Federal Grants beginning with the letters Q-T

All Federal Grants beginning with the letters Q-T are listed below. Click a letter to jump to the letter you're interested in.

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Qualified Participating Entities (qpe) Risk Sharing
Under this program HUD provides reinsurance on multifamily housing projects whose loans are originated, underwritten, serviced, and disposed of by qualified participating entities (QPEs) and/or its approved lenders. The program encourages the...

Quality Samples Program
The Quality Samples Program is designed to encourage the development and expansion of export markets for U.S. agricultural commodities by assisting U.S. entities in providing commodity samples to potential foreign importers to promote a better...

Quentin N. Burdick Programs for Rural Interdisciplinary Training
The goal of this program is to provide or improve access to health care in rural areas. Specifically, projects funded under this authority shall be designed to: (a) Use new and innovative methods to train health care practitioners to provide...

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Radiation Control-training Assistance and Advisory Counseling
To assist States in achieving, maintaining, and improving their capabilities to conduct radiation control programs. This will assure that State programs established through agreements with NRC for transfer of certain NRC regulatory authority over...

Radiation Exposure Compensation Program
The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (the Act) offers an apology and monetary compensation to individuals who contracted certain cancers and other serious diseases following exposure to radiation released during above-ground atmospheric nuclear...

Rail and Transit Security Grant Program
To create sustainable programs for the protection of critical bus, rail, and ferry system infrastructure from terrorism, with special emphasis on the use of explosives and non-conventional threats which would result in major loss of life and severe...

Rail and Transit Security Grant Program (arra)
To create sustainable programs for the protection of critical bus and infrastructure from terrorism, with special emphasis on construction projects which address the most significant risks and can also be completed in a timely fashion.

Rail Line Relocation and Improvement
To provide financial assistance for rail line relocation and improvement projects.

Railroad Development
To provide financial assistance for: planning and developing railroad corridors (including environmental studies), purchasing rail equipment, rail line relocation and improvement projects, construction projects that improve rail lines, enhance...

Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing Program
The RRIF program provides direct loans and loan guarantees to State and local governments, interstate compacts consented to by Congress under section 410(a) of the Amtrak Reform and Accountability Act of 1997 ( 49 U.S.C. 24101 ); government...

Railroad Research and Development
To foster long-range enhancement of the Federal Railroad Administration's program of research in support of rail safety by developing cooperative research relationships between the Administration and university organizations.

Railroad Safety
To reduce railroad-related casualties and accidents.

Rangeland Resource Management
To provide financial assistance, through grants or cooperative agreements to manage, develop and protect public lands and ehnance the understanding of rangeland and watershed resources, their ecological processes, and capabilities in order to meet...

Rapid Expansion of Antiretroviral Therapy Programs for Hiv-infected Persons In Selected Countries In Africa and the Caribbean Under the President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief
(1) To rapidly expand antiretroviral therapy (ART) to low income HIV-infected persons in a manner that is consistent with national plans and policies in the 15 targeted countries under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR); and (2)...

Reading First State Grants
To ensure that every student can read at grade level or above by the end of third grade. The Reading First program provides assistance to States and districts in establishing reading programs for students in kindergarten through third grade that are...

Ready to Teach
To carry out a national telecommunications-based program to improve teaching, and prepare students to achieve challenging academic standards, in core curriculum areas. The Ready to Teach program also supports digital educational programming grants...

Ready-to-learn Television
To facilitate student academic achievement by developing educational programming, with accompanying educational support materials, for preschool and early elementary school children and their families.

Real Estate Programs-indian Lands
To provide real property management, counseling, and land use planning services to individual Indian allottees and Indian tribal and Alaska Native entities who own an interest in almost 56 million acres of trust land; to provide real estate...

Real Id Program
This program will provide funding for projects on integrating hardware, software, and information management systems to implement the REAL ID Act.

Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief
To provide financial and planning assistance that would minimize and mitigate losses and damages resulting from drought conditions.<br /> <br /> For Recovery Act funded projects and in addition to the program objectives stated above, Section 3 of...

Recovery Act - Assistance to Rural Law Enforcement to Combat Crime and Drugs Competitive Grant Program
The Assistance to Rural Law Enforcement to Combat Crime and Drugs Competitive Grant Program helps rural states and rural areas to prevent and combat crime, especially drug-related crime and provides for national support efforts, including training...

Recovery Act - Comparative Effectiveness Research - Ahrq
To improve health outcomes by providing evidence to enhance medical decisions made by patients and their medical providers. This goal is pursued by generating research comparing different interventions and strategies to prevent, diagnose, treat and...

Recovery Act - Correctional Facilities on Tribal Lands
The Recovery Act - Correctional Facilities on Tribal Lands Program provides resources to allow eligible American Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages to construct correctional facilities on tribal lands, with consideration given to the detention...

Recovery Act - Edward Byrne Memorial Competitive Grant Program
To improve the functioning of the criminal justice system, assist victims of crime (other than compensation), youth mentoring, and activities pertaining to crime prevention, control, or reduction, or the enforcement of the criminal law, including,...

Recovery Act - Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (jag) Program / Grants to States and Territories
The Recovery Act – JAG programs allow states and local governments to support a broad range of activities to prevent and control crime and to improve the criminal justice system. The Recovery Act – JAG programs will solicit applications from...

Recovery Act - Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (jag) Program / Grants to Units of Local Government
The Recovery Act – JAG programs allow states and local governments to support a broad range of activities to prevent and control crime and to improve the criminal justice system. The Recovery Act – JAG program will solicit applications from...

Recovery Act - Internet Crimes against Children Task Force Program (icac)
The ICAC Task Force Program supports a national network of multiagency, multijurisdictional task forces and other projects to prevent technology facilitated child sexual exploitation with at least one task force in each of the 50 states. The ICAC...

Recovery Act - State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Program: Combating Criminal Narcotics Activity Stemming from the Southern Border of the United States Competitive Grant Program
The Recovery Act - State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Program: Combating Criminal Narcotics Activity Stemming from the Southern Border provides resources, assistance, and equipment to local law enforcement along the Southern border and in...

Recovery Act - State Victim Assistance Formula Grant Program
The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) will award each eligible state victim assistance program a Recovery Act - VOCA victim assistance formula grant to support the provision of services to victims of crime throughout the Nation. Services are...

Recovery Act - State Victim Compensation Formula Grant Program
The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) will award each eligible state victim compensation program a Recovery Act - VOCA victim compensation formula grant to support the provision of crucial financial assistance to victims of crime throughout the...

Recovery Act - Violence against Women Discretionary Grants for Indian Tribal Governments
To increase tribal capacity to respond to violent crimes against Indian women, and to develop and strengthen victim services in cases involving violent crimes against Indian women.

Recovery Act - Voca Crime Victim Assistance Discretionary Grant Program
The objective of the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) Recovery Act – VOCA Crime Victim Assistance Discretionary Grant Program is to improve the capacity of victim service providers and allied practitioners in advancing rights and services for crime...

Recovery Act Funds - Habitat Enhancement, Restoration and Improvement.
To provide technical and financial assistance to identify, protect, conserve, manage, enhance or restore habitat or species on both public and proviate lands.

Recovery Act of 2009: Capital Improvement and Maintenance
For priority road, bridge and trail maintenance and decommissioning, including related watershed restoration and ecosystem enhancement projects; facilities improvement, maintenance and renovation; and remediation of abandoned mine sites.

Recovery Act of 2009: Wildland Fire Management
Hazardous fuels reduction, forest health protection, rehabilitation and hazard mitigation activities on Federal lands, and State and private forestry activities including hazardous fuels reduction, forest health and ecosystem improvement activities...

Recovery Act Transitional Housing
To provide transitional housing assistance and related support services to minors, adults, and their dependents who are homeless, or in need of transitional housing or other housing assistance, as a result of fleeing a situation of domestic...

Recreation Resource Management
To manage recreational resource values on the public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management and to increase public awareness and appreciation of these values. For Recovery and Reinvestment Act funded projects, in addition to the...

Recreation Resources Management
To provide opportunities for public recreation at Bureau of Reclamation or other publicly-owned water projects, and to encourage State, county, and local governments to fund and manage recreation resources at these project areas.<br /> <br /> For...

Recreational Trails Program
To provide funds to the States to develop and maintain recreational trails and trail-related facilities for both nonmotorized and motorized recreational trail uses.

Reduction and Prevention of Children's Exposure to Violence
To develop an initiative to understand, prevent and reduce the impact of family and community violence on young children by helping communities to expand existing partnerships between service providers (such as law enforcement, mental health,...

Reference Services In Science, Technology and Business
To provide general and specialized reference, bibliographic and online services based on the Library's holdings in science, technology and business. In science and technology, these include over 3.8 million scientific, technical, and medical books,...

Refugee and Entrant Assistance-discretionary Grants
To improve resettlement services for refugees, asylees, Cuban and Haitian entrants, Amerasians, certified victims of a severe form of trafficking, and special immigrants from Iraq or Afghanistan. Program objectives include: (1) decreasing the...

Refugee and Entrant Assistance-state Administered Programs
To reimburse States for assistance provided to refugees, asylees, Cuban and Haitian entrants, victims of a severe form of trafficking, certain Amerasians from Viet Nam, and Iraqi and Afghan Special Immigrant Visa Holders (SIVs) for resettlement by...

Refugee and Entrant Assistance-targeted Assistance
To provide funding for employment-related and other social services for refugees, asylees, certain Amerasians, victims of a severe form of trafficking, entrants,and Iraqi and Afghan special immigrants in areas of high refugee concentration and high...

Refugee and Entrant Assistance-voluntary Agency Programs
To assist refugees in becoming self-supporting and independent members of American society, by providing grant funds to private nonprofit organizations to support case management, transitional assistance, and social services for new arrivals.

Refugee and Entrant Assistance-wilson/fish Program
To develop alternative projects which promote early employment of refugees, certain Amerasians from Viet Nam, Cuban and Haitian entrants, asylees, certified victims of a severe form of trafficking, and special immigrants from Iraq and Afghanistan....

Region 3 Environmental Priority Projects
Assistance agreements awarded under this program must support, surveys, studies, investigations, training, demonstrations and special purpose assistance associated with air quality, acid deposition, drinking water, water quality, hazardous waste,...

Region 9 Multi-media and Geographic Priority Projects
To fund projects, including surveys, studies, investigations, demonstrations, training, and outreach, that address more than one medium or vector of human health or ecological risk and that seek to (1) prevent, reduce, and eliminate pollution; (2)...

Regional Applied Research Efforts (rare)
To (1) support surveys, studies and investigations and special purpose assistance to determine the environmental effects of air quality, drinking water, water quality, hazardous waste, toxic substances, and pesticides; (2) identify, develop, and...

Regional Biomass Energy Programs
Help meet the President's goal of significantly increasing America's use of fuels, chemicals, materials, and power made from domestic biomass on a sustainable basis. This is a Congressionally-directed project. Funding is not available to the general...

Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (rcpgp)
The goal of RCPGP is to support an integrated planning system that provides for regional all-hazard planning for catastrophic events and the development of necessary plans, protocols, and procedures to manage a catastrophic event. Objectives...

Regional Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (remap) Research Projects
The Regional Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (REMAP) is a partnership between the EPA Regional Offices and the Office of Research and Development (ORD) Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP), with the primary goal to...

Regional Environmental Priority Projects
To support investigations, experiments, training, demonstrations, surveys, studies, and special purpose assistance to protect public health and prevent, reduce, and eliminate pollution in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. Projects may be single...

Regional Fishery Management Councils
The objectives of the eight Regional Fishery Management Councils are to prepare, monitor and revise fishery management plans and data collection programs for domestic and foreign fishing within the 200-mile U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). This...

