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Funding by Topic: Minorities

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

Kansas Building Power and Equity Partnership (BPEP) Initiative
Funding and resources to help address root causes of health disparities in Kansas communities with high levels of racial and health inequities. Grants are designed to support long-term solutions for community identified issues and expanded networks for greater impact.
Geographic coverage: Kansas
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Kansas Health Foundation
New Hampshire Opportunity Grants
Grants for projects that address urgent needs, emerging opportunities, innovative projects, and projects that build and disseminate knowledge to improve the health of people in New Hampshire.
Geographic coverage: New Hampshire
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Endowment for Health
NextFifty Initiative Sudden and Urgent Need Grants
One-time grants for small nonprofit organizations in Colorado to meet an urgent need that would have an immediate impact on an organization's capacity to serve older adults. Priority will be given to projects that target disabled, low income, rural, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ, and homeless populations.
Geographic coverage: Colorado
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: NextFifty Initiative
Project Talk Initiative Host Site Applications
Partnerships with community-based organization host sites to evaluate the impact of several approaches to promote advance care planning in underserved populations including those from ethnic and racial minority backgrounds, rural communities and low-income areas. Host sites will be provided tools and trained in facilitating community conversations.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsors: Hospice Foundation of America, National Institutes of Health, Penn State College of Medicine, University of Kentucky
South Carolina AHEC Scholars Program
A multidisciplinary certificate program for certain health professions students in South Carolina that offers opportunities for hands-on training, experience in rural and underserved communities, and networking with other students and professionals.
Geographic coverage: South Carolina
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: South Carolina Area Health Education Consortium
The New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund
Grants to address systemic racism and racial inequality while fostering inclusion, representation, opportunity, and prosperity for Black, Latino, and Indigenous communities in Massachusetts. Priority areas include health equity and economic empowerment, among others.
Geographic coverage: Massachusetts
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: The New Commonwealth Fund
Building Local Continuums of Care to Support Youth Success Inactive
Funding for planning and assessing promising and evidence-based prevention and intervention services that will inform the development of a community-based continuum of care for youth at risk of becoming or already involved in the juvenile justice system. Rural and tribal jurisdictions are a program priority.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Sep 28, 2023
Sponsors: Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice
PCORI Engagement Award: Capacity Building Inactive
Funds projects that encourage the integration of patients, caregivers, clinicians, and other stakeholders as members of the patient-centered outcomes research/clinical effectiveness research process.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Letter of Intent (Required): Sep 28, 2023
Application Deadline: Jan 10, 2024
Sponsor: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
PCORI Engagement Award: Dissemination Initiative Inactive
Funding to plan for dissemination or actively communicate pertinent PCORI-funded research findings to relevant stakeholders in ways that will command their attention and interest and encourage use of information in their healthcare decision making.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Letter of Intent (Required): Sep 28, 2023
Application Deadline: Jan 10, 2024
Sponsor: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
PCORI Engagement Award: Stakeholder Convening Support Inactive
Funding for organizations and communities to hold convenings that include patients, researchers, clinicians, purchasers, payers, health system leaders, and other stakeholders. Convenings should focus on supporting collaboration around patient-centered outcomes research and clinical comparative effectiveness research.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Letter of Intent (Required): Sep 28, 2023
Application Deadline: Jan 10, 2024
Sponsor: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute