August Grants Newsletter

Our grants newsletter is HTA’s monthly roundup of federal, state, and Bay Area grants for non-profits and public agencies. This month, there are new and ongoing opportunities for incarcerated youth, those experiencing homelessness, community colleges, and many others.

Education
Special Programs for Indian Children: Demonstration Grants
Purpose: To provide financial assistance to projects that develop, test, and demonstrate the effectiveness of services and programs to improve the educational opportunities and achievement of Indian students in preschool, elementary, and secondary schools.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education
Applicant: SEAs, LEAs, Indian Tribes, Indian organizations, Tribal colleges and universities
Amount: Varies $500,000 to $1,000,000
Projected Number of Awards: 26
Deadline: Friday, August 10, 2018New! County Technical Assistance for Tobacco-Use Prevention Education
Purpose: To plan, develop, and implement capacity building, technical assistance and training, and program monitoring and improvement services for TUPE activities implemented by local educational agencies. A portion of TA funds are to be directed to identifying and reducing disparities among disparate youth populations.
Funder: California Department of Education
Applicant: Local educational agencies
Amount: Unknown
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Friday, August 17, 2018

New! Training and Information for Parents of Children with Disabilities: Technical Assistance for Parent Centers
Purpose: To ensure that parents of children with disabilities receive impartial training and information to help improve outcomes of their children.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education
Applicant: Nonprofit organizations
Amount: Varies $500,000 to $800,000
Projected Number of Awards: 5
Deadline: Thursday, August 23, 2018

New! Pilot Program for Cybersecurity Education Technological Upgrades for Community Colleges
Purpose: To support projects at institutions of higher education (IHEs) that provide technological upgrades for cybersecurity education programs at community colleges.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education
Applicant: Community colleges
Amount: Up to $100,000
Projected Number of Awards: 10
Deadline: Wednesday, August 29, 2018

New! Advanced Technological Education (ATE)
Purpose: To promote improvement in the education of science and engineering technicians at the undergraduate and secondary school levels.
Funder: National Science Foundation
Applicant: Institutions of higher education
Amount: Varies $70,000 to $7,500,000
Projected Number of Awards: 75
Deadline: Monday, October 15, 2018

New! Career Technical Education Facilities Program
Purpose: To provide aid to local educational agencies to reconfigure, construct, or modernize Career Technical Education (CTE) facilities, and/or purchase equipment for CTE programs, and to joint powers authorities (JPAs) to modernize CTE facilities and/or equipment.
Funder: California Department of Education
Applicant: LEAs and JPA ROPs
Amount: Up to $3 million per project/school site for new construction projects and $1.5 million per modernization projects
Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Friday, October 19, 2018
Social Services

Service Area Competition
Purpose: To ensure continued access to affordable, quality primary health care services for communities and vulnerable populations currently served by the Health Center Program.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Applicant: Public agencies, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Unknown
Projected Number of Awards: 117
Deadline: Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Empowerment/Healing Support Group for African Americans
Purpose: To seek proposals for developing and implementing an Empowerment/Healing Support Group curriculum based on African values to support participants in using their voices and experiences to address their mental health needs.
Funder: Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services
Applicant: Public or private non-profit agencies
Amount: Up to $415,227
Projected Number of Awards: 1
Deadline: Friday, August 17, 2018

New! Health Care Services for Juvenile Justice Center
Purpose: To provide fitness-for-detention screenings (medically clearing youth to be booked into Juvenile Facilities), health appraisals, primary care, reproductive health services, dental care, optometry, coordination with mental health services, prescribing and administering medication (including distributing psychotropic medication prescribed by Behavioral Health), and other services as more specifically identified in this RFP.
Funder: Alameda County
Applicant: Public agencies
Amount: Up to $5.5 million
Projected Number of Awards: 1
Deadline: Monday, August 20, 2018

New! Intensive Supervision and Clinical Services (ISCS)
Purpose: To provide community supervision and clinical and case management services to youth involved in the Juvenile Justice System; reduce recidivism for justice involved youth; help youth successfully meet court mandates and conditions of probation in order to exit the juvenile justice system.
Funder: San Francisco Department of Children, Youth & Their Families
Applicant: Agencies must have received funding during DCYF’s 2018-23 RFP to provide services under the Justice Services service area
Amount: Total funding available $900,000
Projected Number of Awards: 2 to 5
Deadline: Monday, August 20, 2018

