Block grant definition

Block grant means funds from the federal government awarded in broad program areas within which the state is given considerable latitude in determining how funds are used and for which the state develops its own plan for spending according to general federal guidelines. “Block grant” does not include education research grants.

Block grant means the block grant contained in Title VI of the Child Care and Development Fund, as established by the federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-193).

Block grant means a fund set up for a clearly defined purpose, providing assistance to organizations or institutions, facilitating a cost-effective administration mainly in programmes with many small projects;

Examples of Block grant in a sentence

• The purpose of Title V MCH Block grant is to provide a foundation for ensuring the health of the Nation’s mothers, women, children, and youth.

• The mission of the Community Services Block grant (CSBG) is to provide a full range of services and activities having a measurable impact on the causes of poverty in a community or those areas of a community where poverty is a particularly acute problem.

• Block grant regulations require the state to earmark funding for defined populations and services (women, intravenous drug abusers, HIV clients, prevention services).

• Block grant funds shall not be used to assist a religious organization in acquiring property.

• Block grant funds shall not be used to construct, rehabilitate, maintain, or restore structures or other real property owned by “pervasively sectarian” organizations.

More Definitions of Block grant

Block grant means the annual grant-in-aid determined by the Government to each university to cover the salaries of the employees, pensions of the pensioners, maintenance, and State Sponsored research and innovation, to be valid for the entire block period and to be released every quarter by appropriate percentage increase from year to year.

Block grant means a grant made or proposed to be made by PAF, out of the proceeds of the Financing, to a Beneficiary to finance the costs of goods, works and services for a Sub-Project under Part A, B or C of the Project.

Block grant means the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant pursuant to 42 USC 300x21e et seq. ¶

Block grant means a program resulting from the consolidation or transfer of separate federal grant programs, including federal categorical programs, so that the state determines the amounts to be allocated or the method of allocating the amounts to various agencies or programs from the combined amounts, including a program consolidated or transferred under the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (Pub. L. No. 97-35).

Block grant means a grant to a Block Grant Service Provider in accordance with the provisions of Section I.E of Schedule 2 to the Original Grant Agreement and the requirements of the Project Operations Manual; “Block Grants” means more than one such Block Grant.

Block grant means a grant made, or proposed to be made by MOHE to a Beneficiary out of the proceeds of the Grant for the purpose of carrying out Sub-Projects, in accordance with paragraph B of Schedule 4 to this Agreement;

Block grant. Means funds received by the Board from the Province of British Columbia for the education of students in the School District through the Operating Grants Manual.