HTA Consulting would like to congratulate Monterey Peninsula Unified School District for winning a five-year, $5 million grant, from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Education Partnership and Resource Branch, for MPUSD’s Computer Science for All project for students from military-connected and other families.

Our congratulations to the Alameda County Office of Education for being awarded three K12 Strong Workforce Program grants from the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, totalling $2 million for career pathway programs in partnership with other school districts and community colleges in the county.

We also congratulate Mission Valley Regional Occupational Program for its grant of $342,451 from the K12 Strong Workforce Program.

Education
New! Social Isolation Supports
Purpose: The California Department of Education (CDE) is accepting applications from community-based organizations supporting local educational agencies with technical assistance and/or the implementation of high quality integrated academic, behavioral, and social-emotional learning practices that target and counter social isolation.
Funder: California Department of Education
Applicant: Nonprofit organizations
Amount:  Up to $250,000
Projected Number of Awards: Varies
Deadline: Friday, January 7, 2022

New! Specialized Secondary Programs (SSP) Grant
Purpose: SSP provides start-up funds for the establishment of new specialized programs in grades nine through twelve in California high schools. The programs are expected to develop new standards-based model curriculum that promote an in-depth study of a targeted content area. The Legislature intends for SSP to benefit the state economy by having schools located in close proximity to related industries. Funding is available for planning and implementing new programs.
Funder: California Department of Education
Applicant: Local educational agencies
Amount:  Up to $100,000
Projected Number of Awards: Varies
Deadline: Friday, January 14, 2022

New! Hispanic-Serving Institutions Education Grants Program
Purpose: To promote and strengthen the ability of Hispanic-Serving Institutions to carry out higher education programs in the food and agricultural sciences. Programs aim to attract outstanding students and produce graduates capable of enhancing the Nation’s food and agricultural scientific and professional work force.
Funder: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Applicant: Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Amount:  Up to $1 million
Projected Number of Awards: Varies
Deadline: Friday, January 28, 2022

New! Office of Migrant Education (OME): High School Equivalency Program (HEP)
Purpose: The HEP is designed to assist migratory or seasonal farmworkers (or immediate family members of such workers) to obtain the equivalent of a secondary school diploma and subsequently to gain improved employment, enter into military service, or be placed in an institution of higher education (IHE) or other postsecondary education or training.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education
Applicant: Public agencies, institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations
Amount:  Ranges $180,000 to $475,000
Projected Number of Awards: 26
Deadline: Tuesday, February 01, 2022

New! Office of Migrant Education (OME): College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP)
Purpose: The CAMP is designed to assist migratory or seasonal farmworkers (or immediate family members of such workers) who are enrolled or are admitted for enrollment on a full-time basis at an institution of higher education (IHE) to complete their first academic year.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education
Applicant: Public agencies, institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations
Amount:  Ranges $180,000 to $475,000
Projected Number of Awards: 29
Deadline: Thursday, February 03, 2022

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

New! NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program
Purpose: To enable low-income students with academic ability, talent or potential to pursue successful careers in promising STEM fields. Ultimately, the S-STEM program seeks to increase the number of low-income students who graduate with a S-STEM eligible degree and contribute to the American innovation economy with their STEM knowledge. Recognizing that financial aid alone cannot increase retention and graduation in STEM, the program provides awards to institutions of higher education (IHEs) not only to fund scholarships, but also to adapt, implement, and study evidence-based curricular and co-curricular activities that have been shown to be effective supporting recruitment, retention, transfer (if appropriate), student success, academic/career pathways, and graduation in STEM.
Funder: National Science Foundation
Applicant: Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) – Two- and four-year IHEs (including community colleges)
Amount:  Ranges $150,000 to $5 million
Projected Number of Awards: 90
Deadline: Tuesday, February 22, 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

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! International Foreign Language Education (IFLE): Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (GPA)
Purpose: To promote, improve, and develop the study of modern foreign languages and area studies in the United States. The program provides opportunities for faculty, teachers, and undergraduate and graduate students to conduct group projects overseas. Projects may include either (1) short-term seminars, curriculum development, or group research or study, or (2) long-term advanced intensive language programs.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education
Applicant: Institutions of higher education, State education entities, private nonprofit educations organizations, and consortia of eligible entities
Amount:  Up to $300,000
Projected Number of Awards: 11
Deadline: Saturday, January 11, 2022

Health, Social Services, Housing and Transportation 
New! Human Trafficking Victim Assistance (HV) Program
Purpose: To help human trafficking victims (both sex and labor trafficking) recover from the trauma they experienced and assist with reintegration into society through the provision of comprehensive safety and supportive services including, but not limited to, housing assistance, counseling services, and other social services, using a trauma-informed, victim-centered approach.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education
Applicant: Nonprofit organizations
Amount:  Up to $666,666
Projected Number of Awards: Varies
Deadline: Thursday, December 30, 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

