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U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Nuclear Education Grant Program
To provide assistance to colleges and universities in support of courses, studies, training, curricula, and disciplines relevant to nuclear safety, security, environmental protection, or any other field that the Commission determines to be critical...
U.s. Geological Survey-research and Data Acquisition
To support research complementary to USGS program efforts in classification of the public lands and examination of the geological structure, water, mineral, and biological resources, and products of the national domain. This entry covers a variety...
To educate and train merchant marine officers.
U.s. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Minority Serving Institutions Program (msip)
To fund minority serving programs and activities, projects, symposiums, and training for the exchange and transfer of knowledge and skills relevant to nuclear safety, security, environmental protection, or any other fields the Commission deems...
U.s. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Research Financial Assistance Program
The Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research (RES) furthers the regulatory mission of the NRC by providing technical advice, technical tools and information for identifying and resolving safety issues, making regulatory decisions, and promulgating...
U.s. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Scholarship and Fellowship Program
This Scholarship and Fellowship program provides funding for undergraduate scholarships, graduate fellowships, trade school and community college scholarships, and faculty development grants. The program allows students to pursue an education in...
To provide temporary assistance, care, and treatment to eligible US citizens and their dependents after their return to the United States from travel in a foreign country due to physical or mental illness, destitution, war, threat of war, or a...
Unaccompanied Alien Children Program
The Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) program was transferred to ORR from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on March 1, 2003, pursuant to section 462 of the Homeland Security Act. The program is designed to provide for the care and...
To provide grants and cooperative agreements for biological, economic, sociological, public policy, and other research and administration projects to benefit U.S. fisheries industries and contribute to the economic and social welfare of the Nation;...
Projects provide economic, sociological, public policy, and other information needed by Federal and State natural resource administrators for conserving and managing fishery resources and protected species and their environment in Federal, State,...
To provide grants and cooperative agreements of biological, socio-economic and physical science research on the stocks of fishery and protected resources of the United States and their environment that will contribute to their optimal management for...
Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Programs
The Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program issues awards to institutions of higher education and public and nonprofit private agencies and organizations. The purpose of the awards is to: (1) Assist institutions of higher...
Undergraduate Scholarship Program for Individuals from Disadvantaged Backgrounds
To provide service-conditioned scholarships to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds who agree to pursue undergraduate education at accredited institutions. Individuals must pursue a course of academic study which prepares them for professions...
Underground Railroad Educational and Cultural Program
To provide grants to nonprofit education organizations that are established to research, display, interpret and collect artifacts relating to the history of the underground railroad.
To place man safely undersea to conduct research in support of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and national science requirements.
Undesirable/noxious Plant Species
To encourage coordination and integration of efforts between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and interested parties to accomplish successful management of undesirable plant species. Projects must conserve, protect, and enhance fish,...
To administer a program of unemployment insurance for eligible workers through Federal and State cooperation; to administer payment of trade adjustment assistance, alternative trade adjustment assistance, disaster unemployment assistance,...
Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights
To protect and facilitate the smooth and prompt reemployment of members of the uniformed services (to include National Guard and Reserves) following performance of qualifying service. Also, to prohibit discrimination in employment and acts of...
Universal Newborn Hearing Screening
This program supports state programs for reducing the loss to follow-up of infants who have not passed a physiologic newborn hearing screening examination prior to discharge from the newborn nursery. Although more than 95% of newborns are screened...
Universities Rebuilding America Program - Community Design
To provide funds to schools of architecture, urban planning and design, or construction at accredited two- and four-year colleges and universities to establish and operate partnerships with and for communities affected by Hurricanes Katrina or Rita...
University Centers for Excellence In Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service
To pay the Federal share of the cost of administration and operation of interdisciplinary centers that: (1) Provide interdisciplinary training for personnel concerned with developmental disabilities; (2) provide community service activities that...
To improve scientific and technical understanding of the chemistry and physics involved in the conversion and utilization of coal. The primary objective is to fund long-term, high-risk, meritorious fundamental research for the advancement of science...
University Nuclear Science and Reactor Support
To provide financial support for research design, analysis, and assessments in science and technology in fields related to nuclear energy.
