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Department of Agriculture

 Funding: Rural Development Voucher Program

 Administering Agency: Rural Housing Service

 Program: Rural Development Vouchers are only available to low income tenants of Rural Development-financed multifamily properties where the section 515 loan has been prepaid, either through prepayment or a foreclosure action, prior to the loan's maturity date and after September 30, 2005.

 Award: $16.4 million

 Eligibility: Families in multifamily housing units funded by Sec. 515 Rural Rental Housing Program

 Application Deadline: No closing date

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

 Website: Rural Development Voucher Program

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Department of Health and Human Services

 Funding: Wilson/Fish Alternative Program

 Administering Agency: Office of Refugee Resettlement

 Program: The purpose of the announcement is to enable applicants to implement projects that provide interim financial assistance, social services and case management to refugees in a manner that encourages self-sufficiency, reduces the likelihood of welfare dependency and fosters greater coordination among resettlement agencies and service providers in a community.

 Award: Total available funding: $32 million; 13 awards averaging $2.4 million per budget

 Eligibility: Public and private non-profit organizations, including faith-based and community organizations

 Application Deadline: 07/19/2010

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

 Website: Wilson/Fish Alternative Program

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Department of Health and Human Services

 Funding: Family Violence Prevention and Services Discretionary Grant Program/National Domestic Violence Hotline

 Administering Agency: Administration for Children and Families

 Program: The Hotline provides information and referral services, counseling, and assistance to victims of domestic violence, their children and other family members, and others affected by such violence to enable them to find safety and protection in crisis situations. The successful applicant will be required to provide telephonic assistance on a 24 hours-per-day, seven days-a-week basis throughout the United States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. To serve the wide range of expected calls effectively, the recipient must demonstrate expertise in the area of domestic violence and the delivery of services to victims of domestic violence. The staff also must understand the importance of using appropriate linkages with State and local resources to serve callers to the Hotline.

 Award: 1 award for $3.2 million

 Eligibility: Non-profits with/without 501(c)(3) IRS status, other than institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; community- and faith- based organizations that meet eligibility requirements may apply

 Letter of Intent Deadline: 06/23/2010

 Application Deadline: 07/19/2010

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

 Website: Family Violence Prevention and Services Discretionary Grant Program/National Domestic Violence Hotline

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Department of Health and Human Services

 Funding: National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect

 Administering Agency: Administration on Children, Youth, & Families

 Program: The purpose of program is to continue the operation of the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) and to continue the processing and housing of high-quality data sets and related activities that facilitate the use of archived data. NDACAN is a centralized facility for the acquisition, preservation, and dissemination of machine-readable data sets relevant to the study of child maltreatment and child welfare. NDACAN currently holds more than 100 data sets.

 Award: 1 award for $675,000

 Eligibility: Nonprofits with/without 501(c)(3) status, private and state controlled institutions of higher education, for profit organizations, small businesses

 Application Deadline: 08/09/2010

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

 Website: National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect

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Department of Health and Human Services

 Funding: Discretionary Funds for Projects to Establish Individual Development Account (IDA) Programs for Refugees

 Administering Agency: Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)

 Program: The refugee IDA Program represents an anti-poverty strategy built on asset accumulation for low-income refugee individuals and families with the goal of promoting refugee economic independence. The objectives of this program are to: encourage regular saving habits among refugees; promote refugee participation in the financial institutions of this country; promote refugee acquisition of assets to build individual, family, and community resources; increase refugee knowledge of financial and monetary topics; assist refugees in advancing their education; increase home ownership among refugees, and assist refugees in gaining access to capital. The new grantees are to accomplish these objectives by establishing programs that combine the provision of matched savings accounts with financial training and counseling.

 Award: Total available funding: $1.8 million; 8 awards averaging $215,000 per budget period

 Eligibility: Schools, governments, tribes, colleges and universities, nonprofits, public and private institutions of higher education, nonprofits with/without 501 (c)(3)

 Application Deadline: 07/12/2010

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

 Website: Discretionary Funds for Projects to Establish Individual Development Account (IDA) Programs for Refugees

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Department of Health and Human Services

 Funding: Residential Services for Unaccompanied Alien Children

 Administering Agency: Division of Unaccompanied Children's Services (DUCS)

 Program: Shelter care services will be provided for the period beginning when ORR accepts the child for placement and custody and ending when the child is released from custody, a final disposition of the child's immigration case results in removal of the child from the United States, or the child turns 18 years of age. Shelter care and other child welfare related services in a state-licensed residential shelter care program would be provided in the least restrictive setting. This opportunity provides money to fund providers for basic shelter and/or group homes, staff secure, secure and more specialized types of care.

 Award: Total available funding: $45 million; 15 awards averaging $2.5 million per budget period

 Eligibility: Faith-based and community organizations; organizations must be appropriately licensed (at the time of submission of the application) as facilities for the provision of shelter care and other related services to dependent children

 Application Deadline: 07/19/2010

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

 Website: Residential Services for Unaccompanied Alien Children

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Department of Health and Human Services

 Funding: Refugee Agricultural Partnership Program

 Administering Agency: Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)

 Program: This program is to support rural and urban farming, gardening and food systems projects that use partnerships to create income, have healthier food and better nutrition, and enhance integration into American society on the part of refugee families. A holistic approach that encompasses the elements of production, training, accessing land, financing, developing partnerships, and client culture, language and literacy are expected in applications.

