VA-GRANTS-NCA-FY2014 Veterans Cemetery Grants VA National Cemetery Administration — Department of Veterans Affairs Description: Grants are available to assist states, territories, and recognized tribal governments. The program is implemented in 38 Code of Federal Regulations Part 39. Eligible Applicants: State governments Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) Synopsis: Document Type: Grants Notice Funding Opportunity Number: VA-GRANTS-NCA-FY2014 Funding Opportunity Title: Veterans Cemetery Grants Opportunity Category: Discretionary Funding Instrument Type: Grant Category of Funding Activity: Community Development Category Explanation: Expected Number of Awards: 20 CFDA Number(s): 64.203 -- State Cemetery Grants Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: Yes Posted Date: Jul 2, 2013 Creation Date: Aug 8, 2013 Original Closing Date for Applications: Jul 1, 2014 Current Closing Date for Applications: Jul 1, 2014 Archive Date: Jul 31, 2014 Estimated Total Program Funding: $46,000,000 Award Ceiling: $46,000,000 Award Floor: $0 Link to Additional Information: Veterans Cemetery Grants website Contact Information: If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact: contact grants.gov help desk for electronic access problems/issues 1.800.518.4726 LaQuisha.Barnes@va.gov VA-GRANTS-112508-002 State Veterans Home Construction Grant Program Construction of State Home Facilities — Department of Veterans Affairs Description: GRANTS ARE AVAILABLE TO STATE GOVERNMENTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR RENOVATION OF STATE VETERANS EXTENDED CARE FACILITIES. THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS PARTICIPATION MAY NOT EXCEED 65 PERCENT OF THE TOTAL PROJECT COSTS. GOVERNING REGULATION CAN BE FOUND IN 38 CFR PART 59. ALONG WITH THE GRANTS.GOV SUBMISSION, ITEMS A1-A18 FROM VA FORM 10-0388-14 MUST BE SUBMITTED TO THE VA BY April 15, 2012 FOR INCLUSION ON THE FY 2013 PRIORITY LIST. Eligible Applicants: State governments Additional Information on Eligibility: ONLY STATE GOVERNMENTS MAY APPLY. "NO PRIVATE ORGANIZATION, NON-PROFIT, OR INDIVIDUAL IS QUALIFIED TO APPLY." Synopsis: Document Type: Grants Notice Funding Opportunity Number: VA-GRANTS-112508-002 Funding Opportunity Title: State Veterans Home Construction Grant Program Opportunity Category: Discretionary Funding Instrument Type: Grant Category of Funding Activity: Health Category Explanation: ONLY AVAILABLE TO STATE GOVERNMENTS FOR STATE OWNED AND OPERATED SKILLED NURSING, DOMICILLIARY, AND ADULT DAY HEALTH CARE FACILITIES. Expected Number of Awards: CFDA Number(s): 64.005 -- Grants to States for Construction of State Home Facilities Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: Yes Posted Date: Nov 1, 2010 Creation Date: Oct 17, 2012 Original Closing Date for Applications: Apr 15, 2011 IF THE STATE WOULD LIKE THE APPLICATION TO BE INCLUDED ON THE FY 2012 PRIORTY LIST, IT MUST BE SUBMITTED TO VA BY APRIL 15, 2011 Current Closing Date for Applications: Dec 31, 2019 IF THE STATE WOULD LIKE THE APPLICATION TO BE INCLUDED ON THE FY 2014 PRIORITY LIST, IT MUST BE SUBMITTED TO VA BY April 15, 2013 Archive Date: Jan 1, 2020 Estimated Total Program Funding: $85,000,000 Award Ceiling: $85,000,000 Award Floor: $260,000 Link for additional information: http://www1.va.gov/GERIATRICS/State_Veterans_Homes_Program.asp Contact Information: If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact: Jovida Pope Phone: (202)632-7904 Jovida.Pope@va.gov VA-GRANTS-112508-002 State Veterans Home Construction Grant Program Construction of State Home Facilities — Department of Veterans Affairs Description: GRANTS ARE AVAILABLE TO STATE GOVERNMENTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR RENOVATION OF STATE VETERANS EXTENDED CARE FACILITIES. THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS PARTICIPATION MAY NOT EXCEED 65 PERCENT OF THE TOTAL PROJECT COSTS. GOVERNING REGULATION CAN BE FOUND IN 38 CFR PART 59. ALONG WITH THE GRANTS.GOV SUBMISSION, ITEMS A1-A18 FROM VA FORM 10-0388-14 MUST BE SUBMITTED TO THE VA BY April 15, 2012 FOR INCLUSION ON THE FY 2013 PRIORITY LIST. Eligible Applicants: State governments Additional Information on Eligibility: ONLY STATE GOVERNMENTS MAY APPLY. "NO PRIVATE ORGANIZATION, NON-PROFIT, OR INDIVIDUAL IS QUALIFIED TO APPLY." Synopsis: Document Type: Grants Notice Funding Opportunity Number: VA-GRANTS-112508-002 Funding Opportunity Title: State Veterans Home Construction Grant Program Opportunity Category: Discretionary Funding Instrument Type: Grant Category of Funding Activity: Health Category Explanation: ONLY AVAILABLE TO STATE GOVERNMENTS FOR STATE OWNED AND OPERATED SKILLED NURSING, DOMICILLIARY, AND ADULT DAY HEALTH CARE FACILITIES. Expected Number of Awards: CFDA Number(s): 64.005 -- Grants to States for Construction of State Home Facilities Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: Yes Posted Date: Nov 1, 2010 Creation Date: Oct 17, 2012 Original Closing Date for Applications: Apr 15, 2011 IF THE STATE WOULD LIKE THE APPLICATION TO BE INCLUDED ON THE FY 2012 PRIORTY LIST, IT MUST BE SUBMITTED TO VA BY APRIL 15, 2011 Current Closing Date for Applications: Dec 31, 2019 IF THE STATE WOULD LIKE THE APPLICATION TO BE INCLUDED ON THE FY 2014 PRIORITY LIST, IT