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This program offers funding for demonstration projects that will support healthy marriages through implementation of the following allowable activities: (1) Public advertising campaigns on the value of marriage and the skills needed to increase marital stability and health; (2) Education in high schools on the value of marriage, relationship skills, and budgeting; (3) Marriage education, marriage skills, and relationship skills programs that may include parenting skills, financial management, conflict resolution, and job and career advancement for non-married pregnant women, non-married expectant fathers, and non-married  recent parents; (4) Pre-marital education and marriage skills training for engaged couples and for couples or persons interested in marriage; (5) Marriage enhancement and marriage skills training programs for married couples; (6) Divorce reduction programs that teach relationship skills; (7) Marriage mentoring programs, which use married couples as role models and mentors; and (8) Programs to reduce the disincentives to marriager in means-tested aid programs if offered in conjunction with any of the other seven activities. The programs will support innovative projects designed to strengthen marriages and prepare unmarried couples for successful healthy marriages.

ACF will award these funds on a competitive basis to public and private entities. This includes, but is not limited to, States, territories, Indian tribes and Tribal organizations, local government entities, nonprofits, for-profits, and community and faith-based organizations.

This program offers funding for demonstration projects that will promote responsible fatherhood in three activity areas: 1) supporting healthy marriage; 2) promoting responsible parenting; and 3) fostering economic stability. The program will enable fathers to improve their relationships and reconnect with their children. It will help fathers overcome obstacles and barriers that often prohibit them from being the most effective and nurturing parents possible. While the primary goal of the program is to promote responsible fatherhood in all of its various forms, an essential point is to encourage responsible fatherhood within the context of marriage.

ACF will award these funds on a competitive basis to States, territories, Indian tribes and Tribal organizations, and public and nonprofit community entities, including faith-based organizations.

The purpose of this program is to address the academic and social needs of children through school-based (coordination with schools) mentoring programs and activities and to provide these students with mentors. This grant focuses on youth who are most at risk of educational failure, dropping out of school, involvement in criminal or delinquent activities, or who lack strong positive role models. These programs and activities must serve children with the greatest need in fourth through eighth grades and who are living in rural areas, high-crime areas or troubled home environments; or who attend schools where violence is present.

Nonprofit community organizations, including faith-based organizations, are eligible to apply. Partnerships between local education agencies and faith-based or community organizations are strongly encouraged.

The purpose of this program is to support parental assistance and resource centers that provide training, information and
support to parents of children through school age. The desired outcome is to strengthen partnerships among parents
(including parents of children from birth through age 5), teachers, principals, administrators, and other school personnel in
meeting the educational needs of children.
Nonprofit organizations, including faith-based organizations, are eligible to apply.

The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) is a block grant that goes directly to States, Territories, and Native American
tribes to assist low-income families, families receiving temporary public assistance, and those transitioning from public
assistance in obtaining child care so parents can work, attend training, or attend education programs. To be eligible, the
child must be under age 13 (or age 19 if the child has special needs). Subsidized child care services are available to eligible
families through certificates (vouchers) or contracts with providers. Parents may select any legally-operating child care
provider that accepts subsidies—including a child care center, family child care home, relative, friend or neighbor. Child
care providers serving children funded by CCDF must meet basic health and safety requirements set by States and Tribes.

Supplemental Educational Services are additional academic instruction designed to increase the academic achievement of
students in low-performing schools. Services must be provided outside of the regular school day and may include
academic assistance such as tutoring, remediation and other educational interventions. These services must be highquality
researched-based strategies specifically designed to increase student achievement and are consistent with the
content and instruction of the local education agency and aligned with the State’s academic content standards. Each State
education agency is required to identify organizations that qualify to provide these services and maintain a list that allows
parents to have as many choices as possible.
Providers of Supplemental Educational Services may include nonprofit entities, for-profit entities, local education agencies,
public schools, public charter schools, private schools, public or private institutions of higher education, and faith-based
organizations. Entities that would like to be included on the list of eligible providers must contact their State education
agency and meet the criteria established by the State to be considered for the list of eligible providers.
Eligible students are students from low-income families who attend Title I schools that are in their second year of school
improvement, in corrective action or in restructuring.

