Grants Listing

The grants listed below are organized into three categories. All grants are ordered according to deadlines, with nearest approaching listed first.

• State and Federal Grants
• Foundation Grants
• Other Grants

State and Federal Grants

Healthcare Innovation Award Round Two Website: Click here Sponsor: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Deadline: Letter of Intent: June 1-28, 2013, 3 p.m. EDT Application: June 14 - August 15, 2013, 3 p.m. EDT Purpose: CMS will spend up to $1 billion for awards and evaluation of projects from across the country that test new payment and service delivery models that will deliver better care and lower costs for Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) enrollees. The second round of the Health Care Innovation Awards will support public and private organizations in four defined areas that have a high likelihood of driving health care system transformation and delivering better outcomes. Specifically, in this second round, CMS is seeking proposals in the following categories: Models that are designed to rapidly reduce Medicare, Medicaid, and/or CHIP costs in outpatient and/or post-acute settings. Models that improve care for populations with specialized needs. Models that test approaches for specific types of providers to transform their financial and clinical models. Models that improve the health of populations – defined geographically (health of a community), clinically (health of those with specific diseases), or by socioeconomic class – through activities focused on engaging beneficiaries, prevention (for example, a diabetes prevention program or a hypertension prevention program), wellness, and comprehensive care that extend beyond the clinical service delivery setting. In this round, CMS specifically seeks new payment models to support the service delivery models funded by this initiative. All applicants must submit, as part of their application, the design of a payment model that is consistent with the new service delivery model that they propose. Amount: $1,000,000 to $30,000,000 per award for a 3 year performance period Awards: Anticipate 100 Eligibility: Eligible applicants include, but are not limited to: provider groups, health systems, payers and other private sector organizations, faith-based organizations, states, local governments, public-private partnerships and for-profit organizations. Cooperative Agreement to Support Navigators in Federally-Facilitated and State Partnership Exchanges Website: Click here (Search for CFDA Number 93.750) If you have trouble accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact: Grants.gov Contact Center 1-800-518-4726 support@grants.gov Proposed Rule Sponsor: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight Deadline: June 7, 2013 Purpose: This Funding Opportunity Announcement has been developed to enable recipients to operate as Exchange Navigators in States with a Federally-facilitated Exchange (FFE), as authorized under Section 1311(i) of the Affordable Care Act. Any State electing not to pursue a State-based Exchange for benefit year 2014 will have an FFE or a State Partnership Exchange in the case of a State collaborating with an FFE in a Consumer and/or Plan Management Partnership Exchange. To view a current list of States that will have an FFE or State Partnership Exchange in benefit year 2014 see Section VIII. 3, State Reference List. Amount: $54,000,000 Awards: Anticipate 100 Eligibility: This cooperative agreement funding opportunity is open to self-employed individuals and private and public entities. The regulation implementing Affordable Care Act Section 1311(i), 45 C.F.R. § 155.210, requires that at least two types of entities serve as Navigators in each Exchange, and that at least one Navigator be a community and consumer- focused nonprofit.   Other entities may include, but are not limited to, trade, industry and professional associations; commercial fishing industry organizations; ranching and farming organizations; chambers of commerce; unions; resource partners of the Small Business Administration; licensed insurance agents and brokers; Indian Tribes, tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations; State or local human services agencies; and other public or private entities.   We also note that during their term as Navigators, individuals and entities are not permitted to receive any direct or indirect consideration fro m a health insurance issuer connected to the enrollment of individuals into QHPs or non-QHPs. Closing the Gap in Healthcare Disparities through Dissemination and Implementation of Patient Centered Outcomes Research (U18) Website: Click here Sponsor: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Deadline: Letter of Intent: June 14, 2013 Application: July 31, 2013 Purpose: The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to identify strategies to engage stakeholders through shared decision making that can be used to effectively implement interventions specific to health care delivery systems, clinicians, and/or patients that focus on the reduction of racial/ethnic healthcare disparities in under-resourced settings. The effective strategies will incorporate the translation, dissemination, and implementation of patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) findings for racial/ethnic minority populations. Successful