Office of Planning and Research
Federal Assistance
As California's Single Point of Contact for federal grants, the Governor's Office of Planning and Research (OPR) is here to share the latest on federal grant opportunities, workshops, and events.

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Federal Funding News
Treasury Issues Final Rule for State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds
The final rule implements the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund and the Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund established under the American Rescue Plan Act.




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New Federal Grant Opportunities

Many more opportunities are at grants.gov.
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National Infrastructure Investments (RAISE)
Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE). For projects that will have a significant local or regional impact.

Due: April 14, 2022


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Small Community Air Service Development Program
To provide financial assistance to small communities to help them enhance their air service. 

Due: March 15, 2022

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Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program, Fire Prevention and Safety Grants
For Fire Departments: For activities designed to reach high-risk target groups and mitigate incidences of death and injuries caused by fire and fire-related hazards, and research and development activities aimed at improving firefighter safety.

Due: February 18, 2022

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Homeless Veterans’ Reintegration Program
Homeless Veterans’ Reintegration Program, Incarcerated Veterans’ Transition Program, and the Homeless Female Veterans’ and Veterans’ with Children Program. To obtain high-quality career outcomes for veterans experiencing homelessness.

Due: February 23, 2022

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WaterSMART: Desalination Construction Projects Under the WIIN Act
For desalination projects that develop and supplement municipal and irrigation water supplies through the treatment of ocean or brackish water, thereby providing a local supply, providing flexibility during water shortages, and diversifying the water supply portfolio.

Due: March 15, 2022

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WaterSMART: Title XVI WIIN Act Water Reclamation and Reuse Projects
For the planning, design, and/or construction of water reclamation and reuse projects eligible under section 4009(c) of the WIIN Act.

Due: March 15, 2022

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WaterSMART: Title XVI Congressionally Authorized Water Reclamation and Reuse Projects
For the planning, design, and/or construction of congressionally authorized water reclamation and reuse projects.

Due: March 15, 2022


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NRCS’s Regional Conservation Partnership Program
To co-invest with partners to implement projects that demonstrate innovative solutions to conservation challenges and provide measurable improvements and outcomes tied to the resource concerns they seek to address.

Due: April 13, 2022


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Children, Youth, and Families at Risk Sustainable Community Projects
To improve the quality and quantity of comprehensive community-based programs for at-risk children, youth, and families supported by the Cooperative Extension System.

Due: February 28, 2022

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Risk Management Education Partnership Program
To deliver crop insurance education and risk management training to U.S. agricultural producers to assist them in identifying and managing production, marketing, legal, financial, and human risk.

Due: March 11, 2022

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Rural Business Development Grant Program To Provide Technical Assistance for Rural Transportation Systems
To provide Technical Assistance for Rural Transportation systems including designated funds to provide Technical Assistance to systems operating within tribal lands.

Due: April 14, 2022

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Public Health Crisis Response
To enhance the nation’s ability to rapidly mobilize, surge, and respond to public health emergencies of such magnitude, complexity, or significance that they would have an overwhelming impact upon, and exceed resources available to, the jurisdictions.

Due: February 12, 2022

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Community Violence Prevention: Putting Communities First - Safer Communities and Saving Lives
Forecast: To support community-driven collaborative applicants to build and increase local Community Violence capacity and support funded recipients to establish a community-driven prevention system that works with community organizations, local communities and affected populations, and multisector partners to prevent violence.

Due: June 4, 2022

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Community Violence Prevention: Putting Communities First - Safer Communities and Saving Lives – Training and Technical Assistance
Forecast: For training and technical assistance that will support communities in building local public health capacity for prevention and establishing a community-driven prevention system that works with community organizations, local communities and affected populations, and multisector partners to prevent violence.

Due: June 4, 2022

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Rigorous Evaluation of Community-Centered Approaches for the Prevention of Community Violence
To expand the evidence base for the prevention and reduction of community violence, including youth violence and violence among young adults.

Due: March 22, 2022


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Innovations in Nutrition Programs and Services -Research
To support research and documentation of innovative and promising practices and policies, including those that have emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic, that have the potential that enhance the quality, effectiveness and proven outcomes of nutrition services programs within the aging services network.