Regional Geographic Initiative/environmental Priority Projects
To support investigations, surveys, studies, and special purpose assistance to protect public health and prevent, reduce, and eliminate pollution within the Region VI area of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. Funding Priority -...

Regional Information Sharing Systems
To enhance the ability of the state and local criminal justice agencies to identify, target, and remove criminal conspiracies and activities that span jurisdictional boundaries. The first objective of the Regional Information Sharing Systems...

Regional Technology In Education Consortia
To help States, schools, districts, adult literacy centers, pre-service providers, and other educational institutions about the use of advanced technologies to improve teaching and student achievement. The program is primarily concerned with...

Registered Apprenticeship and Other Training
To stimulate and assist industry in the development, expansion, and improvement of Registered Apprenticeship and other training programs designed to provide the skilled workers required by U.S. employers, ensure equal employment opportunities in...

Regulation of Surface Coal Mining and Surface Effects of Underground Coal Mining
To assist the States in administering approved regulatory programs.

Rehabilitation Long-term Training
To support projects to provide academic training in areas of personnel shortages identified by the Secretary to increase the number of personnel trained in providing vocational rehabilitation services to individuals with disabilities.

Rehabilitation Mortgage Insurance
To help families repair or improve, purchase and improve, or refinance and improve existing residential structures more than one year old.

Rehabilitation Services Demonstration and Training Programs
To provide financial assistance to projects and demonstrations for expanding and improving the provision of rehabilitation and other services authorized under the Act or that further the purposes of the Act, including related research and evaluation...

Rehabilitation Services-american Indians with Disabilities
To provide vocational rehabilitation services to American Indians with disabilities that reside on Federal or State reservations in order to prepare them for suitable employment.

Rehabilitation Services-client Assistance Program
(1) To provide assistance in informing and advising clients and client applicants of available benefits under the Rehabilitation Act; (2) to assist and advocate for clients and client applicants in their relationships with projects, programs and...

Rehabilitation Services-independent Living Services for Older Individuals Who are Blind
To provide independent living services to individuals aged 55 or older who are blind, whose severe visual impairments make competitive employment extremely difficult to obtain, but for whom independent living goals are feasible.

Rehabilitation Services-service Projects
To provide discretionary grant funds to State vocational rehabilitation agencies and public nonprofit organizations for special projects and demonstrations which hold promise of expanding and otherwise improving services to individuals with...

Rehabilitation Services-vocational Rehabilitation Grants to States
To assist States in operating comprehensive, coordinated, effective, efficient and accountable programs of vocational rehabilitation; to assess, plan, develop, and provide vocational rehabilitation services for individuals with disabilities,...

Rehabilitation Services-vocational Rehabilitation Grants to States, Recovery Act
To assist States in operating comprehensive, coordinated, effective, efficient and accountable programs of vocational rehabilitation; to assess, plan, develop, and provide vocational rehabilitation services for individuals with disabilities,...

Rehabilitation Short-term Training
To support special seminars, institutes, workshops, and other short-term courses in technical matters relating to the delivery of vocational, medical, social, and psychological services.

Rehabilitation Training-continuing Education
To support training centers that serve either a Federal region or another geographical area and provide for a broad integrated sequence of training activities that focus on meeting recurrent and common training needs of employed rehabilitation...

Rehabilitation Training-experimental and Innovative Training
This program is designed to: (a) Develop new types of training programs for rehabilitation personnel and to demonstrate the effectiveness of these new types of training programs for rehabilitation personnel in providing rehabilitation services to...

Rehabilitation Training-general Training
To ensure that skilled personnel are available to provide rehabilitation services to individuals with disabilities through: (1) Vocational, medical, social, and psychological rehabilitation programs; (2) supported employment programs; and (3)...

Rehabilitation Training-state Vocational Rehabilitation Unit In-service Training
This program is designed to support special projects for training State vocational rehabilitation unit personnel in program areas essential to the effective management of the unit's program of vocational rehabilitation services or in skill areas...

Reimbursement for Firefighting on Federal Property
To provide that each fire service organization which engages in firefighting operations on Federal property may be reimbursed for their direct expenses and direct losses (those losses and expenses that are not considered normal operating expenses)...

Reimbursement of State Costs for Provision of Part D Drugs
To ensure that the Medicare and Medicaid programs can respond expeditiously to the needs of the dual-eligible beneficiaries and beneficiaries who have enrolled in a Part D plan and have been determined to be eligible for the low-income subsidy. ...

Remedies for Unfair Foreign Trade Practices-antidumping and Countervailing Duty Investigations
To protect U.S. industry from injury by U.S. sales of foreign merchandise at less than fair value and by unfair subsidies bestowed by foreign governments.

Renewable Energy Research and Development
To conduct balanced research and development efforts in the following energy technologies: solar, biomass, hydrogen, fuel cells and infrastructure, wind and hydropower, hydrogen, and geothermal. Grants will be offered to develop and transfer to the...

Renewable Energy Systems and Energy Efficiency Improvements Program
To create a program to make direct loans, loan guarantees, and grants to agricultural producers (farmers and ranchers) and rural small businesses to help reduce energy costs and consumption and help meet the nation's critical energy needs.

Rent Supplements-rental Housing for Lower Income Families
To make quality rental housing available to low income families at a cost they can afford.

Repetitive Flood Claims
To assist States, Indian tribal governments, and communities to reduce or eliminate the long-term risk of flood damage to structures insured under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) that have had one or more claims for flood damages through...

Replacement and Repair of Indian Schools
To provide safe, functional, code-compliant, economical, and energy-efficient education facilities for American Indian students attending Bureau of Indian Affairs owned or funded primary and secondary schools and/or residing in Bureau owned or...

Reseach Grants (generic)
To assist in the conservation of the Nation's natural resources by providing financial assistance for land management, research, and data collection/analysis to further the preservation of natural resources.

Research and Evaluation Program
The Research and Evaluation Program of the Economic Development Administration (EDA) supports rigorous, practitioner accessible research of leading, world class economic development practice that advances our understanding of economic development....

Research and Innovative Technology (rit) Hydrogen Alternative Fuel Life Cycle
Conduct research evaluating Hydrogen and Alternative Fuel Life Cycle.

Research and Technical Assistance
The Office of Economic Adjustment (OEA), a Department of Defense (DoD) field activity, is authorized to make awards to, or conclude cooperative agreements with state or local governments, or any nongovernmental or other private entity, to conduct...

Research and Technology Development
To support and stimulate basic research, applied research and technology development at educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, and commercial firms, which may have military or dual-use application. This support may take the form of...

Research and Training In Complementary and Alternative Medicine
To evaluate alternative, complementary, or unconventional medical treatments. The following objectives support this goal: (1) coordinate and facilitate the investigation of alternative medical practices through peer-reviewed grant solicitations;...

Research Grants
A. Grant Award to Cold Region and Rural Transportation Research, Maintenance, and Operations, Western Montana Transportation Institute; B. Grant Award to Rural Transportation Research Initiative Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, North...

Research Infrastructure
The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) provides laboratory scientists and clinical researchers with the environments and tools they need to understand, detect, treat, and prevent a wide range of diseases. This support enables discoveries...

Research Innovation and Development Grants In Economic (ridge)
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...

Research on Chemical and Biological Defense
To further the capability to prevent, detect, diagnose and treat the effects of chemical, radiological and biological warfare agents.

Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes
To support research and evaluations, demonstration projects, research networks, and multidisciplinary centers and to disseminate information on health care and on systems for the delivery of such care involving: (1) The quality, effectiveness,...

Research on the Economic Impact of Cooperatives
The encouragement of research on the national economic impact or value of all types of cooperatives in the United States.

Research Projects
To provide funding that has been designated by funding level, generally to a specified entity for a research project, or to provide one-time funding for a one-time research program or project. If the funding is continued after the initial...

Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders
To investigate solutions to problems directly relevant to individuals with deafness or disorders of human communication in the areas of hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech, and language. The National Institute on Deafness and Other...

Research, Treatment and Education Programs on Lyme Disease In the United States
To develop, implement and evaluate practical and effective measures for the primary and secondary prevention of Lyme disease in the United States.

Resident Instruction Grants for Insular Area Activities
In General. -The Secretary of Agriculture shall make competitive grants to eligible institutions to- <br /> (1) strengthen institutional educational capacities, including libraries, curriculum, faculty, scientific instrumentation, instruction...

Resident Opportunity and Supportive Services
To programmatically address the needs of public housing residents by providing service coordinator positions to coordinate supportive services, resident empowerment activities and/or assisting residents in becoming economically self-sufficient or...

Resident Opportunity and Supportive Services - Elderly and Persons with Disabilities
To programmatically address the needs of public housing residents by providing supportive services, resident empowerment activities and/or assisting residents in becoming economically self- sufficient. The primary focus of the program is on...

Residential Fire Safety & Fire Sprinkler Initiatives
To support residential fire safety initiatives such as: promoting public awareness of fire protection systems e.g., smoke alarms, and automatic sprinklers; supporting consumer awareness of residential fire sprinkler systems through provision of...

Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners
To assist States and units of local government develop and implement residential substance abuse treatment programs within State and local correctional facilities in which prisoners are incarcerated for a period of time sufficient to permit...

Resource and Manpower Development In the Environmental Health Sciences
To provide long-term stable support for broadly based multi-disciplinary research and training on environmental health problems in Environmental Health Sciences Centers (EHS Centers) and Marine and Freshwater Biomedical Centers Sciences (MFBS...

Resource Conservation and Development
To encourage and improve the capability of State and local units of government and local nonprofit organizations in rural areas to plan, develop and carry out programs for resource conservation and development.

Retired and Senior Volunteer Program
The Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) provides grants to qualified agencies and organizations for the dual purpose of engaging persons 55 and older in volunteer service to meet critical community needs; and to provide a high quality...

Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation
To provide financial assistance for projects for the effective long-term conservation of rhinoceros and tigers. This program supports projects that focus on one or more of the following areas: Applied research, including surveys and monitoring;...

Rita Hydrogen
To Provide research grants to nonprofit institutions of higher learning for the purpose of conducting transportation related research, education, and technology transfer programs concerning national transportation issues in the areas of propulsion...

Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance
The Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program implements the natural resource conservation and outdoor recreation mission of the National Park Service in communities across America. RTCA will help create local, regional and state networks...

Road Maintenance-indian Roads
To provide limited routine maintenance on paved, gravel, earth, and unimproved roads; bridges; and airstrips.

Rocky Boy's/north Central Montana Regional Water System
To ensure a safe and adequate rural, municipal, and industrial water supply for the residents of the Rocky Boy's Reservation in the State of Montana, and to assist the citizens residing in Chouteau, Glacier, Hill, Liberty, Pondera, Teton, and Toole...

Ruminant Feed Ban Support Project
To assist in an increased surveillance presence throughout the commercial feed channels to prevent the introduction or amplification of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in the United States.

Runaway and Homeless Youth
The purpose of Part A of the RHY Act (Runaway and Homeless Youth Grant Program) is to establish or strengthen locally controlled community-based programs that address the immediate needs of runaway and homeless youth and their families. Services...

Rural Abandoned Mine Program
To protect people and the environment from the adverse effects of past coal mining practices, and to promote the development of soil and water resources of unreclaimed mined lands.

Rural Access to Emergency Devices Grant
To help partnerships made up of at least three separately owned entities purchase and train first responders, and lay persons on the use of Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs). A limited amount of funds may also be used for medical dispatcher...

Rural Broadband Access Loans and Loan Guarantees
To assure that people in eligible rural communities have access to broadband service comparable in reliability and quality to the rest of the Nation.

Rural Business Enterprise Grants
To facilitate the development of small and emerging private business, industry, and related employment for improving the economy in rural communities.

Rural Business Enterprise Grants - Arra
To facilitate the development of small and emerging private business, industry, and related employment for improving the economy in rural communities.

