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Primary applicants may submit one application in response to this NOFO.

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The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor, Office of International Religious Freedom (IRF) announces an open competition for organizations interested in submitting applications for a program to provide emergency financial assistance to victims of religious persecution and defenders of religious freedom. 

IRF promotes religious freedom as a core objective of U.S. foreign policy that makes America stronger, safer, and more prosperous. IRF’s mission is guided by its statutory mandate established by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (IRF Act) and the Frank Wolf International Religious Freedom Act of 2016 (Wolf Act). The IRF Act provides that it is the policy of the United States, “standing for liberty and standing with the persecuted, to...promote respect for religious freedom by all governments and peoples.” To that end, the Wolf Act calls for the State Department to issue foreign assistance awards to promote respect for religious freedom and combat religious freedom violations.

As declared in President Trump’s Executive Order 13926, the promotion of international religious freedom is a “national security imperative” and “a foreign policy priority of the United States.” Pursuant to that Executive Order, IRF funds foreign assistance programs to “anticipate, prevent, and respond to attacks against individuals and groups on the basis of their religion, including programs designed to help ensure that such groups can persevere as distinct communities; to promote accountability for the perpetrators of such attacks; to ensure equal rights and legal protections for individuals and groups regardless of belief; to improve the safety and security of houses of worship and public spaces for all faiths; and to protect and preserve the cultural heritages of religious communities.”

Information on religious freedom conditions globally can be found in the State Department’s annual International Religious Freedom Report.

Applicants will be responsible for ensuring program activities and products are implemented in accordance with the Establishment Clause of the United States Constitution.

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CO-PIs: Z. Chen (Public Health) and T. Saljuqi (Surgery) 

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An organization can submit only one application as the Lead Organization. Eligible organizations are welcome to collaborate with nonprofit organizations, companies, foundations, schools, colleges and universities, government agencies, individuals, and other entities (either U.S.-based or non-U.S.-based) to develop the solution. An organization can also serve as a partner on a team for multiple applications provided that each application proposes a separate, distinct solution

About the Challenge 
Building on its long-standing commitment to improve lives and communities, the Elevance Health Foundation recently launched a new initiative: Community Action Leadership. This initiative brings together external thought leaders from across a range of disciplines. Through their collective expertise and resources, the Foundation is addressing large-scale community health needs and incentivizing action for change. The inaugural Community Action Leadership challenge focuses on patient safety.

The Patient Safety Prize invites pioneering solutions in three key areas:

• Empowering Health Literacy for Safer Patient Care
• Innovating to Eliminate Medication Errors
• Promoting Fall-Free Futures

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M. Reimann (Marketing)

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Organizations can submit up to one application to the FY27 Research Labs funding opportunity. 

• Applicants to the FY27 Research Labs funding opportunity may apply to other FY27 NEA funding opportunities (applications submitted in CY2026), including Research Grants in the Arts. Each proposal must be for a distinctly different project.
• An organization may receive up to one FY27 award in either the Research Labs program or the Research Grants in the Arts program. 

Program Description
The NEA Research Labs program is a funding opportunity under the NEA’s Research Awards initiative. The program funds long-term research agendas (referred to herein as NEA Research Labs, or Labs) that include multiple empirical studies and the dissemination of various products or services for promoting public knowledge about the arts and their contributions to American life. Each Lab must include an interdisciplinary team of researchers. Products or services developed under the award are expected to be of value to arts researchers, arts practitioners, and professionals in sectors such as healthcare, education, and business or management. Funded projects should have national, regional, or field-wide significance.  Projects supported through this program include: 

1.  Arts and Health. Includes studies that will test or characterize the benefits of the arts or arts and health activities—including creative arts therapies—in terms of health and wellbeing for people or communities. The NEA has a special interest in supporting such projects in the following contexts: • Military personnel, veterans, and their families •
   • Pediatric cancer care and other childhood diseases
   • Opioid use prevention, treatment, and recovery
   • Disaster relief and emergency response and preparedness
   • Care of older adults experiencing cognitive or neurodegenerative declines
2. Arts and the Economy. Includes studies that will test or characterize the benefits of the arts or arts activities in terms of economic or workforce development.
   • The NEA has a special interest in supporting such projects involving the arts in Artificial Intelligence (AI) competency training, in career development for people with disabilities, and/or in preparation for high-paying skilled trade jobs of the future.
3. Arts and Education. Includes studies that will test or characterize the benefits of the arts or arts activities in terms of school readiness, school engagement, or academic achievement among children from preschool through high school.
   • The NEA has a special interest in supporting such projects for learners with autism spectrum disorder or intellectual disabilities. 

