Federal Grants beginning with the letters M-P

All Federal Grants beginning with the letters M-P are listed below. Click a letter to jump to the letter you're interested in.

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Maglev Project Selection Program - Safetea-lu
To provide financial assistance for a demonstration magnetic levitation transportation project.

Magnet Schools Assistance
To provide grants to eligible local educational agencies (LEAs) or consortia of LEAs to establish and operate magnet schools that are part of approved court-ordered of federally approved voluntary desegregation plans. Magnet programs aim to...

Mainstream Vouchers
To aid persons with disabilities (elderly and non-elderly)in obtaining decent, safe, and sanitary rental housing.

Management and Technical Assistance
The purpose of the program is to provide Business Development Assistance for Socially and Economically Disadvantaged Businesses. SBA performs this mission by entering into grants, cooperative agreements and contracts with qualified service...

Management and Technical Assistance for Minority Business Enterprises
(1) To support increased participation of minority, and women-owned small businesses and operated business enterprises (MBE's); (2) to develop energy-related minority small business assistance programs; (3) to encourage public/private partnerships...

Management Initiatives
To provide a variety of Bureau of Land Management financial assistance awards not covered by any other program entry. This program will support mission program efforts for the management, protection, and development of public lands managed by the...

Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards
To protect the quality, durability, safety and affordability of manufactured homes; to facilitate the availability of affordable manufactured homes and to increase home ownership for all Americans; to provide for the establishment of practical,...

Manufactured Home Loan Insurance-financing Purchase of Manufactured Homes as Principal Residences of Borrowers
To make possible reasonable financing of manufactured home purchases.

Manufacturing Extension Partnership
To establish, maintain, and support manufacturing extension centers and services, the functions of which are to improve the competitiveness of firms accelerating the usage of appropriate manufacturing technology by smaller U.S. based manufacturing...

Map Modernization Management Support
To increase local involvement in, and ownership of, management of, the development and maintenance of flood hazard maps produced for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).

Marine Fisheries Initiative
To provide financial assistance for research and development projects that will provide information for the full and wise use and enhancement of fishery resources in the Southeast U. S. Gulf of Mexico and the South Atlantic beginning with the State...

Marine Gas Hydrate Research Activities
To characterize and monitor gas hydrate deposits on OCS Block MC-118 in the Gulf of Mexico.

Marine Mammal Data Program
Nondiscretionary funding under this authorization provides support to State agencies for the collection and analysis of information on marine mammals that occur in the State's waters and interact with State managed fisheries and other marine...

Marine Minerals Activities
To evaluate OCS sand deposits for coastal restoration and beach nourishment needs, and to foster good working relationships regarding OCS mineral issues with coastal States.

Marine Sanctuary Program
To identify areas of the marine environment of special national significance due to their resource or human-use values; to provide authority for comprehensive and coordinated conservation and management of these marine areas that will complement...

Marine Turtle Conservation Fund
To assist in the conservation of marine turtles and the nesting habitats of marine turtles in foreign countries by supporting and providing financial resources for projects to conserve the nesting habitats, conserve marine turtles in those habitats,...

Maritime Security Fleet Program
To maintain a U.S.-flag merchant fleet crewed by U.S. mariners to serve both the commercial and national security needs of the United States.

Maritime War Risk Insurance
To provide war risk insurance whenever it appears to the Secretary of Transportation that adequate insurance for waterborne commerce cannot be obtained on reasonable terms and conditions from licensed insurance companies in the United States.

Market Access Program
To encourage the creation, maintenance, and expansion of commercial export markets for U.S. agricultural commodities through cost-share assistance to eligible trade organizations that implement a foreign market development program.

Market News
To provide timely and accurate information on prices, demand, movement, volume, and quality on all major U.S. agricultural commodities.

Market Protection and Promotion
The Federal Seed Program prevents mislabeled seed from moving in interstate commerce by providing for random sampling of seeds to insure accurate labeling of seed characteristics. The Plant Variety Protection Program offers legal protection to...

Marketing Agreements and Orders
Marketing Agreements and Orders are designed to stabilize market conditions and improve returns to producers through the establishment of minimum prices, regulating the quality and quantity of commodities sold through commercial channels, and...

Matching Grants for Health Professions Scholarships to Indian Tribes
To provide scholarships to Indians for health professions education through Indian tribes and tribal organizations. Scholarships must be for health careers listed in the current fiscal year Federal Register Notice for the Indian Health Professions...

Maternal and Child Health Federal Consolidated Programs
To carry out special maternal and child health (MCH) projects of regional and national significance; to conduct training and research; to conduct genetic disease testing, counseling, and information development and dissemination programs; for grants...

Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant to the States
To enable States to maintain and strengthen their leadership in planning, promoting, coordinating and evaluating health care for pregnant women, mothers, infants, and children,children with special health care needs and families in providing health...

Mathematical and Physical Sciences
To promote the progress of the mathematical and physical sciences and thereby strengthen the Nation's scientific enterprise; to increase the store of scientific knowledge and enhance understanding of major problems confronting the Nation. Most of...

Mathematical Sciences Grants Program
The NSA grant program seeks to stimulate developments in the field of cryptography and make careers in these fields of mathematics more attractive to Americans and to make NSA known as a possible employer of such mathematicians.

Mathematics and Science Partnerships
To improve the academic achievement of students in mathematics and science by encouraging States, IHEs, LEAs, and elementary and secondary schools to participate in programs that: improve and upgrade the status and stature of mathematics and science...

Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards
To provide scientific research and technology transfer for measurement and engineering research and standards.

Measures and Analyses of the U.s. Economy
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), a principal Federal statistical agency, seeks to promote a better understanding of the U.S. economy by providing the Nation with timely, relevant, and accurate economic data in an objective and cost-effective...

Meat, Poultry, and Egg Products Inspection
To assure that all meat, poultry and egg products produced in plants and shipped in commerce are federally inspected for safety, wholesomeness, and proper labeling.

Medicaid Infrastructure Grants to Support the Competitive Employment of People with Disabilities
To support State efforts to enhance employment options for people with disabilities by building Medicaid infrastructure. Funding may be used to develop a Medicaid buy-in, increase availability of Personal Assistance Services, or for State-to-State...

Medicaid Transformation Grants
To provide Federal payments to States for the adoption of innovative methods to improve the effectiveness and efficiency in providing Medical Assistance.

Medical Assistance Program
To provide financial assistance to States for payments of medical assistance on behalf of cash assistance recipients, children, pregnant women, and the aged who meet income and resource requirements, and other categorically-eligible groups. In...

Medical Library Assistance
To improve health information services by providing funds to train professional personnel; to conduct research in biomedical informatics, bioinformatics and related computer and information sciences; to facilitate management of electronic health...

Medical Reserve Corps Small Grant Program
To support the development of Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) units in communities throughout the United States to: (1) increase capacity at the community level to respond during emergencies which have medical consequences, and (2) improve public health...

Medicare - Prescription Drug Coverage
To provide prescription drugs to Medicare beneficiaries through their voluntary participation in prescription drug plans, with an additional subsidy provided to lower-income beneficiaries.

Medicare Enrollment Assistance Program
To provide outreach to eligible Medicare beneficiaries regarding the benefits available under title XVIII of the Social Security Act, including the Medicare prescription drug benefit under Part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act and under...

Medicare Transitional Drug Assistance Program for States
To provide Federal funding for transitional assistance to certain low-income Medicare beneficiaries, for the purchase of prescription drugs as referenced in Section 1860D-31(b)(2) of the Act.

Medicare Transitional Drug Assistance Program for Territories
To make available Federal funding for transitional assistance with respect to the provision of covered discount drugs for certain low-income Medicare beneficiaries of U. S. Commonwealths and Territories, referenced in Section 1860D-31(j)(2) of the...

Medicare-hospital Insurance
To provide hospital insurance protection for covered services to persons age 65 or above, to certain disabled persons and to individuals with chronic renal disease.

Medicare-supplementary Medical Insurance
To provide medical insurance protection for covered services to persons age 65 or over, to certain disabled persons and to individuals with end-stage renal disease. Enrollment in Part B is voluntary.

Mental Health Clinical and Aids Service-related Training Grants
(1) Institutions Clinical Training Grants: To encourage mental health specialists to work in areas and settings where severe shortages exist; to increase the number of qualified minority personnel in the mental health professions, and the number of...

Mental Health Disaster Assistance and Emergency Mental Health
To provide supplemental emergency mental health counseling to individuals affected by major disasters, including the training of workers to provide such counseling.

Mental Health National Research Service Awards for Research Training
To ensure a continuing and adequate supply of well-trained scientists who are able to conduct research on mental health problems. The program provides training grants to institutions and fellowships to individuals at both the predoctoral and...

Mental Health Research Career/scientist Development Awards
To provide support for research career development relating to causes, risk, diagnosis, genetics, development, epidemiology, prevention, treatment, and services use for mental illness, behavioral disorders, and HIV/AIDS; and relating to basic...

Mental Health Research Grants
To increase knowledge of basic brain and behavioral processes that underlie mental and behavioral disorders; to support epidemiological studies of biological and environmental risk factors; to translate basic and epidemiological research into the...

Mental Retardation-president's Committee on Mental Retardation
To advise the President on issues pertaining to people with intellectual disabilities (mental retardation).

Mentoring Children of Prisoners
To provide competitive grants to applicants in areas with significant numbers of children of prisoners to support the establishment and operation of programs using a network of public and private entities and to provide mentoring services for these...

Mentoring Partnership Program - Protege
The purpose of the Mentoring Partnership Program' Protege is to strengthen the organizational infrastructure and program services of small non-profit organizations so they may deliver improved HIV/AIDS prevention and support services to women most...

Meteorologic and Hydrologic Modernization Development
To maintain a cooperative university and Federal partnerships to conduct meteorological training, education, professional development, and research and development on issues common to the hydrometeorological community.

Metropolitan Medical Response System
The MMRS program provides funding to designated localities to assist in maintaining and updating plans, delivering training, purchasing equipment and pharmaceuticals, and conducting exercises. The mission of MMRS is to enhance local medical incident...

Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Research
To support research related to Microbiology and Infectious Diseases with the broad aim of improving health by controlling disease caused by infectious or parasitic agents. Projects range from studies of microbial physiology and antigenic structure...

Microenterprise Development Grants
To increase the number of microenterprises and to enhance the management capability of microentrepreneurs to provide training and technical assistance at little or no cost to microentrepreneur and/or microenterprises to assist in starting, expanding...

Microloan Demonstration Program
To assist women, low-income, and minority entrepreneurs, business owners, and other individuals possessing the capability to operate successful business concerns and to assist small business concerns in those areas suffering from a lack of credit...

Middle East Partnership Initiative (mepi)
To support democracy in the Middle East and North Africa by encouraging political, economic & educational reform and the empowerment of women..

