacturing space that leads to the development initiatives that help “Strategy Grant” to develop, update, creation of advanced manufacturing unemployed and underemployed or refine a CEDS that alleviates long- jobs. As another example, EDA may young adults obtain the skills and term economic deterioration or a provide funding to a county knowledge necessary to succeed. sudden and severe economic government to support regional job dislocation, as described in EDA’s creation in targeted cluster industries EDA Program Information: regulations at 13 C.F.R. § 307.3. and expand those industries’ ability This section provides detailed to export goods. information on the two programs to Additional information and a which this NOFA applies. Additional summary of EDA’s CEDS and b) Economic Adjustment Assistance information about EDA’s programs, strategy requirements may be (EAA) including information about the obtained through the applicable EDA

19 FEDERAL GRANTS (Cont.):

Through the EAA program, EDA >>Are specifically identified under sectors of the coal economy. provides investments that support a local and regional economic wide range of construction and non- development plans that have been >>Multi-Jurisdictional Project construction activities (including collaboratively produced by diverse Impact: Among other factors, infrastructure, design and local and regional stakeholders. applications that strive to produce engineering, technical assistance, economic diversification and job economic recovery strategies, and >>Under this NOFA, EDA will also creation on a multi-jurisdictional capitalization or re-capitalization of support ACC planning through basis will be prioritized for selection Revolving Loan Funds (RLF)) in strategy grants that develop, update and funding. regions experiencing severe economic or refine a CEDS or an equivalent dislocations that may occur suddenly planning document. >>Implementing local and regional or over time. EDA utilizes EAA job creation and growth and investments to provide resources that ACC projects should respond to one economic diversification strategies help communities experiencing or or more of the following funding targeted towards affected workers anticipating economic dislocations to principles, as appropriate: and businesses. plan and implement specific solutions to leverage their existing regional >>Collaborative Partnerships: >>Strengthening or developing economic advantages to support Competitive proposals and existing or emerging industry economic development and job applications will successfully clusters. creation. Like Public Works demonstrate that the applicant is investments, EAA investments are engaged in collaborative relationships >>Developing business incubator designed to help communities with a variety of local and regional programs. catalyze public-private partnerships stakeholders (public, private, for- to foster collaboration, attract profit and nonprofit) whose >>Enhancing access to and use of investment, create jobs, and foster combined contributions will be broadband services to support job economic resiliency and prosperity. invested to support the development growth through business creation and For example, EDA might provide and implementation of the proposed expansion. funding to a university or community project. college to create and launch an >>The development of economic economic diversification strategy to >>Economic and Workforce development diversification promote and enhance the growth of Development Integration: strategies in accordance with CEDS emerging industries in a region facing Competitive proposals and criteria. job losses due to declines in applications will clearly demonstrate regionally important industries. As how the project is designed to >>Facilitating access to private another example, EDA might provide simultaneously address the workforce capital investment and providing funding to a city to support the needs of local and regional businesses related capacity building and construction of a publicly owned and the re-employment needs of local technical assistance; re: effective multi-tenant business and industrial and regional workers who have been utilization of capital investment for facility to house early-stage displaced by changes in the coal business development and job businesses. economy. creation.

Assistance to Coal Communities “Coal economy” is a term that reflects >>Facilitating and promoting market (ACC): the complete supply chain of coal- access for goods and services created reliant industries. This includes, but and manufactured by businesses in EDA designates a portion of its EAA is not limited to: coal mining, coal- the impacted community/region. funding to support4communities and fired power plants, along with related regions that have been negatively transportation, logistics, and supply Note: In addition to providing ACC, impacted by changes in the coal chain manufacturing. EDA’s EAA program supports a wide economy . To support these projects, range of technical, planning, and EDA prioritizes ACC implementation >>High Quality Jobs and Worker public works and infrastructure projects and activities that: Advancement: Numerous assistance in regions that are communities, regions, and states experiencing adverse economic >>Will produce multiple economic across the country have historically changes that may occur suddenly or and workforce development relied upon the coal industry to over time. For further details outcomes, such as promoting regional provide good, reliable jobs and regarding the full scope of the EAA economic growth and diversification, economic prosperity. Contractions in programs and recent examples of new job creation, and re- the coal economy and the resulting awarded projects, Applicants are employment opportunities for loss of these jobs are particularly encouraged to visit www.eda.gov. displaced coal economy workers; and harmful to workers in the various

20 FEDERAL GRANTS (Cont.):

Number of Grants: Historically, d. Institution of higher education or than the national average EDA has awarded funds for between a consortium of institutions of higher unemployment rate; (ii) per capita 80 and 150 Public Works projects a education; or income that is, for the most recent year; and between 70 and 140 EAA e. Public or private nonprofit period for which data are available, projects a year. organization or association acting in 80 percent or less of the national cooperation with officials of a average per capita income; or (iii) a Estimated Size of Grant: The political subdivision of a State. “Special Need,” as determined by average size of a Public Works EDA.17 investment has been approximately EDA is not authorized to provide $1.4 million, and investments grants or cooperative agreements EDA will review and evaluate generally range from $200,000 to under its Public Works or EAA documentation submitted by the $3,000,000. programs to individuals or to for- applicant to determine eligibility. profit entities. Requests from such EDA will reject any documentation of The average size of an EAA entities will not be considered for eligibility that the agency determines investment has been approximately funding. Eligible applicants for EDA is inaccurate or incomplete, which $820,000, and investments generally financial assistance under the Public may cause the proposal or application range from $100,000 to $1,250,000. Works and EAA programs include a to be rejected. EDA reserves the right (n): (i) District Organization of a to request additional documentation Eligibility: designated Economic Development or information from the applicant to  City or township governments District; (ii) Indian Tribe or a make an eligibility determination. In  County governments consortium of Indian Tribes; (iii) cases where EDA receives a proposal  Indian/Native American Tribal State, county, city, or other political or complete application for PRC Governments (Other than subdivision of a State, including a review six months or more before the Federally Recognized) special purpose unit of a State or local time of award, EDA will re-evaluate government engaged in economic or the project to determine continued  Native American tribal infrastructure development activities, eligibility for investment assistance governments (Federally or a consortium of political before making an award. recognized) subdivisions; (iv) institution of higher  Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) education or a consortium of For construction projects (including status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education; or design and engineering) the project institutions of higher education (v) public or private non- profit must be located within an eligible  Nonprofits that do not have a 501 organization or association acting in Region. For non-construction (c)(3) status with the IRS, other cooperation with officials of a projects, the investment’s scope of than institutions of higher political subdivision of a State. work must primarily benefit an education eligible Region and stakeholders from  Private institutions of higher EDA Economic Distress that eligible area must be directly education Criteria: In order to be eligible engaged. EDA suggests that  Public and State controlled for funding under this NOFA, an applicants work closely with the EDA institutions of higher education applicant must propose a project that representative listed for their state as  See RFP and/or Grant Guidelines meets EDA’s distress criteria as of the they define an eligible project in their for full eligibility date EDA receives a proposal or Region.  Special district governments complete application for Proposal Review Committee (PRC) review. A proposed project may meet the  State governments Applicants must self-define the Regional eligibility criteria in one of appropriate Region geographically. the following three ways: Additional Eligibility Criteria: The geographic area comprising a Pursuant to PWEDA, eligible Region need not be contiguous or 1. The proposed project will be applicants for and eligible recipients defined by political boundaries but located in a Region that meets EDA’s of EDA investment assistance under should constitute a cohesive area economic distress criteria; this NOFA include a(n): capable of undertaking self-sustained a. District Organization; economic development. Applicants 2. The proposed project is located in b. Indian Tribe or a consortium of must provide third-party data that an Economic Development District Indian Tribes; clearly indicate that the relevant that is located in a Region that does c. State, county, city, or other Region is subject to one (or more) of not meet EDA’s economic distress political subdivision of a State, the following economic distress criteria, and EDA determines the including a special purpose unit of a criteria: (i) an unemployment rate proposed project will be of State or local government engaged in that is, for the most recent 24-month substantial direct benefit to a economic or infrastructure period for which data are available, at geographic area within the District development activities, or a least one percentage point greater that meets EDA’s economic distress consortium of political subdivisions; 21 FEDERAL GRANTS (Cont.): criteria; or of the total project cost for projects: (i) of a State (or political subdivision Denver Regional Office 3. The proposed project will be of a State) that the Assistant Angela Belden Martinez, Regional located in a geographic area of Secretary for Economic Development Director poverty or high unemployment that determines has exhausted its effective 1244 Speer Boulevard, Suite 431 meets EDA’s economic distress taxing and borrowing capacity or (ii) Denver, CO 80204 criteria, but which is located in a of a non-profit organization that the (303) 844-4715 Main Office Region that overall does not meet Assistant Secretary for Economic (303) 844-3968 Fax EDA’s distress criteria. Development determines has exhausted its effective borrowing Philadelphia Regional Office Pre-Application Information: capacity.11 Additionally, EDA’s Linda Cruz-Carnall, Regional Applicants are strongly encouraged to regulations provide discretion to Director contact the regional ACC program establish a maximum EDA Robert N.C. Nix Federal Building point of contact (POC) listed in investment rate of up to 100 percent 900 Market Street, Room 602 Section G of this NOFA for specific for projects of Indian Tribes. Philadelphia, PA 19107 guidance pertaining to the eligible use (215) 597-4603 Main Office of program funds. Potential applicants should contact (215) 597-1063 Fax the EDA representative listed for In FY 2017, EDA has been their state in Section G of the NOFA Seattle Regional Office appropriated $100 million for the to obtain additional information A. Leonard Smith, Regional Director Public Works program, $35 million regarding these EDA investment rate Jackson Federal Building for the EAA program, and an determinations. 915 Second Avenue, Room 1890 additional $30 million in EAA funds Seattle, WA 98174-1001 for ACC. EDA employs a two-phase review (206) 220-7660 Main Office process for proposals/applications (206) 220-7669 Fax Generally, the amount of an EDA submitted under this NOFA. There award may not exceed 50 percent of are no submission deadlines. CFDA Number: 11.300 -- the total cost of the project. Projects Proposals and applications will be Investments for Public Works and may receive an additional amount accepted on an ongoing basis until Economic Development Facilities / that may not exceed up to 30 percent the publication of a new EDAP 11.307 -- Economic Adjustment of the total project cost, based on the NOFA. Proposals will be reviewed by Assistance relative needs of the Region in which EDA within 30 days of receipt; and the project will be located, as following the proposal review, full Funding or Pin Number: EDAP-2017 determined by EDA. applications will be reviewed within 60 days of receipt. URL for Full Text (RFP): https:// In general, EDA’s maximum www.eda.gov/funding-opportunities/ investment rate (percent of the total View this opportunity on Grants.gov: project cost) is determined by the https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/ NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR average per capita income or view-opportunity.html? THE ARTS—OUR TOWN: unemployment rate of the region in oppId=294771 which the project is located, as PROJECTS THAT BUILD outlined in Table 1 in the NOFA. Deadline: Ongoing KNOWLEDGE ABOUT CREATIVE PLACEMAKING For projects subject to a Special Contact: Need, as outlined in Section C.3 Austin Regional Office Grants starting at $25,000 to USA below, EDA will determine the Jorge Ayala, Regional Director nonprofit and university-based art or maximum allowable investment rate, 903 San Jacinto, Suite 206 design service organizations for the not to exceed 80 percent of the total Austin, TX 78701 development and dissemination of project cost, based on the actual or (512) 381-8150 Main Office creative placemaking knowledge threatened overall economic situation (512) 499-0478 Fax through collaborative projects. of the Region in which the project is Applications must register or renew located. Chicago Regional Office the required account by August 21 Jeannette P. Tamayo, Regional and submit the required form by In addition, the Secretary of Director September 11. Commerce has delegated to the 230 South Dearborn Street, Suite Assistant Secretary for Economic 3280 These projects should expand the Development the discretion to Chicago, IL 60604-1512 capacity of artists and arts establish a maximum EDA (312) 353-8143 Main Office organizations to be more effective at investment rate of up to 100 percent (312) 353-8575 Fax executing creative placemaking projects, and to work more effectively 22 FEDERAL GRANTS (Cont.): with economic and community constituency, as appropriate. Required Partnerships: development practitioners, and vice Systemic approach to building Applications must identify a versa, to improve the livability of the knowledge about creative partnership with either an communities and create placemaking for the organization and organization or consultant, and one opportunities for all. broader field of community of the two partners must have development. creative placemaking expertise. For These projects can be carried out by example, an art-based membership arts service or design service Clearly defined systems that provide organization must have an economic organizations, and/or other national for the management of new ideas, or community development or regional membership, policy, or documentation, the potential for knowledge consultant/organization/ university-based organizations that learning, and sharing of technical partner identified at the time of provide technical assistance to those assistance programming. application, or an economic or doing place-based economic and Clearly defined audience for technical community development community development work, and assistance, and delivery of technical membership organization must have to expand the knowledge base about assistance. (Funding will not support an arts-based knowledge consultant/ creative placemaking to their only the creation of technical organization/partner. members and the field. assistance knowledge. The knowledge must also be delivered). Additional partners are encouraged In the first three years of funding this The appropriate arts and/or place- and may include an appropriate area of Our Town, NEA has invested based experts to provide the services variety of entities such as colleges and in many partnership projects that included in the project. universities, or individuals. expand the capacity for creative Artistic excellence of the arts placemaking among audiences such organizations, or artists involved with Arts service and design service as artists and arts organizations, the project. organizations and other national or urban planners, rural economic regional organizations that provide planners, public park managers, local Projects may include activities in technical assistance to those doing civic leaders, community creative placemaking for member place-based work are expected to development practitioners, and organizations and individuals such involve their memberships and downtown managers. as: constituencies, as appropriate.  Mentorships. NEA hopes to reach a wide range of  Training opportunities and Livability: Through Our Town professional networks positioned to convenings, whether in-person or projects, the Arts Endowment intends facilitate the exchange of creative remote. to achieve the following objective placemaking and community  Technical assistance and capacity from NEA’s strategic plan: Livability: development knowledge and building for members. American communities are practices between fields. In this strengthened through the arts. fourth year of the program, NEA is  Research, policy analysis, and Successful Our Town projects will interested in expanding the types of decision support tools that help impact livability by affecting audiences targeted in projects. This to build a creative placemaking community priorities such as public may include, but is not limited to, knowledge base. safety, health, blight and vacancy, additional types of cultural  Other projects appropriate to the environment, job creation, equity, organizations and artists, public organization's internal system of local business development, civic safety officials, Native American learning. participation, and/or community community development leaders, cohesion. The anticipated long-term public health practitioners, Projects may focus on delivering results for Livability projects are transportation leaders, etc. NEA is technical assistance on a wide variety measurable community benefits, especially interested in projects of creative placemaking topics such as which might include: where the dissemination of creative those project types covered in Growth in overall levels of social and placemaking strategies and tools 'Exploring Our Town', or under the civic engagement. ultimately empowers local residents. Arts Engagement, Cultural Planning, New avenues for expression and and Design area of Our Town. creativity. These projects should expand the Design-focused changes in policies, knowledge base about creative NEA understands that creative laws, and/or regulations. placemaking to their members and placemaking projects are often multi- Job and/or revenue growth. the field, and must reflect the year, large-scale initiatives. Please be Positive changes in migration following: specific about which phase or phases patterns. your request for funding will address. Involvement of the organization's All phases of a project are eligible for Estimated Size of Grant: You membership, audience, or support. must request a grant amount at one

23 FEDERAL GRANTS (Cont.): of the following levels: $25,000, U.S. GENERAL SERVICES application's Background and $50,000, $75,000, or $100,000. ADMINISTRATION Significance section documentation to support the orphan disease or Term of Contract: NEA support Excess federal property is made condition to be studied is a “rare of a project may start on August 1, available for USA Territories, State disease or condition” and an 2018, or any time thereafter. A grant and local government agencies, and explanation of how the proposed period of up to two years is allowed. nonprofits such as those involved in study will either help support product Allow sufficient time to plan, execute, health care, education, eldercare, approval or provide essential data and close out your project. The two- homeless, youth, airports, museums, needed for product development. year period is intended to allow an and libraries. All types of property are applicant sufficient time to plan, available except for land and other Eligible applicants include: execute, and close out its project, not real property, certain naval vessels,  Private institutions of higher to repeat a one-year project for a and federal government records. education second year.  Small businesses State agencies and public  Independent school districts Eligibility: organizations seeking donations of  State governments  City or township governments surplus federal property should  County governments  County governments contact a SASP representative in their region. These State-run organizations  Nonprofits that do not have a 501  Independent school districts coordinate with the federal program (c)(3) status with the IRS, other  Native American tribal for the donation of federal surplus than institutions of higher governments (Federally property to public, tax-supported education recognized) entities and eligible private nonprofit  Native American tribal  Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizations. governments (Federally status with the IRS, other than recognized) institutions of higher education Use GSAXcess® (http://  For profit organizations other  Private institutions of higher www.gsa.gov) to search for available than small businesses education surplus property.  Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3)  Public and State controlled status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education Eligibility: Nonprofits having a institutions of higher education 501(c)(3) status with the IRS  See RFP and/or Grant Guidelines  Public housing authorities/

for full eligibility Indian housing authorities  Special district governments Deadline: Ongoing  City or township governments  State governments Contact:  Special district governments

