Ethnic Community Self Help Program

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Name of Grant	Link to the RFP	Deadline	Probability of Funding
Ethnic Community Self Help Program Funder: US Department of Health and Human Services-Administration for Children and Families	ETHNIC COMMUNITY	June 30, 2011	Requested from Program Officer

Amount Available Per Grant:  Up to $250,000 per year for 3 years.

Number of Awards:  15

General Eligibility:  Public or private nonprofit agencies and faith-based community organizations.

Any Evaluation Limitations?:  None Cited

Is there an Eligibility List?:  No

Cost Share:  Not Required

How Funding Can be Used:  Office of Refugee Resettlement’s (ORR) intended purpose is to build bridges among refugee communities and community resources in order to enhance services to refugees.  Therefore, the objective of this program is to provide assistance to organized ethnic communities comprised and representative of refugee populations.

ORR is interested in proposal’s that address community building, facilitate cultural adjustment and integration of refugees, and deliver mutually supportive functions such as information exchange, civic participation, resource enhancement, orientation and support to newly arriving refugees and public education to the larger community on the background, needs and potential of refugees.

Respondents to this announcement will be of two general types:  national or multi-site ethnic organizations that propose to develop or strengthen local ethnic groups and/or a national network of ethnic entities for purposes of linking refugees to community resources and promoting and strengthening community participation; or emerging local ethnic communities that seek to function as bridges between newly arrived refugees and mainstream local resources and organizations.

Please contact me by phone at 505.402.3915 or via email (development@grantwriters.net) as soon as possible to discuss the details. I look forward to hearing from you and, please, keep Resource Associates in mind for all your grant writing needs.

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John Nawrocki, Business Development Manager
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Link to Full RFP: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2011-ACF-ORR-RE-017