Rural Health
Funding by Topic: Human services

YouthBuild Grants
Grants to organizations providing pre-apprenticeship services that support education, occupational skills training, and employment services for youth, ages 16 to 24, while performing meaningful work and service to their communities. The YouthBuild program model contains wrap-around services such as transportation, childcare, and housing. Applications from rural, urban, and Native American communities have been funded in the past.

West Michigan Youth Programs
Grants to support projects for youth ages 0 – 18 living within a 4-county service area that includes Lake, Muskegon, Newaygo, and Oceana counties in western Michigan.

Centene Foundation Grants
Grant funding for nonprofit organizations working in the areas of healthcare, social services, or education.

Agnes M. Lindsay Trust Grants
Supports capital projects for organizations working in the areas of health, welfare, dental health, homelessness, and food insecurity in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

AgWest Farm Credit Rural Community Grant Program
Grants for nonprofit organizations working to improve economic and social well-being of rural communities in Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.

Atherton Family Foundation Grants
Grants for projects and programs in Hawaii in the areas of community development, health, human services, and more.

Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation Grants
Grants for organizations working in West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania in the areas of health, education, economic development, and community development.

Community Facility Loans
Loans to help develop and improve essential community facilities in the rural West.

Community Heart & Soul Planning, Technical Assistance, and Seed Grant Program
Community Heart & Soul is a community development process that engages residents in identifying what matters most to the community and how to build lasting change. Activities and objectives are determined by communities, and projects have included volunteerism, healthcare access, social programs, transportation, broadband, and emergency preparedness, among others. Seed grants are offered to qualifying small cities and towns interested in implementing the Heart & Soul model.

Daniel Foundation of Alabama Rural Grants
Grants for programs serving rural communities in Alabama.