From our colleagues at USDA Rural Development.
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Sent: Friday, July 15, 2016 11:28 AM
Subject: CED Matters - Funding, Publications, Events and Learning
CED Matters – Funding, Publications, Events and Learning (7/15)
FUNDING
1. Performance Partnerships Pilots (P3) Round Two Application Deadline Extended
The federal government recently announced an application deadline extension for the second round of the P3 competition. The U.S. Department of Education will reopen the application process until July 19th. Entities that ran out of time to complete their applications will now have additional time. Official questions can be submitted to disconnectedyouth@ed.gov. Contact the Forum's Thaddeus Ferber for (unofficial) help and support. The Performance Partnership Pilots - commonly referred to as P3 - allow selected local, tribal and state agencies the opportunity to enter into an agreement with the federal government that will grant broad flexibility in how the site uses discretionary federal funds to implement evidence-informed practices while committing to achieve significant improvements for disconnected youth. The Forum for Youth Investment has created the online P3 Hub, a webpage that provides a central location for P3-related resources and information. Access the P3 Hub here.
2. EPA Announces $10.7 Million to Clean Up 33 Brownfield Sites
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced approximately $10.7 million in supplemental funding to help transform communities by cleaning up contaminated brownfield properties. EPA plans to provide supplemental funding to 33 successful Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) grantees, helping more than 40 communities carry out cleanup and redevelopment projects. These projects will help communities create jobs while protecting people’s health and the environment. Areas receiving the most supplemental funding include Springfield, Missouri; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development; Cuyahoga County, Ohio; and the Washington Department of Commerce.
3. U.S. Department of Education | Promise Neighborhoods Program Implementation Grant Competition
The vision of the Promise Neighborhoods program is that all children and youth living in distressed communities have access to great schools and strong systems of family and community support that will prepare them to attain an excellent education and successfully transition to college and a career.
Promise Neighborhoods are led by organizations that work to ensure that all children and youth in the target geographic area have access to services that lead to improved educational and developmental outcomes from cradle-to career; are based on the best available evidence and designed to learn about the impact of approaches, for which there is less evidence; are linked and integrated seamlessly; and include education programs as well as programs that provide family and community supports. Promise Neighborhoods enable children and youth within targeted distressed communities to participate in the full range of cradle-to career supports that are necessary for them to realize their potential. Building on prior Promise Neighborhoods grantees’ work to enhance high-quality early learning opportunities, this year’s competition includes a competitive preference priority intended to improve coordination among early learning providers and ensure alignment between early learning systems and elementary education systems.
Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: July 25, 2016.
Application Deadline: September 6, 2016.
Read the Federal Register Notice.
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) announces the availability of approximately $3.5 million to be competitively awarded for the purpose of expanding access to high-quality, comprehensive services to low-income American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) infants and toddlers and their families through Early Head Start-Child Care (EHS-CC) Partnerships, or through the expansion of Early Head Start services. ACF solicits applications from public entities, including states, or private non-profit organizations, including community-based or faith-based organizations, or for-profit agencies that meet eligibility for applying as stated in section 645A of the Head Start Act. Applicants that propose to serve children that reside within an area of high poverty or a federally designated Promise Zone (listed in the Appendix) and that serves a substantial number of children within that Zone and submit form HUD-50153 Certification of Consistency with Promise Zone Goals and Implementation, signed by the authorized official for the designated Promise Zone supporting the application, will receive 3 bonus points under the Criteria listed in Section V.1. For more information about federally designated Promise Zones, please visit the Promise Zones website.
Application Deadline: August 24, 2016
5. Early Head Start Expansion and Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership Grants
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) announces the availability of approximately $135 million to be competitively awarded for the purpose of expanding access to high-quality, comprehensive services to low-income infants and toddlers and their families through Early Head Start-Child Care (EHS-CC) Partnerships, or through the expansion of Early Head Start services. ACF solicits applications from public entities, including states, or private non-profit organizations, including community-based or faith-based organizations, or for-profit agencies that meet eligibility for applying as stated in section 645A of the Head Start Act. Applicants that propose to serve children that reside within area of high poverty or a federally designated Promise Zone (listed in the Appendix) and that serves a substantial number of children within that Zone and submit form HUD-50153, Certification of Consistency with Promise Zone Goals and Implementation, signed by the authorized official for the designated Promise Zone supporting the application, will receive 3 bonus points under the Criteria listed in Section V.1..
