Broward County Human Services Department Grants Team
REVIEW FINDINGS SUMMARY:

Grant Title:	**Recovery Act: Community Infrastructure
Funder's NOFA:	http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-09-010.html#EligInstitutions
Agency Name:	US Dept of Health/Human Svcs
Grant Type:	Discretionary
Total Amount:	Up to $30 million in FY2009-2010 to fund 30 or more grants.
Solicitation Date:	9/18/2009
Due Date:	12/11/2009
Eligibility:	Institutions of Higher Education; Hispanic-serving Institutions; Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities; Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions; Nonprofits; Small Businesses; For-Profits; State Governments; Tribal Governments; County Governments; City or Township Governments; Public Housing Authorities; Faith-based or Community-based Organizations
Purpose:	To support building sustainable community-linked infrastructure to enable health sciences research. Grant funds will be used to support the development or reconfiguration of the infrastructures necessary to build collaborations between academic health centers and community-based organizations. The relationships formed should help to transform and accelerate the pace, productivity, dissemination, and implementation of health sciences research.

Preliminary Review Comments:
Letters of intent due: November 12; Full proposals due December 11, 2009. All researchers, community members and other persons interested in submitting an application in response to this "Grand Opportunities" RFA are strongly encouraged to attend the technical assistance meeting either in person or online. The workshops/videocasts will be held Friday, October 23rd at *10:30 am-1:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), *And 2:00-4:30 pm (EDT). http://videocast.nih.gov

For more information contact:
Nicole Franza, SGRS, 954-357-5595 or nfranza@broward.org