Middle Rio Grande Endangered Species Collaborative Program
The purpose of the Middle Rio Grande Endangered Species Act Collaborative Program (Program) is to protect and improve the status of endangered listed species along the Middle Rio Grande (MRG) and to simultaneously protect existing and future...

Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers
To provide job training and other employability development services and related assistance for those individuals, including their dependents, who are primarily employed in agricultural labor that is characterized by chronic unemployment and...

Migrant Education-college Assistance Migrant Program
To assist students that are engaged, or whose parents are engaged in migrant and other seasonal farmwork, and are enrolled or are admitted for enrollment on a full-time basis in the first academic year at an institution of higher education.

Migrant Education-coordination Program
To encourage the interstate and intrastate coordination of migrant education including consortium arrangements in order to reduce the administrative costs of state educational agencies (SEAs) receiving Title I Migrant Education Program funds under...

Migrant Education-high School Equivalency Program
To assist students who are engaged, or whose parents are engaged, in migrant and other seasonal farm work to obtain the equivalent of a secondary school diploma and subsequently to gain employment or be placed in an institution of higher education...

Migrant Education-state Grant Program
To assist States to ensure that migratory children have the opportunity to meet the same challenging State content and performance standards that all children are expected to meet.

Migratory Bird Conservation
To maintain and enhance populations and habitats of migratory bird species found in the Upper Midwest (IL, IN, IA, MI, MN, MO, OH, WI).

Migratory Bird Joint Ventures
To protect, restore and enhance wetland and upland ecosystems for the conservation of migratory birds.

Migratory Bird Monitoring, Assessment and Conservation
To maintain, enhance, and better understand the ecology and habitats of migratory birds species.

Military Construction, National Guard
Provide for the acquisition, by purchase, transfer, construction, expansion, rehabilitation or conversion of facilities necessary for the training and administration of Army National Guard (ARNG) units in the 50 States, District of Columbia,...

Military Medical Research and Development
To reduce illness and injury among U.S. military personnel on the battlefield through basic and applied medical research executed largely through grants and contracts with civilian educational and research institutions.

Milk Income Loss Contract Program
To maintain and expand existing markets for dairy which are vital to the welfare of milk producers in the United States. Payments under this program will be limited to dairy operations that produced milk in the United States and commercially...

Mine Health and Safety Counseling and Technical Assistance
To improve conditions of health and safety in and around coal, metal and nonmetallic mines and mineral facilities through technical advice, special studies, investigations, development of State mine health and safety programs.

Mine Health and Safety Education and Training
To provide technical training for Federal mine inspectors and representatives of the mining industry.

Mine Health and Safety Grants
To assist States in providing safety and health training and developing programs to improve mine health and safety conditions.

Minerals and Mining on Indian Lands
The objectives of the Energy and Mineral Development Program are to: (1) provide funds to Tribes to perform technical evaluations of the energy (both renewable and conventional) and mineral resource potential of Indian reservations; (2) provide...

Minerals Management Service (mms) Environmental Studies Program (esp)
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...

Minerals Resources External Research Program
To conduct research in topics related to non-fuel mineral resources in order to (1) ensure availability of up-to-date quantitative assessments of potential for undiscovered mineral deposits, (2) Ensure availability of up-to-date geoenvironmental...

Minimum Penalties for Repeat Offenders for Driving While Intoxicated
To encourage States to enact and enforce Repeat Intoxicated Offender laws.

Minority Business Development
The resource development activity provides for the indirect business assistance programs conducted by MBDA. These programs encourage minority business development by utilizing entities that identify and develop private markets and capital sources;...

Minority Business Development Centers
To provide electronic and one-on-one business development services for a nominal fee to minority firms and individuals interested in entering, expanding or improving their efforts in the marketplace. MBDA's funded Minority Business Enterprise Center...

Minority Business Opportunity Committee
To promote access to key decision makers in the public and private sectors , facilitate the brokering of contracts and financial transactions, and identify and coordinate local business resources to benefit minority business entrepreneurs....

Minority International Research Training Grant In the Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences
(1) To enable qualified minority undergraduate students, graduate students and faculty members to participate in international biomedical and behavioral research programs; (2) to acquaint minority students and scientists with the full range of...

Minority Science and Engineering Improvement
To (1) Effect long-range improvement in science and engineering education at predominantly minority institutions and (2) increase the participation of underrepresented ethnic minorities, particularly minority women, in scientific and technological...

Miscellaneous Public Law 93-638 Contracts, Grants, and Cooperative Agreements
Project funds are to be provided on a non-reimbursable basis for construction and/or non-construction activities which are primarily for the benefit of Indians because of their protected status. For ARRA funded projects and in addition to the...

Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Assistance Program
This program provides funds for projects that aid in the protection and location of missing persons living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and other missing elderly individuals. It is currently estimated that 5.3 million people in the...

Missing Children's Assistance
To coordinate Federal missing and exploited children activities and to support research, training, technical assistance, and demonstration programs to enhance the overall response to missing children and their families. Establish and maintain a...

Mitigation of Environmental Impacts to Indian Lands Due to Department of Defense Activities
To provide financial assistance to American Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages to mitigate environmental impacts to their lands due to Department of Defense activities by assisting the tribes and villages in the planning, development and...

Mni Wiconi Rural Water Supply Project
To ensure a safe and adequate municipal, rural, and industrial water supply for the residents of the Pine Ridge Indian, Rosebud Indian, and Lower Brule Indian Reservations in South Dakota; to assist the citizens of Haakon, Jackson, Jones, Lyman,...

Model State-supported Area Health Education Centers
The Model State-Supported Area Health Education Centers (MAHEC) Program and the Basic/Core Area Health Education Centers (BAHEC) Program goals are to assist schools to improve the distribution, diversity, supply, and quality of health personnel in...

Modification of Trauma Care Component of State Ems Plan
To make grants to States and Territories for the purpose of developing, implementing, and monitoring modifications to the trauma care component of the State plan for the provision of emergency medical services.

Money Follows the Person Rebalancing Demonstration
For more than a decade, States have been asking for the tools to modernize their Medicaid programs. With the enactment of the Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) of 2005, States now have new options to rebalance their long-term support programs to allow...

Monthly Allowance for Children of Vietnam Veterans Born with Spina Bifida
To provide financial assistance to certain children born with spina bifida who are children of individuals who served in the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam era.

Morris K. Udall Fellowship Program
To honor former Arizona Congressman Morris K. Udall through the operation of internship, scholarship, and fellowship programs, financed by a permanent trust fund endowment, to develop increased opportunities for young Americans to prepare for and...

Morris K. Udall Native American Congressional Internship Program
To honor former Arizona Congressman Morris K. Udall through the operation of internship, scholarship and fellowship programs, financed by a permanent trust fund endowment, to develop increased opportunities for young Americans to prepare for and...

Morris K. Udall Scholarship Program
To honor former Arizona Congressman Morris K. Udall through the operation of internship, scholarship, and fellowship programs, financed by a permanent trust fund endowment, to develop increased opportunities for young Americans to prepare for and...

Mortgage Insurance for Construction or Substantial Rehabilitation of Condominium Projects
To enable sponsors to develop condominium projects in which individual units will be sold to home buyers.

Mortgage Insurance for the Purchase or Refinancing of Existing Multifamily Housing Projects
To provide mortgage insurance to HUD-approved lenders for the purchase or refinancing of existing multifamily housing projects, whether conventionally financed or subject to federally insured mortgages at the time of application for mortgage...

Mortgage Insurance-combination and Manufactured Home Lot Loans
To make possible reasonable financing for the purchase of a manufactured home and a lot on which to place the home.

Mortgage Insurance-cooperative Projects
Enables nonprofit cooperative ownership housing corporations or trusts to develop or sponsor the development of housing projects to be operated as cooperatives. Section 213 allows investors to provide good quality multifamily housing to be sold to...

Mortgage Insurance-growing Equity Mortgages
To provide a rapid principal reduction and shorter mortgage term by increasing payments over a 10-year period, thereby expanding housing opportunities to the homebuying public.

Mortgage Insurance-homes
To help people undertake home ownership.

Mortgage Insurance-homes for Disaster Victims
To help victims of a major disaster undertake homeownership on a sound basis.

Mortgage Insurance-homes In Urban Renewal Areas
To help families purchase or rehabilitate homes in urban renewal areas.

Mortgage Insurance-homes-military Impacted Areas
To help families undertake home ownership in military impacted areas.

Mortgage Insurance-hospitals
To facilitate the affordable financing of hospitals for the care and treatment of persons who are acutely ill or who otherwise require medical care and related services of the kind customarily furnished only or most effectively by hospitals.

Mortgage Insurance-housing In Older, Declining Areas
To assist in the purchase or rehabilitation of housing in older, declining urban areas.

Mortgage Insurance-manufactured Home Parks
To make possible the financing of construction or rehabilitation of manufactured home parks.

Mortgage Insurance-nursing Homes, Intermediate Care Facilities, Board and Care Homes and Assisted Living Facilities
To provide mortgage insurance to HUD-approved lenders to facilitate the construction or rehabilitation of nursing homes, intermediate care facilities, board and care homes and assisted living facilities, to allow purchase or refinancing with or...

Mortgage Insurance-purchase of Sales-type Cooperative Housing Units
To make available, good quality, new housing for purchase by individual members of a housing cooperative.

Mortgage Insurance-purchase of Units In Condominiums
To enable families to purchase units in condominium projects.

Mortgage Insurance-rental and Cooperative Housing for Moderate Income Families and Elderly, Market Interest Rate
To provide good quality rental or cooperative housing for moderate income families, the elderly, and handicapped. Single Room Occupancy (SRO) may also be insured under this section (see program 14.184).

Mortgage Insurance-rental Housing
To increase the supply of good quality rental housing for middle-income families.

Mortgage Insurance-rental Housing for the Elderly
To provide quality rental housing for the elderly.

Mortgage Insurance-rental Housing In Urban Renewal Areas
To provide quality rental housing in urban renewal areas, code enforcement areas, and other areas designated for overall revitalization.

Mortgage Insurance-single Family Cooperative Housing
To provide insured financing for the purchase of the Corporate Certificate and Occupancy Certificate for a unit in a cooperative housing project. Ownership of the corporate certificate carries the right to occupy the unit located within the...

Mortgage Insurance-two Year Operating Loss Loans, Section 223(d)
To insure a separate loan covering operating losses incurred during the first 2 years following the date of completion or any other 2-year period occurring within 10 years following the date of completion of a multifamily project with a HUD-insured...

Mortgages Insurance for Single Room Occupancy (sro) Projects
The Single Room Occupancy (SRO) Program provides mortgage insurance for multifamily properties consisting of single-room units. There are no Federal rent subsidies involved with this SRO Program. It is aimed at those tenants who have a source of...