applicants are required to demonstrate an ability to leverage the capacities of relevant and diverse stakeholders in their strategies to reduce healthcare disparities in under-resourced settings. Amount: Award Ceiling: up to $3,000,000 for the three year duration of the initiative Awards: Anticipate up to 3 Eligibility: You may submit an application(s) if your institution/organization is a (an):  Public or non-profit private institution, such as a university, college, or a faith-based or community-based organization; For-profit private institution;  Unit of local or State government; Eligible agency of the Federal government; Indian/Native American Tribal Government (Federally recognized); Indian/Native American Tribal Government (Other than Federally recognized); or Indian/Native American Tribally Designated Organization. Small Research Grant to Improve Health Care Quality through Health Information Technology Website: Click here Sponsor: Agency for Health Care Research and Quality Deadline: November 16, 2013 Purpose: The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support a wide variety of research designs in order to improve the quality, safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of health care through the implementation and use of health IT. These designs include: small pilot and feasibility or self-contained health IT research projects; secondary data analysis of health IT research; and economic (prospective or retrospective) analyses of health IT implementation and use. Through economic analyses, estimates of health IT implementation and use costs and benefits will be generated. Amount: Up to $100,000 over a maximum project period of two years Awards: The total amount awarded and the number of awards will depend upon the mechanism, number, quality, duration, and costs of the applications received. Eligibility: State governments County governments Public and State controlled institutions of higher education Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments) Others, including the following: Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government Faith-based or Community-based Organizations Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (other than Federally recognized) Partnerships in Implementing Patient Safety II (R18) Website: Click here Sponsor: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Deadline: January 7, 2014 Purpose: The purpose of this Funding Opportunity (FOA) is to support Research Demonstration and Dissemination (R18) grant applications from organizations that will implement safe practice interventions that demonstrate evidence of reducing or eliminating medical errors, risks, hazards, and harms associated with the process of health care. These 24 month implementation projects will inform AHRQ, providers, patients, payers, policy makers, and the public about how safe practice interventions can be successfully implemented in diverse health care settings and lead to safer and better health care for all Americans. This FOA follows the release of an earlier FOA in 2005 that resulted in the release of successful implementation projects and toolkits available to the public. Examples of and Information on projects from the initial Partnerships in Implementing Patient Safety FOA can be found at http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/pips/. Mechanism of Support This FOA will utilize the AHRQ Research Demonstration and Dissemination Projects (R18) award mechanism. The individual researcher sponsored by each organizational grantee will be solely responsible for planning, directing, and executing his or her proposed projects. Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards Awards issued under this FOA are contingent upon the availability of funds and the submission of a sufficient number of meritorious applications. Because the nature and scope of the proposed research will vary from application to application, it is anticipated that the size and duration of each award will also vary. The total amount awarded and the number of awards will depend upon the number, quality, duration, and costs of the applications received. Amount: Award Ceiling: $300,000 Awards: Unknown Eligibility: County governments City or township governments Public and State controlled institutions of higher education Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments) Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education Private institutions of higher education Others, including: Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government Faith-based or Community-based Organizations Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Other than Federally Recognized). USDA Community Facilities Loan and Grant Program Website: Click here Sponsor: USDA Rural Development Office Deadline: Ongoing Purpose: Community Programs, a division of the Housing and Community Facilities Programs, is part of the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Development mission area. Community Programs administers programs designed to develop essential community facilities for public use in rural areas. These facilities include schools, libraries, childcare, hospitals, medical clinics, assisted living facilities, fire and rescue stations, police stations, community centers, public buildings and transportation. Community Programs utilizes three flexible financial