Area Poverty Research Centers

The summary for the Area Poverty Research Centers Federal Grant is detailed below. It contains information such as the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number, the government agency offering the grant, funding award amounts, and important deadlines. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed in the Grant Announcement Contact section.

Federal Grant Title:	Area Poverty Research Centers
CFDA Number:	93.239
CFDA Description:	Policy Research and Evaluation Grants
Federal Agency Name:	Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Category of Funding Activity:	Community Development Income Security and Social Services
Category Explanation:	Information not provided
Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
Funding Opportunity Number:	HHS-GRANTS-062305-001
Document Type:	Modification to Previous Grants Notice
Funding Instrument Type:	Cooperative Agreement
Posted Date:	Jul 11, 2005
Creation Date:	Jul 11, 2005
Original Closing Date for Applications:	Aug 04, 2005 45 days after date of publication in The Federal Register
Current Closing Date for Applications:	Information not provided
Archive Date:	Sep 22, 2005
Expected Number of Awards:	3
Estimated Total Program Funding:	$1,200,000
Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	$500,000
Federal Grant Award Floor:	Information not provided
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	Yes

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education Private institutions of higher education
Additional Information on Eligibility: Information not provided
Grant Description: A. Purpose The purpose of this announcement is to report the availability of funds to support cooperative agreements for area poverty research centers. HHS has had a long history supporting research and evaluation of important and emerging social policy issues associated with the nature, causes, correlates, and effects of income dynamics, poverty, individual and family functioning and child well-being. ASPE supports a national poverty center at the University of Michigan. The national poverty center conducts a broad program of policy research and mentoring of emerging scholars to describe and analyze national, regional and state environment (e.g., economics, demographics) and policies affecting the poor, particularly those families with children who are poor or at-risk of being poor. ASPE also supports three area poverty centers which focus on issues of regional or state interest. They are housed at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the University of Kentucky, and the University of Missouri. These awards (cooperative agreements) replace the current cooperative agreements with the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University of Wisconsin, the Rural Poverty Research Center at the University of Missouri and the Center for Poverty Research at the University of Kentucky. Central to the mission of the area poverty research centers is capacity building-supporting faculty research and faculty training; enhancing campus-wide awareness of issues related to poverty; and supporting and mentoring students in poverty and low- income policy related careers. Work of the current poverty centers includes: (1) Expanding the knowledge of the causes and consequences of poverty as well as responses to ameliorate poverty and its impacts on Americans, (2) providing a core of multi-disciplinary researchers, as well as a network of scholars who focus their research on poverty and the poor, (3) developing and training of future social science researchers whose work focuses on poverty and the poor, (4) continuation of the work on the improvement of methods and data to permit a fuller understanding of the causes and consequences of poverty and the social policies and programs meant to alleviate it, and (5) maintaining a network for the dissemination of findings to the policy and research communities through newsletters, working papers, special reports and briefings. Information on the current centers is available on their respective Web sites: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp; http://www.rprconline.org; and http://www.ukcpr.org/Index1.html. We expect the centers funded under this announcement to provide leadership through innovative applied research, evaluation, and mentoring to increase the number and diversity of poverty scholars and heighten awareness of poverty-related issues for all students by bringing relevant content into the classroom. The winning applicant(s) will be expected to carry out a program that continues a strong scholarly tradition and concern for poverty. There are no specific projects that must be continued from the current Centers under this award.
Link to Full Grant Announcement: Area Poverty Research Center Cooperative Agreements
http://aspe.hhs.gov/info/funding.shtml
Grant Announcement Contact: Berlin, Kimberley, Information Dissemination Coordinator , Phone 202-690-5951 , Email kimberly.berlin@hhs.gov kimberly.berlin@hhs.gov Berlin, Kimberley
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