Video 1: Brief Introduction to ANA and New Funding Opportunities

Brief Introduction to ANA and New Funding Opportunities

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This section will provide you with an introduction to the Administration for Native Americans, their vision, mission and goals, along with the funding opportunities they provide to eligible applicants.

ANA is housed in the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, and serves all Native Americans, including federally and state recognized tribes, American Indian and Alaska Native organizations, Native Hawaiian, American Samoan, Chamorro and Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands organizations.

ANA promotes self-sufficiency for Native Americans by providing discretionary grant funding for community-based projects and training and technical assistance to eligible tribes and Native organizations in three program areas: Social and Economic Development Strategies, Native Languages, and Environmental Regulatory Enhancement.



  •  Hello and welcome to the 2022 Pre-Application Training videos for the Administration for Native Americans. This training has been developed by the ANA Regional Training and Technical Assistance Centers.
  • I'm excited to be your trainer today. My name is Eric Watson and I'm the training manager for the Alaska Region Training and Technical Assistance Center.
  • The Alaska Region Training and Technical Assistance Center offers free training and technical assistance to the 227 tribes in Alaska, as well as native nonprofits located within the state. You can reach us at www.anaalaska.org or at 1-800-948-3158.
  • We offer two training opportunities to assist you in preparing your application.
  • The first is the project planning and development, also known as PPD. In that training, we teach you how to use community-based planning processes and tools. We help you define long-range community goals, document conditions that stand between your community and those goals, and help you identify assets that can be used to address those conditions.
  • We also help to build a project work plan with outcome-based objectives and to develop a sustainability plan and project budget. What you learn in this pre-application training is tips on applying in response to an ANA funding opportunity announcement, how to complete federal forms and package your grant application, how to apply through grants.gov online, and how applications for funding are reviewed and scored.
  • The on-demand Pre-Application Training is a 16 video series. These videos introduce you to the basic concepts for preparing a 2023 ANA grant application to support your community-based project. We strongly suggest that you go through all 16 videos in order. It's also worth mentioning that there are supplemental information for each section, which can be found in the resources section for each video.
  • This is video one of the Pre-Application Training. In this video, we will provide a brief introduction to the Administration for Native Americans and its Funding Opportunity Announcements, also known as FOAs. The training goal for this series is to learn how to develop and submit a successful application for the ANA grant to support your community-based project.
  • The Administration for Native Americans promotes self-sufficiency and cultural preservation for Native Americans by providing social and economic development opportunities through financial assistance, training and technical assistance. ANA's mission is to support native-led nonprofits and eligible tribes by promoting self-sufficiency, providing funding for community-based projects, and providing free training and technical assistance.
  • ANA's vision is that all native communities are thriving.
  • ANA's goal includes fostering the development of stable, diversified local economies, supporting locally-led services and programs that safeguard the health and wellbeing of children and families, and to increase the number of projects involving youth and intergenerational activities.
  • ANA supports three main priority area. They are social and economic development strategies. Also known as SEDS, native languages, and environmental programs. Within these three priorities are five funding opportunities. SEDS is a national competitive funding opportunity. SEDS-AK, although similar toss is a funding only eligible to Alaskan applicants.
  • The Preservation and Maintenance, and Ester Martinez programs are funding opportunities that promote language development and preservation, and Environmental Regulatory Enhancement, also known as ERE.
  • The Social and Economic Development Strategies, or SEDS, is a nationally competitive funding opportunity. The priority for said is to promote social wellbeing, perpetuation of culture and economic self-sufficiency. Projects can be up to three years and up to $400,000 annual. The project year begins on September 30th and ends on September 29th. The total project funding for the SEDS grant program is $9.5 million and we're anticipating approximately 30 project awards.
  • The SEDS Alaska opportunity, also known SEDS AK, is very similar to SEDS. However, only Alaska native tribes and nonprofits are eligible to apply. The purpose of this grant is to provide targeted support for village specific projects to improve and strengthen the administrative and management capacity of Alaskan Native Village Governments. Projects can be up to $300,000 annually and up to three years in length.
  • The project year begins on September 30th and ends on September 29th. The total project funding for the SEDS Alaska grant program is $1 million, and we're anticipating approximately five projects funded.
  • Under the native language CFDA, the first is Preservation and Maintenance, also known as P&M. The ANA P&M funding opportunity supports the continued use and vitality of native languages, including increasing fluency, developing curricula, and teacher certification.
  • Awards can be up to $300,000 annually and up to three years in. We anticipate up to $2 million in project funding for the Language Preservation and Maintenance with a total of nine projects funded.
  • Also under the language CFDA as the Esther Martinez Immersion Program, which supports the ability of native language survival schools and language nest to conduct language immersion instruction, applicants must submit signed documents certifying at least three years of experience operating language nest or survival schools. Projects can be up to $300,000 annually with up to five years in length. There is $1.5 million in total project funding for the EMI program and a total of five awards.
  • And under the final CFDA is the Environmental Regulatory Enhancement or ERE grant. This funding opportunity supports planning, developing, and implementing programs designed to improve the capability of tribal governing to regulate their own environmental quality pursuant of federal and tribal laws. Funded projects can be up to $300,000 annually and up to three years in length.
  • Here's a look at the ANA funding opportunities. Please note that you can only have one active grant under each CFDA number,
  • and here's your funding timeline for the ANA grant opportunities. All of the 2023 FOAs were published on November 1st, 2022. The NOFOs were published on November 1st and have an application deadline of March 31st, 2023. Please note the project start dates for the language and ERE grants is July 1st, which the SEDS and the SEDS-AK  project start date is September 30th, 2023.
  • We encourage you to read and reread your funding opportunity announcement for the grant program that you're applying to have a highlighter in sticky notes handy. The FOA is the official document that details the requirements of submission for an ANA application.
  • Also, the NOFOs provide detailed information for preparing applications in each program area. So please read your entire NOFO to ensure that you comply with and address all of the requirements.
  • Again, we're  here with Ana's Alaska's Region Training and Technical Assistance Center. We're here to answer any questions you may have, and we're here to offer support.
  • We can provide up to 16 hours of free pre-application review once you've completed up to 75% of an application, and we've provide tips and resources along the way.
  • You can go to www.anaalaska.org and click on "Technical Assistance" and request TA and somebody will respond to you quickly. You can also call our 800 number at 1-800-948-3158.

