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Field Initiated Projects Program: Minority-Serving Institutions (MSI) - Development

Federal funding opportunity HHS-2025-ACL-NIDILRR-IFST-0107 from Administration for Community Living (Department of Health and Human Services).

Posted
December 12, 2024
Closed
March 17, 2025
Award ceiling
$250,000
Award floor
$245,000
Program funding
$500,000
Expected awards
2
Cost sharing
No
Instrument
Grant
Assistance listing
93.433
Category
Science and Technology and other Research and Development
Archives
September 30, 2025

Program funding history

Awards made under Assistance Listing 93.433 across FY2025–FY2027, from public federal spending records.

FY2025 obligated
$112M
FY2026 obligated
$0
FY2027 (to date) obligated
$0
Awards in window
174

Top recipients: University of Washington, University of Pittsburgh - of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, University of Illinois, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed October 2026 · Program page: awards, recipients and the opportunities under this listing →

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Synopsis

The purpose of the Field Initiated Projects (FIP) program is to generate new knowledge through research or to develop methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technologies -- to maximize the full inclusion and integration into society, employment, independent living, family/caregiver support, and economic and self-sufficiency of people with disabilities, especially people with the greatest support needs. Another purpose of this grant opportunity is to improve the capacity of minority serving institutions (MSI) to conduct high-quality disability and rehabilitation research and development. In carrying out a development project under a FIP development grant, a grantee must use knowledge and understanding gained from research to create materials, devices, systems, methods, measures, techniques, tools, prototypes, processes, or intervention protocols that are beneficial to the target population. Please note that this will be the funding opportunity for FIP-MSI Development proposals. We will invite FIP-MSI Research proposals under a separate announcement. NIDILRR plans to make four FIP-MSI awards. Grants will have a 36- month project period, with three 12-month budget periods. NIDILRR's FIP-MSI grants will include a combination of research applications and development applications, depending on the combined ranking of individual research and development applications by the peer review panel.

Who can apply

Parties eligible to apply for FIP - MSI grants are limited to minority entities and Indian Tribes as authorized by Section 21 (b)(2)(A) of the Rehabilitation Act. A minority entity is defined as a Historically Black College or University (HCBU) (a part B institution, as defined in Section 322(2) of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended), a Hispanic-serving institution of higher education, an American Indian tribal college or university, or another IHE whose minority student enrollment is at least 50 percent. NIDILRR is especially interested in applications from individual minority entities that have historically been underrepresented in the Federal research arena. Foreign entities are not eligible to compete for, or receive, awards made under this announcement.

The official record

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Agency contact: Administration for Community Living · [email protected] · 202-795-7407

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