Grant Alerts
VOLUME 25, NO. 2 ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH UNIT
Area Health Education Centers Program (CFDA No. 93.107)
Purpose: To develop and enhance education and training net-
works within communities, academic institutions, and commu-
nity-based organizations, and to increase diversity among health
professionals, broaden the distribution of the health workforce,
enhance health care quality, and improve health care delivery to
rural and underserved areas and populations.
Eligibility: Public or nonprofit private accredited schools of al-
lopathic medicine and osteopathic medicine and incorporated con-
sortia made up of such schools or the parent institutions of such
schools and an accredited school of nursing.
Funding: $28.4 million.
Deadline: 3/29/2017.
Contact: Tel. (301) 443-7121; E-mail: alanghorne@hrsa.gov.
Boots to Business (B2B) Veterans Outreach Program (CFDA
No. 59.044)
Purpose: To provide entrepreneurship training, curriculum
updates, and program management support services for global
delivery of the B2B two-day Introduction to Entrepreneurship
classroom course and the Foundations of Entrepreneurship online
course (or comparable alternatives), which will require at a mini-
mum: providing a network of instructors to teach online courses
globally and a network of instructors to travel to and teach Intro at
overseas military installations.
Eligibility: State governments, county governments, city or
township governments, special district governments, public and
state-controlled institutions of higher education, Native American
tribal organizations, nonprofits, and private institutions of higher
education.
Funding: $2.5 million.
Deadline: 2/17/2017.
Contact: E-mail: john.lira@sba.gov.
College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) (CFDA No.
84.149A)
Purpose: To provide academic and financial support to help
migrant and seasonal farmworkers and members of their immedi-
ate families complete their first year of college and continue in
postsecondary education.
Eligibility: Public or private nonprofit agencies or organizations,
including faith-based and community organizations and universi-
ties and two- and four-year colleges (including community col-
leges) accredited in, and having a campus located in, the U.S.
Funding: $4.5 million.
Deadline: 3/10/2017.
Contact: Julius Cotton, Tel. (202) 245-6140;
E-mail: julius.cotton@ed.gov.
Comprehensive School Safety Initiative, FY17 (CFDA No.
16.560)
Purpose: To fund rigorous research to produce practical knowl-
edge that can improve the safety of schools and students.
Federal Grant Notices for State & Local Governments & Community Agencies
FEBRUARY 2017
Eligibility: State governments, county governments, city or
township governments, special district governments, indepen-
dent school districts, public and state-controlled institutions
of higher education, public housing authorities/Indian housing
authorities, Native American tribal organizations, nonprofits, and
private institutions of higher education.
Funding: $62 million.
Deadline: 3/24/2017.
Contact: Tel. (800) 851-3420; E-mail: grants@ncjrs.gov.
Enhanced Training and Services to End Abuse in Later Life
Program, FY 2017 (CFDA No. 16.528)
Purpose: To provide or enhance training and services to address
elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation, including sexual assault,
domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking, involving vic-
tims who are 50 years of age or older.
Eligibility: State governments, county governments, city or
township governments, special district governments, public and
state-controlled institutions of higher education, Native Ameri-
can tribal organizations, nonprofits, and private institutions of
higher education.
Funding: $3 million.
Deadline: 2/21/2017.
Contact: Tel. (202) 616-6728;
E-mail: janice.a.green@usdoj.gov.
Expanding Opportunity Through Quality Charter Schools
Program (CSP): Grants to Charter Management Organi-
zation for the Replication and Expansion of High-Quality
Charter Schools (CFDA No. 84.282M)
Purpose: To expand opportunities for all students, particularly
traditionally underserved students, to attend charter schools
and meet challenging state academic standards; provide finan-
cial assistance for the planning, program design, and initial
implementation of public charter schools; increase the number
of high-quality charter schools available to students across the
U.S.; evaluate the impact of charter schools on student achieve-
ment, families, and communities; share best practices between
charter schools and other public schools; encourage states to
provide facilities support to charter schools; and support efforts
to strengthen the charter school authorizing process.
Eligibility: Charter management organizations.
Funding: $57 million.
Deadline: 2/27/2017.
Contact: Julius Cotton, Tel. (202) 245-6140;
E-mail: julius.cotton@ed.gov.
Farmers Market Promotion Program (CFDA No. 10.168)
Purpose: To increase domestic consumption of and access to
locally and regionally produced agricultural products, and to
develop new market opportunities for farm and ranch operations
serving local markets by developing, improving, expanding,
and providing outreach, training, and technical assistance to, or
assisting in the development, improvement, and expansion of,
domestic farmers markets, roadside stands, community-support-
ed agriculture programs, agri-tourism activities, and other direct
producer-to-consumer market opportunities.
Eligibility: Agricultural businesses, agricultural cooperatives,
producer networks, producer associations, community-supported
agriculture networks, community-supported agriculture associa-
tions, and other agricultural business entities (for-profit groups);
nonprofit corporations; public benefit corporations; economic
development corporations; regional farmers market authorities;
and local and tribal governments.
Funding: $13 million.
Deadline: 3/27/2017.
Contact: E-mail: usdafmppquestions@ams.usda.gov.
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fel-
lowship Program (CFDA No. 84.022A)
Purpose: To provide opportunities to doctoral candidates to en-
gage in full-time dissertation research abroad in modern foreign
languages and area studies and to contribute to the development
and improvement of the study of modern foreign languages and
area studies in the U.S.
Eligibility: 3/14/2017.
Funding: $3.4 million.
Deadline: 3/14/2017.
Contact: Julius Cotton, Tel. (202) 245-6140;
E-mail: julius.cotton@ed.gov.
Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program (CDFA No.
84.021A)
Purpose: To promote, improve, and develop modern foreign
languages and area studies at varying levels of education and
provide opportunities for faculty, teachers, and undergraduate
and graduate students to conduct individual and group projects
overseas to carry out research and study in the fields of modern
foreign languages and area studies.
Eligibility: Institutions of higher education (IHEs); state depart-
ments of education; private, nonprofit educational organizations;
and consortia of these entities.
Funding: $2.7 million.
Deadline: 3/7/2017.
Contact: Julius Cotton, Tel. (202) 245-6140;
E-mail: julius.cotton@ed.gov.
Grants to Expand Substance Abuse Treatment Capacity in
Family Treatment Drug Courts (CFDA No. 93.243)
Purpose: To expand and/or enhance substance use disorder
(SUD) treatment services in existing family treatment drug
courts, which use the family treatment drug court model in order
to provide alcohol and drug treatment (including recovery sup-
port services, screening, assessment, case management, and pro-
gram coordination) to parents with a SUD and/or co-occurring
SUD and mental disorders who have had a dependency petition
filed against them or are at risk of such filing.
Eligibility: State governments, county governments, and city or
township governments.
Funding: $6.3 million.
Deadline: 3/3/2017.
Contact: Tel. (240) 276-1412;
E-mail: foacsat@samhsa.hhs.gov.
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Grants to Reduce Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating
Violence, and Stalking on Campus Program, 2017 (CFDA
No. 16.525)
Purpose: To support activities that develop and strengthen
trauma-informed victim services and strategies to prevent, inves-
tigate, respond, and prosecute sexual assault, domestic violence,
dating violence, and stalking.
Eligibility: Institutions of higher education.
Funding: $20 million.
Deadline: 2/23/2017.
Contact: Tel. (202) 353-9167;
E-mail: latinisha.m.lewis@usdoj.gov.
Interdisciplinary Preparation in Special Education, Early
Intervention, and Related Services for Personnel Serving
Children With Disabilities Who Have High-Intensity Needs
(CFDA No. 84.325K)
Purpose: To help address state-identified needs for person-
nel preparation in special education, early intervention, related
services, and regular education to work with children, including
infants and toddlers, with disabilities; and to ensure that those
personnel have the necessary skills and knowledge, derived
from practices that have been determined through scientifically
based research and experience, to be successful in serving those
children.
Eligibility: Institutions of higher education and private, non-
profit organizations.
Funding: $9 million.
Deadline: 3/6/2017.
Contact: Julius Cotton, Tel. (202) 245-6140;
E-mail: julius.cotton@ed.gov.
International Sports Programming Initiative, FY 2017
(CFDA No. 19.415)
Purpose: To manage sports exchange projects designed to reach
underserved youth and/or their coaches/sports administrators
who manage youth sports programs and to help them develop
important leadership skills, achieve academic success, and
promote tolerance and respect for diversity as well as become
stewards of the environment.
Eligibility: Institutions of higher education and private, non-
profit organizations.
Funding: Not specified; awards of up to $600,000.
Deadline: 3/17/2017.
Contact: Tel. (800) 518-4726; E-mail: support@grants.gov.
Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation on Firearms
Violence, FY17 (CFDA No. 16.560)
Purpose: To strengthen our knowledge base and improve public
safety by producing findings with practical implications for
reducing firearms violence, especially producing research related
to intentional, interpersonal firearms violence.
Eligibility: State governments, county governments, city or
township governments, special district governments, public and
state-controlled institutions of higher education, Native Ameri-
can tribal organizations, nonprofits, and private institutions of
higher education.
Funding: $3 million.
Deadline: 3/24/2017.
Contact: Tel. (800) 851-3420; E-mail: grants@ncjrs.gov.
Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program, FY17
(CFDA No. 16.745)
Purpose: To support innovative cross-system collaboration for
individuals with mental illnesses or co-occurring mental health
and substance abuse disorders who come into contact with
the justice system and to demonstrate a collaborative project
between criminal justice and mental health partners to plan,
implement, or expand a justice and mental health collaboration
program.
Eligibility: County governments and city or township govern-
ments.
Funding: $9 million.
Deadline: 4/4/2017.
Contact: Tel. (800) 518-4726; E-mail: support@grants.gov.
Local Food Promotion Program (CFDA No. 10.172)
Purpose: To increase domestic consumption of and access to
locally and regionally produced agricultural products, and to
develop new market opportunities for farm and ranch operations
serving local markets, by: developing, improving, expanding,
and providing outreach, training, and technical assistance to
local and regional food business enterprises; or assisting in the
development, improvement, and expansion of local and regional
food business enterprises.
Eligibility: Agricultural businesses, agricultural cooperatives,
producer networks, producer associations, community-supported
agriculture networks, community-supported agriculture associa-
tions, and other agricultural business entities (for-profit groups);
nonprofit corporations; public benefit corporations; economic
development corporations; regional farmers market authorities;
and local and tribal governments.
Funding: $13 million.
Deadline: 3/27/2017.
Contact: E-mail: usdalfppquestions@ams.usda.gov.
Minority Youth Violence Prevention II (MYVP II): Integrat-
ing Social Determinants of Health and Community Policing
Approaches, FY17 (CFDA No. 93.910)
Purpose: To demonstrate the effectiveness of integrating public
health and community policing approaches to reduce dispari-
ties in access to public health services, reduce violent crimes,
and improve the health and well-being of at-risk minority male
youth in targeted communities of color through a joint collabora-
tive that includes a public health agency and law enforcement
agency.
Eligibility: State governments, county governments, city or
township governments, special district governments, public and
state-controlled institutions of higher education, Native Ameri-
can tribal organizations, nonprofits, and private institutions of
higher education.
Funding: $3.6 million.
Deadline: 4/4/2017.
Contact: Tel. (800) 518-4726; E-mail: support@grants.gov.
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE):
High School Equivalency Program (HEP) (CFDA No.
84.141A)
Purpose: To help migrant and seasonal farmworkers and
members of their immediate families obtain a general education
diploma that meets the guidelines for high school equivalency
(HSE) established by the state in which the HEP project is
conducted, and gain employment or be placed in an institution
of higher education (IHE) or other postsecondary education or
training.
Eligibility: Public or private nonprofit agencies or organizations
including faith-based and community organizations; and uni-
versities and two- and four-year colleges (including community
colleges) accredited in, and having a campus located in, the U.S.
Funding: $1.3 million.
Deadline: 3/10/2017.
Contact: Julius Cotton, Tel. (202) 245-6140;
E-mail: julius.cotton@ed.gov.
Research on Bias Crimes, FY17 (CFDA No. 16.560)
Purpose: To fund research that explores the characteristics and
motivations of offenders, including pathways to bias-motivated
criminal behavior, and evaluates interventions with victims of
bias crimes or individuals who commit hate crimes.
Eligibility: State governments, county governments, city or
township governments, special district governments, public and
state-controlled institutions of higher education, Native Ameri-
can tribal organizations, nonprofits, and private institutions of
higher education.
Funding: $1 million.
Deadline: 4/3/2017.
Contact: Tel. (800) 851-3420; E-mail: grants@ncjrs.gov.
Research on Reducing Violence in Communities, FY17
(CFDA No. 16.560)
Purpose: To support research designed to build knowledge on
what it takes to produce sustained community-level reductions in
violence, examining multiple factors, including explicit violence
prevention initiatives, that may play a role in preventing or re-
ducing violence in a community for an extended period of time;
and to examine factors such as community infrastructure and
resources (e.g., access to health care, amount of public housing),
local laws and policies (e.g., juvenile curfew laws, police patrol
strategies), community norms (e.g., perspectives on carrying a
firearm, trust in law enforcement), shared community experi-
ences/beliefs (e.g., exposure to trauma, subject to implicit bias),
and collaboration among organizations/agencies working in the
community.
Eligibility: State governments, county governments, city or
township governments, special district governments, public and
state-controlled institutions of higher education, Native Ameri-
can tribal organizations, nonprofits, and private institutions of
higher education.
Funding: $2 million.
Deadline: 3/15/2017.
Contact: Tel. (800) 851-3420; E-mail: grants@ncjrs.gov.
Research to Improve Officer Decision-Making, FY17 (CFDA
No. 16.560)
Purpose: To develop and/or evaluate innovative training to
improve officer decision-making and in turn outcomes in police-
citizen interactions.
