Funding: Standing Announcement for the Ethnic Community Self-Help Program

 Administering Agency: Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)

 Program: The objective of this program is to strengthen organized ethnic communities comprised and representative of refugee populations to ensure ongoing support and services to refugees after initial resettlement. This announcement replaces the Priority Area Three - Ethnic Community Self-Help program included in the Standing Announcement for Services for Recently Arrived Refugees published in the Federal Register on April 23, 2004. Individuals with the following immigration statuses are eligible for refugee social services: refugees; asylees; Cuban and Haitian entrants; certain Amerasians from Vietnam; and victims of a severe form of trafficking who receive certification or eligibility letters from ORR, and certain other specified family members of trafficking victims.

 Award: Total available funding: $600,000; 3 to 8 awards averaging $125,000 each

 Eligibility: Public or private nonprofit agencies; faith-based and community organizations

 Application Deadline: 02/24/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: Standing Announcement for the Ethnic Community Self-Help Program

 Funding: Standing Announcement for Supplemental Services for Recently Arrived Refugees

 Administering Agency: Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)

 Program: This program is intended to provide services to arriving refugees or sudden and unexpected large secondary migration of refugees where communities are not sufficiently prepared in terms of linguistic or culturally appropriate services. Individuals with the following immigration statuses are eligible for refugee social services: refugees; asylees; Cuban and Haitian entrants; certain Amerasians from Vietnam; and victims of a severe form of trafficking who receive certification or eligibility letters from ORR, and certain other specified family members of trafficking victims.

 Award: Total available funding - $4,300,000; 10 to 20 awards averaging $200,000 each

 Eligibility: Public or private nonprofit agencies; faith-based and community organizations

 Application Deadline: 02/24/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: Standing Announcement for Supplemental Services for Recently Arrived Refugees

 Funding: Standing Announcement for the Preferred Communities Program

 Administering Agency: Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR

 Program: This program is intended to support resettlement of newly arriving refugees with the best opportunities for their self-sufficiency and integration into new communities, and to support refugees with special needs that require more intensive case management. Individuals with the following immigration statuses are eligible for refugee social services: refugees; asylees; Cuban and Haitian entrants; certain Amerasians from Vietnam; and victims of a severe form of trafficking who receive certification or eligibility letters from ORR, and certain other specified family members of trafficking victims.

 Award: Total Available Funding - $600,000; 2 to 6 awards averaging $200,000

 Eligibility: Eligible applicants are ten national voluntary agencies that currently resettle refugees under a Reception and Placement Cooperative Agreement with the Department of State or with the Department of Homeland Security: Church World Service, Inc.; Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society; Ethiopian Community Development Council, Inc.; Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, Inc.; International Rescue Committee; Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service; State of Iowa; US Conference of Catholic Bishops; US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants; and World Relief Corporation.

 Application Deadline: 02/24/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: Standing Announcement for the Preferred Communities Program

 Funding: Standing Announcement for Unaccompanied Alien Children

 Administering Agency: Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)

 Program: This program provides the opportunity to fund providers for basic shelter and/or group homes and more specialized types of care. The two priority areas for funding are: Priority Area 1 - Mega Grants: large national networks and/or entities that partner to build an infrastructure made up of multiple facilities and locations (in multiple states) that can accommodate fluctuations in bed capacity and Priority Area 2 – Micro Grants: made up of individual shelter facilities or partnerships between two entities in a local geographic area.

 Award: Priority Area 1: Total available funding: $30 million; 1 to 4 awards averaging $2,550,000 each; Priority Area 2: Total available funding: $5 million; 1 to 4 awards averaging $2,550,000 each

 Eligibility: Priority Area 1 & 2: Non-profit organizations (including faith-based and community organizations) and for-profit organizations are eligible to apply

 Application Deadline: 03/24/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: Standing Announcement for Unaccompanied Alien Children

 Funding: National Technical Assistance Center for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Cooperative Agreement (NTAC)

 Administering Agency: Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

 Program: The purpose of this program is to serve as a resource and training center to increase the effectiveness of mental health services for children, adolescents and young adults and their families in States, counties, Tribes and Territories. The NTAC will provide technical assistance on systems of care development, implementation, sustainability and related policy issues to current and previously funded grantees of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program, also known as the Children’s Mental Health Initiative (CMHI). The NTAC will also provide technical assistance to grantees in the State/Community Partnerships to Integrate Services for Youth and Young Adults 16-25 with Serious Mental Health Conditions and Their Families Program (Healthy Transitions Initiative).

 Award: 1 award for $3.5 million

 Eligibility: Domestic public and private nonprofit entities

 Application Deadline: 02/10/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: National Technical Assistance Center for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Cooperative Agreement (NTAC)

 Funding: Suicide Prevention Resource Center

 Administering Agency: Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

 Program: The purpose of this grant program is to provide prevention support, training and resources to assist organizations and individuals to develop suicide prevention programs, interventions and policies, and to establish public and private partnerships including the establishment and implementation of the National Action Alliance as a major support for the advancement of the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention (NSSP).

