PROJECT REQUESTS
Asian American Resource Foundation, Inc.
2855 Rolling Pin Lane
Suwanee, GA 30024
Project: AARC Vocational Education School
Funding Request: $1,302,300
Background: The Asian American Resource Center (AARC) proposes to establish a vocational education program. Although the project will be focused on the area's Asian American and immigrant communities, AARC will offer the vocational education program to anyone interested in improving himself or herself. The project is designed to address two problems that currently plague the community:
- It will provide members of the community members with the means to become self-sufficient, productive members of the community. By teaching a desirable job skill to individuals who may otherwise have no marketable job skills, AARC will help individuals find employment and increase their chances of becoming self-sufficient.
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 3965
Atlanta, GA 30302
Project: Child Maltreatment Prevention in Georgia
Funding Request: $500,000
Background: In order to prevent child maltreatment in Georgia and to enhance the health and well-being of at risk families, we are requesting funding to expand the SafeCare program. These funds would support the following:
*Expansion of SafeCare use for high-risk families in the metropolitan Atlanta area.
*Development of a pilot program that involves collaboration with one or more other programs that involve home visitation in the metropolitan Atlanta area.
*Development if a collaborative effort among home visitation programs to improve efficiency and effectiveness and take advantage of synergies among programs.
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
1600 Tullie Circle
Atlanta, GA 30329
Project: Children's Healthcare of Atlanta's School Nurse Liaison Project
Funding Request: $400,000
Background: The project provides school re-entry assistance for children 5-18 year olds who are discharged from our hospitals with complex medical conditions. Further it provides access to care referral and serve as statewide consultants to the Department of Education (DOE), Department of Human Resources (DHR) and Department of Public Health (DPH) for pediatric health issues, data collection and resource materials. The School Nurse Liaison program provides resources to all public schools in Georgia and many private schools. The project consists of a nurse manager, nurse consultants and an education coordinator who develops the statewide teaching calendar, two yearly newsletters and a website designed for school nurses.
Close Up Foundation
44 Canal Center Plaza
Alexandria, VA 22314
Project: Close Up Fellowship Program
Funding Request: $5,000,000
Background: Provides funds for economically disadvantaged high school and middle school students and their teachers to participate in Close Up Washington civic education programs.
Marcus Autism Center, Inc.
1920 Briarcliff Road, NE
Atlanta, GA 30329
Project: Creation of Statewide Autism Standard of Care Guidelines
Funding Request: $750,000
Background: The Marcus Autism Center will use the federal funding to create standard of care protocols for ABA treatment services for autism. This includes definition of varying treatment models according to acuity and the needs of the child. It will build consensus amongst stakeholder provider base on standard of care model for diagnosis of autism which includes integration of existing national standards (ATN).
Youth Vision, Industry, Business, & Empowerment, Inc.
5240 Snapfinger Park Drive
Suite 125
Decatur, GA 30035
Project: Empowering Tomorrow
Funding Request: $800,000
Background: Youth V.I.B.E. is a non-profit 501(c)(3) afterschool program which provides free services to over 500 youth per year within multiple Metro-Atlanta Schools. Its vision is to Empower Tomorrow's Leaders. It believe its impact compliments the day school and improves the health, academic, arts, business and enrichment activities resulting in greater individual and community success.
Morehouse School of Medicine
720 Westview Dr., SW
Atlanta, GA 30314
Project: Enhancement of the MSM Biomedical Research Facilities
Funding Request: $7,000,000
Background: Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) proposes to expand its biomedical research facilities by approximately 30,000 square feet to centralize our biomedical informatics activities to facilitate greater scientific interchange among several basic, translational clinical, and population science research areas. The proposed expansion of our Medical Education Building (MEB) will be a centrally located, new three story structure on our main campus that will enable us to build upon our existing strengths of currently funded research which requires a significant increase in biomedical informatics computing infrastructure and physical space over the next decade.
Specifically, the new shared space provided by the proposed in this project request will accelerate the development of three emerging areas of biomedical informatics that are prioritized within our institutional strategic plan basic/translational, clinical, and population informatics.
Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta
1600 Tullie Circle
Atlanta, GA 30329
Project: Georgia Children's Health Alliance (GCHA) Strategic Plan Implementation
Funding Request: $600,000
Background: Children's is seeking funding to implement the Georgia Children's Health Alliance's (GCHA's) strategic plan. Initial 2010 plans for implementation include, but are not limited to, specific programmatic and medical provider education and training strategies such as data centralization and growth of Centering Pregnancy sites (group based prenatal care), implementation of the Steps to Grow On program, capacity building for First Steps programs and medical provider education and training around obesity prevention.
Thurgood Marshall College Fund
80 Maiden Lane
Suite 2204
New York, NY 10038
Project: Global Science Leaders Program
Funding Request: $6,000,000
Background: Recognizing a compelling need for high-quality diverse scientific leadership, the TMCF Global Science Leaders Program will support professional and academic career development for HBCU students in the Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields of study.
MedShare International, Inc.
3240 Clifton Springs Rd.
Decatur, GA 30034
Project: Help for Haiti
Funding Request: $50,000
Background: The project will increase MedShare's capacity to provide ongoing relief and recovery efforts to the people of Haiti in the form of desperately needed medical supplies and equipment and create a job in Georgia's 4th Congressional District.
Rockdale County Public Schools
954 North Main Street
Conyers, GA 30012
Project: Increasing Rigor and Student Achievement in Underperforming Groups - Pilot Program Expansion
Funding Request: $967,880
Background: Rockdale County Public Schools will expand the best practices evidence-based AVID
(Advancement Via Individual Determination) Program. This project will prepare students for rigorous course work in math, science, English, and technology. This project will ensure that students have fair and equal opportunity to obtain high-quality education to reach proficiency on state content standards.
Morehouse College
830 Westview Drive, SW
Atlanta, GA 30314
Project: Morehouse College Critical Languages Initiative Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Funding Request: $2,000,000
Background: Morehouse College requests funding to conduct additional curriculum development, to teach Mandarin Chinese and to expand the language component of the AMES program to support the continued development and implementation of a Chinese minor. The students' response and demand mandates that addition of course sessions to the college's class schedule. Through exposure to primary sources textual, oral and artifacts, the Chinese minor aims to provide familiarity with the region of China, and Asia in general. The area of academic study will examine all subjects comparatively and will be devoid of any particular ideological influence.
The major outcome of this program is culturally sensitive graduates with competence in global affairs, able to carry out rigorous analysis, proficient in Mandarin Chinese, and other languages indigenous to the Middle East and Asia.
Morehouse School of Medicine
720 Westview Dr., SW
Atlanta, GA 30314
Project: Morehouse School of Medicine Center for Healthy Communities
Funding Request: $2,780,324
Background: The facility will provide mental health and substance abuse counseling, career counseling and training and primary care services establishing a permanent off-campus presence in the community. MSM currently implements programs of teaching (service-learning initiatives), research (community-based participatory research), and service (both community health promotion and community-based primary medical care). MSM owns no facility of its own in the community; instead, it rents space, suggesting a temporary presence - owning a building suggests permanence. Other programs of service that could appropriately be housed in the Center for Healthy Communities include a Preventive Medicine Center: This center would serve the community with programs of weight control, smoking cessation, and physical fitness. Public health services would be reimbursed by insurance or paid on a subscription basis.
Georgia Institute of Technology
225 North Ave., NW
Atlanta, GA 30332
Project: Outreach to Underserved Portions of the Entrepreneurial Community
Funding Request: $1,000,000
Background: Minorities and women are underserved in the technology focused entrepreneurial community. Georgia Tech's Enterprise Innovation Institute will work with existing networks for women and minority businesses to understand the specific challenges to entrepreneurship. We will develop and regionally implement a pilot program to increase the proportion of women and minority entrepreneurs.
