Capacity Building for Sustainable Communities

The Department of Housing and Urban Development, in collaboration with the Department of Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency, has announced the availability of $5,650,000 to identify intermediary organizations that can provide capacity building support for communities engaged in planning efforts that support community involvement and integrate housing, land use, land cleanup and preparation for reuse, economic and workforce development, transportation, and infrastructure investments.

The initial objective of the program, known as the apacity Building for Sustainable Communities Program, is to assemble a collection of capacity building service providers to work directly with the FY 2010 and FY 2011 HUD Sustainable Communities Regional Planning and Community Challenge grant recipients, HUD Preferred Sustainability Status Communities, and EPA Sustainable Community Technical Assistance recipients and Brownfield Area Wide Planning grant recipients and enable them to fulfill their anticipated outcomes.

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Capacity Building for Sustainable Communities

Grants for Counter Trafficking in Persons Program

The Agency for International Development has announced the availability of $20 million to implement the Counter Trafficking in Persons Program.

The agency is soliciting proposals from U.S. or non-U.S. non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and/or a consortia to implement the Counter Trafficking in Persons Program (CTIP II) which will build on the notable successes of CTIP while broadening the focus to more inclusively address the needs of victims of forced labor.

Trafficking in persons is one of the most serious human rights issues facing Cambodia today. In a country where the average per capita income is among the lowest in the world, unsuspecting victims are lured with false promises of jobs or marriage and then forced into sex work or exploitative labor situations. Controlled by threats, lies, drugs, and physical force, victims of trafficking are often held in slave-like conditions, unable to escape.

In efforts to combat this problem, with funding provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development, The Asia Foundation is implementing a comprehensive Countering Trafficking in Persons Program (CTIP) in Cambodia. The three year program aims to strengthen the joint efforts of the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) and civil society to combat trafficking through concrete, systemic changes in five main areas: coordination, data collection, prevention, protection, and prosecution.

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Grants for Counter Trafficking in Persons Program

Grants for Democracy and Human Rights Programs in Kyrgyzstan

The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, within the U.S. State Department has announced the availability of $1,375,000 for projects supporting enhancements to democracy, human rights, and civil society in Kyrgyzstan.

Eligible applicants for this project must be either a qualified 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization or a U. S. university or research institution and have demonstrable experience implementing successful and preferably similar projects.

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Grants for Democracy and Human Rights Programs in Kyrgyzstan

Grant to Coordinate National Organizations for State and Local Officials

The Health Resources & Services Administration, within the Department of Health and Human Services is providing $1.7 million to fund the National Organizations for State and Local Officials program.

One of the primary goals of the National Organizations for State and Local Officials program is to integrate primary care and public health activities and examine key issues that affect health care delivery in underserved urban and rural communities.

The approximately $1,700,000 expected to be available annually to fund four (4) recipients representing the following groups nationwide: State/Territorial Health Department Officials – 1 grant for approximately $550,000; Local County and City Health Department Officials – 1 grant for approximately $350,000;State Medicaid Directors – 1 grant for approximately $450,000; State Legislatures – 1 grant for approximately $350,000.

Eligible applicants include nonprofit national service organizations that can provide training and technical assistance on a national level.

The applicants must have effective organizational infrastructures and capacities to carry out the proposed activities.

Applicants must be national in scope and have established long term relationships with the constituent groups.

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Grant to Coordinate National Organizations for State and Local Officials

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Regional Training Centers

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, within the Department of Health and Human Services has announced the availability of $8,075,000 to provide Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders training programs for medical and allied health students and practitioners.

The training will focus on prevention, identification, and treatment of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, with specific emphasis on training on and promotion of alcohol screening and brief intervention for women of reproductive age.

Universities and colleges are eligible to apply for these grants.

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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Regional Training Centers

Transformation Initiative: Sustainable Communities Research Grant

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is announcing that the full application for the Transformation Initiative: Sustainable Communities Research Grant is now available. $2.5 million is allocated for the grants with the purpose of filling important data and information gaps, and beginning to develop and evaluate policy alternatives that communities can adopt to facilitate decision making about various community investments.

These grants are only available to those selected under the pre-application process previously conducted by HUD.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development believes that the results from the program will enable it to develop a broader sustainability agenda beyond current departmental priorities, as well as any future efforts or initiatives that may be considered based on the results of the research.

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Transformation Initiative: Sustainable Communities Research Grant

Wetland Program Development Grants – Region 1

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is offering $2,895,125 in Wetland Program Development Grants for the New England Region.

Wetland Program Development Grants provide eligible applicants an opportunity to conduct projects that promote the coordination and acceleration of research, investigations, experiments, training, demonstrations, surveys and studies relating to the causes, effects, extent, prevention, reduction and elimination of water pollution.

States, Tribes, local government agencies, interstate agencies, and intertribal consortia are eligible for Wetland Program Development Grants.

Universities that are agencies of a state government are eligible, but must include documentation demonstrating that they are chartered as part of a state government in the proposal submission. Non-profit organizations are not eligible for these grants.

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Wetland Program Development Grants – Region 1

Grants to Support Collaborations between Child Welfare and Education Systems

The Administration for Children and Families within the Department of Health and Human Services has announced the availability of $2 million to facilitate the building of collaborations between child welfare systems and Education systems to increase the educational stability of children in or at risk of entering the child welfare system.

Child welfare systems may identify the neighborhoods or school districts that serve the highest number of children involved in the child welfare system, and develop collaborative policies, procedures, and programs that will increase the educational stability and school success for those children, particularly those aged 10-17 years.

Faith-based and community organizations that meet eligibility requirements are eligible to receive awards under this funding opportunity announcement.

Individuals, foreign entities, and sole proprietorship organizations are not eligible to compete for, or receive, awards made under this announcement.

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Grants to Support Collaborations between Child Welfare and Education Systems

Boating Infrastructure Grant Program – Tier 2, Competitive

The Fish and Wildlife Service, with in the Department of the Interior is providing $9 million in government grants to construct and renovate and maintain infrastructure for transient, recreational vessels.

Projects completed using Boating Infrastructure Grant funds must provide public access, but may be publicly or privately owned.

Eligible applicants are the Governor-designated State agencies in the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealths of Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands, and the territories of Guam, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Boating Infrastructure Grant Program – Tier 2, Competitive

Grants to Support Job Opportunity for Low Income Individuals Projects

The Office of Community Services, within the Administration for Children and Families is soliciting applications for grants of up to $1.16 million through the Job Opportunity for Low-Income Individuals program.

The Job Opportunity for Low-Income Individuals program supports business development and expansion opportunities, including micro-enterprise and self-employment opportunities, in an effort to help Temporary Assistance for Needy Families recipients and other low-income individuals achieve economic self-sufficiency.

The Office of Community Services, strongly encourages applicants to propose projects that support child care and early childhood education as such projects create jobs for low-income participants and support other working families.

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Grants to Support Job Opportunity for Low Income Individuals Projects