Federal Grants beginning with the letters A-D
All Federal Grants beginning with the letters A-D are listed below. Click a letter to jump to the letter you're interested in.
Abandoned Infants
To develop, implement and operate projects that demonstrate how to: (1) Prevent the abandonment of infants and young children exposed to HIV/AIDS and drugs, including the provision of services to family members for any conditions that increased the...
Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation (amlr) Program
To protect the public and correct the environmental damage caused by coal and noncoal mining practices that occurred prior to August 3, 1977.
Abstinence Education
To enable States to provide abstinence education and, at the option of the State, where appropriate, mentoring, counseling, and adult supervision to promote abstinence from sexual activity, with a focus on groups that are most likely to bear...
Academic Competitiveness Grants
To provide eligible first and second-year full-time undergraduates who have completed a rigorous course of study in high school with need-based grant assistance to help meet educational expenses.
Academic Research Enhancement Award
The AREA program has three objectives: (a) To develop the research environment at "smaller, less prominent, four-year, public and private colleges and universities which provide baccalaureate or advanced training for a significant number of our...
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (aids) Activity
To develop and implement HIV prevention programs of public information and education.
Adjustable Rate Mortgages
To provide mortgage insurance for an adjustable rate mortgage which offers lenders more assurance of long term profitability than a fixed rate mortgage, while offering consumer protection features.
Administrative Cost Grants for Indian Schools
To provide grants to tribes and tribal organizations operating schools for the purpose of paying administrative and indirect costs.
Adolescent Family Life Research Grants
To encourage and support research projects and dissemination activities concerning the societal causes and consequences of adolescent sexual activity, contraceptive use, pregnancy and child rearing. To determine ways to alleviate, eliminate or...
Adolescent Family Life-demonstration Projects
To establish innovative, comprehensive, and integrated approaches to the delivery of care services for pregnant and parenting adolescents with primary emphasis on adolescents who are under 17 years of age. To promote abstinence from sexual...
Adoption Assistance
To provide Federal Financial Participation (FFP) to States in adoption subsidy costs for the adoption of children with special needs and who meet certain eligibility tests.
Adoption Incentive Payments
To provide incentives to States to increase annually the number of foster child adoptions and special needs adoptions.
Adoption Opportunities
To provide financial support for demonstration projects to improve adoption practices; to gather information on adoptions; and to provide training and technical assistance to improve adoption services.
Adult Education-national Leadership Activities
To support applied research, development, demonstration, dissemination, evaluation, and related activities that contribute to the improvement and expansion of adult basic education nationally.
Adult Education-state Grant Program
To fund local programs of adult education and literacy services, including workplace literacy services, family literacy services, and English literacy and civics education programs. Participation in these programs is limited to adults and...
Adult Viral Hepatitis Prevention and Control
To assist State and local health agencies, health related organizations and other governmental and nongovernmental organizations in their efforts to decrease the incidence of new infections of hepatitis A, hepatitis B and hepatitis C viruses and to...
Advanced Education Nursing Grant Program
Grants are awarded to eligible institutions for projects that support the enhancement of advanced nursing education and practice including master's and doctoral programs, combined RN/ master's degree programs, post-nursing master's certificate...
Advanced Education Nursing Traineeships
Grants are awarded to eligible institutions to provide financial support through traineeships for registered nurses enrolled in advanced education nursing programs to prepare nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse midwives, nurse...
Advanced Placement Program
Award grants to States support State and local efforts to increase access to advance placement classes and tests for low-income students and to cover part or all of the cost of test fees for low-income students enrolled in advanced placement...
Advanced Technology Program
To work in partnership with industry to foster the development and broad dissemination of challenging, high-risk technologies that offer the potential for significant, broad-based economic benefits for the nation.
Aerospace Education Services Program
NASA's Aerospace Education Services Program (AESP) is a specialized group of educators using NASA's unique assets to support local, state, regional and national mathematics, science, and technology education systemic change efforts through...
Affordable Housing Development In Main Street Rejuvenation Projects
To assist small communities in the rejuvenation of historic or traditional central business districts or "Main Street Areas" by replacing unused commercial space in buildings with Affordable housing units. The objectives of the program are to: 1)...
African Elephant Conservation
To provide financial assistance to any organization or individual responsible for African elephant conservation, and any organization or individual with experience in African elephant conservation, for approved elephant conservation projects to...
Aging Research
To encourage biomedical, social, and behavioral research and research training directed toward greater understanding of the aging process and the diseases, special problems, and needs of people as they age. The National Institute on Aging has...
Agricultural and Rural Economic Research
To provide economic and other social science information and analysis for public and private decisions on agriculture, food, natural resources, and rural America. ERS produces such information for use by the general public and to help the executive...
Agricultural Health and Safety Programs
Centers for Agricultural Research: To address the research, education, and intervention activities that are unique to agriculture by establishing centers for agricultural research, education, and disease and injury prevention. Musculoskeletal: To...
Agricultural Inspection
To protect U.S. agriculture from economically injurious plant and animal diseases and pests.
Agricultural Management Assistance
To provide cost-share assistance to producers on private lands through contracts to construct or improve water management structures or irrigation structures; plant trees for windbreaks or to improve water quality; and mitigate financial risk...
Agricultural Market and Economic Research
To conduct cooperative economic research and analyses in support of the Office of the Chief Economist's responsibility to advise the Secretary of Agriculture on the economic implications of Department policies, programs, and proposed legislation....
Agricultural Research-basic and Applied Research
To make agricultural research discoveries, evaluate alternative ways of attaining research goals, and provide scientific technical information.
Agricultural Statistics Reports
To formulate, develop, and administer programs for collecting and publishing statistics related to agriculture, resources, and rural communities.
Agriculture on Indian Lands
To protect and restore the agronomic and rangeland resources on trust lands and facilitate the development of renewable agricultural resources.
Aid to Tribal Governments
To provide funds to Indian tribal governments to support general tribal government operations, to maintain up-to-date tribal enrollment, to conduct tribal elections, and to develop appropriate tribal policies, legislation, and regulations.
Aids Education and Training Centers
To: (1) Provide education and training to primary care providers and others on the treatment and prevention of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), in collaboration with health professions schools, local hospitals, and health departments; (2)...
Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program
To maintain technological superiority in the scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs; to prevent technological surprise to our nation and create it for our adversaries; to maintain a strong research infrastructure composed of Air Force...
Air Information Center
To provide information on the published literature on air pollution and to provide copies of EPA (and to a limited degree, other) publications as long as supplies last.
Air Pollution Control Program Support
To assist State, Tribal, Municipal, Intermunicipal, and Interstate agencies in planning, developing, establishing, improving, and maintaining adequate programs for prevention and control of air pollution or implementation of national primary and...
Air Transportation Centers of Excellence
To conduct long term continuing research in specific areas of aviation related technology. Responsibilities of Centers may include the conduct of research concerning catastrophic failure of aircraft, airspace and airport planning and design,...
Airport Checked Baggage Screening Program
To support U.S. commercial airports in implementing and maintaining security compliance requirements and capabilities related to in-line Baggage Handling System electronic explosive detection screening of checked baggage, as mandated by the Aviation...
Airport Improvement Program
To assist sponsors, owners, or operators of public-use airports in the development of a nationwide system of airports adequate to meet the needs of civil aeronautics.
Airway Science
To assist recognized colleges and/or universities in the need for facilities and equipment for Airway Science (AWS) curriculum students.
Alaska Coastal Marine Institute
The Minerals Management Service Offshore Minerals Management and Minerals Revenue Management programs provide major economic and energy benefits on a national and local level to the taxpayers, states and the American Indian community. The Offshore...
Alaska Migratory Bird Co-management Council
To facilitate and administer regional programs to involve subsistence hunters of migratory birds in the management and regulation of migratory birds.
Alaska Native Educational Programs
To support projects that recognize and address the unique educational needs of Alaska Native students, parents and teachers.
Alaska Native Serving and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions Education Grants
To recruit, support and educate under-represented scientists and professionals, and to advance the educational capacity of the Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian (AN/NH) Serving Institutions.
Alaska Native/native Hawaiian Institutions Assisting Communities
To help Alaska Native Institutions (ANIs) of higher education and Native Hawaiian Institutions (NHIs)of higher education enhance their role and effectiveness in addressing community development needs in their localities, including neighborhood...
Alaska Salmon Enhancement
This is a cooperative program that assists in fulfilling Federal responsibilities under the Pacific Salmon Treaty by restoring Southeast Alaska salmon harvests limited by the treaty and by restoring salmon stocks as quickly as possible. It also...
Alaska Subsistence Management
To assist in the management of fish and wildlife, on federal lands in Alaska, for subsistence use by providing for projects of partnership within the ranges of those fish and wildlife species as designated by ANILCA.
Alaskan Indian Allotments and Subsistence Preference-alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act
To fulfill the directives prescribed in the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) which affect Alaska Natives and their allotments. The Bureau of Indian Affairs is responsible for assisting Alaska Native applicants acquire title...
Alcohol National Research Service Awards for Research Training
To assure the maintenance of an adequate supply of well-trained alcohol researchers through the provision of both individual fellowships and grants to training institutions for support of training at both the predoctoral and postdoctoral levels and...
Alcohol Open Container Requirements
To encourage States to enact and enforce an alcohol open container law.
Alcohol Research Career Development Awards for Scientists and Clinicians
To provide support for increased research experience relating to the problems of alcohol abuse and alcoholism prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation; and to raise the level of competence and increase the number of individuals engaged in such...
Alcohol Research Center Grants
To provide long-term support for a concerted and multi-disciplinary research effort into the problems of alcohol use and alcoholism by coordinating the activities of investigators from biomedical, behavioral, and social science disciplines around a...
Alcohol Research Programs
To develop a sound fundamental knowledge base which can be applied to the development of improved methods of treatment and more effective strategies for preventing alcoholism and alcohol-related problems. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and...
Alcohol Traffic Safety and Drunk Driving Prevention Incentive Grants
To encourage States to adopt effective programs to reduce crashes resulting from persons driving while under the influence of alcohol and other controlled substances.
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms - Training Assistance
To help the participant identify the laws relating to alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives, and provide training in specific investigative skills and techniques, and to help State, county, and local law enforcement officers improve their law...
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms-training Assistance
To help the participant identify the laws relating to alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives, and provide training in specific investigative skills and techniques, and to help State, county, and local law enforcement officers improve their law...
All-volunteer Force Educational Assistance
To help servicepersons readjust to civilian life after their separation from military service. Assist in the recruitment and retention of highly qualified personnel in the active and reserve components in the Armed Forces by providing education...
Allergy, Immunology and Transplantation Research
To assist public and private nonprofit institutions and individuals to establish, expand, and improve biomedical research and research training in allergic and immunologic diseases and related areas to assist public, private, and commercial...