Motor Carrier Research and Technology Programs
To provide grants and cooperative agreements to advance innovative solutions to problems involving commercial motor vehicles (CMV) and motor carrier safety, security, and efficiency; and to stimulate the deployment of emerging technology. To test,...

Motor Carrier Safety
To protect the public from risks inherent in commercial vehicle operations on the public highways, and to minimize risks involved in moving hazardous materials over public highways.

Motor Vehicle Theft Protection Act Program
The Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Act of 1994 (MVTPA) authorizes the Attorney General to develop, in cooperation with the States, a national voluntary motor vehicle theft prevention program. The national "Watch Your Car" program is...

Moving to Work Demonstration Program
The purpose of this demonstration is to give public housing agencies and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development the flexibility to design and test various approaches for providing and administering housing assistance that: reduce cost and...

Multi-state Conservation Grants
This program provides funding for sport fish and wildlife restoration projects identified by the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies.

Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act
To retain critical affordable housing resources represented by the supply of FHA-insured Section 8 assisted housing and maintain it in good physical and financial condition while, at the same time, reducing the cost of the ongoing Federal subsidy. ...

Multifamily Housing Service Coordinators
To link elderly, especially frail and disabled, or disabled non-elderly assisted housing and neighborhood residents to supportive services in the general community; to prevent premature and unnecessary institutionalization; and, to assess individual...

Multifamily Property Disposition
To manage and dispose of multifamily housing projects that are owned by the Secretary or that are subject to a mortgage held by the Secretary in a manner that is consistent with the National Housing Act; protect the financial interests of the...

Museum Assessment Program
To help museums assess their strengths and weaknesses, and to plan for the future. The Museum Assessment Program is supported through a cooperative agreement between the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the American Association of...

Museum Grants for African American History and Culture
Museum Grants for African American History and Culture are intended to build professional capacity in the African American museum community. The goals of the program are to develop and strengthen knowledge, skills, and other expertise of current...

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National Agricultural Library
To serve as the Nation's Chief Agricultural information resource by providing agricultural information products and services through traditional library functions and through modern electronic dissemination to agencies of the USDA, public...

National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Grant
To foster the establishment of State-administered controlled substance monitoring programs (PMP) in order to ensure that health care providers have access to the accurate, timely prescription history information that they may use as a tool for the...

National Archives Reference Services-historical Research
Objectives: To provide professional reference service to members of the general public and employees of the Federal government who are conducting research in Federal records or in historical materials in Presidential Libraries; provide the general...

National Bioterrorism Hospital Preparedness Program
To ready hospitals and other healthcare systems, in collaboration with other partners, to deliver coordinated and effective care to victims of terrorism and other public health emergencies.

National Cemeteries
To provide burial space, headstones and markers, and perpetual care for veterans and members of the Armed Forces of the United States whose service terminated other than dishonorably, and for Reservists and National Guard members having 20 years...

National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
To provide for the development of information describing the health professions workforce and the analysis of workforce-related issues and to provide necessary information for decision-making regarding future directions in health professions and...

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (ncmec)
To support investigative and forensics support activities related to investigations of missing and exploited children, promote awareness of the child pornography tip line and Project Alert; and, in conjunction with other Federal law enforcement...

National Center for Preservation Technology and Training
To develop and distribute preservation and conservation skills and technologies for the identification, evaluation, conservation, and interpretation of prehistoric and historic resources; to develop and facilitate training for Federal, State and...

National Center for Research Resources, Recovery Act Construction Support
To renovate existing research facilities and build new 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 NIH research...

National Center for Standards and Certification Information
To serve as a standards information and conformity assessment center and referral service, by maintaining a reference collection of standards and specifications, regulations, certification rules, directories, reference books and special...

National Center on Sleep Disorders Research
The purpose of the Center is to support research, training, health information dissemination and other activities with respect to sleep and sleep disorders, including biological and circadian rhythm research, basic understanding of sleep,...

National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program
Sections 792 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 authorize EPA to award grants and low-cost revolving loans to eligible entities to fund the costs of a retrofit technology that significantly reduces emissions through development and implementation of a...

National Climate Change and Wildlife Service Center
To develop mechanisms that will ensure that the National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center is responsive to the research and management needs of Federal and State agencies by working with partners to provide science and technical support...

National Community Centers of Excellence In Women's Health
To provide recognition and funding to community-based programs that unite promising approaches in women's health across the following six components: (1) Comprehensive health service delivery; (2) training for lay and professional health providers;...

National Community-based Lead Outreach and Training Grant Program
This lead outreach grant program is supported by EPA's goal to reduce childhood lead poisoning. The projects support this goal by providing lead poisoning outreach to low income communities. Funding Priority - Fiscal Year 2009: This grant program...

National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program
To produce geologic maps of areas in which knowledge of geology is important to the economic, social, or scientific welfare of individual States. STATEMAP supports: (1) projects which produce new geologic maps with attendant explanatory information...

National Criminal History Improvement Program (nchip)
To enhance the quality and completeness of the nation's criminal history record systems; to provide financial and technical assistance to States for the establishment or improvement of computerized criminal history record systems and in their...

National Dam Safety Program
To support State governments and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in the development and maintenance of dam safety programs. To enable States and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to take precautions that ensure the safety of the dams, such as the...

National Energy Information Center
To serve as the central Energy Information Administration (EIA) office for providing energy information and assistance in support of Federal agencies, State and local governments, the academic community, industrial and commercial organizations, and...

National Estuary Program
The National Estuary Program (NEP) objective is to protect and restore estuaries and estuarine watersheds designated by the EPA Administrator as estuaries of national significance. Each NEP characterizes the priority problems in its estuary and...

National Evaluation of the Safe Schools-healthy Students Initiative
To conduct an evaluation of the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative.

National Explosives Detection Canine Team Program
The National Explosives Detection Canine Program exists to deter and detect the introduction of explosives devices into the transportation system. In addition, bomb threats cause disruption of air, land and sea commerce and pose an unacceptable...

National Family Caregiver Support
To assist States, Territories and Indian Tribal Organizations in providing multifaceted systems of support services for: (1) Family caregivers; and (2) grandparents or older individuals who are relative caregivers. Services to be provided include:...

National Family Caregiver Support, Title Vi, Part C, Grants to Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiians
To assist Indian Tribal Organizations in providing multifaceted systems of support services for: (1) Family caregivers; and (2) grandparents or older individuals who are relative caregivers. Services to be provided include: information to caregivers...

National Fire Academy Educational Program
To provide professional development experience for fire service authorities who have demonstrated significant leadership accomplishment.

National Fire Academy Training Assistance
To provide travel stipends to students attending Academy courses.

National Fire Plan - Rural Fire Assistance
To implement the National Fire Plan by increasing firefighter safety and enhancing the knowledge and fire protection capability of rural fire departments by providing assistance in education and training, protective clothing and equipment purchase,...

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
Created by Congress in 1984, NFWF directs public conservation dollars to the most pressing environmental needs and matches those investments with private funds. The Foundation’s method is simple and effective: to work with a full complement of...

National Flagship Language Program Fellowships
The National Flagship Language Program (NFLP) is designed to address the urgent and growing need for Americans with professional levels of competency in languages critical to national security. NFLP offers advanced language training in Arabic,...

National Forest Foundation
The purposes of the Foundation are to- <br /> encourage, accept, and administer private gifts of money, and of real and personal property for the benefit of, or in connection with, the activities and services of the Forest Service of the Department...

National Forest-dependent Rural Communities
Provide accelerated assistance to rural communities faced with acute economic problems associated with Federal, State or private sector resource management decisions and policies and that are located in or near a national forest and are economically...

National Gallery of Art Extension Service
To provide educational material (slide programs, teaching packets, videocassettes, videodiscs, CD-ROMs, and DVDs) on the Gallery's collections and exhibitions, free of charge, except for return mailing, to individuals, schools, colleges, and...

National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program
To preserve and provide access to geological, geophysical, and engineering samples (and any related data) that have been extracted from the Earth to improve the breadth of information available, to inform science and decision making now and in the...

National Geospatial Program: Building the National Map
To utilize stimulus funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) to expand employment and business opportunities within a key sector of the geospatial industry while enabling America to revitalize its physical infrastructure,...

National Guard Civilian Youth Opportunities
The Secretary of Defense, acting through the Chief of the National Guard Bureau, conducts a National Guard civilian youth opportunities program (to be known as the &quot;National Guard ChalleNGe Program&quot;) to use the National Guard to provide...

National Guard Military Operations and Maintenance (o&m) Projects
Provide funding for the States through cooperative agreements to support the operations and maintenance of Army National Guard (ARNG) and Air National Guard (ANG) facilities and provide authorized service support activities to National Guard units...

National Health Promotion
To engage national membership organizations from various sectors as a means of expanding and coordinating health promotion efforts. To promote the development, implementation and coordination of programs that promote good health habits and programs...

National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program
The National Health Service Corp (NHSC) Loan Repayment Program’s objective is to increase the supply of primary care physicians, dentists, dental hygientist, behavioral and mental health professionals, certified nurse midwives, certified family...

National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program
To increase the supply of primary care physicians, dentists, behavioral and mental health professionals, certified nurse midwives, certified family nurse practitioners, and physician assistants and, if needed by the National Health Service Corps,...

National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program
As funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), the National Health Services Corps' (NHSC) objective is to increase the supply of primary care physicians, dentists, behavioral and mental health professionals, certified...

National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (nhtsa) Discretionary Safety Grants
To provide funds to conduct research and development on transportation safety and related issues.

National Historic Landmark
To study, identify, and encourage preservation of nationally-significant historic properties; a bronze plaque is awarded in a presentation ceremony when requested. This provides permanent identification of nationally significant properties.

National Historical Publications and Records Grants
To undertake a wide-range of activities related to the preservation, publication, and use of documentary sources relating to the history of the United States.

National Incident Based Reporting System
To allow State and local jurisdictions to capture detailed offense, offender, victim, property, and arrest. NIBRS moves beyond aggregate statistics and raw counts of crimes and arrests that comprise the summary UCR program to individual records...

National Incident Management System (nims)
To support the development, integration, and deployment of incident management systems. This includes operational, technical and programmatic standards in support of nationwide implementation of the NIMS model; establish a unified approach to...

National Industrial Competitiveness through Energy, Environment, and Economics
This program is in close-out. Financial assistance will not be provided in the future.

National Institute for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
To encourage, coordinate, and conduct research and evaluation of juvenile justice and delinquency prevention activities; to provide for public and private agencies, institutions, justice system agencies, a clearinghouse and information center for...

National Institute for Literacy
To provide national leadership regarding literacy; to coordinate literacy services and policy; and to serve as a national resource for adult education and literacy programs through dissemination.

