Fiscal Year 2009: Not Applicable. Fiscal Year 2010: Approximately 15 grants will be awarded in FY 2010. Fiscal Year 2011: Number of grant awards for FY 2011 are not yet determined.

Uses and Use Restrictions

Assistance will be used to conduct a needs assessment that: considers community characteristics and the quality and capacity of existing home visiting programs and other supportive services; is coordinated with other relevant needs assessments; and involves community stakeholders as appropriate; collaborative planning efforts to address identified needs by developing capacity and infrastructure; providing high-quality, evidence-based home visiting services to pregnant women and families with young children aged birth to kindergarten entry; and conducting rigorous local evaluations that may include examining effectiveness of home visiting models in serving Tribal populations, adaptations of home visiting models for Tribal communities, or questions regarding implementation of infrastructure necessary to support evidence-based home visitation models in Tribal comm unties.

Costs of organized fund raising, including financial campaigns, endowment drives, solicitation of gifts and bequests, and similar expenses incurred solely to raise capital or obtain contributions, are unallowable.



Grant awards will not allow reimbursement of pre-award costs.



Construction and purchase of real property are not allowable activities or expenditures under this grant award.

The statute requires that grantees supplement and not supplant, funds from other HV initiatives.



Awards issued under this announcement are subject to the uniform administrative requirements and cost principles of 45 CFR Part 74 (Awards and Subawards to Institutions of Higher Education, Hospitals, Other Non-Profit Organizations, and Commercial Organizations), or 45 CFR Part 92 (Grants and Cooperative Agreements to State, Local, and Tribal Governments).

An application funded with the release of Federal funds through a grant award, does not constitute, or imply, compliance with Federal regulations.

Funded organizations are responsible for ensuring that their activities comply with all applicable Federal regulations.

Grantees are subject to the limitations set forth in 45 CFR Part 74.81 (Prohibition against profit), which states that, "...

no HHS funds may be paid as profit to any recipient even if the recipient is a commercial organization.

Profit is any amount in excess of allowable direct and indirect costs."

Grantees are also subject to the requirements of 45 CFR Part 87, Equal Treatment for Faith-Based Organizations: "Direct Federal grants, sub-award funds, or contracts under this ACF program shall not be used to support inherently religious activities such as religious instruction, worship, or proselytization.

Therefore, organizations must take steps to separate, in time or location, their inherently religious activities from the services funded under this program.

Regulations pertaining to the Equal Treatment for Faith-Based Organizations, which includes the prohibition against Federal funding of inherently religious activities, can be found at the HHS web site at: http://www.hhs.gov/fbci/waisgate21.pdf.

A faith-based organization receiving HHS funds retains its independence from Federal, State, and local governments, and may continue to carry out its mission, including the definition, practice, and expression of its religious beliefs.

For example, a faith-based organization may use space in its facilities to provide secular programs or services funded with Federal funds without removing religious art, icons, scriptures, or other religious symbols.

In addition, a faith-based organization that receives Federal funds retains its authority over its internal governance, and it may retain religious terms in its organization"s name, select its board members on a religious basis, and include religious references in its organization"s mission statements and other governing documents in accordance with all program requirements, statutes, and other applicable requirements governing the conduct of HHS funded activities." Additional information on "Understanding the Regulations Related to the Faith-Based and Community Initiative" can be found at: http://www.hhs.gov/fbci/regulations/index.html.

The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is available at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/CFR/.

Awards issued under this announcement are subject to the requirements of Section 106 (g) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, as amended (22 U.S.C.

7104).

For the full text of the award term, go to http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/award_term.html.

All funds are discretionary under this program.