Technical Assistance Webinar for NOFO: NV-VSR-24-001 Supporting Vaccine Confidence

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Jul 25, 2024
This is a recording of the live technical assistance webinar provided for applicants interested in Notice of Funding Opportunity NV-VSR-24-001 Supporting Vaccine Confidence. The full NOFO is available at grants.gov (https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/349573).
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good afternoon everyone and welcome to
the technical assistance webinar for the
supporting vaccine confidence notice of
funding opportunity announcement my name
is Shawn D and I serve as a public
health adviser with the national vaccine
program in the office of infectious
disease and HIV AIDS policy also
referred to as IDP under the office of
the assistant secretary for health I
will be serving as the project officer
for this grant this grant is the
collaborative between us the IDP and
oidp and the office of regional health
offices I am joined today by my oash
colleague Dwayne Barlo who works in our
grants and acquisition management office
next
slide today we will provide an overview
of the funding opportunity announcement
noo and the com comp competitive
application requirements this technical
assistant webinar is being Rec recorded
and will be posted for the duration of
the competition all participants have
been muted we invite you to submit
questions at any time during the webinar
using the chat window on the right side
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select the option the option to send
your question to all panelists we will
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a FAQ document this document along with
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soon as possible please note that the
information provided in this call does
not supersede any of the content of the
noo the noo is the written document that
will govern the competition we strongly
encourage you to subscribe to the noo on
grants.gov to ensure that you will
receive notice if there are any
revisions made to the noo next
slide please be informed that the notice
of funding opportunity is available to
provide you with essential information
and guidance regarding
application is highly recommended that
you read the entire funding announcement
and follow the noo carefully please
please note that the information
provided in the noo takes precedence
over any conflicting details in other
documents next
slide this initiative seeks to support
the expansion planning implementation
and evaluation of promising practices
and develop novel approaches that help
to increase vaccine confidence in local
communities particularly Partnerships
with organizations that demonstrate the
ability to work with underserved
populations with low vac vaccination
rates
as vaccine hesitancy continues to grow
throughout the country practical
Solutions are needed at the local level
to support vaccination efforts and
communities by various immunization
stakeholders such as healthc care
providers Health departments
immunization Advocates and other
partners within the vaccine
ecosystem next
slide projects awarded will contribute
to the following programmatic goals for
this funding opportunity the first goal
will be to develop locally tailored
innov in Innovative intervention
strategies that address vaccine
confidence barriers identified among the
targeted
populations these intervention
strategies will lead to increased
vaccine confidence allowing for
vaccinations to be a routine part of
community vaccination programs
particularly among underserved
populations with low vaccination rates
throughout the duration of the project
you will be working closely with various
Partners in the local community to build
trust and assist with identifying
barriers that are preventing confidence
in vaccines next
we encourage part we encourage
applicants to work closely with higher
education who has a trusted relationship
with the populational focus to conduct
evaluation activities When developing
Publications and Reporting briefs
include the parter Network and
populational focus to ensure
transparency and credibility of the
results When developing your project
develop a wide range of network members
which should include various
immunization Partners such as public
health departments Community
organizations coalation groups medical
organizations and other partners that
service individuals with low vaccination
rates next
slide for these next two slides I'm
going to share the expectation for the
funded
projects expectation one we want funded
projects to build and maintain
Partnerships with local communities to
determine what specific barriers are
preventing confidence in vaccine
uptake by the end of the first six
months of the recipient should be having
engage and establish strong Partnerships
with a network of organizations that
work with identified Target populations
to identify the barriers preventing
vaccine confidence recipients should
conduct a community needs assessment
utilizing a variety of data capturing
tools such as Community forums focus
groups and
surveys once the data has been captured
from the community assessment recipient
should analyze the data findings to
determine what specific unique barriers
are negatively impacting vaccine cont
