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Agriculture Department

The Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBCS or the Agency), a Rural Development (RD) agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is issuing a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to announce acceptance of grant, loan, and combined grant and loan applications under the Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program (RMAP). In future years this funding opportunity will only be announced on the Agency website and grants.gov, without a Federal Register notice. Therefore, in future years, neither the funding opportunity nor reference to the funding opportunity in grants.gov will appear in the Federal Register. Please make a note of this change in location of the funding announcement in your records.

Agriculture Department

The Rural Utilities Service (RUS or the Agency), a Rural Development (RD) agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is announcing the acceptance of applications under the Guarantees for Bonds and Notes Issued for Utility Infrastructure Purposes Program (the 313A Program) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026. In future years this funding opportunity will only be announced on the Agency website, without a Federal Register notice. Therefore, in future years, neither the funding opportunity nor reference to the funding opportunity will appear in the Federal Register. Please make a note of this change in location of the funding announcement in your records.

Agriculture Department

The Rural Housing Service (RHS or the Agency), a Rural Development (RD) mission area agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), announces the availability of $13.1 million in funding for the Housing Preservation Grant (HPG) program for fiscal year (FY) 2025, which includes approximately $2.1 million that will be made available for disaster assistance and $500,000 each for recovery due to Hurricanes Fiona in Puerto Rico, and Helene in Tennessee. The funds are available for qualified entities (such as public agencies, private non-profit organizations, and federally recognized Tribes) to provide grants or low-interest loans to eligible recipients to repair or rehabilitate housing in rural areas. Rental and cooperative properties that house very-low and low-income tenants may also be provided with grants or low-interest loans to repair and rehabilitate their properties in rural areas. In accordance with 7 CFR 1944.662(c), when an "identity of interest" (as such term is defined by 7 CFR 1924.4(i)) exists between a nonprofit entity and the owner(s) of a dwelling, the property is not eligible for HPG assistance. Therefore, the HPG grantee may meet the factors provided at 7 CFR 1924.4(i), which includes a requirement that the HPG grantee not be the owner of the home, rental property or cooperative in which repairs will be performed. This notice announces the opening and closing dates for receipt of preapplications for HPG funds, including the availability of calendar year 2022 disaster assistance, from eligible applicants, as well as submission requirements. Expenses incurred in developing preapplications will be at the applicant's cost. Applicants will not be reimbursed for any costs incurred outside of the grant agreement period.

Golden Field Office

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), intends to issue, on behalf of USDA?s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and DOE?s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO), a Request for Applications (RFA) entitled ?Fiscal Year 15 Biomass Research and Development Initiative (?BRDI?).? The RFA will address USDA and DOE programmatic objectives, administrative roles, and areas of interest in implementing Biomass Research and Development Initiative (BRDI) grants. Section 9001(a) of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (FCEA) (Pub. L. 110-246) re-authorized the BRDI competitive grants program by amending section 9008 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (FSRIA), as amended, (Pub. L. 107-171) (7 U.S.C. 8108). For fiscal year (FY) 2015, BRDI will require that funded projects address only one (1) of the following three (3) legislatively mandated technical areas: 1. Feedstocks development ? The intent of this Topic Area is to address research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) activities regarding feedstocks and feedstock logistics (including harvest, handling, transport, preprocessing, and storage) relevant to production of raw materials for conversion to biofuels and biobased products. The BRDI program is designed to support near-term commercial systems. Projects should emphasize development and optimization of existing feedstocks that will be available for testing and demonstration during the life of the project. Proposals that include breeding or genetic improvement of feedstocks should reconcile this work with the Program?s emphasis on near-term impacts. 2. Biofuels and biobased products development ? The intent of this Topic Area is to address RD&D activities to support (i) development of diverse cost-effective technologies for the use of cellulosic biomass in the production of biofuels, bioenergy, and biobased products; and, (ii) product diversification through technologies relevant to the production of a range of biobased products (including chemicals, animal feeds, and cogeneration power) that potentially can increase the feasibility of fuel production in a biorefinery. 3. Biofuels development analysis ? The intent of this Topic Area is to apply systems evaluation methods that can be used to optimize system performance and market potential and to quantify the project?s impact on sustainability; therefore, successful applications will consider the lifecycle (cradle-to-grave) impacts including environmental, social, and economic implications that are attributable to the project. Successful projects should include these sustainability data in engineering process models and be used over the life of the project to improve the system and quantify sustainability impacts. This Notice is issued so that interested parties are aware of NIFA's and EERE's intention to issue a RFA in the near term. NO APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED THROUGH THIS NOTICE. Please do not submit questions or respond to this Notice of Intent. Prospective applicants to the RFA should begin developing partnerships, formulating ideas, and gathering data in anticipation of the issuance of this RFA. It is anticipated that the RFA will be posted to Grants.gov in November 2014.

