GRANT WRITING: FEDERAL FUNDS

Program: Community Planning Challenge Grant

Agency: Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

Posted: June 21, 2010

Due date: July 26, 2010

Eligibility: State, Local, Tribal Governments, Transit Agencies, Port Authorities, Metropolitan Planning Organizations, Multi-State or Multi-Jurisdictional Groupings

Match: Yes

Purpose: To foster reform and reduce barriers to achieving affordable, economically vital, and sustainable communities.  Such efforts may include amending or replacing local master plans, zoning codes, and building codes for either jurisdiction-wide or neighborhood, district, corridor, sector basis.  The planning challenge is to promote mixed-use development, affordable housing, reuse of older buildings and structures for new purposes, and similar activities.  The program also supports development of affordable housing through the design and adoption of inclusionary zoning ordinances and other activities such as acquisition of land for affordable housing projects.

Program: Surface Transportation Infrastrucutre Capital Investments II

Agency: NYS Department of transportation (DOT)

Posted: April 26, 2010

Due date: August 23, 2010

Eligibility: State and Local Governments

Match: Yes - 20% of Project Total

Purpose: To provide for projects that will have a significant impact on the Nation, a metropolitan area or region.  Eligible projects include, but are not limited to: highway or bridge projects; public transportation projects; passenger and freight rail projects; and, port infrastructure projects.

Program: Smaller Learning Communities

Agency: US Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools (OSDFS)

Posted: June 23, 2010

Due date: August 6, 2010

Eligibility: Local Education Agencies applying on behalf of large public high schools with enrollments of more than 1,000 students

Match: No

Purpose: To support the restructuring of large public high schools into smaller units for improved academic achievement.  The smaller units include freshman academies, multi-grade academies organized around career interests or other themes, "houses" in which small groups of students remain together throughout high school, and autonomous schools-within-a-school.  Structural changes must encourage complementary personalization strategies, such as student advisories, family advocate systems, family advocate systems, and mentoring programs.