confidence among the indentified target
populations you will need to work
closely with your network of Partners to
address these barriers next
Slide the second
expectation uh is to develop locally
tailor intervention and evaluation plans
to increase vaccine confidence in Target
population recipients to use findings
from their Community needs assessment to
develop Community level interventions
that will reduce barriers among their
target
population recipients should effectively
track monit measure and monitor the
effectiveness of these intervention
strategies and be able to adjust
intervention strategies as needed to
meet the needs of the target
population these strategies developed by
recipients should be Innovative
approaches that reduce vaccine hesitancy
leading to increased vaccine
uptake next
Slide the third expectation uh for
funding projects will be to evaluate
project processes and outcomes to ensure
project eff Effectiveness we expect
recipients to evaluate these processes
and outcomes to to assess project
Effectiveness and impact throughout the
direction of the period of performance
the evaluation of the project should
include the determining should include
determining if the community level inov
Innovation was implemented as planned
determine whether the project reached
the intended population of focus and
impacted Health incomes for that
population recipients are expected to
build on and refine Baseline population
data used in the application with
additional data points provided
throughout the course of the project to
measure
Effectiveness recipients are expected to
participate in technical assistance
offered by the office of infectious
disease and the office of regional
health operations next
Slide the fourth expectation for funding
projects concludes sharing information
about the project and its findings with
the public we expect recipients to
document and share project findings and
results with network Partners the public
and other interested parties
recipients will share project
information with other oidp or award
recipients within the period of
performance recipients will also share
findings and results at local and
National Public Health conferences and
or also write briefing briefing reports
recipients are are are encouraged to
work closely with their network of
Partners When developing Publications to
ensure transparency and credibility of
the results next
slide now I'm going to talk about the
application content this information can
be found on pages through 24 of the no
for announcement next
slide this slide is a visual display of
the information that you will need to
ensure you have a successful application
this includes a project narrative
content a budget narrative and
dependencies I will speak to what is
needed within the project narrative and
Dwayne will discuss what is required for
the budget narrative and the pendencies
please make please review your
application to ensure this information
is included within your application
before submitting to grants.gov next
slide we recommend your project
narrative includes the following
components this includes information on
Project significance proposed approach
evaluation
dissemination and organizational
capability I will touch on all five
components of the project narrative next
slide for project significance describe
the nature and scope of the specific
vaccine confidence demonstration project
and how it is designed to address this
issue use available national and local
data to explain how you selected the low
vaccination unders Ser population
include in quantitative and qualitative
terms the Project's population and
Geographic areas of focus and related
gaps and barriers to affecting change
describe the significance of your
proposed Community level Innovation on
promoting vaccine competence for
underserving and disadvantaged
populations in a broader Public Health
context emphasize how your project will
affect use of preventive Health Services
as it relates to vaccine uptake and
preventing vaccine preventable diseases
next
Slide the second component of your
project narat should include a proposed
approach that includes goals objectives
and outcomes describe your projects
propose goals and major objectives
associated with each goal use Baseline
data and quantitative time frames to
describe smarty specific measurable
accurate relevant time bound inclusive
and Equitable objectives connect
proposed goals objectives and outcomes
to the activities described in your work
plan and make also make sure your
outcomes are reflected in your logic
model next
slide your project approach should also
have a project plan within this plan
make sure to explain your approach and
activities describe how your community
level Innovation will address vaccine
confidence barriers propose an approach
for developing activities apply
Community level Public Health
Improvement model include information on
the nature of activities Partnerships
needed for imputation of
activities and any anticipated barriers
or challenges your project may have to
overcome next
slide your project your your project
approach should also include information
on Project management as it relates to
how strategies will be monitored and
tracked to ensure project Integrity
describe Who oversee and maintain
partner engagement to accomplish project
