Source: http://stimulus.alabama.gov/individuals.aspx
Timestamp: 2019-04-20 02:25:44+00:00

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Click here to view all ARRA opportunities listed on the Federal Government site Grants.gov.
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Description: Approximately $162 million was awarded to Alabama Housing Finance Authority to provide assistance targeted at Alabama's unemployed homeowners. The U.S. Department of Treasury's "Hardest Hit Fund" is authorized under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 and is available in 18 states and the District of Columbia.
Description: This program provides increased funding for the Pell Grant program that provides grants to low income individuals for undergraduate and postgraduate educational expenses. A Federal Pell Grant does not have to be repaid. The ARRA increases the max Pell Grant award to $5,350 and provides additional funding to support these grant awards.
Description: This program provides funding for vocational rehabilitation and also provides grants to Independent Living Programs.
Description: The Federal Pell Grant program helps ensure access to postsecondary education for low- and middle-income undergraduate students by providing grants that, in combination with other sources of student aid, help meet postsecondary education costs. The program also promotes lifelong learning by encouraging low-income adults now in the workplace to return to school to upgrade their skills.
Description: This program provides funding for research and development, disaster assistance, and climate change programs. NASA will be providing grant opportunities for equipment and systems development in several areas including aeronautics, space exploration, physical science, and cross-agency support.
Description: The Recovery Act appropriated funds for a program of competitive training grants for worker training and placement in green jobs and high growth and emerging industry sectors, with emphasis on careers in energy efficiency and renewable energy.
Description: Provides a 13.6 % increase in the maximum SNAP benefit April 1, 2009 through September 30, 2010. Individuals with income below 200% of the federal poverty level are eligible for these benefits.
Please click here for more information concerning Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Description: This program will provide direct and unsubsidized guaranteed loans to individuals from the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Housing Insurance Fund.
Description: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) provides $65 million for Congregate Nutrition Services. Established in 1972 under the Older Americans Act (OAA), the program provides meals to older Americans in congregate facilities such as senior centers, adult day centers, and faith-based settings.
Description: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) provides $32 million for Home-Delivered Nutrition Services. Established in 1978 under the Older Americans Act (OAA), the program provides meals and related nutrition services to seniors who are homebound.
Description: The objective of the NHSC Recovery Act funding is to increase public access to affordable primary health care by providing an incentive to primary health care clinicians/students to serve in underserved areas and thus increasing the number of NHSC primary health care clinician jobs.
Description: This program provides funding to the CDC to administer an immunization program in partnership with health care providers in the public and private sectors, including state and local health departments and clinics. This funding will be allocated to states based on an existing formula. To expand access to vaccines and vaccination services by making more vaccines available, primarily to under-served children or their under-insured parents, increase national public awareness and knowledge about the benefits and risks of vaccines and vaccine-preventable diseases, and strengthen the evidence base for vaccination policies and programs.
Description: SNAP provides nutrition assistance benefits and nutrition education services to low-income individuals and families. The ARRA increases the maximum allotments of SNAP participants by 13.6 percent, eases eligibility requirements for childless adults without jobs, and provides additional funding to State agencies responsible for administering the program. The goals of SNAP are to reduce hunger and improve the health and well-being of low-income people and families.
Description: The Child Care Development Block Grant program provides funding to help low-income families, families receiving public assistance and those families transitioning from public assistance in obtaining child care. This provision requires that such grants be used to supplement, not supplant, state funding for child care assistance to low-income families. Provides a temporary increase to states to provide subsidized child care services for low-income families and to improve the quality and supply of child care for all families.
Description: The goal of the Medicare and Medicaid Health IT provisions in the Recovery Act is to promote and provide incentives for the adoption of certified electronic health records (EHRs). To achieve this goal, the Recovery Act authorized bonus payments for eligible professionals (EPs) and hospitals participating in Medicare and Medicaid as an incentive to become meaningful users of certified EHRs.
Description: Provide additional food to food banks, food pantries, and soup kitchens, so that they may better serve the increased number of individuals seeking assistance through the nation’s emergency food system due to recent economic conditions.
Description: Through the IL State Grants program, the ARRA provides support to States to improve and expand independent living services to individuals with significant disabilities, especially in underserved and underserved areas, to maximize their leadership, empowerment, independence, and productivity, and to promote the integration and full inclusion of individuals with disabilities into the mainstream of American society.
Description: Through the Independent Living Services for Older Individuals Who Are Blind (OIB) program, the ARRA provides formula grants to States for services to assist individuals aged 55 or older whose significant visual impairment makes competitive employment extremely difficult to obtain, but for whom independent living goals are feasible.