University Transportation Centers
To provide grants to nonprofit institutions of higher learning for the purpose of establishing and operating university transportation centers that conduct research, education, and technology transfer programs addressing regional and national...
University Transportation Centers Program
To provide grants to nonprofit institutions of higher learning for the purpose of establishing and operating university transportation centers that conduct research, education and technology transfer programs concerning regional and national...
Unresolved Indian Hunting and Fishing Rights
To assist tribes in clarifying and defining their off-reservation hunting and fishing rights.
The Institute supports research, education, training and dialogue programs in the United States and abroad on international peace and conflict resolution.
Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins Endangered Fish Recovery Programs
To authorize the Bureau of Reclamation to provide cost sharing for the endangered fish recovery implementation programs for the Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins.
Upper Colorado River Basin Fish and Wildlife Mitigation Program.
To protect, restore and enhance wetland and upland ecosystems for the conservation of fish and wildlife resources in the upper Colorado River basin. For ARRA funded projects and in addition to the program objectives above, the section 3 of the ARRA...
Upper Mississippi River System Long Term Resource Monitoring Program
To provide decision makers with information needed to maintain the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS) as a sustainable large river ecosystem given its multiple-use character. Congress has declared the UMRS to be both a nationally significant...
Urban and Community Forestry Program
To plan for, establish, manage and protect trees, forests, green spaces and related natural resources in and adjacent to cities and towns. The urban forestry program provides ecosystem services, social and economic benefits and links governmental,...
Urban Areas Security Initiative
To support the unique multi-discipline planning, operations, equipment, training, and exercise needs of high threat, high density Urban Areas, and to assist them in building and sustaining capabilities to prevent, protect against, respond to, and...
To provide health-related services to Urban Indians including: (1) Alcohol and substance abuse prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and education; (2) mental health needs assessment and services; (3) health promotion and disease prevention...
Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Program
To provide Federal grants to local governments for the rehabilitation of recreation areas and facilities, demonstration of innovative approaches to improve park system management and recreation opportunities, and development of improved recreation...
Initial reception and placement program for refugees approved for admission in the United States. Program objectives include: (1) arranging for refugees' placement by ensuring that approved refugees are sponsored and offered appropriate assistance...
Usaid Development Partnerships for University Cooperation and Development
The purpose of the program is to support and advance the achievement of USAID's strategic objectives through the application of higher education resources, talents and expertise.
Usaid Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas
The Foreign Assistance Program works to support long-term and equitable economic growth and advance U.S. foreign policy objectives by supporting economic growth, agriculture and trade; global health; and democracy, conflict prevention and...
Used Energy-related Laboratory Equipment Grants
To assist United States institutions of higher education in equipping their science and engineering laboratories for energy-related research and/or instructional purposes.
Va Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program
To assist public and nonprofit private entities in establishing new programs and service centers to furnish supportive services and supportive housing for homeless veterans through grants that may be used to acquire, renovate or alter facilities,...
To assist eligible independent agricultural commodity producers, agriculture producer groups, farmer and rancher cooperatives, and majority-controlled producer-based businesses in developing strategies and business plans to further refine or enhance...
Very Low to Moderate Income Housing Loans
To assist very low, low-income, and moderate-income households to obtain modest, decent, safe, and sanitary housing for use as a permanent residence in rural areas.
Very Low to Moderate Income Housing Loans
To assist very low, low income, and moderate-income households to obtain modest, decent, safe, and sanitary housing for use as a permanent residence in rural areas.
Very Low to Moderate Income Housing Loans
To assist very low, low-income, and moderate-income households to obtain modest, decent, safe, and sanitary housing for use as a permanent residence in rural areas.
Very Low-income Housing Repair Loans and Grants
Section 504 loans and grants are intended to help very low-income owner-occupants in rural areas repair their properties.
Vessel Hull Design Protection Service
To administer the Vessel Hull Design Protection Act of 1998; to examine and decide the acceptability of all applications and identifying material for registration of claims of protection; to establish by regulation the fees for filing of...
