March Grant Newsletter
Top Grant Picks
HRSA Evidence-Based Telehealth Network Program
(Application Deadline: April 2, 2021)
The twofold purpose of this program is (1) to demonstrate how health care systems can increase access to health care services utilizing Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Telehealth technologies and (2) to conduct evaluations of those efforts to establish an evidence base for assessing the effectiveness of Direct-To-Patient Telehealth care for patients, providers, and payers. LEARN MORE
HRSA Rural Communities Opioid Response Program-Psychostimulant Support
(Application Deadline: April 12, 2021)
RCORP-PS will advance RCORP’s overall goal by strengthening and expanding prevention, treatment, and recovery services for rural individuals who misuse psychostimulants to enhance their ability to access treatment and move towards recovery. LEARN MORE
SAMHSA Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment
(Application Deadline: April 19, 2021)
The purpose of this program is to implement screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment services for children, adolescents, and/or adults in primary care and community health settings (e.g., health centers, hospital systems, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), preferred-provider organizations (PPOs), Federally Qualified Health Care (FQHC) systems, behavioral health centers, pediatric health care providers, Children’s Hospitals, etc.) with a focus on screening for underage drinking, opioid use, and other substance use. For the purposes of this FOA, pediatric health care providers are a provider of primary health care to individuals under the age of 21 years. This program is designed to expand/enhance the continuum of care for substance use disorder (SUD) services and reduce alcohol and other drug (AOD) consumption and its negative health impact, increase abstinence, reduce costly health care utilization, and promote sustainability and the integration of behavioral health and primary care services through policy changes that increase treatment access in generalist and specialist practice. These grants support clinically appropriate services for persons at risk (asymptomatic) for SUD, as well as those diagnosed with SUD. LEARN MORE
SAMHSA Provider’s Clinical Support System – Universities
(Application Deadline: April 20, 2021)
The purpose of this program is to expand/enhance access to medication-assisted treatment (MAT) services for persons with an opioid use disorder (OUD) seeking or receiving MAT through ensuring the education and training of students in the medical, physician assistant, and nurse practitioner fields. This program’s focus is to ensure students fulfill the training requirements needed to obtain a DATA waiver to prescribe MAT in office-based settings. The desired outcomes include: 1) an increase in the number of individuals completing the training requirements for the DATA waiver; 2) an increase the number of individuals with a DATA waiver; and 3) an ultimate increase in those prescribing. LEARN MORE
SAMHSA Medication Assisted Treatment – Prescription Drug and Opioid Addiction
(Application Deadline: April 27, 2021)
The purpose of this program is to expand/enhance access to medication-assisted treatment (MAT) services for persons with an opioid use disorder (OUD) seeking or receiving MAT. The desired outcomes for this program are: 1) an increase in the number of individuals with OUD receiving MAT; and 2) a decrease in illicit opioid drug use and prescription opioid misuse at six-month follow-up. LEARN MORE
Federal Healthcare Grants
HRSA Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems: Health Integration Prenatal-to-Three Program
(Application Deadline: March 15, 2021)
The purpose of this program is to build integrated maternal and early childhood systems of care that are equitable, sustainable, comprehensive, and inclusive of the health system, and that promote early developmental health and family well-being and increase family-centered access to care and engagement of the prenatal-to-3 year old (P–3) population. A maternal and early childhood system of care brings together health, early care and education, child welfare, and other human services and family support program partners—as well as community leaders, families, and other stakeholders—to achieve agreed-upon goals for thriving children and families. The P–3 period is a particularly critical period of early child development and parentdriven change. The ECCS program will advance intergenerational health equity and expand state capacity to reach and engage families during this critical period. LEARN MORE
CMS Community Health Access and Rural Transformation (CHART)
(Application Deadline: March 16, 2021)
The Community Health Access and Rural Transformation (CHART) Model is a voluntary payment model designed to meet the unique needs of rural communities. The CHART Model will test whether aligned financial incentives, increased operational flexibility, and robust technical support promote rural health care providers’ capacity to implement effective health care delivery system redesign on a broad scale. The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) will evaluate the impact of the CHART Model on Medicare and Medicaid expenditures, access to care, quality of care, and health outcomes for rural residents.CHART aligns with CMS’s Rethinking Rural Health initiative, which aims to ensure individuals in rural America have access to high quality, affordable health care by offering new and creative payment models. The CHART Model will include two tracks: 1) the Community Transformation Track and 2) the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Transformation Track. This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is for the Community Transformation Track only. Under the Community Transformation Track, award recipients will receive cooperative agreement funding and a programmatic framework to assess the needs of their Community (as defined in section A.4.3.1. Community Definition below) and implement health care delivery system redesign. Hospitals participating in the Community Transformation Track Alternative Payment Model (APM) will receive capitated payments. Capitated payments provide hospitals with a stable revenue stream and incentivize reductions in fixed costs and avoidable utilization. Operational flexibilities will be available for participating hospitals to relieve regulatory burden, emphasize high-value services, and support providers in care management for their beneficiaries. LEARN MORE
CDC Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) Local Drug Crises Grants
(Application Deadline: April 1, 2021)
The purpose of this program is to prevent and reduce the abuse of opioids or methamphetamines and the abuse of prescription drugs among youth ages 12-18 in communities throughout the United States. This program is an enhancement to current or formerly funded Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program recipients. LEARN MORE
NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Parent F31-Diversity)
(Application Deadline: April 8, 2021)
The purpose of this Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research award is to enhance the diversity of the health-related research workforce by supporting the research training of predoctoral students from diverse backgrounds including those from groups that are underrepresented in the biomedical, behavioral, or clinical research workforce. Through this award program, promising predoctoral students will obtain individualized, mentored research training from outstanding faculty sponsors while conducting well-defined research projects in scientific health-related fields relevant to the missions of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers. The proposed mentored research training is expected to clearly enhance the individual's potential to develop into a productive, independent research scientist. LEARN MORE
HRSA Emerging Issues in Maternal and Child Health
(Application Deadline: April 9, 2021)
The purpose of this program is to strengthen the capacities of state1- and/or local-level organizations to respond to emerging public health issues affecting maternal and child health (MCH) populations. Recipients will implement a set of activities under at least one capacity-strengthening area and through these activities address an emerging issue specific to their state or local community. LEARN MORE
HRSA Autism Secondary Data Analysis Research Program
(Application Deadline: April 12, 2021)
