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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Magnet Schools Assistance
To provide grants to eligible local educational agencies (LEAs) or consortia of LEAs for use in magnet schools that are part of approved desegregation plans and that are designed to bring together students from different social, economic, racial,...

Mainstream Vouchers
To aid persons with disabilities (elderly and non-elderly)in obtaining decent, safe, and sanitary rental housing For Welfare-to-Work rental vouchers, families must also meet special welfare-to-work criteria.

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...

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 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
To assure ample supplies of agricultural products, maintain adequate producer prices, and provide consumers with quality products at reasonable prices. All funds collected are remitted to the Commodity Credit Corporation to partially offset the...

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; and to...

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 and children with special health care needs in providing health services...

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 National Security Agency (NSA) is concerned over the declining percentage of American citizens taking degrees from U.S. graduate schools in areas of mathematics most strongly identified among individuals with cryptology. The NSA grant program...

Mathematics and Science Partnerships
To improve the academic achievement of students in mathematics and science through projects that support partnerships of organizations representing preschool through higher education. These projects will promote strong teachng skills for elementary...

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
To produce and disseminate accurate, timely, relevant, and cost-effective economic accounts statistics that provide government, businesses, households, and individuals with a comprehensive, up-to-date picture of economic activity. BEA's national,...

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, plan a Demonstration to...

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; strengthen library and information services; facilitate access to and delivery of health science information; plan and develop advanced information networks;...

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 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 chronic renal disease who elect this coverage.

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 personnel 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 relating to the problems of mental illness and mental health and to raise the level of competence and increase the number of individuals engaged in such research via special levels of National Institute of Mental...

Mental Health Research Grants
To increase knowledge of basic biological and behavioral processes that underlie mental and behavioral disorders and of processes that contribute to maintaining mental health; to improve methodologies for research relevant to these disorders; and to...

Mental Retardation-president's Committee on Mental Retardation
To advise and assist the President on all matters pertaining to mental retardation; study national, State and local efforts; help coordinate Federal activities; facilitate communication between Federal, State and local agencies; inform the public...

Mentoring Children of Prisoners
To make 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 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 nonprofit 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 partnership to conduct meteorological training, education, professional development, and research and development on hydrometeorological issues common to the hydrometeorological community.

Metropolitan Medical Response System
The MMRS program funds highly populated jurisdictions (124 through FY 2003) to develop plans, conduct training and exercises, and acquire pharmaceuticals and personal protective equipment, to achieve the enhanced capability necessary to respond to a...

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
The objective of the PRIME Program is 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...

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 economic, political, and educational reform efforts in the Middle East and North Africa and champion opportunity for all people of the region, especially women and youth.

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

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 to reduce the administrative costs of state educational agencies (SEAs) receiving Title I Migrant Education Program funds under 84.011.

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
To provide a combat-ready reserve force facilities for training and administering the Army and Air Force National Guard units in the 50 States, District of Columbia, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and Guam.

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
To assist and support the inventory and prudent development of energy and mineral resources on Indian lands.

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...

Minimum Penalties for Repeat Offenders for Driving While Intoxicated
To encourage States to enact Repeat Intoxicated Driver 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 Development...

Minority Business Opportunity Committee
To facilitate opportunities for minority businesses through the utilization of public and private sector organizations, that provide minority business owners/individuals with enhanced access to the marketplace by identifying and facilitating...

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...

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
To improve the distribution, supply, and quality of health personnel in the health services delivery system by encouraging the regionalization of health professions schools. Emphasis is placed on community-based training of primary care oriented...

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 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 good quality rental housing for the elderly.

Mortgage Insurance-rental Housing In Urban Renewal Areas
To provide good 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 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 designed as a...

Multi-state Conservation Grants
To provide funding for sport fish and wildlife restoration projects identified by the International 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 service 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 support the efforts of museums to: Conserve the Nation's historic, scientific, and cultural heritage; maintain and expand museums and libraries educational roles; and ease the financial burden borne by museums and libraries as a result of their...

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/or 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 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 supporting health care systems to deliver coordinated and effective care to victims of terrorism and other public health emergencies.

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

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 Standards and Certification Information
To serve as an information center and referral service, by maintaining a reference collection of standards and specifications, regulations, certification rules, directories, reference books and special publications. To respond to inquiries, develop...

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 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 2008: To support lead...

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 encourage the establishment and maintenance of effective State programs intended to ensure dam safety, to protect human life and property, and to improve State dam safety programs.

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 program objective is to develop and implement a comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan (CCMP) for each estuary designated by the EPA Administrator. The program characterizes the problems in the estuary, determines relationships between...