 Award: 1 award at $4.47 million per year for 5 years

 Eligibility: Public and private nonprofit entities, including community- and faith-based organizations, institutions of higher education, governments, and tribes and tribal organizations

 Application Deadline: 02/10/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: Suicide Prevention Resource Center

 Funding: Grants to Expand Substance Abuse Treatment Capacity for Juvenile Treatment Drug Courts

 Administering Agency: Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

 Program: The program expands and/or enhances substance abuse treatment services in "problem solving" courts which use the juvenile drug court model. The model provides: alcohol and drug treatment; recovery support services supporting substance abuse treatment, screening, assessment, case management; program coordination to juvenile defendants/offenders. Priority for the use of the funding should be given to addressing gaps in the existing continuum of treatment.

 Award: Total available funding: $8.8 million; 27 awards at a maximum of $325,000 each

 Eligibility: Existing individual Juvenile Treatment Drug Courts or their Tribal/State or local governmental proxies who may apply on their behalf

 Application Deadline: 02/23/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: Grants to Expand Substance Abuse Treatment Capacity for Juvenile Treatment Drug Courts

 Funding: Project Connect: A Coordinated Pubic Health Initiative to Prevent Domestic and Sexual Violence

 Administering Agency: The Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF)

 Program: The Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF) is launching a new multi-state initiative, Project Connect: A Coordinated Public Health Initiative to Prevent Domestic and Sexual Violence, supported by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office on Women's Health (OWH). This initiative is a result of funding from the Violence against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005. The FVPF is working with the OWH to identify and partner with statewide teams to develop policy and public heath responses to domestic and sexual violence in women's health programs. The period of funding is for March 2010 through August 30, 2011.

 Award: Seven (7) awards at $100,000 each for the first two years; a 25% match is required ($25,000 – can be in-kind)

 Eligibility: Eligible applicants include states, territories or tribes that demonstrate a strong history of collaboration between public health and domestic and sexual violence prevention fields

 Application Deadline: 02/08/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: Project Connect: A Coordinated Pubic Health Initiative to Prevent Domestic and Sexual Violence

 Funding: Economic Development Assistance Programs

 Administering Agency: Economic Development Administration

 Program: These programs promote comprehensive, entrepreneurial and innovation-based economic development efforts to enhance the competitiveness of regions, resulting in increased private investment and higher-skill, higher-wage jobs in areas experiencing substantial and persistent economic distress.

 Award: Total available funding: $197 million

 Eligibility: District Organization; Indian Tribe or a consortium of Indian Tribes; State, a city or other political subdivision of a State, including a special purpose unit of a State or local government engaged in economic or infrastructure development activities, or a consortium of political subdivisions; institution of higher education or a consortium of institutions of higher education; or public or private non-profit organization or association acting in cooperation with officials of a political subdivision of a State

 Application Deadline: No closing date

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: Economic Development Assistance Programs

 Funding: OVW FY 2010 Court Training and Improvements Program

 Administering Agency: Office on Violence Against Women (OVW)

 Program: This program supports court and court-based initiatives that aim to improve civil and criminal court functions, enhance court infrastructure and improve court responses to victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking.

 Award: Judicial Education and Court Personnel Training Project: $50,000, Domestic Violence Docket Project: $100,000, Dedicated Domestic Violence Court Project: $300,000, Sexual Assault Project: $350,000, Specialized Domestic Violence Court Enhancement Project: $450,000

 Eligibility: Federal, State, Tribal, Territorial or local courts or court-based programs

 Letter of Intent Deadline: 01/26/2010

 Application Deadline: 02/09/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: OVW FY 2010 Court Training and Improvements Program

 Funding: FY 2010 Rural Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence and Stalking Assistance

 Administering Agency: Office on Violence Against Women (OVW)

 Program: The program furthers the department's mission by supporting projects designed to address and prevent sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking in rural jurisdictions. Applicants must propose to do at least one of the following: implement, expand and establish cooperative efforts and projects among law enforcement officers, prosecutors, victim advocacy groups and other related parties to investigate and prosecute incidents of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking; provide treatment, counseling, advocacy and other long- and short-term assistance to adult and minor victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking in rural communities, including assistance in immigration matters; and/or working in cooperation with the community to develop education and prevention strategies directed toward such issues.

 Award: Multiple awards: Projects serving 1-4 counties-maximum of $350,000; projects serving 5-8 counties-maximum of $750,000; projects serving 9 or more counties-maximum of $900,000

 Eligibility: States; Indian Tribes; Local Governments and Nonprofit, public or private entities, including Tribal nonprofit organizations; All eligible applicants must demonstrate that the target area to be served is a rural area or community, as defined by 42 U.S.C., § 13925(a)(21).

 Grant Managment System Deadline: 02/04/2010

 Application Deadline: 02/18/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: FY 2010 Rural Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence and Stalking Assistance

 Funding: FY 2010 The Community-Defined Solutions to Violence Against Women Program Solicitation

 Administering Agency: Office on Violence Against Women (OVW

 Program: This program is designed to encourage communities to treat sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking as serious violations of criminal law requiring the coordinated involvement of the criminal justice system.

