From the office of Rep. Val Demings
Grants are available to individuals, non-profit organizations, and state or local government entities.
As you may know, federal funding is extremely competitive and limited in availability. It is my hope that this newsletter will be a helpful resource for you in the grants process.
For more information about getting started and the application process, please visit www.grants.gov, or contact Erin Waldron, my Director of Economic and Community Development, at 321-388-9808.
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| Recently Awarded in District 10 |
Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements Grant Program – Federal Railroad Administration
Award: $157,683.00
Description: The Department of Transportation has awarded funds to the Florida Strategies for Reducing Railway Trespassing program. The funding launches a pilot program using drone technology, closed-circuit television with remote monitoring and geographic information system spatial analysis to aid partnerships among local law enforcement agencies to combat trespassing in Volusia, Seminole, Orange and Osceola counties.
| Upcoming Grant Opportunities |
Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations Technical Assistance Grant Program – Department of Labor
Award Ceiling: $500,000
Application Deadline: July 8, 2019
Description: Applicants may propose to provide technical assistance to support women’s participation and success in the full range of industries in which women are historically underrepresented or where women are disproportionately concentrated in the lower-wage occupations. Such industries include but are not limited to advanced manufacturing, construction, energy, health care, information technology, finance, and transportation. This program is intended to provide technical assistance (TA) to employers and labor unions to encourage the employment of women in apprentice occupations and nontraditional occupations. Community-Based Organizations are eligible to apply for these grants.
More Information: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=316802
2019 Buildings Energy Efficiency Frontiers & Innovation Technologies (BENEFIT) – Department of Energy
Award Ceiling: $6,000,000
Application Deadline: July 15, 2019
Description: The 2019 Buildings Energy Efficiency Frontiers and Innovation Technologies Funding Opportunity Announcement will invest up to $47,000,000, to allow all interested parties (universities, corporations, non-profits, national labs) to research and develop innovative technologies that will improve energy productivity, improve flexibility, security, and resiliency, as well as lower energy costs. With this Funding Opportunity Announcement, Building Technologies Office intends to fund high-impact, early-stage research in the following three topic areas:
Flexible Building Technologies;
Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Technologies; and
Solid-State Lighting Technologies
More Information: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=315145
2019 Transforming America's Response to Elder Abuse: Mobilizing Attorneys for Older Victims of Abuse & Financial Exploitation – Department of Justice
Award Ceiling: $3,500,000
Application Deadline: July 15, 2019
Description: This program will provide increased legal services for older victims of crime (particularly in rural areas), educate attorneys and allied professionals about the needs of older victims, and increase coordinated multidisciplinary responses in supporting older victims of crime. Eligible applicants are limited to nonprofit organizations (including tribal nonprofit organizations), faith- and community-based organizations, institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education), public agencies, and federally recognized Indian tribal governments.
More Information: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=317068
2019 Direct Services to Support Victims of Human Trafficking – Department of Justice
Award Ceiling: $925,000
Application Deadline: July 19, 2019
Description: This solicitation will provide funding for direct services to victims of sex trafficking and labor trafficking, as well as for efforts to increase the capacity of communities to respond to human trafficking through the development of interagency partnerships, professional training, and public awareness activities. Applicants may apply for one or more of the following purpose areas (PAs) and focus areas (FAs):
PA 1: Comprehensive Services for Victims of All Forms of Human Trafficking which has 3 FAs:
FA 1. Building Capacity to Provide Comprehensive Services,
FA 2. Sustaining Capacity to Provide Comprehensive Services to Victims of All Forms of Human Trafficking, and
FA 3. Comprehensive Services and Partnership with Enhanced Collaborative Model Human Trafficking Task Forces), and
PA 2: Specialized Services
More Information: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=316762
Advanced Transportation and Congestion Management Technologies Deployment Initiative – Department of Transportation
Award Ceiling: $12,000,000
Application Deadline: July 19, 2019
Description: The Federal Highway Administration will provide grants to eligible entities to develop model deployment sites for large scale installation and operation of advanced transportation technologies to improve safety, efficiency, system performance, and infrastructure return on investment. Eligible applicants are State or local governments, transit agencies, metropolitan planning organizations (MPO) representing a population of over 200,000, or other political subdivisions of a State or local government (such as publicly owned toll or port authorities), or a multijurisdictional group or consortia of research institutions or academic institutions.
More Information: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=316761
CyberCorps(R) Scholarship for Service – National Science Foundation
Award Ceiling: $5,000,000
Application Deadline: July 31, 2019
Description: Cyberspace has transformed the daily lives of people. Society’s overwhelming reliance on cyberspace, however, has exposed its fragility and vulnerabilities: corporations, agencies, national infrastructure, and individuals continue to suffer cyber-attacks. Achieving truly secure cyberspace requires addressing both challenging scientific and engineering problems involving many components of a system, and vulnerabilities that stem from human behaviors and choices. Proposals may only be submitted by Institutions of Higher Education accredited in, and having a campus located in the US, acting on behalf of their faculty members. Community colleges are eligible only as either non-lead collaborating institutions or sub-awardees of the partnering four-year CyberCorps(R) Scholarship for Service institutions as described in the Program Description section.
More Information: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=310232
2019 Our Town – National Endowment for the Arts
Award Ceiling: $200,000
Application Deadline: August 8, 2019
Description: Our Town is the National Endowment for the Arts’ creative placemaking grants program. These grants support projects that integrate arts, culture, and design activities into efforts that strengthen communities by advancing local economic, physical, and/or social outcomes. Successful Our Town projects ultimately lay the groundwork for systemic changes that sustain the integration of arts, culture, and design into strategies for strengthening communities.
More Information: https://www.grants.gov/view-opportunity.html?dpp=1&oppId=316235
