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Notice of Federal Funds Available

Agency Announces $50 Million Available for Organizations to Invest in Effective Nonprofits Working in Low-Income Communities

February 16, 2010

The Corporation for National and Community Service released a Notice of Federal Funds Availability (NOFA) for the newly-created Social Innovation Fund (SIF). Applications are due by April 8, 2010, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

The SIF, authorized by the 2009 Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, is specifically designed to: Promote public and private investments in effective nonprofit community organizations to help them replicate and expand to serve more low-income communities; create new knowledge about how to solve critical social challenges; and develop the grantmaking infrastructure necessary to support the work of social innovation in communities across the country.

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