Project Grant ARC25C22150

The federal Project Grant award of $14,000,000 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Section 4 Capacity Building for Community Development and Affordable Housing program (CFDA 14.252) aims to enhance the capacity and abilities of Community Development Corporations (CDCs) and Community Housing Development Organizations (CHDOs) to carry out affordable housing and community development activities. The key products and services provided under this grant include: Training,...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas program (CFDA 98.001), aims to build and strengthen understanding and skills in systems thinking, collaborative leadership, and joint action among humanitarian leaders worldwide. The $1,200,000.00 award, granted to the Presencing Institute, Inc., a non-profit organization, will support the design and implementation of capacity-building...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office for Victims of Crime (CFDA 16.320 - Services for Trafficking Victims), provides $6,000,000 to Youth Collaboratory Inc. to develop and build the capacity of community-based organizations (CBOs) in underserved communities to provide services to adolescent and youth human trafficking victims. The project will prioritize rural and underserved communities, including indigenous, undocumented, male, and labor trafficking...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Community Compass Technical Assistance and Capacity Building program (CFDA 14.259) provides $2,450,000.00 to Capital Access Inc. to deliver technical assistance and capacity building services. The funding will support Capital Access Inc.'s work to help state/local governments, public housing authorities, tribes, and nonprofit organizations effectively implement HUD programs related to affordable...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $106,000 to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) to conduct research on designing smart environments to enhance collective learning and creativity. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Developing large-scale online experiments and computational models to investigate how technological...

This $116,440 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) is a collaborative effort across five Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to develop and pilot innovative tools and approaches for enhancing the research capacity of HBCUs. The project aims to (1) create a "playbook" to help HBCU leaders assess their institution's research strengths and weaknesses and integrate research capacity-building into...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $399,999 to Lawrence Technological University (LTU) to build the institutional capacity and knowledge for growing external partnerships that advance key technologies within their regional innovation ecosystem. The project, titled "EPIIC: Building Institutional Capacity for External Partnerships (BICEP)," aims to address common...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Climate and Atmospheric Research program (CFDA 11.431) will develop a novel analytical framework and quantitative approach using causal-forest machine learning to evaluate and predict the extent to which heterogeneous engagement and capacity-building activities enhance communities' capacity for transformative climate adaptation. The $160,033 project will use an extensive dataset on...

This Project Grant award of $111,985, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports research to operationalize, develop, and test a community-driven unit of measurement for community strength. The research aims to create a data-driven conceptual framework to understand community needs over time and develop a validated toolkit to measure community strength for use in clinical and educational settings. The 5-year...

This $500,239 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports a collaborative research effort across five Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to develop innovative tools and approaches for enhancing research capacity at HBCUs. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award, which runs from September 2024 to August 2027, include: Developing a "playbook" to help HBCU leaders...