Description: This program will provide rebates to individuals who replace old appliances with new energy efficient appliances. This funding will provide rebates for residential consumers for the purchase of residential Energy Star products to replace appliances with more efficient models. States determine which appliances to include in program. Administrative funs require a 50% match by the state. Program requires decommissioning or recycling of old appliances being replaced.
Description: This program provides funding to develop and maintain wireless and broadband infrastructure to service underserved and underserved areas.
Attached is a joint press release issued today by NTIA and RUS announcing that they received almost 2,200 applications requesting nearly $28 billion in funding for proposed broadband projects reaching all 50 U.S. states and territories and the District of Columbia. The press release notes that the agencies will be posting online a searchable database containing summaries of individual applications received "in the coming weeks." Below is a timeline for the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP).
For the most current information on BTOP, please click here.
BroadbandUSA.gov's set of FAQs for the BTOP program here.
Click here to view a summary of the Technical Assistance program.
Click here to view a summary of the Satellite program.
Click here to view a summary of the Rural Libraries program.
The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced the re-opening of the second round Broadband Technology Opportunity Program (BTOP) infrastructure application window for the 21 state and local governments granted waivers by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to develop a nationwide interoperable broadband network.
Description: Purpose: To pay the aquaculture producers for their increases in grains, etc.
Description: This notice provides guidance on the new Build America Bonds under § 54AA of the Internal Revenue Code (“Code”) and the implementation plans for the refundable credit payment procedures for these bonds. This notice includes guidance on the modified Build America Bond program for Recovery Zone Economic Development Bonds under § 1400U-2 of the Code. This notice provides guidance on the initial refundable credit payment procedures, required elections, and information reporting. This notice solicits public comments on the refundable credit payment procedures for these bonds. This notice is intended to facilitate prompt implementation of the Build America Bond program and to enable state and local governments to begin issuing these bonds for authorized purposes to promote economic recovery and job creation.
Description: This notice sets forth the maximum face amount of qualified school construction bonds (“QSCBs”) allocated by the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) to each State and large local educational agency for 2009 under § 54F(d) of the Internal Revenue Code (Code). For this purpose, § 54A(e)(3) provides that the term “State” includes the District of Columbia and any possession of the United States. This notice also provides interim guidance for QSCBs.
Description: This notice sets forth the maximum face amount of Qualified Zone Academy Bonds (“QZABs”) that may be issued for each State for each of the calendar years 2008 and 2009 under § 54E(c)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code. Under § 54A(e)(3), the term State includes the District of Columbia and any possession of the United States. This notice also provides certain interim guidance for QZABs issued after October 3, 2008.
Description: This notice provides guidance regarding how the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will determine and announce credit rates on certain tax credit bonds described in this notice.
Description: This notice provides guidance regarding the maximum face amount of recovery zone economic development bonds (“Recovery Zone Economic Development Bonds”) and recovery zone facility bonds (“Recovery Zone Facility Bonds”) (together, “Recovery Zone Bonds”), that may be issued by each State and counties and large municipalities within each State before January 1, 2011 under §§ 1400U-2 and 1400U-3, respectively, of the Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), as provided in § 1400U-1 of the Code. As applicable to §§ 1400U-1 through 1400U-3, § 103(c)(2) provides that the term “State” includes the District of Columbia and any possession of the United States. This notice also provides certain interim guidance for Recovery Zone Bonds. In general, Recovery Zone Bonds provide tax incentives for State and local governmental borrowing at lower borrowing costs to promote job creation and economic recovery that is targeted to areas particularly affected by employment declines.
Description: This notice sets forth the maximum face amount of qualified energy conservation bonds (“QECBs”) that may be issued by each State and large local government under § 54D(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code. For this purpose, § 54A(e)(3) provides that the term “State” includes the District of Columbia and any possession of the United States. This notice also provides certain interim guidance for QECBs.
Description: This notice solicits applications for allocations of the present total national bond volume limitation authority (“volume cap”) of $2.4 billion to issue new clean renewable energy bonds (“New CREBs”) under § 54C(a) of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”) to finance certain qualified renewable energy facilities described in § 45(d) of the Code (also referred to in this notice as a qualified “project” or “projects”). This notice also provides related guidance on the following: (1) eligibility requirements that a project must meet to be considered for a volume cap allocation; (2) application requirements and the application form for requests for volume cap allocations; (3) the method that the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) and the Treasury Department will use to allocate the volume cap; and (4) certain aspects of the applicable law and interim guidance in this area. Applications for New CREB volume cap allocations pursuant to this notice must be filed in accordance with this notice by the following application deadline: August 4, 2009. This notice will use the term “CREBs” for clean renewable energy bonds issued under § 54 and the term “New CREBs” for new clean renewable energy bonds issued under § 54C. To the extent that this notice refers generally to the clean renewable energy bond program, the term “CREB program” will be used.
