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NEW federal funding opportunities available

See the latest list of federal grants available that may interest clinics and health nonprofits.

EHF’s Research team went through the long list of current federal funding opportunities available to clinics and nonprofits throughout EHF’s 57 counties. As always, the list below offers a look at what’s currently being funded by many different federal government agencies focused on community health.

Look through the specific grants below and click on the grant number to the far left to get more information.

Federal Grant Opportunities

OPPORTUNITY NUMBER OPPORTUNITY TITLE AGENCY NAME GRANTOR CONTACT AGENCY CONTACT PHONE AGENCY CONTACT EMAIL POSTED DATE CLOSE DATE
HHS-2015-ACF-OCS-EI-1005 Assets for Independence Demonstration Program
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Office of Community Services (OCS) will be accepting applications for grants to administer projects for the Assets for Independence (AFI) demonstration program. AFI grantees administer projects that provide individual development accounts (IDAs) and related services to low-income individuals.
Administration for Children and Families – OCS ACF Applications Help Desk
app_support@acf.hhs.gov
  app_support@acf.hhs.gov 4/8/15 10/31/16
CNCS-08-09-2016 Round 2: FY 2016 Social Innovation Fund Pay for Success Cooperative Agreement
Pay for Success (PFS) is an innovative model that ties funding for an intervention to its impact in the community. PFS offers a way to catalyze philanthropic and private sector investments to deliver better outcomes, enabling government or other Payors (for example, school districts or hospitals) to pay only for outcomes achieved – that is, to pay only for what works.
Corporation for National and Community Service SIF office   SIFapplication@cns.gov 8/9/16 9/20/16
FR-6000-N-35 Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program
 HUD will select up to 10 communities to participate in the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) to develop and execute a coordinated community approach to preventing and ending youth homelessness. Four of the 10 selected communities will be rural communities. 
Department of Housing and Urban Development Ebony Rankin
Ebony.W.Rankin@hud.gov
  Ebony.W.Rankin@hud.gov 8/22/16 11/30/16
HRSA-17-053 Service Area Competition
The Health Center Program supports patient-directed public and private nonprofit organizations that provide primary and preventive health care services to the Nation’s medically underserved.  The purpose of the SAC funding opportunity is to ensure continued access to comprehensive, culturally competent, quality primary health care services for communities and vulnerable populations currently served by the Health Center Program. 
Health Resources and Services Administration Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration
bphcsac@hrsa.gov
  bphcsac@hrsa.gov 8/16/16 10/17/16
HRSA-17-030 Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part A HIV Emergency Relief Grant Program
Provide direct financial assistance to an eligible metropolitan area (EMA) or a transitional grant area (TGA) that has been severely affected by the HIV epidemic.  Grants assist eligible program areas in developing or enhancing access to a comprehensive continuum of high quality, community-based care for low-income individuals and families with HIV through the provision of formula, supplemental, and Minority AIDS Initiative (MAI) funds.
Health Resources and Services Administration Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration
SYoung@hrsa.gov
  SYoung@hrsa.gov 8/15/16 10/18/16
HRSA-17-066 Nurse Faculty Loan Program
The purpose of this program is to increase the number of qualified nursing faculty by providing funding to accredited schools of nursing. The NFLP is designed to prepare and train qualified nurse educators to fill faculty vacancies and increase the number of trained nurses entering the workforce.
Health Resources and Services Administration Jemima Drake 301-443-4499 jdrake@hrsa.gov 6/28/16 11/14/16
HRSA-17-063 Nursing Workforce Diversity Grants
The NWD program increases nursing education opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, including racial and ethnic minorities that are underrepresented among registered nurses by using social determinants to guide the selection of evidence-based approaches that have been successful in retaining students from disadvantaged backgrounds in schools of nursing.
Health Resources and Services Administration Tara Spencer 301-443-3192 TSpencer@hrsa.gov 6/28/16 10/31/16
HRSA-17-054 Service Area Competition
The Health Center Program supports patient-directed public and private nonprofit organizations that provide primary and preventive health care services to the Nation’s medically underserved.  The purpose of the SAC funding opportunity is to ensure continued access to comprehensive, culturally competent, quality primary health care services for communities and vulnerable populations served by the Health Center Program.  
Health Resources and Services Administration Beth Hartmayer 301-594-4300 bphcsac@hrsa.gov 5/3/16 11/14/16
HRSA-17-055 Health Resources and Services Administration Beth Hartmayer 301-594-4300 bphcsac@hrsa.gov 5/3/16 12/5/16
HRSA-17-022 Rural Access to Emergency Devices Opioid Overdose Reversal Grant Program
The purpose of this program is to reduce the incidences of morbidity and mortality related to opioid overdoses in rural communities through the purchase and placement of emergency devices used to rapidly reverse the effects of opioid overdoses and training of licensed healthcare professionals and emergency responders on their use.
Health Resources and Services Administration Michele Pray 301-443-7320 mpray@hrsa.gov 4/11/16 2/16/17
HRSA-17-016 Rural Health Network Development Planning Grant Program
The purpose of the Network Planning program is to assist in the development of an integrated healthcare network, if the network participants do not have a history of formal collaborative efforts.  Health care networks can be an effective strategy to help smaller rural health care providers and health care service organizations align resources and strategies, achieve economies of scale and efficiency, and address challenges more effectively as a group than as single providers. 
Health Resources and Services Administration Amber Berrian 301-443-0845 aberrian@hrsa.gov 4/11/16 1/3/17
HRSA-17-015 Telehealth Resource Center Grant Program
Telehealth Resource Centers (TRCs) assist health care organizations, health care networks,and health care providers in the implementation of cost-effective telehealth programs to serve rural and medically underserved areas and populations.  This FOA will fund two different types of TRCs.  This FOA will support twelve TRCs that focus on State-wide and regional telehealth activities and are referred to as Regional TRCs (RTRCs).  
Health Resources and Services Administration Monica M. Cowan (301) 443-0076 Monica.Cowan@hrsa.hhs.gov 4/11/16 3/16/17
HRSA-17-019 Evidence-Based Tele-Emergency Network Grant Program
The primary purpose of the EB TNGP is to support a range of Tele-Emergency care programs that will allow for the analysis of a significant volume of patient encounters to allow for detailed study and analysis of patient outcomes in rural areas.
Health Resources and Services Administration Natassja Manzanero 301-443-2077 nmanzanero@hrsa.gov 4/11/16 11/30/16
HRSA-17-021 Rural Access to Emergency Devices Grant Program
The purpose of this grant program is to: 1) purchase automated external defibrillators (AEDs) that have been approved, or cleared for marketing, by the Food and Drug Administration; 2) provide defibrillator and basic life support training in automated external defibrillator usage through the American Heart Association, the American Red Cross, or other nationally recognized training courses; and 3) place the AEDs in rural communities with local organizations.
Health Resources and Services Administration Michele Pray 301-443-7320 mpray@hrsa.gov 4/11/16 12/6/16
HRSA-17-018 Rural Health Network Development Grant Program
Awardees of this program consist of mature rural health care networks that have collaborated in the past to improve the healthcare delivery system within a rural community. Awarded integrated health care networks combine the functions of the entities participating in the networks in order to (i) achieve efficiencies; (ii) expand access to, coordinate, and improve the quality of essential health care services; and (iii) strengthen the rural health care system as a whole. 
Health Resources and Services Administration Jayne Berube 301-443-4281 jberube@hrsa.gov 4/11/16 11/21/16