 Award: Total available funding: $1 million; 12 awards averaging $83,300 per budget period

 Eligibility: Schools, governments, tribes, colleges and universities, nonprofits, private institutions of higher education, and community- and faith-based organizations

 Application Deadline: 07/12/2010

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

 Website: Refugee Agricultural Partnership Program

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Department of Health and Human Services

 Funding: Community Services Block Grant Training (CSBG) and Technical Assistance Program: State Performance Management Clearinghouse

 Administering Agency: Office of Community Services

 Program: This program will fund one CSBG State Performance Management Clearinghouse (SPMC) to serve as the central gateway to information and resources, including research and evaluation products that promote evidence-based exemplary practices and communication among the CSBG Network. The core functions of the SPMC are website development and maintenance; information collection and resource management; custom T/TA services and referrals; and information dissemination. The topics covered by the SPMC include five major focus areas: 1) employment-related services; 2) asset development; 3) administrative, program, and financial operations; 4) community economic development; and 5) risk mitigation and assessment. It is expected that the SPMC will act as a repository and distribution center and operate a website that will serve as an on-line library of information and resources on the five major focus areas.

 Award: 1 award for $1,050,000

 Eligibility: Statewide or local organizations or associations, and non-profit organizations

 Application Deadline: 07/19/2010

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

 Website: Community Services Block Grant Training (CSBG) and Technical Assistance Program: State Performance Management Clearinghouse

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Department of Health and Human Services

 Funding: Family Violence Prevention and Services/Expanding Leadership Opportunities within the Domestic Violence Field for Members of Underrepresented Groups

 Administering Agency: Administration on Children, Youth, & Families

 Program: This funding opportunity will support one collaboration of technical assistance providers to develop a leadership academy and promote leadership within the domestic violence field by members of underrepresented groups. The goals of the project are to (1) build upon and enhance the professional capacities of people from underrepresented groups working in FVPSA-funded programs; (2) improve retention of people from underrepresented groups as employees and leaders within the domestic violence field; (3) provide ongoing support, mentoring, training, technical assistance and leadership development for program participants; (4) provide ongoing technical assistance, outreach and support for efforts to increase the leadership of people from underrepresented groups throughout the domestic violence field; and (5) strengthen advocacy and services provided to victims of domestic violence among underserved populations. The intent of this project is to create a training model that can be replicated and used to encourage the development of the next generation of leaders and managers for domestic violence programs.

 Award: 1 award for $500,000 per budget period; 60-month project with five 12-month budget periods

 Eligibility: Nonprofit or education organizations including: Tribal organizations providing services to federally recognized Tribes or Tribal populations; nonprofit organizations with or without 501(c)(3) status; culturally specific institutes; State Domestic Violence Coalitions; Tribal coalitions; and community- and faith-based organizations.

 Letter of Intent Deadline: 07/15/2010

 Application Deadline: 07/30/2010

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

 Website: Family Violence Prevention and Services/Expanding Leadership Opportunities within the Domestic Violence Field for Members of Underrepresented Groups

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Department of Health and Human Services

 Funding: Family Violence Prevention and Services/ Expanding Services for Children and Youth

 Administering Agency: Administration on Children, Youth, & Families

 Program: Three State Domestic Violence Coalitions, Tribal Coalitions, or other nonprofit entities with expertise in domestic violence programs and statewide capacity or capacity to conduct a project across a Tribe will be funded to expand and enhance responses to and local services available for children exposed to domestic violence across a selected State or Tribe. Each grantee will be expected to have contributed toward the Family Youth Service Bureau’s research and training goals by improving responses to children and youth exposed to domestic violence across the targeted State or Tribe, providing new or enhanced services to children and youth exposed to domestic violence, and helping to develop and provide peer-to-peer technical assistance and a national dissemination plan.

 Award: Total available funding: $450,000; 3 awards averaging $150,000 per budget period; 36-month project with three 12-month periods

 Eligibility: State Domestic Violence Coalitions funded under the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA); Tribal Domestic Violence Coalitions with capacity to conduct a project across the Tribe; and other nonprofit entities that provide shelter or related assistance (as defined by the FVPSA), or technical assistance regarding such shelter and related services, and which have capacity to conduct a project across the targeted State or Tribe.

 Letter of Intent Deadline: 07/15/2010

 Application Deadline: 07/30/2010

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

 Website: Family Violence Prevention and Services/ Expanding Services for Children and Youth

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Department of Health and Human Services

 Funding: Basic Center Program

 Administering Agency: Administration on Children, Youth, & Families

 Program: The Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) is accepting applications for the Basic Center Program (BCP), which is authorized by the Runaway and Homeless Act to address Runaway and Homeless Youth (RHY) problems. BCPs provide an alternative for runaway and homeless youth who might otherwise end up with law enforcement or in the child welfare, mental health, or juvenile justice systems. Each BCP must provide runaway and homeless youth with a safe and appropriate shelter, individual, family, and group counseling as appropriate and aftercare.

 Award: Total available funding: $15,798,302; 120 awards averaging $150,000 per budget period; 36-month project with three 12-month budget periods

 Eligibility: Public and non-profit private entities and combinations of such entities are eligible

 Application Deadline: 07/19/2010

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

 Website: Basic Center Program

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Department of Health and Human Services

 Funding: Post Release Services for Unaccompanied Alien Children

 Administering Agency: Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)

 Program: This program will fund providers for completing home studies or post release visits to the child and sponsor. The Division of Unaccompanied Children’s Services (DUCS) provides comprehensive home studies and/or post release services for children and sponsors. A home study assesses the sponsor family unit, evaluates the potential sponsor’s ability to meet the child’s needs, and educates and prepares the potential sponsor for reunification with the child.

