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HHS-2021-ACF-ORR-RP-1908: Preferred Communities (PC) Program

Closed Closed June 21, 2021 Opportunity HHS-2021-ACF-ORR-RP-1908 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. Who won this program's grants before is below, and similar open grants are at the end of the page. It is in our archive of Administration for Children and Families - ORR notices from 2021.

• Award ceiling$4.5 million
• Award floor$1.5 million
• Total funding$32.0 million
• Expected awards9
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to nonprofits, colleges and universities, state and local governments and tribes.

Eligible applicants for refugee programs under § 412 (c)(1)(A), 8 U.S.C.§1522 (c)(1)(A) are "public and private nonprofit agencies." Applications from individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligible and will be disqualified from competitive review and from funding under this funding opportunity announcement. Faith-based and community organizations that meet the eligibility requirements are eligible to receive awards under this funding opportunity announcement.

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Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Refugee and Entrant Assistance Discretionary Grants awards averaged $3.4 million; this notice allows up to $4.5 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (90% over five years) went to nonprofits.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

MODIFICATION: ORR has modified the FOA from its original version to extend the due date to June 21, 2021 to reflect the observation of Juneteenth on June 18, 2021. This is the only modification to the announcement. The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) announces funding for the Preferred Communities (PC) Program to support the resettlement of especially vulnerable populations of newly arrived refugees in preferred locations to facilitate their achievement of self-sufficiency. Services under the PC Program include, but are not limited to, intensive case management, culturally and linguistically appropriate linkages, and coordination with other service providers to improve these refugees' access to services. The goal of the PC Program is the successful resettlement and integration of especially vulnerable groups of newly and longer-term refugee arrivals (and other ORR client populations). The PC Program encompasses a comprehensive approach for refugee self-sufficiency and integration with the following four objectives: 1. To facilitate the achievement of self-sufficiency of especially vulnerable refugee populations with special needs. 2. To support, through the use of pass-through funds to affiliates and implementing partners, the development of PC Programs' capacity to assist special-needs refugee clients who require intensive case management. 3. To provide resources for PC Programs to develop new capacity for placement and to cover the costs of changing community placements so that refugees, including those with special or unique needs, are resettled in particular sites where they will have optimal chances of attaining self-sufficiency and of integrating in their new communities. 4. To alleviate the impact of increased or unanticipated arrivals in communities where state formula funds have not been allocated or are inadequate.

Category: Income Security and Social Services.

Applying now

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