Agriculture Department

The Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBCS or the Agency), a Rural Development (RD) agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) published in the Federal Register (FR) at 89 FR 83449 on October 16, 2024 to announce acceptance of grant, guaranteed loan, and combined grant and guaranteed loan applications under the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP). The NOFO was issued for Fiscal Years (FY) 2025, 2026, and 2027. The purpose of this notice is to rescind the October 16, 2024, NOFO. The Agency is currently promulgating regulatory changes to the REAP program and available funding will be announced after publication of said changes. Applicants who previously submitted applications will be required to submit a new application and must comply with the new regulation. This applies to any applicant that does not possess a fully executed Financial Assistance Agreement. As provided for in 7 CFR 4280.122 and 7 CFR 4280.156, the Agency, by this notice, is providing alternate procedures for processing applications. Grant applications will be processed according to the funding notice that will be available on the Agency website after the new regulations are issued.

National Rural Electric Cooperative Association

Community development grants from rural electric cooperatives

National Rural Health Association

Telehealth infrastructure and program development for rural providers

Ohio Department of Development

Ohio's CDBG Program funds housing, infrastructure, community facilities, and economic development activities in Ohio's smaller cities and rural communities, primarily benefiting low- and moderate-income residents.

Oklahoma Department of Commerce

The REAP program provides grants to rural Oklahoma communities for critical infrastructure and economic development projects, supporting water and sewer improvements, fire protection, community centers, and other essential public facilities.

Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs

OMAFRA provides grants for agricultural innovation, rural economic development, food processing, and environmental stewardship in Ontario's agri-food sector.

NIH

Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S., disproportionately affects Veterans, who are twice as likely to suffer from COPD as the general US population. Compared with urban counties, rural counties have higher rates of COPD-related hospitalizations and deaths. Challenges in accessing evidence-based care are likely contributing factors to worse rural COPD outcomes. Implementation of evidence-based COPD care through a pharmacist-led COPD program can improve access to and delivery of high-value care for rural Veterans. However, it is unclear if this type of implementation strategy for COPD is feasible, acceptable, appropriate, and effective for Veterans in resource-constrained rural clinics where pulmonary subspecialty care is not readily accessible. Significance/Impact: Rural Veterans are disproportionately affected by COPD. Additionally, they are less likely to receive evidence-based COPD care. This proposal will improve Veteran health by providing better quality and more equitable access to evidence-based COPD care. This work will advance delivery of high- value care to Veterans who face challenges in accessing care and will reduce health disparities by leveraging effective implementation strategies. Innovation: Innovations include: 1) extending the use of pharmacist-led CDM programs to include COPD tailored for rural Veterans; 2) testing a “proactive” (without prompting from patients or clinicians) program in which rural patients with frequent COPD exacerbations will be systematically identified outside of a routine clinic visit; and 3) targeting prevention of COPD exacerbations and hospitalizations. Specific Aims: The proposed research and training plan will increase my skills in implementation research, specifically focusing on rapid qualitative and mixed methods research, intervention development, and implementation evaluation through the following aims: Aim 1. Identify patient and institutional barriers and facilitators to implementation of a proactive pharmacist-led COPD program for rural Veterans; Aim 2. Pilot a proactive pharmacist-led COPD program to optimize COPD care for rural Veterans. Pharmacists will optimize COPD care for Veterans in rural clinics who are at high risk for hospitalization (n=40 patients). Program core components will include: 1) COPD education, 2) medication optimization, 3) inhaler technique review, and 4) smoking cessation; Aim 3. Development of an implementation toolkit to support implementation of a pharmacist-led COPD program for rural clinics. Methodology: The first research aims will be conducting qualitative assessments of patient and institutional (Aim 1) barriers to and facilitators for implementation of a proactive pharmacist-led COPD program by performing semi-structured interviews of rural COPD patients (n=30), rural clinic staff (n=20), and leadership (n=10) in VISN 23. Aim 2 will be to pilot a proactive pharmacist-led COPD program to optimize COPD care in rural clinics targeting Veterans (n=40) at highest risk for COPD hospitalizations. The study pharmacists will optimize COPD management based on established COPD guidelines. Aim 3 will use existing COPD programs to develop a prototype of an implementation toolkit support implementation of the proactive, pharmacist-led COPD program for rural clinics. Survey and focus groups will evaluate the toolkit. Next Steps/Implementation: After generating key pilot data, we will perform a large-scale hybrid effectiveness-implementation study of pharmacist-led COPD management.

