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**Program Office:**Institutional Service

**CFDA Number:** 84.031B**Program Type:** Discretionary Grants**Also Known As:**HBCUs

Title III-B authorizes the  Strengthening Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) program  award grants to eligible institutions to assist them in strengthening their  academic, administrative, and fiscal capabilities.  These programs are typically funded through  annual discretionary appropriations; and with additional annual mandatory  appropriations provided through the FUTURE Act, which extended mandatory  funding beyond fiscal year 2019.

Activities  are In accordance to section 1068h(a)(2) of this title may include; Institution services; educational equipment,  acquisition of real property in connection with the construction, renovation,  or additional improvement of campus facilities; to improve the financial and economic  literacy designed for students; financial management information; faculty and staff  development; and the implementation of other project activities described under  the Legislative Allowable Activities (LAA) outlined in the program  statute.  Endowment development is also  an activity with exception that no more than twenty percent of the grant funds  may be used for this purpose.  

Funds may be used for the purchase, rental, or lease of scientific or laboratory equipment.  Also supported are the construction, maintenance, renovation, and improvement of instruction facilities and physical plant.  Funds support faculty exchanges and the development of academic instruction in disciplines in which black Americans are underrepresented. Projects may support the purchase of library materials as well as tutoring, counseling, and STEM programs too.  Additionally supported are: funds and administrative management; joint use of facilities; establishment or improvement of development offices; establishment or enhancement of programs of teacher education; establishment of outreach programs; and other activities that a grantee proposes in its application that contribute to carrying out the purposes of the program and are approved by the Secretary as part of the review and acceptance of the grant application.

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