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_LB1412 (2024) allocated three million dollars for the Regional Development Initiative (RDI) Program to fund regional workforce development initiatives throughout all six community college regions within the State of Nebraska. _ _The funding for this program is from the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (SLFRF); Assistance listing 21. 027.
This program is designed to provide resources to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and its negative economic impacts.
_ The Regional Development Initiative (RDI) Program will consist of two phases: _**Navigator Phase**_ One grant not to exceed one million eight hundred thousand dollars will be awarded for economic impact assistance to a nonprofit organization for the employment of Regional Navigators in each of Nebraska’s six community college regions.
Grant funding will support the employment of regional navigators and planning of regional projects in each of the six community college regions through September 30, 2026.
_**Initiatives Phase**_ Economic Impact Assistance grants will be awarded to applicants in each of the six community college regions within the state of Nebraska to fund regional workforce initiatives that respond to the negative economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
## _Eligibility Information_ To qualify for the Navigator Phase funding, an applicant must have a presence in each of the six community college regions and the ability to hire a full-time equivalent employee (regional navigator) in each region. Qualified applicants will need to demonstrate they have ability to employ regional navigators as of July 2024.
To qualify for the Initiatives Phase funding, an applicant must develop a regional workforce project initiative in their community college region that responds to the negative economic impacts of the COVID-19 and focuses on improving the lives of citizens in the applicant’s community college region. Eligible regional project initiatives must include a timeline that ensures grant funding is expended by September 30, 2026.
Please see map of community college regions below. ## _Important Definitions_ **Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Employees**means the number of employees computed by dividing the total hours paid in a year to employees by the product of forty times the number of weeks in a year. See, e.g., Neb.
Rev. Stat. § 77-6907.
**Qualified Census Tracts (****QCTs)** are any census tract designated by HUD that either: 1. Has at least 50 percent of the households with an annual income less than 60 percent of the area median gross income; or 2. Has a poverty rate of at least 25 percent.
Please refer to the map of the Nebraska QCTs at https://www. huduser. gov/PORTAL/sadda/sadda_qct.
html ## _Application Information_ ## _**Program Resources**_
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The Fund for Women & Girls Grant Program is sponsored by The Foundation for Enhancing Communities (TFEC). The Fund for Women & Girls, an initiative of TFEC, makes grants to local nonprofit organizations in specific South Central PA counties. The grants support projects that advance the lives of women and girls by providing opportunities to address basic needs, develop economic self-sufficiency, and strengthen health and safety needs.
VGF grants will be used to develop and/or support community-based entities to recruit, manage, and support volunteers. CNCS seeks to fund effective approaches that expand volunteering, strengthen the capacity of volunteer connector organizations to recruit and retain skill-based volunteers, and develop strategies to use volunteers effectively to solve problems. Specifically, the VGF grants will support efforts that expand the capacity of volunteer connector organizations to recruit, manage, support and retain individuals to serve in high quality volunteer assignments.Applicants that receive funding under this Notice may directly carry out the activities supported under the award, or may carry out the activities by making sub-grants to community-based entities, supporting volunteer generation at these entities.). Funding Opportunity Number: AC-05-25-21. Assistance Listing: 94.021. Funding Instrument: G. Category: O. Award Amount: $6.1M total program funding.