Proposals are required to emphasize replicability, commercialization,
and marketability rather than basic or fundamental research. The proposed
work must demonstrate/yield energy benefits such as energy conservation
and energy efficiency. Associated environmental and economic benefits
are important evaluation criteria.
Education
Programs in Occupational Safety
and Health
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces the
availability of fiscal year 2001 funds for training grants in occupational
safety and health. The program objective is to provide financial assistance
to eligible institutions or agencies to assist in providing an adequate
supply of qualified professional occupational safety and health personnel.
Projects are supported for Occupational Safety and Health Education
and Research Center Training Grants (ERCs) and for Long-Term Training
Project Grants (TPGs).
ELIGIBILITY: Any public or private educational or training
agency or institution that has demonstrated competency in the occupational
safety and health field and is located in a state, the District of
Columbia, or U.S. Territory is eligible.
FUNDING: Approximately $13.9 million is available, of which
approximately $2.5 million is available for competing continuation
or new awards.
DEADLINE: July 3, 2000.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: To receive additional written information
and to request an application kit, call (888) 472-6874. You will be
asked to leave your name and address and will be instructed to identify
the announcement number of interest (Program Announcement 01001).
If you have questions after reviewing the information, contact Sonia
Phelix, Grants Management Specialist, (770) 488-2724, e-mail svp1@cdc.gov.
The full announcement can also be found on the CDC home page at www.cdc.gov
Family
Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program Coordinators for Section 8 Programs
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
The Section 8 Family Self-Sufficiency program is intended to promote
the development of local strategies to coordinate the use of assistance
under the Section 8 certificate and voucher programs with public and
private resources to enable participating families to achieve economic
independence and self-sufficiency. An FSS Program Coordinator assures
that program participants are linked to the supportive services they
need to achieve self-sufficiency.
ELIGIBILITY: Public housing agencies (PHAs) eligible to receive
funding under this NOFA are only those that received funding under
one of the FY 99 NOFA for Section 8 FSS Program Coordinators and that
continue to operate a Section 8 FSS program.
FUNDING: $29 million.
DEADLINE: May 30, 2000.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: There is no application kit for this
NOFA. For answers to your questions, you may contact the Public and
Indian Housing Resource Center at
(800) 955-2232.
Investigator-Initiated
Grants
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) invites research grant
applications in the following areas of special interest to its mission:
Valuation of Children’s Health Effects; Recreational Water Quality:
Indicators and Interstitial Zones; and Exploratory Research to Anticipate
Future Environmental Issues.
Valuation of Children’s Health Effects To promote
economic valuation research that would provide new knowledge on how
to enhance valuation of children’s health effects, EPA requests
applications for research funding in two areas: 1) parental and societal
willingness to pay for reductions in risks to children’s health,
and 2) improved transfer of benefits from existing adult-oriented
analyses to children. All proposals should clearly identify the environmental
stressors and resulting health efforts that will be investigated,
as well as attributes of children (as children and future adults)
that are altered by those effects. Examples of such attributes include:
intelligence, fertility, mobility, and life expectancy.
Recreational Water Quality: Indicators and Interstitial Zones
The EPA solicits applications that take new and innovative approaches
to develop methods or exposure assessment information in three water
safety research areas associated with the nation’s recreational
waters.
Exploratory Research to Anticipate Future Environmental Issues The
EPA’s objective in this anouncement is to support innovative,
and possible high risk, research that may help define and understand
significant emerging environmental problems. They seek novel approaches
that can lead to significant breakthroughs that provide enhanced environmental
benefit.
ELIGIBILITY: Academic and non-profit institutions located
in the U.S., and state or local governments, are eligible under all
existing authorizations. Profit-making firms are not eligible to receive
grants from EPA under these programs. Federal agencies and national
laboratories funded by federal agencies (Federally-funded Research
and Development Centers, FFRDCs) may not apply.
FUNDING: Approximately $7.5 million is available to fund these
projects.
DEADLINE: Valuation of Children’s Health Effects —
June 6, 2000; Recreational Water Quality: Indicators and Interstitial
Zones — June 6, 2000; Exploratory Research to Anticipate Future
Environmental Issues — July 6, 2000.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, National Center for Environmental Research and Quality Assurance
(8703R), 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20460; telephone
(800) 490-9194. The complete announcement can be found on the EPA
home page: www.epa.gov/ncerqa under “Announcements.”