Natural Resources Conservation Service

May 12, 2022, UPDATE: This funding opportunity is open for second funding pool applications (from $250,000 to $4,999,999), which are due by June 10, 2022, by 11:59pm. Applications for the first funding pool (from $5 million to $100 million) were due May 06, 2022, by 11:59pm Eastern Time and are no longer being accepted. May 06, 2022 UPDATE: Applications for the first funding pool are due May 06, 2022 by 11:59pm Eastern Time, and the opportunity will be temporarily closed from May 07, 2022 through May 11, 2022. The opportunity will open again on May 12, 2022 for the second funding pool applications, which are due by June 10, 2022 by 11:59pm. Modifications on 03/11/2022 extended application due dates and added clarifying edits, including those related to eligibility and quantification. Modifications appear in red text in the Full Announcement document located in the Related Documents tab of this opportunity. Notice of Funding Opportunity (NFO) Summary Up to approximately $1 billion will be made available for the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities projects through this funding opportunity, which will build markets and invest in America s climate-smart farmers, ranchers, and forest owners to strengthen U.S. rural and agricultural communities. Through the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities, USDA will support the production and marketing of climate-smart commodities through a set of pilot projects that provide voluntary incentives through partners to producers and land owners, including early adopters, to: a. implement climate-smart production practices, activities, and systems on working lands, b. measure/quantify, monitor and verify the carbon and greenhouse gas (GHG) benefits associated with those practices, and c. develop markets and promote the resulting climate-smart commodities. Grant agreements under this funding opportunity will be with a single entity, i.e., partner ; however, USDA encourages multiple partners to coordinate on projects. A range of public and private entities are eligible to apply, as described in Section C of the Full Announcement which can be found in the Related Documents tab of this opportunity. Proposals must provide a plan to pilot implementation of climate-smart agriculture and/or forestry practices on a large-scale, including meaningful involvement of small or historically underserved producers, consistent with spirit of the Justice40 initiative; a quantification, monitoring, reporting, and verification plan; and a plan to develop markets and promote climate-smart commodities generated as a result of project activities. Funding will be provided through two funding pools. Proposals in the first funding pool (requests for amounts from $5 million to $100 million per proposal) will be large-scale pilot projects that emphasize the greenhouse gas benefits of climate-smart commodity production and include direct, meaningful benefits to a representative cross-section of production agriculture, including small and/or historically underserved producers. Proposals in the second funding pool (requests for amounts from $250,000 to $4,999,999 per proposal) are limited to particularly innovative pilot projects with an emphasis on enrollment of small and/or underserved producers and/or monitoring, reporting, and verification activities developed at minority-serving institutions. All projects must be tied to the development of markets and promotion of climate-smart commodities. For the purposes of this funding opportunity, a climate-smart commodity is an agricultural commodity that is produced using agricultural (farming, ranching, or forestry) practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions or sequester carbon. Markets for climate-smart commodities may include companies or processors sourcing climate-smart commodities to meet internal targets or other supply chain goals, biofuel and renewable energy markets, companies seeking to sell branded consumer products, or other opportunities that could provide a premium or additional revenue for participating producers and land owners. Sufficient incentives to encourage producer participation, as well as, generation of verifiable greenhouse gas reductions and carbon sequestration are critical to project success and will be considered in the evaluation criteria. For new users of Grants.gov, see the Full Announcement located in the Related Documents tab of this opportunity for information about steps required before submitting an application via Grants.gov. Key Dates Applicants must submit their applications via Grants.gov by 11:59 pm Eastern Time on: May 06, 2022 for the first funding pool (proposals from $5 million to $100 million) June 10, 2022 for the second funding pool (proposals from $250,000 to $4,999,999). For technical issues with Grants.gov, contact Grants.gov Applicant Support at 1-800-518-4726 or support@grants.gov. Awarding agency staff cannot support applicants regarding Grants.gov accounts. For inquiries specific to the content of the NFO requirements, contact the federal awarding agency contact (found in section G of the Full Announcement located in the Related Documents tab of this opportunity.). Please limit questions to those regarding specific information contained in this NFO (such as dates, page numbers, clarification of discrepancies, etc.). Questions related to eligibility or the merits of a specific proposal will not be addressed. Information on available webinars and other supporting information for this funding opportunity will be posted at: https://www.usda.gov/climate-solutions/climate-smart-commodities The agency anticipates making selections by Summer 2022 and expects to execute awards by September 30, 2022. These dates are estimates and are subject to change. Federal Financial Assistance Training The funding available through this NFO is Federal financial assistance. Grants 101 Training is highly recommended for those seeking knowledge about Federal financial assistance. The training is free and available to the public via https://www.cfo.gov/grants-training/. It consists of five modules covering each of the following topics: 1) laws, regulations, and guidance; 2) financial assistance mechanisms; 3) uniform guidance on administrative requirements; 4) cost principles; and 5) risk management and single audit. USDA s Farm Production and Conservation (FPAC) agencies also apply Federal financial assistance regulations to certain non-assistance awards (e.g., non-assistance cooperative agreements).

