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Funding Opportunities
Welcome to the NNED Funding Opportunities page. The page is divided into governmental grant opportunities and foundation grant opportunities. The Government Grant Opportunities section is organized by due date. The Foundation Grant section is organized alphabetically by foundation. Not all foundations listed are national. Health Care Reform Grant Opportunities:Many of these grants are only open to state governments, but community-based organizations and local non-profits can collaborate with state governments to create more successful grant applications. There are no Health Care Reform grant opportunities at this time. Please check this space later for updates. Continue reading below for other government and foundation grant opportunities. Government Grant Opportunities:May:May 18 -- Statewide Consumer Network Grant: The purpose of this program is to enhance statewide consumer-run organizations to promote service system capacity and infrastructure development that is recovery-focused and resiliency-oriented. This program seeks to address the needs of underserved and under-represented consumers, such as veterans; those with histories of trauma; those from ethnic, racial, or cultural minority groups; and those who have been involved in the criminal justice system. The program also seeks to promote activities related to partnership development with peers in recovery from addictions. Applications are due May 18, 2012. For more information click here. May 25 -- HIV Early Intervention Services Program New Geographic Service Areas: The purpose of this funding opportunity is identify and fund new Part C Programs in order to provide HIV medical and psychosocial services to newly diagnosed/identified PLWHA who are not in care; previously diagnosed PLWHA but never been in care, PLWHA who have dropped out of care and; existing PLWHA clients. Applications are due May 25, 2012. For more information click here. May 30 -- Teen Court Program: The purpose of this program is to provide substance abuse treatment services and related recovery support services to youth with substance abuse and/or co-occurring treatment needs involved in a teen court program. Expected outcomes for this program for the participating youth include reduced substance use; reduced criminal activity; improved health; better quality of life; and increased productivity. Applications are due May 30, 2012. For more information click here.
June:June 8 -- Primary and Behavioral Health Care Integration: The purpose of this program is to establish projects for the provision of coordinated and integrated services through the co-location of primary and specialty care medical services in community-based mental and behavioral health settings. The goal is to improve the physical health status of adults with serious mental illnesses who have or are at risk for co-occurring primary care conditions and chronic diseases. Applications are due June 8, 2012. For more information click here. June 8 -- Youth Empowerment Program: The purpose of this program is to address unhealthy behaviors in minority at-risk youth and provide them opportunities to learn skills and gain experiences that contribute to more positive lifestyles and enhance their capacity to make healthier life choices. Applications are due June 8, 2012. For more information click here. June 8 -- Peer-to-Peer Outreach Model to Curb HIV/AIDS Transmission Among High Risk Minority Youth & Adolescents: This grant seeks to improve the HIV/AIDS health outcomes of high risk minority youth by supporting community-based efforts to increase HIV/AIDS prevention/education. This project also encourages partnerships among traditional service providers targeting high risk adolescents, such as substance abuse prevention centers for youth; foster care agencies working with youth; youth serving organizations; youth runaway shelters; and peer-to-peer education programs. Applications are due June 8, 2012. For more information click here. June 8 -- American Indian/Alaska Native Health Disparities Program: The purpose of this grant is to improve the effectiveness of efforts to eliminate health disparities for American Indian and Alaska Native communities. This includes development of alliances and partnerships to improve coordination of and access to quality health services; and development of programs designed to increase the representation of the American Indians/Alaska Natives in the health care workforce. Applications are due June 8, 2012. For more information click here.
June 11 -- Prevention of HIV/AIDS for Native/American Indian, Alaska Native Women Living in Rural & Frontier Indian Country: The purpose of this program is to increase HIV prevention knowledge and reduce the risk of contracting HIV among Native/American Indian and Alaska Native women living in Indian Country using multi-level interventions and approaches. Applications are due June 11, 2012. For more information click here. June 11 -- HIV/AIDS Prevention and Support Services for Women Partners of Incarcerated/Recently Released Men: The purpose of this program is to establish a gender-specific, peer led HIV prevention education project for women intimate partners of incarcerated/recently released males. Applications are due June 11, 2012. For more information click here. June 15 -- HIV Mobilization among Organizations Serving Gay, Bisexual and other Men Who Have Sex with Men: The purpose of the cooperative agreement is to provide an opportunity for organizations to build upon their existing infrastructure, influence, and activities to prioritize and enhance HIV prevention among gay, bisexual, and other MSM they serve. Applications are due June 15, 2012. For more information click here. June 19 -- Community Mental Health Services for Children and their Families Program: The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to improve the behavioral health outcomes of children and youth with serious emotional disturbances and their families. This program supports broad-scale operation, expansion and integration of systems of care through the creation of sustainable infrastructure. Applications are due June 19, 2012. For more information click here.