Reach Out and Read
56 Roland Street
Suite 100 D
Boston, MA 02129
Project: Reach Out and Read
Funding Request: $10,000,000
Background: Reach Out and Read is a national program that promotes literacy and language development in infants and young children, targeting disadvantage and poor children and families.
Clark Atlanta University
223 James P. Brawley Dr., SW
Atlanta, GA 30314
Project: Research Facility Improvement for Biomedical Research
Funding Request: $5,000,000
Background: Funds are requested to renovate the current animal vivarium and centralize core facilities, and to upgrade the infrastructure of the ~ 2000,000 sq. ft. Science Research Center (gas delivery, deionized water, and vacuum systems, and lab reconfiguration) to support biomedical research programs at Clark Atlanta University.
Rockdale County Public Schools
954 North Main Street
Conyers, GA 30012
Project: Rockdale Career Academy - Tools for Success
Funding Request: $820,000
Background: Locally, nearly 3.500 students take classes at the Rockdale Career Academy, four times the projected number, but many do not have access to the latest equipment or current software they need to train properly as equipment replacement and upgrades are a critical need. Teaching technical courses today requires an adequate supply of 21st century equipment. Funding is requested to replace, refit and upgrade equipment, software and workstations.
Refugee Resettlement and Immigration Services of Atlanta
4151 Memorial Drive
Suite 205-D
Decatur, GA 30032
Project: Safe Places After School and Summer Youth Program
Funding Request: $135,000
Background: The Safe Places After School and Summer Program provides a safe and structured environment for refugee, immigrant and low income youth. The program serves children and youth in grades k-8 attending targeted Title I DeKalb County Schools.
Spelman College
350 Spelman Lane, S.W.
Box 1551
Atlanta, GA 30314
Project: The Spelman College Black Women's Health Initiative
Funding Request: $900,000
Background: The Spelman College Black Women's Health Initiative is a comprehensive project focused on curricular and co-curricular offerings to raise awareness about the health status of Black women and cultivate a generation of young leaders who can contribute to future research, advocacy, education, policy, and business efforts related to women's health.
Spelman College
350 Spelman Lane, S.W.
Box 1551
Atlanta, GA 30314
Project: Spelman College Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program
Funding Request: $2,600,000
Background: The Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Scholars Program at Spelman College provides scholarship and high impact academic support for highly qualified students majoring in the physical sciences, mathematics, or dual degree engineering.
Soccer in the Streets
2323 Perimeter Park Drive, NE
Atlanta, GA 30341
Project: Soccer in the Streets' Job Readiness Program
Funding Request: $500,000
Background: Soccer in the Streets will use its programming to combat the lack of suitable job skills among disadvantaged youth. 20 sites in metro Atlanta will serve 2,000 disadvantaged youth. This initiative will use the sport of soccer as a medium to develop important employment skills such as respect and teamwork, while gaining hands-on experience through both internships and summer employment.
Helping Others Pursue Excellence Ministries, Community Development Corporation, Inc.
(H.O.P.E.)
1580 Agape Way
Decatur, GA 30035
Project: Tabernacle Homes Services Component of an Affordable Housing Plus Services
Funding Request: $900,000
Background: The Tabernacle Homes, as proposed, will be the first of its kind an Affordable Housing Plus Services (AHPS) senior residential development for the DeKalb County Community. The project will consist of mixed-use development complimenting this up and coming active metropolitan neighborhood. This project will require the removal of existing foliage on site and replacing it with a comprehensive new construction project for seniors. The development will integrate all that is best about senior residential living in the city with quality retail, commercial, and community services options - all in one vibrant location.
Teach for America
315 West 36th Street
New York, NY 10018
Project: Teach for America
Funding Request: $50,000,000
Background: Teach for America, a national nonprofit with a demonstrated record of success, will use these funds to recruit, select, train, and provide professional development to top recent college graduates of all academic majors who commit two years to teach in our nation's highest poverty communities in 38 regions across the country.