 Award: Multiple awards: population up to 500,000-$400,000; population from 500,001 to 900,000-$750,000; population over 900,000-$1,000,000

 Eligibility: States, units of local government, Native American tribal governments, and state, tribal, territorial, and local courts (including juvenile courts)

 Letter of Intent Deadline: 02/03/2010

 Grant Managment System Deadline: 02/03/2010

 Application Deadline: 02/17/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: FY 2010 The Community-Defined Solutions to Violence Against Women Program Solicitation

 Funding: Second Chance Act Adult & Juvenile Offender Reentry

 Administering Agency: Bureau of Justice Assistance

 Program: The Second Chance Act authorizes grants to state and local governments and federally recognized Indian tribes for demonstration projects to promote the safe and successful reintegration of incarcerated individuals into the community. Allowable funding uses include employment services, substance abuse treatment, housing, family programming, mentoring, victim services, and methods to improve release and revocation decisions using risk assessment tools.

 Award: Multiple awards of up to $750,000

 Eligibility: State, local and tribal governments

 Grant Managment System Deadline: 03/04/2010

 Application Deadline: 03/04/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: Second Chance Act Adult & Juvenile Offender Reentry

 Funding: Enhancing Adult Drug Court Services, Coordination & Treatment

 Administering Agency: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)

 Program: In this joint proposal, applicants are to propose a comprehensive strategy to enhance court services, coordination and substance abuse treatment and recovery support services.

 Award: 31 awards with a maximum of $625,000; Grantees will receive two separate awards. BJA will make a one-time award of up to $300,000 (match is required) per grantee, for the 3-year grant period. CSAT will make annual awards, up to $325,000 per grantee, for each year of the 3-year period.

 Eligibility: States, state courts, local courts, counties, other units of local government or Indian tribal governments

 Application Deadline: 02/11/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: Enhancing Adult Drug Court Services, Coordination & Treatment

 Funding: Adult Drug Court Discretionary Grant Program

 Administering Agency: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)

 Program: This program will provide financial and technical assistance to states, state courts, local courts, and units of state, local, and tribal governments to implement and enhance drug treatment courts that effectively integrate substance abuse treatment, mandatory drug testing, sanctions and incentives, and transitional services in a judicially supervised court setting with jurisdiction over nonviolent, substance abusing offenders. Programs funded by Drug Court discretionary grants are required by law to target nonviolent offenders and must implement a drug court based on 10 key components. This program supports adult drug court implementation and enhancement and statewide drug court enhancement and coordination.

 Award: Category 1: Implementation-maximum of $350,000 for a project period of 36 months; Category 2: Enhancement-maximum of $200,000 for a project period of 36 months; Category 3: Statewide-maximum of $1.5 million for a project period of 36 months

 Eligibility: For Implementation and Single Jurisdiction Enhancement Grants-applicants are limited to states, state and local courts, counties, units of local government and federally recognized Native American tribal governments; for Statewide Grants-applicants are limited to state agencies such as the State Administering Agency (SAA), the Administrative Office of the Court, or the State Alcohol and Substance Abuse Agency

 Application Deadline: 02/11/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: Adult Drug Court Discretionary Grant Program

 Funding: Developing and Enhancing Statewide Automated Victim Information and Notification (SAVIN) Programs FY 2010 Competitive Grant Announcement

 Administering Agency: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)

 Program: SAVIN helps states obtain effective technology to manage critical information about offenders in near real time. Successful applicants will either develop a new statewide-automated victim information and notification capacity or enhance an existing SAVIN program. Through SAVIN, victims can access critical information through a Web site and toll free number with support from a live operator 24 hours a day; register to be notified via telephone, e-mail, telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD), or a written letter each time the status of their offender or case changes; and access information about their offender’s arrest, initial incarceration, pretrial release, judicial process, final disposition, post-conviction incarceration, and community supervision. There are three categories of funding: Category 1: Automated Victim Notification System Implementation, Category 2: Automated Victim Notification Enhancement, and Category 3: Development of Information Exchange Standards.

 Award: Category 1: Maximum of $2.25 million with a project period of up to 24 months; Category 2: Maximum of $500,000 with a project period of up to 24 months; Category 3: Maximum of $450,000 with a project period of up to 12 months; There is a match requirement (cash or in-kind).

 Eligibility: Categories 1 and 2: State government agencies authorized to manage the planning and implementation of the SAVIN program and federally recognized Native American tribes; Category 3, applicants are limited to public and nonprofit organizations and for-profit entities that agree to waive all profits and fees and have experience and expertise in the development of information exchange standards.

 Application Deadline: 02/11/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: Developing and Enhancing Statewide Automated Victim Information and Notification (SAVIN) Programs FY 2010 Competitive Grant Announcement

 Funding: OVW FY 2010 Grants to Enhance Culturally and Linguistically Specific Services for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking Program

 Administering Agency: Office on Violence Against Women

 Program: This program creates a unique opportunity for targeted community-based organizations to address the critical needs of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking victims in a manner that affirms a victim's culture and effectively addresses language and communication barriers.

 Award: Award amounts will range from $150,000 to $300,000

 Eligibility: Community-based programs whose primary purpose is providing culturally and linguistically specific services to victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking and community-based programs whose primary purpose is providing culturally and linguistically specific services and who can partner with a program having demonstrated expertise in serving victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking. Programs previously funded under this program are ineligible for FY 2010 funding.