Christopher Willett  Public and State controlled Deadline: September 25, 2017 Phone: (703) 605-2873 institutions of higher education 11:59 PM ET Email: [email protected]  Others (see text field entitled Contact: "Additional Information on CLINICAL STUDIES OF SAFETY Eligibility" for clarification) Applicant Portal: AND EFFECTIVENESS OF  Native American tribal https://applicantportal.arts.gov/ ORPHAN PRODUCTS organizations (other than RESEARCH PROJECT GRANT Federally recognized tribal governments) Email: [email protected] (R01) Voice/TTY: (202) 682-5082 The goal of this FDA's grant program Additional Information on Eligibility: Individuals who do not use is to support the clinical development  Hispanic-serving Institutions conventional print should contact the of products for use in treatment of  Historically Black Colleges and Arts Endowment's Accessibility Office rare diseases or conditions where no Universities (HBCUs) at (202) 682-5532 for help in current therapy exists, or where the  Tribally Controlled Colleges and acquiring an audio recording of these product being developed will be Universities (TCCUs) guidelines. superior to the existing therapy.  Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions URL for Full Text (RFP): FDA provides grants for clinical  Asian American Native American https://www.arts.gov/grants- studies on safety and/or effectiveness Pacific Islander Serving organizations/our-town/projects-that that will either result in, or Institutions (AANAPISIs) -build-knowledge-about-creative- substantially contribute to, market  Indian/Native American Tribal placemaking-grant-program- approval of these products. description Applicants must include in the Governments (Federally 24 FEDERAL GRANTS (Cont.):

Recognized)  For profit organizations other venues in the United States  Indian/Native American Tribal than small businesses (including the originating location). • Governments (Other than  Others (see text field entitled Historic Places: This format supports Federally Recognized) Additional Information on the interpretation of historic sites,  U.S. Territory or Possession Eligibility" for clarification) houses, neighborhoods, and regions,  Faith-based or Community-based  City or township governments which might include living history Organizations presentations, guided tours, exhibitions, and public programs.  Regional Organizations Funding: Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the NEH encourages projects that explore  Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities humanities ideas through multiple (Foreign Institutions) actual needs of the proposed project. formats. Proposed projects may include complementary components: Funding: $14,100,000 Deadline: January 7, 2020 for example, a museum exhibition might be accompanied by a website, Deadline: October 18, 2018 Contact: [email protected] mobile app, or discussion programs. Your application must identify one Contact: primary format for your project and Dan Lukash NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR follow the application instructions for Grants Management Specialist THE HUMANITIES PUBLIC that format. Phone 240-402-7596 HUMANITIES PROJECT Email: [email protected] (20170809-GW) Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: No SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT IN Public Humanities Projects grants HIV-INFECTED INDIVIDUALS support projects that bring the ideas Award Ceiling: $1,000,000 WITH COMORBID CONDITIONS and insights of the humanities to life (R01) for general audiences. Projects must Award Floor: $1 engage humanities scholarship to The FOA invites research applications analyze significant themes in Eligibility: focused on developing, adapting and disciplines such as history, literature,  Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) testing innovative cost-effective ethics, and art history, or to address status with the IRS, other than strategies to prevent, identify and challenging issues in contemporary institutions of higher education manage symptoms of HIV-associated life. NEH encourages projects that  State governments Non-AIDS conditions (HANA) and involve members of the public in collaboration with humanities  Native American tribal other comorbidities among older governments (Federally adults with prolonged HIV infection. scholars or that invite contributions from the community in the recognized)  City or township governments Eligibility: development and delivery of  Public and State controlled  Small businesses humanities programming. This grant program supports a variety of forms institutions of higher education  County governments of audience engagement. Applications  Private institutions of higher  Special district governments should follow the parameters set out education  Public housing authorities/ below for one of the following three  Special district governments Indian housing authorities formats: • Community Conversations:  County governments  Public and State controlled This format supports one- to two- institutions of higher education year-long series of community-wide Additional Information:  State governments public discussions that bring together https://www.neh.gov/grants/public/  Native American tribal a diverse group of residents to public-humanities-projects organizations (other than address important topics relevant to Federally recognized tribal their town or city, guided by the Deadline: August 9, 2017 governments) perspectives of the humanities.  Nonprofits that do not have a 501 Applicants must demonstrate prior Contact: (c)(3) status with the IRS, other experience conducting public and Division of Public Programs National than institutions of higher nonpartisan dialogues about Endowment for the Humanities education important topics. • Exhibitions: This 400 Seventh Street, SW format supports permanent Washington, DC 20506  Native American tribal exhibitions that will be on view for at governments (Federally 202-606-8269 least three years, or travelling [email protected] recognized) exhibitions that will be available to  Private institutions of higher public audiences in at least two education 25 FEDERAL GRANTS (Cont.):

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND fields that will be useful for applicants Narrative, Summary, Supplementary RECORDS ADMINISTRATION as they develop their proposals. Materials, and Budget. Applications ARCHIVES LEADERSHIP Applicants may benefit from looking lacking these items will not be INSTITUTE (LEADERSHIP- at these examples: Getty Leadership considered. Ineligible applications 201712) Institute for museum professionals will not be reviewed. Seminar for Historical The National Historical Publications Administration for administrators of Cost Sharing or Matching and Records Commission (NHPRC) historical sites and museums Leading Requirement: Yes of the National Archives supports Change Institute (successor to Frye projects that promote access to Leadership Institute) for librarians Estimated Total Program America’s historical records to and library administrators Award Funding: $250,000 encourage understanding of our Information The Commission expects democracy, history, and culture. The to make one award for up to three Award Ceiling: $250,000 following grant application years with the expectation that an Award Floor: $1 information is for a project to institute will take place each year continue the Archives Leadership beginning in 2019. Applicants may Eligibility: Institute. Funding Opportunity propose to host two or three  State governments Number: LEADERSHIP-201710 institutes, depending on the total  Private institutions of higher Catalog of Federal Domestic time period of their projects. The education Assistance (CFDA) Number: 89.003 total award will be up to $250,000.  County governments The Commission requires that grant Draft (optional) Deadline: October 6,  City or township governments 2017 Final Deadline: December 7, recipients acknowledge NHPRC grant  Public and State controlled 2017 NHPRC support begins no assistance in all products and institutions of higher education earlier than July 1, 2018. Grant publicity that result from its support. Program Description The Eligibility • Nonprofit organizations  Native American tribal Commission seeks proposals from or institutions • Colleges, universities, governments (Federally organizations to continue the and other academic institutions • recognized) Archives Leadership Institute, which State or local government agencies •  Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) it first funded in 2008. The Archives Federally-acknowledged or state- status with the IRS, other than Leadership Institute seeks to build recognized Native American tribes or institutions of higher education the capacity of attendees as leaders groups Cost Sharing The Commission both in their own institutions and in may support up to the entire direct Additional Information: the archives field. The NHPRC costs of the project. Cost sharing may https://www.archives.gov/nhprc/ envisions a minimum of a one-week include the program revenue, announcement/leadership.html program that will tailor contemporary grantee's indirect costs, as well as any best practices in leadership skills to additional direct costs borne by the Deadline: December 7, 2017 issues specific to archives applicant. NHPRC grant recipients professionals. The grantee will be are not permitted to use grant funds Contact: responsible for all project phases, for indirect costs (as indicated in 2 Jeff de la Concepcion from curriculum design and CFR 2600.101). Other Requirements [email protected] development through administering Applicant organizations must be Grant Information Specialist the program for the attendees it registered in the System for Award selects. Topics for the Institute may Management (SAM) prior to include issues in technology, submitting an application, maintain economics, public policy, and SAM registration throughout the constituent relations, along with application and award process, and practical questions of administration, include a valid DUNS number in their strategic planning, leading change, application. Details on SAM and fund raising. In addition, there registration and requesting a DUNS should be opportunities for number can be found at the System participants to develop solutions to for Award Management website at the specific needs of their https://www.sam.gov. Please refer to institutions. To cover these topics and the User Guides section and the needs, Institute faculty should Grants Registrations PDF. A include experts and educators in complete application includes the leadership development and Application for Federal Assistance organizational management as well as (Standard Form 424), Assurances -- experienced archival leaders. There Non-Construction Programs are models of such institutes in other (Standard Form 424B), a Project 26 STATE GRANTS:

Phone: 518-408-8578 Brownfield Cleanup Program that the NEW YORK STATE Email: [email protected] DEC has determined pose a DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH Website: www.health.ny.gov/ significant threat to public health funding/rfa/1612280202/index.htm and/or the environment. (NYSDOH), BUREAU OF COMMUNITY CHRONIC Funding: Funding is limited to DISEASE PREVENTION, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF $50,000 per site. ASTHMA CONTROL PROGRAM ENVIRONMENTAL Deadline: Applications are Applications are sought to establish CONSERVATION (DEC) accepted continuously. and/or expand comprehensive TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE asthma-control services to improve GRANTS Contact: health outcomes for people with TAG Coordinator at DEC asthma and reduce the burden The New York State DEC Phone: 518-402-9711 of asthma in high-risk areas of New continuously accepts applications for Email: [email protected] York State. The aim is to improve the Technical Assistance Grants (TAGs). Website: www.dec.ny.gov/ quality of guideline-based health TAGs are a citizen participation tool regulations/2590.html care, ensuring the provision of available to eligible community appropriate asthma self-management groups to increase public awareness education, and support policies to and understanding of remedial NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL promote asthma control. Approaches activities taking place in their ON THE ARTS AND WAVE should be seamless and guidelines community. TAGS, in the form of FARM based across public health, State Assistance Contracts (SACs), community and health care sectors. are available to eligible community Grants of up to $4,000 to New York Applicants should seek to work to groups for the purpose of obtaining media arts organizations for a range reduce the racial/ethnic and independent technical assistance of development and networking community disparities in the burden in interpreting existing activities. Funding may be requested of asthma, with a primary focus on environmental information about an to hire consultants for organizational children through age 17. eligible “significant threat” site being development, carry out professional remediated in the State Superfund development programs, or attend Eligibility: Eligible applicants Program or Brownfield Cleanup conferences and festivals. include public and private not-for- Program. Technical assistance profit agencies and organizations in is intended to help the grant recipient Organizational Development New York State, including local and the community it represents to enables organizations to hire public health agencies/ understand existing environmental consultants to work with municipalities, hospitals, health care data developed about the site, organizations in the evaluation and systems, not-for-profit primary care comment on site remedial activities assessment of programs and networks, academic institutions, and proposals and share this operations, and planning for community-based organizations, information with the public. sustainability and growth. Proposals voluntary associations, foundations must be directed to consultant fees or and scientific or professional Eligibility: A community group other professional fees addressing: associations. Applicants located in must be a nonresponsible party research, assessment, and evaluation and serving the following counties are community group or one that is in of current programs; research and eligible to apply: Albany, Bronx, partnership with another planning for new initiatives; strategic Dutchess, Erie, Fulton, Kings, nonresponsible party community planning for new operations and Monroe, Montgomery, Nassau, New group. The group must be a not-for- partnerships; board development, York, Niagara, Orange, Queens, profit corporation having 501(c)(3) staff retreats, succession planning; or Rensselaer, Richmond, Schenectady, status and a group whose members’ preservation planning. Suffolk, Sullivan, Ulster and health, economic well-being or Westchester. enjoyment of the environment may Professional Development be affected by a release or threatened builds knowledge and technical Funding: It’s anticipated that five release of contamination at the expertise of media arts organizational contracts of no more than $900,000 eligible site. The group must be one staff and Board members. Proposals each will be awarded for five-year whose membership represents the must be directed to: staff training and periods. interest of the community affected by education; Board training and the eligible site. Eligible sites must be education; seminars and workshops; Deadline: September 18, 2017, Class 2 sites on the New York State or skill-share exchanges with other 4:00 p.m. Registry of Inactive Hazardous Waste media arts facilities in New York Disposal Sites or sites being State. Contact: Holly Teal remediated under the State’s 27 STATE GRANTS (Cont.):

Convening supports open lines of Contact: Before starting your often sponsored by a municipality, communication, information, grant application, please review the which hires a contractor to collect, consortium building and resource funding source's website listed below separate and manage the waste sharing among media arts for updates/changes/addendums/ received from residents. organizations, including staff and conferences/LOIs. sponsored artist attendance at New Permitted HHW collection and York State conferences. Apply Online: storage facilities (often referred to as Organizations may apply for https://wavefarm.submittable.com/ permanent HHW facilities) can conducting one or two-day local, submit/16f9b0d9-aa2a-4027-a8bb- receive HHW from residents on a regional or State-wide convening on 308580296f4f regular basis. These facilities must issues and topics relating to the receive a permit from the DEC before media arts, and to facilitate targeted [email protected] construction or operation may begin. networking, focus groups and think “Mobile HHW facilities” can also be tanks. Proposals may also be directed URL for Full Text (RFP): https:// included as a component of a to attendance at festivals and wavefarm.org/mag/organizations permitted HHW collection and conferences. storage facility’s permit to collect Estimated Size of Grant: NEW YORK STATE HHW at different locations Organizations may request funding DEPARTMENT OF throughout a municipality and support up to a maximum amount of consolidate it at the permitted facility $4,000. ENVIRONMENTAL for processing, packaging and CONSERVATION (DEC) shipping. Note that for conference attendance, HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS $500 is the maximum award. WASTE (HHW) PROGRAMS For HHW collection programs to effectively reduce HHW, they must be Eligibility: See RFP and/or Grants to New York Municipalities readily accessible to residents, and Grant Guidelines for full for Hazardous Waste Collection must be accompanied by both eligibilityAdditional Eligibility Programs and Facilities promotion of the collection program and education about source Criteria: Eligible organizations Grants to New York municipalities to reduction. have missions specific to the media provide residents with safe arts, and dedicate the majority of alternatives for the disposal or All costs must be reasonable and their programming to technology as recycling of household hazardous necessary, as determined by DEC, for an art form. Applications from multi- waste. Funding is available to the operation of the HHW Program. disciplinary organizations will be reimburse hazardous waste collection considered on a case-by-case basis, program operations and events, A. Operating Costs - Typical eligible but are not a MAAF priority. outreach activities, and waste operating expenses are: facilities construction. Additional Project-based or operational support funding is designated for computer 1. Contractor costs to accept, for consultants such as grant writing, and electronic recycling. segregate, package, transport and hands-on fundraising, website properly manage the collected HHW. management, or other activities such Household Hazardous Waste State as side-by-side staff support, which Assistance Program Information: 2. Costs of safety equipment, such as may be considered staff positions are protective clothing and respirator not eligible. Household hazardous waste (HHW) cartridges, for municipal workers and are materials found in residential volunteers. Pre-Application Information: wastes that would be regulated as For implementation projects, hazardous waste if they were 3. Costs of packaging supplies and requests must be made in generated outside of a household at a containers for HHW, container labels conjunction with a thorough planning business or industry. Examples of and ground covers used during the process. Implementation requests are HHW include, but are not limited to, collection of HHW. not a priority and will be considered oil-based paints, pesticides, on a case by case basis. Please contact automotive fluids, home hobby B. Educational Costs - Educational Wave Farm's Media Arts Grants chemicals, and compact fluorescent and outreach activities must focus on program (MAG) to discuss any bulbs. educating the public on reducing the questions you may have about your volume of HHW generated in the proposal in this regard. A HHW collection day is an event home, or must provide promotion for where HHW is received from a HHW collection program. Costs of Deadline: Application deadlines residents, properly packaged, and "mixed-use" brochures/ are January 1, April 1, July 1, and shipped to appropriate management advertisements will be pro-rated only October 1. facilities. Collection days are most if a minimum of 50% of the materials 28 STATE GRANTS (Cont.): are dedicated to HHW information. permitted household hazardous waste Other Requirements: Typical eligible educational expenses collection and storage facilities; and are: d. Costs for facility construction and 1. Permitted HHW Collection and other DEC approved directly related Storage Facilities must have a valid 1. Costs of preparing and printing expenses. DEC permit to operate. posters, brochures, flyers, and other materials that focuses on HHW E-Waste Grant Assistance Program 2. Collection day programs must have collection programs; Information: received DEC's written approval prior to conducting the collection day. 2. Costs of purchasing advertising The purpose of the E-Waste funding space in newspapers or other is to partially defray unexpected costs 3. Educational costs will be eligible periodicals, or of providing public paid to an e-waste recycling firm for reimbursement only if the service announcements to local radio (recycler) for covered e-waste municipality offers a collection stations or other media. recycling. program for HHW.

