**Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities can participate in Cooperative Arrangement grants with eligible NASNTI institutions.**

**FY 2023 Applications for new grant awards includes Individual Development Grants and Cooperative Arrangement Development Grants.**

**FY 2023 Grants.Gov Listing**

**Program Office:**Institutional Service

**ALN Number:**  84.031X; 84.382C**Program Type:**  Discretionary/Competitive Grants**Also Known As:**  NASNTI Program

## Program Description

This program provides grants and related assistance to Native American-serving, nontribal institutions to enable such institutions to improve and expand their capacity to serve Native Americans and low-income individuals.

This Web site provides information on the Native American-serving Nontribal Institutions Program authorized by the Higher Education Opportunity Act, 2008 (HEA, Title III, Part A, Section 319; ALN# 84.031X) as well as the Native American-serving Nontribal Institutions Program Program originally authorized by the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007 (HEA, Title III, Part F, Section 371; ALN# 84.382C).

## Types of Projects

Grants awarded under this section shall be used by Native American nontribal-serving institutions to assist such institutions to plan, develop, undertake, and carry out activities to improve and expand such institutions’ capacity to serve Native Americans and low-income individuals.

Types of projects may include:

- The purchase, rental, or lease of scientific or laboratory equipment for educational purposes, including instructional and research purposes;
- Renovation and improvement in classroom, library, laboratory, and other instructional facilities;
- Support of faculty exchanges, and faculty development and faculty fellowships to assist faculty in attaining advanced degrees in the faculty’s field of instruction;
- Curriculum development and academic instruction;
- The purchase of library books, periodicals, microfilm, and other educational materials;
- Funds and administrative management, and acquisition of equipment for use in strengthening funds management;
- The joint use of facilities such as laboratories and libraries;
- Academic tutoring and counseling programs and student support services; and
- Education or counseling services designed to improve the financial and economic literacy of students or the students’ families.

To plan, develop, undertake, and carry out activities to improve and expand such institutions' capacity to serve Native Americans, which may include-

- The purchase, rental, or lease of scientific or laboratory equipment for educational purposes, including instructional and research purposes;
- Renovation and improvement in classroom, library, laboratory, and other instructional facilities;
- Support of faculty exchanges, faculty development, and faculty fellowships to assist faculty in attaining advanced degrees in the faculty's field of instruction;
- Curriculum development and academic instruction;
- The purchase of library books, periodicals, microfilm, and other educational materials;
- Funds and administrative management, and acquisition of equipment for use in strengthening funds management;
- The joint use of facilities such as laboratories and libraries; and
- Academic tutoring and counseling programs and student support services.