The purpose of these grants is to support applied Maternal and Child Health (MCH) research that exclusively utilizes secondary analyses of existing national databases and/or administrative records to determine the evidence-based practices for interventions to improve the physical and behavioral health of children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other Developmental Disabilities (DD) across the lifespan, with a focus on addressing the needs of underserved populations for whom there is limited evidence of the effectiveness of interventions, and limited access to screening, diagnosis, and treatment for ASD/DD.1 HRSA supports programs to improve the quality of care for those diagnosed with ASD/DD through education, early detection, and intervention. LEARN MORE
HRSA Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training (BHWET) Program for Paraprofessionals
(Application Deadline: April 12, 2021)
The purpose of the BHWET Program for Paraprofessionals is to develop and expand community-based experiential training such as field placements and internships to increase the supply of students preparing to become peer support specialists and other behavioral health-related paraprofessionals while also improving distribution of a quality behavioral health workforce. A special focus is placed on the knowledge and understanding of the specific concerns of children, adolescents, and transitional-aged youth in high need and high demand areas at risk for behavioral health disorders. The BHWET Program for Paraprofessionals emphasizes establishing relationships with community based partners (e.g., emergency departments, faith-based organizations, first responders, judicial systems, health centers, social services, community policing organizations, recovery community organizations or other peer-based recovery support organizations), to increase access to behavioral health services to populations across the lifespan. The program will expand and improve access to quality treatment and foster an integrated approach to address behavioral health prevention, treatment, and recovery services, including but not limited to Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and other substance use disorder (SUD), in high need and high demand areas.1 The program also emphasizes developmental opportunities and educational support in interdisciplinary collaboration by utilizing team-based care in integrated, interprofessional behavioral health and primary care settings and recruiting a workforce interested in serving high need and high demand areas. LEARN MORE
CDC Research Grants to Develop or Identify Effective Strategies to Prevent Overdose Involving Illicit Stimulants and Polysubstance Use Involving Stimulants
(Application Deadline: April 12, 2021)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) is soliciting investigator-initiated research that will support the identification of effective strategies for state, community, or systems-level implementation to prevent fatal and nonfatal overdoses involving illicit stimulants (e.g., methamphetamine and cocaine) as well as polysubstance use and overdose involving illicit stimulants. This NOFO is intended to support research on one of the following two Objectives: Objective 1) Conduct a process and outcome evaluation of new or adapted strategies, programs, or policies that can be implemented at the state, community, or systems-level to prevent illicit stimulant use or fatal and nonfatal overdose involving illicit stimulants, or polysubstance use or overdose involving illicit stimulants, OR Objective 2) Assess risk and protective factors for illicit stimulant use, use disorder, and overdose that can contribute to the development or adaptation of intervention strategies. LEARN MORE
NIH SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 and Consequences of Alcohol Use (R01 & R21)
(Application Deadlines: April 14, 2021)
These FOAs will support research grants to address urgent, time-sensitive research questions on the relationships between alcohol consumption and COVID-19 related outcomes and consequences. The principal area of focus is research that can improve public health in the near term by informing responses to the current COVID-19 pandemic, in view of 1) the impact of alcohol misuse on incidence and severity of COVID-19 disease or 2) the effect of the COVID-19 disease and pandemic-induced restrictions on alcohol use and alcohol use disorder (AUD). Time-sensitive applications for which standard NIH review and funding timelines would compromise either the ability to conduct the research or the value of the knowledge and with the potential to inform responses to the current pandemic will be considered. LEARN MORE ABOUT R01; LEARN MORE ABOUT R21
NIH Advanced Laboratories for Accelerating the Reach and Impact of Treatments for Youth and Adults with Mental Illness (ALACRITY) Research Centers (P50)
(LOI Deadline: April 17, 2021)
(Application Deadline: May 17, 2021)
This FOA invites applications for centers to support transdisciplinary teams of clinical and mental health services researchers, behavioral scientists, social scientists, health information and communications technologists, health systems engineers, decision scientists, and mental health stakeholders (e.g., service users, family members, clinicians, payers) to engage in high-impact studies that will significantly advance clinical practice and generate knowledge that will fuel transformation of mental health care in the United States. Advanced Laboratories for Accelerating the Reach and Impact of Treatments for Youth and Adults with Mental Illness (ALACRITY) Research Centers will support the rapid development, testing, and refinement of novel and integrative approaches for (1) optimizing the effectiveness of therapeutic or preventive interventions for mental disorders within well-defined target populations; (2) organizing and delivering optimized mental health services within real world treatment settings; and (3) continuously improving the quality, impact, and durability of optimized interventions and service delivery within diverse care systems. The ALACRITY Centers program is intended to support research that maximizes synergies across various components of the mental health research ecosystem, including new discoveries in clinical research, transformative health care technologies, advances in information science, and new federal and state mechanisms for organizing mental health care. The Centers are intended for transdisciplinary projects that could not be achieved using standard research project grant mechanisms. The ALACRITY Centers program is also expected to facilitate widespread sharing of relevant data, methods, and resources that will accelerate clinical research and practice and to provide opportunities for graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and early-career investigators to participate in transdisciplinary, T2 translational mental health research. LEARN MORE
CDC Core State Injury Prevention Program (Core SIPP)
(Application Deadline: April 19, 2021)
This NOFO supports health department infrastructure, data and partnerships to identify and respond to existing and emerging injury threats with data-driven public health actions. These actions are intended to increase protective factors and reduce risk factors using the best available evidence for injuries and death. Such an approach includes engaging in robust data and surveillance, strengthening strategic collaborations and partnerships, and conducting assessment and evaluation. The overall goal of this approach is to inform public health action for injury prevention. An enhanced funding component is available for recipients to implement and evaluate prevention strategies while incorporating novel surveillance activities, with the goal of contributing practice-based evidence to strengthen the overall evidence base for injury prevention. While all recipients will focus their strategic efforts on prevention of traumatic brain injury (TBI), transportation-related injury, and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES), recipients are also encouraged to examine their data and flex up to 25% of their award to address identified priority injury topics of local concern (i.e. drowning, older adult falls, or suicide). LEARN MORE
CDC Promoting Population Health through Increased Capacity in Alcohol Epidemiology & the Prevention of Excessive Alcohol Use
(Application Deadline: April 26, 2021)
The purpose of this NOFO is to build state capacity in alcohol epidemiology and provide the tools and information needed to perform core public health functions related to excessive alcohol use prevention in states. This increased epidemiologic capacity will help build the public health infrastructure that is needed to reduce excessive alcohol use – a leading preventable cause of death in the U.S. The NOFO includes an additional component for the delivery of expert technical assistance and training on population-level evidence-based strategies for preventing excessive alcohol use and related harms in states and communities, such as those recommended by the Community Preventive Services Task Force. The period of performance is 5 years with a 12-month budget period and an anticipated award date of 9/30/2021. LEARN MORE
ACL Alzheimer's Disease Programs Initiative - Grants to States and Communities