 Award: Total available funding: $3 million; 2 awards for $1.5 million each

 Eligibility: Nonprofits and for-profits

 Application Deadline: 07/26/2010

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

 Website: Post Release Services for Unaccompanied Alien Children

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Department of Health and Human Services

 Funding: Mentoring Children of Prisoners

 Administering Agency: Administration on Children, Youth, & Families

 Program: The Mentoring Children of Prisoners (MCP) program supports the creation and maintenance of one-on-one mentoring relationships between children of incarcerated parents and caring, supportive adult volunteer mentors. The intent of this program is to support the establishment or expansion and operation of mentoring programs, using a network of public and private community entities, in areas with substantial numbers of children of incarcerated parents.

 Award: Total available funding: $21,500,000; 80 awards averaging $270,000 per budget period; 36-month project with three 12-month budget periods

 Eligibility: Governments (state, county, local, city or township); independent school districts; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; Indian/Native American Tribal governments and organizations; Indian/Native American Tribally designated organizations; nonprofit organizations with or without 501(c)(3) status other than institutions of higher education; Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian serving institutions, tribally controlled colleges and universities, community- and faith-based organizations

 Application Deadline: 07/30/2010

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

 Website: Mentoring Children of Prisoners

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Department of Health and Human Services

 Funding: Mentoring Children of Prisoners Statewide Projects

 Administering Agency: Administration on Children, Youth, & Families

 Program: The intent of this program is to support the establishment or expansion and operation of mentoring programs, using a network of public and private community entities, in states with substantial numbers of children of incarcerated parents. Also, applications are being accepted from Native American tribes and tribal entities that include one or more of the fifteen targeted states and may also include other states with high numbers of incarcerated Native Americans.

 Award: Total available funding: $15 million; 8 awards averaging $1,875,000 per budget period; 36-month project with three 12-month budget periods

 Eligibility: Governments (state, county, local, city or township, special district); independent school districts; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; Indian/Native American Tribal governments and organizations; Indian/Native American Tribally designated organizations; nonprofit organizations with or without 501(c)(3) status other than institutions of higher education; Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian serving institutions, tribally controlled colleges and universities, community- and faith-based organizations

 Application Deadline: 07/30/2010

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

 Website: Mentoring Children of Prisoners Statewide Projects

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Department of Health and Human Services

 Funding: Health and Mental Health, Training and Technical Assistance Program to Refugee Serving Agencies

 Administering Agency: Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)

 Program: The grantee is to assist refugee-serving agencies with its main objective being the development of a curriculum and training modules for local and mainstream providers to address the needs of refugee population through training and technical assistance.

 Award: 1 award for $500,000

 Eligibility: Governments, institutions of higher education, tribal organizations, nonprofits and public housing authorities

 Application Deadline: 07/30/2010

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

 Website: Health and Mental Health, Training and Technical Assistance Program to Refugee Serving Agencies

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Department of Health and Human Services

 Funding: FY 10 Prevention for HIV Infected Women Living in Puerto Rico

 Administering Agency: Office on Women’s Health

 Program: This program seeks to prevent secondary transmission among women who practice high risk behaviors, to increase access to care for women living with HIV, to increase knowledge of protective behaviors of HIV infected women, and to reduce isolation of women living with HIV infection.

 Award: 3 awards at a maximum of $125,000 each

 Eligibility: Nonprofit community- and faith-based organizations, national organizations, colleges and universities, clinics and hospitals, state and local government agencies, tribal government and tribal/urban Indian organizations

 Application Deadline: 07/15/2010

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

 Website: FY 10 Prevention for HIV Infected Women Living in Puerto Rico

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Department of Health and Human Services

 Funding: FY 10 Leading Ladies Promoting Healthy Lifestyles and Healthy Families: An HIV/AIDS Awareness Project

 Administering Agency: Office on Women’s Health

 Program: The purpose of this project is to expand the scope of the National HIV Testing Mobilization Campaign through the engagement of faith-based organizations (FBO). This project will move beyond the National HIV Testing Mobilization Campaign by targeting female spouses of pastors, female clergy, and other female leaders within faith-based communities to establish sustainable gender-specific HIV/AIDS/STD prevention and education models for women and their families. The program will focus on building capacity within faith-based organizations to incorporate reproductive health education, communication skills, stigma, condom negotiation, heterosexual risk behaviors, denial of risk, self-esteem, and messages about healthy sexual relationships in the scope of overall health and wellness.

 Award: 3 to 5 awards ranging from $150,000 to $250,000

 Eligibility: Faith-based organizations with/without 501(c)(3); community-based organizations with 501(c)(3); tribal government and tribal/urban Indian entities and organizations

 Application Deadline: 07/15/2010

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

 Website: FY 10 Leading Ladies Promoting Healthy Lifestyles and Healthy Families: An HIV/AIDS Awareness Project

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Department of Health and Human Services

 Funding: FY 10 The Young Women's HIV/STD Mobilization Project: Moving Beyond the Messaging

 Administering Agency: Office on Women’s Health

 Program: The purpose of this program is to provide accurate and comprehensive information on HIV/AIDS/STD prevention AND healthy behaviors to maintain both mental and physical health for young women ages 13 to 24. Funds for this project will be awarded to existing female adolescent/youth-girl focused community-based organizations. Funded organizations will expand the capacity of their gender-specific services to implement an HIV/STD gender responsive component to their already existing programs.

