OpportunityTitle: Standing Announcement for Supplemental Services for Recently Arrived Refugees
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Public or private nonprofit agencies are eligible applicants.  Faith-based and community organizations are eligible to apply.  Foreign entities are not eligible under this announcement.
Description: The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) invites the submission of applications for funding, on a competitive basis, for Supplemental Services for Recently Arrived Refugees to provide services to arriving refugees or sudden and unexpected large secondary migration of refugees where communities are not sufficiently prepared in terms of linguistic or culturally appropriate services. This announcement replaces the Priority Area Two - Unanticipated Arrivals program included in the Standing Announcement for Services for Recently Arrived Refugees published in the Federal Register on April 23, 2004. The Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement will observe February 24, 2010 (FY 2010) as the closing date for applications. An applicant may submit more than one application under this announcement. The modification to the published Program Announcement notes changes to the Anticipated Total Priority Area Funding from $4,800,000 to $2,000,000 for FY 2010; and a change to the Anticipated Number of Awards from 10 -22 to 8 &#150; 12 awards for FY 2010. The Ceiling on Amount of Individual Awards remains at $500,000 for FY 2010.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: ACF Applications Help Desk
GrantorContactText: ACF Applications Help Desk &lt;br/&gt;app_support@acf.hhs.gov &lt;br/&gt;
CloseDateExplanation: See link to full announcement for details. IMPORTANT NOTE: Applications submitted electronically via Grants.gov must be submitted no later than 4:30 p.m., eastern time, on the due date referenced above.