Grant Opportunities

Application Due Date: Aug 15, 2024
Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration
Amount: Estimated total program funding is $50,000,000, they expect to grant 77 awards.
Description: This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) announces the opportunity to apply for New
Access Points (NAP) funding under the Health Center Program. The purpose of this funding is to support new health center service delivery sites to
expand affordable, accessible, and high-quality primary health care for underserved communities and populations. In this NOFO, such sites are referred to as new access points. Award recipients will use NAP funding to provide primary health care services at one or more new access points.
Applicant Eligibility: contact the Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration at BPHCFunding@hrsa.gov for more information.

Tag(s): Innovation
Application Due Date: Aug 20, 2024
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Rural Utilities Service
Amount: $1,000,000
Description: The Rural Utilities Service (RUS or the Agency), a Rural Development (RD) agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), announces the acceptance of applications for Broadband Technical Assistance (BTA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024. Broadband Technical Assistance provides competitive cooperative agreement funding to eligible entities to receive or deliver broadband technical assistance and training that promotes the
expansion of broadband. Program funds must be used to support broadband technical assistance activities that promote the expansion of broadband into rural areas.

Applicant Eligibility: All applicants should carefully review and prepare their applications according to instructions in the BTA Application Guide and program resources. This Application Guide and program resources can be found on the BTA website at: https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/telecommunications-programs/broadband-technical-assistance-program. Additionally, program requirements can be found in the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) available in the Federal Register at https://federalregister.gov/d/2024-13691

Tag(s): Health equity
Application Due Date: Aug 27, 2024
Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration
Amount: Estimated total program funding is $ 104,700,000
Description: This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Health Center Program’s Service Area Competition (SAC). The purpose of this funding is to ensure continuity of care in the communities and populations currently served by the Health Center Program.

Applicant Eligibility: Contact Ashley Vigil & Julia Tillman at (301)594-4300 or email BPHCSAC@hrsa.gov.

Tag(s): Innovation

Application Due Date: (estimated) Sep 03, 2024

Agency: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Amount: They expect to grant 10 awards up to $650,000.

Description: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention
and Control (NCIPC, Injury Center) is soliciting investigator-initiated research to rigorously evaluate the effectiveness of innovative and promising strategies to prevent all forms of firearm-related violence, injuries, and deaths. Research funded under this announcement will strengthen the evidence base for strategies to keep individuals, families, schools, and communities safe from firearm-related violence, injuries, deaths, and crime.

Applicant Eligibility: Contact Mikel Walters at 404-639-0913 or ncipc_erpo@cdc.gov with questions.

Tag(s): Health equity

Application Due Date: Sep 07, 2024
Agency: National Institutes of Health
Amount: Grants up to $850,000.
Description: This notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) invites applications for Research Across Complementary and Integrative Health Institutions (REACH) virtual resource centers. REACH virtual resource centers will foster institutional partnerships and provide resources to support research activities and research training for faculty who work at accredited complementary and integrative health clinical institutions, such as: Schools of acupuncture, chiropractic, osteopathy, naturopathy, physical therapy, and music and art therapy. The REACH virtual resource centers will provide a variety of services and resources including, but
not limited to Administrative Support, Research Support, Grantsmanship, Mentoring and Training, and Team Building to support clinician scientists located at complementary and integrative health clinical institutions to form multi and interdisciplinary research teams and pursue externally funded research aligned with NCCIH Strategic Priorities for symptom management.
Applicant Eligibility: Contact NIH Grants Information at grantsinfo@nih.gov for more information.

Tag(s): Innovation
Application Due Date: Sep 20, 2024
Agency: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Amount: $17,000,000
Description: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), through its Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, is soliciting applications for the Transforming Maternal Health (TMaH) Model. This is a voluntary, 10-year service delivery and payment model designed to improve
maternal health care outcomes for people enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

The TMaH Model will test whether targeted technical (TA) assistance, coupled with payment and delivery system reforms, can drive a whole-person care-delivery approach to pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum care while reducing Medicaid and CHIP program expenditures. CMS will select up to 15 state Medicaid agencies (SMAs or Recipients) to participate in the TMaH Model. Up to $17 million dollars in Cooperative Agreement funding will be available to
each selected Recipient over the course of the 10-year period of performance for a total of up to $255M investment.

Applicant Eligibility: State Medicaid Agencies (SMAs) for the 50 states, District of Columbia, Puerto
Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands are eligible to apply. Applicants must propose either to implement the Model statewide or to
implement the Model in a sub-state region specified by ZIP codes.