Veteran's Preference In Federal Employment
To provide assistance to preference eligible individuals who believe that their rights under veterans' preference statutes and regulations have been violated. Recognizing their sacrifice, Congress enacted laws to prevent veterans seeking Federal...
Veterans Compensation for Service-connected Disability
To compensate veterans for disabilities incurred or aggravated during military service according to the average impairment in earning capacity such disability would cause in civilian occupations.
To provide dental services.
Veterans Dependency and Indemnity Compensation for Service-connected Death
To compensate surviving spouses, children and parents for the death of any veteran who died because of a service-connected disability, or while in the active military, naval or air service.
To provide the least intensive level of inpatient care for ambulatory veterans disabled by age or illness who are not in need of more acute hospitalization and who do not need the skilled nursing services provided in nursing homes. To rehabilitate...
Veterans Entrepreneurial Training and Counseling
To provide long term training, counseling, and mentoring to benefit small business concerns and potential small business concerns owned and controlled by eligible veterans. Eligible veterans means (A) A veteran who is entitled to...
Veterans Home Based Primary Care
To provide primary health care in the home, through a VA interdisciplinary team, to homebound and often bedridden eligible veterans whose caregivers are capable and willing to assist in their care.
Veterans Housing-direct Loans for Certain Disabled Veterans
To provide veterans who are eligible for a Specially Adapted Housing grant with loan directly from the VA in certain circumstances.
Veterans Housing-guaranteed and Insured Loans
To assist veterans, certain service personnel, and certain unmarried surviving spouses of veterans, in obtaining credit for the purchase, construction or improvement of homes on more liberal terms than are generally available to non-veterans.
Veterans Housing-manufactured Home Loans
To assist veterans, servicepersons, and certain unmarried surviving spouses of veterans in obtaining credit for the purchase of a manufactured home on more liberal terms than are available to non-veterans.
Veterans Information and Assistance
To provide all necessary information and assistance to potential claimants and other interested parties about veterans benefits and to provide locations within each State where this assistance can be obtained.
Veterans Medical Care Benefits
To provide outpatient medical services, hospital care, medicines and supplies to eligible veterans in receipt of VA health care.
To accommodate eligible veterans who are not acutely ill and not in need of hospital care, but who require skilled nursing care, related medical services, supportive personal care, and individual adjustment services (including social, divers ional,...
To provide eligible veterans and certain dependents and survivors of veterans with prescription drugs and expendable medical supplies from VA pharmacies upon presentation of prescription(s) from a VA provider or VA authorized provider.
Veterans Prosthetic Appliances
To provide, through purchase and/or fabrication, prosthetic and related appliances, equipment and services to eligible veterans so that they may live and work as productive citizens.
Veterans Rehabilitation-alcohol and Drug Dependence
To provide medical, social, vocational and rehabilitation therapies to eligible alcohol and drug dependent veterans.
Veterans State Adult Day Health Care
To provide a community-based program designed to meet the needs of adults with impairments through individual plans of care. This type of structured, comprehensive, nonresidential program provides a variety of health, social, and related support...
Veterans State Domiciliary Care
To provide financial assistance to States furnishing domiciliary care to eligible veterans in State Veterans' Homes which meet the standards prescribed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
To provide financial assistance to States furnishing hospital care to eligible veterans in State veterans' homes which meet the standards prescribed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Veterans State Nursing Home Care
To provide financial assistance to States furnishing nursing home care to eligible veterans in State Veterans' Homes which meet the standards prescribed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
To provide services to assist in reintegrating eligible veterans into meaningful employment within the labor force; and to stimulate the development of effective service delivery systems that will address the complex problems facing eligible...
To develop model technical assistance and training programs to improve the courts' handling of child abuse and neglect cases to facilitate the adoption of laws to protect children against the potential second assault of the courtroom proceeding; to...
Violence against Women Act Court Training and Improvement Grants
To improve court responses to adult and youth domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
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.
Violence against Women Formula Grants
To assist States, Indian tribal governments, tribal courts, State and local courts, and units of local government to develop and strengthen effective law enforcement and prosecution strategies to combat violent crimes against women, and develop and...