Only the costs of collecting and Eligible Expenses: Expenses incurred Items that will NOT be reimbursed managing categories of wastes that for collection/recycling of covered e- under this program include, but are meet the definition of HHW and do wastes sent to an electronic waste not limited to: not have separate State or federally recycler as defined in Environmental mandated take-back, deposit or Conservation Law (ECL) Article 27, 1. Costs that are reimbursed to the product stewardship programs, will Title 26. municipality or paid by outside be reimbursed under this program. sources, such as State and Federal Categories of waste potentially What is covered: Computers, Governments, or private donations or eligible for reimbursement may computer peripherals, televisions, funding; include, but are not limited to: small scale servers, and small pesticides, corrosives, pool chemicals, electronic equipment, as defined by 2. In-kind services, employee salaries, driveway sealers, hazardous paints NYS's Electronic Equipment general supplies and overhead; and stains, polishes and waxes, Recycling and Reuse Act (ECL Article adhesives, solvents, hazardous 27, Title 26). 3. Costs paid outside the term of the cleaning products, antifreeze, vehicle contract; fluids, fluorescent light tubes, Eligible Activities: Collection events, compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) pickup of abandoned e-wastes, 4. Costs of issuing bonds, obtaining and ballasts, photography chemicals, managing or paying for the financing, obtaining permits, non-rechargeable hazardous management of e-waste on behalf of applying for State assistance, interest, batteries, products containing one or more municipalities, or by bid document production or bid mercury (excluding thermostats), being a registered collection site/ document distribution; propane gas cylinders (that still consolidation facility. contain propane). Term of Contract: 5. Cost of recycling waste materials if E-Waste Grant: This grant is for the recycled product is returned to Special Guidance for Permitted actual expenses incurred between the municipality, such as through a Household Hazardous Waste April 1, 2017 and December 31, 2017. "buy-back" system; Collection and Storage Facilities - Eligibility: Eligible Costs: See RFP and/or Grant Guidelines for 6. Costs of operating a fluorescent full eligibilityAdditional Eligibility bulb collection program or other 1. Reasonable costs, as determined by Criteria: similar single material collection DEC, incurred in constructing a Only municipalities are eligible to programs, unless collected as part of household hazardous waste collection apply for and receive State assistance an approved HHW collection and storage facility may be eligible for under this Program. program; reimbursement. Eligible costs include the following, to the extent that they Under this State assistance program, 7. Costs of any HHW collection are necessary for actual facility a municipality is: program that does not comply with construction: -County, City, Town, or Village, an approved collection day plan or -Local Public Authority or Public facility permit, and all applicable a. Costs for engineering and Benefit Corporation, rules and regulations; architectural services, surveys, plans -School District or Supervisory and specifications; District, or 8. Cost of managing hazardous waste b. Costs for directly related -Native American tribe or nation not generated by households, such as consultant and legal services; located within New York State. hazardous waste generated by c. Costs for lands acquired, to the municipalities, municipal extent that the lands are used for departments, State agencies, schools, 29 STATE GRANTS (Cont.): farms commercial establishments or followed in descending order of Assistance; Applications for E-Waste industries.; priority by those received during July, Grants are accepted on an ongoing October, and January. (An basis through 01/31/18. 9. Costs related to and for municipal application not received in one of the workers and volunteers except for months listed above will be Contact: Before starting your personal safety equipment (e.g., considered received during the next grant application, please review the salary, overhead, travel and medical listed month.) funding source's website listed below expenses); for updates/changes/addendums/ The E-Waste Grant supplement form conferences/LOIs. 10. Costs incurred from the can be filed separately, or in collection, handling, and disposal of conjunction with the HHW For grants questions, call Michael types of solid waste that, except application. The E-Waste Grant Dauphinais and Dawn Mirabile at under extraordinary circumstances, application acceptance period is now (518) 402-8678. would not meet the definition of open. Applications will be accepted HHW (e.g., explosives, alkaline until January 31, 2018. Postmarks For e-waste questions, call Mark batteries, ammunition, asbestos, bulk and email time stamps will be used to Moroukian and MaryAnn Schelde at metal, construction and demolition determine if applications are received (518) 402-8706. debris, empty containers, empty paint by the January 31, 2018 deadline. New York State Department of cans, empty aerosol cans, empty Environmental Conservation refrigerant cans, empty propane If there are insufficient funds to Division of Materials Management tanks, unserviceable extinguishers, provide 50% reimbursement to all Bureau of Permitting & Planning household medical waste, latex paint, applications received during the same 625 Broadway, 9th Floor radioactive material, rechargeable quarterly review period, the Albany, New York 12233-7260 batteries, smoke detectors, tires, used department may either lower the oil, white goods, roll-off containers percentage or set a dollar maximum P: (518) 402-8678 with municipal solid waste, and any on the level of funding to be provided F: (518) 402-9024 miscellaneous materials and to each municipality. This lowered [email protected] packaging received). percentage or dollar maximum will be the same for all municipalities that URL for Full Text (RFP): http:// Ineligible for E-Waste Grants: submit an application during the www.dec.ny.gov/chemical/8778.html Costs that are not paid directly from a same quarter. municipality to an e-waste recycler NEW YORK STATE are not eligible for this funding. Costs Applications that have a lower DEPARTMENT OF LABOR for labor, processing, packaging, priority, based on the date of receipt storage, advertising, and so on will may be assigned a lower level of (NYSDOL) WORKPLACE not be funded. funding due to insufficient or HEALTH AND SAFETY (WHS) Pre-Application Information: exhausted funds. Applications Grants to New York Nonprofits and Approximately $1.7 million of the received after all funds for that fiscal Agencies to Reduce Occupational original $3 million remains available year have been obligated will not be Hazards for Low-Wage Workers for the current E-Waste Grant awarded funding. funding period. Grants to New York nonprofit The Collection Day Plan must be organizations and government Complete applications are received submitted to the applicant’s Regional agencies to provide training and and evaluated by the department on a Office at least 60 days prior to the education services addressing quarterly basis and, if acceptable, will event and be approved prior to the workplace safety and health hazards, be approved for state assistance to event. inclusive of assault and reimburse up to 50% of eligible costs. discrimination prevention. The Applicant must be registered in the purpose of this solicitation is to Applications are due on the final NYS Grants Gateway to receive a secure the services of qualifying business day of April, July, October grant contract. Information on the direct service providers, community- and January of the State fiscal year. A New York State Master Grants based organizations, occupational municipality may apply for HHW Gateway is available at: https:// health and safety clinics, and funding in the State fiscal year during grantsreform.ny.gov/. nonprofits that can assist the State in which collections are held, or in the the provision of workplace safety State fiscal year immediately AFTER E-Waste Grant Assistance FAQ: education, with a focus on low-skill, collection(s) are held. http://www.dec.ny.gov/ low-wage jobs. chemical/107384.html All applications received during April Several industries, including but not of each fiscal year will be given that Deadline: 10/31/17 - Deadline for limited to: agriculture; construction; year's highest priority for funding, Household Hazardous Waste State 30 STATE GRANTS (Cont.): health care, including home health health and safety issue prevention >>General or hazard-specific training care; landscaping; hospitality; and measures; on how to identify, evaluate, and dry cleaning, employ a large control employee exposure to percentage of low-wage immigrant >>Occupational safety and health workplace hazards, including but not workers and evidence high incidence best practices intended to protect and limited to atmospheric hazards, rates of occupational health and enhance workplace safety; and electrical and machine guarding, safety injuries and illnesses. slips/trips and falls and safe patient >>Business compliance with handling techniques; The following hazards have been occupational safety and health identified as particularly serious or regulations and best practices in >>Programs that complement or common occurrences in these partnership with NYSDOL’s On Site supplement existing NYSDOL On- industries: Consultation program. Site Consultation programs designed  Rollovers; to reduce workplace accidents by  Power takeoff drives; NYSDOL has made funds available teaching practices or procedures  Lifting; for the provision of education, designed to mitigate inherently outreach, and assistance to workers, dangerous work activities—for  Chemical exposure and including exploited and immigrant example, reducing workplace inhalation including cleaning workers. The activities are to be accidents by implementing lockout/ supplies, perchlorethylene industry-specific utilizing health and tag-out procedures, safe electrical (PERC); safety best practices that would have work practices, or methods of  Slips/trips/falls; a preventive impact on occupational working safely in confined spaces;  Noise exposure; health and safety violations  Moving parts; >>Programs addressing ergonomic  Exposure to dusts and fumes; Allowable Costs: and repetitive motion problems,  Vapors; including safe-patient handling, and  Blood pathogens and other body WHS funding is intended to promote proper lifting techniques; fluid pathogens; occupational safety and health through outreach, training and >>Instruction of employees and  Metals; education, promotion of available businesses on their rights and  Plastics; compliance driven business responsibilities under the New York  Pesticides; consultation, and other proven State Right-to-Know Law and OSHA/  Repetitive motion; preventive programs. Public Employees Safety and Health  Biological hazards; (PESH) standards on hazard  Sharp objects including broken Typical activities which may be communication, chemical hazards in glass; funded under the grant program laboratories, and specific substances  Hot grease; include, but are not limited to, the such as lead, benzene, and asbestos, following: etc.;  “Sharps” (used in medical procedures and are often >>Workshops, seminars, or clinics >>Programs which help address disposed of improperly); intended to provide workers with unique and unusually difficult job  Extreme temperatures; information about occupational safety and health problems, such as  Elevated work sites with serious health and safety standards, for workplace violence, assault, sexual risk of falling; and instance Open Clinic nights where assault, sexual harassment, exposure  Workplace violence. workers learn about typical health to biological hazards and other and safety issues at their worksite, emerging hazards; and/or This RFA will support meaningful how to identify and control these and comprehensive efforts hazards, their rights under the >>Programs which help increase/ undertaken by community-based Occupational Safety and Health encourage business compliance with organizations, direct service Administration (OSHA), and the right workplace health and safety providers, occupational health and to complain about workplace regulations, including industrial safety clinics, and other not-for-profit conditions free from retaliation or hygiene initiatives, the New York entities to provide training, harassment. “Right to Know” State Safety and Health Achievement education, and assistance in the workshops, seminars, or clinics Recognition Program (SHARP) and following general areas for workers, cannot be stand-alone trainings. Workplace Safety and Loss advocates, and businesses: Applicants can include these training Prevention Incentive Program topics in larger training offerings but (NYSDOL’s Industrial Code Rule 60). >>Workplace accident, injury, illness, NYSDOL will not fund applications in violence, harassment and other which this topic is the only topic area; Awarded projects may, but are not physical and psychological workplace required to, award certificates of

31 STATE GRANTS (Cont.): completion to individuals who receive absence of future appropriations, all Disability Insurance. training or education funded by this activities supported by the contract program. must be completed, and awarded Consultants, trade organizations and funds must be fully expended by other third party entities are not Other allowable costs include: March 31, 2018. eligible to apply for funds on behalf of  Learning aids that are directly other organizations. related to the proposed training; Bidders must include only the and training opportunities that can be Applicants with existing or pending  Publicity activities and materials reasonably accomplished within the contracts with NYSDOL remain that provide information directly contract time period. In the event eligible to apply for funding under related to improving workplace funding becomes available after this WHS RFA as long as the safety and health (Note, all March 31, 2018, limited no-cost application does not propose training publicity must be pre-approved contract extensions of up to six or services to the same individual or by NYSDOL’s Communications additional months may be approved entity as the existing or pending office). at NYSDOL’s discretion. The length NYSDOL contract. In addition, the of the extension is dependent on the payments requested cannot duplicate Target Population: This RFA original contract duration; however, reimbursement from other sources of seeks to assist employed workers that under no circumstances may the funding. may be experiencing and/or are at length of the contract plus the risk of experiencing occupational extension exceed a total of twelve WHS will not pay for any of the health and safety hazards. The target months. following items: population will typically be workers -Development of academic curricula in low-skill, low-wage positions in Eligibility: See RFP and/or for the education of occupational industries such as: nail salons; Grant Guidelines for full eligibility safety and health farming; childcare; cleaning; home professionals or support personnel; health care; laundry; restaurants; Additional Eligibility Criteria: -Activities which support degree retail; construction; landscaping; car Applicants may be single entities as programs, safety engineer certificate washes; supermarkets; janitorial well as consortiums of entities, programs, or extended academic services; and trucking and waste applying through a lead applicant. programs designed to provide disposal. professional level credentials; Eligible applicants must be not-for- -Scientific research and occupational While participants will not be profit or governmental entities, health screenings; expected to self-disclose as an including community-based -Any costs related to actual exploited worker to receive training organizations, direct service implementation of compliance or services, and specific businesses providers, occupational health and measures, model practices, or any should not be indicated within the safety clinics and other not-for-profit other enhancements (i.e. capital, application, applicants must provide and governmental entities which: structural, equipment2, etc.); a description of the industry as well -Political activities or devices; as the systemic health and safety >>Have two or more paid employees -Newsletters, factsheets, language problem(s) that will be addressed (principals of corporations, board lines, websites, or other publications with the grant. members and owners of businesses which do not solely provide such as sole proprietors or partners information directly related to There is no minimum or maximum are not considered to be employees improving workplace safety and number of individuals to be served for this criterion) or the equivalent of health. Items related to labor vs. under this WHS RFA. two (2) full-time employees (year- management issues and political round, part-time employees are disputes are not appropriate material Estimated Total Program acceptable); to be covered in grant-funded Funding: $3,700,000 publications. Items related to court >>Are headquartered in NYS or have actions may be appropriate if they Estimated Size of Grant: at least one site located in NYS at the address the impact of the decision on Applications of more than $200,000 time of application; and safety and health in the workplace will not be considered. within New York State. However, the >>Are in good standing regarding: publication of court decisions in There is no minimum award amount Unemployment Insurance; Worker jurisdictions whose laws do not apply under the WHS program. Adjustment and Retraining in New York State would not be Term of Contract: Notification Act (WARN); Public appropriate. Likewise, publications or Contracts may not be extended past Work; Labor Standards; Safety and other reporting on an entity’s victory March 31, 2018 unless a NYS Budget Health; NYS Department of State in a specific court action would not be appropriation is maintained. In the Division of Corporations; Workers’ appropriate; Compensation Insurance; and -Wages or stipends paid to workers 32 STATE GRANTS (Cont.): while in training; by not-for-profit organizations before technical questions about Grants -Refreshments provided during the application is submitted. Failure Gateway to training programs; to do so will mean that the [email protected]. -Severance pay; application will not be reviewed. -Awards of cash, trophies or the like; Applicants in need of assistance -Accrued leave time; Applicants may submit questions via completing this RFA may reach out to -Purchase and/or rental of cellular electronic mail. Questions regarding Krista Barringer at NYSDOL at telephones and devices; the RFA will be accepted on an [email protected]. -Audit services; ongoing basis until December 13, -Acquisition, construction, or 2017. Answers to all questions New York State Department of Labor renovation of buildings or other real received by this date will be posted on Division of Worker Protection estate; the NYSDOL website no later than Harriman Office -Supportive services such as child December 15, 2017: Campus Building 12, Room 440 care, transportation, lodging, and https://labor.ny.gov/ Albany, New York 12240 meals for the trainees (any supportive businessservices/funding.shtm Bid Number: WHS RFA-#11 / Grant services provided may be funded Opportunity ID: DOL01-WHS17-2017 through the local Career Center); Applications and required URL for Full Text (RFP): https:// -Entertainment; attachments will be accepted labor.ny.gov/businessservices/ -Interest costs incurred by provider immediately and on an ongoing basis funding.shtm agencies; through the Grants Gateway until -Costs of organized fund raising; 4:00 PM Eastern Standard Time on NEW YORK STATE -Sales training; December 29, 2017. DEPARTMENT OF -Registration fees; -Payment of fees associated with RFA Timetable: ENVIRONMENTAL attendance at seminars, conferences, -RFA Release Date: June 28, 2017 CONSERVATION (DEC) - or meetings of professional -Deadline Date for Questions: OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL organizations; or Ongoing, no later than December 13, JUSTICE (OEJ) GREEN JOBS -Any other costs deemed 2017. FOR YOUTH GRANT inappropriate by NYSDOL and any -Deadline Date for Responses to costs that do not meet the intent of Questions: Ongoing, no later than Grants starting at $50,000 to New the RFA or programs that are readily December 15, 2017. York nonprofit community-based and available from NYSDOL. -Application/Proposal Due Date: grassroots organizations for Ongoing, no later than 4:00 PM programs that train youth for green If an applicant is unsure about Eastern Standard Time on December infrastructure, urban agriculture, and unallowable trainings, programs, or 29, 2017. clean energy jobs. The purpose of this other charges applicable to this grant -Date of Notification of Award: program is to prepare young people funding opportunity they should Ongoing as received. in underserved areas or consider asking specific questions -Latest Possible Contract End Date: environmental justice communities before the Questions Deadline. March 31, 2018 for emerging green job opportunities. Pre-Application Information: Contracts will be paid on a View this opportunity on the Grants Applicants should submit proposals reimbursable payment basis. Gateway: for education and training projects https://grantsgateway.ny.gov/ for occupational skills sought by All entities must visit the Grants IntelliGrants_NYSGG/module/ employers in the above fields and Gateway website and follow the nysgg/goportal.aspx?NavItem1=3 should demonstrate local and instructions to complete the industry demand for the skill set. registration. The registration form Deadline: 12/29/17 4:00 PM EST must be signed, notarized and mailed - Applications will be accepted on an Proposals demonstrating a to Gateway Administrators. Plan ongoing basis through the final partnership with employers and accordingly to avoid potential delays deadline proposals demonstrating that the in applying for upcoming grant proposed training will lead to the opportunities. Contact: Applicants may submit acquisition of a nationally-recognized questions via electronic mail to green certification, a skill set Not-for-profit organizations must [email protected]. All certificate, a certificate degree, or a take the additional step of inquiries should include the following comparable award will receive prequalifying by completing a basic reference in the Subject line: “WHS additional points. profile and storing organizational RFA-#11 Question”. documents. Both registration and >>Clean Energy: Clean energy comes prequalification must be completed Applicants should direct any from sources such as the sun, wind,