 Award: 3 to 5 awards ranging from $150,000 to $250,000

 Eligibility: National nonprofit community-based organizations, faith based organizations, and tribal/urban Indian organizations

 Application Deadline: 07/15/2010

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

 Website: FY 10 The Young Women's HIV/STD Mobilization Project: Moving Beyond the Messaging

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Department of Health and Human Services

 Funding: FY10 Project HOPE: Helping Organizations Provide Effective HIV/AIDS Prevention for Women and Girls: A Capacity Building and Technical Assistance Cooperative Agreement

 Administering Agency: Office on Women’s Health

 Program: The purpose of this program is to provide free information, training, technical assistance and technology transfer to individuals, organizations and communities to (1) operate optimally, and (2) increase their capacity to effectively deliver evidence-based interventions and core public health strategies for HIV prevention using gender- responsive strategies for programming implementation. Capacity Building Assistance -CBA services do not include the direct delivery of HIV prevention services. Because populations disproportionately affected by HIV are also disproportionately affected by other sexually transmitted infections (STI) such as gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, and herpes, CBA should encompass prevention interventions and public health best practices for these diseases and infections when appropriate.

 Award: 1 or 2 awards; 1 award of $500,000 or 2 awards of $250,000

 Eligibility: Public and private nonprofit organizations; community- and faith-based organizations; Federally recognized American Indian/Alaska Native Hawaiian tribally designated organizations

 Application Deadline: 07/21/2010

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

 Website: FY10 Project HOPE: Helping Organizations Provide Effective HIV/AIDS Prevention for Women and Girls: A Capacity Building and Technical Assistance Cooperative Agreement

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Department of Health and Human Services

 Funding: FY2010 National Umbrella Cooperative Agreement Program (NUCA)

 Administering Agency: Office of Public Health & Science

 Program: The purpose of the NUCA Program is to demonstrate that partnerships between Federal agencies and national organizations can efficiently and effectively: improve access to care for targeted racial and ethnic minority populations; address social determinants of health to achieve health equity for targeted minority populations through projects of national significance; reduce youth violence (including gang violence) among targeted minority populations; increase the diversity of the health-related work force; and increase the knowledge base and enhance data availability for health disparities and health equity activities.

 Award: 9 awards ranging from $200,000 to $300,000 per year

 Eligibility: Private, nonprofit national minority-serving organization, with at least 5 years of experience working with targeted minority populations and have the capacity to address the issues within the category under which they are applying.

 Application Deadline: 08/02/2010

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

 Website: FY2010 National Umbrella Cooperative Agreement Program (NUCA)

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Department of Health and Human Services

 Funding: Academic-Community Partnership Conference Series (U123)

 Administering Agency: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)

 Program: This announcement solicits NICHD Cooperative Agreement Conference (U13) applications to conduct health disparities-related meetings, workshops, and symposia. The objectives of these meetings will be to establish academic-community partnerships, identify community-research priorities, and develop long-term collaborative agendas. Violence prevention is one area of focus for these partnerships.

 Award: The size and duration of each award will vary. The total amount awarded and the number of awards will depend upon the number of mechanisms, quality, duration, and costs of the applications received.

 Eligibility: Institutions of higher education; Hispanic-serving Institutions; Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities; Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions; nonprofits with/ without 501(c)(3); small businesses; for-profit organizations; state, county, city or township, special district governments; Indian/Native American Tribal governments and organizations; independent school districts; public housing authorities/Indian Housing Authorities; US territory; regional organizations; non-domestic entities; eligible agencies of the US Federal Government; community- or faith-based organizations

 Letter of Intent Deadline: 02/02/2011

 Application Deadline: 03/02/2011

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

 Website: Academic-Community Partnership Conference Series (U123)

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Department of Health and Human Services

 Funding: The Linkage to Life (L2L) Program: Rebuilding Broken Bridges for Minority Families Impacted by HIV/AIDS

 Administering Agency: Office of Minority Health

 Program: This program supports family-centered integrated health and social service resource networks that coordinate and assure provision of HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention services, healthcare, social and support services, substance abuse treatment, and behavioral health services. Successful applicants must: demonstrate the effectiveness of a family-centered, integrated health and social service network approach to reducing HIV/AIDS incidence and improving health outcomes among high-risk minority populations in transition from domestic violence, incarceration, and substance abuse treatment; address the health and social barriers that may contribute to HIV/AIDS incidence among high-risk racial and ethnic minorities; and assist in the prevention of generational cycles of behavior that increases risk of future HIV infection among dependent youth.

 Award: $2.84 million for 6 awards of up to $475,000 each

 Eligibility: Nonprofits

 Application Deadline: 03/02/2010

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

 Website: The Linkage to Life (L2L) Program: Rebuilding Broken Bridges for Minority Families Impacted by HIV/AIDS

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Department of Health and Human Services

 Funding: Minority Community HIV/AIDS Partnership: Preventing Risky Behaviors Among Minority College Students

 Award: $1 million; 3 to 4 awards expected

 Eligibility: The applicant must be an established, nonprofit national minority-serving organization with minimum of five years experience in conducting HIV/AIDS programs for minority populations. The applicant must lead a collaborative partnership arrangement with at least two institutions (one urban, one rural) of higher education, and at least two community-based health care facilities. Federally recognized American Indian Tribes and tribal organizations are eligible.

 Application Deadline: 08/02/2010

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

 Website: Minority Community HIV/AIDS Partnership: Preventing Risky Behaviors Among Minority College Students

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Department of Health and Human Services

 Funding: Partnerships Active in communities to Achieve Health Equity

 Administering Agency: Office of Minority Health

 Program: The purpose of this program is to address social determinants and environmental barriers to healthcare access; and increase access to and utilization of preventive health care, medical treatment, and supportive services through integrated community-based networks. The program will address at least one (but no more than three) of the following health areas: asthma, behavioral health, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, infant mortality, obesity, substance abuse, and unintentional injuries/violence.