Violent Offender Incarceration and Truth In Sentencing Incentive Grants
To provide funds to individual States and States organized as regional compacts to build or expand 1) correctional facilities to increase the bed capacity for the confinement of Part 1 violent offenders; 2) temporary or permanent correctional...
To support eye and vision research projects that address the leading causes of blindness and impaired vision in the U.S. These include retinal diseases; corneal diseases; cataract; glaucoma and optic neuropathies; strabismus; amblyopia; and low...
Visitor Facility Enhancements - Vehicle Pullouts, Interpretive Trails, and Kiosks
To encourage partnerships with interested parties to enhance wildlife viewing opportunities for the public. Projects must conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife and plants for the continuing benefit of the American people.
Vital Statistics Re-engineering Program. Federal Agency
The purpose of this Program is to improve the timeliness, quality and sustainability of the de-centralized vital statistics system by adopting nationally-developed, consensus standards and guidelines; by actively working with states to re-engineer...
Vocational and Educational Counseling for Servicemembers and Veterans
To offer vocational and educational counseling to servicemembers within 180 days of their projected discharge or release from active duty and to veterans within one year from the date of their discharge or release from active duty. This counseling...
Vocational Education-basic Grants to States
To develop more fully the academic, career, and technical skills of secondary and postsecondary students who elect to enroll in career and technical education programs.
Vocational Education-indians Set-aside
To make grants to or enter into contracts with Indian tribes, tribal organizations and Alaska Native entities to plan, conduct, and administer programs or portions of programs authorized by and consistent with the Carl D. Perkins Career and...
Vocational Education-national Centers for Career and Technical Education
To provide support research, development, demonstration, dissemination, evaluation, and assessment activities aimed at improving the quality and effectiveness of career and technical education.
Vocational Education-occupational and Employment Information State Grants
To promote improved career and education decision making by individuals.
Vocational Rehabilitation for Disabled Veterans
To provide all services and assistance necessary to enable service-disabled veterans and service persons hospitalized or receiving outpatient medical care services or treatment for a service- connected disability pending discharge to get and keep a...
To provide vocational training and rehabilitation to certain children born with spina bifida or other covered birth defects who are children of Vietnam veterans and some Korean veterans.
Vocational Training for Certain Veterans Receiving Va Pension
To assist new pension recipients to resume and maintain gainful employment by providing vocational training and other services.
Volcano Hazards Program Research and Monitoring.
To advance the scientific understanding of volcanic processes and to lessen the harmful impacts of volcanic activity. The Volcano Hazards Program monitors active and potentially active volcanoes, assesses their hazards, responds to volcanic crises,...
Voluntary Public School Choice
To support efforts to establish or expand intra-district, inter-district, and open enrollment public school choice programs to provide parents, particularly parents whose children attend low-performing public schools, with expanded education options...
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (vita) Matching Grant Program
To provide direct funding that will enable VITA initiatives to extend services to underserved populations and hardest-to-reach areas, both urban and non-urban; specific objectives as they relate to the VITA Program which include: increasing the...
Volunteers In Service to America
To supplement efforts of private, nonprofit organizations and Federal, State, and local government agencies to eliminate poverty and poverty-related problems by enabling persons from all walks of life and all age groups to perform meaningful and...
Voting Access for Individuals with Disabilities - Grants to States
Section 261 of HAVA provides that funds be made available to States to: (1) make polling places, including the path of travel, entrances, exits, and voting areas of each polling facility, accessible to individuals with the full-range of...
Voting Access for Individuals with Disabilities-grants for Protection and Advocacy Systems
Section 291 of HAVA provides that funds be made available to Protection and Advocacy Systems to: (1) ensure full participation in the electoral process for individuals with disabilities; (2) provide education, training and assistance to individuals...
Vulnerability Assessments and Related Security Improvements at Large Drinking Water Utilities
EPA's funding priority is to provide grant assistance to large (regularly serving 100,000 people or more) publicly-owned community drinking water systems, for up to $115,000 to each eligible utility to develop/revise a vulnerability assessment...
To provide grant assistance to large (regularly serving 100,000 people or more) privately-owned community drinking water systems, for up to $115,000 to each eligible utility to develop/revise a vulnerability assessment (V/A), emergency...
To provide standards protecting wages of working persons by requiring a minimum hourly wage rate and overtime pay; or prevailing hourly wage rates, fringe benefits and overtime pay under the Government Contract Acts. Additional standards apply to...
Wastewater Operator Training Grant Program (technical Assistance)
To substantially enhance the proficiency of personnel engaged in the operations and maintenance of treatment works and related activities by financing pilot programs. Funding Priority - Fiscal Year 2009: No funds are available in FY 2009. If funds...
To prevent crises and conflict over water in the western United States. The Challenge Grant Program is designed to contribute to this goal by providing 50 percent funding for projects that will conserve water, increase water use efficiency, or...
Water and Waste Disposal Loans and Grants (section 306c)
Provide water and waste disposal facilities and services to low income rural communities whose residents face significant health risks.
Water and Waste Disposal Systems for Rural Communities
To provide basic human amenities, alleviate health hazards and promote the orderly growth of the rural areas of the nation by meeting the need for new and improved rural water and waste disposal facilities.
Water and Waste Disposal Systems for Rural Communities - Arra
To provide basic human amenities, alleviate health hazards and promote the orderly growth of the rural areas of the nation by meeting the need for new and improved rural water and waste disposal facilities.
To conserve surface waters; preserve and improve the Nation's Wetlands; increase migratory waterfowl habitat in nesting, breeding and feeding areas in the U.S.; and secure environmental benefits for the Nation.
Water Conservation Field Services Program (wcfsp)
The goal of the Water Conservation Field Services Program (WCFSP) is to actively encourage water conservation and efficient use of water supplies on Federal Reclamation projects, assist water districts with their responsibility to develop water...
Water Desalination Research and Development Program
The Water Desalination Act of 1996 is based on the fundamental need in the United States and world-wide for additional sources of high quality water. Therefore, the primary objective of the program is to develop more cost-effective, technologically...
Water Pollution Control-state and Interstate Program Support
To assist States (including territories, the District of Columbia, and Indian Tribes qualified under CWA Section 518(e)), and interstate agencies in establishing and maintaining adequate measures for prevention and control of surface and ground...
Water Protection Grants to the States
The objective of this grant program is to assist States, Territories, and possessions of the United States with critical water infrastructure protection. Funding Priority - Fiscal Year 2009: EPA's funding priority is to provide grant assistance to...
Water Quality Cooperative Agreements
To assist States, Indian Tribes, interstate agencies, and other public or nonprofit organizations in developing, implementing, and demonstrating innovative approaches relating to the causes, effects, extent, prevention, reduction, and elimination of...
Water Quality Management Planning
To assist States (including territories and the District of Columbia), Regional Public Comprehensive Planning Organizations (RPCPOs), and Interstate Organizations (IOs) in carrying out water quality management (WQM) planning. Funding Priority -...
Water Reclamation and Reuse Program
This Title gives Reclamation general authority to conduct appraisal and feasibility studies on water reclamation and reuse projects. It also provides general authority for research and demonstration programs to test water reclamation and reuse...
Water Resources on Indian Lands
To support Indian tribes in the effective and efficient management, planning, and use of their water resources.
Water Security Training and Technical Assistance Grant Program
The objective of these grant programs are (1) for financial assistance that is awarded under SDWA Section 1433, to improve water infrastructure security through both training and technical assistance for water utilities and (2) for cooperative...
Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention
To provide technical and financial assistance in carrying out works of improvement to protect, develop, and utilize the land and water resources in watersheds.
Watershed Rehabilitation Program
To provide technical and financial assistance to rehabilitate dams originally constructed with assistance of USDA Watershed Programs. Rehabilitation must extend the life of the dam and meet applicable safety and performance standards. Priority is...
Watershed Surveys and Planning
The Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act, Public Law 83-566, established the Watershed Program (16 U.S.C. 1001-1011). Section 6 of the Act provided for the establishment of the River Basin Surveys and Investigation Program (16 U.S.C....
Weather and Air Quality Research
To develop the knowledge required to establish a predictive capability for short and long-term climate and air quality fluctuations and trends. To develop the base of scientific knowledge for better informed decisions.
