Grant Announcements

   Grant: Community Approaches to Reducing Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This program supports the planning, implementation, and evaluation of innovative, interdisciplinary projects to reduce STD disparities, promote sexual health, and advance community wellness in communities with a disparately high STD burden.  It seeks to reduce the proportion of adolescents and young adults with Chlamydia trachomatis, reduce chlamydia rates among females aged 15-44 years, in addition to reducing the rate of gonorrhea and transmission of syphilis.

Eligibility: Eligibility is disperse and includes: nonprofits, small, minority, and women-owned businesses, universities, hospitals, community-based organizations, faith-based organizations and state and local governments, in addition to many other entities.

Deadline: April 20, 2011

Award:  4 awards of up to $450,000 will be awarded

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Grant: Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act: Outreach and Enrollment – Cycle II

On February 4, 2009, the President signed into law the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA) (Pub.L. 111-3). CHIPRA reauthorizes and fully funds the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) through Federal fiscal year (FFY) 2013. The Affordable Care Act further extended the CHIP program through 2019 and authorized funding through 2015. CHIPRA provided a total of $100 million devoted to outreach and enrollment activities, with $80 million to be provided in grant funds to States, local governments, community-based and nonprofit organizations. The remaining $10 million is devoted to a national enrollment campaign. In September 2009, CMS awarded $40 million in grant funds. Cycle II will again offer $40 million in grant funds to be made available for a two year period.

Eligibility: States, local governments, community-based and nonprofit organizations, and others.

Deadline: April 18, 2011

Award: total of $40 million

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Grant: The School Engagement Grant is designed to address the need to ensure that every child in the U.S. grows up with access to enough food.  Programs funded through this grant will engage teachers and students, grades K-12, in learning about the incidence of childhood hunger in their community, and in leading meaningful activities that facilitate access to nutritious food for all children, especially those most at risk. The program will be implemented through a service-learning “Semester of Service” focused on childhood hunger.

Eligibility: Teachers in schools that obtain the endorsement of the administrative leadership and commit to involve at least 20 students are eligible to apply.
Deadline: March 18, 2011

Award: $5,000 

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Grant: Dating Matters: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen Relationships

The purpose of the program, Dating Matters: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen Relationships, is to build local public health capacity to establish a comprehensive community-wide Teen Dating Violence Prevention Initiative that focuses on 11-14 year olds to promote respectful, nonviolent dating relationships among youth in high-risk urban communities. Demonstration sites will build capacity to implement two models of TDV prevention (standard and comprehensive) to see how effective, feasible, and sustainable these approaches will be in high-risk urban communities.

Award: A total of $7,000,000 is available for up to four awards.

Eligibility: Local, City or County Public Health Departments serving high risk urban communities are eligible to apply. Urban means having a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) population of 1,000,000 or more, as defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

Deadline: March 21, 2011 (Letter of Intent)

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