Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program (DOI)

• Date: 08 October 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31328
• Published date: 08 October 2020

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Grants alert (cont.)

Bureau of Indian Education: Native American

Language Immersion (DOI)

Scope: The Interior Department’s Bureau of Indian

Affairs seeks applications for the Bureau of Indian

Education: Native American Language Immersion

announcement to support efforts to revitalize and

maintain Native languages and expand the use of

language-immersion programs in its schools.

Deadline: Oct. 30, 2020.

Funds: $4 million total for up to 20 awards ranging from

$50,000 to $500,000.

Eligibility: Bureau of Indian Education–funded schools.

Areas: DOI said projects should focus on expanding

existing language-immersion programs or creating

new programs that will lead to Native-language oral

prociency.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# BIE-NALI-2020

Japanese American Connement Sites Grant

Program (DOI)

Scope: The Interior Department’s National Park

Service seeks applications for the Japanese American

Connement Sites Grant Program announcement to

preserve historic Japanese-American connement sites

and their history.

Deadline: Nov. 9, 2020.

Funds: $3 million total for up to 20 awards ranging from

$5,000 to $3 million.

Eligibility: Organizations and entities working to

preserve historic Japanese-American connement sites

and their history.

Areas: DOI said projects should identify, research,

evaluate, interpret, protect, restore, repair and acquire

historic connement sites in order that present and

future generations may learn and gain inspiration from

these sites and that these sites will demonstrate the

nation’s commitment to equal justice under the law.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# P20AS00098

Arctic Goose Joint Venture (DOI)

Scope: The Interior Department’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife

Service seeks applications for the Arctic Goose Joint

Venture to provide and improve scientic information to

support and promote effective management, monitoring

and conservation of northern-nesting geese.

Deadline: Nov. 20, 2020.

Funds: $450,000 for up to ve awards of up to

$150,000. The maximum project period is three years.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: DOI said priorities include: evaluation and

improvement of population delineation and monitoring;

evaluation and improvement of harvest estimates; and

population status, population dynamics and ecology of

Brant and Emperor Geese.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# F20AS00154

H-1B Rural Healthcare Grant Program (DOL)

Scope: The Labor Department’s Employment and

Training Administration seeks applications for the H-1B

Rural Healthcare Grant Program to alleviate health

care workforce shortages by creating sustainable

employment and training programs in health care

occupations (including behavioral and mental health

care) serving rural populations.

Deadline: Nov. 13, 2020.

Funds: $40 million for up to 40 awards ranging from

$500,000 to $2.5 million.

Eligibility: Public- and private-sector entities, including

health care employers, health care industry and/

or occupation associations; nonprot health care

organizations affiliated with hospitals and other medical

facilities; and state, local and Native American tribal

governments and agencies.

Areas: DOL said applicants can propose a wide range

of training models, including Registered Apprenticeship

Programs and Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship

Programs. Activities may include workforce development

strategies that support: engaging health care providers

and employers in the adoption and deployment of

employment and training services to address specic

health care needs in rural areas; and establishing new

or expanding existing career pathways in the health

care sector that focus on the skills, competencies and

credentials needed for middle- to high-skilled direct

patient health care occupations; among many others.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# FOA-ETA-20-12

HBCU Cooperative Research in Housing

Technologies (HUD)

Scope: The Department of Housing and Urban

Development seeks applications for the Historically

Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Cooperative

Research in Housing Technologies announcement for

precompetitive research in homebuilding technologies

that provide the homebuilding industry with new,

innovative construction products or practices that lead

to more affordable, energy-efficient, resilient (in this

sense, durable, disaster-resistant, adaptable for future

requirements and maintainable) and healthier housing.

Deadline: Jan. 5, 2021.

Funds: $1 million total for up to four awards ranging

from $200,000 to $250,000.

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