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Project Objectives: SH funds are meant for activities that are community driven and serve the community at large where they are being funded. The most successful project proposals will target health, education, and development challenges and will: Demonstrate a clear, ongoing benefit to the local community; Include a significant contribution from the community in the form of labor, land, materials, or money; Be within the local communitys ability to manage and maintain on a sustainable basis; Have a net-positive impact on the local environment; Respect human rights, including disability rights and gender equality. Below is a sample list of the types of projects the Department will consider funding: Small construction projects (less than 10,000 sq. ft.) school rooms, community centers, health facilities, foot bridges, housing for a government or community-paid nurse or teacher, workshops, community abattoir, grain storage, rural airstrip for a hospital, and school dormitory for distant students. Water-related projects wells, latrines, pumps, bore holes, shower stalls and sinks and fishponds. School equipment and supplies desks, chairs, laboratory equipment and library items. Communal construction equipment such as a brick-making machine. Income generating equipment weaving looms, tools for furniture making, rice-milling machine. (Must be maintainable by local community). Funds may not be used for: Operating or recurring costs (salaries, rent, administrative or maintenance costs, fuel); Individual travel expenses (lodging, transportation, food, fuel); Religious, police, law enforcement, prison, or military activities; Projects that are inherently political in nature or that contain the appearance of partisanship or support to an individual or party in electoral campaigns; The purchase, operation, or maintenance of vehicles; Activities with negative environmental consequences; Activities which benefit any US government employee.

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This grant provides $14 million over five years to local organizations in Pakistan to improve water management and community resilience against floods and droughts through sustainable and inclusive practices.

This grant provides funding to states and territories to improve early childhood education systems and support the development of the workforce serving children from birth to five years old.

Each funding opportunity description is a synopsis of information in the Federal Register application notice. For specific information about eligibility, please see the official application notice. The official version of this document is the document published in the Federal Register. Free Internet access to the official edition of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations is available on GPO Access at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/index.html. Please review the official application notice for pre-application and application requirements, application submission information, performance measures, priorities and program contact information. For the addresses for obtaining and submitting an application, please refer to our Revised Common Instructions for Applicants to Department of Education Discretionary Grant Programs, published in the Federal Register on December 7, 2022. Purpose of Program: The EIR program, established under section 4611 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended (ESEA), provides funding to create, develop, implement, replicate, or take to scale entrepreneurial, evidence-based (as defined in this notice), field-initiated innovations to improve student achievement and attainment for high-need students and to rigorously evaluate such innovations. The EIR program is designed to generate and validate solutions to persistent education challenges and to support the expansion of those solutions to serve substantially more students. The central design element of the EIR program is its multitier structure that links the amount of funding an applicant may receive to the quality of the evidence supporting the efficacy of the proposed project, with the expectation that projects that build this evidence will advance through EIRs grant tiers: Early-phase, Mid-phase, and Expansion. Early-phase, Mid-phase, and Expansion grants differ in terms of the level of prior evidence of effectiveness required for consideration for funding, the expectations regarding the kind of evidence and information funded projects should produce, the scale of funded projects, and, consequently, the amount of funding available to support each type of project. Early-phase grants must demonstrate a rationale (as defined in this notice). Early-phase grants provide funding for the development, implementation, and feasibility testing of a program that prior research suggests has promise, for the purpose of determining whether the program can successfully improve student achievement and attainment for high-need students. Early-phase grants are not intended to simply expand established practices or address needs unique to one particular context. Rather, the goal is to determine whether and in what ways relatively new practices can improve student achievement and attainment for high-need students. This notice invites applications for Early-phase grants only. The notices inviting applications for Mid-phase grants and Expansion grants are published elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register. Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.411C.