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 increase the professional level of the fire service and others responsible for fire prevention and control.

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 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-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 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 "National Guard ChalleNGe Program") to use the National Guard to provide...

National Guard Military Operations and Maintenance (o&m) Projects
1. ARNG Real Property O&M Projects (RPOMA) - provide Federal support for services provided by the State for authorized facilities for leases, real property services, real property maintenance, and O & M minor construction costs; 2. ARNG...

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
To ensure an adequate supply of trained health professionals by assisting the repayment of qualifying educational loans in return for service to populations located in selected health professional shortage areas identified by the Secretary of the...

National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program
To assure an adequate supply of primary care physicians, certified nurse midwives, certified family nurse practitioners, and physician assistants; and, if needed by the National Health Service Corps, an adequate supply of other health professionals...

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
To generate new processes and/or equipment that can significantly reduce the use of energy and energy intensive feed-stocks and reduce the generation of wastes in industry. To achieve these objectives, DOE solicits projects that do the following:...

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 on Disability and Rehabilitation Research
To support and coordinate research and its utilization 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 consequences of...

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 non-profit 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 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...

National Nuclear Security Administration (nnsa) Historically Black Colleges and Universities (hbcu) Program
To establish a research partnership with HBCUs to increase their participation in national security-related research and to train and recruit HBCU graduates for employment within NNSA.

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 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 and to under represented minorities for predoctoral...

National Research Services Awards
To promote postdoctoral research training programs in primary medical care.

National Resource Centers and Fellowships Program for Language and Area or Language and International Studies
Centers: To promote instruction in those 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. ...

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...

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 non- profit 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 technical information products,...

National Trade Data Bank (ntdb)
The National Trade Data Bank is a comprehensive source of international economic trade data from over 50 U.S. Government agencies. The data on the NTDB is available as part of the STAT- USA/Internet at http://www.stat-usa.gov/ntdb.

National Urban Search and Rescue (us&r) Response System
To develop an immediately deployable, national response capability to locate and extricate, and medically stabilize victims of structural collapse during a disaster, while simultaneously enhancing the US&R response capabilities of State and local...

National Wetland Program Development Grants
To assist State, Tribal, and local government (S/T/LG) agencies, and interstate/intertribal entities, build capacity to protect, manage, and restore wetlands. Funding Priority - Fiscal Year 2005: EPA has identified four program emphasis areas for...

National White Collar Crime Center
To provide a nationwide support system for the prevention, investigation, and prosecution of economic crime. The National White Collar Crime Center (NWCCC) links criminal justice agencies across jurisdictional borders and bridges the gap between...

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 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 assist in identifying...

Native American Library Services
To support Indian tribes, Alaska Native villages, 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. To help Native American business development centers to provide a wide range of...

Native American Programs
To provide financial assistance, training and technical assistance, and research, demonstration and evaluation activities to public and private nonprofit organizations including Indian Tribes, urban Indian centers, Alaska Native villages, Native...

Native American Veteran Direct Loan Program
To provide direct loans to certain Native American veterans 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 Native Hawaiian families.

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 Vocational and Technical Education Act.

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.

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
To provide for the establishment of demonstration projects designed to determine: 1) the social, civic, psychological, and economic effects of providing to individuals and families with limited means an incentive to accumulate assets by saving a...

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...

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
50. OBJECTIVES: 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...

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 in implementing EPA-approved Section 319 nonpoint source management programs. EPA's funding priority is to award grants that promote the development and implementation of watershed-based plans which result in improved water quality...

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

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
To provide for the development of repositories for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, to establish a program of research, development, and demonstration regarding the disposal of high-level radioactive waste and...

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
To enhance the educational mix and utilization of the basic nursing workforce by strengthening programs that provide basic nurse education, through the following purposes: (1) Establishing or expanding nursing practice arrangements in...

Nurse Faculty Loan Program (nflp)
The Secretary of HHS, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, enters into an agreement with schools of nursing for the establishment and operation of a student loan fund to increase the number of...

Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program for Registered Nurses Entering Employment at Eligible Health Facilities
To address the serious shortage of nurses at health facilities in certain areas of the United States. As an incentive for registered nurses to enter into full-time employment at these health facilities, the program will assist in the repayment of...

Nursing Research
The National Institute of Nursing Research supports clinical and basic research to establish a scientific basis for the care of individuals across the life span from management of patients during illness and recovery to the reduction of risks for...

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 assist students in need of financial assistance to pursue a course of study in professional nursing education by providing long-term, low-interest loans, currently at the rate of 5 percent.

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, pre-entry preparation and retention...

Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico
A cash grant alternative to 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
The purpose of the Nutrition Services Incentive Program (NSIP) is 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 develop knowledge that can be used in preventing occupational diseases and injuries. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) objectives are: to stimulate technological innovation; use small business to meet Federal research and development...

Occupational Safety and Health-state Program
To fund federally approved comprehensive State occupational safety and health programs that are "at least as effective" 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 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 Program (Young Offender Initiative: Reentry Grant Program) is a combined effort by DOJ, HHS, and DOL to assist jurisdictions in facing the challenges presented by the return of offenders from prison to the community. The goal is...

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 the quality of 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 supports research and engineering to determine the environmental effects of air quality, drinking water, water quality, hazardous waste, toxic substances, and pesticides; (2) identify, develop, and demonstrate...

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.

Office of Scientific and Technical Information
To collect, preserve, disseminate, and leverage the scientific and technical information (STI) resources of the Department of Energy (DOE) in order to provide access to national and global STI for use by DOE, the scientific research community,...

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 basic for decision making.

Office of Technology Development and Deployment for Environmental Management
The Office of Science and Technology (OST) will work with the Environmental Management (EM) customer programs to develop new or improved technology systems to reduce risks to the environment and to the public, reduce overall cleanup costs, and...

Officer next Door Sales Program
To strengthen America's communities by providing homeownership opportunities to law enforcement officers in HUD- designated revitalization areas, and to improve the quality of life in these neighborhoods by their presence.

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.

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)
1) Validate security at the point of origin, to include security of the shipment itself; 2) Secure the supply chain from the point of origin of the shipment to its final destination, including all waypoints; 3) Enhance the accuracy and communication...

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 obtain improved information on craniofacial-oral-dental health promotion, disease prevention, diagnostics, therapeutics, and fundamental scientific research that fuels the engine of patient-oriented and community-based clinical or applied...

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
To foster mutual understanding between the United States and other countries by promoting U.S. higher education through a global network of Education USA educational advising/information centers.

Overseas Refugee Assistance Program for near East and South Asia
In the Near East: Return and reintegration assistance of up to two million Iraqi refugees, recent returnees, and internally displaced persons (IDPs) is a high priority to the Bureau. Programs will support return and reintegration activities for...

Overseas Refugee Assistance Programs for Africa
Assistance will contribute to the basic needs of some 3 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 refugees from a variety of ethnic groups in Burma residing in camps in Thailand. The Bureau will continue to support NGOs working in camps in Thailand along the Burmese border. These NGOs address needs not covered by...

Overseas Refugee Assistance Programs for Europe
Funding of organizations that assist refugees and IDPs in Europe and Central Asia will be at a reduced level this year. In the North and South Caucasus the Bureau - in conjunction with the Government of Columbia, International Organizations and NGOs...

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: The OTC...

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P3 Award: National Student Design Competition for Sustainability
EPA and its partners offer this competition to respond to the technical needs of the developed and developing world in moving towards the goal of sustainability. The competition is purposely designed to provide flexibility for creativity allowing...

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 education agencies (LEAs) to assist them in establishing parental information and resource centers. These centers strive to: (1) assist parents in...

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,...

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
To provide States and Tribes with greater flexibility to address their highest environmental priorities, improve environmental performance, achieve administrative savings, and strengthen partnerships between EPA and the States or Tribes. The...

Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act
To suppress 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
To ensure conservation of the resources and to make the systems functional under the new water supply system.

Perkins Loan Cancellations
To reimburse institutions for their share of loans canceled for Perkins Loan recipients who become teachers or who perform full-time active military service in the U.S. Armed Forces, and to restore to institutional revolving funds the full amounts...

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

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. Funding Priority: The Regions will award grants to fund projects that further the goals of the Pesticide Environmental...

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 physical- type disasters for uninsured losses.

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
To stabilize the funding of poison control centers (PCCs) and develop standard patient management protocols.

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
To support Regional, State, and tribal environmental assistance activities that address preventative approaches to the generation and management of pollutants across all environmental media: air, land, and water. Funding Priority: Provide Federal...

Port Security Grants for Critical National Seaports
To support efforts of critical national seaports/terminals to enhance port security through: 1) security assessments and mitigation strategies; and 2) enhanced facility and operational security (e.g., terminal, commuter or ferry vessels access...

Port Security Research & 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
To provide States and communities with a much needed source of pre-disaster mitigation funding for cost-effective hazard mitigation activities that are part of a comprehensive mitigation program, and that reduce injuries, loss of life, and damage...

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...

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 through: (A) activities leading to the accomplishment of the year 2000/2010 objectives for the nation; (B) rodent control and community-school...

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 d