Weatherization Assistance for Low-income Persons
To improve home energy efficiency for low-income families through the most cost-effective measures possible. The program’s objectives are:<br /> * To reduce fossil fuel emissions created as a result of activities within the jurisdictions of...
To provide leadership and technical resources to assure the accuracy of the quantities and quantity representations in all commercial transactions in the United States, to promote a uniform national weights and measures system, to promote...
Welfare Reform Research, Evaluations and National Studies
To support research on the benefits, effects, and costs of operating different State welfare programs, including studies on the effects of different programs and the operation of such programs on welfare dependency, employment rates, child...
Welfare-to-work Grants to Federally Recognized Tribes and Alaska Natives
To assist Federally-recognized Indian Tribes and Alaska Native regional nonprofit corporations to move hard-to-employ welfare recipients into lasting unsubsidized jobs and family self-sufficiency.
Welfare-to-work Grants to States and Localities
The Welfare-to-Work Grants program was designed to assist States and localities to help move hard-to-employ welfare recipients, certain noncustodial parents, certain former foster care recipients, and low-income custodial parents into lasting...
West Coast Estuaries Initiative
The West Coast Estuaries Initiative is a focused effort that evolved from the Environmental Protection Agency's Targeted Watersheds Grants Program. The initiative is designed to promote and support the protection and restoration of high value...
Wetland Program Development Grants
To assist State, Tribal, local government (S/T/LG) agencies, and interstate/intertribal entities in building programs which protect, manage, and restore wetlands. The primary focus of the grants is to build state and tribal wetland programs. A...
Wetland Program Grants - State/tribal Environmental Outcome Wetland Demonstration Program
To assist State and Tribal government agencies protect, manage, and restore wetlands. Funding Priority - Fiscal Year 2009: This one-time pilot program, funded FY 05 through FY07, provided grants for states and tribes to implement regulatory and...
To assist landowners in restoring and protecting wetlands on eligible lands on which they agree to enter into a permanent or long-term easement, or a restoration cost-share agreement with the Secretary. The goal of WRP is to maximize wetland...
To provide technical assistance to States and municipalities interested in creating or upgrading markets and marketing facilities.
The purpose of this program is to improve the quality of the workforce, reduce welfare dependency, and enhance the productivity and competitiveness of the nation's economy by providing workforce investment activities that increase the employment,...
Wia Dislocated Worker Formula Grants
To reemploy dislocated workers, improve the quality of the workforce, and enhance the productivity and competitiveness of the nation's economy by providing workforce investment activities that increase the employment, retention, and earnings of...
The purpose of the WIA Dislocated Worker program is to reemploy dislocated workers, improve the quality of the workforce, and enhance the productivity and competitiveness of the nation's economy by providing workforce investment activities that...
Wia Incentive Grants-section 503 Grants to States
To carry out innovative programs consistent with the purposes of Title I of WIA (Workforce Investment Systems), Title II of WIA (Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA), 20 U.S.C. 9201 et seq.), the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied...
To help low income youth, between the ages of 14 and 21, acquire the educational and occupational skills, training, and support needed to achieve academic and employment success and successfully transition to careers and productive adulthood.
Wic Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (fmnp)
(1) To provide fresh, nutritious unprepared locally grown fruits and vegetables from farmers markets to women, infants, and children who participate in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC); and (2) to...
To provide grants to WIC State agencies for Electronic Benefit Transfer projects and pilots to explore the feasibility both technical and financial of providing WIC benefits electronically. To provide grants to WIC State agencies and Indian Tribal...
Wild Horse and Burro Resource Management
The goal of the Wild Horses and Burro Resource Management program is to achieve and maintain healthy, viable wild horse and burro populations on the public lands.
Wildland Fire Research and Studies Program
To encourage interested parties to perform research and studies pertaining to wildland fire and resource management, to develop products and tools for all levels of decision making to meet the objectives of the National Fire Plan, and to seek...
Wildland Urban Interface Community and Rural Fire Assistance
To implement the National Fire Plan and assist communities at risk from catastrophic wildland fires by providing assistance in the following areas: Provide community programs that develop local capability including; assessment and planning,...
