Promoting Readiness and Enhancing Proficiency to Advance Reporting and Data (PREPARED) Cooperative Agreement
The EPA is reviewing all received applications for the PREPARED Notice of Funding Opportunity.
Overview of PREPARED
EPA has launched PREPARED to provide technical assistance to EPA grant recipients representing small, underserved, and/or tribal communities to enhance their capacity to meet data and reporting requirements and improve their ability to generate the information necessary to evaluate and improve grant outcomes. EPA intends to award up to $4 million over 3 years to as many as 8 recipients.
Data, reporting, and evidence-building are vitally important responsibilities for EPA grant programs. However, many EPA grant recipients face capacity challenges in engaging in these activities. Many small, underserved, and/or tribal communities that are eligible for EPA grants sometimes choose to pass on funding opportunities as a result. With this Cooperative Agreement, EPA seeks to fund technical assistance providers with program evaluation expertise to equip communities with strategies, tools, and training that enhance their capacity for data, reporting, and evidence-building.
Roundtable Discussion
On August 29, 2023, EPA hosted an online roundtable conversation that featured speakers from four organizations that serve small, rural, and/or underserved communities that receive EPA funding (a fifth speaker contributed comments in advance). Speakers and attendees were invited to share feedback and ideas on ways that funding reporting requirements can both help and hinder their activities.
All are strongly encouraged to review the PREPARED Community Roundtable Summary (pdf) .
Contact
Submit all questions/inquiries to the Evidence and Evaluation Team.