(Application Deadline: April 26, 2021)
Alzheimer’s Disease Program Initiative (ADPI) cooperative agreements are dedicated to the development and expansion of dementia-capable home and community-based service (HCBS) systems in States and Communities. There will be two application options through this opportunity, one for States (Option A) and the other for Communities (Option B). No entity would be eligible to apply for both State and Community options. The systems resulting from program activities under both program options will provide quality, person-centered services that help individuals remain independent and safe in their communities. LEARN MORE
HRSA Sickle Cell Disease Newborn Screening Follow-up Program
(Application Deadline: April 29, 2021)
The purpose of the Follow-Up Program is to facilitate access to quality sickle cell disease (SCD) care by: 1) conducting outreach and working with individuals and families with SCD from the time a newborn screen identifies a child with possible SCD, through diagnosis, treatment and follow-up; 2) providing education to families and providers; 3) disseminating resources; 4) collaborating with state newborn screening programs; and 5) linking individuals and families to community resources, evidencebased SCD care, and care coordination within the communities where they reside to the fullest extent possible. LEARN MORE
HRSA Sickle Cell Disease Treatment Demonstration Program
(Application Deadline: May 3, 2021)
The purpose of the TDP is to increase access to quality, coordinated, comprehensive care for individuals with sickle cell disease by: 1) increasing the number of clinicians or health professionals knowledgeable about the care of SCD, 2) improving the quality of care provided to individuals with sickle cell disease, and 3) improving care coordination with other providers. LEARN MORE
HRSA COVID-19 Claims Reimbursement for Uninsured Patients
(Application Deadline: Rolling)
HRSA provides an electronic reimbursement portal for healthcare providers who have conducted COVID-19 testing or provided treatment for uninsured individuals on or after February 4, 2020. Reimbursement will be made for qualifying testing and treatment services, which include: Specimen collection, diagnostic, and antibody testing; Testing-related visits in the office, urgent care, emergency room, or telehealth; Treatment including office visits, telehealth, emergency room, inpatient, outpatient/observation, skilled nursing facility, long-term acute care, acute inpatient rehab, home health, emergency ground ambulance transportation, non-emergent patient transfers via ground ambulance, and FDA approved drugs as they become available for COVID-19 treatment and administered as part of an inpatient stay; When an FDA-approved vaccine becomes available, it will also be covered. LEARN MORE
Foundation Healthcare Grants
Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation: Quality of Life Grants
(Application Deadline: March 16, 2021)
The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation National Paralysis Resource Center announces grant funding opportunities through its 2021 1st Cycle Direct Effect and special focus COVID-19: Addressing Social Isolation Quality of Life grants initiatives. Direct Effect grants offer up to $25,000 to nonprofit organizations for projects that clearly impact individuals living with paralysis, their families, and caregivers. COVID-19: Addressing Social Isolation grants fund projects that address social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic with the goal of enhancing the connectedness of people living with paralysis and their caregivers to their communities and preventing adverse health outcomes. Grants will be awarded within the range of $25,000-$50,000. LEARN MORE
RWJF Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program (AMFDP)
(Application Deadline: March 17, 2021)
The Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program (AMFDP) offers four-year postdoctoral research awards to physicians, dentists, and nurses from historically marginalized backgrounds. Scholars should be committed to working toward eliminating health disparities by achieving senior rank in academic medicine, dentistry, or nursing. The program provides scholars with: 1) development of research, academic, and leadership skills; 2) ongoing mentoring by a distinguished national advisory committee; 3) a grounding in the social determinants of health, health equity, and the elements of a Culture of Health; and 4) growth in communications skills to advance the impact of scholars’ research and scholarship in the field. In this grant cycle, RWJF will fund up to 10 four-year awards of up to $420,000 each. Scholars will receive an annual stipend of up to $75,000 each, complemented by a $30,000 annual grant to support research activities. LEARN MORE
RWJF Health Policy Research Scholars
(Application Deadline: March 17, 2021)
Health Policy Research Scholars (HPRS) is a four-year national leadership development program for full-time doctoral students from nonclinical, research-focused disciplines—who see policy as a key lever for change and are committed to ensuring their research is aligned with the health needs of communities. The program aims to include doctoral students motivated to improve health, well-being, and equity; challenge long-standing, entrenched systems; exhibit new ways of working; and collaborate across disciplines and sectors, while bolstering their leadership skills. We’ll select up to 40 scholars who will receive a stipend of $30,000 each per year paid to their home institutions, for up to four years or until they complete their doctoral program (whichever is sooner). Scholars will also be eligible for competitive dissertation grants of up to $10,000 each, as well as competitive conference and research dissemination grants, awarded by the national program center directly to the scholars. At completion of the program, HPRS scholars should be equipped: 1) With extensive knowledge of a Culture of Health, health policy, leadership, systems change, and communication; 2) To apply research and interdisciplinary collaboration skills to engage multiple sectors (e.g., policy, education, business, communities, institutions, and agencies); 3) To use strategies to leverage diverse interdisciplinary networks of researchers; 4) With the opportunity to establish meaningful and sustained relationships and collaborations with HPRS and other RWJF leadership programs and participants; and 5) To contribute to research and a national dialogue on the policy changes necessary for a Culture of Health. LEARN MORE
Organization for Autism Research: Applied Research Grants
(Pre-proposal Deadline: March 22, 2021)
OAR seeks to fund studies that expand the body of knowledge related to autism intervention and treatment, produce practical and clearly objective results, have the potential to impact public policy, and provide outcomes that offer to enhance quality of life for persons with autism and their families. While applicants are always free to submit on any relevant area of research or intervention, this year, OAR is placing an emphasis on research that addresses the following areas: 1) Community-Based Assessment and Intervention for Challenging Behavior, 2) Community-Engaged Research, 3) Effectiveness of Augmentative Communication Systems, 4) Healthcare Transition / Across the Lifespan, 5) Improving Access to and Effectiveness of Existing Systems and Services, 6) Integrated Employment, 7) Intersectionality, Equity and Diversity, 8) Mental Health Assessment and Intervention, 9) Mid-life and Older Adults, and 10) Residential/Community Services and Supports. LEARN MORE
Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine: DxQI Seed Grants
(Application Deadline: March 25, 2021)
Research has demonstrated that diagnostic errors are the most common, catastrophic, and costly of all causes of preventable medical harm. In fact, errors in diagnosis are the most frequent cause of medical error reported by patients. In total, it’s estimated that 12 million US adults experience a diagnostic error every year in outpatient settings alone. It has also been reported that failures of diagnosis result in as many as 80,000 preventable deaths every year in US hospitals. Through a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, researchers from John Hopkins University and CRICO Strategies found that one in three malpractice cases that result in death or permanent disability stem from an inaccurate or delayed diagnosis and resulted in $1.8 billion in malpractice payouts over 10 years. Three quarters of diagnostic error malpractice claims were attributable to just three categories of conditions: cancer (37.8 percent), vascular events (22.8 percent) and infection (13.5 percent), referred to as the “Big 3.” Given the magnitude of diagnostic error burden, SIDM advocates for increased attention by health systems to improving the quality of their diagnostic process. This goes beyond avoiding errors and includes consideration of accuracy, timeliness, cost, and patient convenience. Designing an optimal diagnostic process will require a careful balancing among these competing demands. Given the dearth of solutions, we believe catalyzing a "bottom up" approach, whereby frontline health professionals and patients are engaged to develop and test plausible solutions, will most likely produce the best outcomes. LEARN MORE
Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation: Hillman Innovations in Care Program
(LOI Deadline: March 30, 2021)
This year the HIC program is issuing a special call for submissions that address racism and its impact on health. Racism has been, and remains, the root cause of serious health inequities that unjustly affect communities of color. These disparities include increased risk for diabetes, heart disease, obesity and mental illness; inequitable access to high-quality care; inordinately negative outcomes such as infant and maternal mortality rates for Black mothers and babies that are twice as high as those for white populations, and life expectancy that can be as much as ten years shorter than white counterparts living a short drive away. The disproportionate harm of the COVID-19 pandemic in Black, Indigenous and other communities of color further underscores the deep inequities that persist in our society. Addressing and dismantling racism in its myriad forms—structural, interpersonal, and institutional—is a critical and constructive approach to advancing health equity and improving population health. The program will award two (2) grants of up to $600,000 each, distributed over a 36-month period. Projects are expected to begin January 1, 2022, and end December 31, 2024. The 2021 HIC program seeks proposals for bold, nursing-driven interventions that: 1) Seek to mitigate the effects of racism on health and/or narrow gaps in health equity; 2) Identify and address sources of racism that affect health; 3) Challenge conventional strategies for delivering and improving care to populations affected by racism; 4) Build trust and credibility in programs or systems of care; 5) Are informed by anti-racism practices; 6) Present strong preliminary evidence; and 7) Show potential for broad replicability. Additional priority consideration will be given to proposals that include one or more of the following: 1) Strong partnerships with community organizations; 2) Engagement of patients, caregivers, and communities in the design of the intervention; 3) Inter-sectoral, inter-agency, and multidisciplinary collaboration including investigators from different disciplines; 4) Investigators from diverse backgrounds or with diverse life experiences (e.g., race/ethnicity, gender, class origin/first generation college, LGBTQ+, disability, national origin); 5) Methodologies and metrics for advancing anti-racism models of care; and 6) Measurable goals and outcomes. LEARN MORE
American Cancer Society: The Role of Health Policy and Health Insurance in Improving Access to and Performance of Cancer Prevention, Early Detection, and Treatment Services
(Application Deadline: April 1, 2021)
A call for research that evaluates the impact of the many changes now occurring in the healthcare system with a particular focus on cancer prevention, control, and treatment. Efforts focusing on improving access to care may also impact inequities that contribute to health disparities. New health public policy initiatives such as the new federal and state marketplaces that have expanded insurance coverage, as well as Medicaid expansion in some states, create natural experiments ripe for evaluation. Research to be funded by this RFA should focus on the changes in national, state, and/or local policy and the response to these changes by healthcare systems, insurers, payers, communities, practices, and patients. A clear understanding of these changes can help clinicians, health systems, public health and public policy professionals, patient and consumer advocates and providers to identify and guide needed improvements in cancer prevention and control and health care and health more broadly. Findings from this research may also inform advocacy and policy development by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) in the context of meaningful health care reform by assessing outcomes related to the structure of the health system on availability, administrative simplicity, adequacy, and affordability of coverage, referred to as the 4 A’s, which make up the Society and Cancer Action Network's framework for reform. We are keenly interested in supporting rapid learning research to study the effects of health policy changes on patients, providers, and health systems. This includes but is not limited to: 1) Facilitators and barriers to care; 2) Unintended consequences; 3) Differential experiences and outcomes of patients seeking or receiving care; 4) Best practice models for quality care; and 5) Economic Impact. LEARN MORE
American Psychological Association: Visionary Grants
(Application Deadline: April 1, 2021)
The APF Visionary Grants seek to seed innovation through supporting research, education and intervention projects and programs that use psychology to solve social problems in the following priority areas: 1) Applying psychology to at-risk, vulnerable populations (e.g., serious mental illness, returning military, those who are incarcerated or economically disadvantaged); 2) Preventing violence; 3) Understanding the connection between behavior and health (e.g. wellness, diabetes, obesity); 4) Understanding and eliminating stigma and prejudice (e.g., race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability and socioeconomic status); 5) Racism - 2021 EnVision Ending Racism Campaign. In 2021, APF has added four grants under the special priority of ending racism. In light of the urgent need to address racism, this year there is an additional priority of understanding and ending racism. These are grants to fund exploring the cognitive and behavioral parameters that motivate racist feelings and behaviors. Preference will be given to pilot projects that, if successful, would be strong candidates for support from major federal and foundation funding agencies, and “demonstration projects” that promise to generalize broadly to similar settings in other geographical areas and/or to other settings. LEARN MORE
PCORI Engagement Award: Capacity Building -- April 2021 Cycle
(LOI Deadline: April 1, 2021)
The Engagement Award: Capacity Building aims to support projects that help communities increase their facility with and ability to participate across all phases of the patient-centered outcomes research/comparative clinical effectiveness research (PCOR/CER) process. Within this announcement, we express a special area of interest in maternal morbidity and mortality. LEARN MORE
PCORI Engagement Award: Dissemination Initiative -- April 2021 Cycle
(LOI Deadline: April 1, 2021)
The Engagement Award: Dissemination Initiative will give organizations and communities the opportunity to propose active dissemination projects aimed at spreading awareness and increasing knowledge of new evidence from PCORI-funded research, targeted directly to patients, clinicians, communities, and others who can use this information to inform healthcare decisions. LEARN MORE
PCORI Engagement Award: Stakeholder Convening Support -- April 2021 Cycle
(LOI Deadline: April 1, 2021)
The Engagement Award: Stakeholder Convening Support offers funding for multi-stakeholder convenings, meetings, and conferences that align with PCORI’s mission and facilitate expansion of PCOR/CER through collaboration around such efforts. Within this announcement, we express a special area of interest in maternal morbidity and mortality. LEARN MORE
Fahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation: Faculty/Post -Doctoral Grant Program
(Application Deadline: April 1, 2021)
Grants of up to $25,000 are available to help support the research of faculty members or post-doctoral researchers of accredited universities or colleges in the United States and Canada. Areas of interest for funding are: studies to develop, refine, evaluate, or disseminate interventions and preventive/intervention to address social, psychological, behavioral or public health problems affecting children, adults, couples, families, and communities with outcomes that have the potential add to the knowledge base for services and program development. Community engaged research is highly valued. Studies must focus on the United States and/or Canada or comparative studies between the United States and/or Canada and other countries. LEARN MORE
PCORI Optimizing Infrastructure for Conducting Patient-Centered Outcomes Research: PCORnet, The National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network -- Phase 3 -- Cycle 1 2021
(Application Deadline: April 6, 2021)