Allied Health Special Projects
Grants are awarded to assist eligible entities in meeting the costs associated with expanding or establishing programs that will: (1) Expand enrollments in allied health disciplines that are in short supply or whose services are most needed by the...
Alternative Housing Pilot Program
Evaluate the efficacy of non-traditional short and intermediate-term housing alternatives for potential future use in a catastrophic disaster environment. Identify, develop and evaluate alternatives to and alternative forms of FEMA Disaster Housing...
Alternative or Innovative Treatment Technology Research, Demonstration, Training, and Hazardous Substance Research Grants
To support grants and cooperative agreements for (1) a program of research, evaluation, testing, development, and demonstration of alternative or innovative treatment technologies which may be utilized in response actions to achieve more permanent...
Alternatives Analysis
To assist in financing the evaluation of all reasonable modal and multimodal alternatives and general alignment options for identified transportation needs in a particular, broadly defined travel corridor.
Alternatives to Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities for Children
Over the last decade, Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTFs) have become the primary provider for youth with serious emotional disturbances requiring an institutional level of care. However, since they are not recognized as hospitals,...
Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Grants to States
To assist States in creating a system of dementia care for persons with Alzheimer's disease and their families, by carrying out demonstration projects for planning, establishing, and operating programs to: (1) Create models of assistance for persons...
Ambassadors for Change Program
To provide recognition and funding to the graduating National Centers of Excellence in Women's Health and the National Community Centers of Excellence in Women's Health programs to enhance their women's health program through the integration of...
American Battlefield Protection
Promote the protection and preservation of battlefield lands on American soil by funding non-acquisition preservation methods such as planning, education, survey and inventory.
American Council of Young Political Leaders
To enable emerging political leaders in the U.S. to experience firsthand the political and cultural dynamics of other countries; to offer politically active young people in other countries a similar experience in the United States.
American Overseas Research Centers
To enable American overseas research centers, that are consortia of higher education institutions, to promote postgraduate research, exchanges, and area studies.
Americans with Disabilities Act Technical Assistance Program
To ensure that public accommodations and commercial facilities and State and local governments learn of the requirements of Titles II and III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and acquire the knowledge needed to comply voluntarily with...
Americorps
AmeriCorps is the cornerstone of the Corporation's national service programs. AmeriCorps addresses pressing education, public safety, human, and environmental needs of our Nation's communities by encouraging Americans to serve either part or...
Anadromous Fish Conservation Act Program
To cooperate with the States and other nonfederal interests in the conservation, development, and enhancement of the nation's Anadromous fish stocks and the fish in the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain that ascend streams to spawn, and for the control...
Animal Health and Disease Research
To support animal health and disease research at eligible Schools and Colleges of Veterinary Medicine, and State Agricultural Experiment Stations whose purpose is to improve the health and productivity of food animals and horses through effective...
Anti-gang Initiative
To provide support for new and expanded anti-gang enforcement and prevention activities under the Project Safe Neighborhood Initiative (PSN).
Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program
To provide assistance programs for victims of mass violence and terrorism occurring within and outside the United States and a compensation program for victims of international terrorism.
Appalachian Area Development
To help the regional economy become more competitive by putting in place the building blocks for self-sustaining economic development, while continuing to provide special assistance to the Region's most distressed counties. This program focuses on...
Appalachian Development Highway System
To provide a highway system which, in conjunction with other federally-aided highways, will open up areas with development potential within Appalachia where commerce and communication have been inhibited by lack of adequate access.
Appalachian Local Access Roads
To provide access to industrial, commercial, educational, recreational, residential, and related transportation facilities which directly or indirectly relate to the improvement of the areas determined by the States to have significant development...
Appalachian Local Development District Assistance
To provide planning and development resources in multicounty areas; to help develop the technical competence essential to sound development assistance; and to meet the objectives stated under the program entitled Appalachian Regional Development...
Appalachian Regional Development (see Individual Appalachian Programs)
To create opportunities for self-sustaining economic development and an improved quality of life for the people of Appalachia through joint Federal-State-local efforts; to stimulate investments in public services and facilities that will attract...
Appalachian State Research, Technical Assistance, and Demonstration Projects
To expand the knowledge of the region to the fullest extent possible by means of State-sponsored research (including investigations, studies, technical assistance and demonstration projects) in order to assist the Commission in accomplishing the...
Applied Meteorological Research
Through the Collaborative Science, Technology, and Applied Research (CSTAR) program, the NWS provides funding to the university community for highly collaborative applied research activities. The CSTAR program creates a cost-effective transition...
Applied Science Program Cooperative Agreements Related to Coal Mining and Reclamation
To support of two efforts: (1) develop and demonstrate improved technologies to address public safety and environmental issues related to the mining of coal and reclamation of the lands affected after mining; and (2) encourage efforts to collect,...
Applied Toxicological Research and Testing
To develop scientific information about potentially toxic and hazardous chemicals by concentrating on toxicological research, testing and test development, and validation efforts. Specific goals of the program include the determination of the...
Aquaculture Program
The development of commercially feasible technology for high-value marine finfish in the United States. The ultimate goal of the Hawaiian Fisheries Development project is to increase the availability of marine finfish for aquaculture and stock...
Aquatic Plant Control
To provide for the cooperation of the Army Corps of Engineers with State and local government agencies in the control of obnoxious aquatic plants in rivers, harbors, and allied waters.
Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board
To enforce Federal laws requiring accessibility for persons with disabilities in certain federally funded buildings and facilities throughout the Nation; set guidelines and requirements for accessibility standards prescribed by Federal agencies. ...
Architectural Barriers Act Enforcement
To provide that facilities financed, constructed, altered or leased by the Federal government with specific design standards shall be accessible to persons with physical disabilities.
Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Research
To support research relevant to arthritis, musculoskeletal and skin diseases, the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) supports research training and basic and clinical investigations including epidemiology...
Arts and Artifacts Indemnity
To provide for indemnification against loss or damage for eligible art works, artifacts, and objects 1) when borrowed from abroad on exhibition in the U.S.; 2) when borrowed from the U.S. for exhibition abroad, preferably when there is an exchange...
Arts In Education
To provide competitive grants that: Improve systemic education reform by strengthening arts education as an integral part of the elementary/secondary school curriculum; ensure that all students have the opportunity to learn to challenge State...
Asian Elephant Conservation
To provide financial assistance to any organization or individual responsible for Asian elephant conservation, and any organization or individual with experience in Asian elephant conservation, for approved elephant conservation projects to support...
Assessment and Watershed Protection Program Grants
To support the coordination and acceleration of research, investigations, experiments, training, demonstrations, surveys, and studies relating to the causes, effects (including health and welfare effects), extent, prevention, reduction, and...
Assistance for Indian Children with Severe Disabilities
To provide for the special education and related services of Indian children with severe disabilities.
Assistance Programs for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control
To work with State health agencies and other public and private nonprofit organizations in planning, developing, integrating, coordinating, or evaluating programs to prevent and control chronic diseases; assist in monitoring the major behavioral...
Assistance to Firefighters Grant
To provide direct assistance, on a competitive basis, to fire departments of a State or tribal nation for the purpose of protecting the health and safety of the public and firefighting personnel against fire and fire-related hazards.
Assistance to High Energy Cost-rural Communities
Assistance to rural communities with extremely high energy costs.
Assistance to Small and Disadvantaged Businesses
To enter into successful partnerships between OSDBU and chambers of commerce, community-based organizations, colleges and universities, community colleges, or trade associations, to establish regional Small Business Transportation Resource Centers...
Assistance to Small Shipyards
To award grants for capital improvements and related infrastructure improvements at qualified shipyards that will facilitate the efficiency, cost effectiveness, and quality of domestic ship construction for commercial and Federal Government use.
Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes
To provide financial support to Water Resources Research Institutes located at designated State universities in each of the 50 States, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern...
Assistance to Torture Victims
To provide services and rehabilitation for victims of torture, with a special emphasis on timely and appropriate services to asylum applicants entering the United States that have been recent victims of torture. Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)...
Assistance to Tribally Controlled Community Colleges and Universities
To provide grants for the operation and improvement of tribally controlled community colleges to insure continued and expanded educational opportunities for Indian students, and to allow for the improvement and expansion of the physical resources of...
Assisted Living Conversion for Eligible Multifamily Housing Projects
To provide private nonprofit owners of eligible developments designed for the elderly with a grant to allow the conversion of some or all of the dwelling units in the project into Assisted Living Facilities (ALF's) serving frail elderly, as defined...
Assistive Technology
To provide grants to States to support capacity building and advocacy activities, designed to assist the States in maintaining permanent comprehensive, consumer responsive Statewide programs of technology-related assistance for individuals with...
Assistive Technology-state Grants for Protection and Advocacy
To support protection and advocacy services through the systems established to provide protection and advocacy services under the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and bill of Rights Act for the purpose of assisting the acquisition, utilization,...
Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Management Act
To provide assistance to eligible States and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission in order to support and encourage the development, implementation, and enforcement of effective interstate conservation and management of Atlantic Coastal...
Attestations by Employers Using Non-immigrant Aliens In Specialty Occupations
To provide greater protection for U.S. and foreign workers without interfering with an employer's right to obtain temporary aliens to work in specialty occupations.
Attorney Fees-indian Rights
To assist Federally Recognized Tribes in protecting their treaty rights and other rights established through Executive Order or court action.
Automobiles and Adaptive Equipment for Certain Disabled Veterans and Members of the Armed Forces
To provide financial assistance to certain disabled servicepersons and veterans toward the purchase price of an automobile or other conveyance and an additional amount for adaptive equipment deemed necessary to insure the eligible person will be...
Avian Influenza Indemnity Program
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) administers regulations at 9 CFR part 53 that provide for the payment of indemnity to owners of animals that are required to be destroyed...
Aviation Education
To promote "Aviation Knowledge through Education"; create a public awareness of the need to promote the development and enhancement of education in aviation; establish a civil aviation information distribution program within each region and center...
Aviation Research Grants
To encourage and support innovative, advanced, and applied research and development in areas of potential benefit to the long-term growth of civil aviation security.
Aviation Research Grants
To encourage and support innovative, advanced, and applied research and development in areas of potential benefit to the long-term growth of civil aviation.
Baccalaureate Degrees In Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Critical Foreign Languages and Master's Degrees In Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Critical Foreign Languages
To award grants to develop and implement programs that provide courses of study in science, technology, engineering, mathematics or critical foreign languages that are integrated with teacher education and lead to a baccalaureate or master's degree...
Bank Enterprise Award Program
To encourage insured depository institutions to increase their level of community development activities in the form of loans, investments, services and technical assistance within distressed communities and to provide assistance to community...
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Program
To honor former Senator Barry Goldwater through the operation of an education scholarship program, financed by a permanent trust fund endowment, designed to encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, and...
Basic Scientific Research - Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction
To support and stimulate basic, applied and advanced research and technology development at educational or research institutions, non-profit organizations, and commercial firms, which support the advancement of fundamental knowledge and...
