Advancing Gender Inclusive Excellence (AGIE) Coordinating Center (U54 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) | RFA OD 21 010

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The Advancing Gender Inclusive Excellence (AGIE) Coordinating Center funding opportunity (RFA-OD-21-010) is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) discretionary grant competition using a cooperative agreement mechanism (U54) and is designated "Clinical Trial Not Allowed." The central goal is to fund a single Coordinating Center that functions as a shared resource hub for both existing and future AGIE programs. Rather than focusing on one isolated project site, this award is meant to create the organizational backbone that helps multiple AGIE-related efforts operate in a coordinated, consistent, and well-supported way.

The Coordinating Center is expected to provide the overall structure for managing and aligning the common activities that cut across the AGIE portfolio. In practical terms, this means the awardee would be responsible for the management, direction, and day-to-day coordination needed to keep participating programs connected, organized, and moving toward shared objectives. A core emphasis of AGIE is improving understanding of what helps or hinders women in reaching leadership roles across scientific and technical fields, including science, technology, and engineering. The work supported through AGIE broadly targets strategies, approaches, barriers, and interventions that affect womens advancement into leadership, with the Coordinating Center positioned as the entity that enables collaboration, consistency, and shared learning across programs doing that work.

This opportunity is open to a wide range of U.S.-based applicants. Eligible entities 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; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; other Native American tribal organizations; public housing authorities and Indian housing authorities; nonprofits (including both 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3) organizations, other than institutions of higher education); for-profit organizations other than small businesses; and small businesses. The FOA also explicitly highlights additional eligible applicant categories such as Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions, Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISI), Hispanic-serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs), faith-based or community-based organizations, eligible federal agencies, regional organizations, and U.S. territories or possessions. At the same time, it clearly restricts foreign involvement: non-domestic (non-U.S.) entities and foreign institutions cannot apply, non-domestic components of U.S. organizations are not eligible, and foreign components as defined by the NIH Grants Policy Statement are not permitted.

From a funding and administrative standpoint, the award instrument is a cooperative agreement, which typically indicates substantial NIH programmatic involvement compared to a standard grant. The listed award ceiling is $350,000. The opportunity is associated with CFDA numbers 93.313 and 93.847, and its activity category is listed under Food and Nutrition, Health. The original closing date for applications was November 30, 2021, and the opportunity record shows a creation date of September 30, 2021.

• The National Institutes of Health in the food and nutrition, health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Advancing Gender Inclusive Excellence (AGIE) Coordinating Center (U54 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.313, 93.847.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2021-09-30.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2021-11-30. (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 $350,000.00 in funding.
• 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, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), 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, For-profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses, Others.

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