American Indians Into Nursing

Application deadline: Aug 19, 2013 

Grants to operate the American Indians into Nursing Program, to develop and maintain American Indian nursing career recruitment programs, designed to encourage Indians to enter the nursing field. 

Grant info: http://www.ihs.gov/DGM/documents/HHS-2013-IHS-NU-0001.pdf

Contact For programmatic questions:
Naomi Aspaas
Phone: 301.443.2362
Email: naomi.aspaas@ihs.gov

For grants management or budgetary questions:
Andrew Diggs
Phone: 301.443.2262
Email: andrew.diggs@ihs.gov
 

Funding Opportunities

1. The Federal Office of Rural Health Policy has released a funding opportunity in support of the rural Access to External Devices Grant Program. The purpose of this program is to: (1) purchase automated external defibrillators; (2) provide defibrillator and basic life support training in automated defibrillator usage; and (3) place automated external defibrillators in rural communities.

All applications are due June 17, 2013. It is expected that 7 programs will be funded up to $200,000 per year for a three-year project period.

More on this funding opportunity can be found at: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=qSgKRVxNMv5yppTP1PTsDjnLP2421WpVSWS7VqqnLrtQ2SRPDBRp!222120898?oppId=234958&mode=VIEW

2. Grant funding will soon be available through the USDA for distance learning and telemedicine efforts aimed and serving rural America. The Notice of Funding Availability for the USDA’s Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) Grant Program will be released in the coming days. The DLT grant program is designed to assist community facilities serving rural areas acquire distance learning and telemedical technologies to link with other professionals to improve the services delivered to rural Americans.

• $17 million in grant funding is expected to be available and each award will be between $50,000 and $500,000.

• Applicants must be 1) a legally incorporated organization operating a rural community facility directly or serving an organization that operates a rural community facility and 2) must currently deliver or propose to deliver distance learning or telemedicine services through and beyond the three-year grant period.

For more information on the DLT Grant Program as well as an application toolkit, please go here. Prospective applicants are encouraged to begin preparing applications today and to reach out to their State USDA Rural Development Office for support. If you do plan to apply, please e-mail Sam Morgan at sam.morgan@wdc.usda.gov  so USDA staff can know how many applications to expect. You can e-mail dltinfo@wdc.usda.gov  with questions about the program.

Minority Resources...Money & More

Federal Grants

Minority Population Specific: $500k or more . . .

• HHS/Health Resources & Services Administration: Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act Grant. View Full Announcement  

• HHS/Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Closing the Gap in Healthcare Disparities through Dissemination and Implementation of Patient Centered Outcomes Research (U18) Grant. View Full Announcement

Minority Population Specific: $500k or less . . .

• HHS/Administration for Children and Families: Refugee Agricultural Partnership Program Grant. View Full Announcement

• HHS/Administration for Children and Families: Refugee Home-Based Childcare Microenterprise Development Project Grant. View Full Announcement

• DHS/U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Office of Citizenship: 2013 Citizenship and Integration Direct Services Grant. View Full Announcement

 

• HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Tribal Public Health Capacity Building and Quality Improvement Grant. View Full Announcement

$500k or more . . .

• HHS/Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services: PPHF 2013 Cooperative Agreement to Support Navigators in Federally-facilitated and State Partnership Exchanges Grant. View Full Announcement

• HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Grants for Injury Control Research Centers Grant. View Full Announcement

• HHS/National Institutes of Health: Integration and Analysis of Diverse HIV-Associated Data (R03) Grant. View Full Announcement

• HHS/Health Resources & Services Administration: Coordinating Center for Access to Services for Children and Youths with Epilepsy Grant. View Full Announcement

• HHS/Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: AHRQ Patient Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Institutional Mentored Career Development Program (K12) Grant. View Full Announcement

• HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: National Technical Assistance Resource Center for the Prevention of Sexual Violence Grant. View Full Announcement

$500k or less . . .

