November Grants Newsletter: New education workforce and apprenticeship funding; HIV prevention and services grants

Schools Not Prisons
Purpose: The California Department of Education (CDE) is accepting applications from nonprofit public charities in California to fund academic and career readiness programs that seek to break the school-to-prison pipeline /conversion charter schools, as well as assist in the expansion/replication of high-quality charter schools.
Funder: California Department of Education
Applicant: Nonprofit organizations
Amount:  Ranges $10,000 to $75,000
Projected Number of Awards: Varies
Deadline: Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation
Purpose: The Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) umbrella program seeks to enable funding opportunities that are flexible and responsive to the evolving and emerging needs in cyberinfrastructure (CI). This solicitation expands the CSSI program by adding a new project class: Transition to Sustainability. The program continues to emphasize integrated CI services, quantitative metrics with targets for delivery and usage of these services, and community creation.
Funder: National Science Foundation
Applicant: Institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations
Amount:  Varies
Projected Number of Awards: Varies
Deadline: Wednesday, December 08, 2021

New! Educator Workforce Investment Grant Program: Computer Science
Purpose: The Budget Act of 2021, Item 6100-195-0001, provides $5 million on a one-time basis to establish the Educator Workforce Investment Grant (EWIG) Program: Computer Science (CS). The selected grantee will become an important member of the Statewide System of Support, providing targeted support focused on strategies for providing high-quality CS instruction learning experiences aligned to California CS Content Standards
Funder: California Department of Education
Applicant: Institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations
Amount:  Up to $5 million
Projected Number of Awards: 1
Deadline: Friday, December 17, 2021

New! California Apprenticeship Initiative – Pre-Apprenticeship and Apprenticeship Grant Program
Purpose: To support the creation of pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship programs in non-traditional, emerging, and innovative sectors, and to increase the accessibility of sustainable high-wage jobs for individuals from historically marginalized and underserved backgrounds
Funder: California Community College’s Chancellor’s Office Workforce and Economic Development Division
Applicant: California Community College districts, K-12 Local Education Agencies, Regional Occupational Centers & Programs, California Adult Education Program (CAEP) providers, County Offices of Education, local school districts
Amount: Up to $500,000
Projected Number of Awards: Varies
Deadline: Friday, December 17, 2021

New! Scaling Up Multi-Tiered System of Support Statewide Funding
Purpose: The Orange County Department of Education (OCDE) will award grant funds to LEAs and funding shall be used to support the implementation of high quality integrated academic, behavioral, and social and emotional learning (SEL) practices in an integrated MTSS at the schoolwide level. Grants shall be awarded with priority to LEAs serving a high number of unduplicated pupils, as defined in Section 42238.02, that have participated in LEA-level training to implement an integrated MTSS.
Funder: California Department of Education
Applicant: Local educational agencies
Amount: Total funding available $50 million
Projected Number of Awards: Varies
Deadline: Friday, December 17, 2021

New! Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (LEAPS-MPS)
Purpose: To support MPS principal investigators, particularly at the aforementioned institutions, for whom LEAPS funding would enable the PI to submit a subsequent successful proposal to a traditional, already-existing NSF funding opportunity, such as individual investigator programs, CAREER competitions, etc. By providing this funding opportunity, MPS intends to help initiate viable independent research programs for researchers attempting to launch their research careers such that LEAPS-MPS awards are followed by competitive grant submissions that build upon the research launched through this mechanism. This LEAPS-MPS solicitation welcomes proposals from principal investigators who share NSF’s commitment to diversity.
Funder: National Science Foundation
Applicant: Institutions of higher education
Amount:  Ranges $100,000 to $250,000
Projected Number of Awards: 40
Deadline: Friday, January 07, 2022

