Opportunity Information: Apply for HHS 2022 ACF OCS EDA 0161
The Diaper Distribution Demonstration and Research Pilot (DDDRP) is a discretionary federal funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Community Services (OCS). Through this competition, OCS planned to make about $8 million available to support efforts that expand and strengthen diaper distribution programs serving families with low incomes. The funding is structured as cooperative agreements, meaning awardees should expect an active federal role in the project, particularly around evaluation activities and compliance with federally defined research protocols.
The opportunity is aimed at specific entities connected to the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) network. Eligible applicants include CSBG state associations, tribes that received CSBG funding directly in fiscal year 2022, and CSBG-funded territories. Rather than operating programs entirely on their own, recipients are expected to work in partnership with local implementers such as community action agencies (CAAs), local social service agencies, and other nonprofit community organizations. In practice, this design leverages existing community-based infrastructure that already serves low-income households, with the grant intended to help those networks scale consistent diaper access alongside related supports.
At its core, DDDRP is both a service expansion effort and a learning initiative. The program focus is on providing diapers and diapering supplies reliably and repeatedly, not just through one-time giveaways. OCS is specifically interested in “ongoing” diaper distribution models where families can receive diapers on a consistent basis. Just as important, these distribution programs are expected to be paired with support services for participating families, reflecting the idea that diaper need often overlaps with other challenges such as unstable income, barriers to employment, childcare constraints, or limited access to broader safety-net resources.
A major defining feature of this grant is the required federal evaluation. OCS intended to conduct a robust, multi-part evaluation in cooperation with funded recipients. The evaluation is designed to gather detailed information on how recipients use the funds to expand diaper distribution programs and what effects those expansions have for families and communities. Awardees must fully participate in this federal evaluation and follow all protocols established by ACF and/or its evaluation contractor(s). Participation can include special data collection requirements, submission of additional administrative data related to program participation and service receipt, facilitating site visits and observations, and supporting interviews with program leadership, partner organizations, frontline staff, and program participants.
The evaluation component may examine several dimensions: how DDDRP is implemented on the ground, what outcomes are associated with the program for participants and communities, and how ongoing diaper distribution functions as a broader anti-poverty strategy. It may also assess overall effectiveness, which can include questions about operational feasibility, consistency of supply, reach to eligible households, the interaction between diaper support and other services, and whether these models can be sustained or replicated. Because this is a cooperative agreement, applicants should understand that evaluation responsibilities are not optional add-ons; they are central to what the federal government is funding and studying through this pilot.
In terms of scale, OCS anticipated making about six awards. The listed award ceiling is $1.5 million per award. The funding opportunity number is HHS-2022-ACF-OCS-EDA-0161, and it is categorized under Income Security and Social Services (CFDA/Assistance Listing 93.647). The opportunity was posted July 29, 2022, with an original closing date of August 29, 2022, and applications were required to be submitted electronically by 11:59 pm Eastern Time on the due date.
Overall, DDDRP is meant to test and document how well CSBG-connected networks and their partners can deliver diapers consistently while also connecting families to supportive services, and to produce evidence that can inform future policy and program decisions about diaper distribution as a practical anti-poverty intervention.Apply for HHS 2022 ACF OCS EDA 0161
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families - OCS in the income security and social services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Diaper Distribution Demonstration and Research Pilot" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.647.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jul 29, 2022.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 29, 2022 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 1159 pm Eastern Standard Time 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 $1,500,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 6 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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