activities explain a plan for risk
management which includes managing staff
Transitions and also describe your
organization's leadership role on
oversight of the project next
Slide the third component of the project
narrative is evaluation a good
evaluation plan will include smart goals
an eval evaluation plan tying
individuals or organizations to
evaluation activities overseeing a
project outcomes to ensure progress
towards reducing vaccine confidence is
related to barriers a collection of
Baseline interim and post intervention
data related to process and outcome
measures next
Slide the fourth the fourth component of
the project narrative is
dissemination describe the methods you
will use to disseminate the Project's
results and findings to stakeholders
interested in using the project results
include any Innovative approaches as
well as traditional forms of
dissemination such as abstracts or
presentations at National Public Health
conferences consider how your results
May inform practice Service delivery
program development and policym next
Slide the fifth component and the last
component of the project ER is
organizational capability summarize your
organ organizational capability and
capacity to successfully implement the
pro the proposed project include your
organization's current Mission scope of
activities and Readiness to demonstrate
impact within the period of performance
describe your organization's experience
with successfully administering Grant
projects of similar size and scope
related to
vaccines refer to the organizational
chart and your impenen to show the
relationship of the project to the
overall
organization next
slide included in the fifth component is
community level expertise and
collaborative Partnerships describe your
organization's experience and capability
to form a collaborative Network describe
your Partnerships with communitybased
organizations such as cbos local Health
local Health departments and other
community based affiliation who work
with trusted messagers or community
health workers to increase vac and
confidence describe the Network's
ability to engage in community level
strategies within the population Focus
describe the network members anticipate
a level of effort and responsibility for
completing programmatic activities next
slide you also want to make sure you
include in your organizational
description when referring to your
organizational capability this includes
summarizing your organization capability
and capacity to successfully implement
the proposed project include your
organization's current Mission scope and
activities Oh I'm sorry organization can
you go back one slide I'm sorry
okay no I'm sorry you go ahead go ahead
move forward again once I'm sorry about
that b the fifth component also should
include or organizational capability
which includes project staff and key
roles identify the individual who Beyond
The Project Director principal
investigator and any additional key
personnel whose contributions are
essential to the project specify who
would have day-to-day responsibility for
key tasks such as project leadership
monitoring the project ongoing progress
preparation of reports and communicating
with the collaborative Network next
slide now I'm going to talk about the
application criteria during the review
process this information can be found on
pages 30 through 32 in the no for
announcement next
Slide the applicant will receive up to
20 points for project
significance the degree to which the
applicant demonstrates project
significance through national and local
data describing low vaccination rates
for the population and Geographic areas
of focus provides evidence for potential
impact on the use of vaccine confidence
intervention strategies for individuals
with populations of focus who experience
Health disparities describes the extent
to which the proposed innov Innovation
will impact unserved population next
Slide the applicant will receive up to
20 points for proposed approach project
plan
the degree to which the applicant
provides a concise Wells supported
description of and rationale for the
approach the nature of activities and
why they were selected including
addressing system gaps and identifi
challenges describes the anticipated
contribution of Partners to the project
through ongoing planning quality
improvement implementation data
collection and
evaluation adequately describe the
community level Public Health
interventions that will strengthen the
promotion of vaccine confidence to
achieve the intended outcomes clearly
summarizes proposed activities and a
work plan that includes major tasks
action steps products that will be
developed time frames and persons
Partners responsible next
Slide the applicant will receive up to
20 points for organizational capability
the degree to which the applicant
demonstrates the capability
infrastructure expertise and Readiness
to successfully conduct project
activities demonstrates the ability to
establish a collaborative Network
capable of partnering in community level
innov innovations that reduce vaccine
confidence barriers among the identified
Target population clearly illustrates
the Network's ability and Readiness to
engage in Project
activities adequately describes Key
Personnel roles and responsibilities
including identification of the PD pdpi
