Rural Health
Funding by Topic: Networking and collaboration

Drug-Free Communities Support Program Inactive
Awards funding to coalitions working to prevent and reduce substance use among youth and to establish and strengthen collaboration among communities and organizations to address substance use. Many rural communities have been awarded funding in the past.

Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellowship Inactive
A self-directed fellowship for Native Americans engaged in meaningful work that benefits Indigenous people and communities in reservation and/or urban settings. The fellowship is open to both emerging and experienced leaders from a wide variety of fields, including but not limited to healthcare, agriculture, food systems, youth leadership development, natural resource management, economic development, journalism, language and cultural revitalization, traditional or contemporary arts, and more.

Minnesota Innovations in Perinatal Health Inactive
Funding for projects focused on improving perinatal health outcomes for rural, tribal, and other communities through community engagement and communications.

North Dakota Public Health Leadership Academy Inactive
A 4 month leadership program for public health professionals in North Dakota. Leaders will work individually and collectively to identify complex challenges facing their communities and apply systems change strategies to address them.

American Hospital Association Next Generation Leaders Fellowship Inactive
A fellowship program designed to empower healthcare leaders to bring about lasting change in the hospital and health systems in which they serve. Rural applicants are encouraged.

Grace and Harold Sewell Memorial Fund Learning Partnerships Inactive
A 1-year fellowship that places a medical or health sciences librarian or information professional with a host organization that is involved in health sciences service delivery, research, or product development. Past learning partnerships have been conducted with rural organizations.

Montana Healthcare Foundation Grants Inactive
Funding for projects and programs in Montana that propose innovative, effective solutions to critical health-related needs in Montana communities.

PCORI Engagement Award: Capacity Building Inactive
Funds projects that build capacity for patients and others to engage with healthcare community in all phases of future patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER).

PCORI Engagement Award: Dissemination Initiative Inactive
Funding to disseminate and 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.

PCORI Engagement Award: Stakeholder Convening Support Inactive
Funding for organizations and communities to hold multi-stakeholder convenings, meetings, and conferences.Convenings should focus on supporting collaboration around patient-centered outcomes research and clinical comparative effectiveness research.