The Minerva Research Initiative's University Research Announcement is a funding opportunity provided by the Department of Defense (DoD) to support innovative basic research in the social sciences. The initiative aims to advance understanding in areas of strategic importance to U.S. national security, focusing on social, cultural, behavioral, and political dynamics. Minerva seeks to enhance DoD’s intellectual capital in the social sciences by fostering research that informs policy and strategic decision-making. The program encourages collaboration among universities, research institutions, and scholars worldwide to address specific research topics identified by the Office of the Secretary of Defense. The program supports research in six major topic areas: societal cohesion and conflict, advancing influence measurement(s), the Arctic at the polar crossroads, cultural resilience and human security in Oceania, the social impact of technological change, and deterrence and competition across military and civilian spheres. Research proposals should focus on developing theoretical foundations, methodologies, and applied insights that contribute to the understanding of these areas. Teams of university investigators are encouraged, especially for projects requiring interdisciplinary expertise. The Minerva Research Initiative does not require substantial government involvement in award execution but aims to facilitate collaboration between academia and defense policy communities. The total estimated funding for this program is up to $30 million, with individual grants reaching a maximum of $1,000,000 per year for up to five years. Approximately 15 awards are expected to be made. Grants will be issued for an initial three-year period, with possible extensions for an additional two years. Cost-sharing or matching funds are not required. Proposals must be submitted in two stages: white papers are due by November 29, 2024, and full applications must be submitted by February 28, 2025, through Grants.gov. Awards are anticipated to be announced by April 16, 2025, with projects commencing on June 1, 2025. Eligibility is open to U.S. and foreign institutions of higher education, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Minority Institutions (MIs), and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs). Non-profit institutions and commercial entities may participate as subawardees but are not eligible to apply as lead institutions. Federally Funded Research & Development Centers (FFRDCs) may collaborate but are not eligible to receive direct funding. Each proposal must designate a single Principal Investigator (PI) responsible for technical and administrative project oversight. Applications must include detailed research proposals with methodologies, relevance to defense priorities, management plans, and budget justifications. White papers undergo an initial review, and select applicants will be invited to submit full proposals. Evaluation criteria include scientific merit, relevance to DoD research priorities, potential contributions to security-relevant social sciences, qualifications of key personnel, and cost realism. Proposals aligning with the 2022 National Defense Strategy and supporting the Minerva Research Initiative's goals will be prioritized. For inquiries, applicants may contact Dr. David Montgomery at [email protected] for technical questions. General questions regarding the initiative can be directed to Jonathan Bertsch at [email protected]. More information, including the full research topics of interest, is available at Minerva Research Initiative.

This is a Notice of Intent. There is no announcement related to this notice. We are not accepting applications. Subject to the availability of funds, USDOLs Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) intends to provide funding to the International Labor Organization (ILO) Authority: DLMS 2-836 G.3: The recipient has unique qualifications to perform the type of activity to be funded.