and describes their qualifications
competing time commitments and level of
involvement with the project next slide
the applicant will receive up to 15
points per project goals and outcomes
the degree to which the applicant
demonstrates a strong and clear
alignment of goals objectives and
measurable outcomes to implement the
Innovative approach to increase vaccine
confidence by reducing identified
barriers among the target population
clearly describes objectives that are
that are each specific measurable
achievable realistic time bound
inclusive and and Equitable smarty using
Baseline data that includes quantifiable
time frames for achievement includes
appropriate measurable outcomes expected
from the pro proposed
project next
Slide the applicant will receive up to
10 points for proposed approach project
management the degree to which the
applicant descries a feasible approach
to Monitor and track project progress at
a task level clearly illustrates how
Partners will be managed to accomplish
proposed project activities and provides
a feasible approach to risk management a
plan for managing key staff
transition next
Slide the applicant will receive up to
10 points for project
evaluation degree to which the applicant
employs a process and outcome evaluation
approach to analyze the goals and
objectives presents reasonable methods
for evaluating project achievement of
smarty objectives and measurable
outcomes describes how outcomes of the
project will be monitored documented
measured and reported description of
Quantified qu quantitative and
qualitative qu qualitative quantitative
and qualitative tools and techniques and
how Lessons Learned will be identified
and documented next
Slide the applicant will receive up to
five points for dissemination the degree
to which the applicant proposes
traditional and Innovative methods to
disseminate the results and findings of
the demonstration project and its impact
in a timely manner at an appropriate
scale either National Regional or local
describes a feasible approach for
disseminating project data and
information to the populations of focus
the public and other parties who may be
interested in applying methodologies and
Lessons Learned to their own work next
slide and that concludes my portion of
the presentation I will now turn it over
to Dwayne Dwayne the floor is all yours
thank you very much um good afternoon
everyone um my name is Dwayne and again
I am from the uh Dam office the grants
and Acquisitions management office and
at this point in the presentation we're
going to discuss the application piece
of our presentation so as we see at the
bottom here the competitive application
deadline is Wednesday August 21st 2024
and the cut off time is 6:m Eastern Time
next slide
please again just so that uh you guys
are aware the application is due by 6 PM
Eastern Time on Wednesday August 21 2024
keep in mind that your submission time
will be determined by the date and time
stamp provided by grant.gov when you
complete your submission you're strongly
encouraged to submit your application a
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the application closing date keep in
mind that grants.gov may take up to 48
hours to notify you of a successful
submission if you fail to submit your
application by the due date and time we
will not review it and it will not
receive uh further consideration next
slide
okay with regard to eligible
applicants applicant eligibility for
this noo is any private either profit or
nonprofit or public entity entity
located in a state is eligible to apply
for an award under this NOA State
includes in addition to the several
states only the District of Columbia
Guam the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico the
Northern Mariana Islands the Virgin
Islands American Samoa the trust
territory of the Pacific Islands and any
agency or instrumentality thereof
exclusive of local governments eligible
entities include private not not
for-profit or public faith-based
organizations Community Based
organizations and American Indian NASA
Alaska Native Native American
organizations next slide
please call sharing in and matching for
the project so you're not required to
provide cost sharing and matching in
your proposed budget if you're volunt if
you voluntarily include cost sharing in
your application you must include in
your budget narrative a non-federal
sources justification as described in
section H or your application will be
disqualified voluntary cost sharing is
not expected for research applications
during the Merit review of an
application cost sharing will only be
considered in the overall review of the
adequacy of the total proposed budget
Federal and non-federal share to support
the project proposed awarded
applications including CA sharing or
matching commitment whether required or
voluntary will include the commitment on
the notice of award at the level
proposed in the application any change
in the ca sharing or matching commitment
will require prior approval of the
grants management officer next slide
pleas
application responsiveness criteria so
we will review your application to
determine whether it meets the
responsiveness criteria below if your
application does not meet the
responsiveness criteria we will
disqualify it from competition and we
will not review it beyond the initial