tools to achieve this goal: the Community Facilities Direct and Guaranteed Loan Program, the Community Facilities Grant Program, and the Rural Community Development Initiative. Amount: Amounts Vary Awards: Unknown Eligibility: Community Programs provides grants to assist in the development of essential community facilities in rural areas and towns of up to 20,000 in population. Grants are available to public entities such as municipalities, counties, and special-purpose districts, as well as non-profit corporations and tribal governments. Loans and guarantees are available to public entities such as municipalities, counties, and special-purpose districts, as well as to non-profit corporations and tribal governments. Medicare Incentive Payments in Health Professional Shortage Areas and Physician Scarcity Areas Website: Click here Sponsor: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Deadline: Ongoing Eligibility: Physicians in geographic Health Professional Shortage Areas and Physician Scarcity Areas are eligible. A list of eligible zip codes and those that will be paid automatically is available on the program website. CMS automatically makes bonus payments to most eligible physicians. However, physicians who provide services in areas for which the zip code is not considered dominant in the area will need to add a modifier to their claims to receive bonus payments. Please contact your Medicare carrier for more information.   USDA Rural Passenger Transportation Technical Assistance Program Website: Click here Sponsor: Community Transportation Association of America Deadline: Ongoing Purpose: Technical assistance program to provide transit planning assistance for facility and service development and expansion Eligibility: To qualify for technical assistance, a project must be located in a rural area with a population of less than 50,000. Requests for technical assistance may be submitted by private-for-profit or non-profit organizations or agencies. Public entities are not eligible recipients; however, eligible recipients can usually be identified in most communities. The project must also benefit new or existing small and emerging businesses back to top Foundation Grants CATCH Planning, Implementation and Resident Grants Website: Click here Sponsor: American Academy of Pediatrics Deadline: July 31, 2013 - 2 p.m. CDT Purpose: The purpose of these grants are to fund community based initiatives which increase children’s access to medical homes, or health services not otherwise available, and connecting underinsured/uninsured populations with available programs; to reduce children’s secondhand smoke exposure; to improve access to immunizations for children who are most likely to experience barriers; and to fund projects that benefit American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) children. Amount: Planning and Implementation Grants: $5,000 to $12,000 for individual pediatricians and fellowship trainee Resident Grants: up to $3,000 for pediatric residents Awards: Planning and Implementation Grants: number unknown – awarded twice per year Resident Grants: number unknown – awarded twice per year Eligibility: You must be a pediatrician in the United States or its territories. All pediatricians are eligible to apply regardless of employment setting or retirement status. Outreach must be to the community at large, not to practice or clinic patients only. All initiatives should incorporate connecting children to medical homes and available insurance programs. CATCH Funding Cannot Support:  Organizations, institutions, or individuals other than pediatricians Statewide or regional projects Supplemental funding for existing programs or grants Pediatrician or pediatric resident training or education Breast Cancer Crusade Safety Net Hospital Funding Initiative Website: Click here Sponsor: Avon Foundation Deadline: September 12, 2013: Letter of Intent October 24, 2013: Invited Full Proposal Purpose: The Avon Safety Net Program supports institutions and organizations that have traditionally cared for uninsured, at-risk, low-income and minority patients to further our commitment of enabling medically underserved women and men to access post-screening diagnostics and care. The emphasis of this initiative is to provide public, community, and safety net hospitals and health care systems with patient navigation programs, partial equipment support, and other personnel and infrastructure support that will enhance their breast cancer care services to the medically underserved. The Foundation does not pay for the reimbursement of direct costs of care. Applicants may request up to $125,000 total costs per year, for up to two years (thus, a maximum total grant of up to $250,000 total costs over two years). Amount: Up to $125,000 per year for up to two years Awards: Unknown Eligibility: To be eligible for funding, applicants must have a demonstrated commitment to providing breast cancer care to low-income, at-risk, uninsured, and medically underserved populations, and provide evidence that they are the primary provider of these services to medically underserved populations in their catchment area. The Foundation anticipates, but does not require, most applicants to be public hospitals and “safety net hospitals” as defined by the Institute of Medicine and the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems. Private, non-safety