September Newsletter
Congratulations to Center for Human Development for their recent award of $726,424 from the California Department of Health Care Services for Medi-Cal Health Care Enrollment Navigators in Contra Costa County.
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CARES Act: Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund
Purpose: The CARES Act Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund-IHE/Student Aid provides funding to institutions to provide emergency financial aid grants to students whose lives have been disrupted, many of whom are facing financial challenges and struggling to make ends meet.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education
Applicant: Institutions of higher education
Amount: Unknown
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 Youth Engagement, Education, and Employment
Purpose: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (USFWS or Service) National Wildlife Refuge System (NWRS) is accepting proposals to develop introductory educational experiences in natural resource careers to young people and veterans, including culturally, ethnically and economically diverse students, and underserved communities that traditionally have low participation in outdoor recreation activities through hands-on experience and mentoring at a variety of USFWS programs including but not limited to, national wildlife refuges, fish hatcheries, and ecological services offices. Under this program, individuals and/or groups of youth, young adults, and veterans.
Funder: Department of the Interior
Applicant: Private and public institutions of higher education, state governments, city governments, nonprofits
Amount: Varies $1,000-$2,000,000
Projected Number of Awards: 250
Deadline: Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Head Start and/or Early Head Start Expansion
Purpose: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Head Start (OHS) announces funding for the purpose of expanding access to high- quality, comprehensive early learning services for newly-enrolled, income-eligible pregnant women, infants, toddlers, and children from birth to compulsory school age. This funding opportunity announcement will solicit applications only from agencies with an existing Head Start, Early Head Start, or Early Head Start – Child Care Partnership grant award. ACF expects that expansion of an existing Head Start or Early Head Start program can include any of the following: adding slots within existing center-based classrooms or family child care programs; adding new classrooms to an existing center; adding or establishing entirely new centers or family child care homes; and/or adding new slots to a home-based program option.
Funder: Department of Health and Human Services
Applicant: nonprofits, county governments, city of township governments, institutions of higher learning.
Amount: Varies from $300,000-$4,027,770
Projected Number of Awards: 30
Deadline: Monday, September 21, 2020
New! Migrant and Seasonal Head Start (MSHS) Expansion
Purpose: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) announces funding for the purpose of expanding access to high-quality, comprehensive early learning services for newly-enrolled, income-eligible Migrant and/or seasonal farmworker families including pregnant women and children from birth to compulsory school age. This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) will solicit applications only from agencies with an existing Head Start grant award.
Funder: Department of Health and Human Services
Applicant: Nonprofits, County governments, public and private institutions of higher learning
Amount: Varies from $300,000-$4,027,077
Projected Number of Awards: 30
Deadline: Monday, September 21, 2020
Discovery Research PreK-12
Purpose: The DRK-12 program invites proposals that address immediate challenges that are facing preK-12 STEM education as well as those that anticipate radically different structures and functions of preK-12 teaching and learning. The DRK-12 program has three major research and development strands: (1) Assessment; (2) Learning; and (3) Teaching. The program recognizes the synergy among the three strands and that there is some overlap and interdependence among them. However, proposals should identify a clear focus of the proposed research efforts (i.e., assessment, learning, or teaching) consistent with the proposal’s main objectives and research questions.
Funder: National Science Foundation
Applicant: Unrestricted
Amount: Varies from $450,000-$5,000,000
Projected Number of Awards: 60
Deadline: Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Strengthening Community Colleges Training Grants
Purpose: The Strengthening Community Colleges Training Grants program will build the capacity of community colleges to collaborate with employers and the public workforce development system to meet local and regional labor market demand for a skilled workforce.
Funder: Department of Labor
Applicant: Community colleges
Amount: up to $5,000,000
Projected Number of Awards: 16
Deadline: Thursday, October 8, 2020
New! K12 Strong Workforce Program
Purpose: The California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office (CCCCO), in partnership with the California Department of Education (CDE), is seeking applications from eligible LEAs for K12 SWP funds to create, support, and/or expand high-quality CTE course sequences, programs, and pathways at the K-12 level that are aligned to regional workforce efforts occurring through the SWP.