screening so here's the responsiveness
criteria the project abstract summary
must State the current vaccine rate of
the community of f Focus for the project
next slide
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application package so you can you can
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please so all applications must be
submitted as three files file one should
be the entire project narrative file two
should be the entire budget narrative
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all documents in the appendices section
please Note require standard forms do
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limitations and the submission
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disqualification criteria in section c
of the no next slide
please any files uploaded or attached to
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following file formats so you can use
Microsoft Word you can use PowerPoint
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document please check your page
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not exceed the page limit next slide
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file so appendices submit all appendix
content as a single acceptable file in
the attachment section of your
grants.gov application next slide
please please be sure to follow the
project narrative format instructions in
the NOA your application will be
disqualified if it does not conform to
the format requirements you must double
space the project narrative Pages you
must use 12 point font you should read
uh use an easily readable Tyas such as
times NE Roman or aiel you may single
space tables or use alternate funds but
you must ensure that the tables are easy
to
read for appendices and budget narrative
you should use the same formatting
specified in the project narrative
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award to them next slide
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During the period of the award other
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descriptions and justification
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next
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your application does not meet the
following requirements it will be
disqualified and receive no further
consideration
if or keep in mind I apologize that your
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deadline keep in mind that if you
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only review the last application
received by the
deadline your application will be
disqualified if we deem that your when I
say we me H HHS o gam deems your
application
um uh ineligible keep in mind that your
project uh narrative must be double
spaced on the equivalent of 8 and half
by 11 SI page size with one inch margins
on all sides and font size not less than
12 points the project narrative must not
exceed 30 pages the total application
including project narrative must not
exceed 60 Pages next slide
please if your application does not meet
the following requirements it will be
disqualified and will receive no further
consideration your application must must
be in the English language and must be
in terms of US Dollars your federal
funds requests including indirect costs
should not exceed the maximum indicated
in the W ceiling your federal funds
requests including indirect costs must
not be below the minimum indicated in
the award
floor if you have included voluntary uh
C sharing or matching you must include
it in your budget narrative it must
include in your budget narrative
nonfederal sources justification you
have to keep in mind that your
application has to meet the application
responsiveness criteria next slide
please and again the responsiveness
criteria are or is that the project
summary must State the current vaccine
rate of the Community Focus for the
project next slide
please supporting documation
documentation and
disqualifications application s that
lack the required supporting
documentation or submit additional
appendix files will not be disqualified
from competitive review however this may
impact your applications rating under
the evaluation criteria so please be
sure to follow the submission
instructions within the noo carefully
next slide
please on this slide we just wanted to
remind you of the application review
criteria next slide
please application Merit review eligible
applications will be evaluated commented
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gam staff for administrative and
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program office staff for programmatic
compliance next slide
please funding decisions so the director
of
oidp will provide recommendations for
funding to the grants management officer
for risk
analysis in providing these
recommendations the director of
oidp uh will take into consideration the
following additional factors in this
case it would be Equitable geographic
distribution upon completion of risk
analysis and concurrence of the grants
management officer HH will then issue
notices of w keep in mind that no award
decision is final until a notice award
is issued all the award decisions
including the level of funding if an
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is made are final and you may not