June 25 -- Services to Older Refugees: This grant is for the provision of social and supportive services to older refugees who are age 60 and above. The applicant should establish and/or expand a working relationship with the State Agency on Aging to ensure all older refugees in the community will be linked to mainstream aging services in the community, provide appropriate services to all older refugees who are not currently being provided for in the community. Applications are due June 25, 2012. For more information click here. June 27 -- Community-Based Participatory Research Initiative in Reducing and Eliminating Health Disparities - Planning Phase (R24): The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities invites applications to plan the development of effective interventions using community based participatory research approaches. Support will be provided to develop and strengthen partnerships between researchers and health disparity communities to plan and pilot interventions for a disease or condition to reduce health disparities. Applications are due June 25, 2012. For more information click here.
July:July 10 -- Native American Research Centers for Health: The purpose of this funding opportunity is to encourage grant applications for new or continued Native American Research Centers for Health (NARCH). The NARCH program supports opportunities for conducting research and research training to meet the needs of American Indian/Alaska Native communities. Applications are due July 10, 2012. For more information click here.
Foundation Grant Opportunities:May 18 -- Elton John AIDS Foundation: The foundation invites Letters of Intent from any proposed project that has HIV programs focused on gay men's health and rights, African American health and rights, youth mobilization for sexual health and rights, syringe access and harm reduction, post-prison community re-entry, and scale-up of quality HIV programming in the Southern United States, and Puerto Rico. Letters of intent are due May 18, 2012. For more information click here. May 31 -- The Roadmaps to Health Prize: Up to six communities that have mobilized to improve health for all, with a particular focus on the seven criteria, including addressing problems that disproportionately and unjustly affect vulnerable groups. The application consists of a required essay and an optional multimedia presentation describing the community and its population health challenges and elaborates on four distinct policy and/or programmatic accomplishments. Letters of intent are due May 31, 2012. Applications are due June 7, 2012. For more information click here. June 15 -- Grants for Innovative New Programs to Improve the Lives of Older Adults: Kendal Charitable Funds is seeking proposals for promising innovations that will transform the experience of aging. Potential project topics include but are not limited to 1) The Field of Aging — wellness enhancement, quality of life, home and community; 2) Populations of Older Adults — frail, thriving, underserved, minority, and cognitively impaired. Letters of intent are due June 15, 2012. For more information click here. July 15 -- American Legion Child Welfare Foundation Programs to Help Children: This grant is for nonprofit organizations that contribute to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual welfare of children through the dissemination of knowledge about new and innovative organizations; and/or programs designed to benefit youth; and/or dissemination of knowledge already possessed by well-established organizations. Applications are due July 15, 2012. For more information click here. October 31 -- CVS Caremark Community Grants Program: This program awards funds to nonprofit organizations and schools for programs that help children with disabilities lead full and independent lives, as well as programs that improve access to quality healthcare for the uninsured and underserved. Applications are due October 31, 2012. For more information click here.
