This is a Modification to the Standing Announcement for Supplemental Services for Recently Arrived Refugees Funding Opportunity Announcement, HHS-2008-ACF-ORR-RU-0113, published to the ACF Grant Opportunities webpage on 01/30/2008. The modification announces changes to Section II. Award Information, Anticipated Total Priority Area Funding and the Anticipated Number of Awards, as well as announcing the implementation of the ACF-OGM-SF-PPR, Performance Progress Report in Section VI.3 Reporting Requirements.

Summary:
The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) invites the submission of applications for funding, on a competitive basis, for Supplemental Services for Recently Arrived Refugees to provide services to arriving refugees or sudden and unexpected large secondary migration of refugees where communities are not sufficiently prepared in terms of linguistic or culturally appropriate services.  This announcement replaces the Priority Area Two - Unanticipated Arrivals program included in the Standing Announcement for Services for Recently Arrived Refugees published in the Federal Register on April 23, 2004.

The Director will observe February 24, 2009 and February 24, 2010 as the closing dates for applications.   An applicant may submit more than one application under this announcement.

Modification to the published announcement:

Please delete the following under Section II. Award Information of this Funding Opportunity.

Anticipated Total Priority Area Funding:  $4,300,000
Anticipated Number of Awards: 10 to 20

Please replace the deleted language under Section II. Award Information of this Funding Opportunity with the following:

Anticipated Total Priority Area Funding:  $4,800,000
Anticipated Number of Awards:  10 to 22

Please delete the following under Section VI.3 Award Administration Information/Reporting Requirements of this Funding Opportunity.

“Grantees will be required to submit program progress and financial reports (SF-269 found at: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/grants_resources.html) throughout the project period. Program progress and financial reports are due 30 days after the reporting period. Final programmatic and financial reports are due 90 days after the close of the project period.

Final reports may be submitted in hard copy to the Grants Management Office Contact listed in Section VII of this announcement.

Program Progress Reports: Semi-Annually
Financial Reports: Semi-Annually

Program progress reports and financial reports required for this program are due as follows: 

(1) 30 days after the first six-month period; (2) 30 days after the next second six-month period; (3) 30 days after the next five-month period; and (4) final reports, which summarize the entire project period, are due 90 days after the grant ends.”

Please replace the deleted language under Section VI.3 Award Administration Information/Reporting Requirements of this Funding Opportunity with the following:

“Grantees will be required to submit performance progress and financial reports periodically throughout the project period. Frequency of reporting is listed later in this section.

Beginning with FY 2009 awards, most ACF grantees will begin using the a Standard Form (SF) for required performance progress reporting (PPR). The SF-PPR is a standard government-wide performance progress reporting format consisting of a series of forms implemented by Federal agencies to collect performance information from award recipients. Most ACF grantees will begin using the standard format implemented through ACF's Office of Grants Management (OGM), entitled the "ACF-OGM-SF-PPR." Use of the ACF-OGM-SF-PPR will begin for new awards and continuation awards made by ACF in FY 2009. At a minimum, grantees will be required to submit the ACF-OGM-SF-PPR, which consists of the ACF-OGM-SF-PPR Coversheet and the ACF-OGM-SF-PPR Appendix B Program Indicators.

ACF Programs that utilize other SF-PPR reporting formats, or other reporting forms or formats that differ from the new ACF-OGM-SF-PPR, have listed those forms or formats below. Grant award documents will inform grantees of the appropriate performance progress report form or format to use beginning in FY 2009.

Grantees will continue to use the Financial Status Report (FSR) SF-269 (long form) for required financial reporting.

The SF-269 (long form) and the ACF-OGM-SF-PPR may be found at http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/grants_resources.html. Grantees should consult their award documents to determine the appropriate performance progress report format required under their award.

Performance progress and financial reports are due 30 days after the end of the reporting period. Final program performance and financial reports are due 90 days after the close of the project period.

Final reports may be submitted in hard copy to the Grants Management Office Contact listed in Section VII. of this announcement.

Program Progress Reports: Semi-Annually
Financial Reports: Semi-Annually

Program progress reports and financial reports required for this program are due as follows: 

(1) 30 days after the first six-month period; (2) 30 days after the next second six-month period; (3) 30 days after the next five-month period; and (4) final reports, which summarize the entire project period, are due 90 days after the grant ends.”

All information in this modification is accurate and replaces information specified in the 01/30/2008 Funding Opportunity Announcement

ANNOUNCEMENT AVAILABILITY:

To access this Program Announcement please go to the ACF Grant Opportunities webpage at http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/index.html or to http://www.Grants.gov.

For further information, please contact Susan S. Benjamin at 202-401-4851 or Susan.Benjamin@acf.hhs.gov.  

Posted on January 21, 2009