Funder: California Community College Chancellor’s Office
Applicant: Local education agencies; including school districts, county office of education, charter school, regional occupational center or program (ROCP)
Amount: Total funding $150 million; allocation for Bay Area $30,825,442
Projected Number of Awards: Varies
Deadline: Friday, October 16, 2020
https://www.cccco.edu/About-Us/Chancellors
New! Institutional Resilience and Expanded Postsecondary Opportunity (IREPO) Grants
Purpose: To provide financial support to institutions of higher education (IHEs) with the greatest unmet needs related to coronavirus to enable them to resume operations, serve the needs of students, reduce disease transmission, and develop more resilient instructional delivery models, such as distance learning, to continue educating students who cannot or choose not to attend classroom-based instruction due to coronavirus.
Funder: Department of Education
Applicant: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education
Amount: Estimated total program funding $28 million
Projected Number of Awards: 19
Deadline: Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation
Purpose: The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program is an alliance-based program. The program’s theory is based on the Tinto model for student retention referenced in the 2005 LSAMP program evaluation.The overall goal of the program is to assist universities and colleges in diversifying the nation’s science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce by increasing the number of STEM baccalaureate and graduate degrees awarded to populationshistorically underrepresented in these disciplines: African Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders.
Funder: National Science Foundation
Applicant: Institutions of higher education (IHEs): Two- and four-year IHEs (including community colleges) accredited in, and having a campus located in the US, acting on behalf of their faculty members
Amount: Varies from $100,000-$3,500,000
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Friday, November 20, 2020
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Health, Social Services, Housing and Transportation
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Choice Neighborhoods Planning Grants NOFA
Purpose: Choice Neighborhoods Planning Grants support the development of comprehensive neighborhood revitalization plans which focus on directing resources to address three core goals: Housing, People and Neighborhood. To achieve these core goals, communities must develop and implement a comprehensive neighborhood revitalization strategy, or Transformation Plan.
Funder: Department of Housing and Urban Development
Applicant: City or township governments, nonprofits, public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities.
Amount: Up to $450,000
Projected Number of Awards: 10
Deadline: Monday, September 14, 2020 New! Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant Program
Purpose: To support the implementation of comprehensive neighborhood revitalization plans that are expected to achieve the following three core goals: 1. Housing: Replace distressed public and assisted housing with high-quality mixed-income housing that is well-managed and responsive to the needs of the surrounding neighborhood; 2. People: Improve outcomes of households living in the target housing related to employment and income, health, and children’s education; and 3. Neighborhood: Create the conditions necessary for public and private reinvestment in distressed neighborhoods to offer the kinds of amenities and assets, including safety, good schools, and commercial activity, that are important to families’ choices about their community.
Funder: Department of Housing and Urban Development
Applicant: Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities; city or township governments
Amount: Up to $35,000,000
Projected Number of Awards: 5
Deadline: Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Ensuring the Safety and Security of Immigrants
Purpose: SVCF seeks to fund nonprofit organizations that will provide support, safety and security to immigrants during these challenging times
Funder: Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Applicant: San Mateo and/or Santa Clara county-serving organizations
Amount: Open
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Wednesday, September 30, 2020
New! Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program (HTPCP)
Purpose: The purpose of this program is to support innovative, community-based initiatives to improve the health status of infants, children, adolescents, and families in rural and other underserved communities by increasing their access to preventive care and services. This program supports the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) goals to improve access to quality health services, achieve health equity, and enhance population health. Recipients will implement community-based programs and evidence-based models of care that build on existing community resources and evaluate to demonstrate program impact.
Funder: Department of Health and Human Services
Applicant: Any domestic public or private entity, including an Indian tribe or tribal organization. Domestic community-based organizations, including faith- based organizations, are eligible to apply.
Amount: Up to $50,000
Projected Number of Awards: 10
Deadline: Tuesday, October 6, 2020
New! Resident Opportunity and Self-Sufficiency Program
Purpose: To assist residents of Public and Indian Housing make progress towards economic and housing self-sufficiency by removing the educational, professional and health barriers they face. Self sufficiency is defined as an individual’s ability to support their household by maintaining financial, housing, and personal/family stability. To achieve self-sufficiency, an individual moves along a continuum towards economic independence and stability; such movement is facilitated by the achievement of individual educational, professional, and health-related goals.