Tribal Opioid Response Grants
Purpose: To address the opioid crisis in tribal communities by increasing access to culturally appropriate and evidence-based treatment, including medication-assisted treatment (MAT) using one of the three FDA-approved medications for the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD). The intent is to reduce unmet treatment need and opioid overdose related deaths through the provision of prevention, treatment and/or recovery activities for OUD.
Funder: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Applicant: Federally recognized American Indian or Alaska Native tribe or tribal organization. Tribes and tribal organizations may apply individually, as a consortia, or in partnership with an urban Indian organization
Amount: Unknown (total funding available $50 million)
Projected Number of Awards: 263
Deadline: Monday, August 20, 2018

Black/African American Family Behavioral Health Services
Purpose: To identify a list of qualified applicants with proven experience in advocacy, engagement, behavioral health treatment, and community capacity building activities that support the emotional health and well-being of Black/African American children, youth, and their families in San Francisco, or a similarly diverse urban environment.
Funder: San Francisco Department of Public Health
Applicant: Nonprofit organizations
Amount: Varies (total available $2 million)
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Wednesday, August 22, 2018

New! Title V Competitive Sexual Risk Avoidance Education
Purpose: To fund projects to implement sexual risk avoidance education that teaches youth participants how to voluntarily refrain from non-marital sexual activity. The goals of Title V Competitive SRAE are to empower participants to make healthy decisions, and provide tools and resources to prevent pregnancy, STIs, and engagement in other risky behaviors.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Applicant: Public agencies, independent school districts, institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Varies $13,501 to $450,000
Projected Number of Awards: 30
Deadline: Sunday, August 26, 2018

New! Service Area Competition
Purpose: To ensure continued access to affordable, quality primary health care services for communities and vulnerable populations currently served by the Health Center Program.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Applicant: Public agencies, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Varies
Projected Number of Awards: 81
Deadline: Monday, September 17, 2018

Continuum of Care Program Competition
Purpose: To promote a community-wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness; to provide funding for efforts by nonprofit providers, States, and local governments to quickly re-house homeless individuals, families, persons fleeing domestic violence, and youth while minimizing the trauma and dislocation caused by homelessness; to promote access to and effective utilization of mainstream programs by homeless; and to optimize self- sufficiency among those experiencing homelessness.
Funder: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Applicant: Public agencies, PHAs, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Up to $5,000,000 million
Projected Number of Awards: 8000
Deadline: Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part A HIV Emergency Relief Grant Program
Purpose: To provide direct financial assistance to an eligible metropolitan area (EMA) or a transitional grant area (TGA) that has been severely affected by the HIV epidemic.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Applicant: Public or private non-profit agencies
Amount: Varies
Projected Number of Awards: 52
Deadline: Friday, September 21, 2018

New! Expanding Collaborative Capacity to Prevent Domestic Violence
Purpose: To support planning and capacity-building activities for collaboratives to reach a common understanding and a shared commitment to community- level domestic violence prevention. It is designed to support collaboratives in efforts that acknowledge how domestic violence interrelates with other community priorities, help to break down issue siloes, and facilitate a holistic, integrated, and sustainable approach to community health, safety, and wellbeing.
Funder: Prevention Institute and Blue Shield of California Foundation
Applicant: Collaboratives (one lead agency must apply). Deadline to submit letter of intent is on August 6.
Amount: $50,000
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Monday, September 24, 2018

Community Based Transitional Housing Program
Purpose: To provide transitional housing and support services. This program is intended to primarily target offenders released from state prisons and county jails. However, cities and counties may apply for funds to serve other populations that they believe will benefit from the Program’s services.
Funder: California Department of Finance
Applicant: Public agencies
Amount: Up to $2,000,000 each
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Monday, October 01, 2018

 

