Deadline: 31-Mar-2025
The Administrator of the Administration for Community Living establishes a priority for a Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Employment Among People Who Are Blind or Have Low Vision.
The purpose of this RRTC is to contribute to improved employment outcomes of people who are blind or have low vision through high-quality research, training, and related activities.
Priority
- To contribute to improved employment outcomes of people who are blind or have low vision, you must address in your proposal the following requirements of this RRTC:
- Conduct well-designed research activities in one or more of the following priority areas. You may focus your research either on people with blindness or low vision as a group, or people with blindness or low vision in specific disability or demographic subpopulations
- Technology to improve employment outcomes.
- Individual factors associated with improved employment opportunities or outcomes.
- Employer or work environment factors associated with improved employment opportunities or outcomes.
- Interventions that are designed to contribute to improved employment outcomes. Interventions can include any strategy, practice, program, policy, service, or tool that is designed to contribute to improvements in employment outcomes.
- Effects of government practices, policies, and programs on employment outcomes.
- Describe and justify why you are focusing on your proposed population or subpopulations of people with blindness or low vision.
- Demonstrate that people with blindness or low vision from diverse racial and ethnic communities will be included in proposed research samples in sufficient numbers to generate knowledge and products that are relevant to the racial and ethnic diversity of the population being studied.
- Serve as a national resource center on employment among people with blindness or low vision. This includes conducting knowledge translation activities to promote the use or implementation of the RRTC’s research findings.
- Conduct well-designed research activities in one or more of the following priority areas. You may focus your research either on people with blindness or low vision as a group, or people with blindness or low vision in specific disability or demographic subpopulations
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $925,000
- Award Floor: $920,000
Duration
- 60-month project period with five 12-month budget periods.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Applicants:
- Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments)
- State governments
- County governments
- Small businesses
- Private institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- City or township governments
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Special district governments
- States; public or private agencies, including for-profit agencies; public or private organizations, including for-profit organizations; IHEs; and Indian tribes and tribal organizations. Foreign entities are not eligible to compete for, or receive, awards made under this announcement. Faith-based and community organizations that meet the eligibility requirements are eligible to receive awards under this funding opportunity announcement.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.