• HHS/Administration for Children & Families: Street Outreach Program Grant. View Full Announcement

• HHS/Health Resources and Services Administration: Health Center Outreach and Enrollment Assistance Grant. View Full Announcement

• HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Sodium Reduction in Communities Grant. View Full Announcement

• HHS/Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration: Campus Suicide Prevention Grant. View Full Announcement



Resources

HHS/Health Resources and Services Administration: Additional factsheets, resources and a scheduled conference call are available for those seeking to apply to HRSA's Health Center Outreach and Enrollment Assistance Grant. Conference Call will be held May 16, 2013, 3:30 pm ET. Learn More

Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) Resident Funds Program

The Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) Resident Funds Program supports pediatric residents in the planning and/or implementation of innovative, community-based initiatives that increase children’s access to medical homes or specific health services not otherwise available.

These projects should lead to programs that can be replicated in other communities. Resident CATCH projects must include planning activities or demonstrate completed planning activities, and may include implementation activities.

Priority will be given to projects serving communities with the greatest demonstrated health care access needs and health disparities. Strong collaborative community partnerships and future sustainability of the project are encouraged.

Grants are available for programs that offer:

•Community-based initiatives that increase children's access to medical homes or health services not otherwise available and connecting uninsured/underinsured populations with available programs
•Connecting uninsured/underinsured populations with available programs
•Secondhand smoke exposure reduction
•Initiatives to address community barriers to immunizations

•Native American child health

 

To find out eligbility, to apply, or for more information go to http://www2.aap.org/catch/funding.htm

Federal, Non-Federal, Scholarship and Fellowship Opportunities

Federal Grants

Minority Population Specific: $500k or less . . .  

• HHS/Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration: Grants to Expand the Use of Technology-Assisted Care in Targeted Areas of Need program grant. View Full Announcement
• HHS/National Institutes of Health: Development and Translation of Medical Technologies to Reduce Health Disparities (SBIR) (R43/R44) Grant. View Full Announcement

$500k or more . . .  

• HHS/Health Resources and Services Administration: Affordable Care Act - Health Center Controlled Networks grant. View Full Announcement
• HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: State Public Health Actions to Prevent and Control Diabetes, Heart Disease, Obesity and Associated Risk Factors and Promote School Health Grant. View Full Announcement

$500k or less . . .  

• HHS/National Institutes of Health: Research on Alcohol and HIV/AIDS (R03) Grant. View Full Announcement
• HHS/National Institutes of Health: NINDS Stroke Trials Network - Regional Coordinating Stroke Centers (U10) Grant. View Full Announcement
• HHS/Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration: Grants to Expand Substance Abuse Treatment Capacity In Adult, Juvenile, and Family Drug Courts; (Short Title: SAMHSA Treatment Drug Courts) Grant. View Full Announcement

Non Federal Grants

Minority Population Specific: $500k or less . . . 

• The VNA Foundation: Supporting Home and Community-based Health Services for Chicago's Medically Underserved grant. View Full Announcement
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program grant. View Full Announcement

$500k or less . . . 

• The California Wellness Foundation: Responsive Grantmaking Program grant. View Full Announcement

Scholarships/Fellowships

AHRQ: 2013 Summer Intramural Fellowship Program, Junior Service Fellow. View Full Announcement

Federal, Non Federal, Scholarships/Fellowships

Federal Grants

Minority Population Specific: $500k or less . . .  

• HHS/National Institutes of Health: NIMHD Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research Training (T37). View Full Announcement

$500k or more . . .  

• HHS/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Crisis Center Follow-Up program grants. View Full Announcement
• HHS/Health Resources & Services Administration: Health Center Program's New Access Point (NAP) grants. View Full Announcement
• HHS/Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: Connecting Kids to Coverage Outreach and Enrollment (Cycle III). View Full Announcement

$500k or less . . .  

• HHS/Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration: Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program Grant. View Full Announcement
• HHS/Health Resources & Services Administration: Delta States Rural Development Network Grant Program Grant. View Full Announcement
• HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Research Grants for Preventing Violence and Violence Related Injury. View Full Announcement
• HHS/National Institutes of Health: Behavioral & Integrative Treatment Development Program (R03) View Full Announcement
• HHS/National Institutes of Health: Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Centers 2013 (U54) Grant View Full Announcement
• HHS/Health Resources & Services Administration: Small Rural Hospital Improvement Grant Program (SHIP) Grant. View Full Announcement
• HHS/National Institutes of Health: Innovation for HIV Vaccine Discovery (R01) Grant. View Full Announcement
• Agency for International Development (USAID): Family Planning and Reproductive Health Methods APS Grant. View Full Announcement
• HHS/Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration: Statewide Consumer Network Grant View Full Announcement
• HHS/Health Resources & Services Administration: Telehealth Network Grant Program. View Full Announcement

Non Federal Grants

$500k or less . . . 