Funder: Department of Housing and Urban Development
Applicant: Native American tribal governments, noprofits, Resident Associations
Amount: Range $100,000-$$717,750
Projected Number of Awards: 120
Deadline: Thursday, November 19, 2020
Stand Down Grants
Purpose: To support local Stand Down events that assist homeless veterans by providing a wide variety of employment, social, and health services, to enhance employment and training opportunities or to promote the self-sufficiency of homeless veterans through paid work.
Funder: Department of Labor
Applicant: State and Local Workforce Development Boards, Veteran Service Organizations, local public agencies, tribal governments, and non-profit organizations including community and faith-based organizations
Amount: Varies $7,000-$10,000
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Thursday, December 31, 2020
The Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Grant Round 6
Purpose: AHSC provides funding for affordable housing developments (new construction or renovation) and transportation infrastructure. This may include sustainable transportation infrastructure, such as new transit vehicles, sidewalks, and bike lanes; transportation-related amenities, such as bus shelters, benches, or shade trees; and other programs that encourage residents to walk, bike, and use public transit.
Funder: Governor’s Office of Planning & Research
Applicant: Local governments, Transportation and transit agencies, Non-profit and for-profit housing developers, Joint powers authorities, K-12 school, college and university districts
Amount: $1,000,000-$30,000,000
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Thursday, February 11, 2021
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So Love Can Win Rapid Response Fund
Purpose: The So Love Can Win Rapid Response Fund will provide general operating grants of up to $10,000 to support the sustainability and vibrancy of the Oakland, CA, racial justice movement ecosystem during the pandemic. Organizations, groups, formations, or collectives who are based in Oakland and are led by Black, Indigenous, or other people of color are eligible to apply. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis through September 15, 2020, or until funds are exhausted.
Funder: Akonadi Foundation
Applicant: Nonprofit organizations or fiscally sponsored based in Oakland
Amount: Up to $10,000
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Wednesday, September 30, 2020Detecting and Preventing Suicide Behavior, Ideation and Self-Harm in Youth in Contact with the Juvenile Justice System
Purpose: This initiative supports research to test the effectiveness of combined strategies to both detect and intervene to reduce the risk of suicide behavior, suicide ideation, and non-suicidal self-harm by youth in contact with the juvenile justice system. Opportunities for detection and prevention start at early points of contact (e.g., police interaction, the intake interview) and continue through many juvenile justice settings (e.g., pre-trial detention, juvenile or family court activities, court disposition, placement and on-going care in either residential or multiple community settings.) This FOA invites intervention strategies that are designed to be delivered in typical service settings using typically available personnel and resources, to enhance the implementation of interventions that prove effective, enhance their future uptake in diverse settings, and thereby reduce risk of suicide and self-harm in this population.
Funder: Department of Health and Human Services
Applicant: private and public institutions of higher education, state governments, city governments, nonprofits, small businesses, public housing authorities
Amount: Up to $500,000
Projected Number of Awards: Unknown
Deadline: Thursday, January 7, 2021 |
Economic & Workforce Development
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Public Works and Economic Adjustment Assistance Programs including CARES Act Funding
Purpose: To provide investments that support construction, non-construction, technical assistance, and revolving loan fund projects under the Economic Development Administration’s Public Works and EAA programs. Grants and cooperative agreements made under these programs are designed to leverage existing regional assets and support the implementation of economic development strategies that advance new ideas and creative approaches to advance economic prosperity in distressed communities
Funder: Department of Commerce
Applicant: State, City and County Governments, private and public institutions of higher education, nonprofits
Amount: $100,000-$3,000,000
Projected Number of Awards: 3,000
Deadline: Thursday, December 31, 2020Upcoming
Youth Build
Purpose: The YouthBuild program is a community-based alternative education program for youth between the ages of 16 and 24 who are high school dropouts or who previously dropped out and subsequently re-enrolled, adjudicated youth, youth in and aging out of foster care, youth with disabilities, and other disadvantaged youth populations. YouthBuild simultaneously addresses several core issues important to low-income communities. Such as, affordable housing, education, employment, and leadership development.
Funder: U.S. Department of Labor
Amount: Total anticipated funding $85 million
Anticipated Release Date: Winter 2020 |
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