NIMH - National Institute of Mental Health

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT Despite availability of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for over a decade, many persons who could benefit from PrEP have not yet accessed PrEP services. Implementation of pharmacy-based PrEP is a promising strategy that presents opportunity to overcome barriers related to clinic distance and stigma and to increase PrEP access, uptake, and continuity of treatment among individuals who would benefit most. Despite the fact that team member and pharmacist Dr. Elyse Tung started the first pharmacy-based PrEP clinic nearly ten years ago, PrEP still is not widely available through pharmacies without a prescription from a doctor or other licensed clinician. As of 2024, not all states allow pharmacists to prescribe medications independently, and many insurance companies erect barriers to providing compensation to pharmacists for this role. Implementation science projects are needed to develop, refine, and evaluate the training and educational support required by pharmacists to expand their scope of practice. Health economics work is also needed to determine whether there are incremental financial benefits for pharmacies to provide injectable PrEP in addition to oral medications and to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of providing PrEP through telehealth. In response to RFA MH-25-185, we propose three specific aims. Aim 1 will build on a current supplement through the Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) initiative that is funding a pilot project to evaluate an online virtual community of practice (VCoP) for pharmacists and pharmacy staff to increase their knowledge, capabilities, and comfort in prescribing PrEP. Aims 2 and 3 will conduct financial analyses to provide information for new pharmacy implementation and use time and motion data to compare the costs and benefits of providing injectable PrEP versus oral PrEP and in-pharmacy visits versus telePrEP. This project addresses the Prevent pillar of the EHE plan with a secondary impact on the Diagnose pillar. This project also addresses the NIH HIV/AIDS Research Priorities (NOT-OD-20-018) to reduce HIV incidence by testing new prevention strategies and training the workforce. It is in synergy with the local EHE plan, the Washington State Department of Health, and the National HIV/AIDS Strategy. The national strategy specifically calls out to leverage pharmacists’ knowledge and accessibility in nearly every urban and rural community as part of a comprehensive HIV prevention and care strategy. Ultimately our goal is to provide more PrEP options and motivate pharmacists and pharmacy owners to expand access points for PrEP care in locations and to populations disproportionately impacted by HIV infection in order to end the HIV epidemic.

