Funding Opportunities

U.S.ED's OSDFS ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF FY 2011 CAROL M. WHITE PHYSICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM (PEP) GRANT APPLICATION (CFDA 84.215F)

The Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools in the U.S. Department of Education announces the release of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 Carol M. White Physical Education Program (PEP) grant application (CFDA 84.215F).

Purpose: The purpose of the Carol M. White Physical Education Program (PEP) grant is to assist LEAs and CBOs to initiate, expand, or enhance physical education programs that help students in kindergarten through 12th grade meet their state standards for physical education.

Eligible Applicants: Local educational agencies (LEAs) and Community Based Organizations (CBOs) that do not have an active grant under this program (CFDA 84.215F).

Absolute Priority: The absolute priority for this program requires that an applicant propose a program that will address its State's physical education standards and develop, expand, or improve its physical education program for students kindergarten through grade 12 by undertaking instruction in healthy eating habits and good nutrition and at least one of the authorized physical fitness activities.

Competitive Preference Priority #1: We will give competitive preference priority to applicants that agree to implement aggregate BMI data collection, and use it as part of a comprehensive assessment of health and fitness for the purposes of monitoring the weight status of their student population across time.

Competitive Preference Priority #2: We will give competitive preference priority to an applicant that includes in its application an agreement that details the participation of required partners.

Application Deadline Date: May 13, 2011

Application Submission: Applications must be submitted electronically via www.Grants.gov.

Project Period: Up to 36 months

Estimated Available Funds: The Administration's budget request for FY 2011 does not include funds for this program. However, we are inviting applications for the Physical Education Program to allow enough time to complete the grant process before the end of the current fiscal year, if Congress appropriates funds for this program.

Contingent upon the availability of funds and the quality of applications, we may make additional awards later in FY 2011 and in subsequent years from the list of unfunded applicants from this competition.

Average Award Range: $100,000 - $750,000 per year

Estimated Average Size of Awards: $479,000

Estimated Number of Awards: 77

Competition Manager: Carlette Huntley

Email address: Carlette.Huntley@ed.gov

Telephone: (202) 245-7871 (202) 245-7871

The Notice Inviting Applications was published in the Federal Register on March 29, 2011. The FY 2011 Application Package can be accessed directly at this website (https://apply07.grants.gov/apply/UpdateOffer?id=44490) on Grants.gov.

The application package will also be on the OSDFS web site at: http://www2.ed.gov/programs/whitephysed/applicant.html

Health Center Planning Grants

Subject: HRSA Announcement:
New Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 Grant Competition:
Health Center Planning Grants (HRSA-11-021)
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC) is pleased to announce the release of Funding Opportunity Announcement HRSA-11-021: Health Center Planning Grants. Health Center Planning Grants (HCPGs) are considered to be a useful aid in the development of viable proposals to establish new health centers (i.e. Community Health Center (CHC), Migrant Health Center (MHC), Health Care for the Homeless (HCH), and Public Housing Primary Care (PHPC) Programs that will meet Federal requirements for need, services, management, and governance under the Health Center Program. A summary of the key health center program requirements is available at http://bphc.hrsa.gov/about/requirements.htm. HRSA is offering HCPGs to expand the current safety net on a national basis by targeting planning and developmental efforts in areas not currently served by a funded health center and/or in areas of unmet need. Organizations eligible to compete include public or nonprofit entities, including tribal, faith-based and community-based organizations.
Please visit the Grants.gov website at: WWW.GRANTS.GOV to access the HRSA-11-021: Health Center Planning Grants application guidance detailing the eligibility requirements, review criteria and awarding factors for organizations seeking a HCPG in FY 2011. Additional technical assistance information is provided at http://www.hrsa.gov/grants/apply/assistance/planning.

