Given the impact of COVID-19 on the grants landscape, our monthly projection emails will begin (for the foreseeable future) with a comprehensive overview of news and announcements pertaining to the pandemic.
Hanover is closely monitoring developments surrounding COVID-19 and how it has and may continue to impact the education community. This resource center provides key facts, resources, and potential responses to this rapidly evolving situation. Our dedicated COVID-19 support email (covid19-support@hanoverresearch.com) can be used to ask any questions related to COVID-19. In addition, and as always, your dedicated Content Director and Relationship Director also are ready to help with custom research solutions to the challenges you are facing.
Overview of COVID-19 Senate Stimulus Bill (CARES Act)
The White House and Senate recently agreed to a $2 trillion stimulus bill to ease the economic impact during the COVID-19 epidemic. Passed by the House on March 27, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) includes, among other initiatives:
$500 billion in loans for cities, states and businesses;
$349 billion in loans for small businesses (i.e., those with fewer than 500 employees);
$150 billion in emergency aid for state, local, and tribal governments;
$117 billion for hospitals and health care providers; and
$31 billion for an Education Stabilization Fund for states, school districts and institutions of higher education for costs related to the coronavirus.
Department of Education
According to the CARES Act, the Department of Education will receive $30.75 billion for an Education Stabilization Fund for states, school districts, and institutions of higher education for costs related to the coronavirus. The allotted funding is apportioned as follows: 9.8% for the Governor’s Relief Fund, 43.9% for elementary and secondary education, and 46.3% for higher education.
Governor’s Relief Fund
Governors in each state will receive a share of $3 billion for emergency support grants. Funds are allocated to state governors according to the formula: 60% based on the size of the population aged 5–24, 40% on the basis of relative total population. Governors may use funds for emergency support to LEAs; emergency support to IHEs; or to support any other education-related entity that has been impacted by the coronavirus.
Elementary and Secondary Education
For elementary and secondary education, $13.5 billion will be available for formula grants to states, 90% of which will be allotted in the same proportion that each state received funding under ESSA Title IA in the most recent fiscal year (2019-2020). The remaining 10% may be reserved for emergency needs by the state.
LEAs may use funding for any activity authorized by the Vento Homeless Assistance Act, as well as for the following activities:
Coordination of preparedness and response efforts of local educational agencies public health departments;
Providing principals and other school leaders with the resources necessary to address the needs of their individual schools;
Activities to address the unique needs of low-income children or students, children with disabilities, and other vulnerable populations;
Developing and implementing procedures and systems to improve the preparedness and response efforts of local educational agencies;
Training and professional development for staff of the local educational agency on sanitation and minimizing the spread of infectious diseases;
Purchasing supplies to sanitize and clean facilities;
Planning for and coordinating during long-term closures;
Purchasing educational technology;
Providing mental health services;
Planning and implementing activities related to summer learning and supplemental afterschool programs; and
Other activities necessary to maintain operations.
Finally, ED is allowing the waiving of testing requirements and reporting obligations of academic standards for state and local education agencies.
Higher Education
For higher education, $14.25 billion will be available for to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus. This funding will be allotted to each IHE according to the relative share of full-time equivalent enrollment of Federal Pell Grant recipients (75% on its share of Pell FTE students, and 25% on non-Pell FTE students).
Funds may be used to defray expenses for lost revenue, technology costs associated with adopting distance education, and grants to students for health care, food, housing, course materials, and related needs. Notably, funding cannot be used to pay contractors for pre-enrollment recruitment activities; for endowments; or for capital outlays associated with facilities for athletics, secretarial instruction, or religious worship. At least half of funds must be used for emergency financial aid grants to students due to coronavirus-related disruption.
In addition, for 2019-2020 and 2020-2021, ED will waive the obligation for IHEs to match federal grants for campus-based aid programs with an equivalent amount (for non-profit institutions only). Institutions will also be permitted to allocate funds previously assigned to work-study programs to supplemental grants. IHEs will be permitted to award additional emergency financial aid funds to students that have been impacted by the coronavirus, and will also be allowed to issue work-study payments as lump sums to students who are not able to work due to closures. ED is also allowing for the waiving or modification of current allowable uses of funds for institutional grant programs, and will waive certain outcome requirements for grant programs for HBCUs and other MSIs.