• Expect Miracles Foundation: Miracle Maker Leadership Council 2013 grant awards to underfunded cancer fighting organizations that provide cancer patient care support programs and initiatives, cancer awareness and educational programs, and/or cancer prevention/health service. View Full Announcement
• New Mexico Forum for Youth In Community: Youth Suicide Prevention Mini-grant Application. View Full Announcement
• Kansas Health Foundation: Recognition Grant program. The grants are targeted for organizations and agencies proposing meaningful and charitable projects that fit within the Foundation's mission of improving the health of all Kansans. View Full Announcement

Scholarships/Fellowships

• City Match: Maternal and Child Health-Public Health Leadership Institute Fellowship. View Full Announcement
• Massachusetts General Hospital: Disparities Leadership Program. View Full Announcement
• University of Florida College of Dentistry: Summer Learning Program (SLP), a learning program for Florida residents from educationally or economically disadvantaged backgrounds or ethnic minority students. View Full Announcement
• Washington University School of Medicine: St. Louis Community Fellows Research Training. View Full Announcement

Federal, Non Federal, Scholarshipl Grants

Federal Grants

Minority Population Specific: $500k or more . . .  

• USDA/National Institute of Food and Agriculture: Alaska Native-Serving and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions Education Competitive Grants Program (ANNH) Grant. View Full Announcement

$500k or more . . .  

• HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Cost-Benefit of Incentive-based Smoking Cessation for Pregnant Women. View Full Announcement
• HHS/National Institutes of Health: Integrated Preclinical/Clinical AIDS Vaccine Development Program (IPCAVD) (U19) Grant. View Full Announcement
• HHS/National Institutes of Health: Mechanisms of HIV-Related Lung Disease Data Coordinating Center (DCC) (U01). Grant View Full Announcement
• HHS/National Institutes of Health: AIDS and Cancer Specimen Resource (ACSR) (UM1) Grant. View Full Announcement
• HHS/National Institutes of Health: Diabetes Impact Award-Closed Loop Technologies: Clinical, Physiological and Behavioral Approaches to Improve Type 1 Diabetes Outcomes (DP3) Grant. Grant View Full Announcement

$500k or less . . .  

• HHS/National Institutes of Health: Mechanisms of HIV-Related Lung Disease (U01) Grant. View Full Announcement
• HHS/Health Resources & Services Administration: Telehealth Network Grant Program Grant. View Full Announcement
• HHS/Health Resources & Services Administration: Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) Program- Interprofessional Collaborative Practice. View Full Announcement
• HHS/Health Resources & Services Administration: Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement Grant Program Grant View Full Announcement

Non Federal Grants

$500k or less . . . 

• Paralyzed Veterans of America Education Foundation: Innovative Educational Projects Grant. View Full Announcement
• The Sunflower Foundation: Integrated Care Initiative grant View Full Announcement
• Foundation for the National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI): The Heart Truth® Community Action Program Grant. View Full Announcement
• JBS International: Adult Immunization and HPV Health Projects grant. View Full Announcement

Scholarships/Fellowships

• Morehouse School of Medicine/Satcher Health Leadership Institute: Health Policy Leadership Fellowship Program. View Full Announcement

University of California, Berkeley: The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program, providing holistic support, financial, academic, social, and career counseling to 113 students from Sub-Saharan Africa from 2012 - 2020. View Full Announcement

Funding

Federal Grants

Minority Population Specific: $500k or more . . .  

• HHS/National Institutes of Health: Bridges to the Doctorate Program (R25) Grant. View Full Announcement
• HHS/National Institutes of Health: Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program (R25) Grant. View Full Announcement

$500k or more . . .  

• HHS/National Institutes of Health: Limited Competition for Continuation of the Prospective Study of Chronic Kidney Disease in Children (U01) Grant. View Full Announcement

$500k or less . . .  