appearal next slide
please okay so the funding process
refute of risk posed by the applicant so
HHS oash will evaluate each application
in fundable range for risk posed by the
applicant before issuing an award in ACC
in accordance with 45 CFR 75.2
5 oash will use a risk based approach
and may consider any items such as the
following as stated in the NOA so we'll
to take a look at the applicant
Financial stability the quality of
management systems and the ability to
need the management standards as
prescribed in 45 CFR p75 we'll take a
look at your history of performance
reports and findings from audits
performed and the applicants ability to
effectively Implement statutory
regulatory or other requirements imposed
on non-federal entities next slide
please the plan for oversight of federal
award funds if your internal controls
are available online you may provide the
link as a part of your plan in the
budget narrative we've also included
supplementary uh information in section
section H5 of the noro which contains
questions applicants may find useful in
considering their recipient for
oversight of federal funds next slide
please risk review resulting from non
resulting in non-funded determination so
we determine your organization does not
meet either or both of the minimum
qualification standards as described in
45 CFR 75.
20582 and we don't make an award to you
as a result we must report that
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conditions apply the keep in mind that
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that must be met as a condition of
receiving the grant funds it also
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slide
please with regard to the funding Pro uh
process and points of contact keep in
mind that gam is the official contact
for awardees throughout the uh award
life cycle all official communication
related to the award is between gam and
the Su successful applicant unsuccessful
applicants will be notified by program
office via letter next slide
please so here's some here's summary and
some tips so with regard to the project
narrative description you want to be PE
clear complete and concise in the
project description you want to follow
and address exactly what is requested in
the NOA don't make the reviewer or
search for the required information
generally the easier the application is
to review the better the rating
reviewers are not allowed to do external
research follow embedded links
Etc you want to clearly Define the
sections of the application and indicate
which component is being addressed
project narrative must include all
required information within the page
limit do not use appendices to expand
the page limit next slide
please you want to make your goals that
was stated before uh an objective smart
specific measurable achievable realistic
time frame activities presented in the
work plan should relate directly to the
proposed goals and objectives program uh
work plan evaluation plan and budget
should provide a complete picture of how
the applicant will address the needs as
well as address the address the purpose
and expectations in the NOA next slide
please with regard to Staffing the
Staffing should be appropriate and
reasonable for the goals objectives and
activities of the proposed project
so you want to be complete in describe
describing what the staff will do the
expertise required and the percent time
they will be assigned to the project
next slide
please with regard to the
budget the budget should include
adequate funds to carry out the proposed
work plan evaluation plan and
administrative responsibilities of the
project the budget should be reasonable
and relate directly to the goals and
objectives of the project not request
more funds than are available as listed
in the NOA this amount is inclusive of
indirect costs the operating budget
should be complete and include Federal
and non-federal funds ejected program
income from fees and thirdparty players
and other contributing funds next slide
please overall we encourage you to use
individuals full names first middle and
last to distinguish them for
verification in the uh Sam exclusion
records electronic submission is
required don't wait until the last
minute to begin Sam registration or
update your registration do not wait
until the last minute to begin the
electronic submission problems could
arise next slide
please if you receive an award only one
Project Director principal investigator
or pdpi will be named on the award
documents so you want to clearly
identify the in individual to be the
pdpi in your application we typically
expect this to be the person named on
the sf424 inbox
8f do not use a placeholder or honorary
pdpi because this does not present an
accurate picture about who will be
responsible for the day-to-day
management of your project if you have
not hired an individual to be the pdpi
you should name an interim PD pdpi and
clearly identify that person as such if
you receive award an award a request for
a change in PDI p p uh pdpi or key
personnel under any circumstance
requires prior approval of the grants
management officer before it becomes
effective next slide please so if you
have questions about this uh noo with
regard to program questions you
can you can reach out to um Shae his
email is listed here on the screen as
well as his telephone number if you have
administrative or financial
questions um you can reach out to me uh
Dwayne Barlo again and my phone number
is also listed here on the screen with
regard to electronic submission
requirements and grants.gov applicant
support you can use the the URLs that we
have listed here they have an email
address that can be used and again you
can call them directly at 1 8005184726
keep in mind that you should not contact
the O program or grants office staff for
grants.gov issues because we don't
manage that site next slide
please so at this point I'd like to turn
it over to Sean uh thank you very much
for your
attention thank you
Dwayne so as I said at the beginning of
this webinar um we're going to take all
the questions that we received in the
chat box and we're going to develop a
FAQ document that's going to be shared
uh with this recording and the slides uh
to grants.gov as soon as we can um and
that concludes this technical assistance
webinar um we're going to stay on for
the next five minutes just to ensure
everyone has has time to write down
their question in the chat
box um so that's that concludes the the
the TA webinar thank
you
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