List of National and Local Foundations Focusing on Behavioral Health and Disparities:Aetna Foundation -- For the 2010 grant cycle the Aetna Foundation will focus its grant making on issues that improve health and the healthcare system in three areas, one of them being Racial and Ethnic Healthcare Equity. This program promotes equity in health and health care for common chronic conditions, and infant mortality. One of the goals of the program is to determine, through interventional studies, whether stress-reduction programs (including yoga and meditation) can improve health outcomes for minority patients with chronic conditions, as well as postnatal outcomes for mothers and pregnant women. Grant applications that address more than one of the foundation's program areas will receive priority consideration. For more information on these three program areas click here. American Legion Child Welfare Foundation -- The American Legion Child Welfare Foundation annually accepts proposals from nonprofit organizations for projects that meet one of the foundation's two basic purposes — 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 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. Grants are awarded only to nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations and must have the potential of helping American children in a large geographic area (more than one state). Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation -- Through their Closing the Gap on Health Care Disparities Program , the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation provides grants to non-profit organizations seeking to address health care disparities in Massachusetts communities. The Foundation will support initiatives that take a comprehensive and innovative approach for improving access and reducing barriers to quality health care and support services for groups experiencing specific health disparities Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation -- The Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation focuses on reducing health disparities around the world. One of their priorities in the US is to reduce mental health disparities by building health care and support services for patients at the community level. CIGNA Foundation -- The CIGNA Foundation defines its activities in terms of four primary impact areas. Potential grantees will be expected to demonstrate how their activities positively impact one of these areas: 1) Promoting Wellness: Building awareness, helping people manage their health challenges and making health services available and affordable for all; 2) Expanding Opportunities: Reaching across barriers – be they based on gender, ethnicity or physical condition – to tap the talents of every person; 3)Developing Leaders: Supporting the type of community service that gives talented individuals the experience to become future leaders; 4) Embracing Communities: Connecting neighbors to create networks that will address the complex social and environmental challenges we all face. Commonwealth Fund -- The Commonwealth Fund has nine program areas this fiscal year, the Fellowship in Minority Health focuses on creating physician-leaders who will pursue careers in minority health and health policy. Connecticut Health Foundation -- Through their Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Initiative the Connecticut Health Foundation funds Connecticut-based organizations with programs that: 1. Create public will to decrease racial and ethnic health disparities in access and treatment; 2. Improve the quality of systems that enhance patient-provider interactions in order to promote health equity. Hanley Family Foundation -- The Hanley Family Foundation provides funds nation-wide to organizations that advance the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of alcoholism, chemical dependency and addictive behavior, including support for related research and education. Health Trust -- Based in California, the Health Trust funds organizations that directly benefit residents of Santa Clara County and/or Northern San Benito County. Through their Healthy Communities Initiative, the Health Trust funds organizations that work to reduce health disparities. Hogg Foundation -- The Hogg Foundation has a focus on improving the mental well-being of all Texans and places emphasis on cultural and linguistically competence in mental health care. They fund fellowships and scholarships to develop the mental health care workforce. For more information click here. MetroWest Community Health Care Foundation -- Based in Massachusetts, the MetroWest Community Health Care Foundation funds programs that serve the MetroWest area of Massachusetts. Through their Racial and Ethnic Disparities Initiative they fund programs wishing to become a part of an ongoing, community-wide and collaborative effort to reduce health disparities in the MetroWest area. NCB Capital Impact -- In its Innovative Community Lending for health care project NCB Capital Impact provides flexible financing solutions that successfully preserve and expand affordable health care and behavioral care for low-income families across the country. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation -- RWJF funds programs across the country that support their seven program areas. One of their program areas focuses upon Vulnerable Populations and funds programs committed to meeting the emerging health needs of communities by identifying smarter, cost-effective ways to address problems of the most vulnerable. RWJF seeks new and different partners to expand their reach that can bring smart, innovative solutions to America's communities. Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland -- Based in Cleveland, Ohio the Sisters of Charity Foundation funds organizations serving Cleveland citizens in one of its focus areas, one of which includes Health Disparities . Tufts Health Plan Foundation -- Based in Massachusetts, this foundation funds Massachusetts based programs that improve physical, mental, and emotional well-being of older adults, with a focus on eliminating disparities. Walmart Foundation -- Under their National Giving Program, one of the Walmart Foundation's focus areas includes Health & Wellness which focuses on improving access to health care, reducing health care disparities and promoting healthy lifestyles. W.K. Kellogg Foundation -- In the United States the W.K. Kellogg foundation has as one of its focuses, Food, Health and Well-Being. This focus area has as one of its emphases to foster stress mitigation and reduction efforts (physical activities, violence prevention) designed to improve mental health and well-being, and create conditions that support mental and physical well-being of marginalized children and families. |
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