Rural Business Investment Program
To promote economic development and create wealth and job opportunities among individuals living in rural areas and help to meet the equity capital investment needs primarily of smaller enterprises located in such areas.

Rural Business Opportunity Grants
To promote sustainable economic development in rural communities with exceptional needs.

Rural Community Development Initiative
To develop the capacity and ability of private, nonprofit community-based housing and community development organizations, and low income rural communities to improve housing, community facilities, community and economic development projects in...

Rural Cooperative Development Grants
To improve economic conditions in rural areas through cooperative development. The primary objective of the cooperative center concept is to provide technical assistance services, including feasibility analysis. The grant program will be used to...

Rural Development Multi-family Housing Rural Housing Voucher Demonstration Program
The Rural Housing Voucher Demonstration program is designed to provide rental housing assistance vouchers to tenants in properties that prepay their Rural Development mortgage. The amount of this subsidy is the difference between the comparable...

Rural Development, Forestry, and Communities
To help rural areas analyze and assess forest resource opportunities, maximize local economic potential through market development and expansion, and diversify communities' economic base.

Rural Domestic Violence and Child Victimization Enforcement Grant Program
(1) To identify, assess, and appropriately respond to child, youth, and adult victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking in rural communities, by encouraging collaboration among-- (A) domestic violence, dating...

Rural Economic Development Loans and Grants
To promote rural economic development and job creation projects, including funding for project feasibility studies, start-up costs, incubator projects, and other reasonable expenses for the purpose of fostering rural development.

Rural Education
To provide financial assistance to rural districts to carry out activities to help improve the quality of teaching and learning in their schools.

Rural Electrification Loans and Loan Guarantees
To assure that people in eligible rural areas have access to electric services comparable in reliability and quality to the rest of the Nation.

Rural Health Outreach and Rural Network Development Program
To expand access to, coordinate, restrain the cost of, and improve the quality of essential health services, including preventive and emergency services, through the development of integrated health care delivery systems or networks in rural areas...

Rural Health Research Centers
To support the operation of rural health research centers, research dissemination, rural policy analysis, rapid response to quick data turn around requests, and rural health best practices to provide an information base, research dissemination, and...

Rural Housing and Economic Development
To build capacity at the State and local level for rural housing and economic development and to support innovative housing and economic development activities in rural areas.

Rural Housing Preservation Grants
To assist very low- and low-income rural residents individual homeowners, rental property owners (single/multi-unit) or by providing the consumer cooperative housing projects (co-ops) the necessary assistance to repair or rehabilitate their...

Rural Housing Site Loans and Self-help Housing Land Development Loans
To assist public or private nonprofit organizations interested in providing sites for housing; to acquire and develop land in rural areas to be subdivided as adequate building sites and sold on a cost development basis to families eligible for low...

Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program
Provide rural microentrepreneurs with the skills necessary to establish new rural microenterprises and to provide continuing technical and financial assistance related to the successful operation of rural microenterprises. (1) Make direct loans to...

Rural Pace (program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly) Provider Grant Program
To provide services in a geographic service area that is, in whole or in part, a rural area that has received a site development grant under this Section.

Rural Rental Assistance Payments
To reduce the tenant contribution paid by low-income families occupying eligible Rural Rental Housing (RRH), Rural Cooperative Housing (RCH), and Farm Labor Housing (LH) projects financed by the Rural Housing Service (RHS) through its Sections 515,...

Rural Rental Housing Loans
To provide economically designed and constructed rental and cooperative housing and related facilities suited for rural residents.

Rural Self-help Housing Technical Assistance
To provide Self-Help Technical Assistance Grants to provide financial assistance to qualified nonprofit organizations and public bodies that will aid needy very low and low-income individuals and their families to build homes in rural areas by the...

Rural Telemedicine Grants
The TNGP has two provisions: Telehealth Networks (TNGP-TH) grants demonstrate how telehealth networks improve healthcare services in rural communities. Telehomecare Networks (TNGP-THC) grants fund demonstration or pilot projects for telehomecare,...

Rural Telephone Bank Loans
To provide supplemental financing to extend and improve telecommunications services in rural areas.

Rural Telephone Loans and Loan Guarantees
To assure that people in eligible rural areas have access to telecommunications services comparable in reliability and quality to the rest of the Nation.

Rus Denali Commission Grants and Loans
Grants and loans to the Denali Commission for the benefit of rural communities in Alaska with extremely high household energy costs exceeding 275 percent of the national average.

Ryan White Hiv/aids Dental Reimbursements
Dental Reimbursement compensate dental schools, postdoctoral dental education programs, and dental hygiene education programs for unreimbursed costs they have incurred in providing oral health services to patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus...

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Safe and Drug-free Schools and Communities-national Programs
To enhance the Nation's efforts to prevent the illegal use of drugs and violence among, and promote safety and discipline for, students at all educational levels; and to support mentoring programs for at-risk children.

Safe and Drug-free Schools and Communities-state Grants
To offer a disciplined environment conducive to learning, by preventing violence in and around schools and strengthening programs that prevent the illegal use of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs, involve parents, and are coordinated with related Federal,...

Safe Kids Worldwide
Provide financial assistance to reduce fire deaths and injuries among children under the age 14 by educating them in fire safety awareness, fire safety techniques, and providing fire safety equipment.

Safety and Health Grants
To provide mine safety and health training and education to miners, mine operators, and other individuals who may work at a mine; and to develop training and other programs (to include research and equipment development) to improve health and safety...

Safety Belt Performance Grants
Increase safety belt use by encouraging States to enact and enforce primary safety belt laws. A primary safety belt law permits law enforcement officers to stop and cite motorists for failing to wear safety belts without requiring that some other...

Safety Data Improvement Program
The objectives are to fund State programs to improve the overall quality of commercial motor vehicle (CMV) data, specifically to increase the timeliness, efficiency, accuracy and completeness of processes and systems related to the collection and...

Safety Incentive Grants for Use of Seatbelts
To encourage States to increase seat belt use rates to reduce highway deaths and injuries resulting from individuals riding unrestrained or improperly restrained in motor vehicles.

Safety Incentives to Prevent Operation of Motor Vehicles by Intoxicated Persons
To encourage States to establish an 0.08 percent blood alcohol concentration as the legal limit for drunk driving.

Safety of Dams on Indian Lands
To improve the structural integrity of dams on Indian lands, including operations and maintenance of these dams.

Sale of Federal Surplus Personal Property
To sell personal property no longer needed by the Government in an expeditious, economical and efficient manner and to obtain the maximum net return from sales. General Services Administration conducts the sale of personal property for most of the...

San Gabriel Basin Restoration Project
To design, construct, operate, and maintain water quality projects within the San Gabriel Basin, Los Angeles County, California.

San Luis Unit, Central Valley Project
Construction and operation of drainage facilities designed to serve the general area of which the lands to be served by the San Luis Unit are a part.

Save America's Treasures
To provide matching grants for preservation and/or conservation work on nationally significant intellectual and cultural artifacts and nationally significant historic structures and sites. Intellectual and cultural artifacts include artifacts,...

Scams Targeting the Elderly
The Telemarketing Fraud Against Senior Citizens program is designed to reduce the incidence of telemarketing scams perpetrated against the elderly through training and technical assistance programs, demonstration sites, public awareness initiatives,...

Scholars and Fellows
The objectives of this program are: (1) increase the intellectual capacity, skills and talents, especially those of U.S. citizens in areas of relevance to homeland security; (2) to attract undergraduate and graduate students to obtain advanced...

Scholarships for Health Professions Students from Disadvantaged Backgrounds
Promotes diversity among health professions students and practitioners by providing scholarships for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Eligible health professions and nursing schools apply for funds to make scholarships to students from...

School Breakfast Program
To assist States in providing a nutritious nonprofit breakfast service for school children, through cash grants and food donations.

School Improvement Grants
To strengthen the capacity of States to carry out their program improvement responsibilities required under Sections 1116 and 1117 of Title I of the ESEA by (1) building State capacity to provide leadership in implementing effective school...

School Improvement Grants, Recovery Act
To strengthen the capacity of States to carry out their program improvement responsibilities required under Sections 1116 and 1117 of Title I of the ESEA by (1) building State capacity to provide leadership in implementing effective school...

School Leadership
To provide support to eligible entities in the development of innovative programs that recruit, train, and mentor principals and assistant principals.

Schools and Roads-grants to Counties
To share receipts from National Grasslands and Land Utilization Projects with the counties in which the National Grasslands and Land Utilization Projects are situated.

Schools and Roads-grants to States
To share receipts from the National Forests with the States in which the National Forests are situated.

Science and Engineering Training to Support Diversity-related Programs
To support special emphasis programs to encourage training of Coloradoan Native American, African American, Hispanic American, Asian-Pacific American, women and disabled American students in the pursuit of the fields of science and engineering and...

Science to Achieve Results (star) Fellowship Program
The National Center for Environmental Research (NCER), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, offers graduate fellowships for master's and doctoral level students in environmentally related fields of study. The purpose of the...

Science to Achieve Results (star) Program
To (1) support research to determine the environmental and human health effects of air quality, drinking water, water quality, hazardous waste, toxic substances, and pesticides; (2) identify, develop, and demonstrate effective pollution control...

Science, Recovery Act
The purpose of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is to provide a stimulus to the U.S. economy, and among other provisions, it provides funds to Federal agencies for use on contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, and other...

Scientific Cooperation and Research
To advance cooperation in areas of bilateral trade and market access, agriculture, animal and plant health, biotechnology, food safety and security, and sustainable natural resource management through long-term collaborative research worldwide and...

Scientific Research - Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction
To support and stimulate applied research, advanced research, and technology development at educational or research institutions, nonprofit organizations, and commercial firms, in order to advance the fundamental knowledge and understanding of the...

Sea Grant Support
To support the establishment and operation of major university centers for marine resources research, education, and training and to support marine advisory services. Some individual efforts in these same areas also receive funding.

Second Chance Act Prisoner Reentry Initiative
To facilitate inmates’ successful reintegration into society.

Secondary and Two-year Postsecondary Agriculture Education Challenge Grants
The purpose of the Secondary Education, Two-Year Postsecondary Education, and Agriculture in the K-12 Classroom Challenge (SPECA) Grants Program is to: enhance curricula in agricultural education; increase faculty teaching competencies; interest...

Secondary Market Lending Authority
Provide liquidity for the secondary market, ultimately encouraging new lending by banks of SBA guaranteed loans.

Secret Service-training Activities
To acquaint local sworn law enforcement officials with the functions of the Secret Service, and the techniques of protecting dignitaries; to assist criminal investigators by training them in the basic examination of questioned documents, and brief...

Section 245 Graduated Payment Mortgage Program
To facilitate early home ownership for households that expect their incomes to rise. Program allows homeowners to make smaller monthly payments initially and to increase their size gradually over time.

Section 4 Capacity Building for Affordable Housing and Community Development Grants
To help improve the capacity of community organizations to develop affordable housing and other community development projects.

Section 416(b)
U.S. agriculture commodities are provided to developing and friendly countries to carry out programs of assistance.

Section 538 Rural Rental Housing Guaranteed Loans
This program has been designed to increase the supply of affordable multifamily housing in rural areas through partnerships between Rural Development and major lending sources, as well as State and local housing finance agencies and bond insurers. ...

Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program Special Allocations (recovery Act Funded)
To make payments to existing owners of project-based Section 8 housing for 12 month periods. To reduce claims on the Department's insurance fund by<br /> aiding projects with FHA-insured or Secretary-held mortgages that have<br /> immediate or...

Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program-special Allocations
To provide rental assistance to very low income individuals and families enabling them to live in affordable decent, safe and sanitary housing.

Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers
To aid very low income families in obtaining decent, safe, and sanitary rental housing. For Fair Share Vouchers and Welfare-to -Work Vouchers, Public Housing Agencies (PHA) must meet certain selection criteria. For Welfare-to-Work rental vouchers,...

Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy
The Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy Program provides rental assistance to homeless individuals. Under the program, HUD enters into Annual Contributions Contracts with public housing agencies (PHAs) in connection with the...

Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-determination
To restore stability and predictability to the annual payments made to States and counties containing National Forest System lands and public domain lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management for use by the counties for the benefit of public...

Securing the Cities
The overall goal of the Securing the Cities (STC) initiative is to prevent a Radiological/Nuclear (RN) attack on high risk urban areas by enhancing regional capabilities to detect, identify, and interdict illicit radioactive materials in and around...

Securities-investigation of Complaints and Sec Information
To serve investors who complain about investment fraud or the mishandling of their investments by securities professionals. To respond to a wide range of investor inquiries, produce and distribute educational materials, and organize investor...

Seed Grants to States for Qualified High-risk Pools
To assist States in the creation and initial operation of a qualified high-risk health insurance pool for individuals who cannot purchase individual coverage because of pre-existing medical conditions.

Self-help Homeownership Opportunity Program
To facilitate and encourage innovative homeownership opportunities through the provision of self-help housing where the homebuyer contributes a significant amount of sweat equity toward the construction of the dwellings.

Semiconductor Chip Protection Service
To administer the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984; to examine and decide the acceptability of all application and identifying material for registration of the claim of protection; to establish by regulation the fees for filing of...

Senior Community Service Employment Program
To foster individual economic self sufficiency; provide training in meaningful part-time opportunities in community service activities for unemployed low-income persons who are age 55 years of age or older, particularly persons who have poor...

Senior Companion Program
The Senior Companion Program provides grants to qualified agencies and organizations for the dual purpose of engaging persons 60 and older, particularly those with limited incomes, in volunteer service to meet critical community needs; and to...

Senior Environmental Employment Program
To use the talents of Americans 55 years of age or older to provide technical assistance to Federal, State, and local environmental agencies for projects of pollution prevention, abatement, and control to achieve the Agency's goals of Clean Air;...

Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program
(1) To provide fresh, nutritious, unprepared, locally grown fruits, vegetables and herbs from farmers markets, roadside stands and community supported agriculture programs to low-income seniors, and (2) to increase the consumption of agricultural...

Senior International Fellowships
The John E. Fogarty International Center (FIC) supports research and research training to reduce disparities in global health and to foster partnerships between U.S. scientists and their counterparts abroad. FIC supports basic biological,...

Service Corps of Retired Executives Association
To use the management experience of retired and active business management professionals to counsel and train potential and existing small business owners. All client counseling information is confidential.

Service Training and Technical Assistance (generic Training)
To assist in the conservation of the Nation's natural resources by supporting and providing financial resources for training, meetings, workshops and conferences to promote the public's conservation awareness.

Services for Trafficking Victims
To provide assistance to victims of severe forms of trafficking (i.e., sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age; or the...

Services to Indian Children, Elderly and Families
To provide funds to Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments to administer welfare assistance programs for both American Indian adults and children; to support caseworkers and counselors; and to support tribal programs to reduce the incidence...

Services to Victims of a Severe Form of Trafficking
To provide outreach to, identification of, and service referral to individuals who may be victims of a severe form of trafficking. To enhance anti-trafficking efforts in the U.S. by building regional capacity, developing regional coalitions,...

Severe Loss Repetitive Program
To assist States and local governments in supporting actions that reduce or eliminate the long-term risk of flood damage to residential properties insured under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) that meet the definition of severe...

Sex Offender Management Discretionary Grant
To assist state, local and tribal jurisdictions in improving their adult and/or juvenile sex offender management policies and practices by critically examining existing approaches to monitoring and managing the population; identifying significant...

Sexual Assault Services Program
To increase intervention, advocacy, accompaniment, support services, and related assistance for adult, youth, and child victims of sexual assault; family and household members of such victims; and those collaterally affected by the victimization,...

Sharing Specialized Medical Resources
To receive and share the most advanced medical techniques; to secure the use of healthcare resources which otherwise might not be feasibly available to the VA and to provide services to the community through resources which are not being utilized to...

Shelter Plus Care
The Shelter Plus Care Program provides rental assistance, in connection with supportive services funded from sources other than this program, to homeless persons with disabilities (primarily persons who are seriously mentally ill; have chronic...

Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District Battlefield Acquisition and Protection
The Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District and Commission Act established both the District and the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District Commission (Commission). The District is comprised of Augusta, Clarke,...

Ship Sales
To sell by competitive bids, merchant ships which become surplus to the needs of the Government.

Shipping Investigation of Complaints
To provide assistance to those engaged in international ocean shipping, including those making household goods shipments. Assistance may include helping locate missing cargo and helping resolve issues with respect to costs or service. To provide a...

Short Term Climate Fluctuations
To support studies relevant to the diagnosis and prediction of short-term climate fluctuations.

Sickle Cell Treatment Demonstration Program
To support demonstration projects for the development and establishment of system mechanisms and partnerships to enhance the prevention and treatment of sickle cell disease (SCD) through coordination of service delivery, genetic counseling and...

Single Family Property Disposition
To sell the inventory of HUD-acquired properties in a manner that expands home ownership opportunities, strengthens neighborhoods and communities, and ensures a maximum return to the FHA mortgage insurance fund.

Small Business and Agriculture Regulatory Enforcement Ombudsman and Small Business Regulatory Fairness Boards
To serve the small business community by receiving comments from small businesses, small non-profit organizations or small government entities (representing less than 50,000 people) regarding unfair and/or excessive actions by Federal Agencies or...

Small Business Development Center
To provide management counseling, training, and technical assistance to the small business community through Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs).

Small Business Innovation Research
To stimulate technological innovation in the private sector, strengthen the role of small businesses in meeting Federal research and development needs, increase private sector commercialization of innovations derived from USDA-supported research and...

Small Business Investment Companies
To establish privately owned and managed investment companies, which are licensed and regulated by the U.S. Small Business Administration; to provide equity capital and long term loan funds to small businesses; and to provide advisory services to...

Small Business Loans
To provide guaranteed loans from lenders to small businesses which are unable to obtain financing in the private credit marketplace, but can demonstrate an ability to repay loans if granted, in a timely manner. Guaranteed loans are made available...

Small Rural Hospital Improvement Grants
To help hospitals: (1) pay for costs related to quality improvement and 2) offset costs related to the health information technology.

Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program
Fellowships are offered by the Smithsonian Institution to provide opportunities for graduate students, predoctoral students, and postdoctoral and senior investigators to conduct research in association with members of the Smithsonian professional...

Snagging and Clearing for Flood Control
To reduce flood damages.

Snow Survey and Water Supply Forecasting
To provide information on forthcoming seasonal water supplies from streams that derive most of their run off from snow melt. To help farm operators, rural communities, and municipalities use water- supply forecasts in managing water resources. To...

Social Insurance for Railroad Workers
To pay rail social security level benefits (tier I), benefits based on rail service alone (tier II), vested dual benefits, supplemental annuities, annuities based on total or occupational disability, and sickness and unemployment benefits to...

Social Security Economic Recovery Act Payments
The new program is the $13 billion in Economic Recovery Act payments that SSA will be paying recipients in May 2009.

Social Security State Grants for Work Incentives Assistance to Disabled Beneficiaries
To comply with the Ticket-to-Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act legislation passed in December 1999, permitting the SSA to make payments to each State to the protection and advocacy system established for the purpose of providing services to...

Social Security-benefits Planning, Assistance, and Outreach Program
To comply with the Ticket-to-Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act (TWWIIA) which was passed in December 1999, and reauthorized by the Social Security Protection Act of 2004, which requires the SSA to establish a community-based work incentives...

Social Security-disability Insurance
To replace part of the earnings lost because of a physical or mental impairment, or a combination of impairments, severe enough to prevent a person from working.

Social Security-research and Demonstration
(1) To conduct social, economic, and demographic research on topics important to the Social Security Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs and the current and future well-being of their...

Social Security-retirement Insurance
To replace part of the earnings lost due to retirement.

Social Security-special Benefits for Persons Aged 72 and Over
To assure some regular income to certain persons age 72 and over who had little or no opportunity to earn Social Security protection during their working years.

Social Security-survivors Insurance
To replace part of the earnings lost to dependents because of the worker's death.

Social Services Block Grant
To enable each State to furnish social services best suited to the needs of the individuals residing in the State. Federal block grant funds may be used to provide services directed toward one of the following five goals specified in the law: (1) To...

Social Services Research and Demonstration
To promote research and demonstrations related to the prevention and reduction of dependency or the administration and effectiveness of programs related to that purpose.

Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
To contribute to the scientific strength and welfare of the Nation through the promotion of basic research and education in the social, behavioral and economic sciences and through monitoring and understanding the resources invested in science and...

Soil and Water Conservation
To help people conserve, improve, and sustain our natural resources and environment.

Soil Survey
To produce and maintain up to date published soil surveys and other forms of soil survey databases of counties or other comparable size areas for widespread use by interested agencies, organizations, and individuals and to assist in the use of this...

Solicited Grant Program
To provide support for education and training, research, and public information on international peace and conflict resolution and on themes and topics identified by the institute.

Solid Waste Management Assistance
To promote use of integrated solid waste management systems to solve solid waste generation and management problems at the local, regional and national levels. Funding Priority - Fiscal Year 2009: Partnerships - Establishing and developing...

Solid Waste Management Grants
To reduce or eliminate pollution of water resources and improve planning and management of solid waste disposal facilities in rural areas.

Source Reduction Assistance
The goal of the Source Reduction Assistance (SRA) Grant Program is to provide grants to support pollution prevention/source reduction and/or resource conservation activities. For purposes of this grant program, pollution prevention is defined as any...

Southeast Alaska Economic Disaster Fund
To counter the effects of the declining timber program of the Tongass National Forest.

Southeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program
To maintain a cooperative program which engages State and Federal agencies in the coordinated collection, management, and dissemination of fishery - independent information on marine fisheries in support of State Territorial Sea and U.S. Exclusive...

Southern Nevada Public Land Management
To provide for the orderly disposal of certain Federal lands in Clark County, Nevada, and to provide for the acquisition of environmentally sensitive lands in the State of Nevada.

Southwest Border Prosecution Initiative Program
The objective of the Southwest Border Prosecution Initiative (SWBPI) is 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.

Special American Business Internship Training Program
The SABIT program awards funding to qualified U.S. companies for training business executives and scientists from the New Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union. SABIT exposes NIS business managers and scientists to a completely new...

Special Apple Program
To assist producers of apples that are suffering from economic loss as a result of low prices for apples.

Special Benefits for Certain World War Ii Veterans
To pay a special benefit to certain World War II veterans, who are eligible for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits and meet other specified criteria for each month that they reside outside of the United States.

Special Benefits for Disabled Coal Miners
To pay benefits to coal miners who have become disabled due to pneumoconiosis (black lung disease) or other chronic lung disease arising from coal mine employment and their dependents or survivors.

Special Data Collections and Statistical Studies
To produce official national statistics on crime and the administration of justice to be used to guide Federal, State, and local policy-making and improve the quality of and access to information used for decision making.

Special Diabetes Program for Indians (sdpi) Competitive Grant Program
The Indian Health Service (IHS) announces a new initiative under the Special Diabetes Program for Indians (SDPI). This funding mechanism is a competitive grant program that will provide funding to selected SDPI grantees for a demonstration project...

Special Diabetes Program for Indians-diabetes Prevention and Treatment Projects
To promote improved health care among American Indians/Alaska Natives through special diabetes prevention and treatment services projects with objectives and priorities determined at the local level. SDPI Reauthorization of 2002 includes a new...

Special Domestic Assignments
(1) To allow State and local governments and related organizations to utilize the experience and expertise of Foreign Service Officers; and (2) to permit Foreign Service Officers at approximately mid-career to be assigned to positions with...