• HHS/National Institutes of Health: NIMH Research Education Mentoring Programs for HIV/AIDS Researchers (R25). Grant View Full Announcement

Non Federal Grants

$500k or less . . . 

• New York Community Trust: 2012 NYC AIDS Fund. View Full Announcement

Resources

• Grant Professionals Association: Annual Conference. Raising Your Game: Scoring Big in the Grant Profession. October 17-20, 2012 in Indianapolis, IN. Learn More

Scholarships/Fellowships

• Harvard University: The Mongan Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy. View Full Announcement

Office of Minority Health Resource Center Pacific Awards

Several grants are available to fund capacity building in the United States Associated Pacific Islands. These grants will allow community-based organizations, health departments and health ministries to expand their capacity to accomplish work around the topics of HIV/AIDS, STDs and Tuberculosis. The deadline to apply is July 31, 2012 at 5 p.m. (PST). Learn More

NHLBI Funding and Research Opportunities

The following funding opportunities from the NHLBI or other components of the National Institutes of Health, might be of interest:
Request for Application (RFA):  

• RFA-OD-12-008: Developing and Improving Institutional Animal Resources (G20)

Program Announcements (PAs):

• PAR-12-197: Improving Diet and Physical Activity Assessment (R21)
• PAR-12-198: Improving Diet and Physical Activity Assessment (R01)

Federal Grants and Non Federal Grant Opportunities

Federal Grants

$500k or more . . .   

• HHS/National Institutes of Health: Limited Competition for the Continuation of Look AHEAD (Action for Health in Diabetes) Consortium (U01) Grant. View Full Announcement
• HHS/Agency for Health Care Research and Quality: AHRQ National Research Service Awards (NRSA) Institutional Research Training Grants (T32) Grant. View Full Announcement
• HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: NATIONAL HIV SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM (NHSS) Grant. View Full Announcement
• HHS/National Institutes of Health: Global Network for Womens and Childrens Health Research (U10) Grant. View Full Announcement
• HHS/Office of the Secretary/Office of the National Coordinator: Information Technology Professionals in Health Care: Community College Consortia to Educate Health Information Technology Professionals Grant. View Full Announcement
• HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: PPHF 2012: Community Transformation Grants - Small Communities Programs financed solely by 2012 Prevention and Public Health Funds Gant. View Full Announcement
• HHS/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: Cooperative Agreements for Linking Actions for Unmet Needs in Children's Health (Short Title: Project LAUNCH). View Full Announcement
• HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: PPHF 2012: Immunization Capacity Building Assistance to Strengthen Public Health Immunization Infrastructure and Performance financed in part by 2012 Prevention and Public Health Funds Grant. View Full Announcement

$500k or less . . .  

• USAID/Development and expansion of economic assistance programs that fully utilize cooperatives and credit unions Grant. View Full Announcement

Non Federal Grants

Minority Population Specific: $500k or less . . . 

• HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Connecting Latino and African American Males to Sexual Health Services: An Adaptation of Project Connect Grant. View Full Announcement

$500k or less . . . 

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan: Strengthening the Safety Net: Improving Health Care Access through Michigan's Free Clinics. View Full Announcement

Community Transformation Grants

The 2012 funding opportunity announcement is now available for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Community Transformation Grants (CTG)  – Small Communities Program.  CTG funds support local and state government agencies as well as community-based organizations in the implementation, evaluation, and dissemination of evidence-based community health activities in order to reduce chronic disease rates, prevent the development of secondary conditions, address health disparities, and develop a stronger evidence-base of effective prevention programming.

The CTG Small Communities Program funding opportunity specifically targets communities  with populations of up to 500,000 people to increase opportunities to prevent chronic diseases and promote health. CTG has the potential to address activities directed at rural health disparities.  No less than 20 percent of grant funds will be directed to rural and frontier areas.  

For further information and frequently asked questions about this funding opportunity, please visit the CDC Community Transformation Grant Program website: http://www.cdc.gov/communitytransformation/

Funding Opportunity Announcement:http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=RgW1PFPFQshPqDGLW5sBW8ZQTmTpXQwjMLllqTy7zJdwfc1QLpXP!-1021879135?oppId=173114&mode=VIEW