National Institute of Justice Domestic Anti-terrorism Technology Development Program
To support the development of counter terrorism technologies, assist in the development of standards for those technologies, and work with state and local jurisdictions to identify particular areas of vulnerability to terrorist acts and be better...

National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants
To encourage and support research, development, and evaluation to further understanding of the causes and correlates of crime and violence, methods of crime prevention and control, and criminal justice system responses to crime and violence and...

National Institute of Justice Visiting Fellowships
To provide opportunities for experienced criminal justice practitioners and researchers to pursue projects aimed at improved understanding of crime, delinquency and criminal justice administration by sponsoring research projects of their own...

National Institute of Justice W.e.b. Dubois Fellowship Program
To provide opportunities for researchers with an interest in building knowledge for the enhancement of justice system administration, delinquency prevention, and violence reduction with opportunities to pursue projects aimed at addressing these...

National Institute of Standards and Technology Construction Grant Program
To provide competitively awarded grant funds for research science buildings through the construction of new buildings or expansion of existing buildings. For purposes of this program, &quot;research science building&quot; means a building or...

National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research
To support and coordinate research and its utilization in order to improve the lives of people of all ages with physical and mental disabilities, especially persons with severe disabilities, through: (1) identifying and eliminating causes and...

National Institutes of Health Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Research Loan Repayment Program
To help assure an adequate supply of trained researchers (physicians, registered nurses and scientists) with respect to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by providing for the repayment of...

National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Program for Clinical Researchers
To attract and retain health professionals to clinical research careers by offering educational loan repayment for participants who agree by written contract to engage in clinical research in a qualifying nonprofit institution for a minimum of 2...

National Institutes of Health Pediatric Research Loan Repayment Program
To attract and retain health professionals to pediatric research careers by offering educational loan repayment for participants who agree by written contract to engage in pediatric research in a qualifying nonprofit institution for a minimum of 2...

National Institutes of Health Pediatric Research Loan Repayment Program
To attract and retain health professionals to pediatric research careers by offering educational loan repayment for participants who agree by written contract to engage in pediatric research in a qualifying nonprofit institution for a minimum of 2...

National Land Remote Sensing_education Outreach and Research
To promote the uses of space-based land remote sensing data and technologies through education and outreach at the State and local level and through university based and collaborative research projects. Technologies of interest include...

National Maritime Heritage Grants
The National Maritime Heritage Grants program helps State and local governments and private nonprofit organizations carry out their maritime heritage activities by funding Maritime Heritage Preservation Projects and Maritime Heritage Education...

National Motor Carrier Safety
To reduce the number and severity of accidents and hazardous material incidents involving commercial motor vehicles by substantially increasing the level and effectiveness of enforcement activity and the likelihood that safety defects, driver...

National Natural Landmarks Program
To identify and recognize nationally significant natural areas throughout the United States of America and to encourage their continued preservation.

National Network for Environmental Management Studies Fellowship Program
To provide students an opportunity to participate in a research project that is directly related to their field of study. To foster a growing interest among higher education students in environmental careers. To help defray the costs associated with...

National Nuclear Security Administration (nnsa) Historically Black Colleges and Universities (hbcu) Program
To engage minority serving institutions (MSIs) in NNSA mission activities, collaborative research projects throughout the NNSA complex, and future workforce development.

National Ocean Service Intern Program
To establish an Intern Program which will provide unique opportunities for cooperative study, research, and development that would be of major benefit in advancing the number and diversity of skilled engineers, scientists, and managers in the...

National Outreach and Communication Program
To improve communications with anglers, boaters, and the general public regarding angling and boating opportunities, to reduce barriers to participation in these activities, to advance adoption of sound fishing and boating practices, to promote...

National Park Service Centennial Challenge.
The National Park Centennial Initiative is a ten year effort to prepare national parks for another century of conservation, preservation, and public enjoyment. Project efforts will improve parks and serve all Americans, especially our nation's...

National Pipeline Mapping System
To create a National Pipeline Mapping System (NPMS) that consists of multiple State repositories, and a National repository that includes location and selected attributes of the major natural gas transmission and hazardous liquid pipelines and...

National Prison Rape Statistics Program
To collect and analyze data on the incidence of sexual assault among individuals held in Federal and State prisons, local jails, and juvenile facilities as well as former inmates.

National Railroad Passenger Corporation Grants
To provide financial assistance to support the operation of and capital investment in intercity passenger rail service in the United States.

National Register of Historic Places
To expand and maintain the National Register of Historic Places for planning, preservation, research, public education and tourism efforts; to make the information on districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects of historical, architectural,...

National Research Service Awards-health Services Research Training
To provide predoctoral and postdoctoral training opportunities in health services research. Individual fellowships will be awarded directly to applicants for postdoctoral research training. Domestic institutions will also be awarded grants to...

National Research Services Awards
To prepare qualified individuals for careers that significantly impact the Nation’s primary care research agenda. Within the framework of the program’s longstanding commitment to excellence and projected need for investigators in particular areas of...

National Resource Centers and Fellowships Program for Language and Area or Language and International Studies
Centers: To promote instruction in modern foreign languages and area and international studies that are critical to national needs by supporting the establishment, strengthening and operation of such programs at colleges and universities. Centers...

National Rural Development Partnership
To improve the quality of life in rural America by supporting and maintaining a network of State Rural Development Councils (SRDCs) that create and facilitate cross-program collaborations.

National School Lunch Program
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.

National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (smart) Grants
To provide eligible third- and fourth-year full-time undergraduates who major in certain designated technical fields or foreign languages with need-based grant assistance to help meet educational expenses.

National Security Education-fellowships
(1) To equip Americans with an understanding of less commonly taught languages and cultures; (2) to build a critical base of future leaders both in the marketplace and in government service; (3) to develop a cadre of professionals with more than...

National Security Education-scholarships
(1) To equip Americans with an understanding of less commonly taught languages and cultures; (2) to build a critical base of future leaders both in the marketplace and in government service; (3) to develop a cadre of professionals with more than the...

National Sheep Industry Improvement Center
To assist the U.S. sheep and goat industries by strengthening and enhancing the production and marketing of sheep and goats and their products in the United States.

National Spatial Data Infrastructure Cooperative Agreements Program
To improve the efficient discovery, access, transfer and use of geospatial data among organizations among and between Federal, state, and local government; academia; and profit and nonprofit organizations.

National Standard Reference Data System
To make evaluated scientific and technical data readily available to scientists, engineers, and the general public.

National Technical Information Service
To provide products and services designed to increase the flow of technical information and technology into the world marketplace. To serve as a principal source for the public sale of U.S. Government-sponsored scientific, engineering and technical...

National Trade Data Bank (ntdb)
STAT-USA's objective is to provide the public with access to key business, economic, and international trade information in formats that are easy to use and located in a &quot;one-stop shop.&quot; STAT-USA(r)/Internet is a single point of access for...

National Trails System Projects
To preserve, protect, and develop the components of the National Trails System, with a strong emphasis on volunteer involvement. The Secretary may enter into written cooperative agreements to operate, develop, and maintain any portion of such a...

National Urban Search and Rescue (us&r) Response System
Develop, maintain, deploy, coordinate, and support National Urban Search and Rescue resources on-scene to locate, provide initial medical treatment, and extricate victims of incidents requiring specialized search and rescue operations while...

National Wetland Program Development Grants
To assist State, Tribal, local government (S/T/LG) agencies, and interstate/intertribal entities in building programs which protect, manage, and restore wetlands. The primary focus of the grants is to build state and tribal wetland programs. A...

National White Collar Crime Center
NW3C is a federally-funded, non-profit corporation, whose mission is to provide a nationwide support system for agencies involved in the prevention, investigation, and prosecution of economic and high-tech crimes and to support and partner with...

National Wildlife Refuge Fund
To provide revenue sharing payments to local governments to offset tax losses for fee and withdrawn domain lands within the approved acquisition boundaries, using revenues derived from the sale of products from National Wildlife Refuges and other...

Native American Business Development Institute
Under its Native American Business Development Institute (NABDI) conceived in FY 2006, IEED has developed partnerships with U.S. business schools to assist tribal business assess financial opportunities and prepare economic feasibility studies....

Native American Economic Development Assistance
To fund economic development projects that will provide small business opportunities and empower American Indians, Native Alaskans and Native Hawaiian entrepreneurs located in disadvantaged and under-served Indian reservations and tribal areas...

Native American Employment and Training
To support employment and training activities for Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian individuals in order: to develop more fully the academic, occupational, and literacy skills of such individuals; to make such individuals more competitive...

Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
To provide grants to museums to assist in the consultation on and documentation of Native American human remains and cultural items; to provide grants to Indian tribes, Alaska Native villages and corporations, and Native Hawaiian organizations to...

Native American Housing Block Grants (competitive) Recovery Act Funded
To provide federal assistance for Indian tribes in a manner that recognizes the right of tribal self-governance, and for other purposes.

Native American Housing Block Grants (formula) Recovery Act Funded
To provide federal assistance for Indian tribes in a manner that recognizes the right of tribal self-governance, and for other purposes.

Native American Library Services
To support Indian tribes, Alaska Native villages and corporations, and organizations that serve and represent Native Hawaiians in providing library services to their communities.

Native American Program
To provide electronic and one-on-one business development service to Native Americans interested in entering, expanding or improving their efforts in the marketplace. MBDA's Native American Business Enterprise Center operators provide a wide range...

Native American Programs
To provide financial assistance to American Indian non-profit Native Tribes and Villages, and for Native Hawaiians and Native American Pacific Islander organizations for the development and implementation of social and economic development...

Native American Veteran Direct Loan Program
To provide direct loans to certain veterans who are, or whose spouses are, Native Americans for the purchase or construction of homes on trust lands.

Native American/native Hawaiian Museum Services Program
To enable Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages and corporations and nonprofit organizations that primarily serve and represent Native Hawaiians to benefit their communities and audiences through strengthened museum services in the areas of...

Native Hawaiian Education
To develop innovative educational programs to assist Native Hawaiians and to supplement and expand programs and authorities in the area of education.

Native Hawaiian Family Based Education Centers
To expand the operation of Family-Based Education Centers throughout the Hawaiian Islands which include prenatal and preschool programs, follow-up and assessment, and research and development.

Native Hawaiian Gifted and Talented
To provide financial assistance to: 1) Address the special needs of gifted and talented Native Hawaiian elementary and secondary school students; (2) provide support services to the families of such students; and (3) to develop culturally sensitive...

Native Hawaiian Health Systems
To raise the health status of Native Hawaiians living in Hawaii to the highest possible level through the provision of comprehensive health promotion and disease prevention services, as well as primary health services, and to provide existing Native...

Native Hawaiian Higher Education Program
To make direct grants to Native Hawaiian education organizations or education entities with experience in developing or operating Native Hawaiian programs or programs of instruction conducted in the Native Hawaiian language to enable them to provide...

Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grants
To provide housing assistance to low-income Native Hawaiian families who are eligible to reside on Hawaiian Home Lands.

Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grants (recovery Act Funded)
To provide housing assistance to low-income Native Hawaiian families who are eligible to reside on Hawaiian Home Lands.

Native Hawaiian Special Education
To fund projects addressing the special education needs of Native Hawaiian students.

Native Hawaiian Vocational Education
To make grants to organizations primarily serving and representing Native Hawaiians for programs or portions of programs authorized by, and consistent with, the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act.

Natural Resource Damage Assessment, Restoration and Implementation
To restore natural resources injured by oil spills or hazardous substance releases. This is to be done by Natural Resource Trustees; seeking and identifying natural resources injured, determining the extent of the injuries, recovering damages from...

Navajo-hopi Indian Settlement Program
To implement those provisions of the Navajo-Hopi Settlement Act of 1974, as amended, which are assigned to the Department of the Interior; and to institute conservation practices and methods to restore the grazing potential of rangelands lying...

Navigation Projects
To provide the most practicable and economic means of fulfilling the needs of general navigation, through projects not specifically authorized by Congress.

Neighborhood Stabilization Program (recovery Act Funded)
Neighborhood stabilization through acquisition and rehabilitation, land banking, disposition, or demolition of abandoned and foreclosed residential property. Also, to develop viable urban communities, by providing decent housing and a suitable...

Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation
To assist in the conservation of neotropical migratory birds by providing financial resources for the projects of partnerships in countries within the ranges of neotropical migratory birds.

New Assets for Independence Demonstration Program
The purpose of the Assets for Independence program is to demonstrate and evaluate the effectiveness of asset-building projects that assist low-income people in becoming economically self-sufficient by teaching them about economic and consumer issues...

New Era Rural Technology Competitive Grants Program
To establish a competitive grants program to provide funding for technology development, applied research, and training to aid in the development of an agriculture-based renewable energy workforce.

New Freedom Program
To provide grants to recipients for new public transportation services and public transportation alternatives beyond those required by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12101 et. Seq.) that assists individuals with disabilities...

New Markets Venture Capital
To promote economic development and the creation of wealth and job opportunities in low-income geographic areas and among individuals living in such areas, through developmental venture capital investments in smaller enterprises located in such...

Nics Act Record Improvement Program
To improve the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) by providing assistance to States to improve the completeness, automation and transmittal to state and federal systems the records utilized by the NICS. Such records...

Niehs Hazardous Waste Worker Health and Safety Training
To provide cooperative agreements and project grant support for the development and administration of model worker health and safety training programs consisting of classroom and practical health and safety training of workers and their supervisors,...

Niehs Superfund Hazardous Substances-basic Research and Education
To establish a unique program linking biomedical research with engineering, geoscience and ecological research. The goals of the program are to establish and support an innovative program of basic research and training consisting of multi-project,...

Noaa Mission-related Education Awards
The objectives of the overall program are to facilitate educational activities related to NOAA's mission.

Non-discrimination and Affirmative Action by Federal Contractors and Federally Assisted Construction Contractors
To assure non-discrimination and affirmative action in employment by covered Federal contractors, including Federal construction contractors, and federally assisted construction contractors.

Non-discrimination In Federally Assisted and Conducted Programs (on the Basis of Disability)
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in federally assisted programs (Part 8) and federally conducted programs (Part 9).

Non-discrimination In Federally Assisted Programs (on the Basis of Race, Color, or National Origin)
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color or national origin in federally assisted programs.

Non-discrimination In Federally-assisted Programs (on the Basis of Age)
The Age Discrimination Act of 1975, as amended, is designed to prohibit discrimination on the basis of age in programs or activities receiving Federal financial assistance.

Non-discrimination In the Community Development Block Grant Program (on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Religion, or Sex)
Section 109 of Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended prohibits discrimination in Community Development Block Grant Programs on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, or sex.

Non-discrimination on the Basis of Disability by Public Entities
Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination against persons with disabilities in all programs, services, and regulatory activities relating to State and local public housing, and housing assistance and referral.

Non-discrimination on the Basis of Sex In Education Programs and Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance
To investigate complaints of discriminatory practices in connection to the Department's administration of Federal assistance programs and activities. Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs or activities that...

Non-governmental Organization Strengthening
The NGO Strengthening program aims to help local indigenous non-governmental organizations, networks, and intermediate service organizations become more efficient and effective in the delivery of development services.

Non-sale Disposals of Mineral Material
To permit free use of certain mineral material from federally owned lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau by governmental units and nonprofit organizations.

Noninsured Assistance
To provide crop loss assistance comparable to the catastrophic risk protection level of crop insurance to producers of commercial crops or other agricultural commodities for which the catastrophic risk protection level of crop insurance is not...

Nonpoint Source Implementation Grants
To assist States, the District of Colombia, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas, Puerto Rico, Pacific Trust Territories, Virgin Islands (hereinafter referred to as States), and qualified Indian Tribes and intertribal consortia in implementing...

North American Wetlands Conservation Fund
To provide grant funds for wetlands conservation projects in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Northern Border Prosecution Initiative Program
To reimburse State, county, parish, tribal, or municipal governments only for costs associated with the prosecution of criminal cases declined by local U.S. Attorneys' offices.

Not-for-profit Amd Reclamation
To fund local organizations and not-for-profit groups that undertake local acid mine drainage (AMD) reclamation projects.

Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration
Provide financial assistance to address key issues affecting the worldwide use of nuclear energy through the research, development, and demonstration of science and technology fields related to nuclear energy and its underlying sciences.

Nuclear Waste Disposal Siting
For nuclear waste disposal activities to carry out the purposes of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, Public Law 97–425, as amended (NWPA); to conduct appropriate activities and participate in licensing activities in accordance with the NWPA.

Nurse Anesthetist Traineeships
Grants are awarded to eligible institutions to provide financial support through traineeships for licensed registered nurses enrolled as full-time students beyond the twelfth month of study in a master's nurse anesthesia program.

Nurse Education, Practice and Retention Grants
Nurse Education, Practice and Retention Program (NEPR)<br /> Grants are awarded to eligible applicant organizations for projects to strengthen and enhance the capacity for nurse education, practice and retention to address the nursing shortage....

Nurse Faculty Loan Program (nflp)
To increase the number of qualified nursing faculty. School of nursing that receive NFLP funding must provide loans to students enrolled in eligible advanced degree nursing programs (master’s or doctoral) with an education component(s) that will...

Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program (nelrp)
As funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), the objective of NELRP is to assist in the recruitment and retention of professional registered nurses (RN) in approved critical shortage areas to increase access to quality...

Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program for Registered Nurses Entering Employment at Eligible Health Facilities
To assist in the recruitment and retention of professional registered nurses (RN) in approved critical shortage areas to increase access to quality health care by offering loan repayment in return for full-time service at an eligible health care...

Nursing Research
The National Institute of Nursing Research supports and conducts clinical and basic research and research training on health and illness across the lifespan. The research focus encompasses health promotion and disease prevention, quality of life,...

Nursing Scholarship Program
To increase the supply of registered nurses (RN) in approved health care facilities with a critical shortage of nurses by providing service-obligated scholarships to nursing students.

Nursing Student Loans
To increase educational opportunities by providing long-term, low-interest loans to students in need of financial assistance and in pursuit of a course of study in an approved nursing program.

Nursing Workforce Diversity
To increase nursing education opportunities for individuals who are from disadvantaged backgrounds (including racial and ethnic minorities under-represented among registered nurses) by providing student stipends and scholarships, pre-entry...

Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico
A cash grant alternative to the Special Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) (Formally known as the Food Stamp Program) to improve diets of needy persons residing in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

Nutrition Services Incentive
To improve the diets of the elderly and to increase the market for domestically produced foods acquired under surplus removal or price support operations.

Nutrition Services Incentive Program
To reward effective performance by States and Tribes in the efficient delivery of nutritious meals to older adults through the use of cash or commodities.

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Occupant Protection
To encourage States to adopt effective programs to reduce highway deaths and injuries resulting from individuals riding unrestrained or improperly restrained in motor vehicles.

Occupational Health and Surveillance Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation
To (1) Recognize new hazards; (2) define the magnitude of the problem; (3) follow trends in incidence; (4) target exceptional hazardous workplaces for intervention; and (5) evaluate the effectiveness of prevention efforts. The goal of this program...

Occupational Safety and Health Research Grants
To (1) recognize new hazards; (2) define the magnitude of the problem; (3) follow trends in incidence; (4) target exceptional hazardous workplaces for intervention; and (5) evaluate the effectiveness of prevention efforts. The goal of this program...

Occupational Safety and Health-state Program
To fund federally approved comprehensive State occupational safety and health programs that are &quot;at least as effective&quot; as the Federal program.

Occupational Safety and Health-susan Harwood Training Grants
To provide occupational safety and health training and education to employees and employers, particularly in the recognition, avoidance and abatement of workplace hazards.

Occupational Safety and Health-training Grants
To develop specialized professional and paraprofessional personnel in the occupational safety and health field with training in occupational medicine, occupational health nursing, industrial hygiene, and occupational safety.

Ocean Exploration
To explore the Earth’s largely unknown oceans in all their dimensions for the purpose of discovery and the advancement of knowledge, using state of the art technologies in evolutionary and revolutionary ways within Oceanic and Atmospheric Research...

Ocean Freight Reimbursement Program
Reimburses registered U.S. private voluntary organizations (PVOs) to ship commodities overseas for use in privately funded development and humanitarian assistance programs.

Offender Reentry Program
The Offender Reentry Initiative (Reentry Grant Program) is a combined federal effort to assist jurisdictions in facing the challenges presented by the return of offenders from prison to the community. The goal is to support the effective delivery of...

Office of Administration Special Programs
To identify, develop, and encourage minorities to pursue careers and graduate degrees in the atmospheric, environmental and related sciences. To expose a large segment of minority faculty and students to atmospheric and environmental sciences in...

Office of Cyberinfrastructure
To coordinate and support the acquisition, development and provision of state-of-the-art cyberinfrastructure resources, tools and services essential to the conduct of frontier 21st century science and engineering research and education.

Office of Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research
As an investment strategy, Co-funding enables members of the research communities within EPSCoR jurisdictions not only to improve their ability to compete for National Science Foundation (NSF) program funds, but also to increase their active...

Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (oar) Joint and Cooperative Institutes
To increase the effectiveness of research and develop innovative approaches to education in the environmental sciences by facilitating cooperation between government, university, and nonprofit research institutions.

Office of Research and Development Consolidated Research
The Office of Research and Development (ORD) supports research and development to determine the environmental effects of air quality, drinking water, water quality, hazardous waste, toxic substances, and pesticides; (2) identify, develop, and...