33 STATE GRANTS (Cont.): plant matter and geothermal heat development and job training Term of Contract: All projects which are renewable and do not programs that will recruit, train, and must have defined objectives, tasks, pollute the environment. Training provide residents of environmental and deliverables accounted for in programs in clean energy can be in justice and under-served performance measures that can be the fields of energy efficiency, communities with the skills needed to completed and invoiced within a 24 renewable energy assembly and secure fulltime employment in the month contract period/term. installations, and advanced fields of clean energy, green technologies. Jobs in clean energy infrastructure, or urban agriculture. The activity for the request must fall promote energy efficiency, renewable within the January 1, 2018 to energy, reduced waste and pollution, Project proposals and work plans December 31, 2020. Project and improved transit. MUST address ALL of the following expenditures prior to MCG start date criteria: and after the MCG end date are not >>Green Infrastructure: Green eligible for reimbursement or match. infrastructure are strategically 1. Proposals must be for education or planned and managed networks of training in occupational skills in the Eligibility: See RFP and/or natural lands, working landscapes, fields of clean energy, green Grant Guidelines for full eligibility and other open spaces that conserve infrastructure, or urban agriculture; ecosystem values and functions and Deadline: September 1, 2017 provide associated benefits to human 2. Proposals must demonstrate that 3:00 PM EST populations, such as stormwater their methods and curricula are management and filtration. Job aligned with the full skill set sought Contact: training in green infrastructure may by employers in the fields of clean Office of Environmental Justice include the development and energy, green infrastructure, or urban Phone: (518) 402-8556 implementation of various green agriculture; Email: [email protected] infrastructure projects such as rain gardens, green roofs, bioswales, 3. Proposals must demonstrate Program Contact: constructed wetlands, permeable recruitment strategies for Rosa Mendez pavers, and urban forests. Training participants ages 17 to 24 currently [email protected] may also include planning and residing in an area meeting the Funding or Pin Number: conducting restoration of various geographic scope; Grant Opportunity ID: DEC01- land types to enhance performance, EJJobs-2017 including general botanical classes or 4. Proposals must demonstrate local introductory horticultural classes demand for the provided skill set and URL for Full Text (RFP): https:// related to land and stream restoration strategies for job placement and job grantsgateway.ny.gov/ or indigenous species and native search assistance; and intelligrants_NYSGG//module/ plant re-vegetation, landscaping, and nysgg/goportal.aspx? soil science. 5. Eligible projects for grant funding NavItem1=4&ngoID=5000802 must be located in an environmental >>Urban agriculture: Urban justice (EJ) community or will NEW YORK STATE agriculture is defined as growing food directly benefit an EJ community, or DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH and raising animals in cities, a project that will be located in or accompanied by complementary directly benefit an under-served REFUGEE MEDICAL activities such as processing and neighborhood (all potential ASSISTANCE (RMA) HEALTH distributing food, and collecting and neighborhoods who’s demographic, ASSESSMENT PROGRAM reusing food waste and rainwater. geographic, or economic Examples of urban agriculture characteristics impede or prevent Grants to New York licensed health include: community gardens, urban their access to open space and care providers to assess the health of farms, urban apiary, rooftop farms, environmental education). newly-arrived refugees. Contracted vertical farming, backyard chickens agencies will identify health for egg production, aquaponics, and Estimated Total Program conditions, provide the required hydroponics. Training programs in Funding: $1,000,000 immunizations, refer refugees with urban agriculture may include the use identified health conditions to of compost and soil amendments and Number of Grants: Funding is primary or specialty care, and help associated sampling, testing, and available to support ten training eliminate barriers to successful design considerations, and programs. resettlement while protecting the management techniques. health of the US population. Estimated Size of Grant: Project Eligibility: Proposals Minimum grant amount is $50,000; Approved providers who enter into a funded under this RFA will support Maximum grant amount is $100,000. contract with NYS DOH must meet environmental workforce requirements described in the 34 STATE GRANTS (Cont.):

Refugee Health Assessment Program The Greenway program is committed The NYS Homeless Housing and application. Health Assessment to the preservation, enhancement, Assistance Corporation (HHAC) and services will be reimbursed at an all- and development of the world- the NYS Office of Temporary and inclusive per-capita screening rate; renowned scenic, natural, historic, Disability Assistance (OTDA) are vaccines provided to adult refugees at cultural and recreational resources of continuing to accept applications for the time of the health assessment are the Hudson River Valley while funding under the Homeless Housing reimbursed according to the current supporting programs consistent with and Assistance Program (HHAP) CDC Vaccine Price List. economic development goals and the through an open Request for tradition of municipal home rule. Proposals (RFP). Deadline: Ongoing The Greenway area includes all of the Under HHAP, HHAC is authorized to Eligibility: See RFP and/or municipalities within these counties: provide grants and loans for the Grant Guidelines for full eligibility Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Orange, acquisition, construction and Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, rehabilitation of properties in order Contact: Before starting your Saratoga, Ulster, Washington, to expand the supply of housing for grant application, please review the Westchester, municipalities in low income persons who are, or funding source's website listed below Greene County outside of the Catskill would otherwise be, homeless. for updates/changes/addendums/ Park; and those portions of New York conferences/LOIs. and Bronx counties adjacent to the Application reviews and award Hudson River and within the city’s decisions will be made on an ongoing Refugee Health Coordinator local waterfront revitalization basis. OTDA posts notice on its Bureau of Tuberculosis Control program. website available funds are New York State Department of committed and/or HHAC decides to Health Estimated Size of Grant: terminate or suspend the acceptance Empire State Plaza — Corning Tower Requests for Greenway funds of applications. Building, Room 575 typically range from $5,000 to Albany, NY 12237-0669 $10,000. Intermunicipal Applicants are urged to check this collaboration projects that involve website prior to completing and Phone: (518) 474-4845 two or more municipalities will be submitting an application to Fax: (518) 473-6164 considered for funding in excess of determine whether proposals are Email: [email protected] $10,000. currently being accepted. Contact: Grant Coverage Areas: Eligibility: See RFP and/or Rick Umholtz New York State (excluding New York Grant Guidelines for full eligibility [email protected] City) 2017 Deadlines : February 3, URL for Full Text (RFP): https:// May 5, and September 8, postmarked GOVERNOR'S TRAFFIC SAFETY www.health.ny.gov/funding/rfa/ or emailed by 4:00 PM. COMMITTEE GRANT rma/ OPPORTUNITY HIGHWAY Contact: SAFETY GRANTS (HS-1) HUDSON RIVER VALLEY Hudson River Valley Greenway GREENWAY 625 Broadway - 4th Floor The Governor’s Traffic Safety Albany, NY 12207 Committee is issuing a Request for

Grants typically ranging from $5,000 Application to solicit applications Please note that due to building to $10,000 and grants starting at from state agencies, local security, for hand delivery you must $10,000 for eligible New York governments and not-for-profit contact the Hudson River Valley municipalities for land use planning agencies for Federal Highway Safety Greenway office ahead of time to or conservation projects in the grants. The goal of the program is to arrange delivery. Hudson River Valley area. Applicants prevent motor vehicle crashes, save are strongly encouraged to contact lives, and reduce the severity of Greenway office: (518) 473-3835 the Funding Source prior to injuries suffered in crashes on state [email protected] submitting an application to discuss roadways. To qualify for funding, a proposed projects. Funding is highway safety problem must be intended for projects that address OFFICE OFFICE OF documented and quantified using local issues, or collaborative projects TEMPORARY & DISABILITY data; a solution that addresses the that involve a group of communities ASSISTANCE HOMELESS problem using counter measures that working together to address both are proved to work must be proposed; HOUSING AND ASSISTANCE and a method for evaluating the local and regional issues. PROGRAM (HHAP) results must be included in the 35 STATE GRANTS (Cont.): application. Proposals must address DIVISION OF CRIMINAL one of the program areas included in The Governor’s Traffic Safety JUSTICE SERVICES GRANT the State’s Highway Safety Strategic Committee is issuing a Request for OPPORTUNITY OFFICE FOR Plan, which can be found online at Application to solicit applications THE PREVENTION OF www.SafeNY.ny.gov/hsdata.htm. from police agencies in New York DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RISK Program areas considered for the State for Police Traffic Services (PTS) general Highway Safety Grant grants under the Federal Highway REDUCTION ENHANCED funding include: occupant protection; Safety Program. The PTS grant RESPONSE PILOT PROGRAM traffic enforcement; motorcycle program will provide funding to law 2017 safety; traffic records; community enforcement agencies to conduct programs; programs that impact dedicated traffic enforcement. This Request for Proposal (RFP) younger drivers or older drivers; Participation in the national Click It provides program and application bicycle safety; pedestrian safety; or Ticket seat belt enforcement guidelines for The NYS Office for the roadway safety and impaired driving. mobilization is required, as is having Prevention of Domestic Violence a current mandatory seat belt use (OPDV) Risk Reduction Enhanced The Committee anticipates that policy in place for police officers of Response (RRER) Pilot Program, available federal funding will not the department. This program will which seeks to prevent intimate increase this year, therefore also fund agencies to conduct traffic partner related homicide. applicants are encouraged to submit enforcement details based on the complete, detailed and data- crash data of their local patrol area Domestic violence homicides supported proposals. with the goal of impacting motorist continue to thwart efforts of law behavior and improving traffic safety enforcement, human service and Eligible Applicants: Not-For- within their jurisdiction. Applicants healthcare providers alike. New York Profit, Governmental Entity, Tribal may request up to the maximum State is averaging 80 domestic Organization grant amount of $46,000 with no violence homicides a year. Nationally, minimum amount. one out of every three female victims Contact: of homicide is killed by an intimate Mary Montimurro Eligible Applicants: Not-For- partner; in New York, it’s one out of [email protected] Profit, Governmental Entity, Tribal two. http://www.opdv.ny.gov/ Organization Contact: GOVERNOR'S TRAFFIC SAFETY Erin Trowbridge COMMITTEE GRANT Contact: Mary Montimurro [email protected] OPPORTUNITY POLICE [email protected] TRAFFIC SERVICES (PTS)

LOCAL GRANTS:

includes, teachers, school leaders, an environment where principals NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT and other school based instructional have discretion in decision-making, OF EDUCATION (NYCDOE) or administrative staff such as and are accountable for student guidance, college, and career success. Grants to New York City counselors, social workers, organizations and individuals for the paraprofessionals, and coordinators) Proposers must be able to co- provision of high-quality professional across content areas. construct, with school leaders and/or development programs serving PreK- network/cluster teams, adult learning 12 school leaders and teaching staff. The goal is to train educators and experiences that are part of an This program places an overall other administrative staff to ongoing professional development emphasis on enhancing the classroom proactively plan varied approaches to program. Such experiences may environment for leadership what students need to learn, how they include but are not limited to development and learning, while will learn it, and/or how they can workshops, individual sessions, on- providing best practices to prepare express what they have learned, in site programs, curriculum students for the challenges of order to increase the likelihood that immersion, study groups, courses, postsecondary education and work. each student will learn as efficiently institutes, technical assistance in as possible. Partners are also sought professional development design and Programs will provide professional to assist administrators in delivery. Topic areas may include development to school leadership and understanding the concepts of conscious leadership, habits of mind, instructional staff (instructional staff sustainable leadership, particularly in data-driven decision-making, specific 36 LOCAL GRANTS (Cont.): academic content areas, conflict Scope of Services: Common Core Learning Standards resolution and classroom (CCLS), New York State or National management, college and career The Department and its vendor Staff Development Council (NSDC), counseling, accelerated literacy, partners will provide support for Next Generation Science Standards instructional planning and pedagogy schools that is differentiated, co- (NGSS), Computer Science Teachers for the Common Core Learning constructed with school leaders, and Association (CSTA), Math, Science, Standards. designed to address one or more of and Technology State Standards these areas: Curriculum, Instruction, (MST) professional development The MTAC is designed to be an on- Assessment, support for SWDs and standards. going open enrollment process ELLs, Data and Accountability, through which qualified pools of Counseling/Youth Development >>Provide follow up school and organizations are awarded contracts. Support and Professional classroom visits to support educators Development. Department schools in applying their learning. The goal of this MTAC is to award serve students in pK-12, and are multiple requirements contracts to organized in grade-bands, such as K- >>Evaluate and report the result of qualified Professional Development 8, K- 12, pK-5, 6-12, or 9-12. The your services including for School Leaders and Teachers specific developmental and academic recommendations to improve those vendors. needs of each grade band must be results. considered. Background and Purpose: >>Model research-based methods of The ultimate objective of all instruction and of adult learning Learning occurs when students make professional development in support meaning across subjects and beyond of sustainable leadership, quality Proposers are required to offer one or the classroom experience. Schools teaching and student achievement in more of the service components listed that support student success are a thinking curriculum is that below. characterized by focused leadership, educators will be able to analyze, high expectations for all and a culture evaluate, and apply research-based Service Components: of continuous learning. The leadership, student support and Department is looking for pedagogy in order to improve 1. Leadership Development professional development partners teaching and learning and to provide who can assist in delivering services a culture of inquiry. Marzano et al Leadership development helps in support of: described the three (3) elements of teachers, assistant principals, and effective pedagogy as instructional principals acquire and develop >>A Standards-based, 21st century strategies, management techniques, knowledge, skills and abilities to thinking curriculum for every child and curriculum design (TPACK become effective and responsible from pre-kindergarten through high framework, ASCD). Similarly, instructional leaders, to assume school. Thomsen offers insight into specific instructional leadership positions, to >>Quality instruction that is research ways to support students’ emotional, make positive contributions to their -based and differentiated. social and psychological needs to school and neighborhood >>Sustainable leadership where promote learning in Building communities, and to participate in principals have discretion in decision- Resilient Students: Integrating civic activities. Programs may include making as well as accountability for Resiliency into What You Already a variety of activities that promote every child’s success. Know and Do, Corwin, 2002. Finally leadership and civic engagement, in their separate but congruent work, including activities that strengthen While curriculum may differ from Fullan, Dufour, and Hargreaves interpersonal communication, that school to school, all curriculum is define leadership that is grounded in improve understanding of self and grounded in standards. While moral purpose, distributed others, decision- making, problem- professional learning may focus on meaningfully through professional solving and public speaking skills. different objectives, every school, learning communities and guided by Program content should be aligned to network and/or cluster team develops principles of sustainability. the Professional Standards for ongoing professional development Educational Leaders and the plans that consider and enhance Successful proposer(s) will be NYCDOE Principal Practice Rubric. adult learning. While each school required to perform all of the may define different achievement following services: 2. Curriculum Development goals, every school reviews informal and formal data to monitor learning, >>Provide professional development Curriculum development programs assess student progress, make experiences for all educators as target specific grade levels and instructional decisions, as well as described above. Provide professional include habits of mind, higher order reflect upon educator practice. development that incorporates the thinking, determining levels of rigor

37 LOCAL GRANTS (Cont.): and accessibility, skills development researching career opportunities, engage staff in the development of and in-depth study. A focus on organizing visits to different programming that empowers building teachers’ capacity to workplaces to explore all aspects of participants to take responsibility for evaluate, analyze and synthesize an industry, practicing resume resolving conflict peacefully in the standards-aligned, content-driven writing and interview skills, school and in the classroom. Such tasks for instructional improving financial literacy and training can include but is not limited appropriateness by backwards personal budgeting, developing skills to conflict and anger management, design, developing or selecting long in entrepreneurship, technical and collaborative negotiation, active and short term projects or activities vocational training. listening, effective communication that result in students’ demonstrating Computer Science trainings target skills, proactive strategies for mastery of the target learning specific grade levels and include addressing behavior problems, and objectives. Student work developed computer science concepts and mediation skills and strategies should be purposeful and rigorous practices. Trainings should focus on (facilitative, evaluative, and develop skills and knowledge that building teachers’ capacity to deliver transformative, and narrative). will prepare students for the next standards-aligned, content-driven level of study and beyond. Programs tasks using backwards design. 5. Data Driven Decision-Making and may include curriculum development Teachers should be able to develop or Teacher Effectiveness techniques as well as mapping to select long and short-term projects or build a well- articulated, coherent activities that result in students’ Shifting pedagogical practice services curriculum across the school to demonstrating mastery of the target build teachers’ capacity to evaluate ensure alignment to Common Core learning objectives. Student work and apply appropriate instruction Learning Standards (CCLS). developed should be purposeful and and classroom management rigorous and develop skills and strategies by teaching to a standards- 3. Postsecondary Readiness knowledge that will prepare students aligned objective, selecting objectives (*targeted to Middle and High for the next level of study and at the correct level of difficulty, using School) beyond. active participation and monitoring learners and adjusting teaching. College counseling services focus on Programs may include training in Services will address the effective use methods of enhancing awareness of computer science curriculum; such as of data in the development of school and involvement in postsecondary instructional strategies, management improvement plans and in the exploration and planning in the techniques, curriculum design, decisions that educators are required classroom, emphasizing best computer science technological and to make on a daily basis. Focus on practices in academic support content knowledge, or student making participants literate in data- services, student support services, enrichment. Training should include driven decision- making and using and developing academic and mapping to build a coherent the information to not only measure personal behaviors that encompass a integrated curriculum, standalone students' progress in meeting range of indicators that support courses, or enrichment programs for standards, but also enable them to: resiliency, college enrollment and all students. It must also consider assess current and future needs of persistence. Services should focus on alignment to school culture and students; determine if goals are being developing programs that help vision for computer science and met; looking at student work and students acquire and strengthen the relevant standards. determining standards-alignment, skills needed for college planning and accessibility and rigor of teacher persistence, researching colleges and 4. Conflict Resolution and Classroom assignments using a protocol; identify postsecondary options, organizing Management the root causes of problems to college visits, completing college improve instruction; and engage in applications, identifying financial aid Classroom management provides continuous school improvement and and scholarship opportunities, capacity building professional student achievement. accessing college planning resources development for staff in the areas of for students and families. conflict resolution/peer mediation, Target Audience Description: classroom management, and youth Career counseling services provide development principles. Programs >>New Teacher: Any teachers with teachers with the knowledge and should target the development of a less than 3 years of experience in the ability to offer students opportunities positive school culture through the classroom. to learn about the importance of implementation of youth academics as it relates to the working development practices infused >>Experienced Teachers: Any world and guide students through throughout the school community teachers having four or more years of developing skills to build bridges and inside the classroom to support experience in the classroom. between school and work. Activities effective classroom management. A may include learning about and focus on conflict resolution should >>Lead Teachers, Assistant