net hospitals should provide a concise description of their commitment and services delivered to the medically underserved. Applicants must be located in and serve vulnerable populations in regions surrounding or nearby the following metropolitan regions: Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles-Santa Barbara, New York, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. All other cities will compete in a national pool of applicants (All other cities/regions in U.S.). The Safety Net program is a competitive application process with peer review conducted by experts in breast cancer clinical care, health disparities, and community medicine, with final approval determined by the Avon Foundation Board of Directors. Wells Fargo Community Investment Grants Website: Click here Sponsor: Wells Fargo Deadline: Ongoing Purpose: Wells Fargo is proud to support organizations that work to strengthen our communities. We look for projects that keep our communities strong, diverse, and vibrant. Through the volunteer efforts of our enthusiastic team members and our contributions, we share our success with the communities in which we live and work. Wells Fargo makes grants in two primary areas – community development and education, but will consider requests from social and human services organizations that ensure access to health education programs and quality health care. Amount: Varies Awards: Unknown Eligibility: Wells Fargo makes contributions to organizations with tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code, as well as qualified tribal and governmental agencies, including public school systems. Please note that Wells Fargo is unable to consider grants for the following: Individuals International organizations Religious organizations, unless they are engaged in programs that are non-sectarian, benefit a broad base of the community, and have a separate 501(c)(3) designation Private foundations Political action committees, causes, or candidates Alumni organizations Individual schools (private, public, charter, or parochial) Recreational, athletic, or sports teams, programs, or leagues Travel or conferences for non-profit agency personnel In Alabama, Wells Fargo serve the following counties: Central Alabama -Calhoun, Clay, Etowah, Jefferson, Randolph, Shelby, Talladega, Tuscaloosa North Alabama - Colbert, Cullman, Lauderdale, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Morgan, Walker Southeast Alabama - Autauga, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Dallas, Elmore, Houston, Henry, Lee, Montgomery, Pike, Russell, Tallapoosa Coastal Alabama - Baldwin, Mobile Innovative Approaches to Improve Community Health Website: Click here Sponsor: Kresge Foundation Deadline: Ongoing Purpose: The Innovative Approaches to Improve Community Health program supports promising new practices that serve vulnerable populations by advancing prevention, improving access, and integrating primary community and clinical care. The goal of this program is to increase the health of vulnerable, low-income, and minority populations by addressing social and environmental determinants of health, as well as health care access.   Some examples of projects that may be funded include: reports highlighting the work of community health centers in promoting health and working to eliminate conditions that adversely affect the communities they serve; and medical-legal partnerships that address patients' non-medical needs. Amount: Amounts Vary Awards: Unknown Eligibility: U.S. 501(c)(3) organizations with audited financial statements that are not classified as private foundations. Audits must be independently prepared following Generally Accepted Accounting Principles or Government Auditing Standards.  Financial statements prepared on a cash, modified cash, compilation, or review basis do not qualify. Government entities. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Pioneer Portfolio Unsolocited Proposals Website: Click here Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Deadline: Ongoing Purpose: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Pioneer Portfolio accepts unsolicited proposals for projects that pursue innovative approaches to solving problems in health and health care. To receive a fair and comprehensive review from the Foundation, all proposals must address the strategic objectives of the Pioneer portfolio and fall within the guidelines of the types of proposals that they fund. The most promising unsolicited proposals will:  Identify and explore new issues and approaches Accelerate progress on issues and approaches that have significant potential to create breakthroughs in health and health care Support projects that use original, unconventional, or cross-sectoral approaches to create transformative change Amount: Varies: Awards have ranged from $1,200 to $50,000,000 for time periods of one month to five years Awards: Unspecified Eligibility: The vast majority of funding is available to nonprofit organizations and public agencies. Less than 1 percent of funding is awarded to for-profit agencies. Rockefeller Foundation Grants Website: Click here Sponsor: The Rockefeller Foundation Deadline: Applications accepted online year round Purpose: Through grantmaking, The Rockefeller Foundation works to spread the benefits of globalization to more people in more places around the world. Climate