ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH UNIT

Grant Alerts
VOLUME 22, NO. 6
Federal Grant Notices for State & Local Governments & Community Agencies
JUNE 2014
2015 Survey of Law Enforcement Personnel in
Schools (CFDA No. 16.734)
Purpose: To conduct a new data collection focused
on the activities, roles, and responsibilities of law en-
forcement agencies and personnel who have respon-
sibilities for interacting with and working in K-12
public schools; tasks will require instrument design,
a feld test of that design, and a data collection that
includes a nationally represented sample of law en-
forcement personnel working in schools.
Eligibility: National, regional, state, or local public
and private entities, including for-proft (commercial)
and nonproft organizations (including tribal nonproft
or for-proft organizations); faith-based and communi-
ty organizations; institutions of higher education (in-
cluding tribal institutions of higher education); Indian
tribal governments; and units of local government that
support initiatives to improve the functioning of the
criminal justice system; for-proft organizations must
agree to forgo any proft or management fee.
Funding: $1 million.
Deadline: 6/24/14.
Contact: Tel. (202) 307-5992;
E-mail: cathy.maston@usdoj.gov.
Community Connect (CFDA No. 10.863)
Purpose: To provide fnancial assistance in the form
of grants to eligible applicants that will provide cur-
rently un-served areas, on a community-oriented
connectivity basis, with broadband service that fos-
ters economic growth and delivers enhanced educa-
tional, health care, and public safety services.
Eligibility: State, county, city, township, and special
district governments; independent school districts;
private, public, and state controlled institutions of
higher education; public housing authorities/Indian
housing authorities; Native American tribal organiza-
tions; nonprofts; for-proft organizations other than
small businesses; and small businesses.
Funding: $13 million.
Deadline: 7/7/14.
Contact: Tel. (202) 690-4673;
E-mail: scott.steiner@wdc.usda.gov.
Community Oriented Policy Services-Community-
Policing-Development-2014 (CFDA No. 16.710)
Purpose: To advance the practice of community
policing in law enforcement agencies through train-
ing and technical assistance, demonstration project,
the development of innovative community policing
strategies, applied research, guidebooks, and best
practices.
Eligibility: Unrestricted.
Funding: $500,000.
Deadline: 6/23/14.
Contact: Tel. (800) 421-6770;
E-mail: askcopsrc@usdoj.gov.
Distance Learning (CFDA No. 10.855)
Purpose: To improve and increase quality education-
al and medical services in rural communities through
multimedia interfaces so that video endpoints at dif-
ferent (distant) locations can facilitate educational
and training courses between rural student(s) and
teacher(s) and facilitate medical care between rural
patient(s) and medical or health specialist(s).
Eligibility: State, county, city, township, and special
district governments; independent school districts;
private, public, and state controlled institutions of
higher education; public housing authorities/Indian
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housing authorities; Native American tribal organiza-
tions; nonprofts; for-proft organizations other than
small businesses; and small businesses.
Funding: $19.3 million.
Deadline: 7/7/14.
Contact: Tel. (202) 205-3733;
E-mail: sam.morgan@usda.gov.
Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Edu-
cationFirst in the World ProgramDevelop-
ment (CFDA No. 84.116F)
Purpose: To expand quality and opportunity at all
levels of education from early learning programs
through higher education.
Eligibility: Institutions of higher education and con-
sortia of such institutions partnering with other public
and private organizations and agencies.
Funding: $75 million.
Deadline: 6/30/14.
Contact: Joyce Mays, Tel. (202) 245-6122;
E-mail: joyce.mays@ed.gov.
FY 2014 Youth Violence Prevention Technical As-
sistance Program (CFDA No. 16.123)
Purpose: To prevent and ameliorate youth violence
and promote child and youth well being with targeted
technical assistance, including enhanced peer-to-peer
support.
