Projects for Translating the Findings and Products of Disability and Rehabilitation Research and Development into Practice | HHS 2023 ACL NIDILRR DPKT 0060

Opportunity Information: Apply for HHS 2023 ACL NIDILRR DPKT 0060

The grant opportunity titled Projects for Translating the Findings and Products of Disability and Rehabilitation Research and Development into Practice (Funding Opportunity Number HHS 2023 ACL NIDILRR DPKT 0060) is a discretionary federal grant run by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Community Living (ACL), through NIDILRR (the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research). It falls under the Science and Technology and other Research and Development activity category (CFDA 93.433) and is designed to support Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects (DRRPs) that help ensure disability and rehabilitation research is not just published, but actually used in real-world settings.

At its core, the program is about improving the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act by advancing practical outcomes for people with disabilities. The DRRP program broadly supports efforts that generate new knowledge or develop and refine methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technologies. The intended impact spans major life areas such as health and functional outcomes, community living and participation, and employment. A consistent emphasis is placed on benefiting people with disabilities who have the greatest support needs, meaning applicants should be prepared to show how their work reaches individuals and communities that often face the biggest barriers to services, supports, and opportunities.

This specific funding priority is focused on knowledge translation, meaning the work must actively promote the use, uptake, or adoption of findings or products that came out of NIDILRR-sponsored research or development projects. In other words, applicants are not being asked simply to conduct new standalone research, but to take existing NIDILRR-funded evidence, tools, interventions, or technologies and help move them into practice. That typically involves activities such as packaging research outputs for practitioners or service systems, developing implementation supports and training, creating dissemination materials tailored to end users, building partnerships with organizations that can deploy the product at scale, and evaluating whether the translation approach is actually leading to use in the field.

NIDILRR planned to make six awards under this opportunity in FY 2023. The maximum award amount listed is $200,000. Each project is structured as a five-year effort, with a 60-month total project period divided into five 12-month budget periods. That structure usually signals an expectation of multi-year planning and sustained engagement with stakeholders, including time to refine translation strategies, build dissemination channels, and track adoption or implementation over time rather than treating knowledge translation as a one-time release of materials.

Eligibility is broad and includes a wide range of organization types: state, county, and local governments; special district governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized tribal governments and other tribal organizations; nonprofit organizations (both 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3), excluding IHEs in those categories); for-profit organizations other than small businesses; small businesses; and other eligible entities as clarified in the full announcement. This wide eligibility suggests NIDILRR is open to funding organizations that are close to practice settings (like service systems and nonprofits), research and training hubs (like universities), and organizations capable of product development and deployment (including for-profits), as long as the project clearly centers on translating NIDILRR-funded outputs into real-world use.

Key administrative details include an opportunity creation date of April 17, 2023, and an application due date of June 16, 2023, with electronic submissions required by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the deadline. Overall, the grant is aimed at closing the common gap between research and practice in disability and rehabilitation by funding structured, intentional efforts to move proven NIDILRR-supported findings and products into the hands of the people and systems that can use them to improve outcomes.

• The Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Community Living in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Projects for Translating the Findings and Products of Disability and Rehabilitation Research and Development into Practice" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.433.
• This funding opportunity was created on Apr 17, 2023.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 16, 2023 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 1159 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.. (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 $200,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 6 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), 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 (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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