Due: March 10, 2022

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Innovations in Nutrition Programs and Services - Replication
To support projects which replicate successful models developed by Innovations in Nutrition Programs and Services grantees that have the potential that enhance the quality, effectiveness and proven outcomes of nutrition services programs within the aging services network.

Due: March 10, 2022

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Telehealth Strategies to Maximize HIV Care
To identify and maximize the use of telehealth strategies that are most effective in improving linkage to care, retention in care, and health outcomes, including viral suppression, for people with HIV who receive services through the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program.

Due: April 8, 2022

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Signals in the Soil
To support convergent research that transforms existing capabilities in understanding dynamic soil processes, including soil formation, through advances in sensor systems and modeling. 

Due: April 14, 2022

National Science Foundation (NSF) logo
Molecular Foundations for Biotechnology
For synergistic scientific research collaborations that involve innovative machine learning methods to foster advances in research on the function of biomolecular systems and have the potential to drive innovation in biotechnology.

Due: April 14, 2022

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Research Associateship Program
To introduce selected Fellows to the roles and needs of the Warfighter as well as provide access to DEVCOM ARL’s world class research facilities, while allowing the Selected Fellows to pursue fundamental research of mutual interest to the Army and the Fellows.

Due: March 1, 2022

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Building the Capacity to Support Legal and Evidence-Based Pretrial Decisions at the State and Local Level
To provide the the pretrial services field with a series of responsive trainings, individualized onsite pretrial system and agency assessments, and publications.

Due: March 14, 2022

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DRL Seeding Deep Expertise in the Networks of Digital Protection Providers Who Serve Threatened Groups
To develop and deploy sustainable mechanisms for supporting networks of digital protectors of marginalized, vulnerable, or at-risk communities in identifying, developing, and utilizing expertise and networks necessary to respond to emergent threats.

Due: March 17, 2022

Upcoming Grant Workshops and Events
Links shared here are not endorsements of an organization or its commercial products. These are provided as a service to the grants community.

Jan 19. Meet the Grantmakers. FREE! Online.





Jan 19-Dec 14. Next Level Grant Training. Online.

Jan 20. New: USDA RCPP Webinar. FREE! Online.







Jan 20-21. Essential Grant Skills. Online.






Jan 26. Leveraging Government Grants in 2022. $75. Online.

Jan 26. Federal Grants Update 2022. Online.

Jan 26. Writing a Powerful Case for Support. $69. Online.









Jan 27. The Audits are Coming. Online.





Feb 1-4: Appropriations Law Seminar. Online.










Feb 7-11. Competing for Federal Grants. Online.

Feb 8. SAM.gov. FREE! Online.

Feb 8. HEERF, Is This Allowed? Online.

Feb 8-11. Grant Writing Boot Camp. Online.





Feb 14-18. Grantsmanship Training Program. Online.

Feb 15. USAspending.gov. FREE! Online.


Feb 15-17. Federal Assistance Law. Online.

Feb 15-18. Grant Management Boot Camp. Online.



Feb 16. New: Making Friends with Funders. $69. Online.

Feb 17. New: Writing/Designing DOD Proposals. Online.






Feb 23-24. Grant Management Essentials. Online.

Feb 23-24. Single Audit Success Academy. Online.


Feb 25. Improper Payments. Online.



Mar 2. New: Budgeting to Fully Fund Your Overhead. $69. Online.


Mar 4. New: Seven Strategies to Win More Grants. FREE! Online.

Mar 10. New: Performance Management for Grant Writers. $49. Online.

Mar 11-May 13. Level UP - One Project: One Strategy. Online.


Mar 15. So You Want to Write a Grant? FREE! Online.

Mar 15. New: Exploring Public Funding. $69. Online.


Mar 16-Apr 27. Grants 101 Series. Online.





Apr 12-19. NAGPRA Grant Proposal Development. $100 Online.

Apr 19-21. Annual Grants Training. Arlington, VA.


Jul 6-27. Grants 201 Training Series. Online.

Aug 24-Sep 14. Grants 301 Training Series. Online.

Oct 4-12. Grant Ethics Training Series. Online.
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