38 LOCAL GRANTS (Cont.):

Principals and Instructional Coaches: remain in force and be subject to the Pre-Application Information: Lead teachers are experienced terms and conditions stated herein. Specific questions concerning this educators working within a school MTAC should be submitted in writing system with other teachers, Eligibility: See RFP and/or to the above email address prior to administrators and parents. They are Grant Guidelines for full eligibility the pre-proposal conference. Written often chosen to provide support for questions should reference the MTAC new teachers or those dealing with a Additional Eligibility Criteria: by page and paragraph numbers. If challenging population of students. The New York City Department of possible, these questions will be Instructional Coaches are Education (NYCDOE) and Office of answered at the pre-proposal experienced, highly accomplished, School Programs & Partnerships/ conference and additional questions and well-respected educators with the Division of Teaching and Learning is may be submitted orally at the ability to juggle several roles, and the seeking proposals from individuals conference. skills needed to work one-on-one and/or organizations. with teachers as well as to oversee a Questions regarding this solicitation wider professional development All proposals will be evaluated to should be addressed via email no effort in the school. determine if they meet the minimum later than August 9, 2017. qualifications set forth in this section. This solicitation is open indefinitely. >>Principals and Prospective School Proposals that fail to meet the However, to ensure service for the Leaders: Exceptional teachers and minimum qualifications will not be 2018 School Year, proposals must be school leaders who have achieved considered. submitted no later than September 6, great results with their students and 2017 by 1:00 PM EST. Proposals will their school. May include: Proposer must have a minimum of continue to be accepted on an on- Administrators, Cluster Team three (3) years providing professional going basis. Members and Paraprofessionals. development targeted to schools in urban (“central cities” as defined by Deadline: 09/06/17 1:00 PM EST Number of Grants: The the U.S. Census Bureau) school - Deadline to ensure service for the NYCDOE anticipates entering into districts and/or New York City. Note: 2018 School Year; Proposals will requirements contracts with multiple Proposers may be either individuals continue to be accepted on an on- vendors as a result of this MTAC. or organizations. going basis following the initial deadline. Term of Contract: The contracts Proposer must submit three (3) resulting from this solicitation will be references from schools where Contact: Before starting your for a term of 5 years. Additionally, the services were provided. References grant application, please review the contract will allow for one (1) three must include the contact name, funding source's website listed below year options to extend. The contract position within their company, for updates/changes/addendums/ may be terminated by the successful telephone number and email conferences/LOIs. bidder(s) receiving award of contract addresses five (5) years after the Login to the Vendor Portal: commencement of the contract, Membership and/or participation in https://vendorportal.nycenet.edu/ provided written notification is Association of Supervision and delivered by mail with confirmation Curriculum Development (ASCD), Division of Contracts and Purchasing of delivery, two hundred seventy National Staff Development Council 65 Court Street, Room 1201 (270) days prior to the end of the fifth (Learning Forward), National Brooklyn, New York 11201 year following the anniversary date of Association of Secondary School the registration of the contract. All Principals (NASSP), National [email protected] contract terms and conditions shall Association of Elementary School Funding or Pin Number: remain in effect for the full term of Principals (NAESP), or other MTAC #R1179 the contract and any extensions professional development URL for Full Text (RFP): http:// thereof. organization sponsorship. schools.nyc.gov/offices/dcp/vendor/ mtac/default.htm Lastly, The Board, at its sole option Pre-proposal Conference: A pre may further extend this agreement -proposal conference, at which for a final period of up to one vendors will have the opportunity to hundred eighty (180) days; if the ask questions related to this MTAC, Director, or designee, shall so notify will be held on August 7, 2017 from the contractor by written notice, via 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Brooklyn mail with delivery confirmation. Any Law School, 250 Joralemon Street, purchase order dated prior to the 7th Floor Moot Court Room, final expiration of contract will Brooklyn, NY 11201.

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NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT Protection The NYC Department of Youth and OF ENVIRONMENTAL 59-17 Junction Blvd. 11th Floor Community Development PROTECTION (DEP) GREEN Flushing, NY 11373 1.800.246.4646 INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT [email protected] PROGRAM URL for Full Text (RFP): http:// www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/ Grant Coverage Areas:

stormwater/ Nonprofits and schools in New York Grants starting at $35,000 to New nyc_green_infrastructure_grant_pro City may apply. York City private property owners to gram.shtml design and construct green infrastructure systems. This program LOCAL GOVERNMENT is open to property owners located in NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT EFFICIENCY combined sewer areas of the City. OF YOUTH AND COMMUNITY Examples of eligible projects include DEVELOPMENT (DYCD) AND The Local Government Efficiency rain gardens, blue roofs, porous METROPOLITAN (LGE) Program provides technical pavement, green roofs, and rainwater TRANSPORTATION assistance and grants to local harvesting. AUTHORITY (MTA) governments for the development of COMPLIMENTARY SUBWAY projects that will achieve savings and The minimum requirement of this improve municipal efficiency through program is to manage 1″ of TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM shared services, cooperative stormwater runoff from the agreements, mergers, consolidations contributing impervious area. Grants to New York City nonprofit and dissolutions. View grant organizations and schools serving opportunities here: http:// Estimated Size of Grant: Private children and (ages 5-18) to defray www.dos.ny.gov/LG/lge-grant.html. property owners in combined sewer transportation costs associated with areas of New York City are eligible to educational and recreational field trips. Applicants will receive free ENVIRONMENTAL apply for a minimum of $35,000. PROTECTION FUND – LOCAL tickets for use on designated days and Eligibility: See RFP and/or times on the New York City Transit WATERFRONT Grant Guidelines for full System and Staten Island Railway. REVITALIZATION PROGRAM eligibility Contact Information: Please note that Certificates are valid The Local Waterfront Revitalization RSVP to attend the June 14 Green on the New York City Transit System Program (LWRP) provides technical Infrastructure Grant Workshop: and Staten Island Railway only and assistance, and matching grants on a https://www.eventbrite.com/e/green will not be accepted on buses. reimbursement basis (under Title 11 -infrastructure-grant-program- of the Environmental Protection summer-workshop-tickets- The certificates may be utilized on the Fund) to villages, towns, cities, and 34916869296 following: counties (with the consent and on -Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM - behalf of one or more villages, towns, 4:00 PM and 7:00 PM - 11:30 PM cities) located along New York’s Visit the online application and create -Saturday and Sunday, 9:00 AM - coasts or designated inland a username and password for access: 11:30 PM waterways, to prepare or implement https://a826-web01.nyc.gov/ -Year-round, including holidays strategies for community and GIGrant/Default.aspx waterfront revitalization. The grant Note: New York City Transit will not categories currently are: Local Sewer Office contact honor passes on weekdays before information: 9:00 AM and between the hours of  Preparing or Implementing a http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/ 4:00 PM and 7:00 PM. Local Waterfront Revitalization forms_and_permits/locations.shtml Program Eligibility: See RFP and/or  Redeveloping Hamlets, Deadline: Ongoing Grant Guidelines for full eligibility Downtowns and Urban Deadline: Ongoing Waterfronts

Contact: For more help or  Planning or Constructing Land information, please Contact: and Water-based Trails email: [email protected]  Preparing or Implementing a Apply Online: http:// www.dycdportal.nyc/ Lakewide or Watershed Green Infrastructure Grant Program Revitalization Plan Bureau Of Environmental Planning TransCertificates  Preparing or Implementing a and Analysis, 11th Floor Community Resilience Strategy NYC Department of Environmental For additional information, please contact: 40 LOCAL GRANTS (Cont.):

View grant opportunities here http:// agencies (CAAs) and other 11:30 PM; Saturday and Sunday, 9:00 www.dos.ny.gov/opd/ neighborhood organizations for AM - 11:30 PM; Year-round, grantOpportunities/ reduction of poverty, revitalization of including holidays epf_lwrpGrants.html low-income communities and Note: New York City Transit will not empowerment of low-income families honor passes on weekdays before APPALACHIAN REGIONAL and individuals to become fully self- 9:00 AM and between the hours of sufficient. View grant opportunities 4:00 PM and 7:00 PM. COMMISSION here: http://www.dos.ny.gov/dcs/

index.htm Eligibility: See RFP and/or The Appalachian Regional Grant Guidelines for full eligibility Commission (ARC) was established by Congress in 1965 to improve the WATERSHED PROTECTION The Youth Group Subway economy and quality of life in Water Quality Planning and Transportation Program is available Appalachia, which runs through part Implementation Grants (PIGs) are to nonprofit organizations and of New York's Southern Tier. The available to the dozens of Upstate schools serving youth ages 5 through program provides financial and communities located within the New 18. technical assistance to constituencies York City Watershed, both east and in the region to meet its unique west of the Hudson River. The grants Organizations must provide proof of issues, promote its economic are administered by Watershed their Federal Taxpayer Identification development and to establish a Protection and Partnership Council, Number or EIN # and Tax Exempt framework for joint federal-state- which provides a regional forum to status, 501(c)(3) designation. local efforts toward these ends. View aid in the long term protection of Organizations must have a minimum grant opportunities here: http:// New York City's drinking water and of 15 youth participants enrolled. www.dos.ny.gov/lg/arc/ to promote the economic vitality of

the Upstate watershed communities. Program benefits are available to Projects and Project Eligibility: PIGs assist these communities NYC Department of Education (DOE) Historically NYS’s ARC Program has prepare or update comprehensive public schools for travel during non- supported projects in the following plans; establish or revise community school hours. For transportation categories: Education and Job development tools and local laws; services during school hours, contact Training; Community Development; and improve local watershed-related DOE at 718-392-8855. Leadership and Civic Capacity infrastructure. View potential grant

Building; Healthcare Access; opportunities here http:// Grant Coverage Areas: Business Development; Research and www.dos.ny.gov/watershed. Nonprofits and schools in New York Technical Assistance; Transportation; City may apply. and Environment and Natural NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT Resources. OF YOUTH AND COMMUNITY Deadline: Ongoing

DEVELOPMENT (DYCD) AND All project proposals must implement METROPOLITAN Contact: at least one of the State strategies. In Apply Online: http:// Allegany County, which the ARC has TRANSPORTATION www.dycdportal.nyc/ designated “At Risk,” financial AUTHORITY (MTA) TransCertificates assistance from ARC may not exceed

70% of the total eligible project cost. Grants to New York City nonprofit For additional information, please For projects in or affecting the other organizations and schools serving contact: The NYC Department of thirteen Appalachian counties, ARC children and (ages 5-18) to defray Youth and Community Development funding may not exceed 50% of the transportation costs associated with 1 (800) 246-4646 total eligible project cost. There is a educational and recreational field [email protected] limit of $150,000 on the ARC-funded trips. Applicants will receive free portion of all projects. tickets for use on designated days and times on the New York City Transit NORTH STAR FUND System and Staten Island Railway. THE COMMUNITY SERVICES This program provides grants of up to BLOCK GRANT (CSBG) Please note that Certificates are valid $15,000 to New York City nonprofits on the New York City Transit System engaged in community organizing for A federal anti-poverty program and Staten Island Railway only and projects that require immediate administered by the Department of will not be accepted on buses. funding to address urgent issues. State since 1982. Its purpose is to provide assistance to states and local The certificates may be utilized on the The Fund supports grassroots communities working through a following: -Monday through Friday, activists who are going beyond band- network of community action 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM and 7:00 PM - aid solutions to address the root 41 LOCAL GRANTS (Cont.): cause of injustice. Contact: Jennifer Arieta, Program Officer Grants up to $5,000 are available for (212) 620-9110 immediate action, while grants of up [email protected] to $15,000 with a timeline of six months enable grantees to access additional research, legal, media, NEW YORK STATE GRANTS policy, and organizing expertise at a The Grant Opportunity Portal provides a critical point in a grassroots community organizing campaign. gateway for locating grant-funding opportunities with New York State Eligibility: See RFP and/or agencies. Search or browse by funding Grant Guidelines for full eligibility opportunity.

Deadline: Ongoing www.grantsreform.ny.gov

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suicide. At least one suicide outcome travel expenses, coaching, equipment AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR measure must be included in all grant and the encouragement and SUICIDE PREVENTION (AFSP), projects. Studies of treatment inspiration needed to help these feasibility and studies that add a women make the life-affirming INNOVATION GRANTS suicide component (e.g., population transition from survivor to athlete. American Foundation for Suicide or treatment) to an existing grant in Prevention raises awareness, funds another area will also be considered. The foundation offers several yearly scientific research and provides Investigators from all academic adventures that provide mental and resources and aid to those affected by disciplines are eligible to apply, and physical challenges in a suicide. The foundation supports both basic science and applied noncompetitive environment. The studies that will increase our research projects will be considered, goal is to have something to look understanding of suicide or test provided that the proposed study has forward to, a goal set to accomplish treatments and other interventions an essential focus on suicide or and surrounding yourself with that save lives. Priorities for funding suicide prevention. likeminded people. are defined every two years in order to stimulate research in understudied Funding: Depending on grant Eligibility: Applicants must be areas. The organization’s priority category, funding will range from women with a medical setback or research areas for 2017-19 are pain $30,000 up to $125,000 over two trauma. This is defined as, but not and suicide and opioids and suicide. years. limited to, cancer, congenital defects, While they encourage applications in neurological disorders, autoimmune these priority areas, they also Deadline: Submissions can be disorders, amputations, life-altering encourage and welcome all made from August 1 to November 1, accidents and posttraumatic stress applications related to preventing 2017. disorder. suicide. In addition, they continue to maintain a strong interest in research Contact: Carl Niedzielski, Funding: An Athenaship grant related to survivors of suicide loss. Research Grants provides the inspiration needed to Currently, AFSP is accepting Manager make that transition from survivor to applications for five categories of Phone: 212.363.3500 ext. 2015 athlete and covers the cost of the grants ranging from the level of Email: [email protected] following: coaching, gear, PAF swag, fellow, assistant professor and higher Website: www.afsp.org/research travel expenses and adventure costs. or Ph.D. and M.D. THE PROJECT ATHENA Deadline: Applications are Eligibility: AFSP Suicide FOUNDATION reviewed on a quarterly basis in Research Grants support studies March, June, September and aimed at increasing our The Project Athena Foundation is December. understanding of the causes of dedicated to helping women survivors suicide and factors related to suicide of medical or other traumatic Contact: risk, or that test treatments and other setbacks achieve their adventurous Phone: 619-322-4846 interventions designed to prevent dreams. The foundation provides Email: [email protected] 42 PRIVATE GRANTS (Cont.):