 Letter of Intent Deadline: 02/18/2010

 Grant Managment System Deadline: 02/18/2010

 Application Deadline: 03/04/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: OVW FY 2010 Grants to Enhance Culturally and Linguistically Specific Services for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking Program

 Funding: OVW FY 2010 Sexual Assault Services Culturally Specific Grant Program (SASP)

 Administering Agency: Office on Violence Against Women

 Program: This purpose of SASP Culturally Specific Grant Program funds is to provide core sexual assault services and related assistance to victims of sexual violence including advocacy, crisis intervention, supportive short term counseling and accompanying the victim through the criminal justice system, medical treatment, and other social services.

 Award: Up to $300,000 for an award period of 36 months

 Eligibility: Private nonprofit organizations focusing primarily on culturally specific communities

 Letter of Intent Deadline: 02/18/2010

 Grant Managment System Deadline: 02/18/2010

 Application Deadline: 03/04/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: OVW FY 2010 Sexual Assault Services Culturally Specific Grant Program (SASP)

 Funding: OVW FY 2010 Sexual Assault Services Formula Grant Program

 Administering Agency: Office on Violence Against Women

 Program: The purpose of this program is to support the establishment, maintenance and expansion of rape crisis centers and other programs and projects to assist those victimized by sexual assault.

 Award: Total award amount: $7.8 million for 56 awards; OVW will award a base amount to each State and Territory. Funds remaining after the allocated base amount will be distributed among the States and Territories based on population, including Tribal populations. The award period is 24 months.

 Eligibility: Any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands

 Grant Managment System Deadline: 02/23/2010

 Application Deadline: 03/04/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: OVW FY 2010 Sexual Assault Services Formula Grant Program

 Funding: FY 2010 Grants to Reduce Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Stalking on Campus Program

 Administering Agency: Office on Violence Against Women

 Program: The Campus Program supports activities that develop and strengthen victim services in cases involving sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking on campuses. The Campus Program supports a coordinated community approach that enhances victim safety and assistance, and supports efforts to hold offenders accountable. To be effective, campus responses must be linked to local criminal justice agencies and service providers, including local law enforcement agencies, prosecutors’ offices, courts and nonprofit, nongovernmental victim advocacy and victim services agencies.

 Award: Individual project awards: up to $300,000; consortia project awards: up to $500,000

 Eligibility: Institutions of higher education, consortium of higher education institutions may also apply provided that each individual member of the consortium is also eligible to apply; OVW will accept applications from current grantees who received 3-year awards in or prior to 2007 and applicants that have not previously received funding under this program

 Letter of Intent Deadline: 02/17/2010

 Grant Managment System Deadline: 02/17/2010

 Application Deadline: 03/10/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: Grants to Reduce Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Stalking on Campus Program

 Funding: OVW FY 2010 Enhanced Training and Services to End Violence Against and Abuse of Women Later in Life Program

 Administering Agency: Office on Violence Against Women

 Program: The program supports comprehensive approaches to address elder abuse in communities. Projects will: provide training to criminal justice professionals, governmental agency staff and victim assistants to enhance their ability to address elder abuse, neglect and exploitation in their communities; provide cross training opportunities to professionals working with older victims; develop or enhance a community coordinated response to elder abuse; and provide or enhance services for victims who are 50 years of age or older.

 Award: Total available funding: $3 million; 8 awards of up to $400,000

 Eligibility: States, units of local government, Indian Tribal governments or Tribal organizations, and nonprofit, nongovernmental victim services organizations with demonstrated experience in assisting elderly women or demonstrated experience in addressing sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking, including faith- and community-based organizations

 Letter of Intent Deadline: 02/24/2010

 Grant Managment System Deadline: 02/24/2010

 Application Deadline: 03/10/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: OVW FY 2010 Enhanced Training and Services to End Violence Against and Abuse of Women Later in Life Program

 Funding: FY 2010 National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP) Solicitation

 Administering Agency: Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)

 Program: The NCHIP grant program furthers the Department's mission to enhance the crime fighting and criminal justice capabilities of state governments by improving the accuracy, utility, and interstate accessibility of criminal history records and enhancing records of protective orders involving domestic violence and stalking, sex offender records, automated identification systems and other state systems supporting national records systems and their use for criminal history background checks.

 Award: Varies

 Eligibility: Applicants are limited to the agency designated by the Governor in each state to administer the NCHIP program. States may choose to submit applications as part of a multi-state consortium or other entity.

 Grant Managment System Deadline: 03/01/2010

 Application Deadline: 03/01/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: FY 2010 National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP) Solicitation

 Funding: State Justice Statistics Program for Statistical Analysis Centers, 2010

 Administering Agency: Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)

 Program: The 2010 State Justice Statistics (SJS) Program supports the collection, analysis, and dissemination of statistical information on crime and criminal justice at the state and local level. The SJS Program is designed to maintain and enhance each state's capacity to address criminal justice issues through collection and analysis of data. The program provides limited funds to coordinate statistical activities within the state, conduct research as needed to estimate impacts of legislative and policy changes, and serve a liaison role in assisting BJS to gather data from respondent agencies within their states. Each application for funding under this program must identify the participating organizations in the state and the particular issues to be addressed. BJS encourages SACs to utilize the state’s criminal history records for research purposes. In particular, the SAC may wish to seek SJS funds to support studies of patterns of criminal behavior such as sex offending, stalking, or domestic violence.

 Award: The average award per state is $50,000.