change and unplanned urbanization, inadequate health services and unremitting poverty, economic insecurity and environmental degradation are the Foundation's current focus areas. Amount: Up to and over $1,000,000 Awards: Approximately 425 Eligibility: Nonprofit organizations globally The Commonwealth Fund - Delivery System Innovation and Improvement Website: Click here Sponsor: The Commonwealth Fund Deadline: Rolling Purpose: Commonwealth Fund programs focusing on Delivery System Innovation and Improvement include: health system quality and efficiency; patient-centered coordinated care; and picker/commonwealth fund long-term care quality improvement. Of special interest to the Fund are delivery system models capable of providing population-based, patient-centered, accountable care that is well integrated across the full continuum of services—preventive, health-promoting, acute, chronic, and long-term—and the payment reforms that make such models feasible. Projects supported by these programs are intended to inform health care leaders and policymakers at the local, state, and national levels about promising ways of using new and existing resources to overcome barriers and stimulate delivery system improvements. Amount: Up to $1,500,000 Awards: Approximately 25 Eligibility: Nonprofit organizations and institutions; and public agencies; occasionally the Fund enters into contracts with for-profit organizations when a suitable nonprofit research base is not available. RGK Foundation Grants Website: Click here Sponsor: RGK Foundation Deadline: Ongoing - a letter of inquiry is required Purpose: Programs that improve access to health services and health and well-being of children Eligibility: Non-profit organizations nationwide     Medical Assistance Grants Website: Click here Sponsor: UnitedHealthcare Children's Foundation Deadline: Ongoing Purpose: To provide financial relief for families who have children with medical needs not covered or not fully covered by commercial health benefit plans; to fill the gap between medical services and items children need and what commercial health benefit plans will pay for (e.g., speech therapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy sessions, prescriptions, and medical equipment such as wheelchairs, orthotics, and eyeglasses) Eligibility: Parents or guardians of children 16 years old or younger who live in the United States and receive and pay for care and items in the United States     Venture Fund for Oral Health Website: Click here Sponsor: DentaQuest Foundation Deadline: Various Purpose: To support oral health systems that are effective and efficient and which provide equitable access to high-quality care for diverse populations Eligibility: Nonprofit organizations     William Randolph Hearst Foundation Health Grants Website: Click here Sponsor: William Randolph Hearst Foundation Deadline: Ongoing Purpose: Programs that improve access to health care in urban and rural areas for underserved populations Eligibility: Tax-exempt organizations under code 501(C) 3 nationwide back to top Other Grants Childhood Obesity Rapid Response Fund Website: Click here Sponsor: American Heart Association Deadline: Ongoing Purpose: The mission of the fund is to make effective strategic investments in ongoing state and local public policy campaigns in order to increase public policy impact on healthy weight and living among children. Our efforts target a wide array of childhood obesity policies and give particular focus to impacting the highest obesity prevalence and most at-risk populations. General information on policy areas can be found online. If you have specific questions on whether your policy goal falls within the fund, please email your question the contact listed below. Aaron Doeppers Manager for State and Local Obesity Initiatives American Heart Association aaron.doeppers@heart.org (608) 886-2988 Amount: $5,000 to $75,000 Awards: Unspecified Eligibility: Grants will be made to non-profit 501(c)(3) organizations under the following requirements: Impactful: The specific policy being pursued must actually deliver population impact. Viable and Promising: The applicant must be engaged in a viable and promising childhood obesity public policy effort. Lobbying Resources: Grants are provided for non-lobbying advocacy activities only. Applicants must demonstrate that they have secured separate direct and grassroots lobbying resources adequate for the effort. Match: There is no specific matching fund requirement, however matching resources are encouraged and applicants specifically must demonstrate the existence of direct and grassroots lobbying capacity. Compliance: Grantees must follow compliance requirements mandated by the American Heart Association. Applications and other information are available online.  Community Development Transportation - Insurance and Self-Insurance Funds Website: Click here Sponsor: Community Transportation Association of America Deadline: Ongoing Purpose: Community Development Transportation Lending Services (CDTLS) can lend significant funds at very low and negotiable interest rates to assist in developing self-insurance pools or for short-term insurance premium coverage. CDTLS can lend you the affordable financing that will make your company a success Eligibility: Nonprofit, public or private transportation providers and transportation businesses. back to top