Special Education - Grants for Infants and Families, Recover Act
To provide grants to States to assist them to implement and maintain a statewide, comprehensive, coordinated, multidisciplinary, interagency systems to make available early intervention services to infants and toddlers with disabilities and their...

Special Education - Preschool Grants, Recovery Act
To provide grants to States to assist them to make available special education and related services for children with disabilities ages 3 through 5 years, and at a State's discretion, to 2-year-old children with disabilities who will reach age three...

Special Education -- Olympic Education Programs
This program promotes the expansion of Special Olympics and the design and implementation of Special Olympics education programs.

Special Education Grants to States, Recovery Act
To provide grants to States to assist them in providing a free appropriate public education to all children with disabilities.

Special Education-grants for Infants and Families with Disabilities
To provide grants to States to assist them to implement and maintain a Statewide, comprehensive, coordinated, multidisciplinary, interagency system to make available early intervention services to infants and toddlers with disabilities and their...

Special Education-grants to States
To provide grants to States to assist them in providing a free appropriate public education to all children with disabilities.

Special Education-parent Information Centers
To ensure that parents of children with disabilities receive training and information to help improve results for their children.

Special Education-personnel Preparation to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities
(1) To help address State-identified needs for qualified personnel in special education, related services, early intervention, and regular education, to work with children with disabilities; and (2) ensure that those personnel have the skills and...

Special Education-preschool Grants
To provide grants to States to assist them to make available special education and related services for children with disabilities ages 3 through 5 years, and at a State's discretion, to 2 year old children with disabilities who will reach age three...

Special Education-research and Innovation to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities
To support scientifically rigorous research contributing to the solution of specific early intervention and education problems associated with children with disabilities.

Special Education-state Program Improvement Grants for Children with Disabilities
To assist State educational agencies in reforming and improving their systems for personnel preparation and professional development of individuals providing early intervention, educational and transition services, to improve results for children...

Special Education-studies and Evaluations
To assess the progress in implementing the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, including State and local efforts to provide (1) Free appropriate public education to children with disabilities; and (2) early intervention services to infants...

Special Education-technical Assistance and Dissemination to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities
To promote academic achievement and improve results for children with disabilities by supporting technical assistance, supporting model demonstration projects, dissemination useful information, and implementating activities that are supported by...

Special Education-technology and Media Services for Individuals with Disabilities
To (1) improve results for children with disabilities by promoting the development, demonstration and use of technology; (2) support educational media service activities designed to be of educational value in the classroom setting to children with...

Special Education_technical Assistance on State Data Collection
To provide technical assistance, where needed, to improve the capacity of States to meet the data collection requirements of the IDEA.

Special Milk Program for Children
To provide subsidies to schools and institutions to encourage the consumption of fluid milk by children.

Special Oceanic and Atmospheric Projects
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...

Special Programs for the Aging-title Iii, Part B-grants for Supportive Services and Senior Centers
To encourage State Agencies on Aging and Area Agencies on Aging to concentrate resources to develop and implement comprehensive and coordinated community-based systems of service for older individuals via Statewide planning, and area planning and...

Special Programs for the Aging-title Iii, Part C-nutrition Services
To provide grants to States to support nutrition services including nutritious meals, nutrition education and other appropriate nutrition services for older Americans in order to maintain health, independence and quality of life. Meals may be served...

Special Programs for the Aging-title Iii, Part D-disease Prevention and Health Promotion Services
To develop or strengthen preventive health service and health promotion systems through designated State Agencies on Aging and Area Agencies on Aging. Funds are provided for disease prevention and health promotion services including health risk...

Special Programs for the Aging-title Iv-and Title Ii-discretionary Projects
To support the development and testing of innovative programs, services and systems of support that respond to the needs of the nations growing elderly population, to improve knowledge of the problems and needs of the elderly, to help ensure...

Special Programs for the Aging-title Vi, Part A, Grants to Indian Tribes-part B, Grants to Native Hawaiians
To promote the delivery of supportive services, including nutrition services, to older Indians, Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiians and to enable tribal organizations to provide multifaceted systems of support services to family caregivers....

Special Programs for the Aging-title Vii, Chapter 2-long Term Care Ombudsman Services for Older Individuals
The principal role of this Ombudsman Program is to investigate and resolve complaints made by or on behalf of residents of nursing homes or other long-term care facilities serving older people. Ombudsmen also promote policies and practices needed to...

Special Programs for the Aging-title Vii, Chapter 3-programs for Prevention of Elder Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation
To support activities to develop, strengthen, and carry out programs for the prevention, detection, assessment, and treatment of, intervention in, investigation of, and response to elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation (including financial...

Special Projects
To assist various organizations identified by Congress or through non-competitive grants to achieve agency objectives.

Special Projects of National Significance
To quickly respond to emergency needs of individuals receiving assistance under the Ryan White program; and to fund special programs to develop a standard electronic client information data system to improve the ability of grantees under the Ryan...

Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children
To provide low-income pregnant, breastfeeding and postpartum women, infants, and children to age five determined to be at nutritional risk, at no cost, supplemental nutritious foods, nutrition education, and referrals to health and social services.

Specially Adapted Housing for Disabled Veterans
To help certain severely disabled veterans acquire a home which is suitably adapted to meet the special needs of their disabilities.

Specially Selected Health Projects
To carry out programs that have been selected by the U.S. Congress as being needed for improved health care (earmarks).

Specials Projects
To provide funding that has been designated by funding level, generally to a specified entity for a special project, or to provide one-time funding for a one-time program or project. If the funding is continued after the initial appropriation, the...

Specialty Crop Block Grant Program
To increase fruit, vegetable, and nut consumption and improve the competitiveness of United States specialty crop producers.

Specialty Crop Block Grant Program - Farm Bill
To increase fruit, vegetable, and nut consumption and improve the competitiveness of United States specialty crop producers.

Specialty Crop Research Initiative
The Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) was established to solve critical industry issues through research and extension activities. SCRI will give priority to projects that are multistate, multi-institutional, or trans-disciplinary; and...

Sport Fish Restoration
Sport Fish Restoration funds support activities designed to restore, conserve, manage, or enhance sport fish populations; the public use and benefits from these resources; and activities that provide boat access to public waters. Sport fisheries...

Sportfishing and Boating Safety Act
This program provides funding to States, the District of Columbia, Commonwealths, and territories for the construction, renovation, and maintenance of tie-up facilities for transient, recreational boats 26 feet or greater.

St. Mary Storage Unit Facilities Rehabilitation Project
The funds are to be used on a non-reimbursable basis to fund the collection of technical and environmental data to be used to evaluate potential rehabilitation of the St. Mary Storage Unit facilities, Milk River Project, Montana.

Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (safer)
To increase the number of firefighters in local communities and to help them meet industry minimum standards and attain 24/7 staffing for adequate protection against fire and fire-related hazards, and fulfill related roles associated with fire...

Standard Reference Materials
Standard Reference Materials are certified and issued by NIST to develop accurate methods of analysis; to calibrate measurement systems used to: (1) facilitate the exchange of goods, (2) institute quality control, (3) determine material performance...

Star Schools
To encourage improved instruction in mathematics, science, and foreign languages as well as other subjects, such as literacy skills and vocational education. To serve underserved populations, including the disadvantaged, illiterate, limited-English...

State Access to the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund
To encourage greater State participation in response to actual or threatened discharges of oil.

State Administrative Expenses for Child Nutrition
To provide each State agency with funds for its administrative expenses in supervising and giving technical assistance to local schools, school districts and institutions in their conduct of Child Nutrition Programs. State agencies that administer...

State Administrative Matching Grants for Food Stamp Program
To provide Federal financial aid to State agencies for costs incurred to operate the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Formally known as the Food Stamp Program.

State and Community Highway Safety
To provide a coordinated national highway safety program to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage.

State and Local All Hazards Emergency Operations Planning
The purpose of the S/L Emergency Ops Planning program is to supplement and assist State and local efforts to prepare themselves to respond to emergencies or disasters including any that may be caused by terrorist attacks using conventional means or...

State and Local Anti-terrorism Training
To provide specialized, terrorism/extremism orientation, interdiction, investigation, and prevention to state and local law enforcement executives, command personnel, intelligence officers, investigators, analytical personnel, training directors,...

State and Local Domestic Preparedness Exercise Support
To enhance the capacity of State and local first responders to respond to a Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) terrorism incident involving chemical, biological, nuclear, radiological, incendiary, and explosive devices.

State and Local Domestic Preparedness Technical Assistance
To provide direct assistance to State, regional, Local and Tribal jurisdictions as well as other homeland security organizations, to improve their ability to prevent, protect against respond to, and recover from major events, including threats or...

State and Local Domestic Preparedness Training Program
Cooperative agreements are awarded to eligible applicants to design, develop, and deliver training content and support for Federal, State, local, and tribal jurisdictions in accordance with FEMA doctrine and approved Homeland Security Strategies.

State and Territorial and Technical Assistance Capacity Development Minority Hiv/aids Demonstration Program
To demonstrate that the involvement of State and Territorial Offices of Minority Health in coordinating a statewide response to the HIV/AIDS crisis in minority communities can have a greater impact on the communities' understanding of the disease,...

State and Tribal Response Program Grants
EPA's CERCLA Section 128(a) grant program funds activities that establish or enhance state and tribal response program capacity, capitalize revolving loan funds (RLFs), and support insurance mechanisms. The goals of this funding are to provide...

State and Tribal Underground Storage Tanks Program
To assist States, Territories, Tribes and Intertribal Consortia that meet the requirements at 40 CFR 35.504, in the development and implementation of underground storage tank (UST) programs and for leak prevention, compliance and other activities...

State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program
To establish a competitive grant program to develop and implement statewide initiatives to identify and track the availability and adoption of broadband services within each State.

State Bulk Fuel Revolving Fund Grants
To provide grants to State entities for revolving funds to promote more cost-effective fuel purchases for communities where fuel cannot be shipped by surface transportation.

State Capacity Building
To fulfill the mandated objectives of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) and the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) of 1986, as amended, in coordination with Agency for Toxic...

State Cemetery Grants
To assist States in the establishment, expansion, and improvement of veterans' cemeteries.

State Children's Insurance Program
To provide funds to States to enable them to maintain and expand child health assistance to uninsured, low-income children, and at a state option, low-income pregnant women and legal immigrants, primarily by three methods: (1) obtain health...

State Clean Diesel Grant Program
Section 793 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 authorizes EPA to award assistance agreements to States to develop and implement such grant and low-cost revolving loan programs in the State as are appropriate to meet State needs and goals relating to...

State Commissions
To develop a State plan; to assist States in the application process; and to provide oversight of funded AmeriCorps programs within each State. The funds enable States to form a 15 to 25 member, independent, bipartisan commission appointed by a...

State Court Improvement Program
To assist State courts in performing their role in the continuum of care provided for families and children at risk. It provides State courts with the flexibility to design assessments which identify barriers to timely and effective decision-making,...

State Criminal Alien Assistance Program
The State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) is a payment program designed to provide federal assistance to states and localities that incur costs for incarcerating undocumented criminal aliens who are being held as a result of state and/or...

State Damage Prevention Program Grants
To improve State Damage prevention programs, which are intended to protect underground facilities from excavation damage.

State Domestic Preparedness Equipment Support Program
To enhance the capacity of State and local first responders to respond to terrorism incident involving chemical, biological, nuclear, radiological, incendiary, and explosive devices. The program was re-named as the State Homeland Security Grant...

State Energy Program
The program provides financial and technical assistance to State governments to create and implement a variety of energy efficiency and conservation projects in order to provide leadership to maximize the benefits of energy efficiency and renewable...

