The Minnesota Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities
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Providing information, education, and training to build knowledge, develop skills, and change attitudes that will lead to increased independence, productivity, self determination, integration and inclusion (IPSII) for people with developmental disabilities and their families.

Request for Applications
for Training Conferences Co-Sponsorship Funds

The Minnesota Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities (Council) is pleased to announce the availability of a total of $20,000 in co-sponsorship funds to help with planning and carrying out Educational and Training Events or Conferences. We invite you to consider applying for these co-sponsorship funds.

Purpose: Best practices information and leadership skills training.

Dollar amount: Maximum is $2,000 to an organization or agency.

Training date: Conferences or training must be completed on or before September 13, 2024.

Applicants: An applicant is the agency or organization that plans, organizes, and carries out a conference. 

Eligible applicants include the following:

  • Minnesota associations/organizations that provide services to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families, advocates, providers, or professionals;
  • Minnesota chapters of national organizations that provide services to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families, advocates, providers, or professionals;
  • National organizations that are holding a conference for individuals with developmental disabilities and their families, advocates, providers, or professionals in Minnesota.

Covered topics of conferences or training: Training should assist people with developmental disabilities to increase their independence, productivity, self-determination, integration and inclusion (IPSII) in the community. Training may be planned as in-person, hybrid, or remote.

Targeted audience: People with developmental disabilities and their families, as well as advocates, providers, or professionals. The conference/training can be marketed to a local community, region of the state, or statewide. Please note your target audience(s) and encourage attendance by persons from diverse and marginalized populations.

Co-sponsorship funds: Funds can be used for presenter fees, scholarships, or reasonable accommodations.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to the funds available and the number of applications that may be received, the amount awarded by the Council to successful applicants may be less than requested and not all eligible applications may be funded.

Evaluation: A Customer Satisfaction Survey is attached to the Application. Copies of the Survey will be provided to organizations that are awarded co-sponsorship funds and must be completed by conference participants as a condition of the Council's federal grant funding.

The Council's Five-Year State Plan includes specific performance measures and data collection requirements. Survey results and other data must be submitted to the Council within two weeks after the training event. The actual payment of co-sponsorship funds will be made after receiving this summary and an invoice that identifies how funds were used.

Grant Review Committee members will make funding recommendations and bring their recommendations to the Council for approval.

Applications must be received no later than 5:00 PM (CST) on Friday, January 19, 2024.

An Application for Co-Sponsorship Funds may be downloaded here.

Questions about this grant opportunity should be directed to:

Paul Nevin | Grants Administrator
MN Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities
Voice: (651) 282-2899
paul.nevin@state.mn.us

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The GCDD is funded under the provisions of P.L. 106-402. The federal law also provides funding to the Minnesota Disability Law Center, the state Protection and Advocacy System, and to the Institute on Community Integration, the state University Center for Excellence. The Minnesota network of programs works to increase the IPSII of people with developmental disabilities and families into community life.

This project was supported, in part by grant number 2401MNSCDD, from the U.S. Administration for Community Living, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. 20201. Grantees undertaking projects with government sponsorship are encouraged to express freely their findings and conclusions. Points of view or opinions do not, therefore, necessarily represent official ACL policy.

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