Grants and Funding

Funding Opportunities

• ACF Grant Opportunities - Funding opportunities for federal programs that promote the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals, and communities.

• Contract Solicitations

• Grant Announcements

• Grants On-Line Database - Searchable database of grants funded by AHRQ.

• Funding and Fellowships Sponsored by ASTMH - Research awards and fellowships to promote world health by the prevention and control of tropical diseases.

• AAMC-CDC Cooperative Agreement

• ASPH Friday Letter

• ASPH Internship & Fellowship Programs - Opportunities for graduate students and early career public health professionals.

• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to reduce inequities and improve lives around the world. Grant programs include the Global Development Program to reduce hunger and poverty in the developing world, the Global Health Program to encourage the development of lifesaving medical advances, and the United States Program to reduce inequities by improving access to educational and other opportunities.

• Federal Commons - Federal grant opportunities.

• CDC Cooperative Agreement Funding Opportunities - Funding opportunities from CDC that are available to members of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH), and the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR). AAMC, ASPH and APTR each have a cooperative agreement with CDC that supports extramural projects including research and non-research activities. Members of their respective associations are eligible to participate in the cooperative agreement funding cycle.

• CDC's Procurement and Grants Office - CDC Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs), application forms, and information on CDC's grants process.

• COS Funding Opportunities - Database of research funding opportunities.

• Grants and Debarment - Information on the Environmental Protection Agency's funding opportunities and grant application procedures.

• Directory of Grants and Fellowships in the Global Health Sciences - A comprehensive compilation of international funding opportunities in biomedical and behavioral research published by the Fogarty International Center, part of the National Institutes of Health.

• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) - The online Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance provides access to a database of all Federal programs available to State and local governments.

• Grants.gov - Searchable information from all Federal grant-making agencies.

• HRSA Div of Facilities Compliance/Recovery - Administers the Health Care and Other Facilities grant program that provides construction assistance to health facilities across the nation. The Division also manages the Hill-Burton program to assure that obligated health facilities provide free or reduced cost medical services to those persons who are uninsured and underinsured and meet eligibility criteria

• HRSA Division of Health Careers Diversity and Development, Student Assistance Programs - Education-related financial assistance.

• HRSA Funding Opportunities - Provides a searchable database of all Health Resources and Services Administration grant opportunities by key program area e.g., health professions training and services for people living with HIV/AIDS.

• HRSA Rural Health Policy Funding - Grants aimed at expanding access to, coordinating, restraining cost of, and improving the quality of essential health care in rural areas.

• HRSA State Planning Grants - The State Planning Grants Program provides one-year grants to States to develop plans for providing access to affordable health insurance coverage to all their citizens.

• Funding opportunities from NACCHO

• National Institutes of Health (NIH), Grants and Funding Opportunities

• Division of Extramural Programs - Opportunities related to information management and the utility of computers and telecommunication for improving storage, retrieval, access, and use of biomedical information.

• NLM Express Research Grants in Biomedical Informatics and Bioinformatics - Support for rigorous scientific research in biomedical informatics and bioinformatics.

• Outreach Funding Opportunities - Funding opportunities on AIDS Community Information Outreach and other funding opportunities from the National Library of Medicine.

• Common Ground Program - Common Ground: Transforming Public Health Information Systems is a three-year, $15 million national initiative program that will help state and local public health agencies better respond to health threats by improving their use of information systems. RWJF has awarded Common Ground grants—15 grants for up to $30,000 and 16 grants for up to $600,000—to 31 public health agencies throughout the country.

• Grant Applications - The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provides grants for projects that advance their mission to improve the health and health care of all Americans.

• Local Initiative Funding Partners - Local Initiative Funding Partners (LIFP) is a partnership program between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and local grantmakers that supports creative, collaborative, community-based projects to improve health and health care for vulnerable populations.

• Funding Resources - Links to funding opportunities compiled by the National Agricultural Library.

• White House Faith Based and Community Initiatives Conference Homepage - The Faith Based and Community Initiatives program has hundreds of government grant programs that are available as well as how to get started in applying for a government grant. Also on this page is a link to a grants catalog, and a how to develop a quality grants proposal.

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Resources Related to Proposal-Writing

• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Grant-Writing Tutorial - Instructional material from the Environmental Protection Agency to help communities and non-profit organizations identify financial assistance opportunities for their environmentally oriented programs.

• Proposal Writing Short Course - Online guide on how to prepare the various components of a funding proposal, including planning, research, and cultivation of potential foundation and corporate donors.

• Partners in Information Access - Projects Funded by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine

• Proposal Writing Support - Grant proposal writing tips, tutorials, resources, and classes.

• Toolkit: National Library of Medicine Internet Access to Digital Libraries (IADL) Grant Applications - Help for health-related organizations to provide their health professionals, staff, researchers, librarians and clients with access to digital health information resources and information services.

• NIH Regional Seminars on Program Funding and Grants Administration - Semiannual NIH Regional Seminars on Program Funding and Grants. These seminars are intended to help demystify the application and review process, clarify Federal regulations and policies, and highlight current areas of special interest or concern.