OpportunityTitle: Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE): Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISI) Program CFDA Number 84.031L
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Eligible Applicants: (a) An IHE is eligible to receive funds under the AANAPISI Program if it qualifies as an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution. At the time of application, IHEs applying for funds under the AANAPISI Program must have an enrollment of undergraduate students that is at least 10 percent Asian American or Native American Pacific Islander, as defined as follows:      Asian American means a person having origins in any of the original   peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent   (including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea,   Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam), as   defined in the Office of Management and Budget&apos;s Standards for   Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and   Ethnicity as published in the Federal Register on October 30, 1997 (62   FR 58789).
Description: &#8226;Note: Each funding opportunity description is a synopsis of information in the Federal Register application notice. For specific information about eligibility, please see the official application notice. The official version of this document is the document published in the Federal Register. Free Internet access to the official edition of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations is available on GPO Access at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/index.html. Purpose of Program: The AANAPISI Program provides grants to eligible institutions of higher education (IHEs) that have an undergraduate enrollment of at least 10 percent Asian American or Native American Pacific Islander students to assist such institutions to plan, develop, undertake, and carry out activities to improve and expand such institutions&apos; capacity to serve Asian Americans and Native American Pacific Islanders and low-income individuals. Applications for grants under the AANAPISI Program, CFDA number 84.031L, must be submitted electronically using the Governmentwide Grants.gov Apply site at www.Grants.gov. You may access the electronic grant application for the AANAPISI Program at www.Grants.gov. You must search for the downloadable application package for this competition by the CFDA number. Do not include the CFDA number&apos;s alpha suffix in your search (e.g., search for 84.031, not 84.031L). The telephone number for the Grants.gov Helpdesk is 1-800-518-4726 or e-mail: support@grants.gov.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Program Manager: email
GrantorContactText: Joyce Mays &lt;br/&gt;Management Analyst  &lt;br/&gt;Phone 202-245-6122 &lt;br/&gt;joyce.mays@ed.gov &lt;br/&gt;Program Manager: &lt;br/&gt;Pearson Owens or Don Crews &lt;br/&gt;U.S.Department of Education &lt;br/&gt;1990 K Street NW., 6th Fl  &lt;br/&gt;Washington, DC 20006-8513. addresses or telephone numbers:(202) 502-7804 &lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;
CloseDateExplanation: Applications Available: March 20, 2015.  Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: May 19, 2015.