Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP)

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), provides an annual competitive opportunity for nonprofit organizations in the form of the Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP). The NSGP provides funding for physical security enhancements and other security-related activities to nonprofit organizations that are at high risk of a terrorist or other extremist attack. The NSGP also seeks to integrate the preparedness activities of nonprofit organizations with broader state and local preparedness efforts.

!! FEMA has released the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) award that allocates $210 million from the National Security Supplemental (Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024). This award will henceforth be referred to as NSGP-NSS !!

The NSGP-NSS application period will be open from Tuesday, November 5th, 2024 until Tuesday, December 10th, 2024 at 11:59 PM.

Application Documents:
Co​nsortium Workbook​


Note: The State of Maryland Department of Emergency Management (MDEM) is your State Administrative Agency (SAA) - all correspondence regarding the NSGP award should be directed to
nsgp.mdem@maryland.gov

If your organization resides in Montgomery or Prince George's County, you must
apply for the NSGP award under the National Capital Region through the District of Columbia. Please visit the DC NSGP homepage for more information: https://hsema.dc.gov/nsgp


!! NSGP-NSS HOW TO APPLY !!


FEMA has released the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) award that allocates $210 million from the National Security Supplemental (Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024). This award will henceforth be referred to as NSGP-NSS.
          

Changes from previous years that should be noted:

  • Nonprofits may now apply for up to $200,000 in funding per physical site, up to three sites per organization
  • Consortiums may apply 
    (A consortium application is an opportunity for an eligible nonprofit organization to act as a lead and apply for funding on behalf of itself and any number of other participating NSGP-NSS eligible nonprofit organizations. All nonprofit organizations in the consortium application must be compliant with the NSGP-NSS eligibility requirements. Nonprofit organizations may not apply both individually and as part of a consortium. The lead nonprofit organization and its partners must be the intended beneficiaries of the requested funding. The lead nonprofit organization shall not distribute grant-funded assets or provide grant-funded contractual services to non-compliant partner nonprofit organizations or other ineligible organizations.)

    • ​Please note, if any organization demonstrates ineligibility or makes unallowable requests, the entire consortium application will be graded as such.
  • Nonprofits who can demonstrate a greater vulnerability due the Israel-Hamas war will receive a 4x point multiplier on their scores.

HOW TO APPLY

​​To apply, you will need to submit the following in pdf format to nsgp.mdem@maryland.gov:

1. An investment justification (download above) - this form must be downloaded and opened from your computer, you will not be able to open it in a browser
2. A vulnerability assessment conducted at the site of your facility being applied for within the last two years
3. Your organization's mission statement on letterhead
4. For consortium subapplicants only: the NSGP-NSS Consortium Workbook (download above)

​​All documents must be delivered to MDEM as PDFs. Each organization should send ONLY ONE EMAIL with a complete application packet attached.

The Investment Justification (IJ) is the principal application document. The projects requested in the IJ must be supported by the organization’s Mission Statement and the location's Vulnerability/Risk Assessment. The space allotted on the IJ is all that is allowed to be used. Please make sure your answers fit w​ithin the space provided, as addendums WILL NOT be considered.

NOTE: The Investment Justification file cannot be viewed in a browser due to FEMA's security restrictions. Please download it and open it outside of your browser, from your computer's file library or desktop.

Unique Entity Identifier (UEI)
As of April 4, 2022, the federal government requires all recipients and subrecipients of federal funding to use a Unique Federal Identifier (UEI) to identify their organization. The UEI must be acquired through the SAM.gov website and is free of charge.

For FY2024 NSGP applicants, if you have a UEI, enter it in the FY2024 application template where it is indicated. If you do not yet have a UEI, you may leave that field in the application template blank, and your application will be accepted. However, continue your efforts to get a UEI, as MDEM must have a UEI for all successful applicants in order to issue sub-grants in the coming months. Please refer to the UEI instructions in the FY2024 NSGP NOFO.

Below is a link to a helpful guide from SAM.gov explaining how to acquire a UEI.
NSGP applicants do not need to register their UEIs (that is a much more complicated process).

The video explains the difference and shows the simplified process for simply getting a UEI issued: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uv1YNAsINk 

REMINDER: Do not submit applications to FEMA or grants.gov. The State of Maryland Department of Emergency Management is your State Authorized Agency (SAA) and is responible for the submission of all materials to FEMA. Attempts to contact FEMA or grants.gov about your applications will go unanswered, and applications sent to them by entities other than the SAA will not be considered.

About Pr​oject Funding Types


The Nonprofit Security Grant Program offers two funding opportunities for projects: Urban Area and State (non-urban areas). The map and list below categories the Maryland jurisdictions into these two categories:
                                      

A map depicting the State Area, Baltimore Urban Area, and National Capital Urban Area.                                         

State Area Funding                                      

Allegany County                                      

Calvert County                                      

Caroline County                                      

Cecil County                                      

Charles County                                      

Dorchester County                                      

Frederick County                                      

Garrett County                                      

Kent County                                      

Queen Anne's County                                      

Saint Mary's County                                      

Somerset County                                      

Talbot County                                      

Washington County                                      

Wicomico County                                      

Worcester County                                      


Baltimore Urban Area Funding                                      

Anne Arundel County                                      

Baltimore County*                                      

Carroll County*                                      

City of Annapolis                                      

City of Baltimore                                      

Harford County*                                      

Howard County*                                      


National Capital Region Urban Area Funding                                      

Montgomery County                                      

Prince George’s County                              



About NPS & NIM​S

About NPS

The National Preparedness System (NPS) consists of six parts:
  • Identifying and Assessing Risk
  • Estimating Capability Requirements
  • Building and Sustaining Capabilities
  • National Incident Management System
  • Planning to Deliver Capabilities
  • Validating Capabilities
  • Reviewing and Updating

About NIMS

The  National Incident Management System (NIMS) guides all organizations to work together to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to and recover from incidents. 

Organizations applying for a grant under the NSGP are encouraged to adopt NIMS as it applies to their organization. The Maryland Department of Emergency Management is recommending the following virtual courses from the Emergency Management Institute be completed as part of the of adopting NIMS:
 

  • IS-800.b National Response Framework, An Introduction
  • IS-700.a National Incident Management System (NIMS), An Introduction
  • IS-100.b - (ICS 100) Introduction to Incident Command System​


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