Conservation Innovation—Iowa (USDA)

• Published date: 21 May 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31091
• Date: 21 May 2020

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Grants alert (cont.)

Funds: $7.1 million total.

Eligibility: Collaborative state, tribal, local or regionally

based networks, or partnerships of qualied public and/

or private organizations.

Areas: USDA said regional lead entities must have

the capacity to make state-level subawards, to include

monitoring the performance of specic projects and

active participation within the larger regional network.

Providing training and/or offering direct services in every

state/territory in the targeted region is not required in

FY2020. However, the applicant must clearly articulate

where and why training and services are being offered,

as well as any rationale for areas not served and how all

states (and territories, as appropriate), will be added to

the network in FY2021 and FY2022 if the project intends

to seek continuation funding in those years.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# USDA-NIFA-OP-007413

Conservation Innovation—Iowa (USDA)

Scope: The Agriculture Department’s Natural Resources

Conservation Service seeks applications for the FY2020

Conservation Innovation—Iowa announcement to

stimulate the development and adoption of innovative

conservation approaches and technologies in

conjunction with agricultural production.

Deadline: June 26, 2020.

Funds: $350,000 total for up to 10 awards ranging from

$25,000 to $100,000.

Eligibility: U.S.-based nonfederal entities and qualied

individuals, except for federal agencies.

Areas: USDA said the program funds the development

and eld testing, on-farm research and demonstration,

evaluation or implementation of: approaches to

incentivizing conservation adoption, including

market-based and conservation nance approaches;

conservation technologies, practices and systems; and

demonstrations and evaluation coupling renewable

energy with conservation.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# USDA-NRCS-IA-CIG-20-

NOFO0001007

Innovations in Newborn Screening

Interoperability (HRSA)

Scope: The Health Resources Services Administration

seeks applications for the Innovations in Newborn

Screening Interoperability announcement to enhance

data interoperability in the newborn screening (NBS)

system.

Deadline: July 1, 2020.

Funds: $1.3 million for one award.

Eligibility: A state or a political subdivision of a

state, a consortium of two or more states or political

subdivisions of states, a territory, a health facility or

program operated by or pursuant to a contract with or

grant from the Indian Health Service or any other entity

with appropriate expertise in newborn screening.

Areas: HRSA said the successful applicant will serve

as a national leader and resource on health information

data interoperability and providing technical assistance,

training and education in data interoperability to

state NBS programs. Interoperability is dened as

the ability of different information systems, devices

and applications to access, exchange, integrate and

cooperatively use data in a coordinated manner,

within and across organizational, regional and national

boundaries, to provide timely and seamless portability

of information and optimize the health of individuals and

populations globally.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# HRSA-20-134

Kidney, Urology and Hematology Innovative

Science Accelerator Program (NIDDK)

Scope: The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive

and Kidney Diseases seeks (U24) resource-related

research projects cooperative agreement applications

for the Coordinating Unit (CU) to Support the Kidney,

Urology and Hematology (KUH) Innovative Science

Accelerator (ISAC) Program announcement to establish

a CU to support the KUH ISAC Program.

Deadline: Letters of Intent, July 4, 2020; proposals, Aug.

4, 2020.

Funds: $1.25 million in FY2021 to fund one award. The

maximum project period is ve years.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; for-prot

organizations, including small businesses; nonprot

organizations; and state, local, special district and Native

American tribal governments; among others.

Areas: NIDDK said the ISAC-CU is expected to provide

oversight for the two main components of ISAC: (1)

the funding program and (2) the collaboration program.

For the ISAC funding program, the ISAC-CU should:

solicit ideas from the extramural community to identify

high-impact topics for the ISAC funding program; and

develop and manage an innovative and exible process

for submission, review and selection of applications for

the ISAC funding program; among other activities. For

the ISAC collaboration program, the ISAC-CU should:

develop and maintain a website, including establishment

and maintenance of an internet-based mechanism

for rapid data and document transmission and

electronic communication among investigators in the

ISAC Program and between the investigators and the

National Institutes of Health; and identify opportunities

and employ strategies that will promote synergies

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