PCORnet, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network is intended to serve as a national resource for conducting rapid, efficient, patient-centered observational and interventional randomized research that improves healthcare delivery and health outcomes. This announcement describes the scope of work for PCORnet Clinical Research Networks (CRNs) for Phase 3 and available funding to allow for Phase 3’s execution. CRNs are system-based networks that include hospitals and community based-practices, and that may include health plans, all of which routinely and securely collect individual patient-level data. In Phase 3 of PCORnet, CRNs will ensure the continuity and optimization of critical CRN resources and operations developed in prior phases to facilitate implementation of definitive research studies that are national in scope. Phase 3 will focus on optimizing infrastructure to increase diversity of populations and care settings, efficiently implement research studies addressing PCORI’s Strategic Research Priorities, strengthen patient and stakeholder engagement, and deliver high-fidelity, high integrity data. LEARN MORE
RWJF Systems for Action: Systems and Services Research to Build a Culture of Health
(LOI Deadline: April 30, 2021)
(Application Deadline: June 9, 2021)
Achieving racial equity and health equity in American communities requires effective solutions to the "wrong-pocket problem": we invest in systems that are designed to improve social and economic conditions—such as housing, transportation, education, income, and employment assistance; child and family supports; and legal and criminal justice services—but the financial benefits of these often flow elsewhere, in reduced costs for medical care from diseases and injuries prevented. This creates imbalances in power, information, and financial resources that exist across medical, social, and public health systems—a fundamental problem that confronts many attempts at meaningful cross-sector collaboration. Such solutions must allow collaborating organizations to equitably share in the costs and the benefits of multisector collaborative initiatives, and to share in the power and influence that govern these initiatives. This call for proposals (CFP) will provide funding for new research to rigorously test and evaluate innovative solutions to the wrong-pocket problem that persists across health and social service systems. Each study funded under the S4A program will undertake the following activities: 1) Design and implement the proposed study that evaluates the impact of an innovative solution to a wrong-pocket problem involving social service systems, medical systems, and/or public health systems; 2) Engage local, state, and/or national stakeholders in the design, implementation, and translation of the research project; 3) Work collaboratively with the S4A national coordinating center and other S4A research investigators to identify and leverage potential synergies across research projects and to disseminate results broadly; 4) Participate actively both in research dissemination and translation mechanisms organized by the national coordinating center and RWJF, including research-in-progress webinars, blogs, podcasts, research meetings, and policy briefings; 5) Identify and pursue opportunities for research expansion, replication, and follow-on studies from RWJF and other research funding agencies; and 6) Attend RWJF’s Annual Sharing Knowledge Conference and 4Action Conference each year the grant is active. LEARN MORE
The Commonwealth Fund
(Application Deadline: Rolling)
The mission of the Commonwealth Fund is to promote a high-performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society’s most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, and people of color. The Fund carries out this mandate by supporting independent research on health care issues and making grants to improve health care practice and policy. In its more than 100 years, the Fund has worked by: (1) Demonstrating pioneering approaches and evaluating their results (2) Convening experts across backgrounds and disciplines (3) Publishing the results of our research and disseminating evidence. To apply for a grant from the Commonwealth Fund, please submit a letter of inquiry (LOI) using the online portal. We acknowledge LOIs upon receipt and will contact you to request additional information if needed. Applicants are typically advised of the results of their inquiries within a month and often sooner. LOIs are accepted on a rolling basis. Current funding priorities include vulnerable populations, tracking health system performance, health care coverage and access, international health policy and practice, controlling health care costs, advancing Medicare, Federal and State health policy. health care delivery system reform. LEARN MORE
American Legion Child Welfare Foundation
(Application Deadline: Rolling)
The Foundation accepts proposals from nonprofit organizations for projects which meet one of the Foundation’s two basic purposes: 1) To contribute to the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual welfare of children through the dissemination of knowledge about new and innovative organizations and/or their programs designed to benefit youth; and 2) To contribute to the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual welfare of children through the dissemination of knowledge already possessed by well-established organizations, to the end that such information can be more adequately used by society. LEARN MORE
Anthem Foundation Program Grants
(Application Deadline: Rolling)
Anthem Foundation Program Grants support ongoing community health programs with proven and measurable outcomes. Generally, our grant terms are one year, with a few exceptions (mostly for national grants). The Anthem Foundation funds specific public health-related initiatives that address disparities and social determinants that can positively affect conditions identified through our signature Healthy Generations program. LEARN MORE
RWJF Evidence for Action: Investigator-Initiated Research to Build a Culture of Health
(Application Deadline: Rolling)
Evidence for Action (E4A), a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), funds research that expands the evidence needed to build a Culture of Health. A Culture of Health is broadly defined as one in which good health and well-being flourish across geographic, demographic, and social sectors; public and private decision-making is guided by the goal of fostering equitable communities; and everyone has the opportunity to make choices that lead to healthy lifestyles. RWJF’s Culture of Health Action Framework, which was developed to catalyze a national movement toward improved health, well-being, and equity, guides E4A’s program strategy. LEARN MORE
Hearst Foundations Grants
(Application Deadline: Rolling)
The Hearst Foundations support well-established nonprofit organizations that address significant issues within their major areas of interests – culture, education, health and social service – and that primarily serve large demographic and/or geographic constituencies. In each area of funding, the Foundations seek to identify those organizations achieving truly differentiated results relative to other organizations making similar efforts for similar populations. The Foundations also look for evidence of sustainability beyond their support. LEARN MORE
RWJF Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health
(Application Deadline: Rolling)
Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health seeks proposals that are primed to influence health equity in the future. We are interested in ideas that address any of these four areas of focus: Future of Evidence; Future of Social Interaction; Future of Food; Future of Work. Additionally, we welcome ideas that might fall outside of these four focus areas, but which offer unique approaches to advancing health equity and our progress toward a Culture of Health. We want to hear from scientists, anthropologists, artists, urban planners, community leaders—anyone, anywhere who has a new or unconventional idea that could alter the trajectory of health, and improve health equity and well-being for generations to come. The changes we seek require diverse perspectives and cannot be accomplished by any one person, organization or sector. LEARN MORE
Forecasted Grants
HRSA Rural Maternity and Obstetrics Management Strategies
(Estimated Application Due Date: March 30, 2021)
The purpose of the RMOMS program is to improve access to and continuity of maternal and obstetrics care in rural communities. The goals of the RMOMS program are to: (i) improve maternal and neonatal outcomes within a rural region; (ii) develop a sustainable network approach to increase the delivery and access of preconception, pregnancy, labor and delivery, and postpartum services; (iii) develop a safe delivery environment with the support and access to specialty care for perinatal women and infants; and (iv) develop sustainable financing models for the provision of maternal and obstetrics care in rural hospitals and communities. Applicants are encouraged to propose innovative ways to achieve these goals through an established or formal regional network structure. LEARN MORE