Office of Science Financial Assistance Program
To provide financial support for fundamental research in the basic sciences and advanced technology concepts and assessments in fields related to energy.<br /> <br /> The application deadlines will be posted at the Grants.gov web site:...

Office of Scientific and Technical Information
To advance science and sustain technological creativity by making R&amp;D findings available and useful to the Department of Energy (DOE) researchers and the American people. To collect, preserve, disseminate, and leverage the scientific and...

Office of Small Disadvantaged Business Certification and Eligibility
To ensure compliance with the constitutional standards established by the Supreme Court in Adarand Contractors, Inc vs. Pena, relative to Federal action programs that use racial or ethnic criteria as a basis for decision making.

Office of Technology Development and Deployment for Environmental Management
The Technology Development and Deployment program provides key investments in mid- and long- range research and development (R&amp;D) projects focused on high priority issues related to cleanup of the Nations legacy from nuclear weapons production. ...

Officer next Door Sales Program
The purpose of the Good Neighbor Next Door Sales Program is to improve the quality of life in distressed urban communities. This is to be accomplished by encouraging law enforcement officers, teachers, and firefighters/emergency medical technicians,...

Offshore Research Technology Center (otrc) Texas Engineering Experiment Station (tees)
The MMS, as authorized by the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) (43 U.S.C. 1331-1356), is responsible for ensuring that any oil and gas activities located on the OCS conserve resources, operate safely, and protect the coastal and marine...

One-stop Career Center Initiative
to provide the customer with access to all Department of Labor-funded programs within one physical facility or through electronic access.

One-time International Exchange Grant Program
To provide one-time grants for international exchanges that address issues of mutual interest to the United States and other countries, consistent with the program criteria established in the Department’s annual appropriation. As directed by the...

Operating Assistance for Troubled Multifamily Housing Projects
To provide loans to restore or maintain the physical and financial soundness, to assist in the management and to maintain the low-to moderate-income character of certain projects assisted or approved for assistance under the National Housing Act or...

Operating-differential Subsidies
To promote development and maintenance of the U.S. Merchant Marine by granting financial aid to equalize cost of operating a U.S. flag ship with cost of operating a competitive foreign flag ship.

Operation Lead Elimination Action Program
To leverage private sector resources to eliminate lead poisoning as a major public health threat to young children. Operation LEAP will provide seed money in the form of grants to applicants that demonstrate a concrete ability to leverage...

Operation Safe Commerce (osc)
To explore commercially viable options to enhance cargo security, including business processes and technology prototypes, which support containerized cargo supply chain security management while facilitating the flow of trade.

Opportunities for Youth-youthbuild Program
The Youthbuild program provides funding assistance for a wide range of multi-disciplinary activities and services to assist economically disadvantaged youth. The opportunities are designed to help disadvantaged young adults who have dropped out of...

Oral Diseases and Disorders Research
To improve oral, dental and craniofacial health through research, research training, and the dissemination of health information. The research portfolio supports basic, clinical and transitional research from molecular biology to patient-oriented...

Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative
Facilitate the development of organic agriculture production, breeding, and processing methods. Functionally identify soil microbial communities and ways to manage microbial dynamics to enhance nutrient cycling and disease suppression; Develop...

Osha Data Initiative
To fund collection of occupational injury and illness data from employers in specified industries nationwide.

Outdoor Recreation-acquisition, Development and Planning
To provide financial assistance to the States and their political subdivisions for the preparation of Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plans (SCORPs) and acquisition and development of outdoor recreation areas and facilities for the...

Outreach and Assistance for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers
To reverse the decline of socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers across the United States. The intended outcome is to encourage and assist socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers to own and operate their own farms and ranches, participate...

Overseas Educational Advising
As authorized by the Fulbright-Hays Act, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) seeks to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries by means of educational and cultural...

Overseas Processing Entities (opes) for U.s. Refugee Resettlement
The purpose of the Overseas Processing Entity (OPE) is to assist the Bureau in preparing the necessary casework for persons eligible for interview by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) of the Department of Homeland Security...

Overseas Refugee Assistance Program for near East and South Asia
In the Near East: Providing protection and assistance to Iraqi refugees, conflict victims, internally displaced persons (IDPs) and returnees remains a high priority to the Bureau. Programs will assist refugee populations in neighboring countries,...

Overseas Refugee Assistance Programs for Africa
Assistance will contribute to the basic needs of some 2 million refugees and millions more conflict victims spread across the African continent (both Sub-Saharan and North Africa). NGOs are key partners of international organizations in Africa,...

Overseas Refugee Assistance Programs for East Asia
There are more than 140,000 Burmese refugees in nine camps along the Thailand-Burma border. The role of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the Burmese border camps is limited to the provision of protection; therefore,...

Overseas Refugee Assistance Programs for Europe
Funding of organizations that assist refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Europe and Central Asia will be significantly less than in FY09. Discounting the surge in funding required to respond to the humanitarian crisis in Georgia...

Overseas Refugee Assistance Programs for Strategic Global Priorities
Bureau support under this program includes mostly contributions to the headquarters and global program costs of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the headquarters budget of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)...

Overseas Refugee Assistance Programs for Western Hemisphere
The civil conflict in Colombia continues to be a primary cause of displacement and humanitarian suffering in the Western Hemisphere. For the past several years, the Bureau in conjunction with the Government of Colombia, International Organizations...

Overseas Seminars Abroad-bilateral Projects
To increase mutual understanding and knowledge between the people of the United States and those in other countries by offering qualified U.S. educators opportunities to participate in short-term study seminars abroad on topics in the social...

Overseas-doctoral Dissertation
To provide opportunities for graduate students to engage in full-time dissertation research abroad in modern foreign language and area studies with the exception of Western Europe. This program is designed to develop research knowledge and...

Overseas-faculty Research Abroad
To help universities and colleges strengthen their language and area studies programs by enabling faculty members to conduct research abroad in order to improve their skills in languages and their knowledge of the cultures on which their academic...

Overseas-group Projects Abroad
To contribute to the development and improvement of the study of modern foreign languages and area studies in the United States by providing opportunities for teachers, faculty, and upperclassmen and/or graduate students to study, travel, and...

Ozone Transport
To develop or recommend air quality implementation plans for air quality control regions designated pursuant to Section 106 (interstate pollution) or Section 111 (interstate ozone pollution) of the Clean Air Act of 1990. Funding Priority - Fiscal...

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P3 Award: National Student Design Competition for Sustainability
EPA offers this competition to respond to the technical needs of the developed and developing world in moving towards the goal of sustainability. P3 highlights people, prosperity, and the planet – the three pillars of sustainability – as the next...

Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery-pacific Salmon Treaty Program
This is a cooperative program that assists the States in salmon restoration and in fulfilling responsibilities under the Pacific Salmon Treaty by providing administrative management. Support is provided to treaty Indian tribes for salmon recovery...

Pacific Fisheries Data Program
This cooperative program provides support to State fishery agencies to enhance their data collection and analysis systems to respond to coast wide and insular area fisheries management needs. The program supports fisheries data collection and...

Parental Assistance Centers
To provide grants to nonprofit organizations and nonprofit organizations in consortia with local educational agencies (LEAs) to assist them in establishing parental information and resource centers. These centers strive to: (1) assist parents in...

Part 1774 - Special Evaluation Assistance for Rural Communities and Households Program (search)
To make predevelopment planning grants for feasibility studies, design assistance, and technical assistance, to financially distressed communities in rural areas with populations of 2,500 or fewer inhabitants for water and waste disposal projects.

Part E-state Challenge Activities
The purpose of the Challenge Grant Program is to provide incentives for States participating in the Formula Grants Program to develop, adopt, and approve policies and programs in one or more of ten specified challenge activities to improve the...

Partners for Fish and Wildlife
Provide technical and financial assistance to private landowners and Native American Tribes interested in voluntarily restoring or otherwise improving native habitats for fish and wildlife on their lands.

Partnership Agreements to Develop Non-insurance Risk Management Tools for Producers (farmers)
To develop risk management tools (risk management tools do not include insurance products, plans of insurances, policies, modifications thereof or any related material) for the U. S. agriculture producers with an emphasis on specialty crop(s)...

Patent and Trademark Technical Information Dissemination
To promote the continued growth of American technology and commerce through the utilization and dissemination of technical information available through patents and trademarks, and maintenance of public search centers containing patents and...

Paul Coverdell Forensic Sciences Improvement Grant Program
To improve the quality and timeliness of forensic science and medical examiner services and/or to eliminate backlogs in the analysis of forensic evidence, including controlled substances, firearms examination, forensic pathology, latent prints,...

Paul S. Sarbanes Transit In the Parks
Purpose of the program is to enhance the protection of national parks and Federal lands, and increase the enjoyment of those visiting them through the use of alternative transportation. The goals of the program are to ensure access to all,...

Payments for Essential Air Services
To assure that air transportation is provided to eligible communities by subsidizing air carriers when necessary to provide service.

Payments for Small Community Air Service Development
To help smaller communities enhance their air service and increase access to the national transportation system.

Payments In Lieu of Taxes
To compensate local taxing units (usually County governments) for the loss of taxes from Federally-owned and acquired lands. Payment amounts are determined by several codified formulas (U.S.C. 6901-6907) and is designed to supplement other Federal...

Payments to 1890 Land-grant Colleges and Tuskegee University
To support continuing agricultural research at colleges eligible to receive funds under the Act of August 30, 1890 (26 Stat. 417-419, as amended; 7 U.S.C. 321-326 and 328), including Tuskegee University. Its purpose is to promote efficient...

Payments to Agricultural Experiment Stations Under the Hatch Act
To support agricultural research at State Agricultural Experiment Stations. Its purpose is to promote efficient production, marketing, distribution, and utilization of products of the farm as essential to the health and welfare of people and to...

Payments to States In Lieu of Real Estate Taxes
To compensate local taxing units for the loss of taxes from federally acquired lands, 75 percent of all monies received or deposited in the Treasury during any fiscal year for the account of leasing of lands acquired by the United States for flood...

Peanut Quota Buyout Program
To terminate the marketing quota program for peanuts and offer compensation to the peanut quota holders for losses in quota asset value. The 2002 Farm Bill repeals part IV of subtitle B of Title III of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938,...

Pension for Non-service-connected Disability for Veterans
To assist wartime veterans in need whose non-service- connected disabilities are permanent and total preventing them from following a substantially gainful occupation.

Pension Plan Termination Insurance
To encourage the continuation and maintenance of voluntary private pension plans for the benefit of their participants, to provide for the timely and uninterrupted payment of pension benefits to participants and beneficiaries in plans covered by the...

Pension to Veterans Surviving Spouses, and Children
To assist needy surviving spouses, and children of deceased war-time veterans whose deaths were not due to service.