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Video 2: How to Build your ANA Application

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Training episodes

Video 1: Brief Introduction to ANA and New Funding Opportunities
Video 1: Brief Introduction to ANA and New Funding Opportunities
Video 2: How to Build your ANA Application
Video 2: How to Build your ANA Application
Video 3: Long-Term Community Goal
Video 3: Long-Term Community Goal
Video 4: Current Community Condition
Video 4: Current Community Condition
Video 5: Project Goals
Video 5: Project Goals
Video 6: TTIP Objectives
Video 6: TTIP Objectives
Video 7: Outcomes, Indicators, and Outputs
Video 7: Outcomes, Indicators, and Outputs
Video 8: Outcome Tracker & Outcome Tracking Strategy
Video 8: Outcome Tracker & Outcome Tracking Strategy
Video 9: Objective Work Plan
Video 9: Objective Work Plan
Video 10: Budget
Video 10: Budget
Video 11: Community-Based Strategy
Video 11: Community-Based Strategy
Video 12: Readiness and Implementation Strategy
Video 12: Readiness and Implementation Strategy
Video 13: Contingency Plans
Video 13: Contingency Plans
Video 14: Sustainability Plans
Video 14: Sustainability Plans
Video 15: Organizational Capacity
Video 15: Organizational Capacity
Video 16: Submitting the Application to ANA
Video 16: Submitting the Application to ANA

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