CDC Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program
(Estimated Application Due Date: May 15, 2021)
The purpose of this program is to fund applicants who have never received DFC funding to carry out the two goals of the DFC program. By statute, the DFC Support Program has two goals: 1) Establish and strengthen collaboration among communities, public and private non-profit agencies, as well as federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support the efforts of community coalitions working to prevent and reduce substance abuse among youth (individuals 18 years of age and younger). 2) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, reduce substance abuse among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse. LEARN MORE
CDC Community Health Workers for COVID Response and Resilient Communities (CCR)- Evaluation and Technical Assistance (ETA); CCR-ETA
(Estimated Application Due Date: May 22, 2021)
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020 allocated funds to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for states, localities, territories, tribes, tribal organizations, urban Indian health organizations, or health service providers to tribes. CDC announces the availability of funds to achieve the goal of the CARES Act in protecting the American people from the public health impacts of COVID-19. This three-year opportunity provides funds to conduct a national evaluation of the Community Health Workers for COVID Response and Resilient Communities (CCR) program, DP21-2110 and provide training and technical assistance (TA) to CCR recipients. This program has two components: A) conduct a national evaluation of the CCR and B) deliver training and TA to CCR recipients. Applicants may only apply for 1 component. LEARN MORE
OASH Family-Centered Approaches to Improving Type 2 Diabetes Control and Prevention
(Estimated Application Due Date: TBD)
The HHS Office of Minority Health will offer funding for an initiative to test and disseminate models/protocols that use a theoretically-based family-centered approach to promote the management and prevention of Type 2 diabetes in adults. Implementation of models/protocols may be delivered by and/or with the assistance of community health workers and/or community-based organizations to ensure cultural and linguistically appropriate delivery of services and sustainability. Funded projects will employ a strong theoretical framework to foster replicability, specifying community factors and resources that enable sustainability. Models/protocols will: (1) Describe the roles of family in the intervention, provide detailed family-based topics to be embedded in interventions, assess the quality and extent of family participation necessary for positive diabetes markers and health outcomes for persons with diabetes and family members; (2) Delineate how the model(s) takes into account and is (are) tailored to cultural factors/Social Determinants Of Health that may affect the adoption of self-management activities and behaviors associated with diabetes prevention; and (3) Identify lifestyle modifications and community supports (e.g., sustainable resources/institutions for physical activity and nutrition) that build and reinforce behavioral changes conducive to diabetes control and prevention that may be strengthened through reciprocal influence. LEARN MORE
FDA Expanding the Opioids System Model to more comprehensively incorporate fentanyl, stimulants use, polysubstance use and associated outcomes.
(Estimated Application Due Date: TBD)
In 2018, OPSA launched an effort to develop of a quantitative system-dynamic model of the opioid crisis to help FDA a) understanding the complexity of the interconnected mechanisms of the crisis, and b) assess potential impacts (intended and unintended) of possible policy actions to address the crisis. In Sept 2019, OPSA awarded a 1-year cooperative agreement (Harvard/Mass General; FDA's RFA-FD-19-026) to complete an initial version of the model ready for policy analysis, and in Aug 2020, OPSA awarded a 1-year cooperative agreement (Harvard/Mass General; FDA's RFA-FD-20-031) to account for societal outcomes beyond overdose as well as cost-effectiveness of potential policies. The current proposal will expand the FDA's model to more comprehensively incorporate fentanyl, stimulants and polysubstance use and their interactive effects on opioids use, misuse, addiction, use disorder treatment, and associated outcomes. The main focus of this project would be on modeling the growing number of opioid overdose deaths involving people who are primarily stimulant or polysubstance users, as an important emerging aspect of the opioids crisis. The research will also include quantification of the effects of harm reduction approaches (e.g., naloxone distribution to opioid users, increasing treatment availability for Opioid Use Disorder [OUD]) on overdoses involving fentanyl and other polysubstance use . Additionally the research will identify and incorporate aspects of mental health that are feasible for inclusion into the model. LEARN MORE
Other Grant Opportunities
OVW Grants for Outreach and Services to Underserved Populations
(LOI Deadline: March 16, 2021)
(Grants.gov Application Deadline: March 23, 2021)
(JustGrants Application Deadline: April 1, 2021)
This program is authorized to develop and implement outreach strategies targeted at, and provide victim services to, adult or youth victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking in underserved populations. Survivors from underserved populations face challenges in accessing comprehensive and effective victim services that are accessible, culturally relevant, and responsive. As a result, survivors from underserved communities often do not receive appropriate services. The Underserved Program supports projects that address these gaps. Funds may be used to: develop or enhance population specific victim services; develop or enhance outreach strategies to reach underserved survivors; build the capacity of population specific organizations to serve survivors of these crimes; build the capacity of victim service providers to provide victim services that are population specific; train and educate community partners and the criminal justice system on the needs of survivors from underserved populations; and develop culturally and linguistically appropriate materials for underserved survivors. LEARN MORE
OVW Improving Criminal Justice Responses to Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Grant Program
(LOI Deadline: March 16, 2021)
(Grants.gov Application Deadline: March 29, 2021)
(JustGrants Application Deadline: March 31, 2021)
The ICJR Program encourages state, local, and tribal governments and courts to treat domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking as serious violations of criminal law requiring the coordinated involvement of the entire criminal justice system. LEARN MORE
OVW Enhanced Training and Services to End Abuse in Later Life Program
(Grants.gov Application Deadline: March 18, 2021)
(JustGrants Application Deadline: March 23, 2021)
The Enhanced Training and Services to End Abuse in Later Life Program (Abuse in Later Life Program) supports a comprehensive approach to addressing abuse in later life, including domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, neglect, and exploitation committed against victims who are 50 years of age or older. LEARN MORE
CDC Research Grants for Preventing Violence and Violence Related Injury (R01)
(Application Deadline: March 22, 2021)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) is soliciting investigator-initiated research that will help expand and advance our understanding about what works to prevent violence that impacts children and youth, collectively referred to as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), including child abuse and neglect, teen dating violence, sexual violence, youth violence, and exposure to adult intimate partner violence. This initiative is intended to support the evaluation of primary prevention programs, practices or policies that focus on universal or selected populations at higher risk (i.e., populations that have one or more risk factors that place them at heightened risk for violence). Funds are available to conduct such studies focused on preventing child abuse and neglect and at least one other form of violence affecting children and youth, including teen dating violence, sexual violence, youth violence, and exposure to adult intimate partner violence. LEARN MORE
OJJDP Supporting Effective Interventions for Adolescent Sex Offenders and Children with Sexual Behavior Problems