NINDS - National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Project Abstract Motor impairments are one of the first signs of atypical development in infants who go on to have autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and are more closely tied to abnormal neurobiological processes in ASD. Motor behavior has high potential to serve as a measurable early behavioral difference to advance early detection of ASD—a necessary step for access to earlier and more effective interventions. However, standardized assessments of infant motor function have not been able to capture motor behaviors that are specific to ASD due to their focus on categorical ratings of milestone-attainment that are present across many neurodevelopmental conditions. There is a critical need for methods that objectively capture deeper aspects of underlying infant movements that are more sensitive and specific to ASD outcomes. The current study aims to use wearable sensor technology and advanced computational techniques to develop and validate objective, specific, reliable, and scalable measures of infant motor function that serve as predictive biomarkers of ASD, with the ultimate goal of advancing earlier detection and intervention that can improve long-term outcomes in ASD. The proposed study will use wearable sensors to measure motor development in the first year of life in infants at increased likelihood for ASD (ILA, defined as having an older sibling with ASD). Our team’s preliminary data strongly supports a theoretical model that lower sensor-based quantitative measures of infant movement symmetry and variability are specifically associated with later ASD outcomes, and that lower infant movement variability in the first year of life is associated with later forming repetitive motor behaviors (RMB) seen in ASD. We will enroll 120 ILA infants and examine an external validation cohort of infants. Infants will be assessed at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months of age with wearable sensors worn on bilateral upper and lower extremities and with standardized motor and behavioral assessments. Behavioral measures of ASD symptoms and developmental level will occur at 12 and 24 months. The assessments from 3-12 months will occur in the infant’s home, capture ecologically valid movement data, and remove barriers for participation for rural and underserved populations that cannot easily access major academic areas. We will apply sophisticated signal processing and machine learning techniques on the multidimensional quantitative infant movement data collected to: (1) validate our existing quantitative measures of infant movement variability (complexity and curvature) and symmetry; (2) create and validate new quantitative measures that improve detection of atypical movement characteristics across different developmental stages; and (3) advance early detection of ASD by creating prediction models that include the quantitative measures of infant movements and measures of other atypical behaviors associated with ASD. We will further examine the performance of our prediction models in briefer time subsets that mirror pediatric well child visits. This study has great potential to advance our understanding of motor impairments in ASD and drive a paradigm shift in scalable ASD identification in the first year of life.

NIMH - National Institute of Mental Health

Modified Project Summary/Abstract Section More than 50% of people receiving HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) discontinue PrEP within 6 -12 months of initiation partly due to social and structural barriers, resulting in an unacceptable rate of new infections disproportionately affecting communities with less access to PrEP. While some may appropriately discontinue based on lifestyle changes, HIV seroconversion among those who discontinue is high, indicating premature discontinuation or lack of timely re-engagement in PrEP care. Despite identified barriers to PrEP persistence (encompassing retention and adherence), effective implementation strategies to support persistence are lacking compared to other steps of the HIV prevention continuum such as linkage and uptake. A greater understanding of patient preferences about PrEP persistence and re-engagement, with a focus on the factors most relevant to urban vs. rural clinics, is critical to creating innovative strategies to end the HIV epidemic. This research applies multidisciplinary methods to design and pilot-test preference-informed implementation strategies to improve PrEP persistence in urban and rural settings in Missouri, an Ending the HIV Epidemic priority state due to the burden of both urban and rural epidemics. This career development award will provide Dr. Aditi Ramakrishnan with the mentored training and research expertise to launch her career as an independent clinician-investigator leading the 1) design of preference-informed and community-engaged implementation strategies and 2) rigorous testing through implementation trials in urban and rural contexts. To achieve this goal, Dr. Ramakrishnan has assembled an expert mentoring team and proposed an impactful training plan to develop her skills in 1) stated preference methods for implementation science, 2) human-centered design and community-engaged research methods, and 3) implementation trial design. These training objectives complement a research study with the following Specific Aims: 1) Identify patient and provider preferences for HIV prevention strategies supporting persistence and re-engagement through a discrete choice experiment, 2) Design a multicomponent strategy, PREFER-PrEP, to improve persistence and re-engagement among individuals with ongoing indications for PrEP using human-centered design principles, and 3) Assess implementation outcomes (e.g., acceptability) and persistence (e.g., retention, adherence) of the PREFER-PrEP prototype. This study will leverage robust community-academic partnerships across urban and rural Missouri and provide preliminary data for an R01 application to test the PREFER-PrEP strategy through a Type 3 hybrid effectiveness-implementation cluster randomized controlled trial to optimize HIV prevention services. This career development award training, mentorship, and research, within the rich environment of Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, will position Dr. Ramakrishnan to independently lead the design and testing of preference-informed, community-engaged implementation strategies and interventions to improve HIV prevention in priority regions.

