Federal Grant Opportunities

This summary has been brought to you by the Office of Congressman Paul D. Tonko (NY-20).

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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
Albany Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$548,808	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Albany Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$418,461	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Albany Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$418,489	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Albany Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$1,131,512	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Amsterdam Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$43,245	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Amsterdam Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$43,249	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Amsterdam Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$59,041	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Amsterdam Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$132,992	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Capital District Center for Independence: Independent Living Grants	$61,353	Administration For Community Living / Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AIDD)
Cohoes Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$58,173	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Cohoes Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$58,178	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Cohoes Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$58,337	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Cohoes Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$96,356	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Erie Canalway Heritage Fund: Erie Canalway Heritage Area	$775,720	National Park Service
GE Global Research: A Low-Cost Heat Pump with Advanced Refrigerant/Absorbent Separation	$1,100,000	Dept. of Energy - Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy (ARPA-E)
Mechanicville Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$26,133	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Mechanicville Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$26,135	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Mechanicville Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$31,505	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Mechanicville Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$67,886	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
NYS Department of Education: Independent Living State Grants	$1,259,160	Administration For Community Living / Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AIDD)
NYS Office of Children and Family Services: Independent Living State Grants	$322,412	Administration For Community Living / Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AIDD)
Rensselaer Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$31,059	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Rensselaer Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$31,282	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Rensselaer Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$36,043	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Rensselaer Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$73,435	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship PML-PL	$5,500	National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Saratoga Springs Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$59,495	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Saratoga Springs Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$58,216	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Saratoga Springs Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$60,222	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Saratoga Springs Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$129,282	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Schenectady Municipal Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$255,289	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Schenectady Municipal Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$258,430	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Schenectady Municipal Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$258,449	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Schenectady Municipal Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$565,811	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Sixty State Place, LLC (Albany): Certified Rehabilitation Work on Historic Buildings	$6,500,000	National Park Service - Federal Historic Tax Credits
SUNY Albany: Lake Sediments as Records of Atmospheric Elemental Carbon ~1900 to 2014	$151,330	National Science Foundation
SUNY Albany: The 19th Conversation to be held on June 9-13, 2015 at the State University of New York, Albany	$10,000	National Science Foundation - Conferences
SUNY Albany: The Role of Uncertainty in Waveguide Perturbations on Midlatitude Predictability with DOWNSTREAM	$318,277	National Science Foundation
Troy Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$237,295	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Troy Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$237,311	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Troy Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$256,761	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Troy Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$521,224	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Watervliet Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$38,894	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Watervliet Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$38,897	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Watervliet Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$35,927	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Watervliet Housing Authority: Operating Subsidy	$78,005	HUD - Public Housing Operating Fund
Western Turnpike Rescue Squad: Personal Protective Equipment	$23,193	FEMA Assistance to Firefighters
Whitney M. Young, Jr., Health Center: Affordable Care Act Funding	$600,000	HHS - Health Resources and Services Administration
Whitney M. Young, Jr., Health Center: OP Early Intervention Services with Respect to HIV Disease	$403,254	HHS - Health Resources and Services Administration
TOTAL	$18,010,026

Featured Funding Opportunities and Grant Assistance:

This spring, the National Endowment for the Humanities is launching two new grant programs and a collaboration with the Veterans History Project (VHP) at the Library of Congress. The new grant programs are part of Chairman Adams’ special initiative, The Common Good: The Humanities in The Public Square. The collaboration with VHP is part of NEH’s Standing Together initiative, which connects veterans with humanities programming.

The USDA Rural Development Community Facility Loan Program for Fiscal Year 2014 has an abundance of low interest loan money available (current interest rate is 4.0 percent). It is expected that this funding will continue in Fiscal Year 2015. Under the CF Program loans/grants can be made to public bodies and non- profit organizations, located in areas with a population of 20,000 or less. The program helps communities provide vital services and amenities for their residents and visitors. This includes fire and rescue support services (such as fire halls, fire trucks, ambulances, and equipment), town halls, town barns, libraries, health care (hospitals, clinics, medical office buildings), museums, and schools. Additional information can also be found online at http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/HAD-CF_Loans.html.

$2500 Prize for New SBIR/STTR Logo Design- The competition will run pursuant to the America Competes Act, and encourages the amazingly creative community in the United States to create a thoughtful and imaginative visual representation of the government's largest innovation effort focused on research-driven, innovative and cutting-edge small businesses. All details, rules, registration and submission instructions about the logo competition are available here until May 29.

TheHarvard Business School has partnered with the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Economic Development Administration to create theU.S. Cluster Mapping Project,a valuable tool for cluster-based economic development. The site provides open data records on industry clusters and regional business environments that will inform and empower local governments and private businesses alike to boost regional economic competitiveness.

The NADO Research Foundation, a Sustainable Communities Initiative (SCI) capacity builder, has released a series of video interviews featuring grantee stories from smaller metros and rural communities. These grantees reflected on the impact of the HUD grants on their regions and discussed implementation while covering issues ranging from economic development, renewable energy, health care, education, tourism, food systems, and many others. Watch the interviews here to learn more about the transformative work supported by HUD SCI grants in communities around the country.

The latest issue of Foundation Center Arts Funding Watch is now available.

The latest issue of Foundation Center Education Funding Watch is now available.

The latest issue of Philanthropy News Digest is now available.

The latest issue of Philanthropy News Digest RFP Bulletin is now available.

The Department of Commerce Week at Glance: Demonstrating the Power of Trade and Entrepreneurship Edition is now available.

The Small Business Administration Bulletin May 4^th Edition is now available.

The Small Business Administration Bulletin National SBIR/STTR Conference Edition is now available.

The Small Business Administration Bulletin May 17^th Edition is now available.

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