Grants for Organizations Serving People with Developmental Disabilities

Grants for Organizations Serving People with Developmental Disabilities is sponsored by Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities (GCDD). The GCDD provides grants to increase the capacity and resources of public and private nonprofit entities to develop a comprehensive community system that responds to the choices, capabilities, and needs of persons with developmental disabilities (DD) and their families.

THE GEORGIA COUNCIL ON DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES REOPENS FIVE NOTICE OF FUNDS AVAILABLE TO ALLOW MORE COMPANIES THE OPPORTUNITY TO APPLY FOR GRANTS - Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities Next GCDD Council Meeting: October 22-23, 2026 (Savannah) Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Assamese Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bengali Bosnian Bosnian latin Bulgarian Burmese Cantonese traditional Catalan Cebuano Chinese simplified Chinese traditional Corsican Croatian Czech Dari Danish Dutch English Esperanto Estonian Fijian Filipino Finnish French Frisian Galician Georgian German Greek Gujarati Haitian creole Hausa Hawaiian Hebrew Hindi Hmong Hmong daw Hungarian Icelandic Igbo Indonesian Inuktitut Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kannada Kazakh Klingon Khmer Kinyarwanda Korean Kurdish Kyrgyz Lao Latin Latvian Lithuanian Luxembourgish Macedonian Malagasy Malay Malayalam Maltese Maori Marathi Mongolian Nepali Norwegian Nyanja Odia Pashto Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Queretaro otomi Romanian Russian Samoan Scots gaelic Serbian Sesotho Shona Sindhi Sinhala Slovak Slovenian Somali Spanish Sudanese Swahili Swedish Tahitian Tajik Tamil Tatar Telugu Thai Tongan Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Uyghur Uzbek Vietnamese Welsh Xhosa Yiddish Yoruba Yucatec maya Zulu THE GEORGIA COUNCIL ON DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES REOPENS FIVE NOTICE OF FUNDS AVAILABLE TO ALLOW MORE COMPANIES THE OPPORTUNITY TO APPLY FOR GRANTS Written by GCDD on 15 March 2022 .

Through its grant making, GCDD partners with public, private, and nonprofit entities to improve the lives of people with developmental disabilities and their families. The purpose of GCDD’s grants are to expand best practices and contribute to system-wide changes that support the rights of people with developmental disabilities and their full inclusion as community members.

Recipients of GCDD grants are expected to be ongoing partners bringing about change. The five grants that have been reopened are as follows: 22DIV1 Assessment of Georgia’s School-to-Prison Pipeline (Reposted) - The purpose of this grant is to assess the current state of the school-to-prison pipeline in Georgia.

Click Here for Details 22SC2 Community Development Training (Reposted) - GCDD funded the Real Communities/Welcoming Communities initiatives until 2021 and upon their conclusion believes educating GCDD members, staff, stakeholders and others about the foundational values and approaches of this effort will ensure its continued impact.

To this end, GCDD is seeking applicants who have a background in teaching concepts such as Asset Based Community Development, Theory U, and Collective Impact to execute a training initiative that promises to grow state-wide capacity in these approaches. We believe it is important for the populations mentioned above to understand these concepts and how they interact with the many projects GCDD funds and supports.

Click Here for Details 22SC4 The initiative for Equity in Tech Jobs (Reposted) - This funding will launch an initiative to support training for at least 10 young, black, neurodivergent males per year in preparation for the thousands of tech jobs coming to Georgia.

Click Here for Details 22SC7 Stronger Together HCBS Coalition (Reposted) - The purpose of this work is to develop an active and engaged coalition of organizations, people with developmental disabilities, their family members, and community members who are invested in expanding, strengthening, and enhancing home and community-based services (HCBS) in Georgia.

Click Here for Details 22SC12 Federal Legislative Advocacy (Reposted) - The purpose of this work is for GCDD staff and its members to have the knowledge and strategies to engage in education, outreach to stakeholders, and provide key information to state officials and legislators related to significant state and federal policies and their impacts on people with developmental disabilities.

Click Here for Details Previously posted Applicants Conference materials can be viewed by clicking on one of the following links: All inquiries should be directed to Lisa Eaves, GCDD’s Operations and Contracts Director at . Anyone who previously applied for and submitted an application for one of the above mentioned NoFAs is still going to be considered for funding.

If anyone started an application but did not submit an application to GCDD, this is an opportunity to finish your application and submit it by the new deadline. All requested attachments should be submitted with your application. Applications must be submitted online via https://www.

ddsuite. org , prior to the published deadline. No hard copies will be accepted.

Applicants are required to have or create a DD Suite user account and an organization account in order to submit an application. Go to https://www. ddsuite.

org and click on the "HELP TAB" for detailed instructions on creating DD Suite user and organization accounts. Proposal applications must be received electronically in the DD Suite system by Midnight EST on or before the due dates listed above. Late submissions will not be accepted for any reason.

The Work Plan must demonstrate how the proposed objectives and activities align with the reporting requirements described in the “Grantee reporting” section such as the number and type of people served, and the number and type of people vaccinated as a result of the project. Applicants must submit a completed and signed Federal W-9 with their application. Upload the form in DD Suite as an attachment.

There will be no debriefing for applicants who are not selected. All applicants who respond to this NOFA will be notified of the outcome of their application (awarded, application modifications requested, or denied) by email through DD Suite. Applicants are restricted from communicating with GCDD staff and Council members during the competitive NoFA process (on matters concerning this NoFA).

All questions concerning this NoFA, including requests for accommodation, must be submitted in writing by email to Lisa Eaves. Only written questions will be accepted. No response other than written will be binding upon the State.

All questions about this NoFA must be submitted in the following format: Organization/Individual Name: Citation of relevant section of the NoFA: The deadline to apply for a grant is Thursday, April 7, 2022 at 11:59 p. m. For more information on how to apply for a NoFA grant, click here .

About the Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities: The Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities (GCDD) is the State's leader in advancing public policy on behalf of persons with developmental disabilities.

Its mission is to bring about social and policy changes that promote opportunities for the wide spectrum of diverse people/persons with developmental disabilities and their families to live, learn, work, play, and worship in their communities. For more information, visit at www. gcdd.

org . This project was supported, in part by grant number 2001GASCDD-03, from the U.S. Administration for Community Living, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D. C.

20201. Grantees undertaking projects with government sponsorship are encouraged to express freely their findings and conclusions. Points of view or opinions do not, therefore, necessarily represent official ACL policy.