New! Teacher Residency Capacity Grant
Purpose: To support a collaborative partnership between the LEA and one or more Commission-approved teacher preparation programs offered by a regionally accredited institution of higher education (IHE) to develop the partnership’s capacity to design and implement a teacher residency program within the applicant LEA for (a) special education, bilingual education, computer science, science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM), transitional kindergarten (TK), or kindergarten residents and/or (b) recruiting, developing support systems for, providing outreach and communication strategies to, and retaining a diverse teacher workforce that reflects the LEA community’s diversity.
Funder: California Commission on Teacher Credentialing
Applicant: Local education agencies
Amount: Up to $250,000; total funding allocated $25 million
Projected Number of Awards: Varies
Deadline: Monday, February 14, 2022

Environmental Literacy Program: Increasing community resilience to extreme weather & climate change
Purpose: The goal of this funding opportunity is for communities to have sufficient collective environmental literacy to take actions that build resilience to extreme weather and climate change in ways that contribute to community health, social cohesion, and socio-economic equity.
Funder: U.S. Department of Commerce
Applicant: Public agencies, institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations
Amount:  Ranges $250,000 to $500,000
Projected Number of Awards: 12
Deadline: Thursday, March 17, 2022

Project to Support America’s Families and Educators (Project SAFE) Grant Program
Purpose: The Project SAFE grant program is intended to improve students’ safety and well-being by providing resources to local educational agencies (LEAs) that adopt and implement strategies to prevent the spread of the Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) consistent with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and that are financially penalized for doing so by their State educational agency (SEA) or other State entity.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education
Applicant: Local educational agencies
Amount:  Varies
Projected Number of Awards: 13
Deadline: Rolling basis

Continuum of Care Competition and Noncompetitive Award of Youth Homeless Demonstration Program Renewal and Replacement Grants
Purpose: 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, nonprofit organizations
Amount:  Up to $2 million
Projected Number of Awards: 7500
Deadline: Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part C Early Intervention Services Program: New Geographic Service Areas
Purpose: This competition is open to current RWHAP Part C EIS recipients and new organizations proposing to provide RWHAP Part C EIS funded services in a new geographic service area(s). A new service area is a defined geographic area with a demonstrated need for comprehensive primary health care and support services in an outpatient setting for low income underserved people with HIV not adequately covered by other sources of support.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Applicant: Public agencies, nonprofit organizations, tribal organizations
Amount:  Varies
Projected Number of Awards: 15
Deadline: Friday, December 10, 2021

New! Ending the HIV Epidemic – Primary Care HIV Prevention
Purpose: To expand HIV prevention services that decrease the risk of HIV transmission in underserved communities in support of Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. This FY 2022 funding opportunity will make available HIV prevention investments to Health Center Program operational (H80) award recipients located in Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. geographic locations that did not receive FY 2020 or FY 2021 PCHP funding.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Applicant: FQHCs
Amount: Varies
Projected Number of Awards: 150
Deadline: Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Family-to-Family Health Information Centers
Purpose: To provide information, education, technical assistance, and peer support to families of children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) and the professionals who serve them.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Applicant: Public agencies, nonprofit organizations, tribal organizations
Amount:  Varies
Projected Number of Awards: 59
Deadline: Wednesday, January 05, 2022

New! Farm to School Grant
Purpose: To assist eligible entities, through grants and technical assistance, in implementing farm to school programs that improve access to local foods in USDA Food and Nutrition (FNS) Child Nutrition Programs, including the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), School Breakfast Program (SBP), Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), and Summer Food Service Program (SFSP).
Funder: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Applicant: Public agencies, nonprofit organizations, Native American tribal governments
Amount: Up to $500,000
Projected Number of Awards: 200
Deadline: Monday, January 10, 2022

New! Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part D Coordinated HIV Services and Access
Purpose: To provide family-centered care in outpatient or ambulatory care settings to low income women (25 years and older) with HIV, infants (up to two years of age) exposed to or with HIV, children (ages 2 to 12) with HIV, and youth (ages 13 to 24) with HIV. RWHAP Part D funding is intended to improve access to family-centered HIV medical care through the provision of coordinated, comprehensive, and culturally and linguistically competent services directly, through contract, or through memoranda of understanding (MOU).
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Applicant: Public agencies, nonprofit organizations
Amount: Varies
Projected Number of Awards: 114
Deadline: Friday, January 28, 2022