The U.S. Department of the Treasury is issuing this NOFA to invite applications from State and local governments for awards under the Social Impact Partnerships to Pay for Results Act (SIPPRA). In 2018 Congress appropriated $100 million to Treasury to implement SIPPRA, which established a new grant demonstration program to encourage funding social programs that achieve results. This program makes available funding for payments for successful outcomes of social impact partnership projects and for project evaluations.
The purposes of SIPPRA are:
SIPPRA provides funds for two types of awards: (1) social impact partnership project grants, including grants to pay for independent evaluators for such projects and (2) feasibility study grants. This NOFA only relates to funds for social impact partnership project grants and funds for the cost of a grantee's independent evaluator. Treasury will issue a separate NOFA for feasibility study grants, likely later in 2019.
None is available.
Qualifying Outcomes Applicants must propose to carry out a social impact partnership project.” To qualify as a social impact partnership project under this NOFA, SIPPRA requires the project to be designed to produce one or more measurable, clearly defined outcomes that result in social benefit and federal, State, or local government savings through one or more of the following:
Demonstration projects may propose enhancements or alternative models that would add to or otherwise complement existing federal programs.
Eligible applicants are States and Unites of Local Government.
Letters of Intent are encouraged but not required and should be submitted by April 1, 2019. Applications are to be submitted by May 22, 2019. A similar deadline is anticipated, annually.
Approximately $66,290,000 is available in total funding. Award amounts vary based on scope and size of projects. 50 percent of the $66,290,000 available under this NOFA will be reserved for projects that directly benefit children.
Treasury expects up to approximately $9,940,000 to be available to pay for the costs of independent evaluators under this NOFA.