 Eligibility: Applicants are limited to Statistical Analysis Centers (SACs) established by state legislation or executive order

 Grant Managment System Deadline: 03/19/2010

 Application Deadline: 03/19/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: State Justice Statistics Program for Statistical Analysis Centers, 2010

 Funding: FY 2010 Second Chance Act Mentoring Grants to Nonprofit Organizations

 Administering Agency: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)

 Program: The program provides services and programs to facilitate inmates’ successful reintegration into society.

 Award: Awards up to $300,000 will be given

 Eligibility: Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education

 Grant Managment System Deadline: 03/18/2010

 Application Deadline: 03/18/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: FY 2010 Second Chance Act Mentoring Grants to Nonprofit Organizations

 Funding: SMART FY 2010 Comprehensive Approaches to Sex Offender Management Grant Program

 Administering Agency: Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (SMART)

 Program: The program assists state, local and tribal jurisdictions in improving their adult and juvenile sex offender management policies and practices by critically examining existing approaches to monitoring and managing the population; identifying significant gaps and needs; and developing strategies to address the needs. This program provides funding to support demonstration projects in tribal communities that wish to implement the Comprehensive Approach model of sex offender management and to enhance existing sex offender management practices in communities in order to meet an identified need or to implement an innovative strategy that can be recognized as a best practice. The program has two components: Part A which is the demonstration program to implement the Comprehensive Approach model of managing sex offenders, reducing recidivism and promoting public safety and Part B which supports enhancements to existing approaches to managing released sex offenders.

 Award: Part A funding awards grants of up to $250,000; Part B funding awards grants of up to $150,000

 Eligibility: Federally recognized Indian tribes are eligible to apply for Part A funding; Part B funding is restricted to States, the District of Columbia, territories, and local units of government

 Grant Managment System Deadline: 03/18/2010

 Application Deadline: 03/18/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: SMART FY 2010 Comprehensive Approaches to Sex Offender Management Grant Program

 Funding: Community Action Program

 Administering Agency: Gannett Foundation

 Program: The Gannett Foundation makes grants to eligible organizations in the communities in which Gannett does business. Priorities include: education and neighborhood improvement; economic development; youth development; community problem-solving; assistance to disadvantaged people; environmental conservation; and cultural enrichment. About 60% of the community grants funding goes for grassroots organizations focusing on social/human services, health, and mental health.

 Award: Grants average between $1,000 to $5,000

 Eligibility: 501(c)3 nonprofits

 Application Deadline: 02/16/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: Community Action Program

 Funding: Jenny’s Heroes

 Administering Agency: Jenny Jones Foundation

 Program: Jenny's Heroes provides grants to US citizens for projects to improve their communities. The recipient may not keep any of the funds for his or her personal use, all funds must be spent on the approved community project, the project must benefit a number of people, not just one individual and the project must have significant long term benefits.

 Award: $25,000

 Eligibility: US citizens 18 years of age or older

 Application Deadline: No closing date

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: Jenny’s Heroes

 Funding: Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship

 Administering Agency: Skoll Foundation

 Program: The Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship support social entrepreneurs whose work has the potential for large-scale influence on critical challenges of our time:tolerance and human rights, health, economic and social equity, peace and security,institutional responsibility, and environmental sustainability.

 Award: $750,000 grant paid over three years for core support

 Eligibility: The organization must be led by a social entrepreneur, have implemented innovative programs that demonstrate effective approaches to critical social and environmental challenges with global implications, be able to describe a clear, long-term path to creating an equilibrium change, demonstrate proof of concept with measurable outcomes, have a clear, compelling plan for reaching scale, demonstrate a track record of at least three years, have a clear plan for long-term financial and operational sustainability, and commit to working with peers and the Skoll Foundation to share learning and communicate success strategies.

 Application Deadline: 02/17/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship

 Funding: Pets and Women’s Shelters Program (PAWS)

 Administering Agency: American Humane Society

 Program: This is a national initiative to promote on-site housing of pets at women’s shelters and to acknowledge the human-animal bond, which can be crucial to recovery after a crisis.

 Award: Varies

 Eligibility: Only domestic/family violence and women’s emergency sheltering agencies; nonprofit 501(c)(3) agencies and municipal agencies

 Application Deadline: No closing date

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: Pets and Women’s Shelters Program (PAWS)

 Funding: Amy’s Courage Fund

 Administering Agency: National Network To End Domestic Violence-NNEDV

 Program: Amy’s Fund, sponsored by NNEDV, provides emergency financial assistance to victims of domestic violence and their children to meet their immediate needs after escaping abuse. Funds may be used for: moving/transportation costs associated with escaping abuse; rent and security deposits for new, safe homes; utilities, medical expenses; legal fees and expenses for filing for protective orders, custody agreements and divorce; car repairs/transportation needs; and furniture, appliances, clothing and other household goods. Any adult survivor of domestic violence working with a domestic violence shelter/program or domestic violence coalition may apply for this funding

 Award: $2,000

 Eligibility: 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations whose core mission is to serve or represent victims of domestic violence

 Application Deadline: No closing date

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete applicationguidelines/submission.