Website: www.projectathena.org Projects with a neighborhood focus  See RFP and/or Grant Guidelines should contain the following: for full eligibility GREATER ROCHESTER HEALTH  Small, well-defined geographic FOUNDATION - OUR TOWN: area Additional Eligibility Criteria: PROJECTS THAT BUILD  Specific focus such as smoking, The Health Foundation will consider KNOWLEDGE ABOUT CREATIVE diabetes, safe place to play, etc. Opportunity Grant proposals from PLACEMAKING  Evidence of community existing non-profit organizations, engagement private foundations, public entities Grants to New York Nonprofits and (municipal government and school Agencies for Preventative Health Care The Foundation invites projects districts) and other entities in and Health Services reflecting the following Monroe, Genesee, Livingston, characteristics: Ontario, Wayne, Seneca, Orleans, Grants starting at $50,000 to New  1-3 years in duration Wyoming, and Yates counties. York nonprofits and public agencies (including school districts and  Small scale (pilot projects) to Grant funds may be used to support municipalities) for programs and implement a new idea OR project staff salaries, consultant fees, projects that aim to improve health expansion of existing projects data collection and analysis, outcomes in select Counties. LOIs are  Budgets between $50,000 and meetings, supplies, project-related due by August 8, and a teleconference $200,000 per year travel, evaluation costs, and other will be held on June 15. Applicants  Evidence-based or evidence- direct expenses, including equipment may also contact the Senior Program informed/best practice models essential to the project. Officer to schedule individual  Aligned within Greater Rochester meetings to discuss the proposed Health Foundation focus areas of Projects focused on the following will project before August 12. Prevention or Heath Care not be considered: Delivery  Childhood overweight and The objective of this grant cycle is to  Including if appropriate, obesity prevention and treatment award grants that will have maximum attention to the needs of people  Implementation of the Delivery impact on the community’s health whose health care needs have not System Reform Payment (DSRIP) demonstrated through measurable been met because of race, program health outcomes. The Health ethnicity, or income  Intervention models that are Foundation welcomes projects with a  Include plans for evaluation and solely educational in the pilot approach for assessing the quality improvement processes approach effectiveness of a new program. This  Anticipated project start date of Opportunity Grant cycle will support  Capital requests that do not also projects that align with the following May 1, 2018 or later include a project/intervention Health Foundation priorities: component Estimated Total Program - Health issues of children age 12 >>Prevention: The Health Funding: $2,500,000 years or younger Foundation invests in health initiatives that help people make Number of Grants: The Grant funds may not be used to responsible choices, maintain good Foundation anticipates funding 4-7 subsidize individuals for the cost of health status, prevent illness and projects, although the number of health care, for fundraising events or disability, as well as effectively grants awarded is dependent upon capital campaigns, to support clinical manage existing health conditions. applications and funding requests trials or other research, to construct received. or renovate facilities, for lobbying or >>Health Care Delivery: The political activities, for general Foundation supports efforts that Estimated Size of Grant: operating expenses, to pay for the increase present and future $50,000 - $200,000 per year difference between third party affordability, accessibility and clinical payments and actual costs, or as a quality of Greater Rochester's high Term of Contract: The project substitute for funds currently being quality health care system. period is from 1 to 3 years (from 2018 used to support similar activities. to 2021). The anticipated project start For the purposes of these grants, date should be May 1, 2018 or later. Pre-proposal Conference: health includes physical health, Teleconference: Wednesday June 15, behavioral health, dental health and Eligibility: 2017 at 12 noon. Potential applicants environmental health. The Health  Local Governments may ask questions and receive Foundation will accept proposals in  Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) clarifications about the RFP. any of these areas for Opportunity status with the IRS Instructions will be available on the Grant consideration.  School Districts Health Foundation web site, http:// 43 PRIVATE GRANTS (Cont.): www.thegrhf.org prior to June 15, opportunities/2018-opportunity- across the country; and consultation 2017. grants/ with national program staff at the Pre-Application Information: Click Levitt Foundation. on the links in the Supporting Documents section below to access LEVITT FOUNDATION LEVITT Number of Grants: Grants will the RFP, FAQs, budget forms, and AMP [YOUR CITY] GRANT be awarded to up to 15 nonprofit other templates. organizations. AWARDS All applicants are required to submit Grants to USA and Territories Estimated Size of Grant: a Letter of Intent prior to submission Nonprofits to Present Outdoor Music Applicants will each receive $25,000 of a full proposal. Concert Series in Small and Mid- in matching funds. Sized Towns and Cities Term of Contract: The entire You are also welcome and encouraged Levitt AMP [Your City] Music Series to contact Sharon Legette-Sobers, Grants of $25,000 to USA and must be presented over 10 to 12 Senior Program Officer, at the below Territories nonprofit organizations to consecutive weeks, between May 1, email address and phone number to present free, professional music 2018 and October 31, 2018. schedule an individual meeting to concert series that are open to the discuss your proposed project. public and that take place in small to Eligibility: See RFP and/or Meeting requests will be taken until mid-sized towns and cities. The Grant Guidelines for full eligibility August 12, 2017. You may also email public spaces in which the concerts questions. are to take place must be outdoors, Additional Eligibility Criteria: easily accessible to a wide range of 2018 Eligibility Criteria: Key Dates: socioeconomic groups, and have a lawn-like setting with no fixed  Applicant must be a USA-based Request for Proposal (RFP) Release: seating. 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. May 17, 2017  All proposed Levitt AMP [Your Required Letter of Intent Deadline: Each Levitt AMP Music Series must City] Music Series must take August 8, 2017 present a broad range of music genres place in small to mid-sized towns Teleconference: June 15, 2017 throughout the 10 to 12-week period. and cities within the United Availability for individual meetings Your concert series should be States and its territories with a with applicants: May 17-August 12, inclusive of all music tastes, providing population of up to 400,000 2017 the opportunity for your community people, and may be located Proposal Deadline: September 12, to experience a variety of music within a metropolitan area with a 2017 performances. To celebrate local population of no more than Award Decisions: January 2018 traditions and history, opening acts 1,000,000. For towns or cities Notification of Funding Decisions: may be programmed to highlight a located within a metropolitan February 2018 specific music genre. area with a population of more than 1,000,000, the town or city Deadline: September 12, 2017 You should book your Levitt AMP must be at least 25 miles from the Midnight Music Series so that it includes a anchor city of the metropolitan variety of local, regional and national area. talent featuring a range of music  The public space where the free Contact: Before starting your genres, from acclaimed, emerging concerts are to be presented must grant application, please review the musicians to seasoned, award- be outdoors, easily accessible to a funding source's website listed below winning artists. wide range of socioeconomic for updates/changes/addendums/ groups, and have a lawn-like conferences/LOIs. In addition to the cash award, The setting with no fixed seating. To submit your LOI: http:// Levitt Foundation will provide Levitt  If a permanent Levitt venue is bit.ly/2qQSPNv AMP grant recipients with technical located in an applicant’s state or assistance and resources including region, the proposed Levitt AMP For program/content information: the Levitt AMP Toolkit. The Toolkit Sharon Legette-Sobers at 585-258- site must be located a minimum contains valuable resources for Levitt of 75 miles or more from the 1710 or [email protected] AMP grant recipients, such as: a existing Levitt venue. sample entertainment contract; a  The entire Levitt AMP [Your City] For technical support: Call 585-258- sample press release; a hosted page 1740 or [email protected] Music Series must be free to the on the Levitt AMP website; e-blast public and open to all ages. and social media templates; Levitt  Applicant must display a URL for Full Text (RFP): http:// AMP graphics; a list of talent successful track record of www.thegrhf.org/apply/ managers and music agents from 44 PRIVATE GRANTS (Cont.):

presenting professional quality review the Top 25 Finalists and select arts service or design service concerts or community events, or up to 15 Grant Recipients. organizations, and/or other national be engaged with an individual or or regional membership, policy, or organization that has done so. >>All Top 25 finalists will be notified university-based organizations that via email on January 2, 2018 provide technical assistance to those It is required that a minimum of 10 regarding whether they are a Levitt doing place-based economic and free Levitt AMP concerts be AMP grant recipient. community development work, and presented. to expand the knowledge base about Note: Applicant must demonstrate creative placemaking to their Pre-proposal Conference: The matching funds, dollar for dollar, members and the field. Levitt AMP webinar will take place on from other sources. Of the total July 18, 2017 and again on August 23, matching funds raised, up to 50% In the first three years of funding this 2017. During the webinar, the may be in-kind contributions and the area of Our Town, NEA has invested Foundation will discuss: rest must be cash donations, in many partnership projects that  Goals of the Levitt AMP [Your sponsorships and/or grants. expand the capacity for creative City] Grant Awards placemaking among audiences such  Eligibility criteria Deadline: October 2, 2017 5:00 as artists and arts organizations,  Online application process and PM PDT urban planners, rural economic key instructions planners, public park managers, local Contact: civic leaders, community  Matching funds requirement Email: [email protected] development practitioners, and  Online public voting process downtown managers.  Benefits of the Levitt AMP URL for Full Text (RFP): http:// Toolkit grant.levittamp.org/submit-a- NEA hopes to reach a wide range of registration/ professional networks positioned to At the end of the presentation, facilitate the exchange of creative participants will be able to ask placemaking and community questions through an online chat NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS - OUR TOWN: development knowledge and feature. practices between fields. In this PROJECTS THAT BUILD fourth year of the program, NEA is You may register for the webinar by KNOWLEDGE ABOUT interested in expanding the types of visiting the Foundation's website, CREATIVE PLACEMAKING audiences targeted in projects. This scrolling down to Important Dates, may include, but is not limited to, and clicking on the date that works Grants to USA Nonprofits and IHEs additional types of cultural best for your schedule. to Increase Arts and Culture in Social organizations and artists, public and Civic Engagement safety officials, Native American Pre-Application Information: community development leaders, Application Process: Grants starting at $25,000 to USA public health practitioners, nonprofit and university-based art or transportation leaders, etc. NEA is >>The opportunity to participate in design service organizations for the especially interested in projects the AMP Awards as an Applicant development and dissemination of where the dissemination of creative begins at 12:00 PM PDT on June 26, creative placemaking knowledge placemaking strategies and tools 2017 and ends at 5:00 PM PDT on through collaborative projects. ultimately empowers local residents. October 2, 2017. Applications must register or renew the required account by August 21 These projects should expand the >>The Application Period will be and submit the required form by knowledge base about creative followed by a second period when September 11. placemaking to their members and members of the general public can the field, and must reflect the vote for Applications through an These projects should expand the following: online public voting process on the capacity of artists and arts organizations to be more effective at  Involvement of the organization's Site which begins at 10:00 AM PDT membership, audience, or on November 1, 2017 and ends at executing creative placemaking projects, and to work more effectively constituency, as appropriate. 5:00 PM PST on November 20, 2017,  Systemic approach to building the last date and time a member of with economic and community development practitioners, and vice knowledge about creative the general public may place an placemaking for the organization online vote. versa, to improve the livability of the communities and create and broader field of community development. >>The Voting Period will be followed opportunities for all. by a third period when Levitt will  Clearly defined systems that These projects can be carried out by provide for the management of 45 PRIVATE GRANTS :

new ideas, documentation, the creative placemaking expertise. For 2018, or any time thereafter. A grant potential for learning, and example, an art-based membership period of up to two years is allowed. sharing of technical assistance organization must have an economic Allow sufficient time to plan, execute, programming. or community development and close out your project. The two-  Clearly defined audience for knowledge consultant/organization/ year period is intended to allow an technical assistance, and delivery partner identified at the time of applicant sufficient time to plan, of technical assistance. (Funding application, or an economic or execute, and close out its project, not will not support only the creation community development to repeat a one-year project for a of technical assistance membership organization must have second year. knowledge. The knowledge must an arts-based knowledge consultant/ also be delivered). organization/partner. Eligibility:  The appropriate arts and/or place  City or township governments -based experts to provide the Additional partners are encouraged  County governments services included in the project. and may include an appropriate  Independent school districts variety of entities such as colleges  Artistic excellence of the arts  Native American tribal organizations, or artists involved and universities, or individuals. governments (Federally with the project. recognized) Arts service and design service organizations and other national or  Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) Projects may include activities in status with the IRS, other than creative placemaking for member regional organizations that provide technical assistance to those doing institutions of higher education organizations and individuals such  Private institutions of higher as: place-based work are expected to involve their memberships and education  Mentorships. constituencies, as appropriate.  Public and State controlled  Training opportunities and institutions of higher education convenings, whether in-person or Livability: Through Our Town  See RFP and/or Grant Guidelines remote. projects, the Arts Endowment for full eligibility  Technical assistance and capacity intends to achieve the following  Special district governments building for members. objective from NEA’s strategic plan:  State governments  Research, policy analysis, and Livability: American communities decision support tools that help are strengthened through the arts. Additional Eligibility Criteria: to build a creative placemaking Successful Our Town projects will Organizations that may apply knowledge base. impact livability by affecting include:  Other projects appropriate to the community priorities such as public organization's internal system of safety, health, blight and vacancy, >>Arts and design organizations that learning. environment, job creation, equity, provide services to the field. local business development, civic Projects may focus on delivering participation, and/or community >>National and regional place-based technical assistance on a wide cohesion. The anticipated long-term industry or university-based variety of creative placemaking results for Livability projects are organizations that provide technical topics such as those project types measurable community benefits, assistance to those doing place-based covered in 'Exploring Our Town', or which might include: economic and/or community under the Arts Engagement, Cultural  Growth in overall levels of social development work. This may include Planning, and Design area of Our and civic engagement. housing, transportation, public Town.  New avenues for expression and safety, public health, and economic creativity. development organizations who wish NEA understands that creative  Design-focused changes in to engage in creative placemaking placemaking projects are often multi policies, laws, and/or regulations. activities. -year, large-scale initiatives. Please  Job and/or revenue growth. be specific about which phase or An art-based membership phases your request for funding will  Positive changes in migration patterns. organization must have a place-based address. All phases of a project are knowledge consultant/organization/ eligible for support. Estimated Size of Grant: You partner identified at the time of application, or a place-based Required Partnerships: must request a grant amount at one of the following levels: $25,000, membership organization must have Applications must identify a an arts-based knowledge consultant/ partnership with either an $50,000, $75,000, or $100,000. organization/partner. organization or consultant, and one To be eligible, the applicant of the two partners must have Term of Contract: NEA support of a project may start on August 1, organization must: 46 PRIVATE GRANTS (Cont.):

>>Meet the Arts Endowment's "Legal projects will be considered in the resale. Requirements" including nonprofit, review of applications. -Cash reserves and endowments. tax-exempt status at the time of -Subgranting or regranting, except for application. Other National Endowment for state arts agencies, regional arts >>Have a three-year history of the Arts Funding Opportunities: organizations, or local arts agencies programming prior to the application that are designated to operate on deadline. You may apply to other Arts behalf of their local governments or >>Have submitted acceptable Final Endowment funding opportunities, are operating units of city or county Report packages by the due date(s) including Art Works and Challenge government. (See more information for all Arts Endowment awards(s) America, in addition to Our Town. In on subgranting.) previously received. each case, the request must be for a -Costs to bring a project into distinctly different project, or a compliance with federal grant Additional partners are encouraged distinctly different phase of a project. requirements. This includes and may include an appropriate If you have applied to the NEA in the environmental or historical variety of entities such as colleges and past and were not recommended for assessments or reviews and the hiring universities, or individuals. funding, you may apply again to any of individuals to write assessments or funding opportunity, including Our reviews or to otherwise comply with The designated state and Town. the National Environmental Policy jurisdictional arts agencies (SAAs) Act and/or the National Historic and their regional arts organizations Under these guidelines, funding is Preservation Act. (RAOs) may serve as partners in Our not available for: -Awards to individuals or Town projects. NEA funds can’t -Costs incurred before or after the organizations to honor or recognize support any SAA or RAO costs. beginning of the official period of achievement. performance. -Generally, professional training All applicants must have a DUNS -General operating or seasonal programs or courses in degree- number (www.dnb.com) and be support. granting institutions. registered with the System for Award -Costs for the creation of new -Projects that replace arts instruction Management (SAM, www.sam.gov) organizations. provided by an arts specialist. and maintain an active SAM -Direct grants to individuals. (NEA -Literary publishing that does not registration until the application encourages applicant organizations to focus on contemporary literature process is complete, and should a involve individual artists in all and/or writers. grant be made, throughout the life of possible ways.) -Generally, publication of books, the award. Finalize a new or renew an -Individual elementary or secondary exhibition of works, or other projects existing registration at least two schools -- charter, private, or public -- by the applicant organization's board weeks before the application directly. Schools may participate as members, faculty, or trustees. deadline. This action should allow partners in projects for which another -Exhibitions of, and other projects you time to resolve any issues that eligible organization applies. Local that primarily involve, single, may arise. Failure to comply with education agencies, school districts, individually-owned, private these requirements may result in and state and regional education collections. your inability to submit your agencies are eligible. If a single school -Projects for which the selection of application. Maintain documentation also is a local education agency, as is artists or art works is based upon (with dates) of your efforts to register the case with some charter schools, criteria other than artistic excellence or renew at least two weeks before the the school may apply with and merit. Examples include festivals, deadline. documentation that supports its exhibitions, or publications for which status as a local education agency. no jury/editorial judgment has been Application Restrictions: -Construction, purchase, or applied. renovation of facilities. (Design fees, -Expenditures related to >>An organization may submit as a preparing space for an exhibit, compensation to foreign nationals lead applicant two applications to installation or de-installation of art, and/or travel to or from foreign Our Town. and community planning are eligible. countries when those expenditures However, no National Endowment are not in compliance with >>A partnering organization may for the Arts or matching funds may be regulations issued by the U.S. serve as a partner on as many directed to the costs of physical Treasury Department Office of applications as they like. construction or renovation or toward Foreign Assets Control. the purchase costs of facilities or -Project costs supported by any other >>If two applications are submitted land.) federal funding. This includes federal from a single lead applicant, the -Commercial (for-profit) enterprises funding received either directly from capacity of the lead applicant to carry or activities, including concessions, a federal agency (e.g., NEH, HUD, out and sustain two Our Town food, T-shirts, or other items for National Science Foundation, or an