State Energy Program Special Projects
To allow States to submit proposals to implement specific Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy deployment activities and initiatives as Special Projects under the State Energy Program. States will compete for...

State Environmental Justice Cooperative Agreement Program
To provide funding to State governments to support their efforts to understand, promote and integrate approaches and activities that result in meaningful and measurable environmental and/or public health improvements in communities...

State Fire Training Systems Grants
To provide financial assistance to State Fire Training Systems for the delivery of a variety of National Fire Academy (NFA) courses/programs, administrative costs, and electronic student feedback.

State Fiscal Stabilization Fund (sfsf) - Education State Grants, Recovery Act
To support and restore funding for elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education and, as applicable, early child hood education programs and services in States and local educational agencies.

State Fiscal Stabilization Fund (sfsf) - Government Services, Recovery Act
To support public safety and other government services, which may include assistance for elementary, secondary education and public institutions of higher education (IHEs), and for modernization, renovation or repair of public school facilities and...

State Fiscal Stabilization Fund (sfsf) - Race-to-the-top Incentive Grants, Recovery Act
To reward States that have made significant progress in achieving equity in teacher distribution; establishing a longitudinal data system; enhancing the quality of assessments; including English language learners and students with disabilities in...

State Fiscal Stabilization Fund (sfsf) - What Works and Innovation Fund, Recovery Act
To recognize (a) local educational agencies (LEAs), or (b) partnerships between a nonprofit organization and one or more LEAs or a consortium of schools that have made significant gains in closing achievement gaps and enable them to expand their...

State Grants for Protection and Advocacy Services
To make grants to Protection and Advocacy systems as established in each State for the purpose of enabling such systems to provide services to individuals with traumatic brain injury which may include: (1) information, referrals, and advice, (2)...

State Grants to Reimburse Operators of Small Water Systems for Training and Certification Costs
This grant program was established as a one-time grant to states and U.S. territories to train and certify small drinking water system operators. Funding Priority - Fiscal Year 2009: EPA's funding priority has been to provide funds to states to...

State Health Fraud Task Force Grants
To assist and educate health professionals and persons with serious illnesses of the dangers and magnitude of health fraud; to assist law enforcement agencies in identifying and prosecuting perpetrators of health fraud; to obtain and disseminate...

State Homeland Security Program (shsp)
To build capabilities to prevent, deter, respond to, and recover from incidents of terrorism at the State and local levels through planning, equipment, training, and exercise activities and support the implementation of State homeland security...

State Indoor Radon Grants
The Indoor Radon Abatement Act (IRAA), Section 306, and the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), Section 10(a), authorizes EPA to assist States and Federally Recognized Indian Tribes develop and implement programs to assess and mitigate...

State Information Grants
EPA and its state, territorial, and tribal partners are building a nationwide Environmental Information Exchange Network. The Exchange Network is an Internet and standards-based information network that facilitates electronic reporting and the...

State Justice Statistics Program for Statistical Analysis Centers
To provide financial and technical assistance to State governments for the establishment and operation of Statistical Analysis Centers (SACs) to collect, analyze, and disseminate justice statistics.

State Library Program
To promote improvement in library services in all types of libraries to better serve the people of the United States. To facilitate access to resources in all types of libraries for the purpose of cultivating an educated and informed citizenry. And...

State Marine Schools
To train future merchant marine officers in State Maritime Schools.

State Mediation Grants
To assist States in establishing and administering mediation programs and services for agricultural producers, creditors of producers (as applicable), and persons directly affected by actions of the Department of Agriculture.

State Medicaid Fraud Control Units
To eliminate fraud and patient abuse in the State Medicaid Programs.

State Memorandum of Agreement Program for the Reimbursement of Technical Services
To reimburse each State and territory for their costs incurred by providing technical services in support of Department of Defense Environmental Restoration Program activities. This program seeks to facilitate State and territory participation in...

State of the Nation
The State of the Nation collection is a comprehensive source of official economic and financial press releases and statistical data prepared by a wide range of Federal government agencies. It is a collection of the information formerly found on the...

State Partnership Grant Program to Improve Minority Health
To facilitate the improvement of minority health and eliminate health disparities (adult/child immunization, asthma, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke, HIV, infant mortality, and mental health) through the development of partnerships with...

State Pharmaceutical Assistance Programs
To provide Federal funding for grants to States with State Pharmaceutical Assistance Programs (SPAPs) for the purpose of educating SPAP participants about Medicare Part D coverage. These funds may also be used to provide technical assistance, phone...

State Planning and Research
To assist in the development of cost effective multimodal transportation improvement programs which include the planning, engineering, and designing of Federal Transit projects, and other technical studies in a program for a unified and officially...

State Planning Grant-health Care Access for the Uninsured
To support States in the development of plans to provide access to health insurance coverage for all citizens.

State Public Water System Supervision
The objective of these grants is to provide financial assistance to eligible States and Tribes (those that have Primary Enforcement Responsibility for the Public Water System Supervision Program, or are developing such a program), for the conduct of...

State Rural Hospital Flexibility Program
The State Rural Hospital Flexibility Program helps States work with rural communities and hospitals to develop and implement a rural health plan, designate critical access hospitals (CAHs), develop integrated networks of care, improve emergency...

State Senior Environmental Employment Program
To use the talents of Americans 55 years of age or older to provide technical assistance to State environmental agencies for projects of pollution prevention, abatement, and control to achieve the Agency's goals of Clean Air; Clean and Safe Water;...

State Survey and Certification of Health Care Providers and Suppliers
To provide financial assistance to any State which is able and willing to determine through its State health agency or other appropriate State agency that providers and suppliers of health care services are in compliance with Federal regulatory...

State Traffic Safety Information System Improvement Grants
Encourage States to adopt and implement effective programs to improve the timeliness, accuracy, completeness, uniformity, integration and accessibility of State data; to evaluate the effectiveness of efforts to make such improvements; to link these...

State Underground Water Source Protection
To foster development and implementation of underground injection control (UIC) programs under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). The objective of the grant program is to provide financial assistance, to eligible States and Tribes, for the...

State Wildlife Grants
This program funds the development and implementation of projects for the benefit of fish and wildlife and their habitats, including species that are not hunted or fished. Priority is placed on projects that benefit species of greatest conservation...

States and Tribal Concerns, Proposed Solutions
To enlist cooperation among the Tribal and the Southern, Western, Northeast, and Midwest state governments along the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) shipping corridors in developing plans and procedures for the safe and uneventful transportation...

Statewide Automated Victim Information Notification (savin) Program
The purpose of the SAVIN grant program is to assist States in building, implementing or improving their statewide automated victim notification system, thereby enabling them to provide critical information to victims in near-real time and to build a...

Statewide Data Systems
These grants are intended to enable State educational agencies to design, develop, and implement statewide, longitudinal data systems to efficiently and accurately manage, analyze, disaggregate, and use individual student data, consistent with the...

Statewide Data Systems, Recovery Act
These grants are intended to enable all States to create comprehensive P-20 systems that permit the generation and use of accurate and timely data, support analysis and informed decision-making at all levels of the education system, increase the...

Steps to Healthier Girls Program
The objectives of the Steps to Healthier Girls Program are to: 1)Increase the number of girls who engage regularly in moderate physical activity, preferably daily, for at least 60 minutes per day; 2) increase girls' knowledge of healthy nutrition...

Stewardship Science Grant Program
(1) To grow the U.S. scientific community through university involvement in areas of fundamental science and technology relevant to stockpile stewardship; (2) to promote and sustain scientific interactions between the academic community and...

Strengthening Minority-serving Institutions
To strengthen Predominantly Black Institutions (PBI); Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISI); and Native American-Serving Non-tribal Institutions (NASNTI) that propose to carry out activities to improve...

Strengthening Public Health Services at the Outreach Offices of the U.s.-mexico Border Health Commission
This initiative addresses and targets outreach and health promotion activities; evaluation and assessments; health data analysis and surveillance; public information, promotion and communication; Healthy Border/Healthy Gente activities; and will...

Strengthening the Management and Services of the Women's and Children's Hospitals In Kabul
The primary goal of this project is to improve the quality of care at health institutions in Afghanistan Hospital by developing effective leadership and management and improving operations. The funding will provide essential material resources...

Striving Readers
To raise student achievement by improving the reading skills of middle and high school students who are reading below grade level. Striving Readers supports the implementation and evaluation of research-based reading interventions for struggling...

Structural Fire Protection-bureau of Indian Affairs Facilities
To provide for the installation of fire protection and prevention equipment in schools, dormitories, detention centers and other BIA facilities.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services - Access to Recovery
To implement voucher programs for substance abuse clinical treatment and recovery support services pursuant to sections 501 (d)(5) and 509 of Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. sections 290aa(d)(5) and 290bb-2). This new program, called Access to...

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services-projects of Regional and National Significance
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA) was reauthorized by the Children's Health Action of 2000, Public law 106-310. Under this reauthorization, SAMHSA was given the authority to address priority substance abuse...

Summer Food Service Program for Children
To assist States, through grants-in-aid and other means, to conduct nonprofit food service programs for low-income children during the summer months and at other approved times, when schools are out of session or are closed for vacation.

Summer Watershed Intern
Over the past ten years, Reclamation Support has created a direct watershed assistance program working with volunteer watershed groups in the Appalachian Coal Country and, more recently, in the Western Hardrock Country. The primary partners are a...

Superfund State and Indian Tribe Core Program Cooperative Agreements
To effectively implement the statutory requirements of CERCLA Section 121(f) for State involvement. To provide funds to conduct CERCLA activities which are not assignable to specific sites, but support a recipient's site-specific response program....

Superfund State, Political Subdivision, and Indian Tribe Site-specific Cooperative Agreements
To (1) conduct site characterization activities at potential or confirmed hazardous waste sites; (2) undertake response planning and implementation actions at sites on the National Priorities List (NPL) to clean up the hazardous waste sites that are...

Superfund Technical Assistance Grants for Citizen Groups at Priority Sites
The statutory authority for this project is CERCLA 117(e) as amended by 42 USC 9617(e); it authorizes Technical Assistance Grants to be awarded to groups of individuals affected by or threatened by a release at a Superfund site so that they can...

Supervised Visitation, Safe Havens for Children
To provide an opportunity for communities to support supervised visitation and safe exchange of children, in situations involving domestic violence, dating violence, child abuse, sexual assault, or stalking.

Supplemental Loan Insurance-multifamily Rental Housing
To provide quality rental housing for the elderly.

Supplemental Security Income
To ensure a minimum level of income to persons who have attained age 65 or are blind or disabled, and whose income and resources are below specified levels.

Supplementary Training
To train seafarers in shipboard fire fighting, and other such essential subjects related to safety and operations where this training is not or cannot be provided by the industry directly. Maritime defense and intermodal freight transportation...

Support for Adam Walsh Act Implementation Grant Program
To assist State, local, and tribal jurisdictions with developing and/or enhancing programs designed to implement requirements of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) under AWA and to support the maintenance and operation of the...

Support Mechanisms for Disadvantaged Businesses
To develop support mechanisms, including liaison and assistance programs, that will provide outreach and referrals for technical assistance to small disadvantaged business enterprises (DBEs) to successfully compete on transportation-related...

Supported Employment Services for Individuals with Severe Disabilities
To provide grants for time limited services leading to supported employment for individuals with the most severe disabilities to enable such individuals to achieve the employment outcome of supported employment.

Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities
To expand the supply of supportive housing for very low-income persons with disabilities.

Supportive Housing for the Elderly
To expand the supply of housing with supportive services for the very low income elderly, including the frail elderly.

Supportive Housing Program
The Supportive Housing Program is designed to promote the development of supportive housing and supportive services to assist homeless individuals and families in the transition from homelessness and to enable them to live as independently as...