Thurgood Marshall College Fund
80 Maiden Lane
Suite 2204
New York, NY 10038
Project: Teacher Quality and Retention Program (TQRP)
Funding Request: $6,000,000
Background: The TQRP is designed to prepare 10,000 pre-service public school teachers over 5 years for service in underserved public school districts. This initiative seeks to improve student performance by increasing the knowledge base, attitude, performance, and retention of teachers.
Rockdale County Public Schools
954 North Main Street
Conyers, GA 30012
Project: Technology Revitalization
Funding Request: $5,000,000
Background: This project will replace and upgrade the currently obsolete technology in the school system. Rockdale County Public Schools expects an increase in the number of students who graduate and enroll in post-secondary education at public colleges and universities.
Georgia Institute of Technology
225 North Ave., NW
Atlanta, GA 30332
Project: Tech Teachers for Georgia
Funding Request: $500,000
Background: Modeled after the highly successful and competitive Teach for America program, Tech Teachers for Georgia will recruit and train recent graduates of Georgia Tech and other Georgia colleges and universities to prepare them for two-year positions as teachers in STEM-focused classrooms in a Georgia public school. The program is a collaboration between Georgia Tech and Georgia public school systems and will encourage participants to become fully certified and to pursue STEM teaching careers.
Georgia Institute of Technology
225 North Ave., NW
Atlanta, GA 30332
Project: Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities
Funding Request: $500,000
Background: This program connects undergraduate students who may be interested in college teaching with higher education faculty. Modeled after the successful Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) that provides undergraduates with a chance to experience what it's like to conduct research in a higher education setting, this program provides a venue for students to partner with faculty and learn what is involved in being a professor who (1) helps novice learners gain expertise in a field of study, (2) develops innovative curriculum that addresses important issues, and (3) works to improve student learning in the classroom.
DeKalb County, GA School System
3770 N. Decatur Rd
Decatur, GA 30032
Project: Universal Screener for the DeKalb County School System
Funding Request: $800,000
Background: Purchase a web-based Universal Screener with Data Management System for implementing RTI (Response to Intervention) for grades K - 12. RTI is a system of tiers of interventions to help students succeed. RTI uses assessment tools and intervention strategies to maximize student achievement and to reduce behavior problems. A Universal Screener would enable schools to 1) identify students at risk for poor learning outcomes in mathematics, reading, and writing; 2) monitor student progress; 3) provide evidence-based interventions; 4) adjust the intensity and nature of those interventions based on a student's responsiveness; and 5) identify students with learning disabilities and other disabilities.
PROGRAM LEVEL REQUEST
Program Level Request: Aging Grants to Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian Organizations
Funding Level Request: $1,730,110,000
Background: The OAA is the cornerstone of the nation's long-term care system, providing older adults with critical services that include information and referral, home care, home-delivered meals, adult day care, legal services, transportation and caregiver support. Without these programs, over 8 million older adults every year would need more expensive institutional care or suffer from hunger, isolation, poor health, neglect, abuse, unemployment or other challenges to their quality of life.
For years, OAA appropriations have failed to keep pace with growth in inflation and the aging population, leading to significant shortfalls even as demand increases. As a result, only a fraction of eligible older Americans receive the home health, home-delivered meals, transportation or other vital services as authorized under Title III of the OAA. The need for OAA programs among older adults and caregivers cannot be greater during these difficult economic times. As increasing numbers of older Americans and caregivers face financial trouble, more will come to need the bedrock programs created by the OAA. We support the President's FY 2011 budget request for certain programs within OAA, but request an increase of at least 12% in all OAA programs to respond to an increasing demand for services.
Program Level Request: Basic and Translational Research Program in Sickle Cell Disease
Funding Level Request: $80,000,000
Background: Provides grants to support the Basic and Translational Research Program on Sickle Cell Disease pursuant to P.L. 99-158, the Health Research Extension Act of 1985. This comprehensive research program improves our understanding related to diagnosing, treating, and managing Sickle Cell Disease.
