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Emergency Management Baseline Assessment Grant Program
Funding Totals
NOFOs & Documents
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 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).
EMBAG Program Evaluation
FEMA evaluates the EMBAG program to better understand how national-level standards for emergency management influences preparedness capability.
Learn More
Recipients seeking guidance on policies and procedures for managing preparedness grants should reference this manual for program-specific information as well as overall guidance on rules and regulations.
Annual Funding Totals
FY 2024
Total funding available for fiscal year 2024: $575,000
FY 2023
Total funding available for fiscal year 2023: $1,500,000
FY 2022
Total funding available for fiscal year 2022: $825,000
FY 2021
Total funding available for fiscal year 2021: $825,000
NOFOs and Ancillary Documents
Fiscal Year 2024
The FY 2024 Notice of Funding Opportunity is available below, as well as on Grants.gov.
Fiscal Year 2024 Emergency Management Baseline Assessment Grant (EMBAG) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)
August 15, 2024 - View NOFO - Download PDF
Fiscal Year 2023 Emergency Management Baseline Assessment Grant (EMBAG) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)
July 5, 2023 - View NOFO - Download PDF
Fiscal Year 2022 Emergency Management Baseline Assessment Grant (EMBAG) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)
May 20, 2022 - View NOFO
Fiscal Year 2021 Emergency Management Baseline Assessment Grant (EMBAG) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)
Apr 20, 2022 - Download File
Fiscal Year 2020 Emergency Management Baseline Assessment Grant (EMBAG) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)
Mar 20, 2021 - Download File on Grants.gov