The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority

May 1, 2001

Welcome to this List Serv sponsored by the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority’s Rural Funding Coordination Project. These messages provide information about current government and private grants and contracts, conference and training opportunities, and potential funding sources.

The National Science Foundation’s Program for Persons with Disabilities is dedicated to increasing the number of people with disabilities employed in the science, engineering and technology fields. Colleges and universities that establish alliances with academia, industry, government and national research laboratories are eligible. The deadline is May 15. For more information, contact Dr. Lawrence Scadden at 703-292-4674 or visit http://nsf.gov.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has announced a new issue of Snapshot, a series dedicated to simplifying information about SAMHSA’s grant programs. Snapshot gives grant applicants a preliminary view of funding opportunities in substance abuse prevention, addiction treatment, and mental health services for fiscal year 2001. The volume provides a brief overview of how SAMHSA’s grant review process works. Snapshot is available at no cost. For more information, call 301-443-4266 or visit http://www.samhsa.gov.

SAMHSA has approximately $2.9 million available for its Statewide Family Networks Grants Program. The goal is to fund one award per state. The focus of the program is to assist family members in working with policy makers and service providers to improve access and the quality of services for children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbances. The deadline is May 21. For more information contact Elizabeth Sweet at 301-443-1333 (refer to PHS 5161-1) or visit http://www.samhsa.gov.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has assembled all of its funding programs at a single location. SuperNOFA, which contains all of the department’s RFP documents, has 16 different sections containing over 1,000 pages. For more information, visit http://www.hud.gov.

Applications are being accepted for the Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation. The award recognizes a project or program that has made a difference in the lives of the people it serves, and is accompanied by a prize of $25,000 and a short video documentary about the winning project or program. The deadline is June 8. For more information, view www.pfdf.org.

The ExxonMobil Corporation supports nonprofit organizations that focus on health, community service, education, public information, environmental conservation and the arts. There is a formal application process and the annual deadline is June 1. For more information, contact Brian Dunphy at 907-561-5331.

The Federal Express Corporation supports nonprofit organizations concerned with health and welfare issues, education, culture and the arts, and civic assistance. They are especially interested in organizations with which their employees are involved. A letter of support from the local Federal Express office will strengthen a request. There is a formal application process and they accept requests all year. For more information, contact Patrick Melancon at 901-395-3460 or visit http://www.fedex.com. The local Federal Express contact is Dennis Bird at 907-249-3171.

The National Transit Resource Center assists communities and organizations with their efforts to develop and expand community transportation. The Center can provide information on topics such as funding, meeting regulatory requirements, and vehicle safety issues. These services are federally funded and are usually available at no cost. For more information, call Janet McGlynn at 800-527-8279 or visit www.ctaa.org/ntrc.

A new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has found that young people are experimenting with drugs, alcohol, and tobacco at early ages. The report also found that illicit drug and tobacco use increased dramatically among youth through the mid-1990’s before leveling off and beginning to decline. For a copy of the report, visit www.rwjf.org/index.jsp.

The Benton Foundation provides information for nonprofit organizations on ways to better use technology in their programs. It also discusses how organizations can increase access to technology in poor communities. For more information, visit http://www.helping.org/nonprofit.

The beneficiaries of the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority include those Alaskans who experience mental illness; mental retardation or similar disabilities; chronic alcoholism with psychosis; or Alzheimer’s disease or related dementia. You can learn more about the Trust at www.mhtrust.org

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