Application Due Date: August 24, 2016
6. Migrant and Seasonal Early Head Start Expansion and Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) announces the availability of approximately $5 million to be competitively awarded for the purpose of expanding access to high-quality, comprehensive services to low-income, migrant and seasonal infants and toddlers and their families through Early Head Start-Child Care (EHS-CC) Partnerships, or through the expansion of Early Head Start services. ACF solicits applications from public entities, including states, or private non-profit organizations, including community-based or faith-based organizations, or for-profit agencies that meet eligibility for applying as stated in Section 645A of the Head Start Act. Applicants that propose to serve children that reside within an area of high poverty or federally designated Promise Zone listed in the Appendix, and that serves a substantial number of children within that Zone, and submit form HUD-50153, Certification of Consistency with Promise Zone Goals and Implementation, signed by the authorized official for the designated Promise Zone supporting the application, will receive 3 bonus points under the Criteria listed in Section V.1.
Application Due Date: August 24, 2016
7. Methamphetamine and Suicide Prevention Initiative - Generation Indigenous (GEN-I) Initiative Support
Awards funding to organizations that promote Native American youth development and family engagement through early intervention strategies to reduce risk factors linked to suicidal behavior and substance abuse.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Aug 1, 2016
Sponsor: Indian Health Service
8. Improving Hepatitis B and C Care Cascades; Focus on Increased Testing and Diagnosis
Funds state and local health departments to work with external partners to increase testing and treatment for persons living with Hepatitis B (HBV) and/or Hepatitis C (HCV) infection.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Aug 2, 2016
Sponsor: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
9. Avon Breast Health Outreach Program (BHOP)
Funding to link medically underserved populations to breast health education and screening services.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Aug 19, 2016
Sponsor: Avon Foundation
10. America’s Promise Job Driven Grant Program
Funding to create and implement regional, sector-based workforce development projects to meet the needs of both businesses and workers in industries that typically use a significant number of H-1B Visas, such as healthcare and IT.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Aug 25, 2016
Sponsor: Employment and Training Administration
11. National HIV Program: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Engagement in Care
Awards grants for HIV/AIDS prevention and care activities that serve American Indian/Alaska Native people.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Aug 28, 2016
Sponsor: Indian Health Service
12. Service Area Competition Funding for Health Center Program (Areas Served with a Project Period Start Date of February 1, 2017)
Funding to provide comprehensive primary health care services to an underserved area or population
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Aug 29, 2016
Sponsor: Bureau of Primary Health Care
13. Wrigley Company Foundation Community Service Grant
Provides funding to dental hygienists for projects aimed at improving oral health or providing oral health education.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Oct 1, 2016
Sponsor: American Dental Hygienists' Association
14. Bureau of Primary Health Care Loan Guarantee Program
Provides a loan guarantee to Section 330 health centers to develop and operate practice management networks or managed care networks or plans.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Bureau of Primary Health Care
15. Community Access to Child Health Seeks Applications for Community Pediatric Health Programs
Grants of up to $10,000 will be awarded for the planning or implementation of innovative community-based child health initiatives aimed at ensuring that all children have access to healthcare services not otherwise available in their community....
POSTED: June 26, 2016
DEADLINE: July 29, 2016
16. USDA Announces $8.4 Million to Support a Diverse Next Generation of Farmers and Ranchers
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the availability of $8.4 million in competitive grants to support the work of partner organizations that provide training, outreach and technical assistance for socially disadvantaged, Tribal and Veteran farmers and ranchers. USDA's Outreach and Assistance for Socially Disadvantaged and Veteran Farmers and Ranchers Program, also known as the 2501 Program, is administered by the Office of Advocacy and Outreach (OAO). Proposals for these competitive grants must be received by July 29, 2016 at www.grants.gov. Details are available in the June 27, 2016 Federal Register Notice or by contacting USDA, by mail at Office of Advocacy and Outreach, Attn: Kenya Nicholas, Program Director, Whitten Building, Room 520-A, Mail Stop 0601, 1400 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20250, by phone: (202) 720-6350, Fax: (202) 720-7704, or email OASDVFR2016@osec.usda.gov.
17. HHS Announces Major Initiative to Help Small Practices Prepare for the Quality Payment Program
Jun 20, 2016 -- The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services will award $20 million each year over the next five years to fund on-the-ground training and education for Medicare clinicians in individual or small group practices of 15 clinicians or fewer.