Basic and Applied Scientific Research
To support basic and applied research at educational or research institutions, which has a potential for leading to the improvement of naval operations, and to support training and stimulation of future researchers in science and engineering...
Basic Scientific Research
To support basic research that is related to or has potential for leading to the improvement of Army programs or operations.
Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research In Science and Engineering
To: (1) Discover new knowledge and gain better understanding in mathematical, physical, engineering, environmental, and life sciences, and other fields with good, long-term potential for contributing to technology for Department of Defense...
Basic/core Area Health Education Centers
To assist schools to improve the distribution, supply and quality of health personnel in the health services delivery system by encouraging the regionalization of health professions schools and also includes health careers programs for 9-12 grade...
Beach Erosion Control Projects
To control beach and shore erosion to public shores through projects not specifically authorized by Congress.
Beach Monitoring and Notification Program Implementation Grants
To assist Coastal and Great Lakes States, territories and Indian Tribes eligible under Section 518(e) of the Clean Water Act, as amended, in developing and implementing programs for monitoring and notification for coastal recreation waters adjacent...
Benjamin Gilman International Scholarship
To provide financial assistance to U.S. undergraduates to pursue study abroad.
Bilingual Education-professional Development
To provide financial support for programs designed to meet the training needs for additional or better trained education personnel in Bilingual Education, including support for program improvement and, in certain cases, financial support for...
Bilingual/bicultural Service Demonstration Grants
To improve and expand the capacity for linguistic and cultural competence of health care professionals and paraprofessionals working with Limited-English-Proficient (LEP) minority communities and improve the accessibility and utilization of health...
Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust
To provide for a Trust solely to meet emergency humanitarian food needs in developing countries, the Secretary of Agriculture shall establish a trust stock of wheat, rice, corn, or sorghum, or any combination of the commodities, totaling not more...
Biobased Transportation Research
Carry out biobased research of national importance at the National Biodiesel Board and at research centers identified in section 9011 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8109).
Biodiesel
To educate governmental and private entities that operate vehicle fleets, other interested entities (as determined by the Secretary), and the public about the benefits of biodiesel fuel use.
Bioenergy Program
The goals of the Bioenergy Program are to encourage increased purchases of eligible commodities for the purpose of expanding production of such bioenergy and support new production capacity for such bioenergy.
Bioengineering Research
To support hypothesis, design, technology, or devise-driven research relation to the discovery, design, development, translation and assessment of technologies in bioengineering. The Bioengineering Program includes biomaterials (biomimetics,...
Biological Response to Environmental Health Hazards
To focus on understanding how chemical and physical agents cause pathological changes in molecules, cells, tissues, and organs and become manifested as respiratory disease, neurological, behavioral and developmental abnormalities, cancer, and other...
Biological Sciences
To promote the progress of the biological sciences and thereby strengthen the Nation's scientific enterprise; to increase scientific knowledge and enhance understanding of major problems confronting the Nation. Most of the research supported is...
Biomedical Imaging Research
To support hypothesis-, design-, technology-, or devise-driven research relation to the discovery, design, development, validation, and application of technologies related to biomedical imaging and bioengineering. The program includes biomaterials...
Biomedical Research and Research Training
To support basic biomedical research that is not targeted to specific diseases or disorders. Because scientific breakthroughs often originate from such untargeted studies, NIGMS-funded work has contributed substantially to the tremendous progress...
Biometry and Risk Estimation-health Risks from Environmental Exposures
To conduct a broad-scale effort in biometry and risk estimation. Most of the research conducted by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in statistics, biomathematics, epidemiology, and risk estimation is directed towards...
Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research
To carry out research focused on environmental effects of biotechnology.
Bioterrorism Training and Curriculum Development Program
To equip a workforce of healthcare professionals to address emergency preparedness and response issues. The goals of this program are the development of a healthcare workforce that possesses the knowledge, skills and abilities to: (1) recognize...
Blind Rehabilitation Centers
To provide personal and social adjustment programs and medical or health-related services for eligible blinded veterans at selected VA Medical Centers maintaining blind rehabilitation centers.
Block Grants for Community Mental Health Services
To provide financial assistance to States and Territories to enable them to carry out the State's Plan for providing comprehensive community mental health services to adults with a serious mental illness and to children with a serious emotional...
Block Grants for Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse
To provide financial assistance to States and Territories to support projects for the development and implementation of prevention, treatment and rehabilitation activities directed to the diseases of alcohol and drug abuse.
Blood Diseases and Resources Research
To foster research for the prevention, improved diagnosis, and treatment of non-malignant blood diseases such as Coolie's anemia, sickle cell disease, hemophilia, hemochromatosis, and disorders of hemostasis and thrombosis; to support research on...
Boating Safety
To improve safe operations and uses of water craft.
Boating Safety Financial Assistance
To encourage greater State participation and uniformity in boating safety, particularly to permit the States to assume the greater share of boating safety education, assistance, and enforcement activities, and to assist the States in developing,...
Boll Weevil Eradication Loan Program
To assist producers and State governmental agencies to eradicate boll weevils from the United States.
Bond Guarantees for Surety Companies
To guarantee surety bonds issued by commercial surety companies for small contractors unable to obtain a bond without a guarantee. Guarantees are for up to 90 percent of the losses incurred and paid by participating sureties if certain conditions...
Bonding Assistance Program
To enhance and further the opportunity for Small and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (SDBEs) to obtain bid, performance and payment bonds for transportation-related contracts emanating from the DOT, its grantees, recipients, their contractors and...
Books for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
To provide library service to the blind and physically handicapped residents of the United States and its Territories, and to American citizens living abroad.
Border Enforcement Grants
To ensure motor carriers operating commercial vehicles entering the United States from a foreign country are in compliance with commercial vehicle safety standards and regulations, financial responsibility regulations and registration requirements...
Border Infrastructure Improvement Projects
To implement border security infrastructure improvement projects and initiatives by providing funding, technical assistance and other resources to border communities.
Bridge Alteration
To accomplish alteration of obstructive bridges to render navigation through or under it reasonably free, easy, and unobstructed for the benefit of navigation. In accordance with the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1996, permanent authority exists...
Brookwood-sago Grant
To provide mine safety and health training and education programs for workers and mine operators, to better identify, avoid, and prevent unsafe working conditions in and around mines. To establish and implement education and training programs, or...
Brownfield Job Training Cooperative Agreements
The objective of the Brownfield Job Training Cooperative Agreements is to provide training to facilitate assessment, remediation, or preparation of brownfield sites. A brownfield site is "real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of...
Brownfields Assessment and Cleanup Cooperative Agreements
Brownfield sites are real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. The objectives of the brownfield assessment and...
Brownfields Training, Research, and Technical Assistance Grants and Cooperative Agreements
To support grants and cooperative agreements for a program of training, research, and technical assistance to individuals and organizations to facilitate the inventory of brownfields properties, assessments, cleanup of brownfields properties,...
Buffer Zone Protection Plan (bzpp)
The Buffer Zone Protection Plan (BZPP) will provide funding for the planning, equipment, and management of protective actions, with the objective of protecting, securing, and reducing the vulnerabilities of identified critical infrastructure and key...
Buildings and Facilities Program
This is a construction grants program designed to improve and modernize program facilities to assist recipients in better responding to current challenges and opportunities in the food and agricultural sciences.
Bulletproof Vest Partnership Program
To protect the lives of law enforcement officers by helping State, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies provide officers with armored vests.
Bureau of Indian Affairs Facilities-operations and Maintenance
To provide funds for basic operating services to Bureau-owned or Bureau-operated non-education facilities and to maintain these facilities in a safe operating condition for the conduct of Bureau programs.
Burial Expenses Allowance for Veterans
To provide a monetary allowance not to exceed $300 toward the plot or interment expense for certain veterans not buried in a national cemetery. Up to $300 as a burial allowance is payable toward the burial expense of certain veterans. If death is...
Business and Industry Loans
To assist public, private, or cooperative organizations (profit or nonprofit), Indian tribes or individuals in rural areas to obtain quality loans for the purpose of improving, developing or financing business, industry, and employment and...
Business and International Education Projects
To promote innovation and improvement in international business education curricula at institutions of higher education (IHEs) and promote linkages between IHEs and the business community.
Business Development Assistance to Small Business
To help the prospective, as well as the present small business person improve skills to manage and operate a business.
Byrd Honors Scholarships
To provide scholarships to support postsecondary education to outstanding high school seniors who show promise of continued academic achievement in an effort to recognize and promote student excellence and achievement.
Byrne Formula Grant Program
To reduce and prevent illegal drug activity, crime, and violence and to improve the functioning of the criminal justice system.
Calibration Program
To provide a consistent system of physical measurement in the United States of America.
California Water Security and Environmental Enhancement
The purpose of the CALFED Bay-Delta Authorization Act is to authorize the Secretary of the Interior and the heads of the other Federal implementing agencies to carry out specific activities identified in the Act in furtherance of the CALFED...
Cancer Biology Research
To provide fundamental information on the cause and nature of cancer in man, with the expectation that this will result in better methods of prevention, detection and diagnosis, and treatment of neoplastic diseases. Cancer Biology Research includes...
Cancer Cause and Prevention Research
To identify those factors that cause cancer in man; and to develop mechanisms for preventing cancer in man. The following research programs are included: epidemiology, chemical and physical carcinogenesis, biological carcinogenesis, nutrition,...
Cancer Centers Support Grants
To provide an organizational focus and stimulus for the highest quality cancer research that effectively promotes interdisciplinary cancer research aimed toward the ultimate goal of reducing cancer incidence, mortality and morbidity. The Cancer...
Cancer Construction
To renovate existing cancer research facilities and build new cancer research facilities to meet basic and clinical space requirements, laboratory safety, biohazard containment, and animal care standards in order to support the facility demands of...
Cancer Control
To reduce cancer incidence, morbidity, and mortality through an orderly sequence from research on interventions and their impact in defined populations to the broad, systematic application of the research results through dissemination and diffusion...
Cancer Detection and Diagnosis Research
To improve screening and early detection strategies and to develop accurate diagnostic techniques and methods for predicting the course of disease in cancer patients. Screening and Early Detection research includes development of strategies to...
Cancer Research Manpower
To make available support to nonprofit and for-profit institutions interested in providing biomedical training opportunities for individuals interested in careers in basic, clinical, and prevention research important to the National Cancer Program....
Cancer Treatment Research
To develop the means to cure as many cancer patients as possible and to control the disease in those patients who are not cured. Cancer Treatment Research includes the development and evaluation of improved methods of cancer treatment through the...
Capacity Building Among American Indian Tribes
To address the Tribal public health issues that result from hazardous substances in the environment by: 1) building Tribal environmental health capacity 2) addressing health issues from releases of hazardous substances into the environment, and 3)...
Capacity Building for Traditionally Underserved Populations
To enhance the capacity and increase the participation of historically Black colleges and universities, Hispanic serving institutions of higher education, and other institutions of higher education where minority enrollment is at least 50 percent,...
