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NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF STATE AND FEDERAL FUNDS

I am pleased to offer the following information on the availability of State and Federal Funds to not-for-profit organizations within New York State. Click on the Grant Program that you would like more information on from the list below.  As always, if you have any questions or need any assistance, please contact my district office at (516) 766-8383.   

Fiscal Year 2010 Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) Nonprofit Security Grant Program
Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Section 5310 Grant Program application
PRIVATE NON-PROFIT CORPORATIONS; PUBLIC BODIES - Section 5310 Elderly & Disabled Program

NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION AT HIGH RISK OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ATTACK

Fiscal Year 2010 Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) Nonprofit Security Grant Program

Fiscal Year 2010 Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) Nonprofit

Security Grant Program provides funding support for target hardening

activities to nonprofit organizations that are at high risk of terrorist

attack.

Applications will be accepted from January 4th, 2010 through

March 16th, 2010 through the Office of Homeland Security’s electronic

grants management system (E-Grants) for programs to support

nonprofit organizations (as described under section 501(c)(3) of the

Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt from tax under section

501(a) of such Code) that are at high risk of international terrorist attack

and are located within one of New York’s five UASI-eligible

urban areas: 1) New York (includes the Cities of New York and

Yonkers and the Counties of Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk); 2)

Buffalo (includes the City of Buffalo and the Counties of Erie and Niagara);

3) Albany (includes the Cities of Albany, Troy and Schenectady

and the Counties of Albany, Rensselaer and Schenectady); 4)

Rochester (includes the City of Rochester and Monroe County); and

5) Syracuse (includes the City of Syracuse and Onondaga County).

The program seeks to integrate nonprofit preparedness activities with

broader state and local preparedness efforts. It is also designed to

promote coordination and collaboration in emergency preparedness

activities among public and private community representatives, State

and local government agencies, and Citizen Corps Councils.

For an application and instructions, contact: Office of Homeland

Security, Attn: Steve Tierney at the above address or call 1-800-837-9133, or e-mail:

grants@security.state.ny.us

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