(Grants.gov Application Deadline: March 22, 2021)
(JustGrants Application Deadline: April 5, 2021)
This solicitation provides funding to develop intervention and supervision services for adolescent sex offenders and children with sexual behavior problems, and to provide treatment services for their victims and families/caregivers. LEARN MORE
NIJ Research and Evaluation of Trafficking in Persons
(Grants.gov Application Deadline: March 22, 2021)
(JustGrants Application Deadline: April 5, 2021)
With this solicitation, NIJ continues to build upon its research and evaluation efforts to better understand, prevent, and respond to trafficking in persons in the United States. Applicants should propose research projects that — first and foremost — have clear implications for criminal justice policy and practice in the United States. With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals for research projects addressing the following priority areas: 1) Demand reduction research; 2) Human trafficking research, evaluation and development; and 3) Sex trafficking of American Indian and Alaska Native girls and women research. LEARN MORE
OJJDP Multistate Mentoring Programs Initiative
(Grants.gov Application Deadline: March 23, 2021)
(JustGrants Application Deadline: April 6, 2021)
This program supports the implementation and delivery of mentoring services to youth populations that are at risk for juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice system involvement. Mentoring services can be one-on-one, group, peer, or a combination of these types. Funding can be used to support new mentoring matches or continue existing mentoring matches at the time of application. LEARN MORE
OVW Training and Services to End Violence Against Women with Disabilities Grant Program
(Grants.gov Application Deadline: March 25, 2021)
(JustGrants Application Deadline: April 1, 2021)
The goal of the Disability Grant Program (DGP) is to create sustainable change within and between organizations that improves the response to individuals with disabilities and Deaf individuals who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, and to hold perpetrators of such crimes accountable. DGP funds are used to establish and strengthen multidisciplinary collaborative relationships; increase organizational capacity to provide accessible, safe, and effective services to individuals with disabilities and Deaf individuals who are victims of violence and abuse; identify needs within the grantee’s organization and/or service area; and develop a plan to address those identified needs that builds a strong foundation for future work. LEARN MORE
OVC Housing Assistance Grants for Victims of Human Trafficking
(Grants.gov Application Deadline: March 29, 2021)
(JustGrants Application Deadline: April 12, 2021)
The goal of this program is to provide safe, stable housing and appropriate services to victims of human trafficking. The program will support: 1) transitional housing, including funding for the operating expenses of a newly developed or existing transitional housing program; and 2) short-term housing assistance, including rental or utilities payment assistance and assistance with related expenses. Projects must also include support services designed to enable victims of human trafficking and any dependents to locate and secure permanent housing, find employment, and integrate into a community. The Office for Victims of Crime expects to make 25 awards of up to $600,000 each for a 36-month period of performance to begin on October 1, 2021. LEARN MORE
OVC Preventing Trafficking of Girls
(Grants.gov Application Deadline: March 29, 2021)
(JustGrants Application Deadline: April 12, 2021)
This solicitation provides funding for organizations to support prevention and early intervention programs for girls who are at-risk of, or are victims of, sex trafficking. The objectives of this program are to: 1) Replicate and scale-up prevention and early intervention programs for girls who are at risk of, or are victims of, sex trafficking that have undergone rigorous evaluation and/or have a track record of success; 2) Implement or enhance efforts to identify and provide services to girls who are at risk of, or are victims of, sexual exploitation or sex trafficking; and 3) Participate in an annual peer-to-peer learning (cluster meeting) opportunity. LEARN MORE
OVC Services for Victims of Human Trafficking
(Grants.gov Application Deadline: March 30, 2021)
(JustGrants Application Deadline: April 13, 2021)
The purpose of this program is to develop, expand, or strengthen victim service programs for victims of human trafficking. Applicants are invited to apply under three purpose areas. Purpose Area 1: Developing Capacity to Serve Human Trafficking Victims The purpose of these awards is to support victim services organizations that have limited or no prior experience in serving victims of human trafficking and/or victim services organizations that have limited or no prior experience in receiving federal funding to serve victims of human trafficking. Under Purpose Area 1, the Office for Victims of Crime expects to make four awards of up to $350,000 each for a 36-month period of performance to begin on October 1, 2021. Purpose Area 2: Enhancing Scope of Services for Human Trafficking Victims The purpose of these awards is to enhance the scope of services offered by the organization (directly or through partnerships) that victims of labor and sex trafficking often require to address their needs. Under Purpose Area 2, the Office for Victims of Crime expects to make 14 awards of up to $800,000 each for a 36-month period of performance to begin on October 1, 2021. Purpose Area 3: Specialized Services for Human Trafficking Victims The goal is to increase the quality and quantity of the specialized service to assist victims of all forms of human trafficking. Under Purpose Area 3, the Office for Victims of Crime expects to make nine awards of up to $600,000 each for a 36-month period of performance to begin on October 1, 2021. LEARN MORE
OJJDP Mentoring for Youth Affected by the Opioid Crisis and Drug Addiction
(Grants.gov Application Deadline: March 30, 2021)
(JustGrants Application Deadline: April 13, 2021)
This program supports the implementation and delivery of mentoring services to youth who are currently abusing or addicted to drugs, youth at risk for abusing drugs, and youth with family members who are currently abusing or addicted to drugs. Mentoring services can be one-to-one, group, peer, or a combination. Funding can be used to support new mentoring matches or continue existing mentoring matches at the time of application. LEARN MORE
APF Visionary Grants
(Application Deadline: April 1, 2021)
The APF Visionary Grants seek to seed innovation through supporting research, education and intervention projects and programs that use psychology to solve social problems in the following priority areas: 1) Applying psychology to at-risk, vulnerable populations (e.g., serious mental illness, returning military, those who are incarcerated or economically disadvantaged); 2) Preventing violence; 3) Understanding the connection between behavior and health (e.g. wellness, diabetes, obesity); 4) Understanding and eliminating stigma and prejudice (e.g., race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability and socioeconomic status); and 5) Racism - 2021 EnVision Ending Racism Campaign: In 2021, APF has added four grants under the special priority of ending racism. In light of the urgent need to address racism, this year there is an additional priority of understanding and ending racism. These are grants to fund exploring the cognitive and behavioral parameters that motivate racist feelings and behaviors. Preference will be given to pilot projects that, if successful, would be strong candidates for support from major federal and foundation funding agencies, and “demonstration projects” that promise to generalize broadly to similar settings in other geographical areas and/or to other settings. LEARN MORE
OJJDP Strategies To Support Children Exposed to Violence
(Grants.gov Application Deadline: April 5, 2021)
(JustGrants Application Deadline: April 19, 2021)
This solicitation provides funding for communities to develop and provide support services for children exposed to violence. There are two categories of funding available under this solicitation: Category 1: Project Sites. Funding under this category can be used to develop support services for children exposed to violence in their homes, schools, and communities; and to develop, enhance, and implement violent crime reduction strategies that focus on violent juvenile offenders. This program development and resource allocation decision by interested applicants should be based on currently available resources to the jurisdiction and gaps in services. Category 2: Training and Technical Assistance. In addition to supporting program implementation and direct service activities, the initiative will fund a training and technical assistance provider to support the Category 1 project sites. LEARN MORE