Eligibility: State governments, county governments, city or
township governments, special district governments, public and
state-controlled institutions of higher education, Native Ameri-
can tribal organizations, nonprofits, and private institutions of
higher education.
Funding: $3 million.
Legislative Research Unit / 3

Legislative Research Unit
222 South College, Suite 301
Springfield, Illinois 62704
Deadline: 3/23/2017.
Contact: Tel. (800) 851-3420; E-mail: grants@ncjrs.gov.
Restorative Justice Response to Sexual Assault, Domestic
Violence, and Dating Violence on Campus Demonstration
Initiative Program, FY 2017 (CFDA No. 16.028)
Purpose: To promote victim autonomy and change offender
behavior through a process that is designed to provide meaning-
ful accountability for the person who has inflicted the harm and
to elicit behavioral change in the offender, redress harm to the
community, improve campus safety, and address confidentiality
concerns.
Eligibility: Institutions of higher education and private, non-
profit organizations.
Funding: $500,000.
Deadline: 2/24/2017.
Contact: Tel. (202) 330-7679;
E-mail: darlene.johnson@usdoj.gov.
Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) (CFDA No.
94.002)
Purpose: To engage RSVP volunteers age 55 and older in a
diverse range of volunteer activities focusing on increasing the
impact of national service in certain counties across the country.
Eligibility: State governments; county governments; city or
township governments; special district governments; indepen-
dent school districts; public and state-controlled institutions
of higher education; public housing authorities/Indian housing
authorities; Native American tribal organizations; nonprofits;
private institutions of higher education; for-profit organizations,
other than small businesses; and small businesses.
Funding: $3 million.
Deadline: 4/4/2017.
Contact: E-mail: 2017rsvp@cns.gov.
Secondary Agriculture Education Challenge Grant Program
(CFDA No. 10.226)
Purpose: To promote and strengthen secondary education
and two-year postsecondary education in the food, agriculture,
natural resources, and human (FANH) sciences in order to help
ensure the existence in the U.S. of a qualified workforce to serve
the FANH sciences system; and to promote complementary and
synergistic linkages among secondary, two-year postsecondary,
and higher education programs in the FANH sciences in order
to advance excellence in education and encourage more young
Americans to pursue and complete a baccalaureate or higher
degree in the FANH sciences.
Eligibility: Public secondary schools; public or private, non-
profit junior and community colleges; institutions of higher
education; or nonprofit organizations.
Funding: $858,000.
Deadline: 3/10/2017.
Contact: Tel. (202) 401-5048;
E-mail: electronic@nifa.usda.gov.
Smart Reentry: Focus on Evidence-Based Strategies for
Successful Reentry From Incarceration to Community, FY17
(CFDA No. 16.812)
Purpose: To support jurisdictions to develop and implement
comprehensive and collaborative strategies that address the
challenges posed by reentry to increase public safety and reduce
recidivism for individuals reentering communities from incar-
ceration who are at medium to high risk for recidivating.
Eligibility: State governments, county governments, and city or
township governments.
Funding: $6 million.
Deadline: 3/14/2017.
Contact: Tel. (800) 518-4726; E-mail: support@grants.gov.
Smart Supervision: Reducing Prison Populations, Saving
Money, and Creating Safer Communities, FY17 (CFDA No.
16.812)
Purpose: To implement evidence-based supervision strategies
and to develop innovative strategies to improve outcomes for
probationers.
Eligibility: State governments, county governments, and city or
township governments.
Funding: $5.2 million.
Deadline: 3/7/2017.
Contact: Tel. (800) 518-4726; E-mail: support@grants.gov.
STEM + Computing Partnerships (CFDA Nos. 47.070,
47.076)
Purpose: To provide a strong and developmental foundation in
computing and computational thinking through the integration
of computing in STEM teaching and learning, and/or the applied
integration of STEM content in pre-K-12 computer science
education.
Eligibility: Unrestricted.
Funding: $49.8 million.
Deadline: 3/29/2017.
Contact: E-mail: grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov.
Strengthening the Medical Examiner-Coroner System Pro-
gram, FY17 (CFDA No. 16.560)
Purpose: To address strengthening the medical examiner-
coroner system by increasing the number and quality of board-
certified forensic pathologists who choose the forensic pathology
sub-specialty, following the completion of an accredited pathol-
ogy medical residency program; to assist ME and coroner offices
achieve accreditation through a recognized accreditation body;
and to increase public safety and improve the fair administra-
tion of justice across America through innovative leadership and
programs.
Eligibility: State governments, county governments, city or
township governments, special district governments, public and
state-controlled institutions of higher education, Native Ameri-
can tribal organizations, nonprofits, and private institutions of
higher education.
Funding: $4 million.
Deadline: 3/20/2017.
Contact: Tel. (800) 851-3420; E-mail: grants@ncjrs.gov.