Tag(s): Innovation

Application Due Date: September 23, 2024

Agency: National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Amount: NTIA expects to make individual Competitive Grant Program awards to Eligible Entities within a range of $5,000,000 and $12,000,000. This funding range is not a required minimum or maximum, but Eligible Entities requesting award amounts outside that range must explain why their application falls below or above this range and must provide a compelling justification for the variance in their project size. NTIA encourages partnerships of multiple eligible entities to consider applying for larger awards.

Description:

• The U.S. Department of Commerce seeks applications from state and local entities for grants aimed at putting affordable, high-speed internet in communities where it is not available.
• The funding is part of the “Internet for All” initiative, formally known as the Digital Equity Act, legislation that was passed by Congress in 2021. This initiative includes special provisions for rural communities, tribal organizations and more covered entities to assist in the costs associated with hardware and construction of broadband.

Applicant Eligibility: All applicants must submit complete application packets through the NTIA Grants Portal. Applications or portions thereof submitted through postal mail, courier, email, facsimile, or other means will not be accepted.

Tag(s): Workforce

Application Due Date: Sep 24, 2024

Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration

Amount: Estimated total program funding is $274,773,800, they expect to grant 71 awards.
Description: This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Health Center Program’s Service Area Competition (SAC). The purpose of this funding is to ensure continuity of care in the communities and populations currently served by the Health Center Program.

Applicant Eligibility: Contact Ashley Vigil & Julia Tillman at 301-594-4300 or email
BPHCSAC@hrsa.gov with questions.

Tag(s): Health Equity 

Application Due Date: (estimated) Sept 25, 2024 

Agency: National Institute of Health

Amount: They expect to grant 4 awards up to $1,600,000.  

Description: The National Cancer Institute (NCI) intends to issue the U54 Specialized Programs of Research Excellence in Cancer Health Disparities and Minority Health (CHD-MH SPORE) notice of funding opportunity (NOFO). The program will support a network of multidisciplinary, multi-institutional U54 CHD-MH SPOREs, which are multi-project awards uniquely focused on health disparities and/or minority health translational research for improved prevention, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer in populations who are underserved. U54 CHD-MH SPOREs can investigate more than one cancer type in underserved populations, including groups of highly related cancers (e.g., gastrointestinal or head and neck). The research supported through this program must be translational and must stem from research on human biology, addressing the interplay of various determinants of health with the biology of the disease. U54 CHD-MH SPORE projects must have the goal of reaching a translational human endpoint within the project period of the grant, which may include a clinical trial. 

Applicant Information: This Notice of Intent to Publish is being provided to allow sufficient time for applicants to develop strong applications. The NOFO is expected to be published in late winter 2024 with only one expected application due date in late September 2024. 

Tag(s): Workforce/Infrastructure 

Application Due Date: Oct 15, 2024

Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration  

Amount: Estimated total program funding is $244,461,600, they expect to grant 88 awards.

Description: 

• This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Health Center Program’s Service Area Competition (SAC). 
• The purpose of this funding is to ensure continuity of care in the communities and populations currently served by the Health Center Program. 

Applicant Eligibility: Contact bphcsac@hrsa.gov with questions.

Tag(s): Innovation

Application Due Date: October 29, 2024

Agency: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – ERA

Amount: The estimated total program funding is $4,000,000, and they expect to grant 8 awards.

Description: This WTC Health Program R21 Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is intended to encourage exploratory/developmental research by providing support for the early and conceptual stages of project development, which assess the feasibility of new areas of investigation with the potential to enhance treatment effectiveness and diagnostic practices. These studies may lead to breakthroughs in a particular area or to the development of new interventions, techniques, agents, methodologies, models, or approaches with major clinical impacts. These studies are expected to break new ground or extend prior discoveries toward new directions or uses. Applicants are expected to propose research for which there is likely to be minimal or no preliminary data. The WTC Health Program Research webpage provides comprehensive information and tools for researchers. The research agenda, publication library, and other resources, including the Funding Dashboard, can also be found there (e.g., awarded project details such as publications, topics, populations, funding awarded, and the principal investigators and their institutions).

Applicant Information: Contact James Yiin, PhD at 513-841-4271 or JYiin@cdc.gov with questions.

Tag(s): Innovation, Health Equity

Application Due Date: November 1, 2024 (estimated)

Agency: National Institutes of Health

Amount: Not listed yet.

Description: The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development intends to publish a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to invite applications for a Data Coordinating Center to support the work of the research projects funded under the Stillbirth Research Consortium described in the companion announcement NOT-HD-24-009. This Notice is being provided to allow potential applicants additional time to develop meaningful collaborations, interdisciplinary teams, and prepare responsive applications.