Capacity Building Grants and Cooperative Agreements for Compliance Assurance and Enforcement Activities In Indian Country and Other Tribal Areas
To build and improve the capacity of federally-recognized Indian tribal governments (tribes), inter-tribal consortia, or tribal organizations by providing financial resources to foster environmental enforcement and compliance assurance activities...
Capacity Building Grants and Cooperative Agreements for Compliance Assurance and Enforcement Activities In Indian Country and Other Tribal Areas
that compliance assurance and enforcement at tribal schools, drinking water, and waste management are significant focus areas, these resources may also be made available for other, targeted compliance assurance and enforcement activity in Indian...
Capacity Building Grants and Cooperative Agreements for States and Tribes
To build and improve the capacity of States, multi-jurisdictional State organizations and federally recognized tribes by providing assistance agreements to foster environmental enforcement and compliance assurance activities and to improve...
Capital and Training Assistance Program for Over-the-road Bus Accessibility
To make funds available to private operators of over-the-road buses to finance the incremental capital and training costs of complying with requirements of the Department of Transportation's over-the-road bus accessibility rule, "Transportation for...
Capital Assistance Program for Elderly Persons and Persons with Disabilities
To provide financial assistance in meeting the transportation needs of elderly persons and persons with disabilities where public transportation services are unavailable, insufficient or inappropriate. The Section 5310 program is designed to...
Capital Assistance to States - Intercity Passenger Rail Service
To provide financial assistance to fund capital improvements (and related planning activities) necessary to support improved or new intercity passenger rail service.
Capital Case Litigation
To provide attorneys and judges who litigate death penalty cases, with specialized legal training and technical assistance on death penalty issues in an effort to improve the quality of representation, produce reliable jury verdicts and minimize...
Capital Construction Fund
To provide for replacement vessels, additional vessels or reconstructed vessels, built and documented under the laws of the United States for operation in the United States foreign, Great Lakes or noncontiguous domestic trades.
Capitalization Grants for Clean Water State Revolving Funds
To create State Revolving Funds (SRFs) through a program of capitalization grants to States which will provide a long term source of State financing for construction of wastewater treatment facilities and implementation of other water quality...
Capitalization Grants for Drinking Water State Revolving Funds
Grants made to States capitalize their Drinking Water State Revolving Funds (DWSRFs) which will provide a long-term source of State financing for the costs of drinking water infrastructure. Funding Priority: The funding priority established by...
Census Bureau Data Products
To provide statistical results of censuses, surveys, and other programs on the Internet, in printed reports, floppy discs, CD-ROMs, DVDs and online, and to provide maps showing area boundaries and codes.
Census Customer Services
To assist census data users in the access to and use of published and unpublished data through information provided in newsletters, on-line catalogs, conferences and training courses; design new informational and data products to meet user needs;...
Census Geography
To provide a computer generated set of maps for use in conducting censuses and surveys and for showing their results geographically; determine names and current boundaries of selected statistical areas; show these entities on a variety of maps;...
Census Intergovernmental Services
To provide technical and informational assistance to State and local governments.
Census Special Tabulations and Services
To provide customized tabulations from Census Bureau records in a variety of output forms to meet users' needs, to conduct statistical surveys and special censuses on a reimbursable basis.
Center for Research for Mothers and Children
To stimulate, coordinate, and support fundamental and clinical, biomedical, and behavioral research and research training associated with normal development from conception to maturity and those factors or special health problems that may delay or...
Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research-coastal Ocean Program
NOAA's Coastal Ocean Program in the Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research (CSCOR/COP) is a unique Federal- academic partnership designed to provide predictive capability for managing coastal ecosystems. COP seeks to deliver the...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-investigations and Technical Assistance
To assist State and local health authorities and other health related organizations in controlling communicable diseases, chronic diseases and disorders, and other preventable health conditions. Investigations and evaluation of all methods of...
Centers for Genomics and Public Health
To provide technical assistance to community, State and regional organizations by responding to identified needs and requests for information assistance and training in genomics and population health for the health workforce, with a particular focus...
Centers for Homeland Security
Establishment of a coordinated, university-based system to enhance the Nation's homeland security. The Homeland Security Centers are envisioned to be an integral and critical component of the new homeland security complex that will provide the...
Centers for Independent Living
To provide independent living services to individuals with significant disabilities to assist them to function more independently in family and community settings, by developing and supporting a statewide network of centers for independent living.
Centers for International Business Education
To provide a comprehensive university approach to improve the teaching of international business by bringing together faculty from numerous disciplines and to engage in research to promote the international competitiveness of U.S. business.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (cms) Research, Demonstrations and Evaluations
To support analyses, experiments, demonstrations and pilot projects in efforts to resolve major health care financing issues and to develop innovative methods for the administration of Medicare and Medicaid. These awards are in the form of research...
Centers for Research and Demonstration for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
(1) To establish, maintain, and operate academic-based centers for high-quality research and demonstration with respect to health promotion and disease prevention; (2) to establish linkages, where applicable, between ongoing, basic research in a...
Centers of Excellence
The goal of this program is to assist eligible schools in supporting programs of excellence in health professions education for under-represented minority individuals. The grantee is required to use the funds awarded: (1) To develop a large...
Central Valley Project Improvement (cvpi) Anadromous Fish Restoration Program (afrp)
(a) To protect, restore, and enhance fish, wildlife, and associated habitats in the Central Valley and Trinity River basins of California; (b) To address impacts of the Central Valley Project on fish, wildlife and associated habitats; (c) To improve...
Central Valley Project Improvement Act, Title Xxxiv
The purposes of the CVPIA are (1) to protect, restore, and enhance fish, wildlife, and associated habitats in the Central Valley and Trinity River basins of California, (2) to address impacts of the Central Valley Project on fish, wildlife, and...
Central Valley Project, Trinity River Division, Trinity River Fish and Wildlife Management
To address impacts of the Central Valley Project (CVP) on fish, wildlife, and associated habitats in the Trinity River basin of California by protecting, restoring, and enhancing such habitats and to address other identified adverse environmental...
Certification of Foreign Workers for Temporary Agricultural Employment
To enable agricultural employers to obtain temporary alien workers for temporary or seasonal jobs when domestic workers are not available; to protect domestic workers against unfair competition from foreign workers; and to assure adequate working...
Certified Development Company Loans (504 Loans)
To assist small business concerns by providing long- term, fixed-rate financing for fixed assets through the sale of debentures to private investors.
Chafee Education and Training Vouchers Program (etv)
To provide resources to States to make available vouchers for education and training, including postsecondary training and education, to youths who have aged out of foster care or who have been adopted from the public foster care system after age...
Chafee Foster Care Independent Living
To assist States and localities in establishing and carrying out programs designed to assist foster youth likely to remain in foster care until 18 years of age and youth who have left foster care because they attained 18 years of age, have not yet...
Challenge Cost Share
Encourage partnerships with nonfederal governments, private individuals and organizations, educational institutions, philanthropic and charitable groups, and businesses to support the mission of the Service. Projects must conserve, protect, and...
Charter Schools
The program supports the planning, development, and initial implementation of charter schools. Charter schools provide enhanced parental choice and are exempt from many statutory and regulatory requirements. In exchange for this increased...
Charter Schools Facilities Financing Demonstration
To provide grants to eligible entities to leverage funds through credit enhancement initiatives in order to assist charter schools in using private sector capital to acquire, construct, renovate, or lease academic facilities.
Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Prevention (cepp) Technical Assistance Grants Program
To provide financial assistance to States, Local agencies, and Indian Tribes for chemical accident prevention activities that relate to the Risk Management Program under the Clean Air Act Section 112(r). To provide financial assistance to Tribes...
Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program
To enhance emergency preparedness capabilities of the States and local communities at each of the eight chemical agent stockpile storage facilities. The purpose of the program is to assist States and local communities in efforts to improve their...
Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network
To aid State and local governments, local communities, nonprofit organizations and the private sector in conserving, restoring and interpreting important historic, cultural, recreational and natural resources within the Chesapeake Bay watershed and...
Chesapeake Bay Program
To expand and strengthen cooperative efforts to restore and protect the Chesapeake Bay. EPA's funding priority is to achieve the goals and commitments established in the Chesapeake 2000 agreement. As a means to achieve the goals and commitments...
Chesapeake Bay Studies
To provide financial assistance for research and development projects that will provide information for the living marine resources of Chesapeake Bay. In addition, beginning in fiscal year 2002, assistance is provided for the Chesapeake Bay...
Child Abuse and Neglect Discretionary Activities
To improve the national, State, community and family activities for the prevention, assessment, identification, and treatment of child abuse and neglect through research, demonstration service improvement, information dissemination, and technical...
Child Abuse and Neglect State Grants
To assist States in the support and improvement of their child protective services systems.
Child and Adult Care Food Program
To assist States, through grants-in-aid and other means, to initiate and maintain nonprofit food service programs for children, elderly or impaired adults in nonresidential day care facilities and children in emergency shelters.
Child Care Access Means Parents In School
To support the participation of low-income parents in postsecondary education through the provision of campus-based child care services.
Child Care and Development Block Grant
To make grants to States and Tribes to assist low- income families with child care and to: (1) Allow each State maximum flexibility in developing child care programs and policies that best suit the needs of children and parents within State; (2)...
Child Care Mandatory and Matching Funds of the Child Care and Development Fund
To make grants to States and Tribes to assist low-income families with child care and to: (1) Allow each State maximum flexibility in developing child care programs and policies that best suit the needs of children and parents within such State; (2)...
Child Care Provider Loan Forgiveness Demonstration
To bring more highly trained individuals into the early child care profession and to retain those providers for longer periods of time.
Child Nutrition Discretionary Grants Limited Availability
NSLP: To assist States, through cash grants and food donations, in making the school lunch program available to school children and to encourage the domestic consumption of nutritious agricultural commodities. SBP: To assist States in providing a...
Child Safety and Child Booster Seats Incentive Grants
To encourage States to enact and enforce a child restraint law that requires children up to 65 pounds and under 8 years of age to be properly retrained in a child restraint, unless they are 4' 9' tall.
Child Support Enforcement
To enforce the support obligations owed by absent parents to their children, locate absent parents, establish paternity, and obtain child, spousal and medical support.
Child Support Enforcement Demonstrations and Special Projects
To design and carry out special projects of regional and national significance relating to the improvement of child support enforcement efforts.
Child Support Enforcement Research
To discover, test, demonstrate, and promote utilization of new concepts which will increase cost effectiveness, reduce welfare dependency, and increase child support collections from absent parents.
Child Welfare Services Training Grants
To develop competency-based curricula to train child welfare agency staff to assist children and families in the public child welfare system.
Child Welfare Services-state Grants
To establish, extend, and strengthen child welfare services provided by State and local, and Indian Tribal public welfare agencies to enable children to remain in their own homes, or, where that is impossible, to provide alternate permanent homes...