Program Level Request: Birth Defects/Developmental Disabilities - Blood Disorders
Funding Level Request: $50,000,000
Background: Funding will support the CDC's current efforts to develop RuSH (Registry and Surveillance System for Hemoglobinopathies) - a pilot program to design a Hemoglobinopathy Data Center to operate a surveillance and registry program, with particular attention to Sickle Cell Disease. The lack of this type of data system for Sickle-Cell-related diseases limits the ability of the research and treatment communities to understand fully the impact of the disease and to develop health care planning at the local, state, and national levels.
Program Level Request: Community Service Employment for Older Americans
Funding Level Request: $924,476,000
Background: The Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP), authorized under Title V of the Older Americans Act, provides part-time community service employment and training for low income workers age 55 and older. Funding for this program eroded between FY 2002 and FY
2006, then in fiscal years 2007-2009, the minimum wage forced modest increases in the program, but this was solely to sustain the number of participants. In FY 2010, SCSEP received a significant boost in funding to allow needed expansion of the nation's only workforce development program designed exclusively to maximize the productive contributions of a rapidly growing older population. The unemployment rate for adults age 65 and older, though reached a record high of 7.2 percent in December 2009— so the need for SCSEP services remains, and is continually growing. That is why we are requesting an increase of at least 12% over FY 2010 funding for the SCSEP program.
Program Level Request: Environmental Health - Climate Change
Funding Level Request: $15,000,000
Background: CDC's Climate Change Program, currently flat-funded in the President's budget proposal, helps provide local health officials with the technical support and training they need to assess the threats that climate change poses in their jurisdictions; determine their critical health vulnerabilities; and examine what additional capacities are needed to respond. In addition, the program funds research on the potential health effects of climate change, including looking at changes in disease patterns and major environmental catastrophes. Research will help inform the preparedness plans for states and localities that can be developed from the results of local and state needs assessments.
A total of $15 million in FY 2011 would enable CDC to conduct cutting-edge research and provide funds to up to 25 states and localities to conduct a needs assessment to determine their vulnerability to the health effects of climate change and to identify which communities and populations are most likely to be affected.
Program Level Request: General National Institutes of Health Funding
Funding Level Request: $33,434,504,000
Background: The National Institutes of Health is our nation's preeminent medical research institution and represents our best hope for finding cures and treatments for the devastating diseases and conditions that affect millions of Americans. NIH research is essential to containing soaring medical costs, reforming health care, strengthening our economy, inspiring the next generation of scientists and researchers, and maintaining our nation's leadership in innovation. The recent boost in NIH funding in FY2009 and FY2010 was an important step toward regaining the lost potential of the last several years and rebuilding our economy. For these reasons, I am seeking an increase for NIH of at least 7 percent over the FY 2010 baseline.
Program Level Request: Infectious Diseases - Minority AIDS Initiative
Funding Level Request: $145,000,000
Agency: Department of Health & Human Services
Program Level Request: Infectious Diseases - Viral Hepatitis
Funding Level Request: $50,000,000
Background: Nearly 5.3 million Americans are infected with chronic hepatitis B and C and most of them do not know it. Hepatitis B and C silently attack the liver and are a leading cause of liver cancer: one of the most lethal, expensive and fastest growing cancers in America. In 2007 alone, the CDC estimated that 43,000 Americans were newly infected with hepatitis B and 17,000 with hepatitis C, and the diseases combined cause at least 15,000 deaths each year. It is also a leading cause of death in persons living with HIV. Nearly 25 percent of HIV-positive Americans are co-infected with hepatitis C and nearly 10 percent with hepatitis B.
This program supports core prevention services that include hepatitis B and C education, counseling, testing, and referral to care, in addition to delivery of hepatitis A and B vaccines, and establishing a national surveillance system for chronic hepatitis B and C. This increase in funding is critical in developing the comprehensive viral hepatitis program required to prevent new infections and control the spiraling costs of chronic infections.
Program Level Request: Job Corps
Funding Level Request: $1,764,000,000
Background: Job Corps is the largest and most comprehensive residential academic and vocational training program for America's most economically disadvantaged youth between the ages of 16 - 24.
