The purpose of the Conference Grant program is to disseminate knowledge about practices within the mental health services and substance abuse prevention and treatment fields and to integrate that knowledge into real-world practice as effectively and efficiently as possible. [Application deadline: recurring dates of January 31 and October 31 of each year] [Funding]
Funding Opportunities
Rural Broadband Access Loans and Loan Guarantees Program - USDA Rural Development
Application deadline:
12/31/2020 U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that loans and loan guarantees will be made available for the construction, improvement, and acquisition of facilities and equipment for broadband service in eligible rural communities. No less than $2.157 billion in loans is available, $2.032 billion for direct cost-of-money loans, $46 million for direct 4 percent loans, and $79 million for loan guarantees. [Applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis] [Funding]
Summer Food Service Program - U.S. Department of Agriculture
Application deadline:
12/31/2020 The Program was created to ensure that children in lower-income areas could continue to receive nutritious meals during long school vacations, when they do not have access to school lunch or breakfast. [Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.] [Funding]
Health Information Technology Extension Program (Cycle 3)- Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, ARRA
Application deadline:
08/03/2010 The Regional Centers will offer technical assistance, guidance and information on best practices to support and accelerate health care providers’ efforts to become meaningful users of Electronic Health Records. The Extension Program will establish an estimated 70 (or more) Regional Centers each serving a defined geographic area. The Regional Centers will support at least 100,000 primary care providers, through participating non-profit organizations, in achieving meaningful use of EHRs and enabling nationwide health information exchange. (Preliminary deadline: June 1, 2010; Full deadline: August 3, 2010) [Funding]
Health Information Technology Extension Program: Regional Centers - ARRA
Application deadline:
08/03/2010 This funding opportunity announcement seeks applications from qualified entities to serve as Regional Centers within the Extension Program. [Funding]
Medicine/Health - RGK Foundation
Application deadline:
12/31/2020 The Foundation's current interests in the area of Medicine/Health include programs that promote the health and well-being of children, programs that promote access to health services, and Foundation-initiated programs focusing on ALS. [Applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis] [Funding]
Behavioral and Social Science Research on Understanding and Reducing Health Disparities (R01) - NIH
Application deadline:
05/11/2013 To encourage behavioral and social science research on the causes and solutions to health and disabilities disparities in the U.S. population. Health disparities between, on the one hand, racial/ethnic populations, lower socioeconomic classes, and rural residents and, on the other hand, the overall U.S. population are major public health concerns. Emphasis is placed on research in and among three broad areas of action: Public policy, Health care, and Disease/disability prevention. [Funding]
Multi-payer Advanced Primary Care Initiative – CMS
Application deadline:
08/17/2010 CMS will participate in multi-payer reform initiatives that are currently being conducted by states to make advanced primary care practices more broadly available. The demonstration will evaluate whether advanced primary care practice will reduce unjustified utilization and expenditures, improve the safety, effectiveness, timeliness, and efficiency of health care, increase patient decision-making and increase the availability and delivery of care in underserved areas. Updated information of Initiative from CMS. Notice of intent deadline: June 30; Application deadline: August 17. See “Solicitation” in Download section. [Funding]