CDC National Centers of Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention (YVPCs): Rigorous Evaluation of Prevention Strategies to Prevent and Reduce Community Rates of Youth Violence
(Application Deadline: April 21, 2021)
The purpose of this announcement is to fund the National Centers of Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention (Youth Violence Prevention Centers or YVPCs) to continue to build the evidence-base for violence prevention strategies and approaches that reduce community rates of youth violence within one or more geographically defined communities with high rates of youth violence. Applications for YVPCs supported under this announcement must describe 5 core elements: (1) an administrative infrastructure to support implementation, evaluation, and dissemination activities; to foster necessary local collaborations to achieve the YVPC's goals; and to work with other funded YVPCs as part of the YVPC Network; (2) the selected community or set of communities with high rates of youth violence as the focus of all proposed YVPC activities; (3) a rigorous evaluation of at least two distinct prevention strategies related to at least two of the four research areas outlined in this NOFO that are designed to reduce community rates of youth violence in the selected community or set of communities; (4) a youth advisory council to provide input on the selection, implementation, and evaluation of youth violence prevention strategies; and (5) integrated training activities for early career and junior researchers in youth violence prevention to complement the implementation, rigorous evaluation, and scholarship activities of the YVPC. LEARN MORE
J.M. Kaplan Fund: J.M.K. Innovation Prize
(Application Deadline: April 30, 2021)
In recent years, America has been reshaped by seismic social and environmental forces. A worldwide pandemic has laid bare deeply-rooted inequities. Communities from coast to coast have been upended by growing climate impacts. And efforts to dismantle democratic institutions have struck at the bedrock values of our nation. These compounding crises —affecting communities both rural and urban, from historically underrepresented voters to undocumented immigrant farmworkers—have forced social-impact organizations to reimagine how they respond to systemic societal challenges. In short, we need social innovators like we never have before. The J.M.K. Innovation Prize was made for moments like this. Since 2015, over three biennial Prize cycles, we’ve reached across the country to support thirty wildly creative social and environmental initiatives, ranging from neighborhood-led youth justice councils to researchers using wastewater to pinpoint COVID-19 hot spots. Leveraging a legacy of catalytic grant-making at The J.M. Kaplan Fund, the Prize seeks out visionary non-profit and mission-driven for-profit organizations that work within, across, or in a manner related to one or more of the Fund’s three program areas, listed to the right. In 2021, we will award up to ten Prizes, each including a cash award of $150,000 over three years, plus $25,000 in technical assistance funds, for a total award of $175,000. Awardees also receive guidance through the Fund and its resource network, providing tools and training that can help turn innovative ideas into life-changing social impacts. LEARN MORE
Expensify.org: Campaigns Fighting Injustice
(Application Deadline: April 30, 2021)
Expensify.org is looking to fund people fighting injustice. The goal is to partner with the best ideas, make them a reality, and bring more justice to the world. Anyone can propose an idea by identifying a problem caused by injustice and suggesting a solution below. A key requirement for solutions is that they harness the Expensify app. That is how Expensify.org will directly fund the people taking action as part of a campaign. Campaigns should inspire people to complete tasks or use their own money to help solve the problem. Expensify.org will pay volunteers for every campaign task completed or up to 50% of campaign expenses paid for by volunteers. It is also required that campaigns address injustice related to at least one of five themes: homes, hunger, reentry, climate, youth. Two winning campaigns from each theme will be chosen in a public vote and receive a minimum funding commitment from Expensify.org. There will be five $25,000 winners, four $50,000 winners, one $100,000 winner. LEARN MORE
USDA Rural Community Development Initiative Grants
(Application Deadline: Rolling)
RCDI grants are awarded to help non-profit housing and community development organizations, low-income rural communities and federally recognized tribes support housing, community facilities and community and economic development projects in rural areas. Rural Community Development Initiative grants may be used for, but are not limited to: Training sub-grantees to conduct: (1) Home-ownership education (2) Minority business entrepreneur education and to
providing technical assistance to sub-grantees on: (1) Strategic plan development (2) Accessing alternative funding sources (3) Board training (4) Developing successful child
care facilities (5) Creating training tools, such as videos, workbooks, and reference guides
(6) Effective fundraising techniques. LEARN MORE
EDA Public Works and Economic Adjustment Assistance Programs Including CARES Act Funding
(Application Deadline: Rolling)
Under this NOFO, EDA solicits applications from applicants in rural and urban areas to provide investments that support construction, non-construction, technical assistance, and revolving loan fund projects under EDA’s Public Works and EAA programs. Grants and cooperative agreements made under these programs are designed to leverage existing regional assets and support the implementation of economic development strategies that advance new ideas and creative approaches to advance economic prosperity in distressed communities. EDA provides strategic investments on a competitive- merit-basis to support economic development, foster job creation, and attract private investment in economically distressed areas of the United States. Past projects have included funding for water and wastewater projects in hospitals and healthcare facilities and road infrastructure projects that would support the expansion of healthcare facilities. Funding is available for: Public Works Projects (Water and sewer system improvements, Industrial parks, Shipping and logistics facilities, Workforce training facilities, Brownfield development, Telecommunications infrastructure and development facilities.) LEARN MORE
USDA Economic Impact Initiative Grants
(Application Deadline: Rolling)
Economic Impact Initiative Grants provide funding to assist in the development of essential community facilities in rural communities that have extreme unemployment and severe economic depression. An essential community facility is one that provides an essential service to the local community, is needed for the orderly development of the community, serves a primarily rural area, and does not include private, commercial, or business undertakings. Examples of essential community facilities include: Healthcare: hospitals, medical clinics, dental clinics, nursing homes, assisted-living facilities Public Facilities: city/town/village halls, courthouses, airport hangers, street improvements Community Support Services: child care centers, community centers, fairgrounds, transitional housing Public Safety: fire halls, police stations, prisons, jails, police vehicles, fire trucks, public works vehicles and equipment Educational: museums, libraries, private schools Utility: telemedicine, distance learning Local Food Systems: community gardens, food pantries, community kitchens, food banks, food hubs, greenhouses, kitchen appliances. LEARN MORE
Funding News & Resources
Hospital Price-setting would have the Most Impact in Reducing Healthcare Spending
(Healthcare Finance - February 19, 2021)
Although RAND said price regulation is the most effective way to reduce spending, the researchers said this method has the most opposition. READ MORE
Healthcare Finance Leaders Emphasize Efficiency and Consider Partnerships in Response to Ongoing Trends
(Healthcare Financial Management Association - February 19, 2021)
As hospitals and health systems look to a post-COVID-19 future, they can consider various options for staying on solid financial footing and eventually getting onto a growth track. READ MORE
Latest Patient Volume Data Reveals Some of the Challenges Facing Hospitals in the COVID-19 Era
(Healthcare Financial Management Association - February 19, 2021)
Recent industry reports have quantified the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital patient volume. READ MORE
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