Applicants seeking funding solely for discrete research studies and the promotion of their results should instead apply to the Research Grants in the Arts program. 

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An applicant may submit only one application in response to this NOFO.

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The purpose of the FY2025 Survey of Public Defenders (SPD), a nationally representative data collection of public defense attorneys, is to implement a full national collection of the SPD using the survey instrument and recommendations from the 2021 SPD pilot study and 2024 Census of Public Defender Offices (CPDO) frame as the universe for the sample. The goal of the FY2025 SPD is to collect and disseminate national statistics and data about the characteristics, activities, and workload of the estimated 15,000 public defenders in the United States. Please see the Eligible Applicants section for the eligibility criteria. 

OJP is committed to advancing work that furthers DOJ’s mission to uphold the rule of law, to keep our country safe, and to protect civil rights. OJP provides federal leadership, funding, and other critical resources to directly support law enforcement, combat violent crime, protect American children, provide services to American crime victims, and address public safety challenges, including human trafficking and the opioid crisis

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You may submit more than one application to the NLG-L Program; however, you may not submit the same proposal under more than one project type. You may only submit one proposal to the Community-Centered Implementation project type. 

Executive Summary 
National Leadership Grants for Libraries (NLG-L) projects enhance the quality of library services nationwide. The program supports projects that:  

• manage and preserve the national information infrastructure;  
• serve the public’s information and education needs;  
• enhance library and information services through effective and efficient use of new and emerging technologies;  
• improve community prosperity;  
• provide emergency services to communities during disasters and emergencies; and  
• build collaborative partnerships between libraries, archives, and museums that benefit the communities they serve.  

The models, tools, research findings, services, and partnerships resulting from these awards can be widely used, adapted, scaled, or replicated to extend and maximize the benefit of Federal investment to libraries and archives of all sizes. 

Eligibility is restricted to organizations that are: 

• Located in the United States or any U.S. Territories or freely associated States; AND
• A unit of state, local or Tribal government or a private, nonprofit organization; AND
• One of seven types of qualifying organizations:  

1. A library or a parent organization, such as a school district, a municipality, a State agency, or an academic institution, that is responsible for the administration of a library.
2. An academic or administrative unit, such as a graduate school of library and information science that is part of an institution of higher education through which it would apply;
3. A digital library or archives, if it makes materials publicly available and provides library or archival services, including selection, organization, description, reference, and preservation, under the supervision of at least one permanent professional staff librarian/archivist;
4. A library or archival agency that is an official agency of a State, Tribal, or other unit of government and is charged by the law governing it with the extension and development of public library and archives services within its jurisdiction;
5. A library or archives consortium that is a local, statewide, regional, interstate, or international cooperative association of library or archives entities that provides for the systematic and effective coordination of the resources of eligible libraries or archives, as defined above, and information centers that work to improve the services delivered to the clientele of these libraries or archives; or
6. A library or archives association that exists on a permanent basis; primarily serves libraries, archives, or library or archival professionals on a national, regional, state, or local level; and engages in activities designed to advance the well-being of libraries, archives, and the library, and archives professions.
7. A nonprofit organization affiliated with a library or archives whose sole mission includes supporting the specified library or archives, has the ability to administer the project, and can ensure compliance with the terms of this NOFO and the applicable law, including the IMLS Assurances and Certifications. We require that you provide an agreement from the library or archives that details the activities the applicant and library will perform and binds the library to the statements and assurances in the application.   

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You may submit more than one application to the LB21 Program; however, you may not submit the same proposal under more than one project type. You may only submit one proposal to the Community-Centered Implementation project type. 