 Award: $4 million; 8 to 10 awards expected

 Eligibility: The applicant must be a private nonprofit, community-based, minority-serving organization with a minimum of 5 years experience providing health, human, or social services. The applicant will serve as the lead agency for the project, and will represent a Community-Based Network of at least 3 partners including: a community-based minority serving organization, a local social service organization, and a Federally Qualified Health Center.

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

 Website: Partnerships Active in communities to Achieve Health Equity

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GOVERNMENT GRANTS-PROGRAMS and SERVICES
Department of Health and Human Services

 Funding: Support for Pregnant and Parenting Teens and Women

 Administering Agency: Office of Adolescent Health (OAH)

 Program: Grants will be awarded to develop and implement programs to assist pregnant and parenting teens and women. States may propose to use grant funds to carry out any or all of the following activities: support for pregnant and parenting student services at institutions of higher education; support for pregnant and parenting teens at high schools and community service centers; improving services for pregnant women who are victims of domestic violence, sexual violence, sexual assault, and stalking; increasing public awareness and education.

 Award: 25 awards for a maximum of $2 million each

 Eligibility: States; States must partner with nonprofits and institutions of higher education to carry out the activities

 Application Deadline: 08/02/2010

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

 Website: Support for Pregnant and Parenting Teens and Women

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Department of Health and Human Services

 Funding: National Human Trafficking Hotline, Training, and Technical Assistance Program

 Administering Agency: Office of Refugee Resettlement

 Program: The central purpose of this cooperative agreement is to increase the identification and protection of victims in the United States, provide service referrals for victims, pass on tips to law enforcement agents and provide information and training on human trafficking. The Director of ORR may give priority consideration to applications that demonstrate five or more years of experience in identifying and assisting both sex and labor trafficking victims, and three or more years of experience responding to crisis telephone calls related to human trafficking, making service referrals for trafficking victims, providing tips to law enforcement, and providing technical assistance and trainings on human trafficking.

 Award: 1 award for $800,000

 Eligibility: State, county, city or township, or special district governments; independent school districts; public and state controlled institutions of higher education; Native American tribal governments and/or organizations; public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities; nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; for profit organizations other than small businesses; small businesses

 Letter of Intent Deadline: 07/12/2010

 Application Deadline: 07/26/2010

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

 Website: National Human Trafficking Hotline, Training, and Technical Assistance Program

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Department of Education

 Funding: Regional Interpreter Education Centers for Training of Interpreters for Individuals Who Are Deaf Or Hard of Hearing and Individuals Who Are Deaf-Blind

 Administering Agency: Office of Special Education & Rehabilitative Services

 Program: The purpose of this grant is to establish regional interpreter training programs that will train a sufficient number of qualified interpreters to meet the communications needs of individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing and individuals who are deaf-blind.

 Award: Total available funding: $1.5 million; 5 awards of $300,000 each

 Eligibility: States and public or nonprofit agencies and organizations, including institutions of higher education

 Application Deadline: 07/22/2010

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

 Website: Regional Interpreter Education Centers for Training of Interpreters for Individuals Who Are Deaf Or Hard of Hearing and Individuals Who Are Deaf-Blind

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Department of Commerce

 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

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Department of Justice

 Funding: FY 2010 Mass Casualty and Violence at Home and Abroad Conference

 Administering Agency: Office for Victims of Crime (OVC)

 Program: The recipient of this grant will plan and implement the Mass Casualty and Violence at Home and Abroad—OVC Assisting Victims of Crime 2011 Conference. The conference will provide 2.5-3 days of state-of-the-art training with national experts presenting workshops and keynotes on multidisciplinary teams and victim-centered approaches to assisting victims of mass violence. The applicant awarded funding under this cooperative agreement will work in close coordination and consultation with OVC in all aspects of the development of this conference.

 Award: 1 award at a maximum of $655,000

 Eligibility: Nongovernmental organization, college or university, or public agency

 Application Deadline: 07/15/2010

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

 Website: FY 2010 Mass Casualty and Violence at Home and Abroad Conference

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Department of Justice

 Funding: National Juvenile Justice Evaluation Center

 Administering Agency: Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention

 Program: OJJDP seeks to establish a National Juvenile Justice Evaluation Center (NJJEC) that will advance the capacity of states, tribes, and communities to develop and implement policies, procedures, and practices that support their ability to evaluate their activities and use the findings to enhance their juvenile justice activities and programs.

 Award: One award will be made for a three-year project period. The award amount for the initial year will be up to $500,000. Based on performance and the availability of funds, supplemental awards may be made for two additional years of up to $500,000 for each year.

 Eligibility: Public agencies, including state agencies, units of local government, public universities and colleges (including tribal institutions of higher education), and private organizations (including faith-based, community, and tribal organizations).

 Application Deadline: 07/09/2010

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

 Website: National Juvenile Justice Evaluation Center

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GOVERNMENT GRANTS-PROGRAMS and SERVICES
Department of Justice

 Funding: OVC FY 10 Enhanced Collaborative Model to Combat Human Trafficking

 Administering Agency: Office for Victims of Crime (OVC)

 Program: This joint funding program will support an enhanced anti-human trafficking law enforcement task force and victim service model designed to identify, rescue, and assist foreign and domestic, adult and minor, victims of human trafficking within the United States. A total of six cooperative agreements are expected to be awarded: three by BJA to support law enforcement agencies to coordinate the goals, objectives and activities of the entire task force in close collaboration with the local U.S. Attorney's Office (USAO) and victim service provider partner; and three awards by OVC to support a victim service organization to coordinate the provision of a comprehensive array of culturally and linguistically appropriate services to all trafficking victims identified within the geographic area impacted by the task force.

