Federal Grant Opportunities: July 12

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Federal Funding Announcements:
This summary includes new or updated opportunities in the following areas. Please click on the topic below to view all grant announcements:

Recent Grant and Contract Awards:

Recipient	Amount	Granting Agency
153 Dove Street, Albany: Certified Rehabilitation Work on Historic Buildings	$261,798	National Park Service - Federal Historic Tax Credits
Adirondack Transit Lines, Inc.: Intercity Bus Security Grant Program	$64,882	Department of Homeland Security
Algonquin Building, Albany: Certified Rehabilitation Work on Historic Buildings	$7,500,000	National Park Service - Federal Historic Tax Credits
American Red Cross of Northeastern New York: Red Cross Disaster Resiliency Corps	$346,417	Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) - AmeriCorps
City of Troy Fire Department: Port Security Grant Program	$298,743	Department of Homeland Security
Health Research, Inc./NYS Department of Health: Core State Violence and Injury Prevention Program	$250,000	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Health Research, Inc./NYS Department of Health: Development, Maintenance and Enhancement of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Information System Surveillance Program in NYS	$113,029	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Health Research, Inc./NYS Department of Health: Improving the Health of People with Mobility Limitations and Intellectual Disabilities through State-based Public Health Programs	$350,000	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Health Research, Inc./NYS Department of Health: NYS Organized Approaches to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening	$1,647,900	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Health Research, Inc./NYS Department of Health: Public Health Actions to Prevent and Control Diabetes	$2,022,175	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Health Research, Inc./NYS Department of Health: Public Health Preparedness and Response (PHPR) Cooperative Agreement for All-Hazards Public Health Emergencies: Zika 2016	$474,016	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
NYS Department of Health: Immunizations and Vaccines for Children	$3,253,637	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
NYS Department of State: NYS Coastal Management Program, including the Local Waterfront Revitalization Program (LWRP)	$2,703,000	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
NYS Division of Military and Naval Affairs (Albany): Port Security Grant Program	$263,223	Department of Homeland Security
NYS Office for the Aging: Empowering Older Adults and Adults with Disabilities through Chronic Disease Self-Management Education Programs	$900,000	HHS Administration on Aging
NYS Office of Children and Family Services: Community-Based Integrated Service Systems	$426,600	HHS Health Resources and Services Administration
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: An Integrated Experimental/Computational Study of the Mechanics of Nanofiber Networks	$269,833	National Science Foundation - Collaborative Research
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: CAD for THz Lateral SiGe HBT on SOI to Address Amdahl's Law	$449,999	National Science Foundation - SHF: CSR: Small
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Exploring the Design Space of Augmented Memory Controllers with Native Support for In-Memory Data Storage	$299,621	National Science Foundation - XPS: EXPL
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Maximizing the Performance Potential and Reliability of Flash-based Solid State Devices for Future Storage Systems	$300,000	National Science Foundation - XPS: FULL: Collaborative Research
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Mitigating Chemical Wear in Diamond Cutting Tools Using Novel Cutting Fluid Additives	$300,000	National Science Foundation - GOALI
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Modification of Soft Inorganic Thin Films through the use of van der Waals Epitaxial Strain	$379,217	National Science Foundation
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Ontology-Enabled Polymer Nanocomposite Open Community Data Resource	$500,000	National Science Foundation - CIF21 DIBBs: PD
Schenectady Community Action Program: Early Head Start Child Care Partnership	$1,246,700	HHS Administration for Children and Families
Siena College: Searches for New Physics with the CMS Detector at the LHC	$70,000	National Science Foundation - RUI
Skidmore College: Evolution of Bacterial Asparaginyl-tRNA Synthesis	$315,488	National Science Foundation - RUI
SUNY Albany: Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)	$46,000	National Science Foundation
SUNY Albany: Intraseasonal Extratropical Precursors to the Indian Ocean Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) Proximate to Africa	$486,419	National Science Foundation
SUNY Albany: Machine Learning on Dynamical Systems via Topological Features	$101,672	National Science Foundation - CDS&E: Collaborative Research
SUNY Polytechnic Institute: Machine Learning on Dynamical Systems via Topological Features	$93,111	National Science Foundation - CDS&E: Collaborative Research
Westerlo Volunteer Fire Company: Personal Protective Equipment	$124,861	FEMA Assistance to Firefighters
Yankee Trails, Inc.: Intercity Bus Security Grant Program	$38,509	Department of Homeland Security
TOTAL	$25,896,850

Featured Funding Opportunities and Grant Assistance:

National Endowment for the Arts staff will give a 30-minute presentation on the FY 2017 Our Town on Wednesday, July 20 at 3:00 PM. The webinar will include grant guidelines, how to apply, and an overview of the review process. The presentation will be followed by a 30-minute Q&A session. The webinar will include guidelines for the Arts Engagement, Cultural Planning, and Design Projects as well as the Projects that Build Knowledge about Creative Placemaking. Potential applicants are encouraged to attend live to have their questions answered by Our Town Program Staff. You will be muted and able to ask questions using the Q&A box. Click here to register.

National Endowment for the Arts staff will give a presentation to assist applicants in crafting a compelling creative placemaking project application on Wednesday, July 27 at 3:00 PM. The presentation will include an overview of creative placemaking resources, sample successful projects, the mechanics of a competitive Our Town proposal, and how to articulate anticipated project outcomes. The presentation will be followed by a Q & A session. Click here to register.

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