Category: General Ag News and Notes

Biological Science Laboratory Technician

Department: Department of Agriculture
Agency:Agricultural Research Service
Hiring Organization: Tropical Crop and Commodity Protection Research
Location(s): 1 vacancy – Hilo, Hawaii
Salary: $51,110.00 to $73,581.00 / PA
Series and Grade: GS-0404-7/8
Open Period: Monday, September 16, 2024 to Friday, September 27, 2024
Position Information: Permanent – Full-time
Who May Apply: Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL), Open to the public

Results for America recently launched a new, comprehensive resource toward helping federal decision makers and others “shift the over $1 trillion allocated through federal grants each year to evidence-based solutions.” The Federal Evidence-Based Spending Guide provides example legislative language and Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) language, as well as talks about investing federal taxpayer dollars through six strategies:

1.            Clearly defining evidence

2.            Prioritizing evidence

3.            Building evidence through evaluations

4.            Defining desired outcomes

5.            Implementing performance management

6.            Centering community in program design, implementation and evaluation

Here are new opportunities from this week – noted in yellow in the spreadsheet. We also highlight in yellow any items listed or forecasted early where there are notable changes. We post new rolling opportunities up top, then we move them to the last section with other rolling opportunities. Please note that all items are uploaded to the HANO Grants Corner Funding Opportunities list and can be searched via keyword: Grants Corner – Hawaiʻi Alliance of Nonprofit Organizations (hano-hawaii.org). The total amount from the competitions where we have program totals is almost $11 billion.

Hawaiʻi Specific or Native Hawaiian Focused:

• Hawaiʻi Community Foundation – Puna Strong Collaboration Grants
• Hawaiʻi Community Foundation – Equitable Access Arts & Culture 2024-2026
• County of Maui Office of Economic Development – Grants

• USDA NIFA – Community Food Projects Competitive Grant Program
• DOI NPS – Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program
• DOI NPS – Norman Y. Mineta Japanese American Confinement Education Grants
• DOE – Scale-Up of Integrated Biorefineries
• HHS ACL – Elder Justice Innovation Grants (forecast)
• Young Futures – The Under Pressure Funding Challenge
• Whole Kids – Bee Grants
• Bell (including Hawaiian Tel) Charitable Foundation – Economic & Social Mobility & Sustainability Grants
• (V)isionary (I)nitiatives in (A)rt Fund

If you have any opportunities for consideration for future lists, please send them by noon on Thursdays. Also, let us know if you see any information that needs updating or correcting.

Happy Aloha Friday,

Melissa + Elijah

Melissa Unemori Hampe

Partner | Skog Rasmussen LLC

P.O. Box 2281, Wailuku, HI 96793

202-841-3368

mhampe@skograsmussen.com

www.skograsmussen.com

Here is a link to access the RFP via HIePRO:

https://hiepro.ehawaii.gov/public-display-solicitation.html?rfid=25000513&resetCookie 

If the above link does not work, please search “Fresh Produce” at the link below:
https://hands.ehawaii.gov/hands/opportunities 

Effective July 1, 2020 all Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) Chapter 103D REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) issued by the Procurement and Contracts Branch (PCB) will be conducted on HIePRO, the State of Hawaii eProcurement System. Interested Offerors may view and respond to the solicitation via HIePRO.  Instructions and related information for vendors may be obtained at: https://hiepro.ehawaii.gov