Timeline
The CARES Act states (for the Education Stabilization Fund) that: “The Secretary shall issue a notice inviting applications not later than 30 days of enactment of this Act and approve or deny applications not later than 30 days after receipt,” indicating an announcement in April with a due date in May. For the Governor’s Relief Fund, grants will be awarded “to the governor of each state with an approved application.” For elementary and secondary education, grants are awarded “to each state educational agency with an approved application.” For higher education, the CARES Act states that funding will be awarded directly to IHEs (without a timeline).
Other Federal Stimulus
In addition to the education stimulus listed above, many other federal agencies and departments are receiving funding through the CARES Act. While some funds are clearly earmarked for internal costs (e.g., operations, payroll) and are therefore not listed below, other funding will be at least partially distributed through external grants and/or contracts. The most likely candidates for external funding are listed below. We will provide updates on external grant competitions as more data becomes available.
Department of Health and Human Services
Administration for Community Living: $955M for aging and disability services programs, of which $50M is allotted for aging and disability resource centers.
Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response: $127B, including a new program to provide grants to hospitals and health providers to assist with unreimbursed health care related expenses or other loss of revenue due to the coronavirus. $27B will go to the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to support research and development of vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics to prevent or treat the effects of the novel coronavirus.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: $4.3B to support federal, state, and local public health agencies, including:
$1.5B for purchase of personal protective equipment, laboratory testing, contact tracing, infection control, and related activities;
$1.5B to support quarantine efforts, purchase and distribution of diagnostic test kits, support for laboratory testing, workforce training programs, and related activities
$500M for global disease detection and emergency response;
$500M for public health data surveillance and modernizing infrastructure; and
$300M for the Infectious Diseases Rapid Response Reserve Fund, to address immediate response activities during outbreaks.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: $200M, of which $100M is allotted for necessary expenses of the survey and certification program, prioritizing nursing home facilities in localities with community transmission of coronavirus.
Food and Drug Administration: $80M for work on medical counter-measures, therapies, vaccines, and research.
Health Resources and Services Administration: $275M, including $90M for Ryan White HIV/AIDS programs and $185M to support rural hospitals, telehealth, and poison control centers. Notably, the CARES Act also renews various existing HRSA health professions workforce programs, such as the Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program and Nursing Workforce Diversity program, which were reauthorized at roughly similar funding levels.
Indian Health Services: ~$1B billion for public health support, electronic health record modernization, telehealth and other information technology upgrades, Purchased/Referred Care, Catastrophic Health Emergency Fund, Urban Indian Organizations, Tribal Epidemiology Centers, Community Health Representatives, and other activities to protect the safety of patients and staff.
National Institutes of Health: $945M to support research on the coronavirus’s transmission and the natural history of infection, new approaches to diagnosing the disease, and developing countermeasures. Breakdown by IC is as follows:
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute: $103.4M
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases: $706M, of which $156M will be provided for the study of, construction of, demolition of, renovation of, and acquisition of equipment for, vaccine and infectious diseases research facilities of or used by NIH (leaving $550M for possible external funding).
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering: $60M
National Library of Medicine: $10M
NIH Office of the Director: $30M
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: $425M for health surveillance and program support, of which $250M is allotted for the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Expansion Grant program, and $50M is allotted for suicide prevention programs.
Other Federal Entities
Department of Agriculture: $25M in additional funding for the Distance Learning, Telemedicine, and Broadband Program.
Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration: $1.5B for economic development assistance programs.
Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology: $6M for Scientific and Technical Research And Services to support continuity of operations, including measurement science to support viral testing and biomanufacturing, $60M for Industrial Technology Services, and $10M for the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation to support development and manufacturing of medical countermeasures and biomedical equipment and supplies.
Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: $20M for operations, research, and facilities.
Department of Defense, Defense Health Program: $415M for research, development, testing and evaluation.
Department of Energy: $99.5M to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus for necessary expenses related to providing support and access to scientific user facilities in the Office of Science and National Nuclear Security Administration, including equipment, enabling technologies, and personnel associated with the operations of those scientific user facilities.