Childhood Blood-lead Screening and Lead Awareness (educational) Outreach for Indian Tribes
To encourage Indian Tribes to recognize the risks to children associated with lead exposure and address them by conducting blood-lead screening for tribal children and providing lead awareness activities to Indian Tribes. Funding Priority: ...
Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Projects-state and Local Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention and Surveillance of Blood Lead Levels In Children
To (1) Develop and/or enhance a surveillance system that monitors all blood lead levels; (2) assure that children who are potentially exposed to lead receive follow-up care; (3) assure awareness and action among the general public and affected...
Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education Payment
The Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education Payment Program (CHGMEPP) provides funds to children's teaching hospitals to support the training of pediatric and other residents in graduate medical education (GME) programs. Since Federal...
Children's Justice Act Partnerships for Indian Communities
Fifteen percent of the first $20 million of funds from the Crime Victims Fund that are transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services as part of the Children's Justice Act are to be statutorily reserved by the Office for Victims of Crime...
Children's Justice Grants to States
To encourage States to enact reforms which are designed to improve: (a) The handling of child abuse and neglect cases, particularly cases of child sexual abuse and exploitation, in a manner which limits additional trauma to the child victim; (b) the...
Chiropractic Demonstration Project Grants
Grants are awarded to carry out demonstration projects in which chiropractors and physicians collaborate to identify and provide effective treatment for spinal and lower-back conditions. The project requirements include: (1) The project must...
Christopher Columbus Fellowship Program
To encourage and support research, study, and labor designed to produce new discoveries in all fields of endeavor for the benefit of mankind.
Chronic Diseases: Research, Control, and Prevention
To assist State and local health agencies, health related organizations, and other public and private organizations in their efforts to prevent and control chronic diseases and disorders through research, development, capacity building, and...
Citizen Corps
The purpose of Citizen Corps is to supplement and assist State and local efforts to expand Citizen Corps. This includes Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training, establishing Citizen Corps Councils and supporting the oversight and outreach...
Citizenship Education and Training
To promote instruction and training in citizenship responsibilities for persons interested in becoming naturalized citizens of the United States and to initiate and further efforts on their part to learn the English language and acquire the...
Civic Education- Cooperative Education Exchange Program
(1) To make available to educators from eligible countries exemplary curricula and teacher training programs in civics, government, and economics education, developed in the United States; (2) to assist eligible countries in the adaptation,...
Civil Rights Compliance Activities
To eliminate unlawful discrimination and ensure equal opportunities for beneficiaries and potential beneficiaries of Federal financial assistance provided by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), as well as to eliminate unlawful...
Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons
To initiate actions for redress in cases involving deprivations of rights of institutionalized persons secured and protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States. To prevent any government from imposing a substantial burden on the...
Civil Rights Prosecution
To reduce police and other official criminal misconduct, to reduce violent activity by private citizens (including organized hate groups) against others because of their race, religion, national origin, or sex, which interferes with the Federal and...
Civil Rights Training and Advisory Services
To provide technical assistance and training services to school districts to cope with educational problems occasioned by race, gender, and national origin desegregation.
Civil War Battlefield Land Acquisition Grants
Help States and local communities acquire and preserve threatened Civil War battlefields.
Claims against Foreign Governments
To resolve, or assist in resolving, valid claims of United States nationals against foreign governments.
Clean Fuels
To assist in financing the acquisition of clean fuel buses and related facilities for agencies providing public transportation and operating in an urbanized area designated as a non-attainment or maintenance area for ozone or carbon monoxide.
Clean School Bus Usa
To support projects relating to necessary upgrades to diesel school bus fleets. CSBUSA is a national initiative to minimize children'S exposure to diesel exhaust by reducing pollution from school buses. The program has three key elements: 1)...
Clean Vessel Act
To grant funds to coastal States to survey and plan for installing pumpout/dump stations, and to grant funds to all States to construct pumpout/dump stations and develop an education program to prevent recreational boat sewage from entering U.S....
Clearinghouse Services, Civil Rights Discrimination Complaints
(1) To serve as a national clearinghouse for information to the public in respect to discrimination or denials of equal protection of the Laws because of race, color, religion, sex, age, disability or national origin; to hold public hearings and...
Climate and Atmospheric Research
To develop the knowledge required to establish a predictive capability for short and long-term climate fluctuations and trends.
Clinical Research Loan Repayment Program for Individuals from Disadvantaged Backgrounds
To recruit and retain health professionals from disadvantaged backgrounds to conduct clinical research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by providing for the repayment of educational loans for participants with substantial amounts of...
Closed-circuit Televising of Child Victims of Abuse
To provide equipment and personnel training for the closed-circuit televising and videotaping of the testimony of children in criminal proceedings for the violation of laws relating to the abuse of children.
Coal Mine Workers' Compensation
To provide benefits to coal miners who have become totally disabled due to coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP), and to widows and other surviving dependents of miners who have died of this disease.
Coal Miners Respiratory Impairment Treatment Clinics and Services
(1) To develop high quality, patient-oriented, integrated systems of care which assure access to and continuity of appropriate primary, secondary and tertiary care with maximum use of existing resources; (2) to minimize the effects of respiratory...
Coastal Impact Assistance Program (ciap)
The intent of the program is to disburse funding to eligible producing states and coastal political subdivisions for the purpose of conservation, protection, or restoration of coastal areas including wetlands; mitigation of damage to fish, wildlife,...
Coastal Program
To provide financial and technical assistance via partnerships to identify, protect, and restore habitats in priority coastal areas.
Coastal Services Center
To support projects aimed at developing a science-based, multi-dimensional approach that will allow for the maintenance or improvement of environmental quality while at the same time allowing for economic growth.
Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act
To provide funds to coastal States for coastal wetlands conservation projects.
Coastal Zone Management Administration Awards
To assist States in implementing and enhancing Coastal Zone Management and related programs that have been approved by the Secretary of Commerce.
Coastal Zone Management Estuarine Research Reserves
To assist States in the acquisition, monitoring, research, development and operation of national estuarine research reserves for the purpose of creating natural field laboratories to gather data and make studies of, and educate people about the...
Collaborative Forest Restoration
The purposes of the grants are: to promote healthy watersheds and reduce the threat of large, high intensity wildfires, insect infestation, and disease in the forests in New Mexico; to improve the functioning of forest ecosystems and enhance plant...
Collaborative Research and Development
To facilitate productivity-improving research and development and application of advanced construction technologies through collaborative research and development, field demonstration, licensing agreements, and other means of commercialization and...
College Access Challenge Grant Program
To foster partnerships among federal, State and local government entities and philanthropic organizations through matching challenge grants aimed at increasing the number of underrepresented students who enter and remain in postsecondary education.
Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program
To provide financial and technical assistance to: (1) Identify salt source areas; (2) develop project plans to carry out conservation practices to reduce salt loads; (3) install conservation practices to reduce salinity levels; (4) carry out...
Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program
To provide financial and technical assistance to: (1) identify salt source areas; (2) develop project plans to carry out conservation practices to reduce salt loads; (3) install conversation practices to reduce salinity levels; (4) carry out...
Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights Settlement Act
To supply both irrigation and municipal and industrial water supply to the Ute Mountain Ute and Southern Ute Indian Tribes from the Animas-La Plata Project in settlement of water rights claims for the Tribes, and also fulfill other project...
Columbia River Fisheries Development Program
This program uses the facilities and personnel of the State fisheries agencies in the Pacific Northwest to protect and enhance the salmon and steelhead resources in the Columbia River Basin.
Combined Dna Index System
To develop or improve forensic DNA analysis capabilities in State and local crime laboratories. The Combined DNA Index Systems (CODIS) allows State and local crime laboratories to store and match DNA records.
Commercial Driver License State Programs
To help or prevent truck and bus accidents, fatalities, and injuries by requiring drivers to have a single commercial motor vehicle license and by disqualifying drivers who operate commercial motor vehicles in an unsafe manner.
Commercial Drivers License Information System
To modernize the Commercial Driver's License Information System (CDLIS). Following modernization CDLIS will: (1)comply with applicable Federal information technology security standards; (2) provide for the electronic exchange of all information...
Commercial Equipment Direct Assistance Program (cedap)
To develop technology transfer program to assist smaller communities in acquiring and using commercially available technologies to prevent, deter, and respond to terrorist attacks as identified in State homeland security strategies.
Commercial Motor Vehicle Operator Training Grants
To promote the safe operation of commercial motor vehicles (as defined in 49 U.S.C. 31301) through the training of operators and future operators of such vehicles.
Commercial Service
Through export counseling, trade promotion, trade finance and advocacy provided by domestic international network of trade professionals, encourage export capable U.S. firms to expand their export marketing efforts or begin exporting; to assist them...
Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Networks
The Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Networks (CVISN) Program is a key component of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's (FMCSA) drive to improve commercial motor vehicle safety, and is directly aligned with both the United...
Commodity Futures Reparations Claims
To respond to customer complaints and inquiries and to provide a forum for hearing and ruling on reparations complaints against registrants regarding monetary damages resulting from violation of the Commodity Exchange Act or regulations.
Commodity Loans and Loan Deficiency Payments
To improve and stabilize farm income, to assist in bringing about a better balance between supply and demand of the commodities, and to assist farmers in the orderly marketing of their crops.
Commodity Partnerships for Risk Management Education
The purpose of this partnership agreement program is to deliver training and information in the management of production, marketing, and financial risk to U.S. agricultural producers, with a priority to producers of crops not insurable with federal...
Commodity Partnerships for Small Agricultural Risk Management Education Sessions
The purpose of this partnership agreement program is to deliver training and information during small sessions in the management of production, marketing, and financial risk to U.S. agricultural producers, with a priority to producers of crops not...
Commodity Supplemental Food Program
To improve the health and nutritional status of low-income pregnant, postpartum and breastfeeding women, infants, and children up to age of 6, and elderly persons through the donation of supplemental foods.
Communications Information and Assistance and Investigation of Complaints
To increase public knowledge of communications function and participation in Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proceedings. To help maintain efficient and responsible systems of public communications by stimulating participation in FCC...
Community Access Program
To provide assistance to communities and consortia of health care providers and others to develop or strengthen integrated community health care delivery systems that coordinate health care services for individuals who are uninsured or underinsured,...
Community Action for a Renewed Environment (care) Program
(1) To support analyses, studies, evaluations, surveys, investigations, conferences, demonstrations and special purpose projects which empower communities to reduce risks from exposures to toxic pollutants in the air, in the water, and on the land...
Community Assistance Program-state Support Services Element (cap-ssse)
To ensure that communities participating in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) are achieving flood loss reduction measures consistent with program direction. The CAP-SSSE is intended to identify, prevent and resolve floodplain management...
Community Base Reuse Plans
To assist local governments or States on behalf of local governments to develop a reuse/redevelopment plan for a Department of Defense (DoD) military installation approved for closure or realignment.