Fish and Wildlife Service

Partners for Conservation (PFC) is a national network of private landowners led by ranchers, farmers, and silviculturists who are champions of public-private conservation efforts to sustain working landscapes for wildlife, agricultural production, and rural communities. PFC was born through the proven success of working with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (Service) s Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program in the intermountain west to achieve positive wildlife benefits. PFC has grown into a powerful national conservation ally to the Service and its members have worked to conserve and restore hundreds of thousands of acres of wildlife habitat. PFC helps carry out the Service s model of strategic habitat conservation by acting as vital communicators and fostering a non-hostile environment for critical conversations to take place and productive relationships to develop to advance landscape-scale conservation. This project will involve three tasks: (1) hosting regional landowner engagement forums; (2) enhancing landowner-agency partnerships; and (3) work on an intra-Service "in-reach" education program targeted at partnerships with private landowners This funding opportunity is being awarded without competition to PFC due to their unique qualifications as a facilitator between the Service and private landowners, technical expertise, and landowner support capacity. Authorizing statues for this program include the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Act of 2006, 16 U.S.C. 3771-3774; the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956; 16 U.S.C. 742a-c, 742e-j; and the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act of 1958, 16 U.S.C. 661-667(e). The full text of this funding opportunity can be found under the "Related Documents" tab.

NIDA - National Institute on Drug Abuse

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Rural adolescents are more likely than their peers in urban areas to engage in high-risk substance use, including opioid misuse. Rural adolescents also face challenges accessing behavioral care because of limited clinics and providers in rural settings, including substance use care providers. External specialists may fill a critical gap in augmenting existing school-based services; however, challenges in cross-system coordination contribute to poor reach and retention in care. These challenges are particularly urgent given the need to treat opioid use disorder (OUD) and prevent escalation to OUD among high-risk adolescents with other substance use disorder (SUD) or behavioral health challenges. Research is needed to identify implementation strategies that support cross-system coordination without overburdening existing school staff. The proposed K23 will examine the implementation and effectiveness of an innovative community partnership—the Youth Substance Use Unit (YSU), a collaboration between schools and local substance use service providers that delivers services to adolescents with substance use problems at high schools on the rural Eastern Shore of Maryland. Guided by the Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance (RE-AIM) framework, the study has three aims: (1) identify determinants and opportunities to improve implementation of the YSU by conducting semi-structured interviews with constituents (e.g., school personnel, peer recovery specialists); (2) develop and adapt initial implementation strategies to improve reach and implementation of the YSU into rural schools based on constituent feedback using Implementation Mapping, a participatory approach to co-develop and specify implementation strategies; and (3) test the effectiveness and implementation of the YSU in Type 2 hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial using an adaptive-iterative design. The candidate is a clinical psychologist with a strong record of community-partnered research focused on improving behavioral health access for underserved youth. The proposed K23 will enable him to pivot to conducting addiction-focused research in rural settings. To ensure successful execution of the study and to prepare the candidate for an independent research career, four training aims are proposed: (1) effectiveness-implementation research for substance use prevention and intervention, (2) school-based and community-partnered implementation research (3) implementation strategy co-development and adaptation, and (4) qualitative and mixed-method approaches. Mentorship will be provided by a multidisciplinary team with expertise in implementation science, adolescent behavioral health and substance use, and community- and school-based research. This project will generate practical strategies to improve cross-system coordination and successfully implement adolescent substance use services in rural schools, ultimately helping to address OUD and other SUD among high-risk youth.