VA
Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program
U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs
The Department of Veterans' Affairs is announcing the availability
of funds for assistance under the VA’s Homeless Providers Grant
and Per Diem Program. Funding may be used for: 1) remodeling or alteration
of existing buildings; 2) acquisition of buildings, acquisition and
rehabilitation of buildings; 3) new construction; and 4) acquisition
of vans for outreach to and/or transportation for homeless vets. Applicants
may apply for more than one type of assistance.
ELIGIBILITY: States, units of general local government, Indian
tribes, PHA’s and private non-profit organizations are eligible.
FUNDING: $10 million is available for grants.
DEADLINE: May 31, 2000.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Call toll-free (877) 332-0334 or download
information from the VA’s Special Homeless Assistance Programs
and Initiatives web page at: www.va.gov/health/homeless/grants.htm
Integrated
Research,
Education, and Extension Competitive Grants
Program — Water Quality
U.S. Department of Agriculture
The Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES)
announces the availability of grant funds and requests proposals for
the Integrated Research, Education, and Extension Competitive Grants
Program — Water Quality to support integrated, multifunctional
agricultural research, extension, and education activities that address
water quality priorities in United States agriculture.
The Water Quality Program is targeted directly to the identification
and resolution of agriculturally-related degradation of water quality.
Proposals are sought that will provide watershed-based information
that can be used to: assess sources of water quality impairment in
targeted watersheds; develop and/or recommend options for continued
improvement of water quality in targeted watersheds; and evaluate
the relative costs and benefits associated with clean-up from all
responsible sectors (e.g. farming, processing, urban runoff, municipal
waste treatment, etc.).
ELIGIBILITY: Colleges and universities may apply.
FUNDING: $12.4 million.
DEADLINE: June 6, 2000.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact Dr. Timothy C. Strickland, Water
Quality Chair, Natural Resources and Environmental Unit, CSREES, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, STOP 2210, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW,
Washington, DC 20250-2210; telephone (202) 205-5952; fax (202) 401-1706;
e-mail tstrickland@reeusda.gov
Integrated
Research, Education, and Extension Competitive Grants Program —
National Food
Safety Initiative
U.S. Department of Agriculture
The Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES)
announces the availability of grant funds and requests proposals for
the Integrated Research, Education, and Extension Competitive Grants
Program — National Food Safety Initiative to support integrated,
multifunctional agricultural research, extension, and education activities
that address food safety priorities in United States agriculture.
Proposals are being solicited in 12 component areas: 1) qualitative
and quantitative risk assessments; 2) control measures for food-borne
microbial pathogens; 3) sources and incidences of microbial pathogens;
4) antibiotic resistant microbial pathogens; 5) improving the safety
of fresh fruits and vegetables; 6) food handler education and training
for consumer and youth; 7) food handler education for high-risk and
hard-to-reach audiences; 8) food handler education for commercial
and non-commercial audiences; 9) hazard analysis and critical control
points model development, testing, and implementation; and 10) integrating
food safety into related agricultural problems. In addition, proposals
are being solicited for 11) national coordination of integrated food
safety programs and resources; and 12) a national center for home
food processing and preservation.
ELIGIBILITY: Colleges and universities are eligible.
FUNDING: Approximately $12,277,000 is available.
DEADLINE: June 6, 2000.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact Dr. Jan Singleton, National
Program Leader, Food Science and Food Safety, Plant and Animal Systems
Unit, CSREES, U.S. Department of Agriculture, STOP 2220, 1400 Independence
Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250-2220; telephone (202) 401-1954; fax
(202) 401-5179; e-mail jsingleton@reeusda.gov
Council on Opportunities for Professional Excellence
Fishkill
The Council on Opportunities for Professional Excellence (COPE) is
offering a one-day grant writing seminar at the Holiday Inn in Fishkill,
New York on May 18, 2000. The seminar costs $145 per person or $118
per person if two or more from the same organization attend.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact COPE at (914) 756-2673 or e-mail
them at jnb@copeinc.com
The Grantsmanship Center
Buffalo, Rochester and Oneonta
The Grantsmanship Training Program is coming to New York:
April 2000