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Michigan Community Action Agency Association
Office Park West, 516 S. Creyts Road, Suite A, Lansing MI 48917, PH: (517) 321-7500 FAX: (517) 321-7504

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Rural Housing Service

Request for Proposals: The National Emergency or Disaster Grants 
To Assist Low-Income Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers

    Announcement Type: Initial Notice of Funds Available (NOFA) 
inviting proposals from qualified applicants.

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number (CFDA): 10.405

SUMMARY: The Rural Housing Service (RHS) announces the availability of 
funds and the timeframe to submit applications for grants to provide 
emergency services to areas where the Secretary of Agriculture 
determines that a local, state, or national emergency or disaster has 
caused low-income migrant or seasonal farmworkers to lose income, be 
unable to work, or to stay at home or return home in anticipation of 
work shortages. For purposes of this NOFA, emergency services include 
any service that can be provided under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (Pub. L. 93-288), as amended 
(Stafford Act), that also meets the requirements of 42 U.S.C. 5177a. 
For instance the Stafford Act and 41 U.S.C. 5177a would permit the 
following services:

Standing Announcement for the Ethnic Community Self-Help Program

The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) invites the submission of applications for funding, 
on a competitive basis, to connect newcomer refugees and their communities with community resources. 
The objective of this program is to strengthen organized ethnic communities comprised and 
representative of refugee populations to ensure ongoing support and services to refugees 
after initial resettlement. This announcement replaces the Priority Area Three - 
Ethnic Community Self-Help 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 March 24, 2008, as the first closing date for applications. 
Thereafter, the Director will observe February 24, 2009 and 
February 24, 2010 as the closing dates for applications.

Tribal Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Coalitions Program

The Tribal Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Coalitions Grant 
Program support’s the development and operation of nonprofit tribal 
domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions in Indian country. 
The goal is to build the capacity of victim service providers, 
survivors, and advocates to improve systemic and community responses 
to end violence against American Indian and Alaska Native women.

FY 2008 Urban Areas Security Initiative Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP)

The Fiscal Year 2008 Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) 
provides funding support for target hardening activities to nonprofit organizations that are at 
high risk of international terrorist attack. While this funding is provided specifically to 
high-risk nonprofit organizations, the program seeks to integrate nonprofit preparedness 
activities with broader state and local preparedness efforts. It is also designed to promote 
coordination and collaboration in emergency preparedness activities among public and private 
community representatives, State and local government agencies, and Citizen Corps Councils. 
Projects or initiatives that are eligible for funding under this announcement may or 
may not involve Geospatial (GIS) issues.”