HRSA Announces Rural Health Care Services Outreach Grant Program The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) recently announced the Rural Health Care Services Outreach Grant Program. This program aims to support health care delivery systems in rural communities that lack health care services. The program will support service delivery by encouraging collaboration, requiring grantees to belong to a consortium. The deadline to apply for this opportunity is October 16, 2008. For more information, please visit: www.grants.gov.
Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program
NELRP repays 60% of the qualifying loan balance of registered nurses selected for funding in exchange for 2 years of service at a critical shortage facility. Participants may be eligible to work a third year and receive an additional 25% of the qualifying loan balance. Authorized by Section 846 of the Public Health Service Act, as amended, the purpose of the NELRP is to assist in the recruitment and retention of professional nurses dedicated to providing health care to underserved populations. New for 2008: Applicants must be employed at a non-profit critical shortage facility to be eligible. For more information, and for the source, please visit: http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=313.
USDA Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Loan and Grant Program USDA Rural Development is accepting letters of intent for the Section 9006 Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Loan and Grant Program. The Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) has not yet been published; however, interested parties are encouraged to begin the application process now. For more information, contact April Dahlagher, Energy Coordinator, 655 Parfet Street, Room E-100, Lakewood, CO 80215, (720) 544-2909, or via email at april.dahlager@co.usda.gov. More information is available online at: http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/farmbill/.
CRHC Telecommunications Funding Guide The Center has developed a funding guide for telecommunications projects. The guide contains information about federal grants, private foundations, and other programs that support telehealth-related projects. Also included is information about the Universal Service Fund, which helps to offset telecommunications costs for rural communities. The Telecommunications Funding Guide is currently being updated. Please check back soon for the most recent version. Click here for information on the Universal Service Fund
Colorado
Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) Grants www.dola.state.co.us
DOLA offers a wide range of services to communities and local governments
to help build their capacity. These services include specialized training,
technical and financial assistance and emergency management. Of the many
grants available, one that may be particulary applicable to CAH's is the
Energy and Mineral Impact Grant. This grant provides funding for planning,
construction, and maintenance of public facilities and provision of public
services. Eligible recipients are municipalities, counties, school districts,
special districts and other political subdivisions which are socially
or economically impacted by the development, processing or energy conversion
of minerals and mineral fuels.
Community
Resource Center (CRC) www.crcamerica.org
The Community Resource Center (CRC), at 655 Broadway, Suite 300 Denver,
CO 80203-3426 publishes The
Colorado Grants Guide. The Colorado Grants Guide is the most essential
and up-to-date fund raising tool for nonprofit and community based organizations
in Colorado! This comprehensive resource guide contains hundreds of profiles
on local foundations and trusts, corporations, national funders, government
agencies and religious organizations that support Colorado nonprofit organizations.
Each profile details the funder's purpose and mission, areas of interest,
geographic focus, application guidelines, financial information, board
of trustees, recent grants, and more. This guide combines both public
and private funding sources, is fully indexed and is cross-referenced
for easier use. It also features a calendar of proposal deadlines, so
you can make note of when to be working on an application. The Colorado
Grants Guide is available in most public libraries, and can be purchased
from the CRC, in book or CD-ROM form. The CRC has a web site at www.crcamerica.org.
Their telephone numbers: (800) 576-6285 or (303) 623-1540. Their fax number
is (303) 623-1567.
Rural Assistance
Center (RAC) www.raconline.org
The Rural Assistance Center (RAC) is a national resource on rural health
and human services information. Information specialists are available
to provide customized assistance, such as web and database searches on
rural topics and funding resources, linking users to organizations, and
furnishing relevant publications from the RAC resource library. To search
for funding opportunities, select the "Grant/Funding Resources"
option on the RAC home page. There you will find information on finding
and preparing grants as well as numerous resources of grant funding from
government and private sectors. For more information you may call (800)
270-1898 or check out their web site at www.raconline.org.
The
Foundation Center RFP Bulletin: Health http://fdncenter.org/
The RFP (Request for Proposals)
Bulletin is published weekly by the Foundation Center. Each RFP listing
provides a brief overview of a current funding opportunity offered by
a foundation or other grant making organization. Interested applicants
should read the full RFP at the grant makers' Web site or contact the
grant maker directly for complete program guidelines and eligibility requirements
before submitting a proposal to that grant maker.
HRSA
Office of Rural Health Policy Funding Opportunities www.ruralhealth.hrsa.gov/funding
click here for the CRHC
Fact Sheet on this topic
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), under the Department
of Health and Human Services (DHHS), provides a listing of Federal funding
opportunities at this web site. The grants are aimed at expanding access
to, coordinating, restraining cost of, and improving the quality of essential
health care in rural areas. The following two grants are offered on an
annual basis and may be most applicable: (Or call 1-877-477-2123 for
more information.)
· Rural
Health Outreach Grant Program
The emphasis of this grant program is on service delivery through creative
strategies requiring the grantee to form a network with at least two additional
partners.
· Network
Development Grant Program
These grants are designed to further ongoing collaborative relationships
among health care organizations by funding rural health networks that
focus on integrating clinical, information, administrative, and financial
systems across members.
USDA Distance Learning and Telemedicine Opportunity http://www.usda.gov The Rural Utilities Service within the Department of Agriculture has announced its Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) Program grant application window for funding duringfiscal year (FY) 2005 subject to the availability of funding. RUS has published the announcement on December 3 to give applicants sufficient time to submit proposals and give that agency maximum time to process applications within the current fiscal year. A Notice of Funding Availability will be published announcing the funding level for the DLT grant program once an appropriations bill providing funding for DLT grants has been enacted. Expenses incurred in developing applications will be at the applicant's risk.
The distance learning and telemedicine grants are specifically designed to provide access to education, training and health care resources for people in rural America. The grants, which are awarded through competitive process, may be used to fund telecommunications, computer networks and related advanced technologies.
Eligible applicants include: an incorporated organization or partnership, an Indian tribe or tribal organization, as defined in 25 U.S.C. 450b (b) and (c), a state or local unit of government, a consortium, as defined in 7 CFR 1703.102, or other legal entity, including a private corporation organized on a for-profit or not-for profit basis.
RUS has determined "the maximum amount of an application for a grant in FY 2005 is $500,000 and the minimum amount of a grant is $50,000."
Application guides and materials for the DLT grant program are available at the RUS Web site.