Program Overview
Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian (LB21) projects build a library and archival workforce that can meet the information needs of communities and increase the institutional capacity of libraries, archives, and library and information science graduate programs across the country.  The program supports projects that:  

• provide training and professional development to library and archives professionals;  
• develop faculty and information leaders; and
• recruit, educate, and retain the next generation of library and archives professionals.  

Projects can support the recruitment, education, training, and retention of preprofessionals, students, faculty, and the current library and archives workforce.  

Eligibility is restricted to organizations that are: 

• Located in the United States or any U.S. Territories or freely associated States; AND
• A unit of state, local or Tribal government or a private, nonprofit organization; AND
• One of seven types of qualifying organizations:  

1. A library or a parent organization, such as a school district, a municipality, a State agency, or an academic institution, that is responsible for the administration of a library.
2. An academic or administrative unit, such as a graduate school of library and information science that is part of an institution of higher education through which it would apply;
3. A digital library or archives, if it makes materials publicly available and provides library or archival services, including selection, organization, description, reference, and preservation, under the supervision of at least one permanent professional staff librarian/archivist;
4. A library or archival agency that is an official agency of a State, Tribal, or other unit of government and is charged by the law governing it with the extension and development of public library and archives services within its jurisdiction;
5. A library or archives consortium that is a local, statewide, regional, interstate, or international cooperative association of library or archives entities that provides for the systematic and effective coordination of the resources of eligible libraries or archives, as defined above, and information centers that work to improve the services delivered to the clientele of these libraries or archives; or
6. A library or archives association that exists on a permanent basis; primarily serves libraries, archives, or library or archival professionals on a national, regional, state, or local level; and engages in activities designed to advance the well-being of libraries, archives, and the library, and archives professions.
7. A nonprofit organization affiliated with a library or archives whose sole mission includes supporting the specified library or archives, has the ability to administer the project, and can ensure compliance with the terms of this NOFO and the applicable law, including the IMLS Assurances and Certifications. We require that you provide an agreement from the library or archives that details the activities the applicant and library will perform and binds the library to the statements and assurances in the application.   

The University of Arizona is not eligible to apply to this cycle as the NEA limits one application per applicant per calendar year. The University of Arizona's institutional submission was utilized in the February cycle (GAP 1). 

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An institution may submit only one application in response to this RFP.  

Background
The first heart transplant was performed in 1967, one of the most extraordinary feats of modern medicine. The system that supports it, however, has failed to evolve significantly since then, with none of the astonishing novel therapies we see being developed in other areas of medicine. Despite decades of innovation in almost all the other cardiovascular spheres, heart transplant care remains fragmented, inequitable, and frustratingly stagnant. Patients face ongoing cardiac rejection with imprecise methods to detect the immunologic process, potentially toxic immunosuppressive regimens which have not been updated substantially for two decades, and inconsistent outcomes—especially among Black recipients and pediatric populations. Data are siloed, research is underfunded, and quality improvement is virtually nonexistent. The majority of clinical practice guideline recommendations are driven by consensus rather than an evolving catalog of evidence. 

There is no unified national data infrastructure that can support retrospective and prospective research, no standardized quality improvement framework, and no coordinated research agenda to address these challenges. In short, we are crawling in one of the most high-stakes areas of healthcare. 

The American Heart Association is launching a bold, multi-phase initiative to transform heart transplantation care across the United States, a transformation in treatment built on three pillars: 

• A Global Heart Transplant Data Infrastructure In collaboration with key transplant organizations, the American Heart Association will manage a comprehensive heart transplant database, designed not as a static registry, but as a dynamic, harmonized data platform to drive research, quality improvement, and policy change.
• A Research Network for Breakthrough Science We are now recruiting from leading institutions to launch a research network focused on rejection detection, remote monitoring, viral load surveillance, and innovative, safer therapies. This network will be the sandbox for high-impact studies, including planning grants for clinical trials in immune tolerance, and chronic rejection.
• A Quality Improvement Infrastructure Modeled after our Get With The Guidelines® success, we will build a scalable Quality Improvement (QI) framework to standardize transplant care, reduce disparities, and improve long-term outcomes. This will drive system-wide change. 