Applicant Information: The NOFO is expected to be published in Summer 2024 with an expected application due date in Fall 2024. This NOFO will utilize the UM2 activity code.

Tag(s): Workforce

Application Due Date: Jan 03, 2025

Agency: Centers for Disease Control-GHC

Amount: Estimated total program funding is $75,000,000, they expect to grant 3 awards. 

Description: 

• The purpose of NOFOs is to address public health workforce (PHW) development needs and strengthen capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to diseases and address public health priorities including outbreaks by strengthening epidemiologic workforce and programs capacity at the regional and country levels.  
• Awardees will work and collaborate with CDC and other partners to assess PHW needs at region and country levels and develop plans to fill gaps and strengthen existing programs such as the FETP. 
• Focus will be on Ministries of Health and public health institutions at regional, and country levels. The common goal is to improve surveillance systems, outbreak investigations, disease prevention and response, networking, communication, evaluation, and reporting. There will continue to be strong focus on Field Epidemiology Training Programs as important instruments to strengthen PHW. assist countries in sustaining workforce development programs.

Applicant Eligibility: Contact Shana Eatman at 770.488.3933 or DGHPNOFOs@cdc.gov with questions.

Tag(s): Workforce
Application Due Date: (estimated) Jan 21, 2025
Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration

Amount: Estimated total program funding is $59,600,000, they expect to grant 101 awards.
Description: The purpose of the BHWET Program for Professionals is to increase the supply of behavioral health professionals while also improving distribution of a quality behavioral health workforce and thereby increasing access to behavioral health services.
A special focus is placed on the knowledge and understanding of children, adolescents,
and transitional-aged youth at risk for behavioral health disorders.

Applicant Eligibility: Contact Miryam Gerdine at 301-443-6752 with questions.

Tag(s): Health equity 

Application Due Date: Jan 22, 2025

Agency: Centers for Disease Control – NCCDPHP

Amount: They expect to grant 38 awards up to $900,000. 

Description: 

• This announcement funds recipients who will partner with health systems and primary care clinics with low colorectal cancer (CRC) screening prevalence. Recipients will work with their partners to use evidence-based interventions (EBIs) to increase screening in people aged 45 to 75 years old. 
• The focus is on populations that have low screening prevalence and experience barriers to screening. Partner clinics must have screening prevalence below the national, regional, or local average. Programs should emphasize identifying populations that have lower screening prevalence or clinic sub-populations who may need more support to complete the screening process.  

Applicant Eligibility: Contact April Vance at 404-632-2561 or abv8@cdc.gov with questions.

Tag(s): Health equity 

Application Due Date: Jan 23, 2025

Agency: AmeriCorps

Amount: Award amounts will be different depending on the scope of the projects. AmeriCorps expects a highly competitive AmeriCorps grant competition. Given limited funding, AmeriCorps may prioritize funding existing grantees instead of making new awards. The actual level of funding depends on annual appropriations.

Description: 

• AmeriCorps grants are awarded to eligible organizations that engage AmeriCorps members in evidence-based or evidence-informed interventions to strengthen communities. An AmeriCorps member is a person who does community service through AmeriCorps. Members may receive a living allowance and other benefits. After successful completion of their service, members earn a Segal AmeriCorps Education Award they can use to pay for higher education expenses or apply to qualified student loans.
• This is a funding opportunity for Institutions of higher education; local governments, school districts; nonprofit organizations; State Service Commissions; States and US Territories; Indian Tribes; and public health departments to apply for AmeriCorps members to strengthen communities through service.
• For this funding opportunity, AmeriCorps will prioritize consideration from organizations that: 
  • Serve communities with concentrated poverty, rural communities, tribal communities, and historically underrepresented and underserved individuals
  • Implement programs for or expand access to high-quality youth mental health and substance use recovery services and prepare AmeriCorps members to enter behavioral health careers
  • Focus on improving the quality of life for veterans, active-duty members of the Armed Forces
  • Promote environmental stewardship to help communities to be more resilient
  • Support civic bridgebuilding programs and projects to reduce polarization and community divisions
• All applications must include at least one aligned performance measure, output and outcome, that corresponds to the proposed primary intervention. This may be a National Performance Measure or an applicant-determined measure. For more information, refer to the National Performance Measure Instructions. 

Applicant Eligibility: Contact americorpsgrants@americorps.gov with questions. 

