Generations United is pleased to announce the following funding opportunities:
**NEW - INTERGENERATIONAL HOUSING FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENT**
The long-awaited notice of federal funding for intergenerational housing demonstrations for grandparents raising grandchildren is out in the April 25, 2008 Federal Register. This funding is available to fulfill the results of the LEGACY Act which passed and is being implemented as a result of the advocacy efforts of GU and its members. If you are interested in applying for funding please visit the notice announcement online at (PDF) http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-9042.pdf, or (TEXT) http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-9042.htm. For more information on housing issues related to grandparents and other relatives raising children you can visit GU's Housing Action Agenda at
http://www.gu.org/documents/A0/GU_HousingActionfinal.pdf
**NEW - RFP for Head Start**
Qualified faith based and other organizations may apply for the Head Start Innovation and Improvement Projects grant. The Head Start program provides comprehensive child development services to more than 900,000 of our nation's neediest young children. There are a number of organizations and institutions with innovative concepts, projects and products that could help improve the effectiveness and management of local Head Start and Early Head Start sites, and the supportive comprehensive services provided to Head Start families and children. This announcement solicits proposals for innovations and improvements so that these efforts can be identified and considered. If they are found to have merit, ACF will provide financial assistance so they can be further developed, or assessed and made available to local Head Start programs.
The following seven specific priority areas will be addressed in this cycle of funding: national Head Start Center for Physical Development and Outdoor Play, grandparents raising Head Start grandchildren, healthcare literacy, mental health intervention for children and families, inclusion of children with disabilities, infant/toddler early childhood online degree program, and an open category. The "Open Category" will be available for programs to apply for funding to promote or expand promising practices in non-specified areas.
A letter of intent is optional; however it must be received by May 19, 2008. The full application is due June 9, 2008. $3 million will be awarded to support one national Head Start Center for Physical Development and Outdoor Play, $1.25 million for up to 25 grants focusing on grandparents raising Head Start grandchildren, $1.2 million for 3 healthcare literacy grants, $600,000 for one project on mental health intervention for children and families, $600,000 for one project on inclusion of children with disabilities, $1 million for one grant for an infant/toddler early childhood online degree program, and $3.75 million for up to 25 grants in the open category. The full announcement can be found at
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2008-ACF-OHS-YD-0025.html
THE BROOKDALE FOUNDATION GROUP
will be making grant available to qualified organizations for the development of dementia-specific, social model day programs. The Request for Proposals (RFP) is now available to fund up to 40 new Brookdale National Group Respite Programs or Early Memory Loss Program sites nationwide. New grantees will receive seed grants ($7,500 in year one, renewable at $3,000 in year two), will attend a three-day training conference in November 2008 and will receive technical assistance in developing their respite programs. Applications are due by Wednesday, July 2, 2008. For more information contact Evelyn Yuen at 510-540-6734 or ey@brookdalefoundation.org.
GRANT RESEARCH HELP
Writing a grant and in need of specific demographic or economic information on a particular community? Check out this website developed by journalists as a resource for nonprofit organizations—it’s amazing!!!
http://www.epodunk.com/nonprofits/
FEDERAL FUNDING CATALOG
Are you working with a small faith- or community-based organization serving those in need? Are you looking for grant opportunities to help fund your services? If you answered yes to these questions, then be sure to download this new—and growing—online grants catalog from the USDA’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives: Federal Funds for Organizations That Help Those in Need. (Beware: At 1.6 MB and 90 pages, the download may take a while!)
Nearly 200 federal grant opportunities are identified in this extremely valuable online catalog. The grants are organized into categories—from Abstinence Education to Workforce Development—and include a myriad of other categories such as Elders in Need, HIV/AIDS, and Refugees and Asylees. The catalog also contains basic information on the federal grants process and answers some frequently asked questions as well.
Though already vast, the catalog is still a work in progress; and additional grant opportunities will be added in the future. The Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives will maintain an up-to-date list on their website, so be sure to visit them regularly for updates and to learn more about this exciting new resource.
For additional funding ideas, read or download the chapter entitled Funding and Partners from Under One Roof: A Guide to Starting and Strengthening Intergenerational Shared Site Programs or review this article in Together.
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