This voluntary program serves nearly 60,000 youth each year at 124 Job Corps centers located across the country, including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
Program Level Request: MCH SPRANS Sickle Cell
Funding Level Request: $5,250,000
Background: Provides grants to support a National Coordinating and Evaluation Center and 17 community based demonstration sites across the country that provide SCD follow-up and other services to support the comprehensive care for newborns diagnosed with SCD. This program provides a continuity of medical services, education and counseling from birth to persons afflicted with SCD as well as those with the trait.
Program Level Request: Minority AIDS Initiative
Funding Level Request: $190,000,000
Agency: Department of Health & Human Services
Account: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) - Health Resources and Services
Program Level Request: Minority AIDS Initiative
Funding Level Request: $160,000,000
Agency: Department of Health & Human Services
Account: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Program Level Request: Minority AIDS Initiative
Funding Level Request: $105,000,000
Agency: Department of Health & Human Services
Account: Office of the Secretary (OS) - General Departmental Management (GDM)
Program Level Request: Minority AIDS Initiative
Funding Level Request: $10,000,000
Agency: Department of Health & Human Services
Account: NIH - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Background: Minority AIDS Initiative for behavioral research in communities of color
Program Level Request: National Children's Study
Funding Level Request: $194,400,000
Background: The National Children's Study is the largest long-term study of children's health and development ever conducted. It will follow over 100,000 children from before birth to age 21, in order to determine the risks and causes of many complex childhood and ongoing diseases, such as asthma, diabetes, obesity, and autism. $194.4 million provided in fiscal year 2011 will allow the Study to sustain progress as planned.
Program Level Request: Sickle Cell Service Demonstration Program
Funding Level Request: $100,000,000
Background: Provides grants to create treatment centers to provide medical treatment, education and other services for persons with Sickle Cell Disease patients pursuant to P.L. 108-357. Funding this national program will improve the lives of SCD patients through disease management programs to help them live longer, healthier lives while supporting research toward a comprehensive cure and providing community education about this disease and its treatment options.
Program Level Request: State Paid Leave Fund
Funding Level Request: $50,000,000
Background: President Barack Obama's proposed State Paid Leave Fund will provide competitive grants to help states launch paid leave programs by covering startup costs for information technology, staffing, and program operating budgets. The proposed $50 million of funding is necessary to effectively seed new state paid leave programs, while giving states the flexibility to develop programs based on the needs of their states' working families.
Program Level Request: TRIO
Funding Level Request: $1,003,000,000
Background: TRIO serves students from low-income families in which neither parent earned a college degree. Currently, TRIO serves approximately 836,000 low-income, first-generation students in every state and territory in the nation. TRIO provides the critical academic, financial, social, and cultural supports for students that might not otherwise pursue or complete higher education. The College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007 provided $57 million annually in mandatory funds to support nearly 200 Upward Bound programs through academic year 2010-2011. In order to preserve the current number of Upward Bound programs in academic year 2011-2012
(956 total), preventing the loss of services to approximately 12,000 students, Congress must increase Upward Bound's discretionary funding by $57 million in FY 2011. Additionally, new requirements for the Talent Search program included in the Higher Education Opportunity Act significantly increase estimated per-student costs from $393 to $1,200. Greater investments are also needed for TRIO programs to keep pace with the rising costs of services and staffing. An increased investment of $150 million for a total appropriation of $1.003 billion will help ensure that TRIO programs continue providing first-generation students with these vital, life changing services.
Program Level Request: Transfer to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Funding Level Request: $300,000,000
Background: The Global Fund is an innovative and effective development financing model designed to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. It has quickly become one of the most successful tools in the world to fight these three diseases that combined kill approximately 5 million people per year. Since 2003, the Global Fund has helped provide antiretroviral therapy for more than 2.5 million people and palliative care and prevention services for millions more. It has also placed 6 million people on tuberculosis treatment and provided 104 million bed nets to prevent malaria. The United States is a founding contributor and ongoing Board Member of the Global Fund.