MUST BE SUBMITTED TO VA BY April 15, 2013 Archive Date: Jan 1, 2020 Estimated Total Program Funding: $85,000,000 Award Ceiling: $85,000,000 Award Floor: $260,000 Link to Additional Information: http://www1.va.gov/GERIATRICS/State_Veterans_Homes_Program.asp Contact Information: If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact: Jovida Pope Phone: (202)632-7904 Jovida.Pope@va.gov MFA-FY14 Museums for America — Institute of Museum and Library Services Description: The Museums for America (MFA) program supports projects that strengthen the ability of an individual museum to serve its public. MFA grants support activities that strengthen museums as active resources for lifelong learning, as important institutions in the establishment of livable communities, and as good stewards of the nation’s collections. MFA grants can fund both new and ongoing museum activities and programs. Examples include planning, managing and conserving collections, improving public access, training, conducting programmatic research, school and public programming, producing exhibitions, and integrating new or upgraded technologies into your operations. There are three categories within the MFA program: Learning Experiences IMLS places the learner at the center and supports engaging experiences in museums that prepare people to be full participants in their local communities and our global society. Projects should provide high-quality, inclusive, accessible, and audience-focused learning opportunities; provide access to collections, information, and educational resources; encourage the use of technologies; and develop programs for specific segments of the public. Community Anchors IMLS promotes museums as strong community anchors that enhance civic engagement, cultural opportunities, and economic vitality. Projects should harness a museum’s expertise, knowledge, physical space, technology, or other resources in order to address a specific need originating in the community. Museums may undertake the project alone or in partnership with one or more community organizations. Collections Stewardship IMLS supports exemplary stewardship of museum collections and promotes the use of technology to facilitate discovery of knowledge and cultural heritage. Projects should address high priority collections care or conservation issues. Note to applicants: The FY2014 Museums for America grant opportunity encompasses those types of proposals that were previously solicited through the Conservation Project Support program. IMLS maintains its commitment to collections care, conservation, and preservation, and encourages step-by-step, progressive approach to conservation. Eligible Applicants: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification) Additional Information on Eligibility: To be eligible as a museum, you must: be either a unit of State or local government or a private nonprofit organization that has tax-exempt status under the Internal Revenue Code; be located in one of the 50 States of the United States of America, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, or the Republic of Palau; and qualify as one of the following: 1. a museum that, using a professional staff,is organized on a permanent basis for essentially educational or aesthetic purposes; owns or uses tangible objects, either animate or inanimate; cares for these objects; and exhibits these objects to the general public on a regular basis through facilities that it owns or operates. 2. a public or private nonprofit agency which is responsible for the operation of a museum may apply on behalf of the museum. Please note that a museum located within a parent organization that is a State or local government or multipurpose not-for-profit entity, such as a municipality, university, historical society, foundation, or cultural center, may apply on its own behalf if the museum: (1) is able to independently fulfill all the eligibility requirements listed above; (2) functions as a discrete unit within the parent organization; (3) has its own fully segregated and itemized operating budget; and (4) has the authority to make the application on its own. When any of the last three conditions cannot be met, a museum may only apply through its parent organization. IMLS may determine that a non-profit organization that is affiliated with a museum is eligible for this program where the organization can demonstrate that it has the ability to administer the project and can ensure compliance with the terms of these guidelines and the applicable law, including the Assurances and Certifications. The applicant organization must submit an agreement from the museum that details the activities that the applicant and museum will perform and binds the museum to the statements and assurances made in the grant application. Synopsis: Document Type: Grants Notice Funding Opportunity Number: MFA-FY14 Funding Opportunity Title: Museums for America Opportunity Category: Discretionary Funding Instrument Type: Grant Category of Funding Activity: Arts (see "Cultural Affairs" in CFDA) Humanities (see "Cultural Affairs" in CFDA) Category Explanation: Expected Number of Awards: 200 CFDA Number(s): 45.301 -- Museums for America Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: Yes Posted Date: Sep 