 Website: Amy’s Courage Fund

 Funding: The R.O.S.E. Reconstructive Surgery Program

 Administering Agency: R.O.S.E. Fund

 Program: The R.O.S.E. Fund provides women survivors with free access to a wide range of medical, dental and facial reconstructive surgery procedures. These ROSE Fund surgeries and medical services are available to women survivors of domestic violence who suffer from medical issues that are a direct result of domestic violence incidents. Surgeries and procedures range from scar revisions and dental work to cosmetic reconstructive surgery for the head neck, and face.

 Award: Free reconstructive surgery

 Eligibility: Candidate eligibility is determined by and at the sole discretion of The R.O.S.E. Fund and its medical partners. The R.O.S.E. Fund is actively looking for applicants for this program.

 Application Deadline: No closing date

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete applicationguidelines/submission.

 Website: The R.O.S.E. Reconstructive Surgery Program

 Funding: 2010 Shelter Grant Program

 Administering Agency: Mary Kay Ash Foundation

 Program: Every October, The Mary Kay Foundation observes National Domestic Violence Awareness Month by awarding grants to deserving women’s shelters. These grants provide services such as counseling, transportation vehicles, emergency shelter, food, clothing and basic needs to domestic violence survivors and their children.

 Award: In 2009 the Foundation provided awards of $20,000 each to 150 domestic violence shelters.

 Eligibility: Domestic violence shelters in the United States

 Application Deadline: 06/30/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: 2010 Shelter Grant Program

 Funding: 2010 Red Ribbon Award

 Administering Agency: UNAIDS, United Nations Development Programme on HIV/AIDS

 Program: The Red Ribbon Award honors and recognizes exceptional grassroots leadership in responding to the AIDS epidemic. The year the awards will be given to groups for leadership in responding to AIDS in one or more of the following categories: stop violence against women and girls and promote gender equality; ensure that the people living with HIV receive treatment; support HIV prevention, treatment and care programs for people who use drugs and enhance social support for those affected by HIV, including orphans and vulnerable children.

 Award: Twenty-five community groups will receive awards at $5,000 each and the opportunity to attend the XVIIIth International AIDS Conference in Vienna July 18-13, 2010. The organizations will have the ability to showcase their work. Five of the organizations will receive special recognition and an additional $15,000.

 Eligibility: Grassroots initiatives, community- and faith-based organizations, small non-governmental organizations, organizations that have been established for more than one year at the time of the application, organizations with an annual operating budget below $300,000 US dollars

 Application Deadline: 02/28/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: 2010 Red Ribbon Award

 Funding: Allstate Foundation Program Grants

 Administering Agency: Allstate Foundation

 Program: The Allstate Foundation supports national and local programs that fit within three focus areas: safe and vital communities, economic empowerment, and tolerance, inclusion and diversity. The safe and vital communities programs should address catastrophe response, youth anti-violence, neighborhood revitalization, and teen safe driving. The economic empowerment programs should address financial and economic literacy, insurance education, and empowerment for victims of domestic violence. The tolerance, inclusion and diversity programs should address teaching tolerance to youth, ending hate crimes, and alleviating discrimination.

 Award: Varies

 Eligibility: 501(c)(3) organizations

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: Allstate Foundation Program Grantst

 Funding: 2010 Colin Higgins Youth Courage Awards

 Administering Agency: Colin Higgins Foundation

 Program: The Colin Higgins Foundation is accepting nominations for its annual Youth Courage awards that honors lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth who demonstrate courage in the face of adversity and discrimination based on gender and/or sexual orientation.

 Award: Three honorees will each receive a $10,000 grant to be presented in New York City at the Trevor Project Benefit Gala

 Eligibility: Nominees must be 21; a United States citizen; self-nominations are not accepted

 Application Deadline: 03/01/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: 2010 Colin Higgins Youth Courage Awards

 Funding: 2009 Community Action Projects Grants

 Administering Agency: Do Something

 Program: The purpose of this grant is to help young people implement or expand a community action project, program, or organization.

 Award: 52 awards at $500 each

 Eligibility: Applicants must be 25 or under and a US or Canadian citizen

 Application Deadline: No closing date

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: 2009 Community Action Projects Grants

 Funding: International Civil Courage Prize

 Administering Agency: Train Foundation

 Program: This prize honors civil courage of individuals in the face of personal risk. This award seeks to draw attention to extraordinary heroes of conscience.

 Award: $50,000

 Eligibility: Individuals worldwide, nominated by nonprofit, non-governmental organizations

 Application Deadline: 02/19/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: International Civil Courage Prize

 Funding: 2010 Purpose Prize

 Administering Agency: Civic Ventures

 Program: The Purpose Prize is a campaign that includes a prize for social innovators in their encore careers. "Encore careers" are those that combine personal meaning and social impact with continued work in the second half of life. Nominees must currently be working in a leadership capacity in an organization or institution (public, private, nonprofit, or for-profit) to address a major social problem in the United States or abroad. Nominees should have demonstrated recent creativity and leadership with the promise of more to come.

 Award: 5 awards of $100,000 each, 10 awards of $10,000 prizes

 Eligibility: People over the age of 60 working in a leadership capacity to address societal challenges in the United States or abroad

 Application Deadline: 03/05/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete applicationguidelines/submission.

