Monthly Archives: May 2014

2014-07-22: Family Strengthening Scholars

Funding Opportunity Number: HHS-2014-ACF-OPRE-PD-0804
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Funding Instrument Type: Grant
Category of Funding Activity: Income Security and Social Services
Eligible Applicants: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education | Private institutions of higher education
Agency Name: HHS-ACF-OPRE
Closing Date: 2014-07-22
Award Ceiling: $25,000
Expected Number of Awards: 3

Description: NOTICE: The original Funding Opportunity Number for this announcement, HHS-2014-ACF-OPRE-PA-0804, has been revised to HHS-2014-ACF-OPRE-PD-0804.
The Administration for Child and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation plans to solicit applications for the Family Strengthening Research Scholars grants to support dissertation research on healthy marriage/responsible fatherhood policy issues (HMRF).  These grants are meant to build capacity in the research field to focus research on questions that have direct implications for HMRF policy decision-making and program administration, and to foster mentoring relationships between faculty members and high-quality doctoral students. These grants are intended to address issues of significance to inform policy decisions and solutions, particularly for underserved/understudied populations (e.g., low-income families, minority populations), utilize rigorous research methodology (both primary data collection and secondary data analysis), and help inform the development of future intervention research. For further information about the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, see www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/.
Link: www.grants.gov/view-opportunity.html?opp…

2014-07-22: Partnership to Improve Community Health

Funding Opportunity Number: CDC-RFA-DP14-1417
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Funding Instrument Type: Cooperative Agreement
Category of Funding Activity: Health
Eligible Applicants: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Agency Name: HHS-CDC-NCCDPHP
Closing Date: 2014-07-22
Award Ceiling: $4,000,000
Expected Number of Awards: 40
1.  Large Cities and Urban Counties (with populations of 500,000 or more),
2.  Small Cities and Counties (with populations between 50,000-499,999),
3.  American Indian tribes and Alaskan Native villages and tribal organizations.
Awardees will enhance their existing infrastructure by improving their staffing and fiscal management to meet the needs of the PICH FOA and maintain a functioning multi-sectoral community coalition.  Required planning activities for PICH include developing a strong CAP.  In addition, awardees must develop sound measurement plans including: 1) the estimation of the number of people with increased access to healthier environments as a result of implemented strategies from the CAP, and 2) demonstration of increased actual use of at least one healthier environment implemented by the awardee.
• Tobacco use and exposure,
• Poor nutrition,
• Physical inactivity, and
• Lack of access to chronic disease prevention, risk reduction, and management opportunities.
A targeted strategy must be identified and implemented to achieve a reduction in a health disparity experienced by one or more priority populations.  Specifically, applicants are required to target special efforts toward priority populations at disproportionate risk for chronic diseases or conditions.  All Americans should have equal opportunities to make healthy choices that allow them to live long, healthy lives, regardless of their income, education, race/ethnic background, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other factors.  Health disparities represent preventable differences in the burden of disease, disability, injury or violence, or in opportunities to achieve optimal health.  Recipients will describe the intervention population selected, including relevant health disparities, and how selected interventions will improve health and reduce or eliminate one or more identified health disparities.
All activities supported through this FOA must contribute to area-wide health improvements and reductions in health disparities and should be based on a robust analysis of area health burden overall and across population subgroups (population subgroups may be defined by factors such as race or ethnicity, gender, age [e.  g.  , youth, the elderly], education or income, disability, geographic location, or sexual orientation, among others).
In addition, awardees are expected to routinely communicate to partners, the public, decision makers, and key stakeholders about the work funded under this FOA, and disseminate the results of their work to decision makers and the public, as appropriate.  Finally, in order to expand the evidence-base for effective community strategies, one innovative strategy based on evidence and/or best practices (as defined in the glossary) may be selected and implemented with assistance from CDC on an outcome evaluation plan to determine effectiveness.
Link: www.grants.gov/view-opportunity.html?opp…