 Award: Total available funding: $3 million; 6 awards at $500,000 each

 Eligibility: State and local law enforcement agencies and nonprofit victim service organizations

 Application Deadline: 07/27/2010

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

 Website: OVC FY 10 Enhanced Collaborative Model to Combat Human Trafficking

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GOVERNMENT GRANTS-PROGRAMS and SERVICES
Department of Justice

 Funding: OVW Fiscal Year 2010 Technical Assistance Program

 Administering Agency: Office on Violence Against Women (OVW)

 Program: The primary purpose of the OVW TA Program is to provide direct assistance to grantees and subgrantees to enhance the success of local projects they are implementing with VAWA grant funds. This program furthers the Department’s mission of advancing the goals of the Violence Against Women Act by providing OVW grantees and others in the field with the training, expertise, and problem-solving strategies they need to meet the challenges of addressing sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking.

 Award: 12-month projects: maximum of $225,000; 24-month projects: maximum of $450,000; 36-month projects: $900,000; 5 year projects: $1,750,000 for the first 24 months of the project

 Eligibility: Nonprofit national, tribal or statewide organizations

 Letter of Intent Deadline: 07/24/2010

 Application Deadline: 08/03/2010

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

 Website: OVW Fiscal Year 2010 Technical Assistance Program

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GOVERNMENT GRANTS-PROGRAMS and SERVICES
Department of Housing and Urban Development

 Funding: FY 2009 Rental Assistance for Non-Elderly Persons with Disabilities

 Administering Agency: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing

 Program: These funds will provide 3,000 Housing Choice Vouchers (HVC) for non-elderly disabled families to access affordable housing. The other 1,000 HCVs will go to non-elderly persons with disability to transition from nursing homes and other health care institutions into the community. This solicitation is being funded through FY 2009 funding.

 Award: $30 million for 4,000 Sec. 8 Housing Choice Vouchers (HCVs); $22.5 million will be allocated for non-elderly disabled families and up to $7.5 million will be allocated for non-elderly disabled families transitioning from nursing homes and other institutions into the community

 Eligibility: Public housing authorities

 Application Deadline: 07/07/2010

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

 Website: FY 2009 Rental Assistance for Non-Elderly Persons with Disabilities

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Children & Youth

 Funding: OJJDP FY 2010 National Juvenile Justice Data Analysis Program Grant

 Administering Agency: Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)

 Program: This program was designed to establish a data analysis source to serve the critical information needs of the juvenile justice community and assist OJJDP in fulfilling its responsibility to disseminate vital statistical information to the field and inform juvenile justice policy and practice. The National Juvenile Justice Data Analysis Program (NJJDAP) will serve as a principal resource to provide quality data and information to juvenile justice practitioners.

 Award: 1 award for $800,000 for the initial year with possible funding for years 2-3

 Eligibility: Public agencies, units of local government, public universities and colleges, and private organizations

 Application Deadline: 07/06/2010

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

 Website: OJJDP FY 2010 National Juvenile Justice Data Analysis Program Grant

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Children & Youth

 Funding: Recovery Act - Needs Assessment and Developmental Activities for the ~National Internet Crimes Against Children Data System (NIDS)

 Administering Agency: Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP

 Program: The purpose of this program is to fund activities that will support the future development of the National Internet Crimes Against Children Data System (NIDS).

 Award: One award of up to $905,000 for a project period of up to 24 months

 Eligibility: Applicants are limited to state and local law enforcement agencies currently receiving ICAC Task Force Program funding. Joint applications are encouraged from an ICAC-funded agency and non-ICAC funded partners

 Application Deadline: 07/15/2010

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

 Website: Recovery Act - Needs Assessment and Developmental Activities for the ~National Internet Crimes Against Children Data System (NIDS)

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PRIVATE GRANTS-PROGRAMS and SERVICES
Children & Youth

 Funding: Fourth Annual Global Youth Social Entrepreneur Competition

 Administering Agency: Ashoka and Staples, Inc.

 Program: The global competition highlights youth-led organizations focused on social issues affecting their communities, and is part of Ashoka's Youth Venture, an initiative designed to identify and foster young entrepreneurs all over the world who are creating positive change.

 Award: Eight winners will be chosen throughout the summer, and in October the grand-prize winner will be selected for their outstanding impact, innovation, and potential. All eight winners will be recognized at a TEDx conference, a national gathering of thought leaders devoted to "Ideas Worth Spreading," on November 13, 2010, in Washington, D.C. The grand-prize winning team will receive $5,000 and the remaining winners will each receive Achievement Awards and prizes worth $500.

 Eligibility: Existing and new Youth Venture teams made up of young people between the ages of 12 and 24 whose entrepreneurial ventures are making a positive impact on communities

 Application Deadline: 09/20/2010

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

 Website: Fourth Annual Global Youth Social Entrepreneur Competition

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PRIVATE GRANTS-PROGRAMS and SERVICES
Community Development

 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

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Community Development

 Funding: Strong Communities: Engaging Citizens, Strengthening Place, Inspiring Change

 Administering Agency: CommunityMatters

 Program: The scope of the competition is to identify innovative projects and ideas that engage citizens to steer change and build strong communities across the United States and Canada. CommunityMatters is interested in solutions from a variety of disciplines including (but not limited to) conservation, planning, economics, politics, education, deliberative democracy and the arts, and especially encourages submission of interdisciplinary approaches. CommunityMatters has a special interest in receiving submissions from young people.

