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The Office of Tribal Affairs and Policy and the Office of Financial Resources at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) will be offering a webinar series specifically designed for tribes, tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations on how to develop a competitive SAMHSA grant application on Wednesday, March 27 from 2-3:30 p.m. EDT. The series was developed in response to feedback from tribal representatives and will clarify what is and is not required in submitting grant applications to SAMHSA.

The series will address:

·     The four registration processes that need to be completed;

·     Preparing to apply for a grant;

·     Key components of the funding opportunity announcement;

·     Responding effectively to the evaluation criteria;

·     Completing the budget; and

·     Resources and technical assistance that are available.

Event Address for Attendees: Click Here

Conference number: PWXW8906841

Audience passcode: 1922828

If you would like to receive the slides prior to the webinar, please contact Beverly Vayhinger at beverly.vayhinger@samhsa.hhs.gov

NCAI Contact Info: Nick Courtney, Policy Analysis, ncourtney@ncai.org

April 1 – 5

In recognition of the American Public Health Association’s (APHA) National Public Health Week, the National Indian Health Board (NIHB) is celebrating Tribal Public Health Week from April 1st-5th! Join them throughout the week by participating in one of their activities.

You can find and register for each day’s activities here.

NCAI Contact: Nick Courtney, Policy Analysis, ncourtney@ncai.org

Tribal-Researcher Capacity Building Grants

This grant program is intended to support research involving tribal nations on issues of crime and justice in the United States. The goal of this solicitation is to build an increased capability to conduct rigorous research and evaluation projects in Indian Country and Alaska Native villages through the promotion of engagement between researchers and tribal nations.

These grants provide funds to develop new and innovative criminal justice research projects involving federally recognized tribes (or tribally-based organizations), and that represent a new tribal researcher investigator partnership. For the purposes of this solicitation, a new partnership is defined as a newly developed partnership where a partnership did not previously exist. Applications are due May 13, 2019.

Click here to view the website.

FOA Number: NIJ-2019-15203

For more information, and to view the full solicitation, please click here.

NCAI Contact Info: Nicholas Courtney, Policy Analyst, ncourtney@ncai.org

This grant program is intended to prevent underage drinking. At their discretion, grantees may also use funds to target up to two additional, data-driven substance abuse prevention priorities, such as the use of marijuana, cocaine, opioids, or methamphetamine, etc. Applications are due March 29, 2019.

Eligibility is limited to 1) federally recognized American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) tribes, tribal organizations, Urban Indian Organizations, or consortia of tribes or tribal organizations and 2) domestic public or private non-profit entities. Recipients who have received funding under SP-16-003 and SP-18-008 are not eligible to apply for funding under this FOA.

Find website information here.

FOA Number: SP-19-004

NCAI Contact Info: Nicholas Courtney, Policy Analyst, ncourtney@ncai.org

The national Democracy Funders Collaborative Census Subgroup is offering a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Census Equity Fund. The Fund is designed to support Census preparation and outreach in regions of the country with high proportions of historically undercounted populations and relatively fewer philanthropic resources. In the initial rounds, the Fund is prioritizing applications from states in the South and Southwest, plus several additional states with substantial Native Alaska or Native American populations (please see the attached RFP for a full list).

Proposals are due on April 8, 2019 and may be submitted from funder collaboratives, nonprofit collaboratives or individual organizations. The Fund is prioritizing proposals that demonstrate coordination or collaboration with other entities to conduct a comprehensive outreach campaign in a state or region.

Priority Regions

The Census Subgroup sought to identify how the limited dollars in the Census Equity Fund could be leveraged for greatest impact. The Census Subgroup assessed each states’ numbers of people in hard-to-count census tracts. They also examined data on American Indian/Alaska Native populations, recognizing that these populations had a high undercount in the 2010 census and also tend to have fewer philanthropic resources dedicated to their communities. Based on this analysis, the Census Subgroup will prioritize proposals in the initial RFP rounds from the following states:

Alabama      Mississippi      Oklahoma

Alaska          Montana         South Carolina

Arkansas      Nevada           South Dakota

Arizona         New Mexico   Tennessee

Florida          North Carolina Texas

Georgia        North Dakota  Virginia

Louisiana

See the full RFP for information on funded activities, timeline, and selection criteria.

If you have any questions, please email Amy Dominguez-Arms at amydarms@gmail.com.

Please submit your proposals to Amy Dominguez-Arms at amydarms@gmail.com by April 8, 2019.

NCAI Contact Info: Amber Ebarb, Program Manager, aebarb@ncai.org