The Compassion Capital Fund (CCF) Demonstration program helps faith-based and community groups build capacity and
improve their ability to provide social services to those in need. CCF funding has been awarded to more than 55
intermediary organizations to help smaller organizations manage their programs effectively, train staff, expand programs in
their communities, and replicate promising programs. Intermediary organizations receiving CCF grants also provide subawards
to a diverse range of faith-based and community organizations.
Technical assistance activities funded under CCF are conducted at no cost to interested faith-based and community
organizations and focus on capacity-building in the following areas: leadership development, organizational development,
revenue development strategies, program development, and community engagement.
Eligible applicants include non-governmental organizations, Indian tribal governmental organizations, nonprofit agencies,
including faith-based organizations, public agencies, State and local governments, colleges and universities, and for-profit
entities. To be eligible for a CCF grant, an intermediary organization should have established relationships with grassroots
faith-based and community organizations, as well as a proven track record in providing technical assistance to such
groups.

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) at the US Department of Labor announces the availability of
approximately $15 million in Responsible Reintegration of Youthful Offender project grant funds to address the specific
workforce challenges of youth offenders and to utilize strategies that prepare them for new and increasing job opportunities
in high-growth/high-demand and economically vital industries and sectors of the American economy.

Applicants may be public, private for-profit, and private nonprofit organizations, including faith-based and community
organizations. The applicant will serve as the lead agency representing a partnership of the public workforce system,
business and industry representatives from high-growth/high demand industries, the education and training community,
and the juvenile justice system.

FY 2006 Appropriation: The appropriation amount was not available at the time of publication. Please
check with the point of contact below for this information.

The purpose of this program is to provide expanded academic enrichment opportunities for children attending lowperforming
schools. Tutorial services and academic enrichment activities are designed to help students meet local and
State academic standards in subjects such as reading and math. In addition, 21st Century Community Learning Centers
programs provide youth development activities, drug and violence prevention programs, technology education programs,
art, music and recreation programs, counseling, and character education to enhance the academic component of the
program. These activities must be offered during periods when school is not in session, such as before and after school,
summer, weekends, and holidays.

Community-based organizations and faith-based organizations are eligible to apply provided they meet all statutory and
regulatory requirements. Local education agencies may also apply and are strongly encouraged to partner with communitybased
organizations, including faith-based organizations.

The purpose of the Compassion Capital Fund Targeted Capacity-Building Program is to increase the capacity of faith-based
and community organizations with a proven track record of serving the needs of at-risk and/or low-income individuals and
families. Awards are for the purpose of increasing efficiency and capacity and cannot be used to augment or supplant
direct service delivery funds.

Nonprofit, faith-based and community organizations, providing social services in the priority area(s), are eligible for this
program. ACF may give preference to applications submitted by organizations that are members of partnerships or
coalitions of faith-based and/or community organizations.

Learn and Serve America, the National leader in service-learning, provides grant support, primarily through intermediaries,
to diverse school-community partnerships that engage students, their teachers, and others in service to meet community
needs. There are three categories for grant awards: 1) school-based (for State Education Agencies and nonprofits covering
two or more States); 2) community-based (for nonprofits covering two or more States) and state Commissions on
volunteerism; and 3) higher education (for individual higher education institutions, consortia of higher education institutions,
and nonprofit organizations representing a consortium of institutions).

RSVP is part of Senior Corps, a network of National service programs that provides older Americans the opportunity to
apply their life experience to meeting community needs. RSVP volunteers serve in a diverse range of nonprofit
organizations, public agencies, and faith-based groups. Among other activities, they mentor at-risk youth, organize
neighborhood watch programs, test drinking water for contaminants, teach English to immigrants, and lend their business
skills to community groups that provide critical social services.

AmeriCorps*NCCC is a full-time, residential service program for men and women between the ages of 18 and 24.
AmeriCorps*NCCC combines the best practices of civilian and military service including leadership, team building and
strong organization.

Project sponsors share the costs associated with providing food and lodging for members serving on projects.

AmeriCorps State provides grants to governor-appointed State commissions and local and National nonprofit organizations
to help those organizations meet critical needs in education, public safety, public health, homeland security and the
environment. AmeriCorps member activities include direct services such as tutoring, mentoring, housing construction, and
the provision of healthcare; or assisting with capacity building activities such as volunteer recruitment and management.
Organizations that receive an AmeriCorps grant recruit and select their own members.

The focus of AmeriCorps*VISTA is to support low-income communities by strengthening nonprofit organizations,
encouraging volunteer service, and generating the commitment of private sector resources. AmeriCorps*VISTA members
serve for 12 months on a full-time basis in community-based nonprofit organizations and public agencies throughout the
country. In fiscal year 2006, approximately 7,500 AmeriCorps*VISTA members will serve in local programs where they will
leverage human, financial and material resources to increase the capacity of thousands of local organizations across the
country to develop and implement sustainable solutions to poverty-related problems in their communities.