Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) Promoting the Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE) CFDA Number 84.418P | Apply Online

Opportunity Information: Apply for ED GRANTS 052113 001

• The Department of Education in the education sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) Promoting the Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE) CFDA Number 84.418P" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 84.418 Promoting Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income.
• This funding opportunity was created on May 21, 2013 and posted on May 21, 2013.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 19, 2013 Applications Available May 21, 2013. Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply June 20, 2013. Notice of Intent To Apply ED will be able to develop a more efficient process for reviewing grant applications if it has a better understanding of the number of entities that intend to apply for funding under this competition. Therefore, we strongly encourage each potential applicant to notify ED by sending a short email message indicating the applicants intent to submit an application for funding. If the applicant is submitting an application on behalf of a consortium also indicate the States that will be involved. The email need not include information regarding the content of the proposed application. This email notification should be sent to Corinne Weidenthal at [email protected]. Applicants that fail to provide this email notification may still apply for funding. Dates of Pre Application Webinars May 30, 2013 and June 4, 2013.Dates of Pre Application Webinars Interested parties are invited to participate in pre application webinars. The pre application webinars with staff from ED and its Federal PROMISE partners will be held on May 30, 2013 and June 4, 2013 and a teleconference will be held on June 27, 2013, between 200 p.m. and 330 p.m., Washington, DC time. Date of Pre Application Teleconference June 27, 2013. For further information about the pre application webinars and teleconference, see the PROMISE Web site at www.ed.gov/promise. Deadline for Transmittal of Applications August 19, 2013.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2024.)
• The funding agency has allocated a total of $100,000,000.00 to eligible and selected applicants.
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $50,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 3 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
• 1. Eligible Applicants Eligible applicants are the 50 States and the District of Columbia. A consortium of States may also apply. A grantee, subgrantee, or partner under this program is not eligible to receive funding for the SSA national evaluation contract. An applicant must meet the following requirements to be eligible to compete for funding under this program (a) Single State applicant. A single State with adequate child SSI recipients, as described in paragraph (d) of this section, may apply. The State applicant must (1) Designate a lead coordinating entity, which must be a State agency and (2) Submit an application that has been signed by the States Governor and the administrative head of the States lead coordinating entity. (b) Consortium of States applicant. A consortium of States may apply in order to meet the minimum sample size eligibility requirement, as described in paragraph (d) of this section. (1) One of the States participating in the consortium must submit an application on behalf of the consortium (2) Each of the consortium States must designate a lead coordinating entity, which must be a State agency (3) The application must be signed by the Governor of each State and the administrative head of each States lead coordinating entity (4) The applicant on behalf of the consortium is the grantee and is legally responsible for the use of all grant funds and ensuring that the project is carried out by the consortium in accordance with Federal requirements (5) Each member of the consortium is legally responsible to carry out the activities it agrees to perform (EDGAR, 34 CFR 75.129) and (6) Each State participating in the consortium must have partnerships with at least three common agencies (or equivalent for administering common programs). (Described in Partnerships under paragraph (a) of the Project Activities section of this notice.) (7) Each State participating in the consortium must provide the coordinated set of required and other services and supports as proposed in the application (described in paragraph (b) of the Application Requirements section of this notice.) This set of coordinated services and supports must be the same across all States in the consortium. (c) Lead coordinating entity. The lead coordinating entity must partner with other State agencies and is encouraged to partner with local agencies and organizations that play or have the potential to play a substantial role in the development and implementation of policies and practices affecting child SSI recipients and their families (see Partnerships under the Project Activities section of this notice and the related application requirements). (d) Minimum sample size. The State or consortium of States must have a sufficient number of children between the ages of 14 and 16 who receive SSI to, within two years of the start of the project, recruit the minimum sample size of 2,000 child SSI recipients into the MDP and begin providing MDP interventions to half of those recruited. This sample size is necessary to assess the effectiveness of each MDP. If the MDP chooses to exceed the minimum sample size, half of the child SSI recipients must still be assigned to the treatment group and half to the control group. Each MDP will be evaluated separately because ED and its Federal PROMISE partners expect grantees to vary in their approaches to implementing PROMISE (see the Evaluation and Project Assessment Activities section of this notice).

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