GRANTS ALERT

From Capital Partnerships LLC

WELCOME TO GRANTS ALERT, VOL. 6

Our e-newsletter is designed to highlight significant federal and private funding opportunities, particularly in the grant development fields where we specialize.  Among these are:

• Public Works
• Economic Development
• Environment, Energy
• Health and Human Services
• Justice, Homeland Security and FEMA
• The Arts

1) The National Institutes of Health (NIH) released a call for grant applications for Learning Disabilities Research Hubs (R24). Grants will fund innovative projects that research reading, writing, and/or mathematics learning disabilities from at-risk and under-represented populations or emergent or understudied topics in the field of research on learning disabilities. Project should address "the etiology, manifestation, prevention and remediation of reading, writing or mathematics learning disabilities." Projects may be awarded up to $450,000 of the $2,000,000 available. Applications are due April 11, 2012. Good candidates: State and local governments, interstate agencies, public and private universities, Native American governments and organizations, and public and private non-profit organizations, for profit organizations and businesses. For more information, CLICK HERE.

2) The Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Authority is offering funding for the Urbanized Area Formula Funding program - Solicitation of Interest for the Fuel and Electric Propulsion Costs as Capital Maintenance Provision (5307). Statements of interest from designated recipients must be submitted online by February 15, 2012. The program has $100,000,000 of total funds available to reimburse urban areas for fuel and electric propulsion costs; distribution of funds is yet to be determined and will be posted by March 31, 2012. Good candidates: The FTA specifies that, "Designated Recipients of FTA Section 5307 Urbanized Area Formula Program funds are eligible to apply for authorization to use this provision on behalf of all FTA Section 5307 funding recipients within their Urbanized Area (UZA)." For more information, CLICK HERE.

3) The MacArthur Foundation and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) are partnering to offer $2,000,000 over two years in support of juvenile justice and child welfare reform. This public-private partnership will collaborate with the National Youth Screening and Assessment Project at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, the National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice at Policy Research, Inc., the Center for Children's Law and Policy, and the Robert F. Kennedy Children's Action Corps; each of those four organizations that have received support from the MacArthur Foundation and OJJDP will work with state and local governments to reform and improve the juvenile justice system—including offering training and technical assistance. No application information or deadlines have been released, but the link below includes contacts for specific reform initiatives. The areas of reform are: Mental Health Screening and Risk/Needs Assessment, Mental Health Training for Juvenile Justice, Disproportionate Minority Contact Reduction, and Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare System Integration. For more information, CLICK HERE.

4) The Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities and the Urban Sustainability Directors Network are collaborating to offer Local Sustainability Matching Fund grants. Grants are meant to support collaboration between local governments and local, place-based philanthropic foundations—on a competitive basis, grants can be made to match funds offered by local foundations to support "urban sustainability initiatives" that would "advance a key aspect of an officially adopted local sustainability, climate action, or energy efficiency and conservation plan." No grant ceiling has been announced and the deadline for applications is March 5, 2012. Good candidates: Applications must be submitted jointly by a city or county (urban setting) Sustainability Director and a member of the local, place-based foundation. For more information, CLICK HERE.

5) For projects big and small that can be defined as creative work and cannot easily find a funding home, Kickstarter.com may serve as a resource to get you started. Kickstarter.com allows an individual or an organization with a well-defined creative project (defined as: Art, Comics, Dance, Design, Fashion, Film, Food, Games, Music, Photography, Publishing, Technology, and Theater) to find an online audience of potential donors. Joining and posting your project is free; the service works by allowing potential donors to find projects they support, linking potential donors' Amazon.com payment accounts to a project donation bank, and transferring the money once (and only if) the project owner meets the total required funding limit stated to complete the project. In return for their support, donors receive non-financial rewards (e.g., a copy of a comic or photograph print, naming a character in a play after the donor, a trip to the production set, etc.). Good candidates: Any individual or organization is eligible and there are no ceiling limits to the amount of funds a project may raise. Projects must be creative in scope. For more information, CLICK HERE.

Purse strings are tightening and budgets will be cut, but the federal government will continue to spend billions of dollars. A lot of these funds will be accessed by those who have experienced help in seeking grants, contracts and program funds!

About Capital Partnerships
Capital Partnerships is a full service government relations firm with a track record of winning over $ 1.6 Billion in public funds for client projects. The firm is expert in state and federal processes leveraging creative and practical strategies, designed to maximize client goals. The success record is produced by a team of diverse and experienced professionals in innovative financing; grant writing; planning and engineering; public affairs and strategic planning. The team's talents engage with every aspect of project development bringing passion and intelligence as full partners to clients. Our team has the relevant skills and knowledge to analyze and advise on regulatory and legislative issues, as well as people and politics operating in Washington, DC today. Capital Partnerships has worked on nationally-significant projects that required a big vision, aggressive goals, high level stakeholder relationships and extraordinary lessons learned that can be transferred to our clients. We are affiliated with The Livingston Group.

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