[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 21 (Monday, February 2, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5554-5555]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-01841]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families

[CFDA Number: 93.567]


Announcing the Award of Nine Single-Source Grants Under the 
Voluntary Agencies Matching Grant Program

AGENCY: Office of Refugee Resettlement, Administration for Children and 
Families, HHS.

ACTION: Announcing the Award of Nine Single-Source Grants under the 
Voluntary Agencies Matching Grant Program.

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SUMMARY: The Voluntary Agencies Matching Grant Program was created by 
Congress in 1979. The program is intended to work in consort with the 
Refugee and Cuban & Haitian Entrant Reception and Placement (R&P) 
programs. Thus, competition under the Voluntary Agency Matching Grant 
Program has historically been limited to those voluntary agencies 
providing R&P services through cooperative agreements with the 
Department of State or the Department of Homeland Security. Congress 
confirmed this approach to the program in the 1986 Refugee Assistance 
Extension Act. The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) has 
determined that using the solicited single-source application process 
is in the best interest of the government as it will achieve the same 
result and is more cost effective than the published Funding 
Opportunity Announcement process.

DATES: October 1, 2014 through September 30, 2015.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas Giossi, Program Manager, 
Division of Refugee Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement, 370 
L'Enfant Promenade SW., Washington, DC 20447. Telephone: 202-401-5720. 
Email: [email protected] .

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Voluntary Agencies Matching Grant 
Program, under the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), is an 
alternative to public cash assistance designed to enable refugees, 
asylees, and other ORR eligible populations, to become self-sufficient 
through employment within 120 to 180 days from date of arrival into the 
United States (U.S.) and/or the date of eligibility for ORR services; 
however, clients must be enrolled within 31 days of becoming eligible 
to ensure that adequate services are provided and self-sufficiency is 
achieved and maintained within the period of eligibility. Services 
provided include, but are not limited to, case management, employment 
services, housing and utilities, food, transportation, cash allowance, 
health and medical, English language training, social adjustment, and 
other support services. In all cases, self-sufficiency must be achieved 
without accessing public cash assistance and all program services cease 
at 180 days from program eligibility.
    The Voluntary Agencies Matching Grant Program was designed to work 
directly with Reception and Placement (R&P) programs. Congress 
confirmed this approach to the program in the 1986 Refugee Assistance 
Extension Act. Therefore, funding under this program is open only to 
those nine voluntary agencies that already provide R&P services through 
a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of

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State (DOS) or the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
    Participating voluntary agencies agree to match the ORR grant with 
cash and in-kind contributions of goods and services from the 
community. Currently, ORR awards $2 for every $1 raised by the agency 
up to a maximum of $2,200 in federal funds per client.
    Single-source awards are made to the following organizations:

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                                                                Total
                                                               federal
            Grantee name                    Location            annual
                                                                award
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Church World Service/Immigration &   New York, NY..........   $5,885,000
 Refugee Program.
Domestic and Foreign Missionary      New York, NY..........    4,241,600
 Society of the Protestant
 Episcopal Church of the U.S.A.
Ethiopian Community Development      Arlington, VA.........    2,059,200
 Council/Refugee Resettlement
 Program.
HIAS, Inc. (Hebrew Immigrant Aid     New York, NY..........    1,566,400
 Society)/Refugee and Immigrant
 Services.
International Rescue Committee/      New York, NY..........    9,143,200
 Resettlement.
Lutheran Immigration & Refugee       Baltimore, MD.........    7,530,600
 Service.
United States Conference of          Washington, DC........   18,977,200
 Catholic Bishops.
US Committee for Refugees and        Arlington, VA.........   11,501,600
 Immigrants.
World Relief Corporation of          Baltimore, MD.........    4,404,400
 National Association of
 Evangelicals/Refugee & Immigration
 Programs.
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    Statutory Authority:  Section 412(c)(1)(A) of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1522(c)(1)(A); Section 7(a) and (b) of 
the Refugee Assistance Extension Act of 1986 (Pub. L. 99-605) (8 
U.S.C. 1522 note).

Christopher Beach,
Senior Grants Policy Specialist, Office of Administration.
[FR Doc. 2015-01841 Filed 1-30-15; 8:45 am]
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