Opportunity Information: Apply for ED GRANTS 100915 001
This discretionary grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), is focused on building stronger leadership capacity in the workforce that serves children with disabilities. Listed under CFDA 84.325D and titled "Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities: Preparation of Special Education, Early Intervention, and Related Services Leadership Personnel," the program is designed to fund projects that prepare leadership personnel who can improve services and outcomes for children with disabilities, including infants and toddlers. In practical terms, it supports the development of advanced personnel who can lead, train others, and strengthen systems across special education, early intervention, related services, and even regular education settings where children with disabilities are served.
The core purpose has two connected parts. First, it aims to help address state-identified needs for personnel preparation, meaning the funded training efforts should be tied to documented workforce shortages or capability gaps that states have identified in serving children with disabilities. Second, it emphasizes ensuring that the personnel prepared through these grants have strong skills and knowledge grounded in practices supported by scientifically based research and professional experience. This signals that the Department expects training programs and leadership preparation efforts to be aligned with evidence-based approaches, not simply general professional development, and that trainees should come out ready to implement and support practices that are known to work.
The opportunity is offered as a grant, with an award ceiling of $250,000, and the agency anticipated making about 14 awards based on the synopsis information provided. The funding opportunity number is ED GRANTS 100915 001, and the posted closing date for applications was December 8, 2015, with the opportunity originally created on October 9, 2015. As with many federal education discretionary grant competitions, the short description provided is explicitly a synopsis; applicants are expected to rely on the official Federal Register notice for the full requirements, including the specific priorities, the detailed selection criteria, required components of the application narrative, any required partnership or service obligations, the performance measures used to track results, and all technical submission requirements.
A key operational detail is that applications must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov rather than by email or other delivery methods. Applicants are expected to locate the package on Grants.gov by searching for CFDA 84.325 (without the "D" suffix), then download the application package, complete it offline, and upload it through the Grants.gov system. The synopsis stresses that emailing an application is not allowed, reinforcing that compliance with the electronic submission process is a non-negotiable requirement.
Eligibility for this competition is broad and includes multiple categories of applicants involved in education and human services systems. The synopsis highlights institutions of higher education (IHEs) and private nonprofit organizations as eligible, and the complete source data expands this to include state, county, city or township, and special district governments; independent school districts; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; nonprofits with and without 501(c)(3) status (as long as they are not IHEs in those nonprofit categories); and other entities as permitted under the competition rules. In effect, the competition is set up so that universities, nonprofit training organizations, and public education agencies can all potentially lead or participate, depending on what the official notice requires regarding project structure and allowable roles.
Overall, the grant is best understood as an investment in developing high-level personnel who will strengthen the quality, coordination, and effectiveness of services for children with disabilities across early intervention and school-age systems. It targets leadership preparation rather than basic entry-level staffing alone, and it ties funding to state-defined workforce needs and to training grounded in evidence-based practice. For anyone considering this type of opportunity, the Federal Register notice would be the document that spells out exactly what kinds of leadership personnel are targeted, what training model is expected, what outcomes must be reported, and how applications will be scored.Apply for ED GRANTS 100915 001
- The Department of Education in the education sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OSERS-OSEP: Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities: Preparation of Special Education, Early Intervention, and Related Services Leadership Personnel CFDA Number 84.325D" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 84.325.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2015-10-09.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2015-12-08. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $250,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 14 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Others.
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