Surface Transportation - Discretionary Grants for Capital Investment
The purposes of the Recovery Act include, among other things: (i) to preserve and create jobs and promote economic recovery and (ii) to invest in transportation infrastructure that will provide long-term economic benefits. The Act requires that...

Surplus Property Utilization
To convey or lease all surplus Federal real properties made available by the disposal agency which are needed and usable by eligible organizations and institutions to carry out health programs, including homeless assistance programs.

Surveillance of Hazardous Substance Emergency Events
To assist State health departments in developing a State-based surveillance system for monitoring hazardous substance emergency events. This surveillance system will allow the State health department to better understand the public health impact of...

Surveys Studies, Investigations Demonstrations and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act
To support Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations and Special Purpose assistance relating to the causes, effects (including health and welfare effects), extent, prevention, and control of air pollution to include such topics as...

Surveys, Studies, Demonstrations and Special Purpose-section 1442 of the Safe Drinking Water Act
(1) To support surveys, studies, investigations, demonstrations, and training associated with source water and drinking water; (2) To develop and expand capabilities of programs to carry out the purposes of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). ...

Surveys, Studies, Investigations and Special Purpose Activities Relating to Environmental Justice
The program's mission/objective is to provide funding in support of surveys, studies and investigations, and special purpose assistance programs as they relate to environmental and/or public health issues, with a particular emphasis on environmental...

Surveys, Studies, Investigations and Special Purpose Grants
To support surveys, studies and investigations, and special purpose assistance for the award of multimedia grants. Multimedia grants are assistance agreements that are awarded citing two or more environmental law statutes, appropriation legislation,...

Surveys, Studies, Investigations and Special Purpose Grants Within the Office of Research and Development
To (1) support surveys, studies and investigations and special purpose assistance to determine the environmental effects of air quality, drinking water, water quality, hazardous waste, toxic substances, and pesticides (2) identify, develop, and...

Surveys, Studies, Investigations and Special Purpose Grants Within the Office of the Administrator
(1) To support surveys, studies, investigations, and special purpose assistance associated with air quality, acid deposition, drinking water, water quality, hazardous waste, toxic substances, and pesticides; (2) to identify, develop, and demonstrate...

Surveys, Studies, Investigations, Demonstrations and Training Grants and Cooperative Agreements-section 1442 of the Clean Water Act
To support the coordination and acceleration of research, investigations, experiments, training, demonstrations, surveys, and studies relating to the causes, effects (including health and welfare effects), extent, prevention, reduction, and...

Surveys, Studies, Investigations, Training Demonstrations and Educational Outreach Related to Environmental Information and the Release of Toxic Chemicals
The program's objective is to provide funding in support of surveys, studies, investigations, training/demonstrations, educational outreach and special purpose assistance as they relate to environmental information and the release of toxic...

Surveys, Studies, Investigations, Training Demonstrations Andeducationaloutreach
Grants are awarded to support Research, Development, Monitoring, Public Education, Training, Demonstrations, and Studies assistance relating to the protection of public health and the environment from pesticides and potential risk from toxic...

Surveys, Studies, Investigations, Training, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Grants for Epa Region 10 Regional Geographic Initiative
To support investigations, experiments, training, demonstrations, surveys, studies, research and special purpose assistance to protect public health and prevent, reduce, and eliminate pollution in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and/or Washington. Projects...

Surveys, Studies, Investigations, Training, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Grants for Regional Geographic Initiatives
Regional Geographic Initiatives (RGI) is a unique funding source that supports Regional strategic priorities and environmental risks that are not addressed wholly or in part by existing national environmental programs. Funding Priority - Fiscal Year...

Survivors and Dependents Educational Assistance
To provide educational opportunities to the dependents of certain disabled and deceased veterans.

Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education
The purpose of the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SARE) program is to encourage research designed to increase our knowledge concerning agricultural production systems that: (1) maintain and enhance the quality and...

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Targeted Watershed Initiative
To support innovative, community-based watershed approaches aimed at preventing, reducing, or eliminating water pollution. The Targeted Watersheds Grant Program provides resources in the form of grants or cooperative agreements to support watershed...

Tax Counseling for the Elderly
To authorize the Internal Revenue Service to enter into agreements with private or public nonprofit agencies or organizations; to establish a network of trained volunteers to provide free income tax information and return preparation assistance to...

Tax Credit Assistance Program (recovery Act Funded)
Provide additional funding for capital investment in low-income housing tax credit projects.

Taxpayer Service
To assist taxpayers and taxpayer organizations in locating services and Federal tax information established by the Federal tax system.

Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education Grants (teach Grants)
To provide annual grants of up to $4,000 to eligible undergraduate and graduate students who agree to teach specified high-need subjects at schools serving primarily disadvantaged populations for four years within eight years of graduation. For...

Teacher Exchange-new Independent States (nis)
To improve and strengthen international relations of the United States by promoting better mutual understanding among the peoples of the U.S. and New Independent States (NIS) through teacher exchange.

Teacher Incentive Fund
To support programs that develop and implement performance-based teacher and principal compensation systems in high-need schools that include gains in student academic achievement as well as classroom evaluations conducted multiple times during each...

Teacher Incentive Fund, Recovery Act
To support projects that develop and implement performance-based teacher and principal compensation systems in high-need schools that must include gains in student academic achievement as well as classroom evaluations conducted multiple times during...

Teacher next Door Initiative
The program is designed to strengthen America's communities by encouraging public and private school teachers to live in low and moderate income neighborhoods.

Teacher Quality Enhancement Grants
To improve student achievement; improve the quality of new and prospective teachers by improving the preparation of prospective teachers and enhancing professional development activities for new teachers; hold teacher preparation programs at...

Teacher Quality Partnerships, Recovery Act
The Teacher Quality Partnership Program seeks to improve student achievement, improve the quality of prospective and new teachers working in high need local educational agencies (LEAs) and high need schools, hold teacher preparation programs...

Team Nutrition Grants
Team Nutrition Training Grants for Healthy School Meals have been identified in USDA's national Strategic Plan for Training and Technical Assistance as one of the anchor delivery systems for supporting the implementation of USDA's nutrition...

Tech-prep Demonstration Grants
To award demonstration grants to eligible consortia to carry out tech-prep programs at secondary schools located on the sites of community colleges.

Tech-prep Education
This program provides assistance to states to award grants to consortia of local agencies and postsecondary education institutions for the development and operation ofprograms consisting of the last two years of secondary education and at least two...

Technical Agricultural Assistance
To identify and apply the most appropriate solutions to international agricultural problems and increase the capabilities of U.S. educational institutions and nonprofit agencies in agricultural technical assistance and research.

Technical and Non-financial Assistance to Health Centers and National Health Service Corps (nhsc) Delivery Sites
To provide necessary technical and non-financial assistance to potential and existing health centers, including: 1) training and assistance in fiscal and program management (program requirements); 2) operational and administrative support...

Technical and Supervisory Assistance Grants
To assist low-income rural families in obtaining adequate housing to meet their family's needs and/or to provide the necessary guidance to promote their continued occupancy of already adequate housing. These objectives will be accomplished through...

Technical Assistance and Provision for Foreign Hospitals and Health Organizations
To provide support for a quality of care improvement project based in a partner healthcare institution in Afghanistan, to provide continuing education and refresher training to physicians and other staff at Women's and Children's hospitals and other...

Technical Assistance and Training Grants
To identify and evaluate solutions to water and waste disposal problems in rural areas; to assist applicants in preparing applications made in accordance with 7 CFR 1780; to improve operation and maintenance of water and waste disposal facilities in...

Technical Assistance and Training Initiative
To provide communities with critical resources that help them forge partnerships across agencies and disciplines to respond effectively to violent crimes against women. OVW's Technical Assistance Program was created to provide grantees with the...

Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops Program
The Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops Program is designed to assist U.S. organizations by providing funding for projects that address sanitary, phytosanitary, and technical barriers that prohibit or threaten the export of U.S. specialty...

Technical Assistance Grants
Development of engineering and other scientific analysis of pipeline safety issues, including the promotion of public participation in official proceedings.

Technical Assistance to Cooperatives
To develop and administer research, technical assistance, statistical, and educational programs on finances, organization, management, legal, social, and economic aspects of rural cooperatives, focusing on farmer cooperatives.

Technical Preservation Services
To establish technical preservation policies and standards and to develop technical information for the treatment of historic properties. This includes development and distribution of the &quot;Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Historic...

Technology Development Grant
To enhance the prominence of underground facility construction design, management, and emerging technologies that will facilitate the prevention of pipeline damage caused by demolition, excavation, tunneling, or construction activities.

Technology Innovation Program (tip)
Technology Innovation Program (TIP), is a cost-shared federal financial assistance program to support, promote, and accelerate innovation in the United States through high-risk, high-reward research in areas of critical national need.

Technology Marketing Unit
Increase the amount of biomass used from the National Forest and associated lands involved with hazardous fuel reduction activities. The program will is designed to assist small forest products businesses, State, local and Tribal governments,...

Technology Opportunities
To promote the widespread use and availability of advanced telecommunications and information technologies in the public and nonprofit sectors. The program provides matching grants for model projects that demonstrate innovative uses of network...

Technology Transfer
To insure that technologies resulting from Government-sponsored civilian aerospace research and development are made available to the widest extent practicable and appropriate for the Nation's benefit.

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
To provide grants to States, Territories, the District of Columbia, and Federally-recognized Indian Tribes operating their own Tribal TANF programs to assist needy families with children so that children can be cared for in their own homes; to...

Temporary Labor Certification for Foreign Workers
To provide greater protection for U.S. and foreign workers while assisting U.S. employers to obtain temporary foreign workers, when needed. Also, to enable agricultural and other employers to obtain foreign workers for temporary or seasonal jobs...

The Rural Development (rd) Multi-family Housing Revitalization Demonstration Program (mpr)
To preserve and revitalize existing rural rental housing and farm labor housing projects financed by RHS under Section 515 and Sections 514/516 of the Housing Act of 1949 and to ensure that sufficient resources are available in order to continue to...

Thermal Imaging Inspection System Demonstration Project
The Secretary of Transportation shall carry out a demonstration project that uses a thermal imaging inspection system (TIIS) that leverages state-of-the-art thermal imagery technology, integrated with signature recognition software, providing the...

Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship Program
As authorized by authorizations stated above-the The Pickering Program has an undergraduate and graduate component. Both programs have a common purpose - to attract outstanding students who represent all ethnic and social backgrounds, who have an...

Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies
To help local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools improve the teaching and learning of children failing, or most at-risk of failing, to meet challenging State academic achievement standards.

Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies, Recovery Act
To help local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools improve the teaching and learning of children failing, or most at-risk of failing, to meet challenging State academic achievement standards.

Title I Program for Neglected and Delinquent Children
To help provide education continuity for children and youth in State-run institutions for juveniles and in adult correctional institutions, so that these youth can make successful transitions to school or employment once they are released.

Title V-delinquency Prevention Program
To increase the capacity of State and local governments to support the development of more effective prevention programs to improve the juvenile justice system through risk and protective factor focused programming approach.

Title Vi Federal Guarantees for Financing Tribal Housing Activities
To assist an Indian tribe or Tribally Designated Housing Entity (TDHE) to obtain financing for affordable housing activities under Title II of NAHASDA where an obligation cannot be completed without such guarantee.

Tobacco Loss Assistance Program
This program defrays tobacco production costs and enhances producers and quota-holders solvency. In the short-term, the cost to the government roughly equals the benefits paid to the tobacco producers. In the long-term, to the extent that these...

Tobacco Transition Payment Program
The Fair and Equitable Tobacco Reform Act of 2004 repeals the federal tobacco price support/production control program, provides compensation payments to tobacco quota owners for the elimination of their government-created asset (quota), and...

Toxic Substances Compliance Monitoring Cooperative Agreements
To 1) To assist States, territories and possessions of the U.S. including the District of Columbia, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and Indian Tribes in developing and maintaining compliance monitoring programs to prevent or eliminate unreasonable...