16, 2013 Creation Date: Sep 16, 2013 Original Closing Date for Applications: Dec 2, 2013 Current Closing Date for Applications: Dec 2, 2013 Archive Date: Jan 1, 2014 Estimated Total Program Funding: $22,700,000 Award Ceiling: $150,000 Award Floor: $5,000 Link to Additional Information: http://www.imls.gov/applicants/detail.aspx?GrantId=11 Contact Information: If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact: Learning Experiences: Helen Wechsler Supervisory Grants Management Specialist hwechsler@imls.gov 202.653.4779 Sandra Narva Senior Program Officer snarva@imls.gov 202.653.4634 Reagan Moore Museum Program Specialist rmoore@imls.gov 202.653.4637 Jennifer Rehkamp Museum Program Specialist 202-653-4781 jrehkamp@imls.gov Community Anchors or Collections Stewardship: Connie Bodner Supervisory Grants Management Specialist cbodner@imls.gov 202.653.4636 Mark Isaksen Senior Program Officer misaksen@imls.gov 202.653.4667 Steve Shwartzman Senior Program Officer sshwartzman@imls.gov 202.653.4641 Mark Feitl Museum Program Specialist mfeitl@imls.gov 202.653.4635 hwechsler@imls.gov USDA-NIFA-AFRI-004368 AFRI NIFA Fellowships Grant Program National Institute of Food and Agriculture — Department of Agriculture Description: The FY 2014 AFRI NIFA Fellowship RFA focuses on developing the next generation of research, education, and extension professionals in the food and agricultural sciences who will lead agriculture into the future by solving current and future challenges facing our society. The AFRI NIFA Fellowships Grant Program targets talented, highly-motivated doctoral candidates and post-doctoral trainees that demonstrate remarkable promise and the potential to become gifted education, extension, and research professionals in the United States. The NIFA Fellows are individuals who have the potential for remarkable accomplishments in agricultural science. The Program seeks to develop the technical and academic competence of doctoral candidates and the research independence and teaching competencies of postdoctoral students in the food, forestry and agricultural sciences, which are within NIFA’s AFRI Challenge Areas, through well-developed and highly interactive mentoring and training activities. Project types supported by AFRI within this RFA include single-function Research, Education, and Extension Projects and multi-function Integrated Research, Education, and/or Extension Projects. Eligible Applicants: Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education Public and State controlled institutions of higher education Individuals For profit organizations other than small businesses Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification) Private institutions of higher education Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education Small businesses Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments) Additional Information on Eligibility: It is highly encouraged that applications be submitted through the mentor's institution with the mentor institution listed as the applicant (see Part IV, B.1.). Eligible mentor institutions include: (1) State Agricultural Experiment Stations; (2) colleges and universities (including junior colleges offering associate degrees or higher); (3) university research foundations; (4) other research institutions and organizations; (5) Federal agencies, (6) national laboratories; (7) private organizations or corporations; (8) any group consisting of two or more entities identified in (1) through (7). Eligible institutions do not include foreign and international organizations. Synopsis: Document Type: Grants Notice Funding Opportunity Number: USDA-NIFA-AFRI-004368 Funding Opportunity Title: AFRI NIFA Fellowships Grant Program Opportunity Category: Discretionary Funding Instrument Type: Grant Category of Funding Activity: Agriculture Education Environment Natural Resources Category Explanation: Expected Number of Awards: CFDA Number(s): 10.310 -- Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: No Posted Date: Oct 29, 2013 Creation Date: Oct 29, 2013 Original Closing Date for Applications: Feb 20, 2014 A Letter of Intent is required and is a prerequisite for submission of an application. The Letter of Intent must be submitted by December 12, 2013. Current Closing Date for Applications: Feb 20, 2014 A Letter of Intent is required and is a prerequisite for submission of an application. The Letter of Intent must be submitted by December 12, 2013. Archive Date: Mar 22, 2014 Estimated Total Program Funding: $6,000,000 Award Ceiling: Award Floor: Link to Additional Information: AFRI NIFA Fellowships Grant Program Contact Information: If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact: NIFA Help Desk Phone: 202-401-5048 Business hours are M-F, 7:00 am -5:00 pm ET, excluding Federal holidays If you have any questions related to preparing application content   Washington, D.C. Office 2445 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 202-225-8699 main 202-225-8714 fax Prince George's County Office 5001 Silver Hill Road, Suite 106 Suitland, Maryland 20746 301-516-7601 main 301-516-7608 fax Anne Arundel County Office 877 Baltimore Annapolis Boulevard Ritchie Court Office Building, Unit 101 Severna Park, MD 21146 410-421-8061 main 410-421-8065 fax