 Website: 2010 Purpose Prize

 Funding: 2010 Sundance Documentary Fund

 Administering Agency: Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program

 Program: The Sundance Documentary Fund supports films that focus on current human rights issues, freedom of expression, social justice, civil liberties and current critical issues. Proposals are considered in five categories: development, production/post-production, audience engagement, impact, and discretionary.

 Award: Development grants – awards of up to $20,000; Production/post-production grants – awards ranging from $25,000 to $75,000; Audience Engagement, Impact and Discretionary grants are available to previous funded projects or by invitation.

 Eligibility: International filmmakers

 Application Deadline: 02/09/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission

 Website: 2010 Sundance Documentary Fund

 Funding: Ben & Jerry’s Social Change Projects

 Administering Agency: Ben & Jerry’s Foundation

 Program: Ben & Jerry’s Foundation supports programs and projects that are examples of creative problem solving. Projects must lead to societal, institutional and/or environmental change, address the root causes of social or environmental problems, and lead to new ways of thinking and acting.

 Award: Varies

 Eligibility: Grassroots, constituent-led organizations focusing on systemic social change, organizations must have 501(c)3 status, organizations with budget under $250,000

 Application Deadline: No closing date

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: Ben & Jerry’s Social Change Projects

 Funding: Falk Foundation – Innovation and Development Grants

 Administering Agency: Falk Foundation

 Program: The Falk Foundation supports proposals for examining the root causes of injustice through academic research, educating the public and policymakers about equity issues, designing approaches for the prevention of injustice, and implementing practices that promote equal access and opportunity. The Innovation and Development Grants are small flexible grants that are intended to be highly responsive to current events and provide seed funding for short-term activities.

 Award: Innovative grants: awards up to $2,500; Major grants: amounts over $2,500

 Eligibility: 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status

 Application Deadline: No closing date

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: Falk Foundation – Innovation and Development Grants

 Funding: The Arcus LGBT Program

 Administering Agency: Arcus Foundation

 Program: The goal of the Arcus LGBT Program is to advance social justice inclusive of sexual orientation, gender identity and race. It supports organizations, programs and projects working in the following areas: advancing LGBT rights locally, nationally, and internationally; religion and values; and racial justice, sexual orientation, and gender identity.

 Award: Varies-grants awarded in 2008 to date: 40 grants totaling $11,458,592

 Eligibility: United States applicants must be tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organizations; non-U.S. applicants must have U.S. 501(c)(3) equivalent status

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: The Arcus LGBT Program

 Funding: Microsoft Unlimited Potential–Community Technology Skills Program

 Administering Agency: Microsoft Corporation

 Program: Microsoft Corporation provides technology training, cash donations, software and curriculum and technical support to create community-based technology and learning centers in order to bridge the "digital divide" and eliminate technology illiteracy.

 Award: Non-cash support; software

 Eligibility: 501(c)(3) organizations or foreign nongovernmental organizations that hold charitable status in their country, that provide services to schools and communities during non-school hours, or that are supported and operated by the government

 Application Deadline: No closing date

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: Microsoft Unlimited Potential–Community Technology Skills Program

 Funding: Google Grants Program

 Administering Agency: Google

 Program: This is an advertising grant within the Google AdWords™ program. AdWords is an online self-managed advertising program where an organization will manage its advertising campaign by creating and monitoring text ads that run on Google.

 Award: In-kind online advertising account that can be used for general outreach, fundraising activities, and recruitment of volunteers.

 Eligibility: United States organizations must have 501(c)(3) status, organization must have its own website, and its ads must link to a page on its website, keywords must be relevant to the organization’s programs and services, the organization’s website cannot display revenue generating ads, such as Google AdSense or affiliate advertising links, while participating in Google Grants and the active management of the advertising campaign is the organization's responsibility once the account is active.

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: Google Grants Program

 Funding: 2010 Tech Awards

 Administering Agency: Tech Museum of Innovation

 Program: The Tech Awards, an international awards program, honors innovators who are applying technology to benefit humanity. The awards are given to those utilizing innovative technology solutions that focus on issues in education, equality, environment, health, and economic development.

 Award: Three laureates in each category will be honored and one laureate per category will receive $50,000

 Eligibility: Individuals, not-for-profit organizations, and for profit companies

 Application Deadline: 03/31/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: 2010 Tech Awards

 Funding: Violence Prevention and Intervention Grant

 Administering Agency: American Psychological Foundation

 Program: The purpose of this program is to encourage the transfer of psychological science with regard to violence, its prevention, and intervention strategies to applications within the community and to support the implementation of innovative community programs aimed at preventing violence.

 Award: $20,000

 Eligibility: Applicants must be 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations or educational institutions or affiliated with such an organization. Special consideration will be given to programs with a strong foundation in violence prevention and intervention research and those that have, or show promise for broad-based community support.

 Application Deadline: 06/01/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: Violence Prevention and Intervention Grant

 Funding: 2010 Make a Powerful Difference Contest

 Administering Agency: Pine-Sol, Clorox Company

 Program: Powerful difference honors women from communities across the country. Grants are awarded to women who are helping to improve their communities and are making extraordinary change. Entrants must provide a brief essay on how she is making a difference in her community. A panel of judges will select 10 finalists, with the public voting for the grand prizewinner.