Tag(s): Workforce, Innovation
Application Due Date: Jan 24, 2025

Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration

Amount: Estimated total program funding is $ 750,000. They expect to grant 1 award.
Description: The purpose of this program is to develop and maintain activities that will build the capacity of the 50 State Offices of Rural Health (SORH) and rural stakeholders
nationwide through strengthening leadership, increasing opportunities for
collaboration, offering education on policy and emerging health issues, and supporting
the core functions of the SORH to better coordinate and improve rural health services.
Applicant Eligibility: Contact Sarah Ndiang’ui at (301)443-0876 or SNdiangui@hrsa.gov with
questions.

Tag(s): Health Equity

Application Due Date: February 19, 2025

Agency: National Institutes of Health

Amount: Up to 3 awards at up to $600K per award.

Description: The purpose of this FOA is to support the planning phase of the Model Continuums of Care Initiative (MCCI) to Advance Health Equity and End Health Disparities Among Women and Girls in Racial/Ethnic Minority and Other Underserved Communities. MCCI is a multi-ICO dissemination and implementation science initiative to advance health equity and end health disparities in racial/ethnic minority women and girls of reproductive age. This concept proposes a continuum of care approach that integrates preventive health services, primary care, behavioral health, integrative care, and cardiopulmonary and endocrine specialties to fully address health care needs in each of these domains and to have maximum impact on the overall health and well-being of racial and ethnic minority and other underserved women and girls. Special emphasis will be placed on using stakeholder partnerships, provider training, and infrastructure changes to improve access for subgroups of racial/ethnic minority women and girls who currently have the least access to high-quality health care (e.g., racial/ethnic minority women and girls living in low resource settings).

Applicant information: Contact NIH Grants Information at grantsinfo@nih.gov with questions.

Tag(s): Workforce, innovation

Application Due Date: Feb 21, 2025

Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration

Amount: Estimated total program funding is $ 2,000,000. They expect to grant 5 awards.
Description: The purpose of the Delta Health Systems Implementation Program (DSIP) is to improve
healthcare delivery in rural areas by implementing projects that will improve the
financial sustainability of hospitals and allow for increased access to care in rural
communities. These projects focus on financial and operational improvement, quality improvement,
telehealth, and workforce development in hospitals located in the rural counties and
parishes of the Delta region.

Applicant Eligibility: Contact Suzanne Snyder at (301)443-0178 or ssnyder1@hrsa.gov with
questions.

Tag(s): Health equity
Application Due Date: (estimated) Feb 28, 2025
Agency: Administration for Community Living

Amount: They expect to grant 3 awards up to $2,047,000.
Description: The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to develop and implement multi-faceted strategies that support the delivery and sustainability of evidence-based chronic disease self-management education (CDSME) programs for older adults with one or more behavioral health conditions.
The two primary goals are:
o Develop capacity to increase the number of older adults with one or more
behavioral health conditions who participate in evidence-based self-
management education and support programs.
o Develop and disseminate resources that will enhance the participation of older
adults with behavioral health conditions in evidence-based self-management
education and support programs.

Applicant Eligibility: Contact Laura Plunkett at 202-795-7450 with questions.

Tag(s): Health equity
Application Due Date: Mar 19, 2025
Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration
Amount: They expect to grant 55 awards of $ 500,000
Description: The purpose of this program is to improve access to coordinated and comprehensive prevention, treatment, and recovery services for stimulant use disorder in rural areas. Ultimately, this program aims to reduce the prevalence and impact of stimulant use disorder.
Applicant Eligibility: Contact Sarah O’ Donnell at 301-443-0298 or
ruralopioidresponse@hrsa.gov with questions.

Tag(s): Workforce
Application Due Date: (estimated) Mar 20, 2025
Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration
Amount: Program funding is $2,500,000, they expect to grant ONE award.
Description: The purpose of the BHWD TA program is to provide tailored technical assistance to current and future HRSA-funded programs authorized by Section 756 of the Public Health Service Act from Fiscal Year 2025 to Fiscal Year 2029, including the Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training (BHWET) Programs (Pro, Para), and the Graduate Psychology Education (GPE) Program.

Applicant Eligibility: Contact Crystal Harris at 301-443-6752 with questions.

Tag(s): Innovation
Application Due Date: (estimated) Apr 01, 2025
Agency: Administration for Community Living
Amount: They intend to fund 1 program up to $810,438
Description: The purpose of this funding opportunity is to support a project for behavioral health-focused innovations in the senior nutrition program setting with intentions to:
1) learn of existing barriers and facilitators to serving seniors living with
behavioral health conditions in the congregate and home delivered setting

2) develop and implement person-centered, trauma-informed, and culturally
appropriate best practices to meet the needs of seniors living with behavioral
health conditions in the senior nutrition setting

3) develop and disseminate resources from tested findings and already existing
practices; all resources must be 508 compliant.

