Opportunity Information: Apply for HHS 2021 ACF OPRE PD 1915
The Human Services Interoperability Innovations (HSII) opportunity is a discretionary federal funding program run by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), through the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE). It is the second round of HSII cooperative agreements, designed to speed up and strengthen data sharing across human services organizations by supporting practical, innovative interoperability projects. The core idea is that when agencies can securely and reliably share data across programs and systems, they can make better decisions, improve data quality and accuracy, lower the long-term cost of building one-off system integrations, and better safeguard sensitive information. In this announcement, interoperability is treated broadly, not just as an IT problem, but as a mix of technology, business rules, legal agreements, governance, organizational alignment, and day-to-day processes that determine how people and systems collaborate around data.
The awards are structured as cooperative agreements, meaning recipients should expect a more hands-on partnership with the federal project team than a typical grant. OPRE and ACF intend to work closely with awardees to help projects generate lessons and products that can be useful beyond one jurisdiction. Each funded project is planned for an 18-month period, with the intent that grantees move quickly from planning into real implementation and demonstration, producing tangible outputs and evidence about what works.
This second round exists partly because the first HSII round (from a 2020 announcement) attracted more strong proposals than OPRE could fund. Early HSII projects are already producing resources meant to benefit the broader field, including examples like an open-source, cloud-based hashing approach to support privacy-preserving matching and linking of records across different data systems. OPRE is signaling that it expects similar value from the next cohort, with an emphasis on state and local innovation that can be documented and shared so other agencies can replicate proven approaches.
Funding is aimed at demonstration projects that solve a high-priority, real-world data sharing or integration need in a local context, while also generating model practices that can be adopted elsewhere. ACF highlights six main qualities it is looking for in proposed projects: first, the work should address an urgent or high-value data sharing/data integration need for the applicant community; second, it should propose a new or novel implementation approach rather than repeating standard methods; third, it should produce promising practices and encourage replication of successful outcomes; fourth, it should show strong readiness to implement within the project window and demonstrate cost effectiveness; fifth, it should be designed for close collaboration with OPRE and ACF; and sixth, it should rely on meaningful partnerships that cut across programs, agencies, and possibly jurisdictions, reflecting the reality that human services data sharing usually requires coordinated action among multiple stakeholders.
From an applicant and administrative standpoint, the opportunity is listed under Funding Opportunity Number HHS 2021 ACF OPRE PD 1915 and falls within the Income Security and Social Services activity category (CFDA 93.647). The program allows a wide range of eligible applicants, including state, county, and city/township governments; special districts; independent school districts; public and private institutions of higher education; federally recognized tribal governments and other tribal organizations; public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities; nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) status (excluding higher ed institutions in those nonprofit categories); for-profit organizations other than small businesses; and small businesses. The expected number of awards is three, with an award ceiling of $600,000 per award. The posting date is July 2, 2021, and the original application deadline is September 1, 2021, with electronic submissions due by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the closing date.
For additional context and examples of the broader strategy behind this work, ACF points applicants to the ACF Interoperability Initiative and to the page describing earlier HSII projects, which can help potential applicants understand the types of solutions OPRE considers valuable and transferable across the human services ecosystem.Apply for HHS 2021 ACF OPRE PD 1915
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families - OPRE in the income security and social services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Human Services Interoperability Innovations" 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 02, 2021.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Sep 01, 2021 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 1159 p.m., ET, 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 $600,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 3 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses.
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