 Award: One grand prize for $10,000 to make a difference for her community or cause and 9 awards of $1000 each to finalists to help support their initiatives.

 Eligibility: Legal resident of the United States (including the District of Columbia), be 18 years of age at the time of entry

 Application Deadline: 03/22/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: 2010 Make a Powerful Difference Contest

 Funding: Open Meadows Provides Grants

 Administering Agency: Open Meadows Foundation

 Program: Open Meadows Foundation is a grant-making organization for projects that are led by and benefit women and girls, particularly those from vulnerable communities. Open Meadows Foundation funds projects that do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity and expression, sexual identity and expression, age or ability.

 Award: Grants up to $2,000

 Eligibility: Projects that: are designed and implemented by women and girls; reflect the diversity of the community served by the project in both its leadership and organization; promote building community power; promote gender, racial, social, economic and environmental justice; have limited financial access or have encountered obstacles in their search for funding and have organizational budgets that do not exceed $150,000

 Application Deadline: 02/15/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: Open Meadows Provides Grants

 Funding: Research on Interventions for Child Abuse and Neglect (R01)

 Administering Agency: National Institutes of Health

 Program: This research grant is soliciting applications that focus on conducting efficacy and effectiveness trials of child abuse and neglect interventions. The development of large-scale trials designed to target either or both the victims or perpetrators of child abuse and neglect, including preventive interventions is of particular interest. One of the goals is to bring together multi-disciplinary and translational perspectives encompassing basic biomedical, behavioral and social science research in mental health, physical health, public health and prevention, alcohol and substance abuse, neurology, injury, trauma and child development, to advance the knowledge of child abuse and neglect.

 Award: Varies

 Eligibility: Public/state controlled institution of higher education; private institution of higher education; nonprofit with/without 501(c)(3) IRS status (other than institution of higher education); small business; for-profit organization (other than small business); state government; U.S. Territory or Possession; Indian/Native American Tribal Government (federally recognized); Indian/Native American Tribal Government (other than federally recognized); Indian/Native American Tribally Designated Organization; non-domestic (non-U.S.) entity; Hispanic-serving Institution; Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities; Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions; regional organization; eligible agencies of the Federal government; community- or faith-based organizations; individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: Research on Interventions for Child Abuse and Neglect (R01)

 Funding: AHRQ Grant Program for Large Conference Support (R13) and (U13)

 Administering Agency: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

 Program: This program supports conferences that include plans and strategies for disseminating conference materials and products to other audiences, beyond the participants attending the event. The types of conferences eligible for support include: research development - conferences where issues or challenges in the delivery of health services are defined and a research agenda or strategy for studying them is developed; design and methodology - conferences where methodological and technical issues of major importance in the field of health services research are addressed or new designs and methodologies are developed; dissemination conferences and research training, infrastructure and career development conferences.

 Award: $100,000

 Eligibility: Public or non-profit private institution, such as a university, college, or a faith-based or community-based organization, for-profit organizations for U13 applications only, unit of local or State government, unit of local Tribal government or State Tribal government

 Application Deadline: /0//2/ 201

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: AHRQ Grant Program for Large Conference Support (R13) and (U13)

 Funding: Wellstone Fellowship for Social Justice

 Administering Agency: Families USA

 Program: The Wellstone Fellowship is designed to advance social justice through healthcare advocacy by focusing particularly on the unique challenges facing communities of color. The primary responsibilities include assisting in the organization of trainings for community leasers and journalists; drafting policy briefs, fact sheets, and other publications.

 Award: The fellowship provides a year-long, full-time, salaried position in Washington, DC.

 Eligibility: Candidates seeking consideration for the Wellstone Fellowship must demonstrate an interest in health care policy as a tool for reducing racial and ethnic health disparities; demonstrate a commitment to contributing to social justice work following their year of hands-on experience as a fellow; be authorized to work in the United States and have a college degree or plan to receive a degree by August 2010. There is no minimum GPA requirement, and candidates from all academic backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

 Application Deadline: 02/05/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: Wellstone Fellowship for Social Justice

 Funding: 2009 Hearts of Hope Scholarship

 Administering Agency: Peyton Tuthill Foundation

 Program: The Peyton Tuthill Foundation provides educational scholarships to homicide survivors (children, siblings, or surviving spouse).

 Award: The amount of the scholarship will be spread equally over the fall and winter semester or fall, winter, and spring quarter. Payment will be sent directly to the school once.

 Eligibility: Applicants must have completed one year of grief counseling through a counseling center, hospice, grief support group, faith-based program or other nationally recognized services; be a citizen of the United States; fully complete the scholarship application; be either a high school senior about to enter his or her first year of college or an undergraduate student enrolled in an approved university; must have a grade point average for the last twelve months of your education must be at least a 2.5 on a 4.0 scale; any applicant who has previously received a scholarship from the Foundation must have maintained at least a 2.5 grade point average for such period; and someone in the applicant’s immediate family must have been the victim of a homicide, which occurred at least 18 months prior to the submission of the application. The term "immediate family" means the applicant’s spouse, father, mother, siblings or stepfather, stepmother or stepsiblings.

 Application Deadline: 05/01/2010

 Application Guidelines/Submissions: Visit the website for complete application guidelines/submission.

 Website: 2009 Hearts of Hope Scholarship