Performance and Registration Information Systems Management
To identify motor carriers responsible for the safety of commercial motor vehicles and monitor the safety fitness of those motor carriers by linking the vehicle registration process to safety performance monitoring and enforcement. Furthermore,...

Performance Partnership Grants
Improving EPA's partnership with the states and tribes is critical to accelerating environmental outcomes. Performance Partnership Grants (PPGs) are the cornerstone of the National Environmental Performance Partnership System (NEPPS) – EPA's...

Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act
To reduce unfair and fraudulent practices in the marketing of perishable agricultural commodities in interstate and foreign commerce. To prevent the destruction or dumping, without good and sufficient cause of farm produce received in interstate...

Perkins County Rural Water System
Grants are awarded to the Perkins County Rural Water System, Inc. for the planning and construction of the water supply system, and repairs to existing public water distribution systems to ensure conservation of the resources and to make the...

Perkins Loan Cancellations
To reimburse institutions for their share of loans canceled for Perkins Loan recipients who enter certain fields of public service and to restore to institutional revolving funds the full amounts of Direct and Federal Perkins Loans canceled for...

Permanent Labor Certification for Foreign Workers
To protect the jobs of American workers; ensure the wages and working conditions of U.S. workers will not be adversely affected by the admission of permanent foreign workers; and assist employers by supplementing the work force with needed skills.

Personal Census Search
To retrieve personal information from decennial records and provide an official census transcript to qualified individuals for proof of age, citizenship, family relationships, or satisfy other situations where a birth certificate is required but not...

Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Regional Grants
To provide risk reduction from the use of pesticides in agricultural and non-agricultural settings in the United States. The objective is to provide risk reduction from the use of pesticides in agricultural and non-agricultural settings in the...

Phmsa Pipeline Safety Program One Call Grant
To provide funding to State agencies in promoting damage prevention, including changes with their State underground damage prevention laws, related compliance activities, training and public education.

Physical Disaster Loans
To provide loans to the victims of declared disasters for uninsured or otherwise uncompensated physical damage.

Pilot Program for National and State Background Checks - Direct Patient Access for Long-term Care
To establish a pilot program to identify efficient, effective, and economical procedures for long-term care facilities or providers to conduct background checks on prospective direct patient access employees.

Pipeline Safety
To develop and maintain State natural gas, liquefied natural gas, and hazardous liquid pipeline safety programs.

Planning and Program Development Grants
Innovation grants support innovative demonstration service programs that build the ethic of service among Americans of all ages and backgrounds. These include the AmeriCorps Education Award Program, AmeriCorps Promise Fellows, Martin Luther King,...

Planning Assistance to States
To cooperate with any State in the preparation of comprehensive plans for the development, utilization and conservation of water and related land resources of drainage basins located within the boundaries of such State.

Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care
To protect U.S. agriculture from economically injurious plant and animal diseases and pests, ensure the safety and potency of veterinary biologic, and ensure the humane treatment of animals.

Plant Materials for Conservation
To assemble, evaluate, select, release, and introduce into commerce, and promote the use of new and improved plant materials for soil, water, and related resource conservation and environmental improvement programs. To develop technology for land...

Podiatric Residency Training In Primary Care
Grants are awarded to plan and implement projects in preventive and primary care training for podiatric physicians in approved or provisionally approved residency programs that shall provide financial assistance in the form of traineeships to...

Poison Control Stabilization and Enhancement Grants
The objectives are (1) to support PCCs efforts to prevent and provide treatment recommendations for poisonings; (2) to comply with operational requirements needed to sustain certification and or achieve certification; and (3) to conduct an...

Polar Programs
To strengthen and enhance the national scientific enterprise through the expansion of fundamental knowledge and increased understanding of the polar regions. To encourage and support basic research in the Arctic and Antarctic focused on the solid...

Police Corps
To address violent crime by increasing the number of police with advanced education assigned to community patrol in areas of great need, and to provide educational assistance to students who possess a sincere interest in public service through law...

Policy Research and Evaluation Grants
To support research that is relevant to policy development and evaluation of current and proposed programs of interest to the Secretary, the Administration, and the Congress. Priorities include: (1) Issues of long-term care, disability, and personal...

Pollution Prevention Grants Program
This CFDA announcement supports the Pollution Prevention (P2) and the Pollution Prevention Information Network (PPIN) Grant Programs.<br /> Both programs were authorized under the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990. The P2 Grant program funds...

Port Security Grant Program (arra)
To create a sustainable program for the protection of regulated ports from terrorism, with one priority on construction projects which address the most significant risks and can also be completed in a timely fashion.

Port Security Grants for Critical National Seaports
To provide funds to port areas for the protection of critical port infrastructure from terrorism. To assist ports enhancing maritime domain awareness, improving risk management capabilities to prevent, detect, respond to and recover from attacks...

Port Security Research &amp; Development Grant
To identify technology solutions for port security through research and development that will provide end products that meet or exceed the following four priorities: Cargo Information Action Center, Passengers and Vehicles Screening on Ferries,...

Post-vietnam Era Veterans' Educational Assistance
To provide educational assistance to persons entering the Armed Forces after December 31, 1976, and before July 1, 1985; to assist persons in obtaining an education they might otherwise not be able to afford; and to promote and assist the all...

Pre-disaster Mitigation
Provide funding support to states, tribes, territories, communities, and public colleges and universities for pre-disaster mitigation planning and projects primarily addressing natural hazards. This program promotes implementation of activities...

Pre-disaster Mitigation (pdm) Competitive Grants
The intent of this program is to provide a consistent source of funding to State, tribal, and local governments for pre-disaster mitigation planning and projects primarily addressing natural hazards. Funding these plans and projects reduces overall...

Pre-disaster Mitigation Disaster Resistant Universities
The PDM program assist States and communities to implement a sustained pre-disaster natural hazard mitigation program to reduce overall risk to population, buildings and infrastructure, while also reducing reliance on funding from actual disaster...

Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program (psaap)
(1) To foster the science of building integrated, multi-scale, and multi-physics codes with the primary focus on code validation and verification to help advance the newly emergent predictive science in academia; (2) to promote and sustain...

Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology
To guarantee that future teachers are proficient in the new learning technologies they will find in their twenty-first century schools, teacher preparation programs are encouraged to form partnerships that will insure that teachers have mastered the...

Preservation of Historic Structures on the Campuses of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (hbcus).
Provides assistance to restore those historic structures on HBCU campuses considered to be the most historically significant and physically threatened – the likelihood of loss of the structure if work was not performed as soon as possible to save...

Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites
Provides for the preservation and interpretation of historic confinement sites where Japanese Americans were detained during World War II. The program was established to encourage projects that identify, research, evaluate, interpret, protect,...

President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
PCPFS has no grant making authority; the Council has no funds available to offer any type of financial assistance. The objectives of the PCPFS are confined to promotion of physical activity and fitness for Americans of all ages by encouraging...

Presidential Management Intern Program
To attract to the Federal service graduate students of exceptional potential who are receiving advanced degrees in a variety of academic disciplines and who have a clear interest in and a commitment to a career in the analysis and management of...

Prevention Advocacy Resources and Data Exchange Program
To assist State and local fire marshals to implement prevention programs and conduct other networking activities with their counterparts. Provide financial assistance to the Prevention Advocacy Resources and Data Exchange (PARADE) regional networks...

Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant
To provide States with the resources to improve the health status of the population of each grantee by: (A) conducting activities leading to the accomplishment of the year 2010 objectives for the nation; (B) rapidly responding to emerging health...

Preventive Health Services-sexually Transmitted Diseases Control Grants
To reduce morbidity and mortality by preventing cases and complications of sexually transmitted diseases (STD). Project grants under Section 318c awarded to State and local health departments emphasize the development and implementation of...

Preventive Health Services-sexually Transmitted Diseases Research, Demonstrations, and Public Information and Education Grants
To develop, improve, apply, and evaluate methods for the prevention and control of gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, and other sexually-transmitted diseases (STD) through demonstrations and applied research; to develop, improve, apply, and evaluate...

Prices and Cost of Living Data
To provide statistical data for assisting in the evaluation of consumer, producer, export and import prices and price changes, and consumer expenditures.

Primary Care Services-resource Coordination and Development
To coordinate local, State, and Federal resources contributing to primary care service delivery and workforce issues in the State to meet the needs of medically-underserved populations through health centers and other community-based providers of...

Prisoner Reentry
This program includes both Prisoner Reentry Initiative (PRI) grants to serve adult returning offenders and Youthful Offender grants aimed at youth involved or at risk of involvement in crime and violence. The objectives of the PRI grants include...

Private Enforcement Initiatives
To assists private and tax exempt fair housing enforcement in the investigation and enforcement of all alleged violations. To develop, implement, and carry out, related activities and enforcement under the Fair Housing Act; 42 U.S.C. 3601-3619 or...

Procurement Assistance to Small Businesses
To assist small business in obtaining a &quot;fair&quot; share of contracts and subcontracts for Federal government supplies and services and a &quot;fair&quot; share of property sold by the government.

Procurement of Headstones and Markers And/or Presidential Memorial Certificates
To furnish lasting memorials for the graves of veterans and eligible family members throughout the world and honor the service of the veteran through Presidential Memorial Certificates.

Procurement Technical Assistance for Business Firms
To increase assistance by the DoD for eligible entities furnishing PTA to business entities, and to assist eligible entities in the payment of the costs of establishing and carrying out new PTA Programs and maintaining existing PTA Programs.

Production Flexibility Payments for Contract Commodities
To provide income support to eligible producers of covered commodities.

Productivity and Technology Data
To provide and analyze data on productivity in major sectors of the U.S. economy and specific industries and develop productivity and other measures for selected countries.

Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Special Professional and Cultural Programs
As authorized by the Fulbright-Hays Act, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) seeks to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries by means of educational and cultural...

Professional Development-international Educators/administrators
To provide mutually beneficial training and consultation between overseas-based educational advisers and U.S.-based international education professionals.

Professional Development-teacher Training
To improve and strengthen international relations of the United States by promoting better mutual understanding among the people of the United States and Republic of South Africa through teacher training.

Professional Exchanges-annual Open Grant
As authorized by the Fulbright-Hays Act, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) seeks to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries by means of educational and cultural...

Program for Study of Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union
To sustain and strengthen American expertise on the independent states of the former Soviet Union and countries of Southeast Europe, by supporting graduate training; advanced research; public dissemination of research data, methods, and findings;...

Program of Competitive Grants for Worker Training and Placement In High Growth and Emerging Industry Sectors
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) is intended to preserve and create jobs and promote economic recovery; assist those most impacted by the recession; provide investments needed to increase economic efficiency by spurring...

Program of Protection and Advocacy of Individual Rights
To provide grants for States to support systems for protection and advocacy for the rights of individuals with disabilities who are ineligible for advocacy services from the other protection and advocacy programs or whose problems fall outside the...

