Emergency Management Baseline Assessment Grant Program

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The Emergency Management Baseline Assessment Grant (EMBAG) program provides non-disaster funding to support developing, maintaining, and revising voluntary national-level standards and peer-review assessment processes for emergency management and using these standards and processes to assess state, local, tribal, and territorial emergency management programs and professionals.

The EMBAG transitioned to a competitive grant in FY 2020. Eligible applicants are nonprofits and institutes of higher education as defined by 2 C.F.R. § 200.1 that can demonstrate that they are qualified to develop, update, revise, and enhance national-level standards for emergency management and implement assessments against them for emergency management programs AND/OR emergency management professionals, according to questions defined in the most recent notice of funding opportunity.

The EMBAG program authorizing authority is Section 503(b)(2)(G) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, as amended, (6 U.S.C. 313(b)(2)(G).