PAS Philippines invites individuals and non-profit organizations to submit project proposals to carry out monthly programming at the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines American Center for a one-year period. The American Center is part of the sixteen American Spaces network in the Philippines. American Spaces are the U.S. governments primary public cultural and information centers abroad that provide free and open access for communities worldwide interested in learning more about the United States. Through people-to-people connections and modern environments equipped with advanced technologies, over 600 American Spaces in 140 countries serve as the initial experience that millions of global visitors have with the United States, building mutual understanding and partnership. These innovative hubs offer programs and events that foster learning, discussion, and civic engagement around democratic principles. In the fiscal year 2023, American Center Manila hosted programs for thousands of participants, many joining online. These programs focused on entrepreneurship, English language learning, environmental conservation, good governance, media literacy, STEM, and civic engagement. The primary audiences include high school students, undergraduate students, and academics. In 2024, American Center Manila aims to continue implementing impactful monthly programs for our audiences. Examples of projects include, but are not limited to: An incubation program empowering youth to become environmentally conscious entrepreneurs committed to sustainability. A good governance workshop training local government unit youth council members to become accountable and conscientious public servants. A science camp where participants are given hands-on training to stimulating STEM topics and innovative content such as artificial intelligence, coding, robotics, 3D modelling and printing. A media seminar for campus journalists equipping them with skills to combat misinformation and disinformation. Participation in global science competitions such as Technovation Girls and NASA Space Apps Challenge hackathon. The primary target audience are young Filipinos, aged 18 30 and the principal method of engagement will be through in-person programming at the American Center located at the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines. Virtual engagement may be a part of the overall strategy as a supplementary activity supporting in-person engagements. Preference will be given to proposals that prioritize and maximize the needs of Filipino public-school students and teachers while limiting overhead, equipment, and other expenses that do not directly support program participants. A successful proposal will develop a clear monthly calendar of activities spanning at least twelve months from September 2024 September 2025 at the American Center specifying a defined audience and directly addressing at least one of the six key programming areas below. Six Priority Program Areas Promote English Language Teaching and Learning: Build the skills of English language teachers and promote English language learning in all demographic sectors. Skills Development Programs: Empower young and professional audiences to develop skills in a wide array of areas that will help them meet local and global challenges and support inclusive and sustainable economic growth and opportunity. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: Prepare students with 21st century skills needed to succeed in their careers during the Information Age by engaging them in existing global competitions such as Technovation Girls and NASA Space Apps Challenge hackathon. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility: Provide guidance and resources to empower youth to promote effective change in their communities particularly on topics related to disability, sexual orientation, cultural sensitivity, ethnicity, social justice, racial equity, and managing biases. Media Literacy: Develop the ability of youth to identify and combat misinformation and disinformation especially on online platforms while supporting them to become responsible digital citizens. Environmental Conservation: Increase awareness on pressing environmental issues such as climate change, pollution, deforestation, biodiversity loss, food waste, and illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

This funding opportunity supports organizations that empower women entrepreneurs, especially those from underserved communities, by providing resources, training, and access to capital to help their businesses grow and succeed.

The INQS program is a collaboration between AFOSR and LPS, and we seek revolutionary qubit approaches to quantum computation that have the potential to significantly advance scalable fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC) beyond current state-of-the-art methods. This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites proposals for basic research into solid-state qubits for quantum computing at various stages of maturity. Qubits of interest may support one or more of the required functions in a FTQC system. These functions may include, but are not limited to, data processing, memory storage, communication, spectator roles, or measurement. Proposals should clearly address: (1) the function(s) the qubit is expected to serve, (2) how it can be integrated into a plausible FTQC system, and (3) its potential to advance toward qubits suitable for FTQC. Furthermore, proposals must align with one of the following themes: Theme 1: New Qubits This theme explores completely novel or underdeveloped qubits that have both a credible research path toward utility in an FTQC system and promising advantages over current state-of-the-art methods. Theme 2: Renew Qubits This theme focuses on applying unconventional approachessuch as novel qubit operation techniques, fabrication methods, or designsto significantly advance specific qubit functions in state-of-the-art quantum processors1 for utility in plausible FTQC systems. This opportunity seeks to fund proposals in two (2) specific theme areas. Please see the announcement for more information. If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact: Aleah L. Parker Grantor Email

The Political and Economic Section of the U.S. Embassy in Yaound, Cameroon, announces an open competition for experienced Cameroon-based Civil Society Organizations that are working in the areas of Environment to submit applications under the FY 2023 Climate Grants Program to advance sustainable landscapes. Note: The U.S. Embassy expects to receive funding for the Climate Grant program before September 30, 2024. Grant awards are contingent on the receipt of funding. If the program is not approved, no grants will be awarded under this call.

Eielson AFB Central Heat and Power Plant Cooling Pond Vegetation Removal in Support of Bird Air Strike Hazard Reduction The primary objectives of this project are to assist Eielson Air Force Base (EAFB) Natural Resources with optimal management of EAFB-managed lands, to minimize restrictions to the military mission due to natural resource related constraints, and to reduce the attraction of migratory birds to the EAFB Central Heat and Power Plant (CHPP) cooling pond. See full Funding Opportunity Description in Section I.