Projects proposed under this grant program must have the potential for broad
implementation throughout the aging services network and have demonstrated value.

Applicant Eligibility: Contact Patricia (Patty) Keane at 202-795-7783 with questions.

Tag(s): Workforce
Application Due Date: Apr 07, 2025
Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration
Amount: Estimated total program funding is $ 800,000. They expect to grant 1 award.
Description: The purpose of this program is to provide technical assistance to assist small rural hospitals and rural health clinics (RHCs) in strengthening key elements of value-based
care, including, but not limited to quality, efficiency, patient experience, and safety of
care.
Applicant Eligibility: Contact Jeanene Meyers at (301)443-2482 or JMeyers@hrsa.gov with
questions.

Tag(s): Innovation
Application Due Date: (estimated) Apr 24, 2025
Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration
Amount: Total program funding is $4,550,000, they expect to grant 14 awards.
Description: The purpose of this program is to support 12 Regional Telehealth Resource Centers (RTRCs) and two National Telehealth Resource Centers (NTRCs). The RTRCs will provide expert and customized telehealth technical assistance across the country. The NTRCs will provide telehealth technical assistance by regional Telehealth
Resource Centers with a focus on policy and technology.

Applicant Eligibility: Contact Louise Nott at (301)443-0614 or lnott@hrsa.gov with questions.

Tag(s): Workforce, health equity
Application Due Date: May 13, 2025
Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration
Amount: Estimated total program funding is $ 2,000,000. They expect to grant 2 awards.
Description: The purpose of the RMOMS program is to establish or continue collaborative improvement and innovation networks to improve access to and delivery of maternity and obstetrics care in rural areas.
Applicants are encouraged to propose novel ways to achieve program goals through the
establishment or continuation of collaborative improvement and innovation networks.

Applicant Eligibility: Contact Carey Zhuang at (301)287-0059 or RMOMS@hrsa.gov with
questions.

Tag(s): Innovation

Application Due Date: Estimated due date is Jun 03, 2025 no later than 6:00 pm ET.

Agency: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health

Amount: They intend to award the project using 2 cooperative agreements (one funded under Title X and one funded under the Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program). Together the two
cooperative agreements together will constitute the National Training Center. Up to $3.5 M is available to address Title X key priority areas (CFDA 93.260) and up to $1.5 M is available to
address TPP key priority areas (CFDA 93.297).

Description: We anticipate offering this opportunity in combination with AH-TPS-25-001 to operate a National Training Center that will provide training and technical assistance to all OPA-funded Title X family planning service delivery grantees and all OPA-funded Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program recipients. The goal of the funded training center is to ensure that personnel working on TPP-funded projects have the knowledge, skills, and self-efficacy necessary to effectively run a TPP funded project and delivery high quality, youth and community-driven
programming to make the greatest impact on communities.

Applicant Eligibility: Contact Iris Wong at (301) 284-6839 or Iris.Wong@hhs.gov with questions.

Tag(s): Health equity

Application Due Date: May 7, 2027

Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Amount: Award ceiling is $500,000

Description: The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to support collaborative research focused on understanding the long-term effects of natural and/or human-made disasters on health care systems serving populations that experience health disparities living in the U.S. and its territories. For the purposes of this NOFO, “disasters” encompass presidentially declared emergencies or major disasters under the Stafford Act, a public health emergency declared by the Secretary of the HHS, or other local, regional, or national disaster(s). Disasters may be natural and/or human made. Natural disasters refer to severe weather or natural events including hurricanes, typhoons, tsunamis, floods, mudslides, tornadoes, volcano eruptions, earthquakes, snowstorms, wildfires and others., Human-made disasters include incidents involving hazardous materials (e.g., oil and chemical spills/contamination, nuclear contamination), mass violence, terrorism, human-made disruption of the infrastructure (e.g., cyber attacks, interruption of electricity and water supply, transportation or other basic services) and their long-term consequences in the infrastructure (e.g., extended power outages, extended disruptions in the water systems, food supply, communications, transportation and housing).

Applicant Information: LOI is due 30 days prior to application due date.

Tag(s): Innovation

Application Due Date: November 05, 2029

Agency: Agency for Health Care Research and Quality

Amount: Award ceiling is $500,000.

Description: The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to build evidence about the characteristics and value of primary care that influence patient outcomes and advance health equity, such as care coordination, continuity of care, and comprehensiveness of care, person-centered, whole healthcare, and trust, and how these can be improved and effectively delivered to strengthen primary healthcare.

Applicant Information: Contact Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Receipt and Referral Officer Email: Grant_Queries@ahrq.hhs.gov. Please be sure to reference the opportunity number in your email.