Grants
Forecast
Administration for Native Americans (ANA)
FY09 Grants Forecast
The FY 2009 grant competition is now closed! ANA anticipates the availability of FY10 financial assistance for eligible applicants for the following Program Areas and Special Initiative. Closing deadlines are subject to change so please check the ANA website for updates. For additional information on program areas view the “Grant Programs” section on the ANA website or contact ANA regional Training and Technical Assistance providers. Program announcements will be posted soon on http://www.grants.gov and on http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/index.html .
ANA Program Areas:
Social and Economic Development Strategies (SEDS) for Native Americans:
ANA provides project funding to eligible applicants for the purpose of assisting Native communities to achieve the goal of economic and social self-sufficiency.
- Economic Development Projects: Involves the promotion of the physical, commercial, technological, industrial, and/or agricultural components necessary for a sustainable local community. Applicants are encouraged to develop sustainable projects to support stable and diversified private sector local economies.
- Social Development Projects: Involves investment in human and social capital for advancing peoples' well-being. Applicants are encouraged to develop and implement culturally appropriate projects to enhance Tribal, community, and village activities. Social development projects under this area support elders, positive youth development, and individuals with disabilities.
- Governance Projects: Involves assistance to federally-recognized Tribal and Alaska Native village governments to increase their ability to exercise local control and decision-making over governance activities.
Native Language Preservation and Maintenance:
ANA provides project funding to eligible applicants for the purpose of assisting Native Americans to assure the survival and continuing vitality of their languages. Grants are provided under the following four program areas:
- Assessment: Provide project funding to conduct an assessment to identify the current status of the Native language(s) within an established community.
- Planning: Provide project funding to enable Tribes and Native organizations to plan and design Native language projects.
- Implementation: Provide project funding to Tribes and Native organizations for the implementation of a Native language project to achieve the community's long-range language preservation goal(s).
- Immersion: Provide project funding for Native American Language Immersion. The only program areas of interest funded under this priority area are immersion projects for language nests or for language survival schools.
Environmental Regulatory Enhancement:
ANA provides project funding to eligible applicants to strengthen Tribal Governments by building capacity to identify, plan and develop environmental programs consistent with Native culture. ANA funds projects that address the responsibility of Tribes and Alaska Native villages to formulate environmental ordinances, implement laws, and train community members in the use and control of their natural resources.
Special Initiative Program Areas:
Family Preservation Initiative: ANA provides project funding to eligible applicants to support projects that include the planning and implementing of culturally competent strategies for strengthening families, fostering child well-being, healthy relationships and marriages and responsible fatherhood to preserve healthy families within Native American communities.
- Planning: Provide funding for projects that include activities that design and engage in a community planning process to:
- identify barriers to forming healthy families, relationships and marriages (including Traditional Native American marriages);
- assess the needs and interest of the community to participate in a family preservation project;
- assess existing absentee parenting programs, fatherhood programs, grandparents raising grandchildren programs, and foster parent programs;
- identify strategies to implement a family preservation project;
- develop curricula for family preservation programs; or
- reduce or eliminate the challenges and barriers identified by the community.
- Implementation: Provide funding for projects that supply community resources for activities such as:
- family strengthening services (fatherhood, parenting, absentee parental involvement, foster parenting and grandparents raising grandchildren);
- healthy relationships;
- healthy marriages (including Traditional Native American marriages);
- marriage education/enrichment training;
- pre-marital education;
- relationship skills education on communication, conflict resolution and commitment; and
- other support activities such as family outings, family strengthening groups, and weekend pre-marital/marital education and family retreats.
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Grants.gov
Grants.gov is the single access point for over 1000 grant programs offered by all Federal grant-making agencies; see at: http://www.grants.gov . The above is an example of recent grant announcements. You can register for e-mail notification of grant opportunities at: http://www.grants.gov/search
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Entire list of Administration for Children & Families Grant announcements: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/
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Healthy Marriage and Fatherhood Grants
Online Technical Assistance:
Fatherhood Initiative:
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Strengthening Communities Fund
The Office of Community Services (OCS) has two new programs under the Strengthening Communities Fund (SCF) – Nonprofit Capacity Building and State, Local, and Tribal Government Capacity Building.
SCF will enable nonprofit organizations to contribute to economic recovery and help Federal. State, local and Indian/Native American Tribal governments ensure that the information and services described in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) reach disadvantaged and hard-to-serve populations.
A fact sheet on the SCF program can be found on, http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ocs/scf/fact_sheet.html.
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Presidential Appointment to The President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities (PCPID)
The President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities (PCPID) was established, by Executive Order, to provide advice and assistance in the area of mental retardation/intellectual disabilities as the President of the United States or the Secretary of Health and Human Services may request. Such advice and assistance is particularly relevant to the following areas:
- Evaluation and monitoring the national effort to establish appropriate policies, services, and supports for people with intellectual disabilities.
- Providing suggestions for improvement in the delivery of services, including preventive services, promulgation of effective and humane policies, and the provision of necessary supports.
- Identifying the extent to which various Federal and State programs achieve national goals in the field of intellectual disabilities and have a positive impact on the lives of people with these disabilities.
- Facilitating liaison among Federal, State and local governments, foundations, non-profit organizations, other private organizations, and citizens concerning intellectual disabilities.
- Developing and disseminating information that will reduce the incidence and severity of intellectual disabilities.
- Promoting the concept of community inclusion and participation.
- Supporting development of community supports for citizens with intellectual disabilities.
The Committee consists of 21 citizen members appointed by the President and thirteen ex officio (Federal Government) members designated by the President. Membership from the Native American community is non existent, even though our population suffers from intellectual disabilities due to our socio-economic status. It is estimated that there are seven to eight million Americans of all ages who experience mental retardation or intellectual disabilities. Intellectual disabilities affect about one in ten families in the USA. Statistics have shown that a majority of individuals with intellectual disabilities developed the disabilities as a result of their socio-economic status rather than through genetics.
The PCPID meets periodically, up to four times a year, and reports its findings to the President of the United States, in accordance with the President’s Executive Order.
Currently the Committee has 7 vacancies open for appointment by the President. All appointments to the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities are made by the President of the United States. Native American Leaders or tribal members interested in applying for consideration for appointment as a member of the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities must apply through the White House Office of Personnel. An application form must be obtained from the White House, completed and submitted directly to the White House. Also, a resume must be prepared and submitted along with the application. A statement on financial status may be requested so as to determine any areas of conflict in interest.
The person must expect to be asked to submit their name (including any name changes), their social security number, their present and past home and business addresses, their phone numbers, their date and place of birth and any other contact information as may be required or useful before an appointment is made. The person making the application should expect that an investigation may be conducted to determine the validity of information submitted, the extent of the person’s loyalty to the United States of America, the existence of any known criminal records and any other areas as may be determined during the course of the investigation.
The White House Office of Personnel staff will contact the person to inform them as to their status for an appointment to the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. There are more requests to serve than there are positions available on the Committee. Therefore, not all applicants can expect to be appointed to the Committee.
For application information, please contact:
The White Office
Office of Presidential Personnel
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20500
202-456-1111
http://www.whitehouse.gov
The leadership and staff of the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities (PCPID) are located in the Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services.
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