The application for completing the Health Center Planning Grant application process is divided into two phases:

Phase 1: Applicants will enter Grants.gov and complete the Standard form SF 424, Project Summary/Abstract and the HHS Checklist. These documents must be completed and successfully submitted via Grants.gov by 8:00 PM ET on or before March 18, 2011.
Phase 2: After completing the Grants.gov portion of the application process, applicants will enter HRSA�s EHBs and complete all other components of the application which must be submitted by 5:00 PM ET on or before April 8, 2011.

No paper applications will be accepted without prior written approval from HRSA�s Division of Grants Policy.

HRSA WILL BE OFFERING A PRE-APPLICATION CONFERENCE CALL FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY:

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For more information about this funding opportunity, please contact Xanthia James in the Office of Policy and Program Development at 301-594-4300 or BPHCPlanning@hrsa.gov

James Macrae
Associate Administrator for Primary Health Care
Health Resources and Services Administration

Exciting funding opportunity from the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)...

Related to the development of a folic acid and preconception health social media campaign aimed at adolescents. Please see the information and link below. If you have questions, please contact Ellen Pliska, Senior Analyst, at epliska@astho.org or 571-527-3187.
PRECONCEPTION AND FOLIC ACID SOCIAL MEDIA PROJECT FUNDING (http://www.astho.org/t/article.aspx?artid=5477)

EXTENDED DUE DATE: States may apply by January 14, 2011, for this unique social media grant opportunity.

Through funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, ASTHO is supporting the development of a folic acid and preconception social media campaign aimed at adolescents.

The aim of ASTHO's Folic Acid and Preconception Social Media RFP is to fund a state that demonstrates the greatest need and desire to develop a social media campaign to impact the sexual and preconception health, folic acid use, and critical decision-making of adolescents, in order to prevent pregnancy and improve health outcomes for adolescents.

The Administration for Children and Families released the Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) for the Personal Responsibility Education
Program (PREP) and the Title V abstinence-only program on July 30th, 2010

To access the FOA for the Personal Responsibility Education Program 9 (PREP),
click here:
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2010-ACF-ACYF-PREP-0125.

To access the FOA for the Title V abstinence-only program, click here:
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2010-ACF-ACYF-AEGP-0123.

States will have 30 days to indicate they want to apply for each program and
then will be given until December 10, 2010 to submit their application for
the Title V abstinence-only program and until February 1, 2011 to submit
their application for PREP.

Together, the combined dollars available to states through both of these programs is $105 million ($55 million for PREP and $50 million for Title V abstinence-focused). The process applying for both of these programs are similar:

States will have until August 30, 2010 to submit separate letters of intent on whether they will be applying for monies from each program. These initial letters require less than a 500 word description of proposed activities.
States will then have up until December 10, 2010 to submit actual applications for the Title V abstinence-focused dollars and until February 1, 2011 for PREP program dollars. In both instances, the two-phased process is designed to allow for a thoughtful, deliberative and hopefully collaborative process at the state level of all agencies involved in improving adolescent sexual health.
While not explicit in the guidance, states may consider linking these two programs to create a continuum of medically accurate, age-appropriate programming for youth between the age ranges of 10 and 20 years old. Additionally, states may consider complimentary strategies between the two programs, such as a combination of social marketing efforts and targeted programmatic instruction, which together further an enabling environment to improve adolescent sexual health outcomes.

Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP)

States must build off an evidence-based model (those previously set forth from the Office of Adolescent Health for the competitive PREP funds for public and private entities and the new teen pregnancy prevention funding), but will need to choose at least three additional activities outlined in the law and adapt the evidence-based model to include them. These additional items include but are not limited to programming to promote financial literacy, education and career success, and healthy life skills such as goal setting.
Dollars will be allocated to states based on each state's youth population as compared to the national average. An appendix to the actual funding announcement includes a chart showing each state�s share of the $55 million based on this formula.
States are not required to providing any matching dollars for PREP monies.

