[Federal Register: April 8, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 66)]
[Notices]
[Page 15988]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Office of Community Services; Notice To Award a Non-Competitive
Successor Grant to Neighborhood Assets
AGENCY: Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice to award a non-competitive successor grant to
Neighborhood Assets.
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CFDA#: 93.602.
Project Period: September 30, 2004 to September 29, 2009.
Award Amount: 35,000.
Statutory Authority: The Assets for Independence Act (Title IV
of the Community Opportunities, Accountability, and Training and
Educational Act of 1998, as amended, Public Law 105-285, 42 U.S.C.
604 note).
SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Administration for Children
and Families (ACF), Office of Community Services (OCS) will award a
non-competitive successor grant to Neighborhood Assets, a non-profit
organization located in Spokane, Washington. The Assets for
Independence program supports grantees that provide low-income
individuals and families with access to special matched savings
accounts called individual development accounts (IDAs) and other asset-
building tools such as financial literacy education and coaching and
training on money management and consumer issues. The award will enable
the Neighborhood Assets to implement an Assets for Independence project
serving low-income families in Spokane, Washington. This action is
taken as the original grantee, Spokane Neighborhood Action Programs,
has relinquished the grant.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. James Gatz, Manager, Assets for
Independence Program, Office of Community Services, Administration for
Children and Families, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC
20447, by telephone on (202) 401-4626 or by e-mail at
AFIprogram@acf.hhs.gov.
Dated: March 23, 2009.
Yolanda J. Butler,
Acting Director, Office of Community Services.
[FR Doc. E9-8005 Filed 4-7-09; 8:45 am]