Program of Research on the Economic of Invasive Species Management (preism)
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...

Project Grants and Cooperative Agreements for Tuberculosis Control Programs
To assist State and local health agencies in carrying out tuberculosis (TB) control activities designed to prevent transmission of infection and disease. Financial assistance is provided to TB programs to ensure that the program needs for the core...

Project Grants for Facilities to Improve the Health Status of Minority Populations
To construct, renovate, expand, repair, or modernize facilities designed to promote the improvement of the health status of minority underserved communities and populations.

Projects for Assistance In Transition from Homelessness (path)
To provide financial assistance to States to support services for individuals who are suffering from serious mental illness or serious mental illness and substance abuse; and are homeless or at imminent risk of becoming homeless. Programs and...

Projects with Industry
To create and expand job and career opportunities for individuals with disabilities in the competitive labor market by partnering with private industry to provide job training and placement, and career advancement services.

Promote the Survival and Continuing Vitality of Native American Languages
To provide financial assistance to eligible applicants for the purpose of promoting the survival and continued vitality of native languages. This program area is divided into four categories: Native Language Preservation and Maintenance -...

Promoting Safe and Stable Families
To fund family preservation that serve families at risk or in crisis, including the following services: reunification and adoption services, preplacement/preventive services, follow-up services after return of a child from foster care, respite care,...

Promotion of the Arts-grants to Organizations and Individuals
To support excellence in the arts, both new and established; bring the arts to all Americans; and provide leadership in arts education. Grants using Recovery Act funds are to support the preservation of jobs in the nonprofit arts sector.

Promotion of the Arts-leadership Initiatives
The National Endowment for the Arts enriches our Nation and its diverse cultural heritage by supporting works of artistic excellence, advancing learning in the arts, and strengthening the arts in communities throughout the country. In fiscal years...

Promotion of the Arts-partnership Agreements
To develop and maintain partnerships with the state and jurisdictional arts agencies (SAAs) and their regional organizations (RAOs) to advance the mission of the National Endowment for the Arts. Awards using Recovery Act funds are specifically for...

Promotion of the Humanities-challenge Grants
To support educational and cultural institutions and organizations in order to increase their financial stability and to sustain or improve the quality of humanities programs, services, or resources. Normally, institutions requesting an NEH...

Promotion of the Humanities-division of Preservation and Access
To fund projects that will promote preserving, creating, and providing intellectual access to resources held in libraries, museums, archives, historical organizations, and other collections that are important for research, education, and public...

Promotion of the Humanities-education Development and Demonstration
Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black, High Hispanic Enrollment, and Tribal Colleges and Universities are designed to strengthen humanities teaching and learning at these institutions. Enduring Question (Pilot) Course Grants support the...

Promotion of the Humanities-extending the Reach Grants to Presidentially-designated Minority Institutions
To strengthen the humanities at Historically Black, Hispanic-Serving, and Tribal Colleges and Universities.

Promotion of the Humanities-federal/state Partnership
To promote local, statewide, and regional humanities programming through annual grants to humanities councils in each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and American...

Promotion of the Humanities-fellowships and Stipends
Fellowships and Summer Stipends provide support for scholars to undertake full-time independent research and writing in the humanities. Grants are available for 6-to-12-month fellowships and 2 months of summer study. Faculty Research Awards...

Promotion of the Humanities-public Programs
To provide opportunities for the American public to explore human history and culture through humanities programs in museums, historical organizations, libraries, community centers, and other gathering places, as well as on public television and...

Promotion of the Humanities-research
To strengthen the intellectual foundations of the humanities through the collaboration of scholars and the support of post-doctoral fellowship programs at independent research institutions and at digital humanities centers.

Promotion of the Humanities-seminars and Institutes
Seminars and Institutes promote better teaching and research in the humanities through faculty development. Landmarks of American History and Culture, part of the NEH We the People initiative, promote better pre-collegiate and community college...

Promotion of the Humanities-we the People
For We the People Bookshelf: Libraries launch community programs based on readings on important themes such as courage and freedom. For Landmarks of American History and Culture: Workshops for School Teachers and Workshops for Community College...

Promotion of the Humanities_digital Humanities Initiative
To support innovative humanities projects that utilize or study the impact of digital technology for research, preservation, access, education, and public programming.

Property Improvement Loan Insurance for Improving All Existing Structures and Building of New Nonresidential Structures
To facilitate the financing of improvements to homes and other existing structures and the building of new nonresidential structures.

Protecting Inmates and Safeguarding Communities Discretionary Grant Program
To make grants to States and to assist those States in ensuring that budgetary circumstances (such as reduced State and local spending on prisons) do not compromise efforts to protect male and female inmates in adult and juvenile correctional...

Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness
To enable the expansion of the Protection and Advocacy system established in each State to: (1) Protect and advocate the rights of individuals with mental illness; (2) investigate incidents of abuse and neglect of individuals with mental illness if...

Protection of Children and the Aging as a Fundamental Goal of Public Health and Environmental Protection
To support efforts by organizations; educational institutions; and/or State, local, and tribal governmental agencies to establish or enhance their ability to take actions that will reduce environmental risks to the health of children or the aging...

Protection of Essential Highways, Highway Bridge Approaches, and Public Works
To provide bank protection of highways, highway bridges, essential public works, churches, hospitals, schools, and other nonprofit public services endangered by flood-caused erosion.

Protection of Ships from Foreign Seizure
To reimburse U.S. fishermen whose vessels are seized by a foreign country on the basis of: (1) Claims to jurisdiction not recognized by the U.S.; (2) claims to jurisdiction recognized by the U.S. but exercised in a manner inconsistent with...

Protection of Voting Rights
To provide protection of an individual's right to register and vote in all local, State and Federal elections without discrimination based on race, color, membership in a language minority group, or age. To assure the rights of persons who are...

Protection, Clearing and Straightening Channels
To restore channels for purposes of navigation or flood control.

Providing Water to At-risk Natural Desert Terminal Lakes
Under this authority, Reclamation will fund various activities that will provide water to at-risk natural desert terminal lakes or fund earmarked activities.

Public Alert Radios for Schools
To disseminate public alerts and warnings by providing Public Alert Radios to eligible schools. Public alerts and warnings can be disseminated nationwide, regionally, or locally. This program will: a) expand delivery of public alert services to...

Public and Indian Housing
To provide and operate cost-effective, decent, safe and affordable dwellings for lower income families through an authorized local Public Housing Agency (PHA).

Public and Indian Housing-indian Loan Guarantee Program
To provide homeownership opportunities to Native Americans, Tribes, Indian Housing Authorities including Tribally Designated Housing Entities (TDHEs), and Indian Housing Authorities on Indian land, through a guaranteed mortgage loan program...

Public Assistance Grants
To assist State and local governments in recovering from the devastating effects of disasters by providing assistance for debris removal, emergency protective measures and the repair, restoration, reconstruction or replacement of public facilities...

Public Awareness Campaigns on Embryo Adoption
To fund public awareness campaigns on embryo adoption.

Public Buildings Service
To cultivate innovative regional coordination, design, and planning practices for accommodating federal offices in the Washington region over the next half-century. Decisions about the form, nature, and location of federal work will have a...

Public Education on Drug Abuse-information
To provide leadership in coordinating and facilitating the involvement of law enforcement and the community in drug prevention and education activities.

Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund
To provide supplemental funding for public health and social service emergencies.

Public Health Emergency Preparedness
To develop emergency-ready public health departments by upgrading, integrating and evaluating State and local public health jurisdictions preparedness for and response to terrorism, pandemic influenza, and other public health emergencies with...

Public Health Research Accreditation Project
To assess the role of accreditation of human research protection programs to enhance protections afforded to persons involved in the full-range of public health research programs, e.g., epidemiologic research, health services research, and social...

Public Health Traineeships
To support traineeships for students in graduate educational programs in accredited schools of public health and to other public or nonprofit private institutions accredited for the provision of graduate or specialized training in Public Health...

Public Health Training Centers Grant Program
To improve the Nation's public health system by strengthening the technical, scientific, managerial and leadership competencies and capabilities of the current and future public health workforce. Emphasis is placed on developing the existing public...

Public Housing Capital Fund
The Capital Fund provides funds annually to Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) for capital and management activities, including modernization and development of public housing. The Capital fund also permits PHAs to use Capital Funds for financing...

Public Housing Capital Fund Competitive (recovery Act Funded)
To provide funds for the capital and management activities of Public Housing Agencies as authorized under section 9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g) (the ‘‘Act”), with the exception that funds cannot be used for operations...

Public Housing Capital Fund Stimulus (formula) Recovery Act Funded
To provide funds for the capital and management activities of Public Housing Agencies as authorized under section 9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g) (the ‘‘Act”), with the exception that funds cannot be used for operations...

Public Housing Family Self-sufficiency Under Resident Opportunity and Supportive Services
To promote the development of local strategies to coordinate the use of assistance under the Public Housing program with public and private resources to enable participating families to achieve economic independence and housing self-sufficiency.

Public Housing Neighborhood Networks Grants
To provide Public Housing Authorities with funding to create community technology centers which provide Internet access, job training, and other supportive services to residents of public housing.

Public Safety Interoperable Communications Grant Program
To assist public safety agencies in the acquisition of, deployment of, or training for the use of interoperable communications systems that can utilize or enable interoperability with communications systems that can utilize reallocated public...

Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program
To provide death benefits to the eligible survivors of Federal, State or local public safety officers whose deaths are the direct and proximate result of a personal (traumatic) injury sustained in the line of duty. Effective November 29, 1990, the...

Public Safety Officers' Educational Assistance
The PSOEA Program, an expansion of the Federal Law Enforcement Dependents Assistance (FLEDA) Program, provides financial assistance for higher education to the spouses and children of public safety officers killed in line of duty. The PSOEA Program...

Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants
To advance the practice of community policing as an effective strategy in communities' efforts to improve public safety. COPS grants support innovative programs that respond directly to the existing and emerging needs of state, local, and tribal law...

Public Telecommunications Facilities-planning and Construction
To assist in the planning, acquisition, installation, and modernization of public telecommunications facilities, through planning grants and matching construction grants, in order to: (a) extend delivery of public telecommunications services to as...

Public Television Station Digital Transition Grant Program
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has ordered all television broadcasters to initiate the broadcast of a digital television signal and to cease analog television broadcasts. The result of this conversion will be a new, high performance...

Puget Sound Protection and Restoration: Tribal Implementation Assistance Program
Puget Sound has been designated an estuary of National Significance under §320 of the Clean Water Act. The goal of all 28 National Estuary Programs is to attain and maintain water quality in designated estuaries that would assure protection of...

Puget Sound Watershed Management Assistance
The overall goal of the National Estuary Program is to attain and maintain water quality in designated estuaries that would assure protection of public water supplies and the protection and propagation of a balanced, indigenous population of...