Secondary Analyses of Data on Early Care and Education

Eligibility is open to organizations/entities that apply on behalf of researchers who hold doctorate or equivalent degrees in their respective fields, conduct research as a primary professional responsibility, and have been first or second author on publications in peer-reviewed research journals.

Applicant organizations/entities may submit more than one application, on behalf of more than one researcher.

Faith-based and community organizations that meet the eligibility requirements are eligible to receive awards under this funding opportunity announcement.

Applications from individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligible and will be disqualified from competitive review and from funding under this announcement.

- Post Date: 01/30/2020
- Letter of Intent Due Date: 03/02/2020
- Application Due Date: 14/13/2020

Applicants are strongly encouraged to notify ACF of their intention to submit an application under this announcement. Letter of intent information will be used to determine the number of expert reviewers needed to evaluate applications. The letter of intent is optional. Failure to submit a letter of intent will not impact eligibility to submit an application and will not disqualify an application from competitive review.

Meetings:
- The Project Director or Principal Investigator must attend and present a poster at the 2021 and 2022 Annual Meetings of the Child Care and Early Education Policy Research Consortium (CCEEPRC). CCEEPRC is typically held in the early spring of each year in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area and lasts approximately 2 days.
- The Project Director or Principal Investigator must also attend a meeting of all current Secondary Analyses of Data on Early Care and Education grantees. This meeting will be held in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area and will last approximately 1.5 days.
- The proposed budget should reflect travel funds to attend the two annual meetings of CCEEPRC and the grantee meeting.

The registration process can take up to four weeks to complete. Therefore, registration should be done in sufficient time to ensure it does not impact your ability to meet required application submission deadlines. Organization applicants can find complete instructions here: https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/applicants/organization-registration.html

Unique Entity Identifier (DUNS) and Systems for Award Management (SAM) registration: Required of all applicants.
- To obtain a DUNS number, go to http​://fedgo​v​.dnb​.com​/ webfo​rm​. Obtaining a DUNS Number may take 1 to 2 days.
- SAM registration is available at http​://www​.sam​.gov​. Plan ahead. Allow at least 10 business days after you submit your registration for it to become active in SAM and at least an additional 24 hours before that registration information is available in other government systems, i.e. Grants.gov.

- For detailed instructions for obtaining a DUNS number, refer to:
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/applicants/organization-registration/step-1-obtain-duns-number.html
- For detailed instructions for registering with SAM, refer to:
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/applicants/organization-registration/step-2-register-with-sam.html
- For detailed instructions about creating a profile on Grants.gov, refer to:
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/applicants/registration.html
- For detailed instructions about creating a profile on Grants.gov. refer to:
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/applicants/registration/authorize-roles.html

For further information about OPRE, see http://acf.hhs.gov/opre. For information about the Office of Child Care (OCC) and the CCDF, see http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/occ/about/what-we-do. For information about the Office of Head Start (OHS) and HS/EHS, see https://www.acf.hhs.gov/ohs/about/what-we-do.

ACF requires electronic submission of applications at Grants.gov. Paper applications received from applicants that have not been approved for an exemption from required electronic submission will be disqualified from competitive review and from funding under this announcement. Applicants that do not have an Internet connection or sufficient computing capacity to upload large documents to the Internet may contact ACF for an exemption that will allow the applicant to submit applications in paper format. Information and the requirements for requesting an exemption from required electronic application submission are found in "ACF Policy for Requesting an Exemption from Electronic Application Submission" at www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/howto#chapter-6.

To view this opportunity on Grants.gov, see: https://www.grants.gov/view-opportunity.html?oppId=321980
For a list of application documents, see the Package tab (press Preview) on the Grants.gov page above.