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WASHINGTON GRANTS BULLETIN
Below is the latest edition of the Washington Grants Bulletin. Please let Shelley Rood know if you intend on applying for any of these grant opportunities. Additionally, if you have received a federal, state or private foundation award, please email Shelley. We would love to hear about it.
Government Funding
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Program: Microloan Program
Deadline: Rolling
Funding: Grantees will provide microloans up to $50,000 to small businesses
Eligibility: Private community and faith-based nonprofits (an applicant must have at least a year of experience making and servicing loans of $50,000 or less and providing training and technical assistance to borrowers)
Description: Through this program, faith-based and community groups serve as intermediary lenders that use SBA funds to make loans to small businesses. Lenders also may use the SBA funding to provide training and technical assistance to their microborrowers.
In 2010, SBA microlenders provided almost $45 million to more than 3,800 businesses, which helped create or retain more than 13,000 jobs.
SBA encourages potential applicants to contact microloan intermediaries in their area to discuss the challenges they faced getting started and the resources they used.
Contact Information: SBA Microenterprise Development Branch, (202) 205-6495
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U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Violence against Women
NOTE: In anticipation of this grant announcement sometime this winter it might be useful to interested agencies to refer to last year's grant guidance to get a head start. Click here to view last year's guidelines.
Program: Education, Training and Enhanced Services to End Violence Against and Abuse of Women with Disabilities Grant Program
Deadline (Tentative): February (solicitation); March (deadline).
Funding (Estimated): $6 million for 15 awards ranging from $400,000 to $700,000 each
Eligibility: States, units of local governments, Indian Tribal governments or Tribal organizations and nonprofit, nongovernmental victim services organizations, such as state domestic violence or sexual assault coalitions, or nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations serving individuals with disabilities
Description: The Disability Grant Program focuses on ensuring effective services are available for women with disabilities and deaf women who are victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking.
Grantees must:
- establish and strengthen multidisciplinary collaborative relationships;
- increase organizational capacity to provide safe, accessible and responsive services to women with disabilities and deaf women who are victims of violence and abuse;
- identify needs within the grantee's service area; and
- develop a plan to address those identified needs.
Contact Information: Questions, (202) 307-6026
May be of interest to Jewish Family Service Agencies
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Program: Health Care Innovation Challenge
Deadline: December 19, 2011 (Letter of Intent), January 27, 2012 (Application)
Eligibility: Nonprofits, public agencies, hospitals and other medical providers
Estimated Total Program Funding: $1 billion
Maximum Grant Size: $30 million
Eligibility: Nonprofits, public agencies, hospitals and other medical providers
Description: The Health Care Innovation Challenge Program provides support for the implementation of innovative models of service delivery/payment improvements designed to deliver better health, improved care, and lower costs for people enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid, and Children's Health Insurance Program, particularly those with the highest health care needs.
Proposed models will meet the following objectives:
- engage a broad set of partners to identify and test models that produce better care, better health, and reduced cost;
- identify new models of workforce development and deployment and related training and education that support new models; and
- support innovators who can rapidly deploy care improvement models through new ventures or expansion of existing efforts to new populations of patients.
Click here for grant guidance.
To give interested potential applicants from the aging and disability networks the opportunity to hear more about the funding opportunity announcement, the Administration on Aging will host a webinar with Innovation Center staff, who will provide an overview of the Challenge and answer your questions.
Date: Thursday, December 8, 2011
Time: 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Eastern
Click here to register for the webinar.
Contact Information: For administrative and budgetary requirements: Mary Greene, (410) 786-5239
For program requirements or technical assistance: Dorothy Frost Teeter, (410) 786-0660
May be of interest to Jewish hospitals
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Foundation Funding
National Council on Senior Transportation
Program: Mobility Management
Deadline: December 23, 2011
Funding: Grants will be awarded for a maximum of $50,000. Matching funds are not required.
Eligibility: Nonprofit or local/regional/Tribal governmental agencies that plan, administer or provide aging and/or transportation services may apply
Description: The NCST is pleased to release a request for proposals for mobility management projects that demonstrate innovative and effective solutions to enhance transportation options for older adults through person-centered mobility management.
Projects funded under the solicitation will demonstrate innovative and effective solutions to enhance the mobility of older adults through person-centered mobility management. Four categories of projects will be funded:
- Peer-mobility management and employment;
- Mobility management in rural/frontier areas that have limited transportation options;
- Holistic models that integrate mobility management within current practices, including options counseling, information and assistance and/or case management; and
- Mobility management applied to the family of senior transportation options.
The NCST expects to award eight grants, two in each of the categories listed above. Grantees will be expected to complete their work in 9-12 months.
The focus of all the grants is on older adults, although projects may also target adults with disabilities. A focus on culturally and ethnically diverse older adults is strongly encouraged.
Agencies interested in applying can participate in a conference call to provide more information on the application process and selection criteria.