Title V Abstinence-Focused Program

States have the ability to use these dollars for four different types of programs, but all must have as one of their primary goals, the promotion of abstinence.
- Dollars can be used for traditional abstinence-only-until marriage programming that adheres to the strict A through H definition set forth in the law. However, states will again be permitted flexibility in choosing which elements of the A through H definition they choose to focus on much as they did during the administration of this program during the Clinton Administration. This means, for example, that states may focus on such aspects as the connection between drug and alcohol use and dealing with unwanted sexual advances, they may do so.
- Dollars can be used to support programmatic activities that focused on counseling, mentoring, and adult supervision. States are given great latitude in defining what these interventions would look like given this area of programming is not well established, thus opening the door to new and creative opportunities for more comprehensive programming to support young people.
States doing a traditional A through H abstinence-only-until-marriage program will be required to certify that all their materials are medically accurate and to make clear to students/youth receiving such instruction when values are being discussed that depart from factual, medically accurate information.
States are permitted and strongly encouraged to develop programming for LGBTQ youth populations and to consider specific programmatic activity focused on youth within the child welfare system.
States are required to provide matching dollars for Title V abstinence-focused dollars at a ratio of 3 state dollars to match every 4 federal dollars. In-kind contributions may be counted toward this match.
Whether a state chooses to do abstinence-only-until-marriage programming or any of the three abstinence-focused activities of counseling, mentoring and adult supervision, no programming may do anything that is inconsistent with the A through H definition.

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New School Based Health Center Funding:

HRSA has released guidance on Funding Opportunity HRSA-11-017 for New Access Points.

More information can be found at www.grants.gov.

Please note this is a different opportunity than the School-Based Health Center funding opportunity we are expecting to be released in September.

A few key points in the guidance:

A New Access Point application may be submitted by an eligible organization not currently receiving Section 330 funding (a New Start), or by an organization currently receiving Section 330 funding that proposes a new service site or sites outside the organization's current scope of project. (p. 2)
Applicants may propose a school-based health center for sites that will, independently or in conjunction with another site, provide all required services to students as well as the general underserved population of the service area. (p. 2)
The guidance includes funding priorities for applicants proposing to serve: a high poverty area; special populations ( farmworkers, homeless populations, or residents of public housing), or a sparsely populated rural area. (p. 65)
HRSA expects to make approximately 350 awards totaling $250M. The maximum grant award is $650,000 per year for a two-year project period, with up to $150,000 allowed for minor capital improvements in Year One. (p. ii)
A "Need for Assistance" worksheet with 3 sections (Core Barriers, Core Health Indicators, and Other Health Indicators) must be completed that will generate up to 20 points of the 30 point Need section scoring. (pp. 75-79)
Applications must be submitted through grants.gov and HRSA's e-Handbook system; the grants.gov deadline is November 17 and the e-Handbook deadline is December 15, 2010. (p. iv)
For more information and resources visit www.nasbhc.org/federalgrants.

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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Minority AIDS Initiative Project:

Targeting Youth at Highest Risk for HIV, Other STD, and Teen Pregnancy
Among Cooperative Agreement Recipients of RFA-DP08-801
Improving Health and Educational Outcomes of Young People

Click here for complete FOA

Application Deadline: August 23rd, 2010

Eligible applicants that can apply for this funding opportunity are listed below:

Only local education agencies (LEAs) currently funded by DASH for HIV prevention education capacity building under funding opportunity announcement (FOA) DP08-801- Improving Health and Educational Outcomes of Young People are eligible to apply for this competitive supplemental award. Sites currently funded are: Baltimore, MD; Broward County, FL; Chicago, IL; Detroit, MI; Houston, TX; Los Angeles, CA; Memphis, TN; Miami Dade County, FL; New York, NY; Newark, NJ; Orange County FL; Palm Beach County, FL; Philadelphia, PA; San Diego, CA; San Francisco, CA; and Seattle, WA.

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships - Peaceful Pathways: Reducing Exposure to Violence

Deadline: January 5, 2011
The Peaceful Pathways: Reducing Exposure to Violence grant seeks to fund projects aimed at reducing violence in traditionally underserved communities that are defined by race, ethnicity, tribe, gender, sexual identity, or rural/frontier location.