Helping Every Area of Relationships Thrive - Adults (HEART)
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- HHS-2025-ACF-OFA-ZB-0109
- Agency
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Administration for Children and Families
Department of Health and Human Services
- Applications due
- Award size
- $400,000 to $1,250,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Cooperative Agreement
- Category
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- Income Security and Social Services
- Eligible applicants
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- City/Township Governments
- For Profit Organizations
- Independent School Districts
- Higher Education Inst. (Private)
- Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
- Public or Indian Housing Auth.
- Higher Education Inst. (Public)
- Small Businesses
- Special District Governments
- 501(c)(3) Nonprofits
- County Governments
- State Governments
- Tribal Organizations (Not Federally Recognized)
- Non-501(c)(3) Nonprofits
- Points of contact
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- Seth Chamberlain ofa@grantreview.org
- Taffy Compain taffy.compain@acf.hhs.gov
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Family Assistance (OFA) is seeking competitive applications for the Helping Every Area of Relationships Thrive - Adults (HEART) grant, which supports healthy marriage promotion activities for individuals and couples aged 18 and older. Applicants must design programs addressing one or more of seven specified activities: marriage and relationship education, premarital education, marriage enhancement, divorce reduction, marriage mentoring, public advertising campaigns, and activities reducing marriage disincentives. The grant requires recipients to provide curriculum-based workshops covering communication skills, conflict resolution, emotional intimacy, and marriage benefits, with a minimum of 12 hours of primary workshops. Applications will be evaluated based on approach, organizational capacity, performance measurement, and budget justification. The application deadline is July 29, 2025, with an expected project start date of September 30, 2025.
The grant will fund 40 total awards with funding amounts ranging from $400,000 to $1,250,000, depending on project scope. Recipients will be required to serve between 30-200 participants annually based on their funding level. The project period is five years, and recipients must potentially include job and career advancement services while also addressing domestic violence and child maltreatment concerns. Projects can range from high-impact to smaller, initial initiatives, with the ACF seeking a diverse range of programmatic approaches to supporting healthy marriages and relationships among adult populations.
Synopsis
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Family Assistance (OFA) announces its plan to solicit applications for the competitive award of grants that support "healthy marriage promotion" activities as authorized under Section 403(a)(2) of the Social Security Act. This funding will be targeted exclusively to projects designed for adult individuals or adult couples, defined as persons who are age 18 and older. Applicants will be asked to submit proposals that are designed to implement programs that include a broad array of service provision strategies. These include curriculum-based skills development and services designed to support family strengthening activities through one or more of seven activities specified under the authorizing legislation: marriage and relationship education/skills (MRES); pre-marital education; marriage enhancement; divorce reduction activities; marriage mentoring; public advertising campaigns; and activities to reduce the disincentives to marriage. ACF is interested in funding a diverse range of projects, from high impact projects, to moderate scope projects, to smaller scope projects, as well as smaller new/initial projects.
Files
| File | Type | Posted |
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| hhs-2025-acf-ofa-zb-0109_rev4.pdf |
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