Grant Details

Grant Details:
Amount: $60,000
Application Due Date: TBA

Description: 

Description: This grant program is designed to enhance community emergency preparedness and participation capabilities by engaging citizens to become fully aware, trained, and practiced on how to prevent, protect/mitigate, prepare for, and respond to all threats and hazards. Grant funds will enable training for personal preparedness, instructors, exercises, ongoing volunteer programs, and surge capacity response. Programs may include but are not limited to the following: All types of CERT and similar training; critical incident stress management; individual and family preparedness training, etc.

Eligibility: The Preparedness and Volunteer Training Grant Program will be open to qualified units of local government on a competitive basis.

Eligible Expenses: All expenses must be new and cannot replace existing state or local government funding. Substitution of existing funds with federal grants (supplanting) will be the subject of monitoring and audit. Violations may result in a range of penalties, including suspension of current and future funds under this program, suspension or debarment from federal grants, repayment of monies provided under a grant, and civil and/or criminal penalties. Funding may be used for personnel, employee benefits, travel/training, supplies and other operating expenses, consultants/contractual and other.

Submit Applications Using Egrants: Applications must be submitted through the OJA Egrants online grants management system. If you have never used OJA Egrants before, you will need to register for access to the system. To register online, go to http://register.wisconsin.gov/AccountManagement/ and complete the ‘self registration’ process. On the account registration site, you will have a choice between the OJA Egrants and Commerce eGrants. Please take care to select “OJA Egrants” during this process.

Application Due Date: September 2011

Organization Information:
Organization: Office of Justice Programs
Website: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/

Contact Information:
Contact Name: David Duecker
Contact Email: david.duecker@wisconsin.gov
Contact Phone: (608) 261-7538

More Information:
http://oja.wi.gov/docview.asp?docid=20065&locid=97