Date: Thursday, December 8, 2011
Time: 2:00 p.m. EST
Call-in number: (866) 846-3997
Pass code: 139803
Click here for grant guidance.
Contact Information: Lynn Winchell-Mendy, (202) 872-0888
May be of interest to Jewish Community Centers and Jewish Family Service Agencies
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Disabled American Veterans Charitable Service Trust
Program: Disabled Veterans Program
Deadline: Requests are reviewed quarterly. The first application deadline in 2012 is January 20, 2012
Funding: The number and amount of grants awarded vary based upon the total funds available for distribution during each quarter
Eligibility: Nonprofit entities located in the U.S., with priority given to long-term service projects providing direct assistance to disabled veterans and their families. The Disabled American Veterans Charitable Service Trust also has an eligibility questionnaire for prospective applicants.
Description: The Disabled American Veterans Charitable Service Trust supports nonprofit organizations located in the U.S. that provide long-term programs offering direct assistance to disabled veterans and their families.
The Trust's grantmaking interests include:
- making sure sick and disabled veterans have transportation to VA medical facilities for treatment;
- supporting physical and psychological rehabilitation projects aimed at the most profoundly disabled veterans;
- meeting the special needs of veterans with specific disabilities such as amputation or brain injuries;
- providing food and shelter for homeless veterans; and
- bringing hope to the forgotten and suffering families of disabled veterans
Click here to view the application.
Contact Information: DAV Charitable Service Trust, (877) 426-2838, ext. 3309
May be of interest to Jewish Family Service Agencies
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Kresge Foundation
Program: Arts and Community Building
Deadline: February 1, 2012
Funding: Final grant amount decisions will be made after review of the two-part application and conversations with the potential grantee
Eligibility: Nonprofits that are 501(c)(3) organizations and public agencies based in the United States, and not classified as private foundations
Description: The Kresge Foundation's Arts and Community Building program seeks to systematically support art and culture as a tool for revitalizing communities, believing they can play a role in creating this infrastructure by investing in exemplary national and local efforts, capturing the best practices and sharing them with the field.
Their approach to this work has been shaped by six principles:
- Community cultural development is a growing field with minimal national infrastructure;
- The structure and dynamics of community cultural ecosystems are not well understood;
- Cultural development is local;
- Local community development requires an indigenous support system;
- Effective community cultural development requires sustained engagement; and
- Arts-centered community building is inherently complex because it involves other community sectors such as social services, community development and public safety
The Kresge Foundation approaches this work at the national and local levels.
At the national level, the Foundation is:
- Funding exemplary organizations dedicated to integrating arts and community building activities and identifying new methods as models for the field;
- Commissioning and publishing research on efforts to integrate cultural organizations and artists into community-building efforts; and
- Elevating the visibility of arts and community building and disseminating best practices through meetings, publications and other means as appropriate
At the local level, the Foundation is:
- Monitoring and evaluating the activities of our Community Arts mini-grant initiative, which was launched in 2009. Participants in Baltimore, MD; Birmingham, AL.; Detroit, MI; St. Louis, MO; and Tucson, AZ, received funding to support grassroots arts and cultural projects that unite communities and address pressing social issues. All projects will conclude by the end of 2012.
The 2007-2010 Community Arts Partners:
Baltimore, Maryland - The Baltimore Community Foundation
Birmingham, Alabama - Cultural Alliance of Greater Birmingham
Detroit, Hamtramck and Highland Park, Michigan
St. Louis, Missouri - The Arts and Education Council in St. Louis
Tucson, Arizona - Tucson Pima Arts Council
May be of interest to Jewish Community Centers
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Kresge Foundation
Program: Emerging and Promising Practices in Population Health
Deadline: Rolling
Funding: Funding is available for single-year and multiyear projects, for up to three years. Grantseekers who receive one-year planning grants for projects must demonstrate they have secured other funding prior to applying for additional support. Grantseekers who apply for multiyear awards must secure matching funds after the first year, with Kresge providing a two-to-one match.
Eligibility: Nonprofits that are 501(C)(3) organizations and public agencies based in the United States, and not classified as private foundations
Description: The Kresge Foundation's Emerging and Promising Practices in Population Health program works at the intersection of various sectors to support new methods for addressing the social and environmental factors negatively affecting poor and at-risk communities.
Health in low-income communities may be affected by family and societal instability, job loss and long-term poverty, environmental hazards and pollution and a lack of education and opportunities for self-betterment. These so-called social determinants of health have been linked to serious health disparities and are considered the root causes of many chronic ailments, such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Vulnerable populations also seldom have access to safe streets, parks and recreational areas, thereby restricting healthful outdoor physical activity and contributing to poor health.
The Kresge Foundation's aim is to promote greater equity in the social, physical and built environments in which the most at-risk populations live, work and play by supporting efforts that:
- Adopt multisector strategies that address policy, environmental and programmatic change, with a special focus on food systems; and
- Integrate innovative population health strategies into primary care
May be of interest to Jewish Family Service Agencies
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