Eligibility: Private, public, and state controlled in-
stitutions of higher education; nonprofts, other than
institutions of higher education; private institutions of
higher education; for-proft organizations other than
small businesses.
Funding: $1 million.
Deadline: 7/7/14.
Contact: Tel. (877) 927-5657;
E-mail: jic@telesishq.
FY 2014 Youth With Sexual Behavior Problems
Program (CFDA No. 16.543)
Purpose: To fund agencies that utilize a comprehen-
sive, multidisciplinary approach to provide interven-
tion and supervision services for youth with sexual
behavior problems and treatment services for their
child victims and families.
Eligibility: State, county, city, township, and special
district governments; independent school districts;
private, public, and state controlled institutions of
higher education; public housing authorities/Indian
housing authorities; Native American tribal organiza-
tions; nonprofts; for-proft organizations other than
small businesses; and small businesses.
Funding: $400,000.
Deadline: 7/17/14.
Contact: Tel. (877) 927-5657;
E-mail: jic@telesishq.
Institute of Education Sciences: National Re-
search Center for the Education of Gifted and Tal-
ented Children and Youth (CFDA No. 84.305C)
Purpose: To conduct research on improving aca-
demic outcomes for underserved students with high
academic potential.
Eligibility: Public, private, and state controlled insti-
tutions of higher education.
Funding: $1 million.
Deadline: 7/22/14.
Contact: Julius Cotton, Tel. (202) 245-6140;
E-mail: julius.cotton@ed.gov.
Intensive Child-Focused Adoptive Parent Recruit-
ment (CFDA No. 93.652)
Purpose: To test intensive and exhaustive child-fo-
cused adoptive parent recruitment strategies for chil-
dren in foster care, focusing on children/youth that are
the hardest to place from the child welfare system due
to age, disability, or sibling group membership.
Eligibility: State, county, city, township, or special
district governments; independent school districts;
private, public, and state controlled institutions of
higher education; public housing authorities/Indian
housing authorities; Native American tribal organiza-
tions; nonprofts; institutions of higher education; for-
proft organizations other than small businesses; small
businesses; and faith and community based organiza-
tions.
Funding: $4 million.
Deadline: 7/7/14.
Contact: E-mail: app_support@acf.hhs.gov.
Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (CFDA No. 21.008)
Purpose: To represent low-income taxpayers in-
volved in controversies with the Internal Revenue
Service (IRS), educate individuals who speak English
as a second language about their rights and responsi-
bilities as taxpayers, or both.
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Eligibility: Public, private, and state controlled insti-
tutions of higher education.
Funding: $10 million.
Deadline: 6/20/14.
Contact: Tel. (202) 317-3058;
E-mail: support@grants.gov.
Offce of Elementary and Secondary Education:
Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Edu-
cation Program (CFDA No. 84.206A)
Purpose: To carry out a coordinated program of
scientifcally based research, demonstration projects,
innovative strategies, and similar activities designed
to build and enhance the ability of elementary and
secondary schools nationwide to meet the special edu-
cational needs of gifted and talented students.
Eligibility: State, county, city, township, or special
district governments; private, public, and state con-
trolled institutions of higher education; Native Ameri-
can tribal organizations; and nonprofts.
Funding: $400,000.
Deadline: 6/24/14.
Contact: Julius Cotton, Tel. (202) 245-6140;
E-mail: julius.cotton@ed.gov.
Offce of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention
FY 2014 Initiative to Develop and Test Guidelines
for Juvenile Drug Courts (CFDA No. 16.585)
Purpose: To support the creation of research-in-
formed guidelines for juvenile drug courts that will
promote effective practice and quality service deliv-
ery for juveniles with substance abuse disorders that
these courts serve.
Eligibility: Public, private, and state controlled in-
stitutions of higher education; nonprofts, other than
institutions of higher education; and for-proft organi-
zations, other than small businesses.
Funding: $6 million.
Deadline: 6/30/14.
