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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.

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.

The Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) is a formula grant that provides funds to States, Territories, and Federally- and State-recognized Indian tribes/tribal organizations so that they may provide supportive services and activities to assist lowincome individuals and families to become self-sufficient. Typically, States fund these services by making sub-grants to locally based Community Action Agencies and other eligible entities that provide services to low-income individuals and families.

Services typically assist with childcare, employment, education, emergency services, healthcare, housing, nutrition, transportation, youth development, and coordination of resources and community participation.

As part of the President’s Drug Treatment Initiative, the Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention Block Grant program is the cornerstone of States’ substance abuse programs. The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment provides leadership in bringing together State Authorities who are the recipients of the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant, and the treatment community. More information on how these resources can be applied for by, and granted to, communitybased organizations are available by contacting your State’s Single State Authority for Substance Abuse.

Please visit:  http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/statelocal/appndx3.html to find State contact information.

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.

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.

The CDBG program is the Federal government’s primary program for promoting community revitalization throughout the
country. CDBG provides annual grants on a formula basis to more than 1,100 metropolitan cities and urban counties, and
to 49 States and Puerto Rico for distribution to smaller communities that do not receive CDBG funds directly from HUD.
The CDBG program has three National objectives: 1) benefit low- and moderate-income persons; 2) aid in the prevention
or elimination of slums or blight; and 3) meet other community development needs that present a serious and immediate
threat to the health or welfare of the community.

CDBG funds are used for a wide range of community development activities directed toward neighborhood revitalization,
economic development, and improved community facilities and services. Activities that can be funded with CDBG dollars
include, but are not limited to, acquisition of real property, acquisition and construction of public facilities, code
enforcement, reconstruction and rehabilitation of housing and nonresidential properties, homeownership assistance, microenterprise
assistance, and the provision of public services such as employment training, crime prevention, child care,
healthcare, drug abuse treatment, education and fair housing counseling.

Access to Recovery (ATR) is part of a Presidential initiative to provide client choice among substance abuse clinical
treatment and recovery support service providers, expand access to a comprehensive array of clinical treatment and
recovery support options (including faith-based programmatic options), and increase substance abuse treatment capacity.
The 2007 Budget includes a new target area for ATR, helping individuals recover from methamphetamine abuse.
Methamphetamine addiction is a growing problem in the United States that inflicts serious harm on individuals, families,
and communities.

Eligibility for Access to Recovery grants is limited to the immediate office of the Chief Executive (e.g., Governor) in the
States, Territories, District of Columbia; or the head of an Indian tribal organization.

This program awards grants to eligible grassroots organizations with the ability to connect to the local One-Stop delivery
system. Applicant organizations are expected to create their program in conjunction with their local One-Stop Career
Center. Applicants must provide a Letter of Intent or Memorandum of Understanding signed by the One-Stop articulating
the anticipated partnership.

These grants will become part of DOL's ongoing effort to partner its existing programs with effective faith-based and
community organizations to better serve the needy. The Employment and Training Administration expects to award
between 60 and 70 grants of $50,000-$75,000 each through this $4 million competition. This will amount to four times the
funding given in 2005.

Over an 18-month period, grantees will provide highly-personalized assistance to unemployed or underemployed individuals
with barriers to employment, including:

• Providing services that complement and support those offered by an identified One-Stop Career Center, such as preand
post-job placement mentoring, intensive case management, job retention support, life skills training, or employability
skills training;
• Connecting individuals with existing employment and training resources of the One-Stop Career Center or local affiliates
of DOL's National business partners; and
• Providing post-job placement services to increase job retention.

The purpose of these programs is to provide workforce investment activities that increase the employment, retention and
earnings of participants, and increase occupational skill attainment by the participants. This aims to improve the quality of
the workforce, reduce welfare dependency, and enhance the productivity and competitiveness of the Nation's economy. All
adults, 18 years of age and over, are eligible for core services. Priority for intensive training services must be given to
recipients of public assistance and other low-income individuals where funds are limited.

States and local areas are responsible for establishing procedures for applying the priority requirements. Nonprofits,
including faith-based and community organizations, are eligibly to apply.

The purpose of these programs is to provide workforce investment activities that increase the employment, retention and earnings of participants, and increase occupational skill attainment by the participants. This aims to re-employ dislocated workers, improve the quality of the workforce and enhance the productivity and competitiveness of the Nation's economy. Individuals eligible for assistance include workers who have lost their jobs, including those dislocated as a result of plant closings or mass layoffs, and are unlikely to return to their previous industry or occupation; formerly self-employed individuals; and displaced homemakers who have been dependent on income of another family member, but are no longer supported by that income. Nonprofits, including faith-based and community organizations, are eligible to apply.