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Rural Health
Funding by Topic: Benefit enrollment and application

Summaries of funding programs are provided by RHIhub for your convenience. Please contact the funder directly for the most complete and current information.

Innovations for Healthy Living - Improving Minority Health and Eliminating Health Disparities (R43/R44)
Funding for small business concerns to develop a product, process, or service with the aim of improving minority health and/or reducing and ultimately eliminating health disparities in one or more NIH-defined population groups.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Letter of Intent (Optional): Nov 10, 2024
Application Deadline: Dec 10, 2024
Sponsors: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Stand Down Grants
Provides funding for events that offer homeless veteran populations a variety of social services designed to help them to reintegrate into their communities, such as housing, healthcare, and employment opportunities.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Sep 30, 2025
Sponsors: U.S. Department of Labor, Veterans Employment and Training Service
California Advancing Wellness Grant Program
Grants for nonprofit organizations in California working in the areas of healthcare equity and access, community well-being, economic security, and community leadership for change. Grantmaking focuses on the health needs of traditionally underserved populations, including low-income individuals, people of color, youth, and residents of rural areas.
Geographic coverage: California
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: California Wellness Foundation
California Health Care Foundation Unsolicited Proposals
Accepts unsolicited funding requests from organizations working to improve access to coverage and care for low-income populations, advance people-centered care, and lay the foundation for meaningful change in the California healthcare system.
Geographic coverage: California
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: California Health Care Foundation
WIC Community Innovation and Outreach Grants Inactive
Grants to develop, implement, and evaluate innovative outreach strategies to increase WIC awareness, participation, redemption of benefits, and reduce disparities in program delivery. Projects should focus on marginalized populations with disparities in access to WIC and other maternal and child health resources.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Sep 6, 2024
Sponsors: Food Research & Action Center, Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition, Native American Agriculture Fund, UnidosUS
Arkansas Rural Health Corps Inactive
An Americorps service opportunity in Arkansas. Participants will be trained as community health workers who will promote health and well being in rural communities of the state.
Geographic coverage: Arkansas
Application Deadline: Aug 19, 2024
Sponsor: Arkansas Rural Health Partnership
MIPPA Medicare Beneficiary Outreach and Assistance Program: Funding for OAA Title VI Native American Programs Inactive
Noncompetitive funding to Title VI Native American Program grantees to enhance outreach efforts to Medicare beneficiaries likely to be eligible for the Low-Income Subsidy program (LIS) or the Medicare Savings Program (MSP).
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Jul 31, 2024
Sponsors: Administration for Community Living, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Strengthening the Safety Net: Improving Access to High Quality Health Care in Michigan Inactive
Grants to support clinics providing free medical, dental, and/or mental healthcare for uninsured and underinsured residents of Michigan.
Geographic coverage: Michigan
Application Deadline: Jun 3, 2024
Sponsor: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation
Rural Maryland Prosperity Investment Fund (RMPIF) Inactive
Grants to promote economic prosperity in Maryland's disadvantaged and underserved rural communities, with priority given to projects that address entrepreneurship, healthcare, infrastructure, and regional councils.
Geographic coverage: Maryland
Letter of Intent (Required): May 17, 2024
Application Deadline: Jul 12, 2024
Sponsor: Rural Maryland Council
Children's Justice Act Partnerships for Indian Communities (Purpose Area 6): Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS) Inactive
Funding, technical assistance, and training to help American Indian and Alaska Native communities develop, establish, and operate programs designed to improve the investigation, prosecution, and handling of cases of child abuse and neglect, and particularly child sexual abuse cases, in a manner which lessens trauma for child victims.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Mar 5, 2024
Sponsors: Office for Victims of Crime, U.S. Department of Justice