Department of Housing and Urban Development, Community Development Block Grant: $5B for states, counties, and cities, including for the expansion of community health facilities, child care centers, food banks, and senior services. $2B will be allocated to states according to the 2020 CDBG formula, $1B will help states to support a coordinated response across their communities, and $2B will help states and units of local government, cities, and counties based on coronavirus risk to economic and housing issues.
Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration: $345M for training and employment services. In addition, existing DOL Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act funds reserved by a Governor for program year 2019 for statewide activities that remain unobligated may be used for statewide rapid response activities.
Environmental Protection Agency: $1.5M for research methods on reducing the risks from environmental transmission of the coronavirus via contaminated services or materials.
Institute of Museum and Library Services: $50M for grants to states, territories, and tribes to expand digital network access, purchase internet accessible devices, and provide technical support services.
National Endowment for the Arts: $75M to be distributed in grants.
National Endowment for the Humanities: $75M to be distributed in grants; 40% for state humanities councils and 60% for direct grants.
National Science Foundation: $75M for research and related activities. The Senate summary of the bill adds additional context, stating that this funding will “support research at molecular, cellular, physiological and ecological levels to better understand coronavirus genetics, modes of action, transmission, virulence and population dynamics.”
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This section comprises our monthly update for the federal response to COVID-19 (apart from the $2 trillion stimulus, outlined above). All relevant COVID-19 grant opportunities are listed in the projections table at the end of this email, while news and resources are listed immediately below:
Notably, many of the departments and agencies listed above have announced industry partnerships, internal laboratory efforts, and other initiatives; more external funding opportunities pertaining to COVID-19 (both through the stimulus and otherwise) will be announced in the near future.
The following grid outlines the projected federal grant competitions of interest to higher education institutions from April to June 2020, including COVID-19 opportunities.
In addition to relevant information about each award, this grid includes the following:
Projected submission deadlines (subject to change upon release of funding announcements)
Approximate support deadlines for new clients to enlist Hanover's proposal development services for each corresponding funding announcement:
Full proposal production - Foundation: 6-8 weeks; Federal: 9-10 weeks;
Revision and resubmission consulting - Foundation: 4-6 weeks; Federal: 5-6 weeks; and
Aims to better understand the pathobiology and the clinical implications of the viral infection that leads to the morbidity and mortality seen with COVID-19.
Provides support for the conduct of worker-based training to prevent and reduce exposure of hospital employees, emergency first responders, and other workers who are at risk of exposure.
Supports projects focusing on the use of informatics solutions to diagnose cases and facilitate research on COVID-19 and advance the translation of research findings into diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines.
Supports genomic studies utilizing generalized approaches that take advantage of human research or model systems to study the consequences of infection.
A pre-annoucement for proposals to rapidly develop and deploy the National Emergency Telecritical Care Network: a cloud-based, low-resource, stand-alone health information management system.
Solicits research applications for milestone-driven projects focused on preclinical development of lead candidate therapeutics, vaccines and related countermeasures.
Supports collaborative research activities that develop innovative solutions that will improve the efficiency, quality and impact of turning laboratory, clinic and community observations into interventions that improve public health.
Encourages international partnerships for projects addressing prevention, early detection, containment, and investigation of the causes, impacts, and management of pandemics.
Seeks research pertaining to host response, associations with heart, lung, and blood diseases, potential impacts on transfusion safety, and clinical outcomes of infected individuals.
Seeks projects focusing on viral natural history, pathogenicity, transmission, as well as projects developing medical countermeasures and suitable animal models for pre-clinical testing of vaccines and therapeutics.
Varies by program; discuss with Hanover Content Director
Varies by program; discuss with Hanover Content Director
Varies by NSF program
Competition Description
Invites RAPID proposals and supplemental funding requests to existing awards that address COVID-19 challenges through data and/or software infrastructure development activities.
Three of the largest NIH parent/umbrella funding mechanisms have now been updated to indicate that applications pertaining to COVID-19 research are welcomed.
Approx. four weeks ahead of intended submission date
Approx. three weeks ahead of intended submission date
Rolling
Competition Description
Encourages scientific questions that underpin COVID-19 response that the research community may answer using DOE user facilities, computational resources, and enabling infrastructure.
Approx. four weeks ahead of intended submission date
Approx. three weeks ahead of intended submission date
Rolling
Competition Description
A total of $20 million in Google Cloud research credits will be provided for leveraging Google’s computing capabilities and infrastructure to study therapies, vaccines, etc.