With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to provide training and technical assistance (TTA) to enhance the national AMBER Alert network; increase and improve law enforcement response to missing, endangered, and abducted children; increase the recovery rate of abducted children; enhance public participation in the recovery of missing, endangered, and abducted children; and continue support of this work in Indian country while implementing the Ashlynne Mike AMBER Alert in Indian Country Act of 2018.

To All Interested Parties:The United States Agency for International Development Mission in Madagascar (USAID/Madagascar) is publishing this Request for Information (RFI) to obtain inputs from all interested organizations regarding a potential activity design to advance the Government of Madagascars national digital health capacity to plan, govern, and implement national digital health and health information systems strategies and architecture to optimize the availability, quality, and use of information to achieve national public health goals. The obtained information may be used to help make planning decisions and may inform activity design to improve future development outcomes, but is solely for market research purposes. All types of organizations and firms are strongly encouraged to submit a response, including local organizations and small businesses.Through this RFI, USAID seeks ideas, comments, and information from the public that will assist in developing an activity that will most effectively advance the topic areas described above. Please note that responding to this RFI will not give any advantage to or preclude any organization/individual from any solicitation that may be issued in the future, as any/all comments received will be for information gathering purposes only. Issuance of this RFI does not constitute a solicitation and it does not represent an award commitment on the part of USAID, nor does it obligate USAID to pay for costs incurred in the preparation and submission of any comments.

With this solicitation, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention seeks to assist jurisdictions in planning and assessing promising and evidence-based prevention and intervention services that will inform the development of a community-based continuum of care for youth at risk of becoming or already involved in the juvenile justice system. The long-term goal of this effort is to support sustainable, research-based, and data-informed recidivism-reduction policies, practices, and programming, and the strategic reinvestment of cost savings realized through accompanying reforms into effective prevention and intervention programs for our nations youth.

The multi-agency Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases program supports research on the ecological, evolutionary, organismal, and social drivers that influence the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases. The central theme of submitted projects must be the quantitative, mathematical, or computational understanding of pathogen transmission dynamics. The intent is discovery of principles of infectious disease (re)emergence and transmission and testing mathematical or computational models that elucidate infectious disease systems. Projects should be broad, interdisciplinary efforts that go beyond the scope of typical studies. They should focus on the determinants and interactions of (re)emergence and transmission among any host species, including but not limited to humans, non-human animals, and/or plants. This includes, for example, the spread of pathogens; the influence of environmental factors such as climate; the population dynamics and genetics of vectors and reservoir species or hosts; how the physiology or behavior of the pathogen, vector, or host species biology affects transmission dynamics; the feedback between ecological transmission and evolutionary dynamics; and the cultural, social, behavioral, and economic dimensions of pathogen transmission and disease. Research may be on zoonotic, environmentally-borne, vector-borne, enteric, or respiratory pathogens of either terrestrial, aquatic, or marine systems and organisms, including diseases of animals and plants, at any scale from specific pathogens to inclusive environmental systems. Proposals for research on disease systems of public health concern toLow- or Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) are strongly encouraged, as are disease systems of concern in agricultural systems. Investigators are encouraged to develop the appropriate multidisciplinary team, including for example, anthropologists, modelers, ecologists, bioinformaticians, genomics researchers, social scientists, economists, oceanographers, mathematical scientists, behaviorists, epidemiologists, evolutionary biologists, entomologists, immunologists, parasitologists, microbiologists, bacteriologists, virologists, pathologists or veterinarians, with the goal of integrating knowledge across disciplines to enhance our ability to predict and control infectious diseases.

