NOFO Executive Summary

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NOFO Field: Federal Agency Name(s)

NOFO Location: Required Overview Content - first field

OMB Guidance:
Federal Agency Name(s)-Required. Include the name of your department or agency and the specific office(s) within the agency (e.g., bureau, directorate, division, or institute) that are involved in the funding opportunity.

Additional Guidance:

  • Do not enter the field name (shown in bold in the examples). The NOFO generator will enter the field name.
  • No particular organizational order is preferred by NOAA. You may order the organizations from top-down or bottom-up.
  • Neither the "," or the ";" has been designated as the preferred organizational separator. You may use either.
  • You may use either "Department Of Commerce" or "Department of Commerce" to specify the department.

Published Examples:

  • Federal Agency Name(s): National Ocean Service (NOS); National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); U.S. Department of Commerce
  • Federal Agency Name(s): Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Weather Service (NWS)
  • Federal Agency Name(s): National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Department Of Commerce); U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Department Of The Interior)
  • Federal Agency Name(s): National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
  • Federal Agency Name(s): Office of Education, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

 

NOFO Field: Notice of Funding Opportunity Title

NOFO Location: NOFO Required Overview Content - second field

OMB Guidance for FFO:
Notice of Funding Opportunity Title -- Required. If your agency has a program name that is different from the Notice of Funding Opportunity Title, you also could include that name here.

Additional Guidance:

  • Do not enter the field name (shown in bold in the examples).

Published Examples:

  • Notice of Funding Opportunity Title: Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship Program
  • Notice of Funding Opportunity Title: Ballast Water Technology Demonstration Program Cooperative Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDTE) Facility
  • Notice of Funding Opportunity Title: Community-based Marine Debris Prevention and Removal Project Grants
  • Notice of Funding Opportunity Title: NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Grant Program - State and Territorial Coral Reef Ecosystem Monitoring Grant
  • Notice of Funding Opportunity Title: NMFS - Sea Grant Joint Graduate Fellowship Program in Population Dynamics (Population Dynamics Graduate Fellowship Program)

 

NOFO Fields:
Announcement Type
Funding Opportunity Number
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number(s)

OMB Guidance:
Announcement Type -- Required. Indicate whether this is the initial announcement of this funding opportunity or a modification of a previously announced opportunity. If it modifies a previous announcement, provide the date of that announcement and identify the portions that are being modified. Note that a modification does not need to include all of the sections of the full announcement text.

Notice of Funding Opportunity Number -- Required, if applicable. Your agency may wish to assign identifying numbers to announcements. If you assign a number, you must include it. If it modifies a previous announcement, provide the number of that announcement.

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number(s) -- Required. You also may wish to include the program name listed in the CFDA for each CFDA number that you give.

Additional Guidance:

  • Announcement Type -- Grants Online automatically fills in the announcement type. This field is not available for editing.
  • Notice of Funding Opportunity Number -- Grants Online determines and fills in the Notice of Funding Opportunity Number. This field is not available for editing.
  • Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number(s) -- Grants Online has a business rule that each FFO will address a single CFDA Number. This field is entered by the RFA Creator in the RFA details page.

Published Examples:

  • Announcement Type: Initial Announcement
    Notice of Funding Opportunity Number: NOS-IPO-2007-2000794
    Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 11.463, Habitat Conservation
  • Announcement Type: Initial Announcement
    Notice of Funding Opportunity Number: NOS-NCCOS-2007-2000700
    Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 11.478, Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research, Coastal Ocean Program (CSCOR/COP)

 

NOFO Field Name: Notice of Funding Opportunity Description (FRN uses word "Summary")
OMB FFO Guidance Field Name: Optional, Additional Overview Content

OMB Guidance:
Optional, Additional Overview Content. Following the required overview information described above, the agency may present other information. Present any optional overview information in a sequential order that parallels the organization of the full text of the announcement. Examples of overview information that could help potential applicants decide whether to read the full announcement are: a concise description of the funding opportunity, the total amount to be awarded, the anticipated amounts and/or numbers of individual awards, the types of instruments that may be awarded, who is eligible to apply, whether cost-sharing is required, and any limitations on the numbers of applications that each applicant may submit. You also may include other information that could later help applicants more quickly and easily find what they need (e.g., where one can get application materials).

Additional Guidance:

  • Do not enter a field name (shown in bold in the examples). The NOFO generator will enter the field name of the "Notice of Funding Opportunity Description".
  • The Department requires this field for the Executive Summary on FFOs.

Published Examples:

  • Notice of Funding Opportunity Description: The CSTAR Program represents an NOAA/NWS effort to create a cost-effective transition from basic and applied research to operations and services through collaborative research between operational forecasters and academic institutions which have expertise in the environmental sciences. These activities will engage researchers and students in applied research of interest to the operational meteorological community and will improve the accuracy of forecasts and warnings of environmental hazards by applying scientific knowledge and information to operational products and services. The NOAA CSTAR Program is a contributing element of the U.S. Weather Research Program. NOAA's program is designed to complement other agency contributions to that national effort.
  • Notice of Funding Opportunity Description: This notice announces that applications may be submitted for a Fellowship program initiated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Sea Grant Office (NSGO), in fulfilling its broad educational responsibilities and legislative mandate of the Sea Grant Act, to provide educational experience in the policies and processes of the Legislative and Executive Branches of the Federal Government to graduate students in marine and aquatic-related fields.
  • Notice of Funding Opportunity Description: The California B-WET grant program, is a competitively based program that supports existing environmental education programs, fosters the growth of new programs, and encourages the development of partnerships among environmental education programs throughout the San Francisco Bay, Monterey Bay, and Santa Barbara Channel watersheds. Funded projects provide Meaningful Watershed Experiences to students and teachers.
  • Notice of Funding Opportunity Description: This program represents a NOAA/NWS effort to create a cost-effective continuum of basic and applied research through collaborative research between the Hydrology Laboratory of the NWS Office of Hydrologic Development and academic communities or other private or public agencies which have expertise in the hydrometerologic, hydrologic, and hydraulic routing sciences. These activities will engage researchers and students in basic and applied research to improve the scientific understanding of river forecasting. Ultimately these efforts will improve the accuracy of forecasts and warnings of rivers and flash floods by applying scientific knowledge and information to NWS research methods and techniques, resulting in a benefit to the public. NOAA's program is designed to complement other agency contributions to that national effort.

    The Office of Hydrologic Development requests that interested organizations prepare a pre-proposal, to be followed by a full proposal. Full proposals will be prepared only by those parties that submitted pre-proposals. A notice discouraging the submission of a full proposal does not preclude the submission of a full proposal.