Contact: Tel. (877) 927-5657;
E-mail: jic@telesishq.com.
Offce of Postsecondary Education: Fulbright-
Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fel-
lowship Program (CFDA No. 84.022A)
Purpose: To provide opportunities to doctoral can-
didates to engage in full-time dissertation research
abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies
and to contribute to the development and improve-
ment of the study of modern foreign languages and
area studies in the U.S.
Eligibility: Public, private, and state controlled insti-
tutions of higher education.
Funding: $2.9 million.
Deadline: 6/24/14.
Contact: Julius Cotton, Tel. (202) 245-6140;
E-mail: julius.cotton@ed.gov.
Renewable Energy for America Program (CFDA
No. 10.868)
Purpose: To provide grants to agricultural producers
and rural small businesses to conduct feasibility study
for a renewable energy system as well as to purchase
and install renewable energy systems or make energy
effciency improvements; help agricultural producers
and rural small businesses reduce energy costs and
consumption and help meet the nations critical en-
ergy needs.
Eligibility: Individuals and small businesses.
Funding: $28 million.
Deadline: 7/31/14.
Contact: E-mail: Kelley.oehler@wdc.usda.gov.
Summer Stipends (CFDA No. 45.160)
Purpose: To support individuals pursuing advanced
research that is of value to humanities scholars, gen-
eral audiences, or both; support continuous full-time
work on a humanities project for a period of two con-
secutive months; and support projects at any stage of
development.
Eligibility: Individuals.
Funding: $6,000.
Deadline: 9/30/14.
Contact: Tel. (202) 606-8200; E-mail: stipends@
neh.gov.
Supported Decision Making (CFDA No. 93.631)
Purpose: To create a training and technical assis-
tance/resource center on supported decision making
and to collect and disseminate materials on supported
decision-making, including the experiences of people
with intellectual and developmental disabilities in
making informed decisions with the use of supports.
Eligibility: State, county, city, township, and spe-
cial district governments; private, public, and state
controlled institutions of higher education; Native
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American tribal organizations; and
nonprofts.
Funding: $325,000.
Deadline: 7/2/14.
Contact: Katherine Cargill-Willis,
E-mail: katherine.cargill-Willis@
acl.hhs.gov.
The Offce of Postsecondary
Education: Promoting Post-
Baccalaureate Opportunities for
Hispanic Americans Program
(CFDA No. 84.031M
Purpose: To expand post-bacca-
laureate educational opportunities
for, and improve the academic at-
tainment of, Hispanic students; and
expand the post-baccalaureate aca-
demic offerings, as well as enhance
the program quality, in the institu-
tions of higher education that are
educating the majority of Hispanic
college students and helping large
numbers of Hispanic and low-
income students complete postsec-
ondary degrees.
Eligibility: Public, private, and
state controlled institutions of
higher education.
Funding: $10.5 million.
Deadline: 6/27/14.
Contact: Julius Cotton,
Tel. (202) 245-6140;
E-mail: julius.cotton@ed.gov.
The Offce of Special Education
and Rehabilitation Services/
The Offce of Special Education
Programs: Educational Tech-
nology, Media, and Materials
for Individuals with Disabili-
ties: National Center on Acces-
sible Educational Materials for
Learning (CFDA No. 84.327Z)
Purpose: To improve results
for children with disabilities by
promoting the development, dem-
onstration, and use of technology;
supporting educational media
activities designed to be of educa-
tional value in the classroom for
students with disabilities; providing
support for captioning and video
description that is appropriate for
use in the classroom; and providing
accessible educational materials
to students with disabilities in a
timely manner.
Eligibility: State, county, city,
township, or special district gov-
ernments; private, public, and state
controlled institutions of higher
education; Native American tribal
organizations; and nonprofts.
Funding: $1.2 million.
Deadline: 6/23/14.
Contact: Julius Cotton,
Tel. (202) 245-6140;
E-mail: julius.cotton@ed.gov.