What's New
New The FY 2024 Basic Needs Program competition opened on June 4, 2024! The deadline to apply is August 5, 2024. Review the official Notice Inviting Applications in the Federal Register.
Program Office: Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education
CFDA Number: 84.116N Program Type: Discretionary/Competitive Grants
Also Known As: Basic Needs Program
The Basic Needs for Postsecondary Students Program provides grants to eligible institutions of higher education (IHEs) to support programs that address the basic needs of students and to report on practices that improve outcomes for students.
Projects that are designed to take a systemic evidence-based approach to improving outcomes for underserved students in one or more of the following priority areas:
- Coordinating efforts with Federal, State, or local agencies, or community-based organizations, that support students, to address two or more of the following:
- Food assistance.
- Housing.
- Transportation.
- Health, including physical health, mental health, and behavioral health and trauma.
- Child care.
- Technology.
- Conducting community needs and asset mapping to identify existing programs and initiatives that can be leveraged, and new programs and initiatives that need to be developed and implemented, to advance systemic change.
- Establishing cross-agency partnerships, or community-based partnerships with local nonprofit organizations, businesses, philanthropic organizations, or others, to meet family well-being needs.