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! Title X Family Planning Services Grants
Purpose: To establish and operate voluntary Title X family planning projects. Family planning services include a broad range of medically approved services, which includes Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved contraceptive products and natural family planning methods, for clients who want to prevent pregnancy and space births, pregnancy testing and counseling, assistance to achieve pregnancy, basic infertility services, sexually transmitted infection (STI) services (such as HIV prevention education, counseling, testing, and referral), and other preconception health services.
Funder: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Applicant: Public agencies, nonprofit organizations
Amount:  Up to $22 million
Projected Number of Awards: 90
Deadline: Tuesday, January 11, 2022

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
Justice 
New! Juvenile Community Capacity Fund Planning Participation
Purpose: The mandatory planning phase is to establish eligibility to participate in the subsequent Juvenile Community Capacity Fund (JCCF) Implementation RFP and potentially receive Implementation funding, if successful. It is the intent of the JCCF to build local organizational capacity for eligible organizations in the following categories: Racial Equity; Personnel, Volunteers, and Board Leadership; Fiscal Management Funding & Financial Sustainability; Strategic Planning and Evaluation; External Relations; Agency Structure and Operations; Identifying and Implementing Sector-Specific Evidence-Based Practices; and Information Management.
Funder: Alameda County Probation Department
Applicant: Organizations that provide services to system-involved youth
Amount:  Ranges $50,000 to $150,000
Projected Number of Awards: 35-40
Deadline: Friday, January 7, 2022

Emerging Family Justice Center (FE) Program
Purpose: The 2021-22 California State Budget designated $10,000,000 of General Funds for a one-time program for grants to FJCs, $1,100,000 of which will be distributed competitively. The California Penal Code § 13750 defines FJCs. The purpose of the FE Program is to support emerging FJCs to meet the criteria defined in California Penal Code § 13750.
Funder: California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services
Applicant: Public agencies
Amount:  Up to $220,000
Projected Number of Awards: Varies
Deadline: Wednesday, January 26, 2022

New! California Violence Intervention and Prevention (CalVIP) Grant Program
Purpose: To support, expand, and replicate evidence-based violence reduction initiatives that seek to interrupt cycles of violence.  Strategies eligible for funding could include but are not limited to: hospital-based violence intervention programs, evidence-based street outreach programs, and focused deterrence strategies.
Funder: California Board of State and Community Corrections
Applicant: California Cities Disproportionately Impacted by Violence and the Community-Based Organizations that Serve Them
Amount:  Category 1 up to $6 million; Category 2 up to $6 million; and Category 3 up to $400,000
Projected Number of Awards: Varies
Deadline: Friday, February 11, 2022
Economic & Workforce Development
New! YouthBuild
Purpose: To provide a pre-apprenticeship program model that encompasses education, occupational skills training, leadership development, and high-quality post-program placement opportunities to opportunity youth. YouthBuild is a community-based alternative education program for youth between the ages of 16 and 24 who left high school prior to graduation that also have other risk factors, including being an adjudicated youth, youth aging out of foster care, youth with disabilities, migrant farmworker youth, youth experiencing housing instability, and other disadvantaged youth populations.
Funder: U.S. Department of Labor
Applicant: Public agencies, nonprofit organizations
Amount:  Up to $2.5 million
Projected Number of Awards: 75
Deadline: Friday, January 21, 2022

New! San Francisco Nonprofit Sustainability Initiative
Purpose: The Nonprofit Sustainability Initiative complements San Francisco’s funding of nonprofit services and resources for low-income residents and aims to maintain and expand these vital services by deploying financial assistance, professional services, assessment tools and other resources to address key challenges facing the sector, including the high costs of real estate.
Funder: San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development
Applicant: Organizations and project must be located in San Francisco County
Amount:  Total funding available $2 million
Projected Number of Awards: Varies
Deadline: Friday, January 21, 2022

Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program (RMAP)
Purpose: To support the development and ongoing success of rural Microentrepreneurs and Microenterprises, each as defined in 7 CFR 4280.302. To accomplish this purpose, RMAP provides direct loans and grants to Microenterprise Development Organizations (MDO). Grant funds are used by the MDO to provide technical assistance and entrepreneurship training to rural individuals and businesses.
Funder: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Applicant: Nonprofit organizations, public agencies, institutions of higher education, Tribal governments
Amount:  Up to $100,000
Projected Number of Awards: 15
Deadline: June 30, 2022

Public Works and Economic Adjustment Assistance Programs including CARES Act Funding
Purpose: Under this NOFO, EDA solicits applications from applicants in order to provide investments that support construction, non construction, planning, technical assistance, and revolving loan fund projects under EDA’s Public Works program and EAA program.
Funder: U.S. Department of Commerce , Economic Development Administration
Applicant: Nonprofits, public and state controlled institutions of higher education, city, state and county governments
Amount: $100,000 to $30,000,000
Projected Number of Awards: 3,000
Deadline: Rolling Basis
Arts
New! NEA Grants for Arts Projects 1
Purpose: Through project-based funding, the program supports public engagement with, and access to, various forms of art across the nation, the creation of art, learning in the arts at all stages of life, and the integration of the arts into the fabric of community life.
Funder: National Endowment for the Arts
Applicant: Counties, public agencies, institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations
Amount:  Ranges $10,000 to $150,000
Projected Number of Awards: Varies
Deadline: Thursday, February 10, 2022
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