Justice Grants
New! Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program
Purpose: This program furthers the Department’s mission by assisting state, local, and tribal efforts to prevent or reduce crime and violence.
Funder: U.S. Department of Justice
Applicant: Public agencies, local units of government
Amount: Varies
Projected Number of Awards: 1,147
Deadline: Wednesday, August 22, 2018Gang Suppression: A Law Enforcement and Prosecutorial Approach To Address Gang Recruitment of Unaccompanied Alien 
Purpose: To reduce violent crime, gangs (specifically transnational gangs), and victimization and promote public safety in communities through implementation support for eligible communities that demonstrates their readiness to put a comprehensive strategic plan into action, based on a multilateral data-driven strategy.
Funder: U.S. Department of Justice
Applicant: Law enforcement agencies in states, local governments, Native American tribal governments
Amount: Up to $1.2 million
Projected Number of Awards: 6
Deadline: Monday, August 27, 2018

Gang Suppression Planning Grants Program
Purpose: To reduce violent crime, gangs, and victimization and promote public safety in communities through planning support to eligible localities to build capacity for a multilateral data-driven strategy.
Funder: U.S. Department of Justice
Applicant: Public agencies, units of local government, Native American tribal governments
Amount: Up to $200,000
Projected Number of Awards: 5
Deadline: Monday, August 27, 2018

Upcoming
Be on the lookout for JAG RFPs from the California Board of State and Community Corrections in the coming months.

The Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program provides critical funding necessary to support state and local initiatives, to include: technical assistance, strategic planning, research and evaluation (including forensics), data collection, training, personnel, equipment, forensic laboratories, supplies, contractual support, and criminal justice information systems.
Arts
Art Grant Programs
The California Arts Council posts applications for various art grant programs. Click here to view the list of open programs.
Economic & Workforce Development Grants
Jobs Plus Initiative
Purpose: To develop locally-based, job-driven approaches that increase earnings and advance employment outcomes through work readiness, employer linkages, job placement, educational advancement, technology skills, and financial literacy for residents of public housing.
Funder: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Applicant: Public Housing Authorities
Amount: Up to $3.7 million
Projected Number of Awards: 5
Deadline: Tuesday, August 14, 2018New! Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations (“WANTO”) Technical Assistance Grant Program
Purpose: To provide technical assistance (“TA”) to employers and labor unions to encourage employment of women in apprentice able occupations and nontraditional occupations (“A/NTO”), specifically by: Developing (establishing, expanding or enhancing) pre-apprenticeship or nontraditional skills training programs designed to prepare women for careers in A/NTO; Providing ongoing orientations for employers, unions, and workers on creating a successful environment for women in A/NTO; and/or Setting up support groups and facilitating networks for women in A/NTO, to improve their retention.
Funder: U.S. Department of Labor
Applicant: Only Community-Based Organizations (CBOs)
Amount: Varies $250,000 to $500,000
Projected Number of Awards: 6
Deadline: Thursday, August 16, 2018

San Francisco Office of Economic & Workforce Development Nonprofit Sustainability Initiative
Purpose: To help San Francisco’s nonprofits secure new, nonprofit-owned space and create solutions for organizations seeking long-term leases. The initiative includes two new programs — the Nonprofit Space Investment Fund and the Nonprofit Space Stabilization Program. The programs provide technical and financial assistance to support nonprofit sustainability amidst a changing and volatile real estate market.
Funder: Northern California Community Loan Fund
Applicant: Nonprofit organizations (organizations must complete a consultation call between July 23-August 17, 2018)
Amount: Unknown
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Monday, September 17, 2018

YouthBuild
Purpose: To help organizations providing pre-apprenticeship services that support education, occupational skills training, and employment services to at-risk youth, ages 16 to 24, while performing meaningful work and service to their communities.
Funder: U.S. Department of Labor
Applicant: Public or private non-profit agencies
Amount: Varies $700,000 to $1,100,000
Projected Number of Awards: 85
Deadline: Tuesday, September 18, 2018

New! Scaling Apprenticeship Through Sector-Based Strategies
Purpose: To accelerate the expansion of apprenticeships to new industry sectors reliant on H-1B visas, (2) to promote the large-scale expansion of apprenticeships across the nation, and (3) to increase apprenticeship opportunities for all Americans.
Funder: U.S. Department of Labor
Applicant: Institutions of higher education
Amount: Varied $1 million to $12 million
Projected Number of Awards: 30
Deadline: Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Stand Down Grants
Purpose: To enhance employment and training opportunities or to promote the self-sufficiency of homeless veterans through paid work
Funder: U.S. Department of Labor
Applicant: Public agencies, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Varies $7,000 to $10,000
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Thursday, December 31, 2020

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