Community Based Job Training Grants
Technology and innovation, globalization, and the aging of America's workforce are continuously changing the nature of work and, indeed, the workplace. Businesses in high-growth, high-demand industries face increasing difficulties in finding workers...
Community Connect Grant Program
To encourage community-oriented connectivity by providing grants to eligible applicants who will deploy broadband transmission service in rural communities where such service does not currently exist; who will connect all critical community...
Community Development Block Grants-section 108 Loan Guarantees
To provide communities with a source of financing for economic development, housing rehabilitation, public facilities, and large scale physical development projects.
Community Development Block Grants/brownfields Economic Development Initiative
To return brownfields to productive use by assisting public entities eligible under the Section 108-Guaranteed Loan program carry out qualified economic development projects on brownfields authorized by Section 108(a) of the Housing and Community...
Community Development Block Grants/entitlement Grants
To develop viable urban communities, by providing decent housing and a suitable living environment, and by expanding economic opportunities, principally for persons of low and moderate income.
Community Development Block Grants/small Cities Program
The primary objective of this program is the development of viable urban communities by providing decent housing, a suitable living environment, and expanding economic opportunities, principally for persons of low and moderate income.
Community Development Block Grants/special Purpose Grants/insular Areas
To provide community development assistance to the Pacific Islands of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean.
Community Development Block Grants/state's Program
The primary objective of this program is the development of viable urban communities by providing decent housing, a suitable living environment, and expanding economic opportunities, principally for persons of low and moderate income. Each activity...
Community Development Block Grants/technical Assistance Program
To help States, units of general local government, Indian tribes and area-wide planning organizations to plan, develop and administer local Community Development Block Grant programs.
Community Development Financial Institutions Program
The purpose of this program is to promote economic revitalization and community development through investment in and assistance to community development financial institutions.
Community Development Revolving Loan Program for Credit Unions
To support low-income credit unions in their efforts to: (1) Stimulate economic development activities which result in increased income, ownership, and employment opportunities for low-income residents; and (2) provide basic financial and related...
Community Development Work-study Program
Under the Community Development Work-Study Program(CDWSP), HUD will make grants to institutions of higher education, either directly or through areawide planning organizations or States, for the purpose of providing assistance to economically...
Community Disaster Loans
To provide loans subject to Congressional loan authority, to any local government that has suffered substantial loss of tax and other revenue in an area in which the President designates a major disaster exists. The funds can only be used to...
Community Economic Adjustment
To help alleviate serious community economic impacts that result from changes in Department of Defense (DoD) activities; e.g., closing or opening of a military base, expansions, contract changes, defense industry cutbacks, and personnel reductions...
Community Economic Adjustment Assistance for Advance Planning
To assist State, regional governmental organizations or local governments to undertake economic adjustment planning activities intended to lessen an area's dependence on military base-related defense spending and/or to prepare strategies and...
Community Economic Adjustment Planning Assistance
To assist local governments or States on behalf of local governments to undertake community economic adjustment planning activities in response to Department of Defense (DoD) military base closures and realignments.
Community Economic Adjustment Planning Assistance for Reductions In Defense Industry Employment
To assist local governments or States on behalf of local governments to undertake economic adjustment planning activities to respond to major reductions in defense industry employment resulting from the announced cancellation or termination of a...
Community Facilities Loans and Grants
To construct, enlarge, extend, or otherwise improve community facilities providing essential services to rural residents.
Community Food Projects
To support the development of community food projects designed to meet the food needs of low-income people; increase the self- reliance of communities in providing for their own needs; and promote comprehensive responses to local food, farm, and...
Community Health Centers
Grants are awarded to increase access to comprehensive primary and preventive health care and improve the health status of underserved and vulnerable populations in the area to be served. Individual health center grant mechanisms include: (1)...
Community Outreach and Assistance Partnership Program
To ensure that women, limited resource, socially disadvantaged and other traditionally underserved producers of priority commodities are provided information and training necessary to use financial management, crop insurance, marketing contracts,...
Community Outreach Partnership Center Program
This program funds partnerships among institutions of higher education and communities to solve urban problems through research, outreach and exchange of information.
Community Programs to Improve Minority Health Grant Program
To support minority community health coalitions to develop, implement, and conduct demonstration projects which coordinate integrated community-based screening and outreach services, and include linkages for access and treatment to minorities in...
Community Prosecution and Project Safe Neighborhoods
The program initially started as a community prosecution effort to support state and local efforts to address crime by emphasizing the participation of community leaders and residents in developing strategies for public safety with prosecutors and...
Community Relations Service
To provide free Federal conciliation and mediation services to communities in preventing and resolving community tensions, conflicts, and civil disorders arising from actions, policies, and practices that are perceived to be based on race,...
Community Services Block Grant
To provide assistance to States and local communities, working through a network of community action agencies and other neighborhood-based organizations, for the reduction of poverty, the revitalization of low-income communities, and the empowerment...
Community Services Block Grant Discretionary Awards-community Food and Nutrition
To provide for community-based, local, statewide and national programs which: (1) Coordinate existing private and public food assistance resources to better serve low-income populations, whenever such coordination is determined to be inadequate; (2)...
Community Services Block Grant-discretionary Awards
To support program activities of national or regional significance to alleviate the causes of poverty in distressed communities which promote: (1) Full-time permanent jobs for poverty level project area residents; (2) income and/or ownership...
Community Technology Centers
To promote the use of technology in education through the development of model programs that demonstrate the educational effectiveness of technology in urban and rural areas and economically distressed communities.
Community-based Abstinence Education (cbae)
To provide funding to public and private institutions for community-based abstinence education project grants. The project grant's objective is to reduce out-of-wedlock childbearing and sexually-transmitted diseases by teaching abstinence to...
Community-based Family Resource and Support Grants
To assist States to develop and implement, or expand and enhance, a comprehensive, statewide system of community-based family resource and support services, to prevent child abuse and neglect.
Compassion Capital Fund
To provide grants to charitable organizations to emulate model social service programs and to encourage research on the best practices of social service organizations. This is accomplished through the goal of assisting faith-based and community...
Compensation and Working Conditions
To provide timely and relevant data on levels and trends in wages and employee benefits; occupational safety and health; collective bargaining; and work stoppages.
Compensation for Service-connected Deaths for Veterans' Dependents
To compensate surviving spouses, children and dependent parents for the death of any veteran who died before January 1, 1957, because of a service-connected disability. (Claimants may elect payment under the VA Dependency and Indemnity Compensation...
Competitive Training Grants
To provide funding for training initiatives that prepare the nation to prevent, deter, respond to, and recover from incidents of terrorism involving weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Issue areas addressed in the Competitive Training Grants Program...
Complex Humanitarian Emergency and War-related Injury Public Health Activities
To bring public health and epidemiologic principles to the aid of populations affected by complex humanitarian emergencies. Work will focus on the following main program areas: (1) Providing technical assistance including rapid health and nutrition...
Compliance Assistance-support for Services to the Regulated Community and Other Assistance Providers
To provide financial assistance to private nonprofit institutions, universities, and public agencies to develop projects to improve environmental compliance within an identified commercial/industrial sector. The funds are to be used to create...
Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances (sed)
To provide community-based systems of care for children and adolescents with a serious emotional disturbance and their families. The program will ensure that services are provided collaboratively across child-serving systems; that each child or...
Comprehensive Geriatric Education Program(cgep)
To train and educate nursing personnel in providing geriatric care for the elderly.
Comprehensive Regional Assistance Centers
To help coordinate and integrate the implementation of Elementary and Secondary Education Act and other Federal education programs with State and local activities in ways that support Federal, State, and local efforts to improve teaching and...
Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration
To provide financial incentives for schools that need to substantially improve student achievement, particularly Title I schools, to implement comprehensive school reform programs that are based on reliable research and effective practices, and...
Computer and Information Science and Engineering
To support research improving the fundamental understanding of computer and information processing, to enhance the training and education of scientists and engineers who contribute to and exploit that understanding, to enhance the personnel pool for...
Congressionally Identified Construction Projects
The objectives of the overall program are to facilitate education, research and development in the fields of marine and atmospheric science, through the provision of assistance for the construction of suitable facilities for these activities.
Congressionally Mandated Projects
These assistance agreements involve Congressionally directed projects/programs for specific purposes in EPA's annual Appropriations Act or annual Appropriations Conference Report. These assistance agreements support surveys, studies and...
Congressionally Recommended Awards
To provide leadership and direction in improving the functioning of the criminal justice system.
Congressionally-identified Projects
To assist various organizations identified by Congress to achieve objectives specified by Congress.
Conservation Activities by Youth Service Organizations
To utilize qualified youth or conservation corps to carry out appropriate conservation projects which the Secretary is authorized to carry out under other authority of law on public lands.
Conservation Assessment Program
To support the efforts of museums to conserve the Nation's historic, scientific, and cultural heritage; to maintain and expand museums and libraries educational roles; and to ease the financial burden borne by museums and libraries as a result of...
Conservation Grants Private Stewardship for Imperiled Species
To provide Federal financial and other assistance to individuals and groups engaged in local, private, and voluntary conservation efforts to be carried out on private lands that benefit species listed or proposed as endangered or threatened under...
Conservation Law Enforcement Training Assistance
To provide training assistance to State conservation officers in criminal law, and the principles, techniques, and procedures of wildlife law enforcement.
Conservation Project Support
To support the efforts of museums to conserve the Nation's historic, scientific, and cultural heritage; to maintain and expand museums and libraries educational roles; and to ease the financial burden borne by museums and libraries as a result of...
Conservation Research and Development
To conduct a balanced, long-term research effort in the areas of Buildings, Industry, FreedomCAR and Vehicle Technologies and Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and Infrastructure. Grants will be offered to develop and transfer various energy conservation...
Conservation Reserve Program
To protect the Nation's long-term capability to produce food and fiber; to reduce soil erosion and sedimentation, improve water quality, and create a better habitat for wildlife.
Conservation Security Program
The CSP sets forth a mechanism to provide financial and technical assistance to promote the conservation and improvement of soil, water, air, energy, plant and animal life, and other conservation purposes on Tribal and private working lands. Working...
Consolidated Knowledge Development and Application (kd&a) Program
To provide immediately usable knowledge to improve substance abuse and mental health services in crucial selected areas. SAMHSA's Knowledge Development and Application (KDA) program is aimed at answering important, practical questions and...
Consolidated Pesticide Enforcement Cooperative Agreements
To: (a) Assist States, territories and possessions of the U.S., including the District of Columbia and Indian Tribes, in developing and maintaining comprehensive pesticide programs that address all aspects of pesticide enforcement, and special...
Consolidated Tribal Government Program
To promote Indian self determination and improve the quality of life in Tribal communities by providing greater flexibility in planning programs and meeting the needs of communities. This program allows Tribes to combine various programs and/or...
Construction Grants for Wastewater Treatment Works
To assist and serve as an incentive in construction of municipal wastewater treatment works which are required to meet State and/or Federal water quality standards and improve the water quality in the waters of the United States. Funding Priority: ...