Trade Adjustment Assistance
Under the program, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) provides technical assistance and cash benefits to eligible farmers and fishermen if increased imports have contributed importantly to a price decline of at least 20 percent. Technical...

Trade Adjustment Assistance
To provide trade adjustment assistance to firms and industries adversely affected by increased imports.

Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers Training Coordination Program (taaf)
The purpose of the TAAF program is to provide U.S. agricultural producers whose commodities have been certified as affected by imports, and who have been approved through individual application, with the knowledge, skills and tools needed to make...

Trade Adjustment Assistance-workers
To provide adjustment assistance to qualified workers adversely affected by foreign trade which will assist them to obtain suitable employment.

Trade Development
To foster the competitiveness and growth of U.S. industries and promote their increased participation in international markets.

Training and Fellowships for the Environmental Protection Agency
Assistance agreements are awarded (1) to support students through traineeships for occupational and professional training; and (2) to develop career-oriented personnel qualified to work in occupations involving environmental protection and pollution...

Training and Technical Assistance
To provide training and technical assistance to national service programs supported by the Corporation for National Service, as well as to State Commissions or alternative entities.

Training Grants to Stop Abuse and Sexual Assault of Older Individuals or Individuals with Disabilities
To provide training, services, and collaboration to address the needs of victims of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation, including domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, who are 50 years of age or older.

Training Interpreters for Individuals Who are Deaf and Individuals Who are Deaf-blind
To support projects that increase the numbers and improve the skills of manual, oral, and cued speech interpreters providing services to individuals who are deaf and individuals who are deaf-blind.

Training Resource and Data Exchange (trade)
Support the national exchange and sharing of fire/emergency service training related materials and information.

Training, Investigations, and Special Purpose Activities of Federally-recognized Indian Tribes Consistent with the Clean Air Act (caa), Tribal Sovereignty and the Protection and Management of Air Quality
To support Federally-recognized Indian Tribes' efforts to understand, assess and characterize air quality; design methods and plans to protect and improve air quality on tribal lands through surveys, studies, research, training, investigations, and...

Trans-nih Recovery Act Loan Repayment Support
To provide support for NIH loan repayment initiatives funded under The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). Initiatives will attract and retain health professionals performing research in fields required by the NIH to carry out...

Trans-nih Recovery Act Research Support
To provide support for initiatives funded under The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). These projects will provide economic stimulus to the nation while furthering the NIH mission to uncover new knowledge that will lead to...

Trans-nih Research Support
To provide support for new initiatives designed to address major opportunities and gaps in biomedical research that no single NIH institute could address alone, but which the agency as a whole can pursue to stimulate the progress of biomedical...

Trans-nsf Recovery Act Research Support
To provide support for projects/initiatives funded under The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). These projects will provide economic stimulus to the nation while furthering the NSF mission to promote the progress of science;...

Transit Planning and Research
The Federal Transit Administration's research program seeks to deliver solutions that improve public transportation. Its primary goals are to increase transit ridership, improve safety and emergency preparedness, improve capital operating...

Transition Assistance Program
To provide employment instruction, information and assistance to separating and retiring military personnel and their spouses through domestic and overseas installations and or facilities by offering job search and other related services.

Transition to Teaching
To recruit and retrain highly qualified midcareer professionals (including highly qualified paraprofessionals) and recent graduates of institutions of higher education, as teachers in high-need schools, including recruiting teachers through...

Transitional Housing Assistance for Victims of Domestic Violence, Stalking, or Sexual Assault
To provide transitional housing assistance and related support services to minors, adults, and their dependents who are homeless, or in need of transitional housing or other housing assistance, as a result of fleeing a situation of domestic...

Transitional Living for Homeless Youth
The overall purpose of the Transitional Living Program (TLP) for Homeless Youth and the Maternity Group Homes (MGH) is to establish and operate transitional living projects for homeless youth, including pregnant and parenting youth. This program is...

Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (tifai) Program
To finance projects of national or regional significance by filling market gaps and leveraging substantial non-Federal and private co-investment. TIFIA credit assistance is intended to facilitate the financing of projects that would otherwise have...

Transportation Planning, Research and Education
To provide funds to conduct research and development on transportation and transportation inter-modal systems and related issues.

Transportation Services
The Transportation Services program develops and promotes efficient agriculture transportation systems to help improve farm income, expand exports and meet the needs of rural America. The program provides technical and administrative direction,...

Transportation Statistics Research Grants
To support development of the field of transportation statistics and advance research.

Transportation-consumer Affairs
To improve service provided to the public by U.S. and foreign air carriers.

Traumatic Brain Injury-state Demonstration Grant Program
To improve access to health and other services for individuals with TBI and their families.

Tree Assistance Program
This program provides assistance to tree, bush and vine owners who have trees, bushes or vines lost by a natural disaster. The statute authorizes payments only for eligible owners who actually replant or rehabilitate eligible trees, bushes and vines...

Tribal Colleges and Universities Program
To assist Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCU) build, expand, renovate, and equip their own facilities, and to expand the role of the TCUs into the community through the provision of needed services such as health programs, job training, and...

Tribal Colleges Education Equity Grants
To enhance educational opportunities at the 30 Tribal Colleges designated as the 1994 Land-Grant Institutions by strengthening their teaching programs in the food and agricultural sciences in targeted need areas.

Tribal Colleges Endowment Program
To enhance educational opportunities at the 30 Tribal colleges designated as the 1994 Land-Grant Institutions by strengthening their teaching programs in the food and agricultural sciences in targeted need areas.

Tribal Colleges-entrepreneurial Training and Technical Assistance
To support Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) in advancing the development of human potential by providing quality educational experiences, training and employment opportunities to minority students interested in transportation-related careers,...

Tribal Court Assistance Program
To assist tribal governments in the development, enhancement, and continuing operation of tribal judicial systems, including inter-tribal court systems.

Tribal Courts
To provide funds to Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments to operate a judicial branch of government.

Tribal Courts-trust Reform Initiative
To provide grant funds to Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments that operate a judicial branch of government which has assumed the increased responsibilities required by 25 CFR Part 115--Trust Funds for Individual Indians Money accounts.

Tribal Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Coalitions Program
To increase awareness of domestic violence and sexual assault against American Indian and Alaska Native women; enhancing the response to violence against American Indian and Alaska Native women at the tribal, Federal, and State levels; identifying...

Tribal Energy Development Capacity Grants
To provide development grants to Indian tribes for use in developing and sustaining the managerial and technical capacity needed to develop their energy resources, and to properly account for resulting energy production and revenues. Proposals from...

Tribal Hazardous Waste Grants
The purpose of the Hazardous Waste Management Grant Program for Tribes is to provide financial assistance to Tribal governments and Tribal Consortia for the development and implementation of hazardous waste programs; for building capacity to improve...

Tribal Landowner Incentive Program
To establish or supplement existing programs that provide technical or financial assistance including habitat protection and restoration, to Federally recognized Indian tribes for the protection and management of habitat to benefit Federally listed,...

Tribal Recruitment and Retention of Health Professionals into Indian Health Programs
To make financial assistance awards to Indian tribes and tribal and Indian health organizations to enable them to recruit, place, and retain health professionals to fill critical vacancies and to meet the staffing needs of Indian health programs and...

Tribal Registry
To develop and maintain a national tribal sex offender registry and a tribal protection order registry containing civil and criminal orders of protection issued by Indian tribes and participating jurisdictions.

Tribal Self-governance
To further the goals of Indian Self-Determination by providing funds to Indian tribes to administer a wide range of programs with broad administrative and programmatic flexibility.

Tribal Self-governance Demonstration Program: Planning and Negotiation Cooperative Agreements and Ihs Compacts
To make financial assistance awards to Indian tribes to enable them to assume programs, functions, services, and activities (PFSA) with respect to which Indian tribes or Indians are primary or significant beneficiaries, administered by the...

Tribal Self-governance Program: Planning and Negotiation Cooperative Agreement
To make financial assistance awards to Indian tribes to enable them to assume programs, functions, services, and activities (PFSA) with respect to which Indian tribes or Indians are primary or significant beneficiaries, administered by the...

Tribal Wildlife Grants Program
To develop and implement programs for the benefit of wildlife and their habitat, including species that are not hunted or fished.

Tribal Work Grants
To allow eligible Indian Tribes and Alaska Native organizations to operate a program to make work activities available.

Tribal Youth Program
To support and enhance tribal efforts for comprehensive delinquency prevention, control, and juvenile justice system improvement for Native American youth.

Tribally Controlled Community College Endowments
To provide grants to establish endowments for the Tribally Controlled Community Colleges.

Tribally Controlled Postsecondary Vocational and Technical Institutions
To make grants to tribally controlled postsecondary vocational and technical institutions to provide career and technical education services and basic support for the education and training of Indian students.

Trio-dissemination Partnership Grants
To enable TRIO projects to work with other institutions and agencies, that are serving low-income and first- generation college students but do not have TRIO grants, to expand and leverage the success of these institutions and agencies, in...

Trio-educational Opportunity Centers
To provide information on financial and academic assistance available for qualified adults desiring to pursue a program of postsecondary education and to assist them in applying for admission to institutions of postsecondary education.

Trio-mcnair Post-baccalaureate Achievement
To provide grants for institutions of higher education to prepare participants for doctoral studies through involvement in research and other scholarly activities. Participants are from disadvantaged backgrounds and have demonstrated strong academic...

Trio-student Support Services
To provide supportive services to disadvantaged college students to enhance their potential for successfully completing the postsecondary education program in which they are enrolled and increase their transfer rates from 2-year to 4-year...

Trio-talent Search
To identify qualified disadvantaged youths with potential for postsecondary education; to encourage them in continuing in and graduating from secondary school and in enrolling in programs of postsecondary education; to publicize the availability of...

Trio-upward Bound
To generate skills and motivation necessary for success in education beyond high school among low-income and potential first-generation college students and veterans. The goal of the program is to increase the academic performance and motivational...

Troops to Cops
Troops to COPS grants are designed to encourage the hiring of recently separated members of the armed forces to serve as law enforcement officers. Grants are to be used by law enforcement agencies for expenses associated with the hiring of new...

Truck Security Program
In FY 2009 the focus is on the adoption and implementation of the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) voluntary security action items for transporting Tier I Security Sensative materials; development of plans to improve effectiveness of...

Tsa Airport Checked Baggage Inspection System Program - (arra)
The TSA Electronic Baggage System Program (EBSP) is responsible for the deployment and installation of Explosive Detection Systems (EDS) at airports across the nation. EBSP provides support to U.S. commercial airports in implementing and...

Tsca Title Iv State Lead Grants Certification of Lead-based Paint Professionals
The goal of EPA's lead-based paint program is to eliminate childhood lead poisoning by 2010. The program is comprised of four strategies designed to achieve the following goals: 1) Establish standards to define where lead hazards are present in...

Tuberculosis Demonstration, Research, Public and Professional Education
To assist States, political subdivisions of States, and other public and nonprofit private entities in conducting research into prevention and control of tuberculosis nationally and internationally, especially in conducting demonstration projects...

Tv Converter Box Coupon Program
After February 17, 2009, all full-power television stations will broadcast only in digital. If you use &quot;rabbit ears&quot; or a rooftop antenna with your analog television set, you must take some action to continue receiving television...

Tv Converter Box Coupon Program Consumer Education and Technical Assistance
This funding will help educate the public about the digital television transition and the availability of $40 coupons that are available toward the purchase of a digtial TV converter box for analog television sets. Funds are also available to...

Twenty-first Century Community Learning Centers
To create community learning centers that provide academic enrichment opportunities for children, particularly students who attend high-poverty and low-performing schools. The program is intended to help students meet state and local student...