This solicitation seeks applications for funding to conduct innovative, multidisciplinary research projects to develop knowledge and tools to promote the safety, health, and wellness of the criminal and juvenile justice workforce and individuals under criminal justice supervision, as well as those in contact with, or affected by, the criminal justice system.
This solicitation seeks applications for funding for planning grants to develop new and innovative research or evaluation projects that address the challenges of fighting crime and strengthening justice in Indian country and Alaska Native Villages.
The program provides funding to support research and development for nuclear science, engineering, technology, and related disciplines to develop a workforce capable of supporting the design, construction, operation, and regulation of nuclear facilities and the safe handling of nuclear materials.
The NRC is interested in institutions and technologies that will enhance the NRC’s transition as a modern, risk-informed regulator. The challenge of interest to the NRC include: advanced non-light water reactors; probabilistic risk assessment; fire risk analysis; innovative radiation detection technologies for minimizing groundwater contamination; nuclear-safety related text mining analytics; fuels and neutronics; thermal-hydraulics; consequence and emergency preparedness; materials engineering; applications of artificial intelligence and advanced sensors; natural hazards assessment; digital instrumentation and controls; cybersecurity; characterization, handling, storage, or disposal of waste streams.
This program is designed to support projects that provide academic training in areas of personnel shortages identified by the Secretary to increase the number of personnel trained in providing VR services to individuals with disabilities.
DURIP is designed to improve the capabilities of accredited U.S. institutions of higher education to conduct research and to educate scientists and engineers in areas important to national defense, by providing funds for the acquisition of research equipment or instrumentation. This solicitation is for proposals to the Dept of the Army - Materiel Command.
DURIP is designed to improve the capabilities of accredited U.S. institutions of higher education to conduct research and to educate scientists and engineers in areas important to national defense, by providing funds for the acquisition of research equipment or instrumentation. This solicitation is for proposals to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
The purpose of this program is to support projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources. Research and Development offers two funding tiers in order to address projects at all stages of development and implementation.
Capital Projects support the design, purchase, construction, restoration, or renovation of facilities for humanities activities. Digital Infrastructure projects support the maintenance, modernization, and sustainability of existing digital scholarly projects and platforms. For both Capital Projects and Digital Infrastructure, expenditures must be shown to bring long-term benefits to the institution and to the humanities more broadly.
With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals for basic or applied research and development projects. An NIJ forensic science research and development grant supports a discrete, specified, circumscribed project that will: (1) increase the body of knowledge to guide and inform forensic science policy and practice, or (2) lead to the production of useful material(s), device(s), system(s), or method(s) that have the potential for forensic application.
The ONR seeks a broad range of applications for augmenting existing or developing innovative solutions that directly maintain, or cultivate a diverse, world-class STEM workforce in order to maintain the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps’ technological superiority. The goal of any proposed effort must provide solutions that will grow a capable and trained workforce with the skills to defend against emergent cyber and electronic warfare threats.
BJA's STOP School Violence Grant Program is designed to improve school security by providing students and teachers with the tools they need to recognize, respond quickly to, and help prevent acts of violence.
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks projects that will make collections from small and under-represented archives more readily available for public discovery and use. The grant program will fund Archives Collaboratives to share best practices, tools, and techniques; assess institutional strengths and opportunities; and promote management structures for long-term sustainability and growth.
Supports small-scale research projects at educational institutions that provide baccalaureate or advanced degrees for a significant number of the Nation’s research scientists but that have not been major recipients of NIH support.
This program supports innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects at different stages of their lifecycles, from early start-up phases through implementation and sustainability. Experimentation, reuse, and extensibility are hallmarks of this program, leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities.
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks projects that will significantly improve public discovery and use of major historical records collections. The Commission is especially interested in collections of America’s early legal records, such as the records of colonial, territorial, county, and early statehood and tribal proceedings that document the evolution of the nation’s legal history.
This program supports young in career scientists and engineers who have received Ph.D. or equivalent degrees by 1 April 2012 or later showing exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. The program objective is to foster creative basic research in science and engineering; enhance early career development of outstanding young investigators; and increase opportunities for the young investigator to recognize the Air Force mission and related challenges in science and engineering.
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