 Award: Eight finalists will be selected and showcased at the CommunityMatters 2010 conference. One person representing each of the eight finalist entries will win the opportunity to attend the conference (includes conference and workshop registration, lodging, transportation, and meals). The top three finalists will win $5,000 each.

 Eligibility: Individuals and organizations located in the United States or Canada with projects beyond the conceptual stage and have demonstrated a proof of impact

 Application Deadline: 08/11/2010

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

 Website: Strong Communities: Engaging Citizens, Strengthening Place, Inspiring Change

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PRIVATE GRANTS-PROGRAMS and SERVICES
Community Development

 Funding: Community Relations Program

 Administering Agency: Ameriprise Financial, Inc.

 Program: Ameriprise provides grants to nonprofit organizations in communities across the United States where its employees, advisors, and retirees live and work. Ameriprise directs its funding resources to specific projects that can demonstrate innovative approaches with measurable results or capacity building. The Community Relations program focuses on three priority areas: meeting basic needs (food, shelter, self-sufficiency), supporting community vitality (community development, cultural enrichment, civic leadership, disaster response and recovery, environmental awareness), and volunteer-driven causes.

 Award: Minimum request amount is $5,000

 Eligibility: Nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) IRS status or 509(a)(1,2,or 3); match the guidelines of one of the three giving priorities: meeting basic needs, supporting community vitality, volunteer-driven causes; provide all grant application requirements, including audited financial statements; provide excellent, well-managed programs and high-quality services; show measurable, demonstrated results; and must be fiscally sound

 Application Deadline: 09/01/2010

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

 Website: Community Relations Program

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PRIVATE GRANTS-PROGRAMS and SERVICES
Community Development

 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. The Skoll Awards provide later-stage, or mezzanine, funding, which is generally structured as a $1 million award paid out over three years.

 Award: 7 to 10 awards

 Eligibility: An organization must meet all of the key criteria: demonstrating leadership by a social entrepreneur, have a well-developed theory regarding the potential for achieving equilibrium change in a critical issue area, have an innovation that has a track record of at least three years and tangible results

 Application Deadline: 08/04/2010

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

 Website: Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship

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PRIVATE GRANTS-PROGRAMS and SERVICES
Domestic Violence

 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)

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GRANTS
PRIVATE GRANTS-PROGRAMS and SERVICES
Domestic Violence

 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

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GRANTS
PRIVATE GRANTS-PROGRAMS and SERVICES
Domestic Violence

 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 application guidelines/submission.

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

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PRIVATE GRANTS-PROGRAMS and SERVICES
Economics

 Funding: Enterprise-based Solutions to Poverty

 Administering Agency: SEVEN Fund

 Program: This program seeks innovative research as solutions to poverty, The four goals are to expand scientific inquiry to include disciplines fundamental to a deep understanding of entrepreneurship and economic development currently unsupported by conventional grant sources; forge and maintain useful collaborations between researchers and on-the-ground actors of enterprise-based solutions to poverty; provide the public with a deeper understanding of this area and its potential implications; and find and analyze role-model entrepreneurs and companies whose lesson may inspire others.

 Award: 2 grants; maximum of $100,000 each

 Eligibility: Open; SEVEN Fund expects applicants to be Think-Tanks, Economists, Professors from Business Schools as well as other departments, Researchers, Entrepreneurs, Business Experts, Strategy Experts, Graduate and Post-Graduate Student Researchers, Economic Development Experts, Business Strategists, Non-Governmental Organizations, etc.

 Application Deadline: 10/15/2010

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

 Website: Enterprise-based Solutions to Poverty

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PRIVATE GRANTS-PROGRAMS and SERVICES
Economics

 Funding: Enterprise-based Solutions to Poverty

 Administering Agency: SEVEN Fund

 Program: This annual competition will award up to two research grants of up to $100,000 each to support innovative original research in enterprise solutions to poverty. The RFP has four goals: 1) to expand scientific inquiry to include disciplines fundamental to a deep understanding of entrepreneurship and economic development currently unsupported by conventional grant sources; 2) to forge and maintain useful collaborations between researchers and on-the-ground actors of enterprise-based solutions to poverty; 3) to provide the public with a deeper understanding of this area and its potential implications; and 4) to find, research, and analyze role-model entrepreneurs and companies whose lesson may inspire others.

 Award: 2 awards of $100,000 each

 Eligibility: Open

 Application Deadline: 10/15/2010

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

 Website: Enterprise-based Solutions to Poverty

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PRIVATE GRANTS-PROGRAMS and SERVICES
Health

 Funding: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars

 Administering Agency: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

 Program: This program provides two years of support to postdoctoral scholars at all stages of their careers to help build the United States' capacity to address the multiple determinants of population health through research and leadership. The program's goal is to investigate the connections among biological, genetic, behavioral, environmental, economic, and social determinants of health, and develop, evaluate, and disseminate knowledge, interventions, and policies that integrate and act on these determinants to improve health.

 Award: Up to 18 scholars will be selected for two-year appointments; each will receive an annual stipend of $89,000

 Eligibility: Scholars must have completed their doctoral training by the time of entry into the program (August or September 2011) in one of a variety of fields including, but not limited to, the behavioral and social sciences, the biological and natural sciences, health professions, public policy, public health, history, demography, environmental sciences, urban planning, engineering, and ethics. Applicants must have significant research experience, connect their research interests to substantive population health concerns, and be citizens or permanent residents of the United States or its territories.