National Institutes of Health

Purpose. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institute on Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA), National Cancer Institute (NCI), and National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), solicits Research Project Grant (R01) applications from institutions/organizations that propose to conduct research to reduce health disparities among minority and underserved children. Specifically, this initiative focuses on ethnic and racial minority children and underserved populations of children such as: children from low literacy, rural and low-income populations, geographically isolated children, hearing and visually impaired children, physically or mentally disabled children, children of migrant workers, children from immigrant and refugee families, and language minority children. Specific targeted areas of research include biobehavioral studies that incorporate multiple factors that influence child health disparities such as biological (e.g., genetics, cellular, organ systems), lifestyle factors, environmental (physical and family environments), social (e.g., peer influences), economic, institutional, and cultural and family influences; studies that target the specific health promotion needs of children with a known illness and/or disability; and studies that test and evaluate the cost effectiveness of health promotion interventions conducted in nontraditional settings

National Institutes of Health

Purpose. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institute on Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA), National Cancer Institute (NCI), and National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), solicits Exploratory/Developmental Grant (R21) applications from institutions/organizations that propose to conduct research to reduce health disparities among minority and underserved children. Specifically, this initiative focuses on ethnic and racial minority children and underserved populations of children such as: children from low literacy, rural and low-income populations, geographically isolated children, hearing and visually impaired children, physically or mentally disabled children, children of migrant workers, children from immigrant and refugee families, and language minority children. Specific targeted areas of research include biobehavioral studies that incorporate multiple factors that influence child health disparities such as biological (e.g., genetics, cellular, organ systems), lifestyle factors, environmental (physical and family environments), social (e.g., peer influences), economic, institutional, and cultural and family influences; studies that target the specific health promotion needs of children with a known illness and/or disability; and studies that test and evaluate the cost effectiveness of health promotion interventions conducted in nontraditional settings.

Rural Utilities Service

This program provides grants to qualified private, non-profit entities to capitalize revolving funds for the purpose of providing financing to eligible entities for pre-development costs associated with proposed water and wastewater projects or with existing water and wastewater systems, and short-term costs incurred for replacement equipment, small-scale extension of services, or other small capital projects that are not part of the regular operations and maintenance activities of existing water and wastewater systems.

Rural Action

Community-led economic and environmental development in Appalachian Ohio

69A345 Office of the Under Secretary for Policy

New versions of the Notice of Funding Opportunity documents have been published on March 13, 2025 and are available under the "Related Documents" tab. Note that the application portal opening date has been rescheduled to March 18, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. ET. The purpose of this notice is to solicit applications for Rural and Tribal Assistance (RTA) Pilot Program grants. A total of $27 million is available to award for planning and design phase activities for developing transportation projects in rural or tribal communities. Grants will support hiring staff or expert firms to provide technical, legal, or financial assistance to advance transportation projects that would be reasonably expected to be eligible for select Department of Transportation discretionary grant or credit programs. There is no local match required to participate in this program. Grants are awarded on a first-come, first-served basis to eligible applicants with an eligible project who meet the merit criteria described in the Notice of Funding Opportunity. The application form to apply for Program funding will be available beginning at 2:00 p.m. ET on March 18, 2025 on the Program's webpage: https://www.transportation.gov/buildamerica/RuralandTribalGrants. This is the only place where applications can be submitted and will be accepted. Do not submit applications through grants.gov. A pdf (one each for Single Project and Multi-Community grants) of the application questions is included in the NOFO package available under the "Related Documents" tab of this grants.gov page and is also available on the Program's webpage link above. Two types of grants will be awarded: Single Project grants and Multi-Community grants, which will fund projects in, at minimum, three separate communities submitted under a single application. Single Project grants: $10 million available to award Min. award amount: $200,000 Max. award amount: $750,000 Multi-Community grants: $17 million available to award Min. award amount: $500,000 Max. award amount: $2.25 million $10 million of Program funding is set aside for tribal governments. Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply early, given the first-come, first-served award process. The application portal will close at 4:59 p.m. ET on April 17, 2025; however, award funding may be committed before this date. ** Section 21205 of Division B of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58) (Rural and Tribal Infrastructure Advancement) creates a pilot program to provide grants to fund financial, technical, and legal assistance to states and rural and tribal communities.

Rural Business-Cooperative Service

<p>The purpose of the program is to promote economic development and job creation projects through the awarding of grant funds to eligible entities.</p><p>Applications will compete in two separate categories, business opportunity grants and business enterprise grants, for use in funding various</p><p>business and community projects that serve rural areas.</p>

Rural Business-Cooperative Service

The purpose of the program is to promote economic development and job creation projects through the awarding of grant funds to eligible entities.Applications will compete in two separate categories, business opportunity grants and business enterprise grants, for use in funding variousbusiness and community projects that serve rural areas.