Source: U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services
18. Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Program
Funding for projects to facilitate community involvement in area-wide planning approaches to brownfields assessment, cleanup, and reuse.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Aug 10, 2016
Sponsor: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
19. Service Area Competition Funding for Health Center Program (Areas Served with a Project Period Start Date of January 1, 2017)
Funding to provide comprehensive primary healthcare services to an underserved area or population.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Aug 16, 2016
Sponsor: Bureau of Primary Health Care
20. Agricultural Health and Safety Special Project and Pilot Study Funds (Mini-grant Program)
Funding to support small-scale projects and pilot studies that address prevention of childhood agricultural disease and injury.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Aug 17, 2016
Sponsor: National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety
21. Laura Jane Musser Fund: Rural Initiative Program
Encourages collaborative and participatory efforts among citizens in rural communities that will help to strengthen their towns and regions in a number of civic areas.
Geographic coverage: Colorado, Hawaii, Michigan, Minnesota, Wyoming
Application Deadline: Nov 2, 2016
Sponsor: Laura Jane Musser Fund
22. FSA to Provide $300M for Cotton Producers
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency will provide an estimated $300 million in cost-share assistance payments to cotton producers through a new cotton ginning cost-share program intended to expand and maintain the domestic marketing of cotton.
23. Rural Energy Savings Program
The Rural Energy Savings Program (RESP) helps rural families and small businesses achieve cost savings by providing loans to qualified consumers to implement durable cost-effective energy efficiency measures.
Program Status: OPEN
Notice of Solicitation for Applications (NOSA): PDF
Letter of Intent Deadline: August 5, 2016 | Sample Letter of Intent
Program Factsheet: PDF
PUBLICATIONS
1. USDA Cooperative Programs Calls for Articles
USDA Cooperative Programs is again inviting co-op development centers nationwide to submit short articles highlighting any promising new or established co-op(s) they are working with. We also need photos to run with the articles. We will run these articles in the Co-op Month section of the Sept.-Oct. issue of USDA’s “Rural Cooperatives” magazine. Deadline for the articles is Aug. 26. It would be very helpful if you could let us know by July 25 if you plan to submit an article. Articles should be about 450-600 words. Articles can discuss why a co-op was formed or expanded, who the members are, what the co-op is trying to accomplish, opportunities, and challenges facing the co-op, how your center is assisting, etc. Quotes from co-op leaders or members really liven up the articles. If you have a couple of co-ops you would like to feature, that’s fine, but please try to stick close to the 600-word limit. You may include a paragraph providing an overview of your Co-op Development Center, but please make the co-op the focus of the article. We are happy to give bylines to the writer and photographer, but no payment is involved; articles are considered to be in the public domain once we publish them. Re. photos: We need fairly high resolution photos. A jpg file of about 300 dpi (dots per inch) at 4-5 inches wide will usually work fine. If in doubt, just send us what you have and we will let you know if it will work. Please try to get some people in the photos, and a choice of photos is always appreciated. If you or someone at the co-op plans to shoot some photos for this article, please make sure your digital camera or phone is set to the “high” resolution setting. You can check out the Co-op Month section (starts on page 21) of last year’s Sept.-Oct. magazine on our website at: http://www.rd.usda.gov/files/RDRuralCoopMag_SeptOct15.pdf. Thanks for considering being part of our Co-op Month issue, and feel free to e-mail dan.campbell@wdc.usda.gov if you have any questions.
2. FACT SHEET: Obama Administration Takes More Actions to Address the Prescription Opioid and Heroin Epidemic
Jul 6, 2016 -- The Obama Administration is taking actions to combat the heroin epidemic, including expanding telemedicine in rural areas and funding rural healthcare facilities, thus providing communities with much-needed services.
Source: The White House, Office of the Press Secretary
3. With Hospitals in Critical Condition, Can Rural America Survive?
Jul 5, 2016 -- Nearly 30 percent of the country's rural hospitals are at risk of closing in the next two years. Though rural hospitals have faced closure threats before, this time the challenges run deeper, and call into question whether rural areas themselves can survive in the absence of hospitals.
Source: Governing
4. U.S. Underperforming on Social Progress Despite Wealth, Study Finds
While there is a clear correlation between social progress — as measured in terms of basic human needs, well-being, and opportunity — and per capita GDP, economic wealth alone does not determine social progress outcomes, a report from the Social Progress Imperative finds. Based on fifty-three indicators in a variety of areas, including access to opportunity, health care, and education, the 2016 Social Progress Index (147 pages, PDF) ranked Finland at the top of the hundred and thirty-three countries included in the index, followed by Canada, Denmark, Australia, and Switzerland. The United States ranked nineteenth overall and twenty-first in basic human needs, thirty-second in well-being, and thirteenth in opportunity. Globally, indicators of nutrition and basic medical care and access to basic knowledge — categories aligned with many of the United Nations' Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals — performed well, while indicators of tolerance and inclusion, personal rights, access to advanced education, and environmental quality fared worse....