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Applicants can submit one application in response to the NOFO.  If more than one application is submitted by an organization, only the final application received, and time stamped by grants.gov will be reviewed for eligibility.  Each application can include multiple projects that will be evaluated independently.  

Executive Summary
Priority of Regions:

1. Western Hemisphere (WHA)
2. East Asia and the Pacific (EAP)
3. South and Central Asian (SCA)
4. Europe and Eurasia (EUR)
5. Middle East and North Africa (NEA)
6. Africa (AF)

The Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) is a key component of the Department’s and ACN’s efforts to advance the Administration’s top national security and foreign policy objectives in a cost-effective and impactful manner.  CTR uses programming and training with foreign partners to advance President Trump’s America First Investment Policy (NSPM-3) and America’s AI Action plan by disrupting the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) exploitation of critical U.S. intellectual property (IP) and dual-use technologies, including AI, biotechnologies, quantum, semiconductor, and space technologies, through research security, cybersecurity and IP protection training.  As the programmatic lead for the Foundational Infrastructure for the Responsible Use of Small Modular Reactor [SMR] Technology (FIRST) program, CTR implements Section 8(e) of EO 14299 on Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security by helping U.S. vendors deploy secure, safe U.S. SMRs to strategic regions, including Latin America, the Indo-Pacific, and the Middle East, to outcompete strategic competitors for decades-long partnerships, generating multi-billion dollar deals for U.S. companies and creating thousands of American jobs.  CTR implements maximum pressure on Iran (NSPM-2), by training foreign partner countries to implement U.S. sanctions on Iran’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, and disrupts proliferation networks tied to the CCP, DPRK, and Russia that undermine U.S. interests.  CTR also advances EO 14292 by preventing U.S. adversaries from advancing biological weapons capabilities through targeted biosecurity, physical security, and cybersecurity trainings and disrupts Iran’s and other U.S. adversary chemical weapons programs through assisting supply chain security of precursor chemicals and equipment. Finally, CTR advances EO 14285 Unleashing America’s Offshore Critical Minerals, by training critical mineral holders to derisk from reliance on Chinese and Russian Private Military Companies in favor of U.S. security firms.

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Each organization may only submit one application in any given year. Applicants must decide whether they are eligible for the Top Prize Awards (Rubenstein, Kislak, American or International), or the Emerging Strategies Honorees category and choose the correct application form accordingly.

Prize Category Descriptions

• The David M. Rubenstein Prize ($150,000) is awarded to an organization, based either inside or outside the United States, which has demonstrated exceptional and sustained depth in its commitment to the advancement of literacy. The organization meets the highest standards of excellence in its operations and services. Applicants should complete the Top Prize Application Question Form for consideration for this prize.
• The Kislak Family Foundation Prize ($100,000) is awarded to an organization, based either inside or outside the United States, with an outsized impact on literacy relative to its size and/or years of operation. Applicants should complete the Top Prize Application Question Form for consideration for this prize.
• The American Prize ($50,000) is awarded to an organization based inside the United States for making a significant and measurable contribution to increasing literacy levels in the U.S. or the national awareness of the importance of literacy. Applicants should complete the Top Prize Application Question Form for consideration for this prize.
• The International Prize ($50,000) is awarded to an organization that is based either inside or outside the United States for their significant and measurable contribution to increasing literacy levels in a country other than the U.S. Applicants should complete the Top Prize Application Question Form for consideration for this prize.
• Successful Practices Honorees ($10,000/organization; up to 15 organizations) are recognized for their successful implementation of a specific literacy practice. NOTE: all applicants are automatically considered for the Successful Practices Honoree recognition. Applicants who complete the Top Prize Application Question Form will automatically be considered for this prize.
• Emerging Strategies Honorees ($5,000/organization; up to 5 organizations) are recognized for a literacy initiative in its early stages of development (5 years or fewer) that demonstrate significant creativity and promise in their approach to promoting literacy. For the 2026 application cycle, Emerging Strategies Honorees should have been established in 2021 or later. Organizations that are piloting or exploring emerging ideas are strongly encouraged to apply. Applicants should complete the Emerging Strategies Application Question Form for consideration for this prize.