he Secondary Analyses of Child Care and Early Education Data grants aim to support researchers conducting secondary analyses of data to address the goals and outcomes of programs administered by ACF, in particular, the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF). Findings from these grants are intended to inform policy, program administration, and future research. Researchers may conduct secondary analyses of survey, program evaluation, or administrative data. CCDF is the primary federal funding source for child care subsidies and aims to help eligible low-income working families access child care and early education and to improve the quality of child care for all children. CCDF is administered as a block grant to state, territory, and tribal governments. CCDF also aims to improve the quality of care and promote children’s healthy development and learning by supporting child care licensing, quality improvement systems to help programs meet higher standards, and training and education for child care and early education workers. Secondary Analyses of Child Care and Early Education Data grant recipients must conduct analyses to address key questions of relevance to the goals and outcomes of child care and early education (CCEE) programs that are funded, at least in part, by CCDF, and disseminate findings from those analyses. For the purpose of this grant, CCEE includes center-based and home-based child care programs serving children birth through 12 years where all or part of the revenue is generated through sources such as CCDF subsidies and may also include other federal programs such as Head Start and public prekindergarten.

New Beginning for Tribal Students makes competitive grants to land-grant colleges and universities to provide identifiable support specifically targeted for Tribal students. A land-grant college or university that receives this grant shall use funds for, but not limited to, recruiting; tuition and related fees; experiential learning; student services, including tutoring; counseling; academic advising; and other student services that would increase the retention and graduation rate of Tribal students enrolled at the land-grant college or university.

The Fiscal Year 2025 Air Force Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) intends to support individual early in career scientists and engineers who have received Ph.D. or equivalent degrees by 01 April 2017 or later showing exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. The program objective is to foster creative basic research in science and engineering; enhance early career development of outstanding young investigators; and increase opportunities for the young investigator to recognize the Air Force and Space Force mission and related challenges in science and engineering.Individual awards are made to U.S. institutions of higher education, industrial laboratories, for- profit, or non-profit research organizations where the principal investigator (PI) is employed on a full-time basis and holds a regular, non-contractor position. A YIP PI must be a U.S. citizen, national, or permanent resident. Researchers working at a Federally Funded Research and Development Center, or a Department of Defense (DoD) Laboratory are not eligible for this competition.YIP awards are funded up to $150,000 per year for three years, for a total of $450,000. No single year may exceed $150,000. Please review the remainder of this announcement for additional information.Under this competition, an anticipated thirty-seven (37) traditionally funded YIPs and two YIPs funded in partnership with the Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS) in the Quantum Information Sciences research discipline may be awarded. There may be potential for an additional 37 YIPs funded from other AFOSR research funding. All actions are based on the availability of funds.

The Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Intercity Passenger Rail (IPR) Amtrak program is one of four grant programs that constitute DHS/FEMAs focus on transportation infrastructure security activities. These grant programs are part of a comprehensive set of measures authorized by Congress and implemented by DHS to help strengthen the Nations critical infrastructure against potential terrorist attacks. The IPR provides funds to Amtrak to protect critical surface transportation infrastructure and the traveling public from acts of terrorism. For FY 2024, DHS is focused on the criticality of information sharing and collaboration to building a national culture of preparedness and protecting against terrorism and other threats to our national security. DHS and its homeland security mission were born from the failures among federal agencies and between the federal agencies and state and local authorities to share critical information related to the threat of terrorism prior to the September 11, 2001, attacks. The threat profile has changed in the last two decades we now face continuous cyber threats by sophisticated actors, threats to soft targets and crowded places, threats to our democratic election process and threats from new and emerging technologies. That said, information sharing and cooperation between state, local, tribal, and territorial authorities, and federal agencies, including all DHS officials, is just as vital, and perhaps even more vital, today. Therefore, for FY 2024, we have identified two priority areas, related to some of the most serious threats that Amtrak should address with IPR funds. These two priorities areas include enhancing cybersecurity and enhancing the protection of soft targets/crowded places. DHS also will continue to forge partnerships to strengthen information sharing and collaboration in each of these priority areas. Applicants can submit applications for this funding opportunity through FEMA Grants Outcomes (GO). Access the system at https://go.fema.gov/.