5. White House Launches Data-Driven Justice Initiative
The White House has announced the launch of a public-private initiative aimed at encouraging the use of data to reduce mass incarceration in the United States. Through the Data-Driven Justice (DDJ) Initiative, a coalition of sixty-seven city, county, and state governments will work to adopt data-driven strategies aimed at diverting low-level offenders with mental illness out of the criminal justice system and then connect them with health and social services. DDJ also will work to equip law enforcement and first responders with protocols for de-escalating crisis situations and to reform pre-trial incarceration practices so that low-risk offenders don't remain in jail simply because they can't afford bond. The coalition includes the governments of Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Utah....
6. Focus on Equity Needed to Reduce Child Poverty, Illiteracy, Mortality
If the world community hopes to reverse troubling trends in child poverty and mortality by 2030, the target date for the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, governments, private donors, businesses, and international organizations must focus more on addressing the plight of the world's most disadvantaged children, a report from UNICEF warns. The report, The State of the World's Children 2016: A Fair Chance for Every Child (184 pages, PDF), found that if current trends persist, by 2030 sixty-nine million children under the age of five will die from mostly preventable causes, a hundred and sixty-seven million children will be living in extreme poverty, and sixty million children of primary school age will not be in school. Despite improvements since the 1990s in global under-five mortality rates, gender parity in primary school attainment, and poverty rates, progress has been neither even nor fair, the report further notes. Indeed, children from the poorest households are twice as likely to die before their fifth birthday and to be chronically malnourished, while girls are twice as likely to be child brides as girls from the richest households. And while the report notes that education helps level the playing field, it estimates that about a hundred and twenty-four million children do not attend primary- or lower-secondary school today, while nearly 40 percent of those who finish primary school do not know how to read, write, or do simple arithmetic....
EVENTS/LEARNING
1. New Resource for Two-Generation Approaches to Support Children and Parents Together
The U.S. Department of Education's Place-Based Initiative Pilot Team recently released a resource focused on Two-Generation Approaches. Two generation approaches consider the needs of both vulnerable children and parents, together, in the design and delivery of services and programs to support improved economic, educational, health, safety and other outcomes that address the issues of intergenerational poverty. Developed by Jobs for the Future, this document is intended to provide local communities and practitioners with an overview of the research, best practices, and resources available to stakeholders interested in two-generation approaches. Your input on this resource is invited and appreciated!
As food hubs strive to reach volumes which enable financial viability, they will often need to innovate - to take chances on new markets, products and approaches.This webinar presents three "roads not yet taken" that your hub or a hub you work with may encounter. Each road has the possibility of great success, but has potholes to avoid (some big enough to lose the whole business in). Tera Johnson is successful food entrepreneur and university lecturer who founded the Food Finance Institute at University of Wisconsin. She will take you on a journey through these three archetypal hub business decision points, and advise how to manage for success. Drawing from her own experience, as well as premier industry data, Tera will present a big picture view of: adding a frozen product line, adding a new distribution channel, and taking on a very large customer.
Thursday, July 28
3:30 - 4:45pm ET (12:30 - 1:45pm PT)
3. Our Town: How to Apply July 2016
NEA Staff will give a 30-minute presentation on the FY 2017 Our Town grant guidelines, how to apply, and an overview of the review process. The presentation will be followed by a 30-minute Q&A session. The webinar will include guidelines for the Arts Engagement, Cultural Planning, and Design Projects as well as the Projects that Build Knowledge about Creative Placemaking. Potential applicants are encouraged to attend live to have their questions answered by Our Town Program Staff. You will be muted and able to ask questions using the Q&A box. You can listen to the webinar using your computer speakers or dial-in to 1-877-685-5350, participant code: 739587. See the Our Town guidelines.
Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 15:00
4. Our Town Proposals: Tips & Tricks for Success July 2016
NEA Staff will give a presentation to assist applicants in crafting a compelling creative placemaking project application. The presentation will include an overview of creative placemaking resources, sample projects that have been successful, the mechanics of a competitive Our Town proposal, and ideas on how to articulate anticipated project outcomes. The presentation will be followed by a Q & A session. You will be muted and able to ask questions using the Q&A box. You can listen to the webinar using your computer speakers or dial-in to 1-877-685-5350, participant code: 739587.
Date: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 - 15:00
5. Leveraging Brownfields Resources for Revitalization Webinar Series - 7/26
July 26, 2016, 1:00-2:30 pm EDT
The first webinar will discuss available tools to assist communities in leveraging resources to address community revitalization goals and challenges. It will include a presentation on Dubuque, Iowa's successful efforts to leverage its own resources to attract other federal, state, public and private sources of funding and technical assistance.
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