47 PRIVATE GRANTS (Cont.): entity that receives federal 11:59 PM, Eastern Time. Register/ Application Review: appropriations such as the renew by at least August 21. Submit https://www.arts.gov/grants- Corporation for Public Broadcasting by at least September 1. organizations/our-town/projects-that or Amtrak); or indirectly from a pass- -build-knowledge-about-creative- through organization such as a state -Step 2 - Submit Materials to placemaking-application-review arts agency, regional arts Applicant Portal: 9:00 AM, Eastern organization, or a grant made to Time September 18, 2017 to 11:59 Award Administration: another entity. PM, Eastern Time on September 25, https://www.arts.gov/grants- -Alcoholic beverages. 2017. organizations/our-town/projects-that -Gifts and prizes, including cash -build-knowledge-about-creative- prizes as well as other items (e.g., -Earliest Announcement of Grant placemaking-award-administration iPads, gift certificates) with monetary Award or Rejection: April 2018 value. How to Prepare and Submit an -General miscellaneous or -Earliest Beginning Date for National Application: contingency costs. Endowment for the Arts Period of https://www.arts.gov/grants- -Contributions and donations to Performance: August 1, 2018 organizations/our-town/how-to- other entities. prepare-and-submit-an-application-b -Fines and penalties, bad debt costs, You are required to use Grants.gov. deficit reduction. Before you apply through Grants.gov Submit the SF-424 to Grants.gov: -Social activities such as receptions, for the first time, you must be https://www.arts.gov/grants- parties, galas. registered. organizations/our-town/step-1- -Lobbying. submit-the-sf-424-to-grants-gov-b -Marketing expenses that are not Registration with Grants.gov: directly related to the project. -Is a multi-step process; Step 2 - Submit Materials Through -Audit costs that are not directly -Takes time; allow two weeks; Applicant Portal: related to a single audit (formerly -Must be completed before you can https://www.arts.gov/grants- known as an A-133 audit). submit your application. organizations/our-town/step-2- -Rental costs for home office submit-through-applicant-portal-b workspace owned by individuals or In the event of a major emergency entities affiliated with the applicant (e.g., a hurricane or Grants.gov FAQ: https://www.arts.gov/grants- organization. technological failure), the NEA organizations/frequently-asked- -Visa costs paid to the U.S. Chairman may adjust application questions/knowledge-building government. deadlines for affected applicants. If a Pre-proposal Conference: NEA will deadline is extended for any reason, View this opportunity on Grants.gov: conduct a live "How to Apply" an announcement will be posted on https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/ webinar on July 24, 2017, at 3:00 PM the NEA website. search-grants.html? Eastern Time followed by a Q&A keywords=2017NEA01OT session. Funding Restrictions: https://www.arts.gov/grants- Deadline: September 25, 2017 NEA will conduct a live "Tips & Tricks organizations/our-town/we-do-not- 11:59 PM ET for Success" webinar on July 31, 2017, fund at 3:00 PM Eastern Time followed by Contact: Before starting your a Q&A session. Other Information: grant application, please review the https://www.arts.gov/grants- funding source's website listed below Pre-Application Information: organizations/our-town/other- for updates/changes/addendums/ NEA grants cannot exceed 50% of the information conferences/LOIs. total cost of the project. All grants require a nonfederal match of at least Award Information: Applicant Portal: 1 to 1. These matching funds may be https://www.arts.gov/grants- https://applicantportal.arts.gov/ all cash or a combination of cash and organizations/our-town/projects-that in-kind contributions. You may -build-knowledge-about-creative- Email: [email protected] include in your Project Budget placemaking-award-information matching funds that are proposed but Voice/TTY: 202/682-5082 not yet committed at the time of the Applicant Eligibility: application deadline. https://www.arts.gov/grants- Individuals who do not use organizations/our-town/projects-that conventional print should contact the Application Calendar: -build-knowledge-about-creative- Arts Endowment's Accessibility Office -Step 1 - Submit SF-424 to placemaking-applicant-eligibility at 202/682-5532 for help in Grants.gov: September 11, 2017 by acquiring an audio recording of these

48 PRIVATE GRANTS (Cont.): guidelines. Eligibility: See RFP and/or Pre-Application Information: Key CFDA Number: 45.024 Grant Guidelines for full eligibility Dates: Funding or Pin Number: 2017NEA01OT Additional Eligibility Criteria: - Request Summaries for the Organizations that are not units of Foundation's next grant cycle will run URL for Full Text (RFP): https:// government or affiliated with a from June 1, 2017 until July 31, 2017. www.arts.gov/grants-organizations/ religious organization must have a - If your organization is invited to our-town/projects-that-build- current 501(c)(3) determination letter submit a Full Proposal, the deadline knowledge-about-creative- from the IRS. Fiscal sponsorships will will be September 15, 2017. placemaking-grant-program- be accepted, but only under special description circumstances. The Complete Application Process: KETTERING FAMILY Geographic Focus: The FOUNDATION (KFF) GRANT Foundation trustees have historically The Foundation strongly approved grants in those areas where recommends that you contact their Grants to Colorado, New Hampshire, family members reside. At the same office to discuss your proposed and New York Nonprofits and time, 90%+ of the grants approved in program before you start the Agencies for Arts, Education, recent years have been trustee application process. Environment, Health, and Human endorsed, some of which are in areas Services that may be located outside of family KFP uses a two-step application residence areas. Family members live review process that operates on a Grants to Colorado, New Hampshire, throughout the USA, but there are biannual cycle, December – May and and New York nonprofit larger concentrations between New June – November. The appropriate organizations, faith-based York and New Hampshire, in KFP Committee (Committee) first organizations, and units of addition to Colorado. reviews a Request Summary. If government for programs and interested, the Committee will invite projects that benefit residents in Request Summaries for any of the the applicant to submit a Full areas where the funding source following purposes are rarely Proposal. operates. The funding source strongly considered without the endorsement recommends that you contact their of a Kettering Family Foundation Submit the Request Summary by the office to discuss your proposed trustee: due date, either January 31 or July 31. program before you start the If these dates fall on a weekend or application process. - Religious organizations for religious holiday, the information is due the purposes next business day. You will receive an Funding is specifically intended to - Individual public elementary or email confirming receipt of your support proposals that address the secondary schools or public school submission. You will be advised by following focus areas: districts email of the outcome of the - Arts, Culture, and Humanities - Capital construction Committee’s review in approximately - Education - Foreign based or foreign purpose three weeks. - Environment organizations - Health/Medical - Local chapters of national If you have received an email inviting - Human Services organizations you to submit a Full Proposal, access - Public/Society Benefit - Multi-year grants your Account to complete the - Travel expenses process. Full Proposals are due March The Foundation trustees have - Event sponsorship 15 or September 15. If these dates fall historically approved grants in those on a weekend or holiday, the areas where family members reside. Request Summaries will not be information is due the next business Family members live throughout the accepted for any of the following day. You will receive an email USA, but there are larger purposes. confirming receipt of your concentrations between New York submission. You will be contacted if and New Hampshire, in addition to - Grants or loans to individuals additional information is needed. A Colorado. - Tickets, advertising or sponsorships site visit may be requested. of fundraising events Term of Contract: Request for - Efforts to carry on propaganda or Notice of approval or denial will be multi-year grants are rarely otherwise attempt to influence communicated to you within 10 days considered without the endorsement legislation of the Committee’s meeting. If you of a Kettering Family Foundation - Activities of 509(a)(3) Type III are awarded a grant, the chief trustee. Supporting Organization executive officer of your organization will be required to sign a Grant 49 PRIVATE GRANTS (Cont.):

Recipient Agreement that outlines the THE DOROTHY AND LEWIS B. THE ABE FELLOWSHIP duties and responsibilities of being a CULLMAN CENTER FOR grant recipient. Generally grants are SCHOLARS AND WRITERS The Social Science Research Council paid within 45 days of the FELLOWSHIP (SSRC) and the Japan Foundation Committee’s meeting. Center for Global Partnership The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman (CGP) announce the annual Abe Faxed, mailed or hand-delivered Center for Scholars and Writers is an Fellowship Program competition. Request Summaries and Full international fellowship program Funding for the Abe Fellowship Proposals will not be accepted, unless open to people whose work will Program is provided by CGP. The Abe KFP has agreed to an exception. benefit directly from access to the Fellowship is designed to encourage collections at the Stephen A. international multidisciplinary Please Note: Schwarzman Building, including research on topics of pressing global academics, independent scholars and concern. The objectives of the - Only one Request Summary per creative writers (novelists, program are to foster high-quality calendar year may be submitted to playwrights, poets). The center research in the social sciences any one of the Kettering Family appoints 15 fellows a year for a nine- and related disciplines, to build new Philanthropies. month term at the library from collaborative networks of researchers - Previously supported organizations September through May. In addition around the four thematic foci, to are eligible to submit a Request to working on their own projects, the bring new data and new data Summary for the same or different fellows engage in an ongoing resources to these researchers and to purpose, if the previous grant has exchange of ideas within the center obtain from them a commitment to a been fully expended, and all required and in public forums throughout the comparative or transnational line of reports have been submitted and library. inquiry. The four themes are: 1. accepted by KFP. threats to personal, societal and Eligibility: The Cullman Center’s international security; 2. growth and Please read these Helpful Hints Selection Committee awards up to 15 sustainable development; 3. social, before you begin to fill out the fellowships a year to outstanding scientific and cultural trends and application form: http:// scholars and writers. Foreign transformation; and 4. governance, www.cfketteringfamilies.com/helpful nationals conversant in English are empowerment and participation. -hints welcome to apply. Candidates who Contact Information: Before starting need to work primarily in The New Eligibility: This competition is your grant application, please review York Public Library’s other research open to citizens of the United States the funding source's website listed libraries – the Library for the and Japan as well as nationals of below for updates/changes/ Performing Arts, the Schomburg other countries who can demonstrate addendums/conferences/LOIs. Center for Research in Black Culture strong and serious long-term Click here to apply online: https:// and the Science, Industry and affiliations with research www.cfketteringfamilies.com/user/ Business Library – are not eligible for communities in Japan or the United register this fellowship, nor are people States. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. seeking funding for research leading or the terminal degree in their field, Deadline: September 15, 2017 directly to a degree. or have attained an equivalent level of professional experience at the time of Contact: For more information, Funding: A Cullman Center application. If the research project send an email to Fellow receives a stipend of up to requires language ability, the [email protected] $70,000, an office, a computer applicant should provide evidence of rg or call the KFP offices at 937-228- and full access to the library’s adequate proficiency to complete the 1021. (KFP is in the Eastern Standard physical and electronic resources. project. Applications from time zone.) Fellows work at the center for the researchers in professions other than duration of the fellowship term. academia are encouraged with the URL for Full Text (RFP): https:// expectation that the product of the www.cfketteringfamilies.com/kff/ Deadline: September 29, 2017 fellowship will contribute to the wider application-proces body of knowledge on the specified Contact: topic. Projects proposing to address Phone: 212-930-0084 key policy issues or seeking to develop a concrete policy proposal Email: [email protected] Website: www.nypl.org/csw must reflect nonpartisan positions.

Funding: Terms of the

fellowship are flexible and designed to meet the needs of researchers

50 PRIVATE GRANTS (Cont.): at different stages of their careers. fellowships, and commissioning feasibility of the programs/services/ The program programs) that culminate in premiere activities, as indicated by the budget, provides Abe Fellows with a exhibitions, publications or the organization’s overall financial minimum of three productions by the grantee health, quality of program leadership and maximum of 12 months of full- organization and that represent and specificity of program detail; time support significant opportunities for multiple - The potential impact of the over a two-year period. artists, collectives or ensembles to programs/services/activities in advance their work and their contributing to artistic development Deadline: September 1, 2017 visibility. Organizations may apply and career of eligible artists as for a single program/service/activity, indicated by the organization’s Contact: Nicole Levit or for multiple programs/services/ program history for eligible artists. Phone: 718-517-3639 activities within the same application. - The organization’s commitment to Email: [email protected] Organizations that apply in this at least one of Jerome’s core values Website: www.ssrc.org/fellowships/ category must offer full public view/abe-fellowship premiere presentations of completed The Foundation’s core values are: new work in at least one program/ JEROME FOUNDATION service/activity (although not - Diversity: We consciously embrace necessarily all) for which Jerome diversity in the broadest sense. We Grants averaging $25,000 to support is requested. Development support a diverse range of artists and Minnesota and New York City work and productions of new work organizations, including but not nonprofit organizations for activities, that has already premiered elsewhere limited to those of diverse cultures, programs, and services that support will not be supported unless the races, sexual identities, genders, early stage artists, collectives, or applicant organization has been part generations, aesthetics, points of ensembles. A preliminary application of the originating commissioning and view, physical abilities, and missions. is due September 14, 2017. Funding is development team. Mentorship, We support a diverse range of artistic intended to support artists at a residency or workshop programs that disciplines and forms, created in a relatively early and still formative do not include fully realized and variety of contexts and for different stage in hopes of providing them produced/ exhibited/published audiences. “footing” within their respective public presentation of new work - Innovation/Risk: We support artists fields. Organizations may submit an should apply in the Creative Research and organizations that push the application in either of the following and Development program. boundaries of their respective categories: disciplines, and applaud Up to 15% of the grant funds may be unconventional approaches to solving Creative Research and Development: applied to indirect administrative problems. costs for supported programs. - Humility: We work for artists These grants offer support for Additionally, up to 10% can be (rather than the reverse) and believe residency programs, mentorship requested to support long-term that artists and organizations are the programs, and/or services that capacity development connected to best authorities to define their needs benefit multiple artists, ensembles or serving early career artists. This may and challenges—an essential humility collectives as described below. include but is not limited to research, reflective of Jerome Hill, our founder. Organizations may apply for a single equipment purchase, amplification of The artists we support embrace their program/service/activity, or for existing cash reserves or roles as part of a larger community of multiple programs/services/activities endowments, change capital funds, artists and citizens, and consciously within the same application. Such and/or debt reduction. work with a sense of purpose, services may include but are not whether aesthetic, social or both. limited to research, convenings and In their consideration, panelists technical development programs, or a consider only the following four Estimated Size of Grant: The combination. Organizations that criteria: average level of funding is $25,000/ apply in this category do not offer full year, with a general range of a public presentations of completed - The merit of the programs/services/ minimum of $15,000-$20,000/year new work in any program/service/ activities, as indicated by the to a maximum of $75,000-100,000/ activity for which they are requesting narrative, work sample(s), quality of year. Grants for single programs will Jerome support. alumni, demonstration of ongoing rarely exceed $40,000/year, while support for vocational artists in the grants for multiple programs will Creation and Production of New early stages of their creative rarely exceed $75,000/year. Only in Work: development, and level of the most exceptional cases, if at all, distinctiveness and responsiveness to will grants be smaller or larger than These grants support programs artists within its field; these minimums or maximums. (including re-grant programs, - The quality of planning and

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Term of Contract: All requests than three years will be considered - Artists, collectives or ensembles should be for a two-year period, only if they are able to demonstrate who have yet to be substantially unless specifically otherwise advised that the programs/services/activities celebrated within their field, the by the Foundation. Funding can fill a unique need(s) that otherwise media, funding circles or the public at begin once grant agreements have are unaddressed by already existing large; been signed, on or after May 1, 2018. programs, services and activities. - Artists, collective or ensembles who Start-ups and organizations in their are legal residents of the state of Eligibility: See RFP and/or first three years that merely expand Minnesota or one of the five boroughs Grant Guidelines for full eligibility the number of opportunities or whose of New York City and have been primary claim is in enhancing the residents for a least a year prior to the Additional Eligibility Criteria: quality of existing opportunities will submission of an application. All applicant organizations must: not be considered.  Be 501(c)3 organizations or apply The Jerome Foundation does not through a fiscal sponsor with a Organizations that have not support “one-off” projects, (e.g. 501(c)3; previously received Jerome funding support to produce one play or film;  Be located in the state of are eligible to apply as long as they present one composer, choreographer Minnesota or one of the five meet the organization eligibility or spoken-word artist; publish one boroughs of New York City; requirements. artist’s book or exhibit one artist’s  Offer ongoing programs, services work at a museum or in a public and activities for vocational, The Foundation supports setting, etc.). generative artists, collectives or organizations with ongoing ensembles in the early stages of programs, services or activities for It also does not support programs, their creative development (as artists, collectives or ensembles who projects or services that serve entirely opposed to avocational, meet all the following descriptors: or primarily: academic, amateur or educational - Students who are or will be at the interpretive or technical artists) - Artists, collectives or ensembles time of application and during the to develop, create, and/or who see the arts as an ongoing grant period enrolled in degree- produce/exhibit/publish new vocation, rather than as a hobby, granting programs (including K-12, works as described in greater pastime or occasional pursuit; and college, graduate or post graduate detail above; who have already completed their studies); training, if they have decided to - Artists who are engaged in the arts  Offer additional programs, pursue formal training at all; as a hobby or avocational pastime; services and activities for Jerome - Artists, collectives or ensembles - Artists who interpret, perform, edit, -eligible artists, collectives or who at the time of application have or design the work of others (e.g. ensembles beyond the program generated, completed and publicly singers, dancers, actors, musicians, (s) for which Jerome support is presented/exhibited/published work editors, journalists, designers in sets/ requested; in the discipline in which support is lights/costumes/sound, editors,  Compensate staff and artists requested; arrangers) but who do not also have a above and beyond any - Artists (e.g. writers, choreographers, significant history of generating new reimbursement costs for visual artists, film/video/digital work in accordance with guidelines; participation; production directors, new media - Managers, administrators, builders  Offer an open application process artists, theater directors who generate or technicians who do not also have a for participation in Jerome- new works, performance artists, significant history of generating new funded programs or use curators, playwrights, spoken word artists, work in accordance with guidelines; nominators or staff with active, composers and sound artists), - Artists, collectives or ensembles regular and broad engagement collectives or ensembles whose who do not seek to expand the with Jeromeeligible artists as primary goal is to generate new aesthetic or social boundaries/ described above. works, as opposed to remounting or audience of the form or genre in re-interpreting existing works; which they work; Highest priority will be given to - Artists, collectives or ensembles - Artists, collectives or ensembles organizations which have a who expand the genre, form or social who have yet to clearly define their demonstrated history of serving such boundaries/audience for the artistic ambitions and are still in an artists, collectives or ensembles for at discipline in which they work; exploratory period still searching for least three prior years to the time of - Artists who are in the early stages of a focus. application and whose values are their creative development; - Artists who do not currently live in consistent with one or more of - Artists, collectives or ensembles either the state of Minnesota or New Jerome’s core values. who have a focused direction and York City, and who did not consider goals, even while still developing their one or both their legal residence for Start-ups or organizations with less artistic “voice”; the year leading up to the application. PRIVATE GRANTS (Cont.):