Description: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that $650 million in funding included in the ARRA would be used to increase physical activity, improve nutrition, decrease obesity, and decrease smoking in U.S. communities. HHS released information on a funding opportunity for communities and tribes to apply for $373 million in cooperative agreements for the comprehensive public health initiative, Communities Putting Prevention to Work, to be led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Description: This program provides additional funds for the WIC program. $400 million will be placed in the Secretary of Agriculture's reserve fund to be distributed to the states as the Secretary deems necessary. $100 million will be granted to the states to improve information management systems. Provides funding to increase the number of WIC participants who receive supplemental nutritional support should cost or caseload exceed budget estimates. WIC benefits include supplemental nutritious foods, nutrition education and the support of breastfeeding.
Description: The stimulus package provides $5 billion in new funds over two years to the TANF-block grant program to states and tribes experiencing increased cash welfare caseloads. States with separate state programs funded with TANF state maintenance effort are also eligible for grants from the fund, as are states with increased short-term non-recurrent benefit expenditures or increased subsidized employment expenditures under TANF and separate state programs. Creates an emergency contingency fund for states with increased expenses due to increases in caseloads in TANF programs, including basic assistance, non-recurrent short-term benefits and subsidized employment.
Description: The Weatherization Assistance Program enables low-income families to permanently reduce their energy bills by making their homes more energy efficient. Provides funding to help low-income families reduce their energy costs by weatherizing their homes to make our country more energy efficient.
Description: Federal Student Aid (FSA) plays a central and essential role in America's postsecondary education community by ensuring that all eligible individuals benefit from federal financial assistance for education beyond high school. The funding provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) will increase the number of Title IV student loan servicing vehicles and improve operational performance to collect and deliver loan and grant data between program participants and the system.
Description: The Teacher Quality Partnership (TQP) program aims to improve student achievement and teacher quality in high-need schools and early childhood education programs by improving teacher preparation and professional development activities; holding teacher preparation programs accountable for preparing effective teachers; and recruiting highly qualified individuals into the teaching force. Projects may also include a component to train school leaders.
Description: This program will provide funding to pay for coupons for digital-to-analog TV converter boxes and related educational/outreach efforts. The bill includes $650,000,000 for additional implementation and administration of the digital-to-analog converter box coupon program, including additional coupons to meet new projected demands and consumer support, outreach and administration. The TV Converter Box Coupon Program will provide up to two coupons valued at $40 each for requesting households to purchase converter boxes to continue receiving over-the-air broadcasts.
Description: The Department of Labor (DOL) announces the availability of approximately $5 million in grant funds for projects that build the capacity of DOL-funded training programs to ensure that targeted groups are prepared to meet the needs of our country's expanding green industries. Only active DOL-funded grantees (eligible grantees specified in the SGA) are eligible to apply. Specifically, this SGA supports capacity building for organizations to provide training for entry-level positions leading to career pathways and/or additional training in the energy efficiency and renewable energy industries. The Department expects to award between 50 and 100 grants under this competition, providing awards ranging from $50,000 to $100,000.
- Infrastructure Grants - Funding to improve service in underserved and underserved areas.
- Sustainable Adoption Grants - Funding for innovative programs to encourage sustainable adoption of broadband service.
Description: The Department of Labor (DOL) announces the availability of approximately $50 million in grant funds for the Workforce Agencies of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and U.S. Territories, or a consortium of such agencies, to collect, analyze, and disseminate labor market information, and to enhance the labor exchange infrastructure for careers within the energy efficiency and renewable energy industries. The eligible applicant for this grant solicitation is the State Workforce Agency, as States are expected to use workforce and labor market information and data as the foundation on which to build and implement effective workforce development strategies. This SGA encourages collaborative approaches, whereby multiple States apply as a consortium to conduct research that may potentially have a multi-State or national impact. ETA intends to fund individual State grants ranging from approximately $750,000 to $1,250,000. Individual grant awards to consortium applicants will range from $2 to $4 million, contingent upon an adequate justification of proposed project needs and the availability of resources.

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