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ED-GRANTS-010721-001: Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS): Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA): Rehabilitation Training: Disability Innovation Fund: Career Advancement Initiative Model Demonstration Project Assistance Listing Number 84.421C

Closed Closed April 8, 2021 Opportunity ED-GRANTS-010721-001 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$18.3 million
• Award floor$3.5 million
• Total funding$110 million
• Expected awards31
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

1. Eligible Applicants: State VR agencies or State VR agencies applying as a consortium under 34 CFR 75.128.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Disability Innovation Fund (DIF) awards averaged $10.7 million; this notice allows up to $18.3 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (73% over five years) went to state and local governments.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

Note: Each funding opportunity description is a synopsis of information in the Federal Register application notice. For specific information about eligibility, please see the official application notice. The official version of this document is the document published in the Federal Register. Free Internet access to the official edition of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations is available on GPO Access at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/index.html. Please review the official application notice for pre-application and application requirements, application submission information, performance measures, priorities and program contact information. For the addresses for obtaining and submitting an application, please refer to our Common Instructions for Applicants to Department of Education Discretionary Grant Programs, published in the Federal Register on February 13, 2019 (84 FR 3768),or at www.govinfo.gov/​content/​pkg/​FR-2019-02-13/​pdf/​2019-02206.pdf. Purpose of Program: The purpose of the Disability Innovation Fund (DIF) Program, as provided by the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Pub. L. 116-94), is to support innovative activities aimed at improving the outcomes of individuals with disabilities, as defined in section 7(20)(B) of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, including activities aimed at improving the education and post-school outcomes of children receiving SSI and their families that may result in long-term improvement in the SSI child recipient's economic status and self-sufficiency. Assistance Listing Number 84.421C. 02/19/2021- Updated Closing Date and Intergovernmental Date 02/19/2021 per the correction notice at https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2021-02-19/pdf/2021-03430.pdf

Category: Education.

Applying now

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