Grant Competition: Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Models on College Campuses (CFDA #84.184N)
(FY 2006)

Posting Date: February 9, 2006

Application Deadline: March 22, 2006

The goals of this competition are to identify models of effective alcohol and other drug (AOD) prevention programs at institutions of higher education (IHEs) and disseminate information about these programs to other colleges and universities where similar efforts may be adopted.

The project period for this grant is 15 months. ED intends for the project and budget period for this grant to be June 1, 2006 to August 31, 2007.

Estimated Range of Awards

An estimated 5 new awards will be made. Projects will be funded for approximately $125,000 to $175,000, for an estimated average size of $150,000 per year, depending on the scope of work. These figures are only estimates and do not bind the Department of Education to a specific number of grants or amount of any grant.

Eligible applicants are institutions of higher education (IHEs) that offer an associate or baccalaureate degree. Additionally, to be eligible, an IHE must not have received an award under this grant competition (CFDA# 84.184N) during the previous five fiscal years (fiscal years 2001 through 2005).

Please review the information in both of the links below to see and download all grant information and application procedures.

Information and Application Procedures (Word document)
Guidelines, review process, absolute priority, selection criteria, FAQs, and checklists

For Paper Submission Only
Notices, forms, and instructions

Application Deadline

As outlined in the Federal Register notice for this grant competition, applications for this grant competition must be submitted electronically. You must submit your grant application through the Internet using the software provided on the Grants.gov Web site on or before the application deadline date.  Your application must be fully uploaded and submitted, and must be date/time stamped by the Grants.gov system no later than 4:30 p.m., Washington, DC time, on March 22, 2006. When you submit your application through the Internet via the Grants.gov Web site, you will receive an automatic acknowledgment when we receive your application.

For more information on using Grants.gov, please refer to the Notice Inviting Applications that was published in the Federal Register, the Grants.gov Submission Procedures and Tips document found in the application package instructions, and visit http://www.grants.gov. Applications may not be e-mailed or faxed. We will reject your application if you submit it in paper format unless you qualify for one of the exceptions to the electronic submission requirement described in the Notice Inviting Applications and the application package and submit, no later than two weeks before the application deadline date, a written statement to the Department that you qualify for one of these exceptions. Those applicants who qualify for an exception to the mandatory electronic submission requirement, please refer to "Paper Submission Only" notices, forms, and instructions under Information and Application Procedures linked above.

For more information

For more information, please follow the links provided on the HEC grants page regarding this grant competition. The official document governing this competition is the Notice Inviting Applications published in the Federal Register and is available electronically at www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister and www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/.

You can find information on the awardees of the previous rounds of this grant competition in the Higher Education Center’s publication, Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention on College Campuses: Model Programs (.pdf files requiring Adobe Acrobat) , which is available to order or download on the publications page of this Web site.

If you still have questions after reading the FAQs and the application package, contact:

Vera Messina
Education Program Specialist
U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW – Room 3E258
Washington, DC 20202-6450
Phone: 202/260-8273
Fax: 202/260-7767
E-mail: vera.messina@ed.gov

OR

Ruth Tringo
Education Program Specialist
U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW – Room 3E338
Washington, DC 20202-6450
Phone: 202/260-2838
Fax: 202/260-7767
E-mail: ruth.tringo@ed.gov

Last Update: July 9, 2009