[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 21 (Monday, February 2, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5554-5555]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-01841]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
[CFDA Number: 93.567]
Announcing the Award of Nine Single-Source Grants Under the
Voluntary Agencies Matching Grant Program
AGENCY: Office of Refugee Resettlement, Administration for Children and
Families, HHS.
ACTION: Announcing the Award of Nine Single-Source Grants under the
Voluntary Agencies Matching Grant Program.
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SUMMARY: The Voluntary Agencies Matching Grant Program was created by
Congress in 1979. The program is intended to work in consort with the
Refugee and Cuban & Haitian Entrant Reception and Placement (R&P)
programs. Thus, competition under the Voluntary Agency Matching Grant
Program has historically been limited to those voluntary agencies
providing R&P services through cooperative agreements with the
Department of State or the Department of Homeland Security. Congress
confirmed this approach to the program in the 1986 Refugee Assistance
Extension Act. The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) has
determined that using the solicited single-source application process
is in the best interest of the government as it will achieve the same
result and is more cost effective than the published Funding
Opportunity Announcement process.
DATES: October 1, 2014 through September 30, 2015.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas Giossi, Program Manager,
Division of Refugee Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement, 370
L'Enfant Promenade SW., Washington, DC 20447. Telephone: 202-401-5720.
Email: [email protected] .
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Voluntary Agencies Matching Grant
Program, under the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), is an
alternative to public cash assistance designed to enable refugees,
asylees, and other ORR eligible populations, to become self-sufficient
through employment within 120 to 180 days from date of arrival into the
United States (U.S.) and/or the date of eligibility for ORR services;
however, clients must be enrolled within 31 days of becoming eligible
to ensure that adequate services are provided and self-sufficiency is
achieved and maintained within the period of eligibility. Services
provided include, but are not limited to, case management, employment
services, housing and utilities, food, transportation, cash allowance,
health and medical, English language training, social adjustment, and
other support services. In all cases, self-sufficiency must be achieved
without accessing public cash assistance and all program services cease
at 180 days from program eligibility.
The Voluntary Agencies Matching Grant Program was designed to work
directly with Reception and Placement (R&P) programs. Congress
confirmed this approach to the program in the 1986 Refugee Assistance
Extension Act. Therefore, funding under this program is open only to
those nine voluntary agencies that already provide R&P services through
a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of
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State (DOS) or the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Participating voluntary agencies agree to match the ORR grant with
cash and in-kind contributions of goods and services from the
community. Currently, ORR awards $2 for every $1 raised by the agency
up to a maximum of $2,200 in federal funds per client.
Single-source awards are made to the following organizations:
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Total
federal
Grantee name Location annual
award
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Church World Service/Immigration & New York, NY.......... $5,885,000
Refugee Program.
Domestic and Foreign Missionary New York, NY.......... 4,241,600
Society of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of the U.S.A.
Ethiopian Community Development Arlington, VA......... 2,059,200
Council/Refugee Resettlement
Program.
HIAS, Inc. (Hebrew Immigrant Aid New York, NY.......... 1,566,400
Society)/Refugee and Immigrant
Services.
International Rescue Committee/ New York, NY.......... 9,143,200
Resettlement.
Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Baltimore, MD......... 7,530,600
Service.
United States Conference of Washington, DC........ 18,977,200
Catholic Bishops.
US Committee for Refugees and Arlington, VA......... 11,501,600
Immigrants.
World Relief Corporation of Baltimore, MD......... 4,404,400
National Association of
Evangelicals/Refugee & Immigration
Programs.
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Statutory Authority: Section 412(c)(1)(A) of the Immigration
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1522(c)(1)(A); Section 7(a) and (b) of
the Refugee Assistance Extension Act of 1986 (Pub. L. 99-605) (8
U.S.C. 1522 note).
Christopher Beach,
Senior Grants Policy Specialist, Office of Administration.
[FR Doc. 2015-01841 Filed 1-30-15; 8:45 am]
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