Given the emphasis on funding artists Time. Advance registration is at a relatively early and still formative required - see Contact Information Register for the informational stage in hopes of providing them for the link to register. webinar online: “footing” within their respective https://zoom.us/webinar/ fields, the Jerome Foundation Attendance at webinars is encouraged register/7b7eac7a639cde81dc2040ba additionally does not support: for applicants who wish to receive 88984b7b detailed information about the - Artists, collectives or ensembles program or ask specific questions Register and submit the preliminary who already have a fully developed/ about their programs application online: mature artistic “voice” in any https://jeromefdn.submittable.com/ discipline versus achievement within You can also watch the webinar held submit/84622/organizations-support a single discipline. on May 25, 2017 on the RFP URL, in -for-programs-services-and-activities - Artists, collective or ensembles who which Jerome staff reviewed the new -for-artistsprelimi have already been substantially guidelines and held a Q and A celebrated within their field, the session. The Foundation encourages media, funding circles or the public at Pre-Application Information: applicants to contact Foundation staff large in any discipline, including but Matching funds from additional to ask questions and to discuss not limited to the discipline for which sources are not required, but are potential applications. Please contact support is requested. encouraged. any of the following staff members with questions regarding the intent of Additionally, the Foundation does not Timeline: the program and for clarification of support: - Online Step 1/preliminary program goals/procedures. application cycle opens: June 15, 2017 - Arts education programs - Step 1/preliminary application - President, Ben Cameron - - Amateur artists, student groups, deadline: September 14, 2017 [email protected] hobbyists - Step 2/full applications invited: No - Program Director, Eleanor Savage - - Endowments and/or cash reserves later than October 16, 2017 [email protected] for organizations as the primary grant - Deadline for Step 2/full - Program Officer, Venessa Fuentes - purpose applications: November 30, 2017 [email protected] - Buildings, endowments, or capital - Notification of awards: Between for arts organizations March 15-April 9, 2018 NEW YORK COMMUNITY - Training and conservatory programs - Next application cycle opens: TRUST - WESTCHESTER - New original work that does not Spring/Summer 2019 push the form or social boundaries/ COMMUNITY FOUNDATION audiences forward Guidelines: https:// (WCF) - Documentation of work as the www.jeromefdn.org/apply/ Grants to Westchester, New York primary grant purpose organization-grants/program- nonprofits, government agencies, and - Marketing and audience eligibility school districts for programs that development grants for specific strive to strengthen the community organizations Early Career/Emerging Artist and improve lives. Applicants must - Fundraising and anniversary Eligibility: https:// submit a letter of intent by August 4, campaigns or projects www.jeromefdn.org/apply/ 2017. Funding is focused on three - Programs or opportunities that organization-grants/artist-eligibility general areas of community charge an application fee for artists development: Promising Futures, - Projects/festivals that revisit, Application process: https:// Thriving Communities, and Healthy remount, reprint, adapt or reinterpret www.jeromefdn.org/apply/ Lives. previously created work organization-grants/application- - In general, the Foundation does not process 1. Promising Futures fund the development and production The Foundation is committed to of an artist, collaborative or FAQs: https://www.jeromefdn.org/ building promising futures for all ensemble’s new project through more apply/organization-grants/faq ages by supporting workforce than one organization. development and job placement; Cocommissioners and co-developers Deadline: November 30, 2017 providing access to legal services for of a particular project should contact vulnerable populations; meeting the Foundation directly to discuss Contact: Before starting your basic human needs and supporting options. grant application, please review the self-sufficiency; and supporting the Pre-proposal Conference: funding source's website listed below development of resilient youth. An informational webinar will be held for updates/changes/addendums/ on June 28, 2017 at 12 noon Central conferences/LOIs. The Foundation encourages: PRIVATE GRANTS (Cont.):

- Community partnerships linking families. Preference is given to to individuals; endowment industry, training, and job-seekers; innovative programs with countywide campaigns; capital campaigns; - Career-exploration and technical- impact. equipment purchases that are not education programs that prepare intrinsic to the proposed project; youth for high-quality jobs that offer - Programs and projects that routine operating expenses; deficit a path to a career; strengthen the health-care delivery financing; medical research; religious - Programs that include internships system for the County’s poorest activities; or events. and apprenticeships; and residents, through model program - Programs designed to serve a development and capacity-building. Pre-Application Information: particular constituency, including Application guidelines: those with barriers to achieving The Foundation's granting approach: http://www.wcf-ny.org/step-by-step successful employment. - To invest in programs and projects that tackle pressing needs our Program goals: 2. Thriving Communities community face. http://www.wcf-ny.org/grant- The Foundation makes grants to - To prioritize collaborations and programs groups that increase access to the thoughtful partnerships that foster arts, foster social justice, and protect shared learning and action. Letter of Intent - All applicants are our environment, and also support - To look for best practices and required to submit a Letter of Intent efforts that strengthen nonprofit emerging ideas that lead to to the program officer assigned to the effectiveness. innovative approaches to solving grantmaking area under which you problems. are applying (see Program Goals link - Arts and Culture program goal: To - To work with grantees to improve above). broaden access to the arts for all and performance through ongoing to provide professional development assessment. Proposal - Email completed form to opportunities for Westchester artists Term of Contract: [email protected] and to your from diverse backgrounds.Priority The Westchester Community program officer. areas: Fellowships, Germanic culture, Foundation does not typically make and access to the arts in all multi-year grant awards, but you may Organizations will receive a check communities. discuss this possibility with the within four to six weeks of the - Social Justice program goal: To program officer if a specific project Foundation's receipt of the signed support community-based efforts will span longer than one year. agreement. Grant payments are made that create greater social, racial, Eligibility: in one or two payments. economic, and political justice. See RFP and/or Grant Guidelines for Priority areas: community organizing, full eligibilityAdditional Eligibility Deadline: October 13, 2017 3:00 civic engagement, public policy Criteria: pm change. The Foundation makes grants to tax- - Conservation and the Environment exempt 501(c)(3) organizations Contact: Before starting your program goal: To promote more operating or proposing to operate grant application, please review the environmentally sustainable, programs for the benefit of funding source's website listed below resilient, and just communities in Westchester residents and for updates/changes/addendums/ Westchester. Priority areas: communities. conferences/LOIs. Sustainability, resiliency, and Email completed proposals to healthier environment. Agencies with a pending 501(c)(3) [email protected] and to your application must use an approved program officer. 3. Healthy Lives organization as a fiscal agent. These grants promote healthy lives by Tara Seely, Program Officer improving the effectiveness, Where appropriate, the Foundation (914) 948-5166 x 6 responsiveness, and equity of health will fund local government entities, [email protected] care in Westchester. Priority areas: including school districts. Health disparities, health-care Robin Melén systems. All agencies must be vetted and Program Officer approved prior to receiving a grant. (914) 948-5166 x 7 The Foundation provides funding The Foundation looks for good [email protected] support for: governance practices and organizations with a strong financial URL for Full Text (RFP): http:// - Programs and projects that address position. www.wcf-ny.org/overview health disparities and improve access to quality health care for uninsured The Foundation does not make grants and underinsured individuals and from its competitive grants program PRIVATE GRANTS (Cont.):

FOUNDATION (NSF) FACULTY cntn_id=191332  Impact and reach - 30% EARLY CAREER  Ability to Execute, Financial DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM Deadline: Capacity and Plan for (CAREER) 2017 Due Dates: Sustainability - 20% -BIO, CISE, EHR: July 19, 2017  Technological capacity of the Grants to USA colleges, universities, -ENG: July 20, 2017 grantee - 20% -GEO, MPS, SBE: July 21, 2017 and nonprofits engaged in  Organizational Need - 30% educational or research activities to 2018 Due Dates: support early-career faculty members Estimated Size of Grant: You who demonstrate a strong potential -BIO, CISE, EHR: July 18, 2018 -ENG: July 19, 2018 may request up to 20 computers. to advance science and academia. A webinar is scheduled for May 22. This -GEO, MPS, SBE: July 20, 2018 Eligibility: See RFP and/or award is given to faculty who are Grant Guidelines for full eligibility likely to serve as academic role 2019 Due Dates: -BIO, CISE, EHR: July 17, 2019 models in research and education and The program is open to all U.S. 501(c) to lead advances in the mission of -ENG: July 18, 2019 -GEO, MPS, SBE: July 19, 2019 (3) nonprofit organizations. their organization or department. InterConnection does not generally

Contact: grant computers to faith-based Activities pursued by early-career organizations. faculty should build a firm foundation Henry A. Warchall (703) 292-4861 for a lifetime of leadership in Deadline: March 1. June 1, integrating education and research. [email protected] (preferred contact method) September 1, and December 15 NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from early-career URL for Full Text (RFP): https:// Contact: faculty at all CAREER-eligible InterConnection.org organizations and especially www.nsf.gov/funding/ pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503214 3415 Stone Way N encourages women, members of Seattle, WA 98103 underrepresented minority groups, Email: [email protected] and persons with disabilities to apply. INTERCONNECTION http://interconnection.org/ computergrants.php Estimated Total Program In-kind donations of up to 20 Funding: $222,000,000 computers to USA nonprofits to assist in providing services to underserved FOUNDATION (CFKF) Number of Grants: Estim ated populations. Donations are intended Number of Awards: 450 per year to help organizations improve their Matching grants to USA nonprofits ability to provide services such as and K-12 schools to equip music Estimated Size of Grant: education, job training, technology programs with stringed instruments. The CAREER award, including training, and health care. The applicant organization must indirect costs, is expected to total a InterConnection gets people the show evidence of need and a minimum of $400,000 for the 5-year technology they need to create the commitment to raising matching duration, with the following futures they want. They help funds. exceptions: Awards for proposals to underserved and disadvantaged the Directorate for Biological communities around the world by Funding is intended to give children Sciences (BIO), the Directorate for making computers and nationwide the opportunity to play Engineering (ENG), or the Office of communication technology available high-quality stringed instruments so Polar Programs (OPP) are expected to to those who wouldn't otherwise have as to provide them with experiences total a minimum of $500,000 for the access. and skills that can help make them 5-year duration. more successful in life. InterConnection normally awards Eligibility: either desktops or laptops that are Eligibility: See RFP and/or Grant Guidelines for full eligibility  Institutions of Higher Education; pre-installed with Windows 7 and IHE(s) Microsoft Office 2010, with the  All applicants must have nonprofit status  Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) following minimum specifications: status with the IRS Core 2 Duo processor / 2 GB RAM /  Grants are limited to programs 80 GB HDD. serving children kindergarten  See RFP and/or Grant Guidelines through grade 12 for full eligibility https:// www.nsf.gov/events/ The grant committee will base their  Grants are not made to event_summ.jsp? decision on the following four main individuals. evaluation criteria: PRIVATE GRANTS (Cont.):

Deadline: June 30, September  A stand-alone nonprofit 501(c)(3)  Potential for strategic impact 30, December 31, and March 31 with a history of service to youth  Alignment with Ford priorities from low-income communities in  Potential to transform Contact: the U.S. stereotypes, beliefs, and value Classics for Kids Foundation  Financially viable, with a budget systems P.O. Box 5977 greater than $1,000,000.  Creativity and innovation in form Holliston, MA 01746  Focus on vulnerable population Funding: $100-200 million For questions about the instrument grant program, contact CFKF Funding: $200,000 per year Deadline: Ongoing Contact: Executive/Artistic Director Michael Reynolds Ford Foundation Contact: [email protected] 1440 Broadway Phone: 508-740-8331 Email: [email protected] New York, NY 10018 THE ROBERT N. Phone 212-573-5000 DEBENEDICTIS FOUNDATION URL for Full Text (RFP): http:// classicsforkids.org/apply-for-a-grant/ HEARST FOUNDATIONS This Foundation provides grants to

support gay and lesbian rights start- The Hearst Foundations support well EDNA MCCONNELL CLARK up & grassroots organizations in the FOUNDATION -established nonprofit organizations states of New York and Florida that that address significant issues within are attempting to fulfill the needs of The Clark Foundation will continue their major areas of interests – their group that have not been culture, education, health and social its grantmaking through three satisfactorily met, as well as animal distinct but related strategies: service – and that primarily serve rights start up & grassroots large demographic and/or geographic organizations in the states of New The Foundation’s core Youth constituencies. In each area of York and Florida that are attempting funding, the Foundations seek to Development Fund concentrates on to fulfill the needs of their group that helping high-performing youth- identify those organizations achieving have not been satisfactorily met. truly differentiated results relative to serving nonprofits achieve greater impact. Although it continues to work other organizations making similar Eligibility: LGBT organizations efforts for similar populations. The with its current grantees, it has and animal rights organizations ceased adding new organizations to Foundations also look for evidence of sustainability beyond their support. its portfolio. Funding: $200,000 per year

Eligibility: PropelNext helps promising Contact:  Organizations in the United nonprofits, often at an earlier stage of Ariana Testamarck States organizational development, improve 227 East 56th Street, Suite 400 their collection and use of data to New York, New York 10022-  Organizations with an operating produce better outcomes for youth. Phone (212) 753-2357 Ext 203 budget over $1 million PropelNext is exploring supporting, Fax (212) 888-6828  (a 501(c)(3) letter is required to in partnership with other funders, [email protected] receive funding additional grantees in new cohorts. THE FORD FOUNDATION- JUST Funding: $42,590,000 Blue Meridian Partners, a FILMS collaboration of 12 philanthropic Deadline: Ongoing institutions and individuals incubated The Ford Foundation-Just Films at EMCF, invests up to $100-$200 support artist-driven film and new Contact: million to scale individual high- media storytelling projects that The Hearst Foundations performing nonprofits poised to have explore aspects of inequality, as well 300 West 57th Street, 26th Floor a national impact on children and as the organizations and networks New York, New York 10019-3741 young people, ages 0-30. If you that support these projects. Telephone: 212-649-3750 believe your organization and your Applications can be submitted at Fax: 212-586-1917 plans for growth might be a http://www.fordfound.org/work/our [email protected] promising fit for Blue Meridian -grants/justfilms/justfilms-inquiry/ Partners, we encourage you to LEVITT FOUNDATION complete our brief Youth Application Criteria: Organizations Survey Form.  Artistic excellence The Levitt Foundation is an independent foundation incorporated Eligibility:  Contemporary relevance in New York in 1949. The Foundation PRIVATE GRANTS (Cont.): is interested in youth-powered food charities include universities, attention or action, in order to justice as it relates to children and museums, libraries, and performing bring issues into the realm of youth living in the five boroughs of arts organizations that pursue public concern and effect policy New York City. scholarly, cultural, and charitable change. Advocacy may be carried missions. out by those directly affected or Since 1996 the Levitt Foundation has by others working on behalf of a awarded more than $12.6 million in Funding: Varies constituency. grants to nonprofit organizations.  We are open to ideas in the field Annual grantmaking is now Deadline: Ongoing of community organizing and approximately $800,000. Given the advocacy that involve a high Foundation’s size and limited staff Contact: degree of risk and will consider: time, proposals are accepted by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation  Emerging organizations working invitation only. 140 E. 62nd Street with new constituencies; New York, NY 10065  Untested approaches; Phone: 212-838-8400 The Foundation is a member and Fax: 212-888-4172  Issues that have not yet received supports the work of Philanthropy [email protected] public attention. New York and Community Food  All organizations that apply for a Funders. NEW YORK FOUNDATION grant, regardless of the strategy they utilize or the issue they Eligibility: These foundation grants support address, must:  Organizations operating in one of community-initiated solutions to  involve New York City or a the 5 boroughs solve local problems, constituents particular neighborhood of the  (a 501(c)(3) letter is required to mobilizing for adequate and equitable city; receive funding resources, and groups organizing a  address a critical or emerging collective voice among those whose need, particularly involving Funding: Varies voices have not been heard. Grantees youth or the elderly; and address a wide diversity of issues, but  articulate how a grant from the Deadline: Ongoing share a commitment to inspire New Foundation would advance Yorkers to become more informed, their work. Contact: active participants in the life of the Philanthropic Advisor city. Funding: Varies Levitt Foundation c/o The Philanthropic Group Eligibility: The NY Foundation Deadline: November 1st, March 630 Fifth Avenue, 20th floor support organizations that: engage 1st and July 1st New York, NY 10111-0254 people most immediately affected by Telephone: (212) 501 7785 problems we seek to address; develop Contact: Fax: (212) 501 7788 emerging leaders; see opportunity Maria Mottola, Executive Director [email protected] and demonstrate readiness to New York Foundation undertake social change efforts; and 10 East 34th Street, 10th Floor ANDREW W. MELLON are willing collaborators. New York, NY 10016 FOUNDATION Telephone: (212) 594-8009 Priority: Priority is placed on The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supporting community organizing supports a wide range of initiatives to and advocacy. strengthen the humanities, arts,  Community organizing is defined higher education, and cultural as bringing people together to heritage. Organizations in those identify issues and take joint fields can consult descriptions of the action to bring about change. Foundation's areas of grantmaking to Drawing on a broad constituency determine whether a project fits that shapes and guides their within the Foundation's agenda, community organizing programmatic interests and mission. groups develop and train leaders, work to promote accountability, Eligibility: The Foundation and bring about both personal makes grants to organizations in the transformation and systemic United States that have been change. determined by the IRS to be section  Advocacy is defined as a strategy 501(c)(3) charities. 501(c)(3) that raises or rallies public