Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program (DOT)

• Date: 18 June 2020
• Published date: 18 June 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31141

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Grants alert (cont.)

videos and multiple candid photos of the upcoming

Community Supervision Leadership Symposium event

in Aurora, Colorado, over a three-day period sometime

within the next 12 months.

Deadline: July 28, 2020.

Funds: $100,000 total for one award.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities, for-prot

organizations, nonprot organizations and Native

American tribal organizations.

Areas: DOJ said the successful applicant will capture,

create and produce professional-quality, high-resolution

videos of presentations for viewing in their entirety on the

website; a variety of short video clips; and multiple still

shots to utilize on NIC digital learning platforms, in NIC

learning products, on the NIC website, in print materials

and in NIC’s Learning Management System. The three

to four 90-minute presentations should be edited and

captioned and meet current federal 508 compliance

requirements. Additional unedited short videos must be

.mp4 (preferred) or .m4v, .mov or .avi format, and candid

shots should be DSLR quality (12 megapixels or better),

RAW, or high-quality JPEG or PNG.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 20CS14

Support Services for Community Supervision

Leadership Symposium (DOJ)

Scope: The Justice Department’s National Institute of

Corrections (NIC) seeks applications for the Support

Services for Community Supervision Leadership

Symposium announcement to support the successful

execution of NIC’s Community Supervision Leadership

Symposium to be held at the National Correctional

Academy in Aurora, Colorado.

Deadline: July 27, 2020.

Funds: $60,000 total for one award.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities, for-prot

organizations, nonprot organizations and Native

American tribal organizations.

Areas: DOJ said this project specically focuses on

the professional development needs of community

supervision executives and administrators.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 20CS19

Advancing Community Supervision Strategies

Microsite Development (DOJ)

Scope: The Justice Department’s National Institute of

Corrections (NIC) seeks applications for the Advancing

Community Supervision Strategies Microsite Development

announcement to provide a comprehensive one-stop

shop of reliable resources to aid community supervision

agencies in making informed decisions regarding

technology, programs and practices that will enhance

their ability to address public and employee safety.

Deadline: July 21, 2020.

Funds: $60,000 for one award.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities, for-prot

organizations, nonprot organizations and Native

American tribal organizations.

Areas: DOJ said NIC would like to accelerate the

development of specic content areas of the site through

information gathering and writing assistance. Some of

those areas include virtual offices, mobile devices, GPS,

body-worn cameras, ankle monitors and point-and-shoot

readers, video teleconferencing, social media and scanning

software (offender computers/phones), among others.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 20CS16

Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program (DOT)

Scope: The Transportation Depar tment’s Federal Motor

Carrier Safety Administration seeks applications for the

Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program announcement

to reduce the number and severity of crashes, injuries

and fatalities, and hazardous material incidents involving

commercial motor vehicles.

Deadline: Aug. 7, 2020.

Funds: $304 million for up to 56 awards ranging from

$350,000 to $32 million.

Eligibility: State governments.

Areas: DOT said program elements include traffic

enforcement, compliance reviews/investigations, public

education and awareness, data collection and new-

entrant safety audits, among others.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# FM-MCG-21-001

Transit infrastructure, rolling stock condition

assessment demonstration program (DOT)

Scope: The Transportation Department’s Federal

Transit Administration seeks applications for the Real-

Time Transit Infrastructure and Rolling Stock Condition

Assessment Demonstration Program announcement

for demonstration projects that deploy cutting-edge

technologies to provide real-time condition assessment

of transit infrastructure and rolling stock conditions.

Deadline: July 17, 2020.

Funds: $1.25 million for up to ve awards.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities, for-prot

organizations, nonprot organizations and state and

local governments.

Areas: DOT said this demonstration program will fund

innovative approaches to eliminate or mitigate known

infrastructure deciencies in public transportation via

innovative technologies and designs.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# FTA-2020-013-TRI-TIR

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