Wildlife Conservation and Restoration
To provide financial to States, Commonwealths and territories under the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act to plan and implement projects for benefit of a diverse array of wildlife and associated habitats, including species that are not...
Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program
The objective of WHIP is to help participants protect, restore, develop or enhance habitat for upland wildlife, wetland wildlife, threatened and endangered species, fisheries, and other types of wildlife.
The Act provides grants to State, Commonwealth, and territorial fish and wildlife agencies for projects to restore, conserve, manage, and enhance wild birds and mammals and their habitat. Projects also include providing public use and access to...
To reduce damage caused by mammals and birds and those mammal and bird species that are reservoirs for zoonotic diseases, (except for urban rodent control through control and research activities). Wherever feasible, humane methods will be...
Wildlife Without Borders - Latin America and the Caribbean
The Wildlife Without Borders-Latin America and the Caribbean Program focuses on strengthening the ability of Latin American and Caribbean institutions to manage and conserve species, habitats and ecological processes for the benefit of the people of...
Wildlife Without Borders - Mexico
To provide support for projects that build Mexico's human and institutional capacity for biodiversity conservation and management through training associated with Mexican nature reserves. Of interest are projects that provide training in...
Wildlife Without Borders-africa Program
To strengthen the ability of African institutions to manage and conserve species, habitats, and ecological process for the benefit of the people of Afican and the world. Of particular interests are projects that build the human and institutional...
To improve the status of wage-earning women, improve their working conditions, increase their efficiency, advance their opportunities for profitable employment, and to provide employers with more alternatives to meet their labor needs. Through its...
Women's Business Ownership Assistance
To fund private, nonprofit organizations to assist, through training and counseling, small business concerns owned and controlled by women, and to remove, in so far as possible, the discriminatory barriers that are encountered by women in accessing...
Women's Educational Equity Act Program
(1) To promote gender equity in education in the United States; (2) to promote equity in education for women and girls who suffer from multiple forms of discrimination based on sex, race, ethnic origin, limited-English proficiency, disability, or...
Wood Education and Resource Center (werc)
To provide funds, on a cost-share basis, for projects that focus on enhancing opportunities for sustained forest products production for primary and secondary hardwood industries located in the eastern hardwood forest region. In order to maintain...
Wood In Transportation Program
To provide funds, on a cost share basis, for the construction of demonstration modern timber bridges and modern timber bridge technology transfer projects. Primary focus is to assist in the development and commercialization of new technologies that...
Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowships In the Humanities and Social Sciences
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars was established by Congress to symbolize and strengthen "the fruitful relationship between the world of learning and the world of public affairs." It aims, in a strictly nonpartisan...
Work Incentive Grants (WIGs) and Disability Program Navigators (DPNs) were established to increase the labor force participation and career advancement of persons with disabilities by effecting systemic change in the One Stop Career Centers. These...
Work Opportunity Tax Credit Program (wotc) and Welfare-to-work Tax Credit (wtwtc)
The tax credit was designed to help individuals from twelve target groups who consistently have faced significant barriers to employment move from economic dependency to self-sufficiency by encouraging businesses in the private sector to hire target...
Workforce Investment Act (wia) National Emergency Grants
The purpose of the National Emergency Grant program is to temporarily expand service capacity at the state and local levels by providing time-limited funding assistance in response to significant dislocation events. Significant events are those...
Sorry, no federal grants available beginning with the letter "X".
Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project (ybrwep)
Within the Yakima River Basin: (1) to protect, mitigate, and enhance fish and wildlife through improved water management; improved instream flows; improved water quality; protection, creation and enhancement of wetlands; and by other appropriate...
To increase the long-term employment of youth who livein empowerment zones, enterprise communities, and high poverty areas. Youth Opportunity Grants concentrate extensive resources in high- poverty areas in order to bring about community-wide...
Grant funds will be used to provide disadvantaged youth with: the education and employment skills necessary to achieve economic self sufficiency in occupations in high demand and postsecondary education and training opportunities; opportunities for...
Sorry, no federal grants available beginning with the letter "Z".