Carol M. White PEP grant competition opens Monday, 3/21/2016!
The Federal Register Notice that will officially open the 2016 PEP grant competition will be posted MONDAY, 3/21/2016. This is very likely to be the final PEP grant competition ever, so this is particularly exciting.
The grant deadline will be 60 days from the Notice publication date and will be listed in the final publication on Monday.
The full RFP may be available Monday, or it may take a few days. The release is not always immediate. Grants.gov submission is required, and the grants.gov application package will be available for download by Tuesday.
A few quick notes:
- Recommended award range is now $200,000 – $800,000 per year, with average size expected to be $500,000 per year.
- Total amount available for new awards is $23 Million.
- Awards are still for 1, 2, or 3 years. Forward funding will apply as anticipated. This means funds for all years of each awardee’s grant will come out of this year’s $23 Million since this is the last year of funding.
- Anticipated number of awards is 15—this could go up or down some depending on the size of the requests of the applicants chosen for awards.
- There are three opportunities for bonus points via Competitive Preference Priorities. The first involves partnerships. The other two are related to student achievement.
- There is an Invitational Priority (not required and not attached to any additional points) for discussion of Evidence of Promise–research showing program elements are proven to work.
If you’d like assistance, please contact us today. Good luck to all applying!
