Opportunity Information: Apply for HHS 2018 ACL AOA DASG 0237
This funding opportunity, titled "Disaster Assistance for State Units on Aging (SUAs) and Tribal Organizations in National Disasters Declared by the President" (Funding Opportunity Number HHS-2018-ACL-AOA-DASG-0237), is a discretionary grant program run by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through the Administration for Community Living (ACL), specifically the Administration on Aging (AoA). Its purpose is to provide reimbursement and assistance funding tied to disasters, with a focus on maintaining and restoring aging services for older adults when major emergencies disrupt normal operations and create urgent community needs. The assistance is not standing or automatically available year-round; it is triggered only after a Presidential National Disaster Declaration, and even then the money can only be used in the specific geographic areas that are officially designated in that declaration.
Eligibility is narrow and targeted. Only State Units on Aging and federally recognized Tribal Organizations that are already receiving a grant under Title VI of the Older Americans Act (OAA), as amended, are intended recipients. In the opportunity listing, eligible applicant types are described broadly as state governments and Native American tribal organizations, but the narrative makes clear that applicants must also be current OAA Title VI grantees (for Tribal organizations) or the SUA for a state. The program falls under the funding activity area of income security and social services and is associated with CFDA number 93.048, which is commonly used for Older Americans Act-related programs.
A key feature of this opportunity is that applicants are expected to coordinate closely with ACL/AoA regional personnel before formally applying. The announcement repeatedly emphasizes pre-application consultation: SUAs and Title VI grantees should discuss the disaster situation, the planned request, and the amount of funding needed with ACL/AoA Regional staff in advance. This is positioned as both a practical requirement and a way to speed up the award process. Applicants are also encouraged to share a draft narrative justification early, since having a near-final explanation of the need for funds, the disaster impact, and the proposed use of funds can help ACL process the request more quickly.
The grant is designed as disaster reimbursement and assistance funding, meaning it can support costs and activities that arise because of the declared disaster and that align with the purpose and boundaries of the Older Americans Act services. While the announcement text provided does not list specific allowable cost categories in detail, the framing indicates that funds are meant to address disaster-driven service demands and recovery needs connected to aging services in the declared area. Another important planning step is coordination with other emergency funding streams: applicants are explicitly advised to consult with state and local emergency managers to identify what resources may already be available through other programs before relying on Older Americans Act disaster funding. In practice, this encourages applicants to avoid duplication of benefits and to position OAA disaster assistance as filling gaps that other disaster programs do not cover.
Applications must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov. The process described is the standard federal approach: download the application package from http://www.grants.gov, complete it offline, then upload and submit it through the site. The deadline in the source information states that applications were due no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the listed due date, with the original closing date shown as September 14, 2018. The opportunity anticipated making around seven awards, with an award ceiling listed at $450,000, which signals that requests may vary by disaster scale and local impact but are capped at that maximum amount per award under this announcement.
In short, this opportunity is a contingency-style federal grant designed to help aging-service systems respond when a Presidentially declared disaster disrupts communities. It is reserved for SUAs and eligible Tribal Title VI grantees, limited to the disaster-declared locations, and structured around close coordination with ACL/AoA regional offices and local emergency management to ensure the request is appropriate, justified, and not duplicative of other disaster funding sources.Apply for HHS 2018 ACL AOA DASG 0237
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Community Living in the income security and social services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Disaster Assistance for State Units on Aging (SUAs) and Tribal Organizations in National Disasters Declared by the President" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.048.
- This funding opportunity was created on Oct 31, 2017.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Sep 14, 2018 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 1159 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $450,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 7 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments).
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