 Application Deadline: 10/01/2010

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

 Website: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars

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PRIVATE GRANTS-PROGRAMS and SERVICES
Fundraising

 Funding: The Paperless Choice Challenge

 Administering Agency: Catalog Choice, Overbrook Foundation

 Program: The Paperless Choice Challenge is a national contest that will recognize and reward paperless fundraising campaigns by nonprofit organizations. The campaigns must be successful, replicable, and demonstrate a creative use of digital tools and techniques such as email, web sites, video, social media, widgets, etc. – anything other than traditional paper-based direct-mail fundraising.

 Award: A first prize of $5,000 and an honorable mention prize of $1,000 will be awarded in each of the following categories: Best Digital Campaign by a Small Organization (annual budget of $1 million or less); Best Digital Campaign by a Medium Organization (annual budget of $1 million to $5 million); Best Digital Campaign by a Large Organization (annual budget of $5 million or more); and Most Innovative Digital Campaign (organization of any size).

 Eligibility: Nonprofits

 Application Deadline: 08/16/2010

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

 Website: The Paperless Choice Challenge

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PRIVATE GRANTS-PROGRAMS and SERVICES
Philanthropy and Voluntarism

 Funding: 2010 Collaboration Prize

 Administering Agency: Lodestar Foundation

 Program: The Collaboration Prize is a national award presented to nonprofit organizations that collaborate effectively to gain greater impact. The prize was created and is funded by the Lodestar Foundation in collaboration with the Arizona-Indiana-Michigan Alliance and leaders in the nonprofit sector.

 Award: Each of the eight finalists will receive $12,500 and the winner will receive an additional $150,000.

 Eligibility: Nonprofit organizations

 Application Deadline: 07/16/2010

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

 Website: 2010 Collaboration Prize

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PRIVATE GRANTS-PROGRAMS and SERVICES
Social Change

 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

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PRIVATE GRANTS-PROGRAMS and SERVICES
Social Justice

 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

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PRIVATE GRANTS-PROGRAMS and SERVICES
Social Justice

 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

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PRIVATE GRANTS-PROGRAMS and SERVICES
Technology

 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

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PRIVATE GRANTS-PROGRAMS and SERVICES
Technology

 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

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PRIVATE GRANTS-PROGRAMS and SERVICES
Women

 Funding: The Women Helping Others Grant

 Administering Agency: WHO Foundation

 Program: The WHO (Women Helping Others) Foundation supports 501 (c)(3) nonprofits focusing on the overlooked needs of women, children, and families in the United States and Puerto Rico.

 Award: Awards range from $1,000 to $40,000 each

 Eligibility: Eligible nonprofits must have: (1) a total organization budget of $3 million or less; (2) government funding totaling less than 30% of income; (3) United Way funding of less than 30% of income; (4) salaries/wages and benefits not more than 50 % of their budget

 Application Deadline: 09/07/2010

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

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Women & Girls

 Funding: 2010 OPEN MEADOWS GENERAL GRANT

 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: 08/14/2010

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

 Website: Open Meadows Provides Grants

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GRANTS
RESEARCH
Children

 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)

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RESEARCH
Dating Violence

 Funding: Research on Teen Dating Violence (R01)

 Administering Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

 Program: This program encourages investigator-initiated research grant applications from institutions/organizations that propose to conduct behavioral and/or biomedical research aimed at better understanding the etiologies and precursors for, reducing risk for, and incidence of, teen dating violence (TDV). Research is also sought that examines the linkages and gaps among perceptions of appropriate responses to teen dating violence from service providers, the criminal justice system, teens themselves, victims, perpetrators and bystanders.

 Award: Budgets for direct costs of up to $500,000 per year and a project duration of up to five may be requested for a maximum of $2,500,000 direct costs over a five-year project period.

 Eligibility: Nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) designation; colleges and universities; state and local governments; tribes and tribal organizations; for-profits and small businesses

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

 Website: Research on Teen Dating Violence (R01)

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FELLOWSHIPS/INTERNSHIPS
Children

 Funding: Fellowship Program on Tribal Youth Justice

 Administering Agency: Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention, OJJDP

 Program: Through this fellowship program, OJJDP seeks to fulfill its partnership with federally recognized tribes to build capacity, provide leadership, training and skill development in the area of tribal youth justice and promote changes in policy, practice and skills. The fellowship represents an opportunity for professionals, practitioners, researchers or trainers with expertise in tribal youth justice to help the federal government improve its partnership with federally recognized tribes on tribal justice matters and in support of tribal children and youth.

 Award: 1 award for $125,000

 Eligibility: Individuals

 Application Deadline: 07/19/2010

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

 Website: Fellowship Program on Tribal Youth Justice

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FELLOWSHIPS/INTERNSHIPS
Children

 Funding: The Doris Duke Fellowships for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect

 Administering Agency: Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago

 Program: The objective of this program is to identify and nurture promising leaders in child abuse prevention. Fellows will work on a variety of issues, such as designing programs that attract and retain the most vulnerable families, creating strategies that better connect public and private efforts and applying empirical evidence to improve practice and policy. The program will consist of two cohorts of 15 fellows with two-year terms. The current solicitation is for the first cohort, which will start in the fall of 2011. The second cohort will in the fall of 2012.

 Award: Each fellow will receive an annual stipend of $25,000

 Eligibility: Fellows can be based at any academic institution in the United States and will be selected through an open national competition.

 Application Deadline: 12/15/2010

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

 Website: The Doris Duke Fellowships for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect

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