Construction Reserve Fund
To promote the construction, reconstruction, reconditioning, or acquisition of merchant vessels built and documented under the laws of the United States for purposes of national defense and the development of U.S. commerce.
Consultation Agreements
To fund consultative workplace safety and health services, targeting smaller employers with more hazardous operations.
Consumer Credit Protection
To provide restrictions on the amount of an employee's wages or salary which may be garnisheed, and prohibit employers from discharging employees by reason of garnishment for any one indebtedness.
Consumer Data Initiative (cdi)
To provide economic and other social science information and analysis for public and private decisions on agriculture, food, natural resources, and rural America. ERS produces such information for use by the general public and to help the executive...
Contraception and Infertility Research Loan Repayment Program
The CIR-LRP is designed to provide an incentive for health professionals to work in areas of reproductive research directly related to contraceptive development and/or infertility diagnosis and treatment by providing assistance in repaying...
Convicted Offender And/or Arrestee Dna Backlog Reduction Program (in-house Analysis and Data Review)
The objective of this program is to accelerate the analysis of convicted offender and/or arrestee DNA samples collected by States pursuant to applicable law for databasing purposes (hereinafter, "DNA database samples"), in order to provide timely...
Cooperating Technical Partners
To increase local involvement in, and ownership of, the development and maintenance of flood hazard maps produced for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).
Cooperative Agreements for State Treatment Outcomes and Performance Pilot Studies Enhancement
To enable project States to collect information on SAPT Block Grant funded treatment services and monitor common substance abuse treatment effectiveness data measures across various State management information systems (MIS). This program will...
Cooperative Agreements for State-based Comprehensive Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Programs
To work with official State and territorial health agencies or their designees, and tribal health agencies in developing comprehensive breast and cervical cancer early detection programs. To the extent possible, increase screening and follow-up...
Cooperative Agreements for State-based Diabetes Control Programs and Evaluation of Surveillance Systems
Provide resources to state health departments to: 1) Determine the size and nature of diabetes-related problems and why they exist; 2) develop and evaluate new strategies for diabetes prevention; 3) establish partnerships to prevent diabetes...
Cooperative Agreements to Improve the Health Status of Minority Populations
To provide support for activities which have the potential to improve the health status and/or quality of life of racial/ethnic minorities, with the objective of reducing the excessive burden and death borne by minority and disadvantaged...
Cooperative Agreements to Support Comprehensive School Health Programs to Prevent the Spread of Hiv and Other Important Health Problems
To support the development and implementation of effective health education for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other important health problems for school-age populations (elementary through college-age youth, parents, and relevant school,...
Cooperative Agreements to Support State-based Safe Motherhood and Infant Health Initiative Programs
PRAMS: To work with official public health agencies of States to: (1) establish and maintain State-specific, population-based surveillance of selected maternal behaviors that occur during pregnancy and the child's early infancy; and (2) generate...
Cooperative Agreements to Support the Programs of the National Archives and Records Administration (nara)
To undertake a wide-range of activities for the public purpose of carrying out the programs of the National Archives and Records Administration.
Cooperative Agreements with States for Intrastate Meat and Poultry Inspection
To supply Federal assistance to States desiring to operate a meat and poultry inspection program in order to assure the consumer an adequate supply of safe, wholesome, and properly labeled meat and poultry products.
Cooperative Development Program
Deliver the quality and magnitude of support necessary for CDOs to attract the financial, human, institutional and financial resources necessary to significantly enhance their impact on cooperative development worldwide, contributing to self-reliant...
Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund
To provide Federal financial assistance to any State or Territory (hereafter, "States"), through its appropriate State or territorial agency, to assist in the development of programs for the conservation of endangered and threatened species.
Cooperative Extension Service
to help people improve their lives and communities through an educational process that uses scientific knowledge focused on issues critical to the economic, agricultural, societal, health/safety, and environmental progress of all Americans. ...
Cooperative Fishery Statistics
To maintain a cooperative State and Federal partnership to provide a continuing source of fisheries dependent statistics to support fishery management in the States' Territorial Sea and the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone.
Cooperative Forestry Assistance
With respect to nonfederal forest and other rural lands to assist in the advancement of forest resources management; the encouragement of the production of timber; the control of insects and diseases affecting trees and forests; the control of rural...
Cooperative Forestry Research
To encourage and assist the States in carrying on a program of State forestry research at State forestry schools, and to develop a trained pool of forest scientists capable of conducting needed forestry research.
Cooperative Grants
To increase international understanding among U.S. and foreign students on U.S. campuses.
Cooperative Inspection Agreements with States and Tribes
To provide for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to enter into cooperative agreements with Tribes so that authorized Tribal inspectors can carry out inspection activities on Indian oil and gas leases within Tribal jurisdiction.
Cooperative Research Units Program
To work in partnership with States and universities to address the information needs of local, State, and Federal fish, wildlife, and natural resource agencies through research, technical assistance, and education.
Cooperative Research Units Training Program
To provide financial support to Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) to introduce a culturally diverse group of students, primarily undergraduates, to the fields of freshwater fisheries and aquatic sciences and train them for careers in the natural...
Cooperative Science and Education Program
To support through grants and cooperative agreements, enduring partnerships between the Federal government and institutions of research and higher education for cooperative science and education on marine issues, especially living marine resources...
Coordinated Services and Access to Research for Women, Infants, Children, and Youth
To support, improve, and expand the system of comprehensive clinical care and social support services for women, infants, children, and youth who are infected with the human immune deficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome...
Copyright Service
To administer the U.S. copyright law, to examine and decide the acceptability of all applications, deposit copies, and other materials presented for registration of original and renewal copyright claims; to process deposits submitted in compliance...
Cora Brown Fund
To use funds made possible by a bequest of funds from the late Cora C. Brown of Kansas City, Missouri, who left a portion of her estate to the United States for the purpose of helping victims of natural disasters not caused by or attributed to war....
Correctional Grant Program for Indian Tribes
To assist Indian tribes with the construction of jails on tribal lands for the incarceration of offenders subject to tribal jurisdiction.
Corrections and Law Enforcement Family Support
To research the effects of stress on law enforcement and correctional personnel and their families and disseminate the findings; identify and evaluate model programs that provide support services to law enforcement and correctional personnel and...
Corrections-research and Evaluation and Policy Formulation
To conduct, encourage, and coordinate research relating to corrections including the causes, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of criminal offenders. To conduct evaluation programs which study the effectiveness of new approaches, techniques,...
Corrections-technical Assistance/clearinghouse
To encourage and assist Federal, State, and local government programs and services, and programs and services of other public and private agencies, institutions, and organizations in their efforts to develop and implement improved corrections...
Corrections-training and Staff Development
To devise and conduct in various geographical locations, seminars, workshops, and training programs for law enforcement officers, judges and judicial personnel, probation and parole personnel, correctional personnel, welfare workers and other...
Crash Data Improvement Program
To improve the collection and analysis of truck and bus crash data and ensure that complete, accurate and timely data are available for analysis in the United States.
Creative Arts Grants
The Creative Arts Exchanges program works with nonprofit organizations to develop cooperative international group projects that introduce American and foreign participants to each other's cultural and artistic life and traditions. Our projects...
Credit Union Charter, Examination, Supervision, and Insurance
To offer to groups that have a common bond the opportunity to establish and operate their own credit unions.
Crime Laboratory Improvement-combined Offender Dna Index System Backlog Reduction
To increase the capabilities and capacity of State and local crime laboratories in the United States to conduct state-of- the-art forensic evidence testing and to reduce the backlog of convicted offender DNA samples.
Crime Victim Assistance
The first $20,000,000 deposited in the fund shall be available for grants under Section 1404A. This occurs in any fiscal year in which Crime Victims Fund deposits are greater than the amount deposited in Fiscal Year 1998. An amount equal to 50...
Crime Victim Assistance/discretionary Grants
The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) administers a discretionary grant program and other assistance programs for crime victims with amounts set-aside from deposits into the Crime Victims Fund for (a) demonstration projects and training and...
Crime Victim Compensation
The first $20,000,000 deposited into the fund shall be available for grants under Section 1404A. This occurs in any Fiscal Year in which Crime Victims Fund deposits are greater than the amount deposited in Fiscal Year 1998. An amount equal to 50...
Crime Victims' Rights Act
The purpose of the FY 2007 project is to enhance and establish crime victim legal clinics to ensure enforcement of victims' rights. It will also place a social worker/community liaison within each clinic for outreach to victims and other...
Criminal and Juvenile Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program
To increase public safety by facilitating collaboration among the criminal justice, juvenile justice, mental health treatment, and substance abuse systems to increase access to treatment.
Criminal Justice Research and Development-graduate Research Fellowships
To improve the quality and quantity of knowledge about crime and the criminal justice system, while, at the same time, helping to increase the number of persons who are qualified to teach in collegiate criminal justice programs, to conduct research...
Crisis Counseling
To provide immediate crisis counseling services, when required, to victims of a major Federally-declared disaster for the purpose of relieving mental health problems caused or aggravated by a major disaster or its aftermath. Assistance provided is...
Crop Disaster Program
The Acts authorizes the Secretary to provide disaster assistance to producers who suffered crop losses in the 2000 crop year because of adverse weather conditions. Disaster payment provisions apply if the crop could not be planted or production,...
Crop Insurance
To promote the national welfare by improving the economic stability of agriculture through a sound system of crop insurance and providing the means for the research and experience helpful in devising and establishing such insurance.
Crop Insurance Education In Targeted States
The purpose of this cooperative agreement program is to deliver crop insurance education and information to U.S. agricultural producers in certain, designated States that have been historically underserved with respect to crop insurance. The...
Cuban and Haitian Entrant Resettlement Program
(1) To provide primary resettlement services to Cubans and Haitians, paroled into the United States by the INS for humanitarian reasons; (2) to provide secondary resettlement assistance to Cuban and Haitian entrants living in south Florida whose...
Cultural Exchange (performing Arts)
To help ensure that the excellence, diversity and vitality of the arts in the United States are represented at international festivals.
Cultural Exchange (visual Arts)
To help ensure that the excellence, diversity and vitality of the arts in the United States are represented at international visual and performing arts festivals.
Cultural Resource Management
To manage and protect cultural resources on the public lands and to increase public awareness and appreciation of these resources. Most of these lands are located in the Western United States and Alaska.
Cultural Resources Management
To manage and protect cultural resources on Reclamation land and to provide for the curation of and public access to collectible heritage assets, including the increase of public awareness, appreciation, and knowledge of these resources.
Culturally and Linguistically Specific Services Program
To enhance culturally and linguistically specific services for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
Dairy Indemnity Program
To protect dairy farmers and manufacturers of dairy products who through no fault of their own, are directed to remove their milk or dairy products from commercial markets because of contamination from pesticides which have been approved for use by...
