Federal Grants

This funding opportunity provides financial support to federally recognized tribes for conservation efforts aimed at protecting and recovering endangered marine and anadromous species.

It is well documented that many investments in Africa, including in Liberia, fail to meet internationally accepted standards. This trend continues in part because of host countries lack of awareness, capacity, and governance. This project aims to address these weaknesses by bringing together government, civil society, journalists, academics, and other key stakeholders to build Liberias internal capacity to ensure further investments and projects have improved standards and mechanisms in place to monitor and penalize non-compliance. The project will include components that offer stakeholders: investment best global practices; case studies involving how to advance transparency in negotiating large investment deals in Africa; training/advising government officials on developing legal and regulatory investment frameworks; mentoring on public awareness campaigns around investment standards; and seminars in investigating investment-related challenges and successes in the African context. Projects should target: Countering lending and investment projects that fail to adhere to internationally accepted investment practices and as a result put at risk Liberias sovereignty, socio-economic well-being, and biodiversity.

History/Background: Marine Corps Air Station Miramar (MCAS Miramar) has been an active installation since the 1940s, focusing on providing services, material support, and training venues that promote combat readiness. Since, its inception and the establishment of the Sikes Act in 1960, MCAS Miramar has actively been monitoring the effects of military land use on the overall condition of natural resources. In 1994, the Center for Earth Systems Analysis Research, a shared educational and research center located at San Diego State University, established a long term monitoring protocol to provide the mechanism for documenting the effects of military operations and training on vegetation native to MCAS Miramar. This protocol provided a continuous database of which to assist in altering land management actions to ensure long-term availability of natural areas for training and conservation. Brief Description of Anticipated Work: The project is to develop and implement a work plan for the current iteration of this monitoring effort, re-survey 82 permanently established monitoring plots according to MCAS Miramars standardized ecosystem monitoring program that inventories and monitors the condition of training lands and natural resources, identify and describe any ecological trends developing as indicated by the previous and current survey efforts for the monitoring plots, provide detailed site descriptions and information on disturbance and erosion, provide individual summaries of the composition, structure and site characteristics of the 82 plots surveyed in the 2003 LTEM report, provide contrast of summaries of the individual plots that comprise each major vegetation type for the three survey efforts, provide evaluation and discussion of management implications, provide photographic documentation of the plots, and submit draft and final reports along with all associated Geographical Information System (GIS) deliverables and maps for this monitoring effort that integrates all years efforts, results, analyses, evaluates the effectiveness of this effort. Please see enclosure 1 for full scope of work and enclosure 2 for applicable terms and conditions.

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Smart Manufacturing and Recycling Tactics for States (SMART) The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Smart Manufacturing and Recycling Tactics for States (SMART) funding opportunity announcement (FOA) will provide funding to support access to smart manufacturing technologies and high-performance computing resources for small- and medium-sized manufacturers by states and the recycling of batteries and battery-containing devices by states and units of local government.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to various organizations, including governments and nonprofits, to implement self-measured blood pressure monitoring programs aimed at improving maternal health and reducing hypertension-related complications during and after pregnancy, particularly in underserved communities.

This funding opportunity is designed to help schools collect and utilize data to improve the health and well-being of adolescents by tracking their behaviors and experiences over time.

This program provides funding and technical assistance to organizations that train behavioral health professionals and paraprofessionals, particularly in underserved areas, to improve mental health and substance use disorder services nationwide.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to accredited psychology training programs to develop skilled professionals in behavioral health, particularly in underserved communities, focusing on trauma-informed care and substance use treatment.

This grant provides funding to community-based organizations to develop postdoctoral training programs for dentists focused on improving oral health care access in rural and underserved areas.

This funding opportunity is designed to support a network of organizations that will improve influenza modeling and forecasting to enhance public health responses and reduce illness in vulnerable populations.

This funding opportunity supports nonprofit organizations and government entities in the U.S. to develop projects that improve access to healthcare for individuals with limited English proficiency and communication disabilities by implementing a universal symbol for language assistance services.

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mozambique is planning the Ensuring Social Protection by Empowering and building Resiliency for Adolescents, Nuclear families, Children, and caregivers affected by HIV/AIDS (ESPERANA) Activity, focused on improving health outcomes of households vulnerable to and impacted by HIV in Manica, Tete and Sofala.

This grant provides financial support for advanced graduate students conducting dissertation research that applies behavioral science to improve social services for low-income families in the United States.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to nonprofit organizations in Guam to establish a Center for Independent Living that assists individuals with significant disabilities in achieving independence and community integration.

The U.S. Embassy Tirana of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations to submit proposals for funding under the Meet the Corner program. This program will reach out to small, remote schools on the outskirts of the cities with American Corners (Tirana, Vlora, Kukes), focusing on communities with limited access to physical Corners or where financial and other constraints hinder young people visiting, increasing the Corners for outreach. Fully equipped with various resources and programs typically available only at the Corners, "Meet the Corner" will introduce Corner flagship programs in countering disinformation and STEM to new audiences. Emphasizing the Corners core values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA), this initiative is focused on reaching out to underserved communities and marginalized groups that would otherwise find it difficult to join American Corner events because of physical or geographic limitations. "Meet the Corner" program will reach at least five schools per city in suburban areas, offering Corner STEM and Countering Disinformation programs while engaging students in English conversation and critical thinking. Based on the American Spaces toolkits, the curriculum will be interactive, incorporating debates and activities beyond conventional learning methods, as well as American games, sports, collaboration with DOS alumni engagement as mentors for CDI and STEM.

This funding opportunity supports organizations that provide training for mental health paraprofessionals to enhance their skills in serving children and youth at risk for behavioral health issues.

The "Short Courses on Utilizing the NIH Stage Model to Develop Behavioral Interventions to Promote Healthy Aging" grant aims to fund the creation of short educational programs that teach researchers how to use the NIH Stage Model to develop non-drug interventions that encourage healthy aging and improve care for older adults.

This funding opportunity is designed to promote health equity for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families by supporting community participation, policy advocacy, and leadership development.

This program provides housing assistance to families at risk of losing their children due to inadequate housing and to young adults who have aged out of foster care and are experiencing or at risk of homelessness.

This grant provides funding to university centers to develop training programs that address the critical needs of individuals with developmental disabilities and their families, promoting their independence and inclusion in the community.