March 8, 2016
TO: Stephanie Tatham
Office of Information Resource Affairs
Policy Analyst
From: Robert Sargis
Reports Clearance Officer
Administration for Children and Families
Subject: Generic Request for Grant Reviewer Recruitment Forms
In 2015 ACF had over one hundred funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) from thirteen program offices serving the needs of economically and socially disadvantaged populations. Questions asked will fall into three broad categories: reviewer contact information, expertise, and the OMB mandated race and ethnicity questions.
Examples of reviewer contact information are the following: date, name address phone number, email address.
Examples of expertise questions to the candidate reviewers would be prior experience refereeing grants, education, and experience in the subject area of the FOA under consideration. The following are current examples of ACF discretionary FOAs:
Below is an example of a proposed gen IC from the Office of Community Services:
OMB Control No: 0970-0458
Expiration Date: 06/30/2018
OCS Reviewer Registration Form
The Office of Community Services has several programs that solicit applications for competitive discretionary funding. These programs are Community Economic Development (CED), Rural Community Development (RCD), Assets for Independence (AFI), and Community Service Block Grant Training (CSBG) and Technical Assistance program asks potential application reviewers to provide the information listed below via a web-based tool. This tool can be accessed at https://www.reviewerrecruitment.net/registration/index.asp. The sub-bullets listed below correspond to choices in drop-down lists or checkboxes included on the web form.
Title
Dr.
Hon.
Min.
Miss
Mr.
Mrs.
Ms.
Pastor
Rev.
Rev. Dr.
First Name
Last Name
Address Line 1
Address Line 2
City
State
AL
AK
AZ
AR
CA
CO
CT
DE
DC
FL
GA
ID
IL
IN
IA
KS
KY
LA
ME
MD
MA
MI
MN
MS
MO
MT
NE
NV
NH
NJ
NM
NY
NC
ND
OH
OK
OR
PA
RI
SC
SD
TN
TX
UT
VT
VA
WA
WV
WI
WY
AS
FM
GU
HI
MH
MP
PR
VI
AA
AE
AP
UK
Zip
Password
Phone
Alternate Phone
Are you a current Federal Employee?
Yes
No
Are you a current Federal Contractor
Yes
No
Organization/Employer
Highest Degree Earned
High School Diploma
Undergraduate Degree
Graduate Degree
Post Graduate Degree
Do you have previous experience as a grant reviewer?
Yes
No
Do you have previous experience as a panel lead?
Yes
No
When did you last participate in a grant review?
Never
Within the last 1-3 years
Within the last 4-6 years
Within the last 7-10 years
More than 10 years ago
Please select a minimum of three (3) areas that best define your expertise:
Expertise Choice 1:
Abstinence Education
Adolescent Health
Affordable Housing Finance
Asset Building
At-Risk Youth
Banking/Finance
Business Expansion
Capacity-Building
Child Care
Child Services
Clinical Services
Collaboration Among Nonprofits
Communities
Community Development
Community Facilities
Consumer Finance
Credit Unions
Crisis Intervention / Transitional Housing
Cultural Diversity
Economic Development
Education
Employment Services
Fair Housing
Faith-Based & Community Org Mgt / Ldrshp
Families & Low Income Individuals
Family / Domestic Violence
Financial Education / Literacy
Financial Services
General Business for Non Profit
Health
Healthy Food Financing
Higher Education
Homeownership
Human Trafficking
Information Management / Data Analysis
Intermediary Lending
Legal Profession/Legal Services
Mental Health Services
Micro-Enterprise / Self-Employment
Microfinance/Microlending
Monitoring/Evaluation
Mortgage/Lending
Native Americans
New Business Development
Nonprofit Management
Personal Experience as Refugee/Asylee
Process Monitoring and Control
Quality Improvement/Control
Refugee/Asylee Services
Refugees
Research / Evaluation
Revenue Dev't Strategies / Fundraising
Rural Development
Small Business / Entrepreneurship
Social Services
Social Work
Systems Development and Testing
Systems Integration
Tax Assistance / EITC Outreach
Training & Technical Assistance
Underwriting
Youth Counseling
Expertise Choice 2:
Same list as above
Expertise Choice 3:
Same list as above
Expertise Choice 4:
Same list as above
Expertise Choice 5:
Same list as above
Upload Resume
Ethnicity Question
The Administration for Children and Families, U. S. Department of Health and Human Services is committed to increasing the diversity of the non-Federal peer reviewers utilized in the competitive grants review process to the extent permitted by law. You can help us achieve this goal by voluntarily indicating your race and/or ethnic heritage on the self-identification section by checking the appropriate box on the reviewer application form. Please note that this section utilizes the standard Federal identification categories. Your assistance is invaluable in enabling the agency to promote broad representation, especially for underserved and underrepresented groups and track our progress on this important goal.
The questions listed as voluntary will not be used in the selection of grant reviewers for Administration for Children and Families’ discretionary grant programs. This information will be used solely to monitor the diversity of our grant reviewer pool.
Click a check box to designate a selection:
☐--American
Indian or Alaskan Native
☐--Asian
or Pacific Islander
☐--Black,
not of Hispanic origin
☐--Hispanic
☐--White,
not of Hispanic origin.
THE PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT OF 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13)
Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 10 minutes per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and reviewing the collection of information.
An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.
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