Deadline: 2 June 2017
The Office of Refugee Resetllement (ORR) within The Administration for Children and Families’ (ACF) is seeking applications for its Refugee Microenterprise Development (MED) Program.
The overall goal of the Refugee MED Program is to assist refugees to:
- assisting refugees to establish microenterprise businesses through the provision of MED loans, training and technical assistance (T/TA),
- assisting refugees in building credit history and/or repairing their credit score.
Allowable activities under the Refugee MED Program include providing technical assistance on loans, maintaining a revolving loan fund, provision of credit builder loans, and administrative costs associated with managing the MED Program.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $2,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $250,000
- Award Floor: $150,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Private institutions of higher education
- State governments
- County governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- City or township governments
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Independent school districts
- Special district governments
- Public or private non-profit agencies are eligible for awards under this announcement.
- Faith-based and community organizations that meet the eligibility requirements are eligible to receive awards under this funding opportunity announcement.
- Faith-based organizations are encouraged to review the ACF Policy on Grants to Faith-Based Organizations.
- Applications from individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligible and will be disqualified from competitive review and from funding under this announcement.
How to Apply
Interested applicants can apply via the given website.
Eligible Country: United States
For more information, please visit grants.gov.