Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Monitoring Program (EPA)

• Published date: 17 September 2020
• Date: 17 September 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31299

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Grants alert (cont.)

Deadline: Nov. 12, 2020.

Funds: $1.9 million total for one award. The maximum

project period is four years.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; nonprofit

organizations and hospitals located in the United States;

state, local and Native American tribal governments; and

U.S. territories or possessions.

Areas: EPA said developmental health outcomes

may include attention deficit hyperactivity disorder,

reduced IQ, obesity, lessened self-regulatory capacities,

anxiety, depression, attention problems, lower

memory function or structural changes to the brain.

The application should include the development and

demonstration of novel and revolutionary quantitative

methods and approaches to integrate multidisciplinary

data (epidemiology, toxicology, exposure science,

risk assessment, public health, social science and

environmental science).

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# EPA-G2020-STAR-E1

Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Monitoring

Program (EPA)

Scope: The Environmental Protection Agency seeks

applications for the Great Lakes Coastal Wetland

Monitoring Program announcement to conduct field

sampling and analysis activities to support an annual

assessment of status and trends of riverine, lacustrine

and barrier-protected coastal wetlands across all five

Great Lakes.

Deadline: Oct. 26, 2020.

Funds: $10 million total for $2 million per year over a

five-year project period.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; nonprofit

organizations; and state, local and Native American

tribal governments; among others.

Areas: EPA said activities will include but are not

limited to those that: assess and report on annual

status and trends (during 2021–2025) of the condition

indicators (water quality, vegetation, anuran, bird, fish,

macroinvertebrates) for riverine, lacustrine and barrier-

protected coastal wetlands across all five Great Lakes,

in both U.S. and Canadian waters, including connecting

channels, while maintaining continuity with previous

coastal wetland monitoring; update EPA’s coastal

wetlands database in a manner that provides timely

information on survey results; and identify specific

elements of existing protocols (e.g., sampled taxa

groups, seasons, wetland zones) that could be changed

to improve the accuracy of the indicator outputs or

overall assessment or to address issues such as high

water levels.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# EPA-R5-GL2020-CWMP

Jobs Plus Initiative (HUD)

Scope: The Housing and Urban Development

Department seeks applications for the Jobs Plus

Initiative announcement to develop locally based, job-

driven approaches that increase earnings and advance

employment outcomes through work readiness,

employer linkages, job placement, educational

advancement, technology skills and financial literacy for

residents of public housing.

Deadline: Dec. 1, 2020.

Funds: $15 million total for up to five awards ranging

from $1.5 million to $3.7 million.

Eligibility: Public housing authorities.

Areas: HUD said the program develops locally based,

job-driven approaches that increase earnings and

advance employment outcomes through work readiness,

employer linkages, job placement, educational

advancement, technology skills and financial literacy

for residents of public housing. The Jobs Plus program

comprises these three core components: Employment-

Related Services, Financial Incentives—Jobs Plus

Earned Income Disregard and Community Supports

for Work. Applicants are encouraged to develop key

partnerships to connect participants with any other

needed services to remove barriers to work.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# FR-6400-N-14

Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant

Program (HUD)

Scope: The Housing and Urban Development

Department seeks applications for the FY2020 Choice

Neighborhoods Implementation Grant Program to

support locally driven strategies that address struggling

neighborhoods with distressed public or HUD-assisted

housing through a comprehensive approach to

neighborhood transformation.

Deadline: Dec. 16, 2020.

Funds: $183 million for up to five awards of up to $35

million.

Eligibility: Public housing and city or local governments.

Areas: HUD said the program has three core goals:

(1) housing—replace distressed public and assisted

housing with high-quality mixed-income housing

that is well managed and responsive to the needs of

the surrounding neighborhood; (2) people—improve

outcomes of households living in the target housing

related to employment and income, health and

children’s education; and (3) neighborhood—create the

conditions necessary for public and private reinvestment

in distressed neighborhoods to offer the kinds of

amenities and assets, including safety, good schools

(more)