EMPOWER II (Enhancing and Making Programs and Outcomes Work to End Rape)

The summary for the EMPOWER II (Enhancing and Making Programs and Outcomes Work to End Rape) grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. 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 as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

EMPOWER II (Enhancing and Making Programs and Outcomes Work to End Rape): CDCs Procurement and Grants Office has published a funding opportunity announcement entitled, "EMPOWER II (Enhancing and Making Programs and Outcomes Work to End Rape)" Approximately $480,000 will be available in fiscal year 2009 to fund 6 awards. The purposes of this announcement are to (1) build states individual and sexual violence prevention system capacity to evaluate and sustain sexual violence primary prevention strategies using an empowerment evaluation approach, (2) develop and implement a process evaluation, outcome evaluation, continuous quality improvement (CQI) and sustainability state plans using an empowerment evaluation approach, (3) build local and state capacity to collect and utilize evaluation data using an empowerment evaluation approach, (4) have EMPOWER II grantees provide support to non-EMPOWER II RPE grantees (RPE grantees can be found at www.ncipc.gov/ncipc) by sharing processes, tools, and lessons learned via CDC sponsored web conferences, listservs and RPE Grantee Meetings. For complete program details, please see the full announcement on the CDC website at http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/CE09-902.htm The estimated funding date is prior to February 1, 2009.