Dairy Market Loss Assistance Program
The purpose of this program is to provide benefits to dairy operations under Public Law 105-277, 112 Stat. 2681; Sections 805 and 825 of Public Law 106-78; and section 805 of Public Law 106-387 only, in order to provide financial assistance to dairy...
Dairy Options Pilot Program
The purpose of the Dairy Options Pilot Program (DOPP) is to educate dairy producers in the use of options contracts as risk management tools and to ascertain the usefulness of options to dairy producers in various regional markets.
Dc School Choice Incentive Program
To provide low-income parents residing in the District of Columbia (District) with expanded options for the education of their children.
Debris Removal Insurance
The project will consist of the incorporation of a captive insurance company by the City of New York in the State of New York to insure the City and its contractors for claims arising from debris removal at the World Trade Center following the...
Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Research
To conduct basic and applied research and development that enhances U.S. national security and reduces the global danger from the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and special nuclear materials through needs-driven research and...
Degrees at a Distance Program
To support curriculum development, regional meeting support, program marketing, course material printing and publications and initiation of institutional agreements with local two-year college degree programs and colleges/universities, designated by...
Delta Area Economic Development
Delta Regional Authority's mission is to be an advocate for and partner with the people of the Delta to create opportunities for self-sustaining economic development and improved quality of life. This program focuses on activities which support...
Delta Local Development District Assistance
To provide planning and development resources in multicounty areas; to help develop the technical competence essential to sound development assistance; and to meet the objectives stated under the program entitled Delta Regional Development (90.200).
Delta Regional Development
The Delta Regional Authority (DRA) is a federal-state partnership serving a 240-county/parish area in an eight-state region. Led by a Federal Co-Chairman and the governors of each participating state, the DRA is designed to remedy severe and chronic...
Demolition and Revitalization of Severely Distressed Public Housing
Revitalization Grants enable PHAs to improve the living environment for public housing residents of severely distressed public housing projects through the demolition, substantial rehabilitation, reconfiguration, and/or replacement of severely...
Demonstration Cooperative Agreements for Development and Implementation of Criminal Justice Treatment Networks
To fund integrated criminal justice treatment networks made up of a consortium of criminal justice, substance abuse treatment, primary health and mental health care, and allied social services and job placement agencies in the following three...
Demonstration Projects for Indian Health
To promote improved health care among American Indians and Alaska Natives through research studies and demonstration projects, addressing such issues as Elder Care, Women's Health Care, and Child Protection and Child Abuse Prevention.
Demonstration Projects to Ensure Students with Disabilities Receive a Higher Education
To support model demonstration projects to provide technical assistance or professional development for faculty in higher education, to provide students with disabilities a quality postsecondary education.
Demonstration to Maintain Independence and Employment
To provide benefits equivalent to those provided by Medicaid to the categorically needy and to workers that have physical or mental impairments and without medical assistance, will result in a disability.
Denali Commission Program
The Denali Commission is an Innovative Federal and State partnership designed to provide critical utilities and infrastructure throughout Alaska, particularly in distressed communities.
Denton Program
To put the empty space on U.S. Military transport to good use by providing humanitarian relief transportation for nongovernmental organizations or private citizens, at little or no cost to them.
Department of Defense Appropriation Act 2003
For developing a system for prioritization of mitigation and cost to complete estimates for mitigation, on Indian lands resulting from Department of Defense activities. (1) For the mitigation of environmental impacts, including training and...
Department of Defense Hiv/aids Prevention Program
To train and assist selected foreign militaries in establishing and implementing HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment programs for their military personnel and dependents.
Depository Libraries for Government Publications
To provide a class of libraries in the United States and its possessions known as depository libraries, in which tangible and electronic U.S. Government information products are made available by the Superintendent of Documents for use by the...
Desegregation of Public Education
To secure equal educational opportunity for persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
Development and Coordination of Rural Health Services
To (1) Build infrastructure through workshops, conferences, etc., (2) develop and provide information to a wide audience, (3) increase awareness of Federal and State resources, and (4) build partnerships between Federal and State governments.
Development and Promotion of Ports and Intermodal Transportation
To promote and plan for the development and utilization of domestic waterways, ports, and port facilities, to provide technical advice and information to Government agencies, private industry and State and municipal governments; to support the laws...
Developmental Disabilities Basic Support and Advocacy Grants
To enable individuals with developmental disabilities to become independent, productive, integrated and included into their communities. Funding under these programs is to assist States in the development of a plan for a comprehensive and...
Developmental Disabilities Projects of National Significance
To provide for grants, contracts and cooperative agreements for projects of national significance to increase and support the independence, productivity, and integration and inclusion into the community of individuals with developmental...
Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research
To encourage basic and clinical biomedical research and research training for a greater understanding of diabetes and the underlying mechanisms that cause diabetes and related complications. Fundamental and clinical studies include the etiology,...
Digestive Diseases and Nutrition Research
To encourage basic and clinical biomedical research and research training for a greater understanding of the basic and clinical studies on normal abnormal function of the enteric nervous system, on gastrointestinal hormones and peptides including...
Direct Housing-natural Disaster
To assist qualified lower income rural families to meet emergency assistance needs resulting from natural disaster to buy, build, rehabilitate, or improve dwellings in rural areas. Funds are only available to the extent that funds are not provided...
Direct Housing-natural Disaster Loans and Grants
To assist qualified recipients to meet emergency assistance needs resulting from natural disaster. Funds are only available to the extent that funds are not provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). For the purpose of...
Direct Implementation Tribal Cooperative Agreements
Direct Implementation Tribal Cooperative Agreements provide financial assistance to allow Tribes and Intertribal Consortia to help the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) implement Federal environmental programs for Indian Tribes,...
Disabilities Prevention
To 1) Provide a national focus for the prevention of secondary conditions in persons within selected disability domains including mobility, personal care, communication, and learning; 2) build State capacity to coordinate program activities and...
Disabled Veterans' Outreach Program (dvop)
To develop jobs and job training opportunities for disabled and other veterans through contacts with employers; promote and develop on-the-job training and apprenticeship and other on-the-job training positions within Federal job training (e.g....
Disadvantaged Business Enterprises-short Term Lending Program
To enhance and further the opportunity of Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBEs) to obtain accounts receivable financing for the performance of transportation-related contracts emanating from the DOT, its grantees, recipients, their contractors...
Disadvantaged Health Professions Faculty Loan Repayment and Fellowship Program
To attract and retain disadvantaged health professions faculty members for accredited health professions schools of medicine, nursing, osteopathic medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, podiatric medicine, optometry, veterinary medicine, public health,...
Disaster Assistance Projects
This category is not for unsolicited proposals. Provides funding that has been designated by Congressionally appropriated authorization, generally for a specified project, or to provide unique or limited scope funding for certain Disaster Assistance...
Disaster Donations Management Program
To distribute technology solutions to State and local government and voluntary agencies throughout the country prior, to a major event, through the Aidmatrix Foundation/FEMA partnership. This will allow end-users to incorporate technology solutions...
Disaster Housing Assistance Grant
To provide temporary housing assistance and case management for families who were displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. DHAP would be implemented in the form of a rental assistance program that would continue providing housing subsidies for...
Disaster Housing Program
To provide assistance to households affected by a disaster to assist with their disaster-created housing needs.
Disaster Legal Services
To provide legal assistance to individuals affected by a major Federal disaster.
Disaster Reserve Assistance
To provide emergency assistance to eligible livestock owners, in a State, county, or area approved by the Secretary or designee, where because of disease, insect infestation, flood, drought, fire, hurricane, earthquake, hail storm, hot weather,...
Disaster Unemployment Assistance
To provide Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) weekly benefits to help individuals who are left jobless in the wake of a Federally-declared major disaster, and are not eligible for regular Unemployment Insurance benefits.
Disposal of Federal Surplus Real Property
To dispose of surplus real property by lease, permits, sale, exchange, or donation.
Disposal of Federal Surplus Real Property for Parks, Recreation, and Historic Monuments
To transfer surplus Federal real property for public park and recreation use, or for use of historic real property.
Distance Learning and Telemedicine Loans and Grants
To encourage and improve the use of telemedicine, telecommunications, computer networks, and related advanced technologies to provide educational and medical benefits through distance learning and telemedicine projects to people living in rural...
Distribution of Library of Congress Cataloging
To distribute cataloging data files and related technical publications to government agencies, libraries and other institutions and individuals. This enables them to utilize Library of Congress cataloging and national standards to avoid costly...
Distribution of Receipts to State and Local Governments
By various Laws, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) shares revenue with State, county, and local governments from fees charged for sale or use of public lands, minerals, and vegetation. Payment amounts are determined by several codified formulas...
Doctoral Dissertation Research Grants
To assist Ph.D. candidates in completing their research and dissertations on housing and urban development issues.
Dollar Home Sales
To expand HUD's partnership with local governments in helping to foster housing opportunities for low- to moderate-income families and address specific community needs.
Donation of Federal Surplus Personal Property
To donate Federal personal property no longer required for Federal use to public agencies and qualifying nonprofit entities in order to reduce the cost of State and local government.
Donations/loans of Obsolete Dod Property
To donate or lend obsolete combat material to veterans' organizations, soldiers' monument associations, State museums, incorporated museums, and incorporated municipalities.
Dropout Prevention Programs
To support effective, sustainable and coordinated dropout prevention and reentry programs in high schools with annual dropout rates that exceed their state average annual dropout rate. Middle schools which have students who continue on to these high...
Drug Abuse Research Programs
To support epidemiologic, basic, clinical, and applied research to develop new knowledge and approaches related to the prevention, treatment, etiology, and consequences of drug addiction, including HIV/AIDS. Small Business Innovation Research...
Drug Court Discretionary Grant Program
To support the establishment and development of drug courts. The FY 2001 Drug Court Grant Program is responsive to, and supportive of, developments in the field. As a result, the Drug Court Program Office (DCPO) announces the availability of...
Drug Prevention Program
To reduce drug use by encouraging the promotion of multiple approaches including the replication of the Life Skills Training (drug prevention) program, to educating and motivating young adolescents to pursue healthy lifestyles, fostering...
Drug-free Communities Support Program Grants
To increase the capacity of community coalitions to reduce substance abuse, and over time, to reduce substance abuse among adults through strengthening collaboration among communities, public, and private entities. To disseminate state-of-the-art...
Drug-free Communities Support Program Grants
To increase the capacity of community coalitions to reduce substance abuse, and over time, to reduce substance abuse among adults through strengthening collaboration among communities, public, and private entities. To disseminate state-of-the-art...
Drug-free Workplace Program
This Program permits the Small Business Administration (SBA) to make grants to eligible intermediaries to assist small businesses financially and technically in establishing DFWP programs. That statute also amended the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C....
Dutch John Federal Property and Disposition Assistance Act
To privatize certain lands in and surrounding Dutch John, Utah; to transfer jurisdiction to certain Federal property Between the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior; to improve the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area; to...
