Department Of Labor Nursing Expansion Grant Program
Funding to address obstacles to training the nursing workforce and to expand and diversify the pipeline of qualified nursing professionals who can fill jobs in healthcare. Individuals in rural communities are one of the priority populations. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor (Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub)
Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub - October 3, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: funding
Science of Organizations (SoO)
Full Proposal Target Date: September 5, 2022 Program Guidelines: PD 11-8031Organizations -- private and public, established and entrepreneurial, designed and emergent, formal and informal, profit and nonprofit -- are critical to the well-being of nations and their citizens. They are of crucial importance for producing goods and services, creating value, providing jobs, and achieving social goals. The Science of Organizations (SoO) program funds basic research that yields a scientific evidence base for improving the design and emergence, development and deployment, ...More at https://beta.nsf.gov/programid/504696This is an ...
Source: NSF Upcoming Due Dates - August 6, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: funding
Community Economic Development Focus on Energy Communities
Grants for projects aimed at business development opportunities and creating employment for low-income individuals located in energy communities that have experienced employment loss and/or economic dislocation because of declines in the fossil fuel industry and/or are disproportionately reliant on fossil fuel energy production or distribution. Bonus points are given to projects that create jobs in rural and tribal communities. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub)
Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub - August 1, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: funding
Reconnecting Communities Pilot Discretionary Grant Program
Funding for projects that reconnect communities by removing, retrofitting, or mitigating highways or other transportation facilities that create barriers to community connectivity. The program will support economically disadvantaged communities to increase affordable, accessible, and multimodal access to destinations like jobs, healthcare, grocery stores, schools, places of worship, recreation, and park space. The program seeks to award funding to rural and tribal communities that face unique challenges related to mobility and economic development, including isolation, transportation cost burden, and traffic safety. Geogra...
Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub - July 5, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: funding
Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI)
Full Proposal Deadline Date: May 5, 2022 Program Guidelines: NSF 22-564Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI) is an NSF Program seeking to stimulate human-centered fundamental and potentially transformative research aimed at strengthening America’s infrastructure. Effective infrastructure provides a strong foundation for socioeconomic vitality and broad quality of life improvement. Strong, reliable, and effective infrastructure spurs private-sector innovation, grows the economy, creates jobs, makes public-sector service provision more efficient, ...More at https://beta.nsf.gov/programid/506000This is an NSF Upco...
Source: NSF Upcoming Due Dates - April 5, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: funding
Economic Development Administration American Rescue Plan Funding Programs
Funding to support community-led economic development and to accelerate economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic while building local economies that will be resilient to future economic shocks. Investments made under this program will have an emphasis on equity and will directly benefit previously underserved communities, including Indigenous communities, rural areas, and regions with economies that have historically relied on coal mining. Past Economic Development Administration projects have included infrastructure to support healthcare facilities, health workforce development, and health and human services to ass...
Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub - August 3, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: funding
Parenting in a Time of COVID
Guest post by Carrie Wolinetz, Ph.D., NIH Associate Director for Science Policy, originally released on the Under the Poliscope blog
Carrie Wolinetz, Ph.D.,Associate Director for Science Policy, NIH
Next week marks the one-year anniversary of NIH shifting to maximum telework in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Like employers and employees across the country, overnight we needed to adapt our entire enterprise and reinvent our jobs in the virtual workplace. Coincidentally, next week is also when with a deep breath and a big hug, I send my six year old back to school in person, masked up and excited to meet his 1st grade...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - March 9, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Carrie Wolinetz Tags: blog Open Mike COVID COVID-19 Source Type: funding
Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI)
Full Proposal Deadline Date: November 30, 2020 Conference Proposals Program Guidelines: PD 21-145YThe National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks to stimulate fundamental exploratory, potentially transformative research that strengthens America’s infrastructure. Effective infrastructure, whether it be physical, cyber, or social, provides a strong foundation for socioeconomic vitality and broad quality of life improvement. Strong, reliable, and effective infrastructure spurs private-sector innovation, grows the economy, creates jobs, makes public-sector service provision more efficient, ...More at https://www.nsf.gov/fund...
Source: NSF Upcoming Due Dates - November 13, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: funding
Community Economic Development Projects
Grants to Community Development Corporations (CDCs) for projects designed to address the economic needs of low-income individuals and families through the creation of employment and business opportunities, including expansion or construction of clinics and health centers. Priority points will be given to projects that create jobs in rural communities and counties of persistent poverty. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub)
Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub - June 3, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: funding
Volunteer Firefighter Support Fund
Stipends for volunteer first responders whose homes have been impacted by a state or federally declared disaster; a home fire; or those who have lost jobs or wages due to COVID-19 related illness, quarantine, or volunteer response activities. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- National Volunteer Fire Council (Source: Emergency services funding opportunities via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: Emergency services funding opportunities via the Rural Assistance Center - March 26, 2020 Category: Rural Health Source Type: funding
Helping Obtain Prosperity for Everyone Program
Funding for planning, engineering, or development of technical or financing plans to improve transit services in rural areas and areas experiencing long-term economic distress. The program is intended to reduce fatality rates on rural transportation infrastructure and increase access to jobs and healthcare through enhanced transit options and improved facilities. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- Federal Transit Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation (Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub)
Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub - March 3, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: funding
Community Economic Development Focus on Social Enterprises
Grants to provide technical and financial assistance to support organizations willing to create or expand social enterprises that will work to reduce personal or community barriers and provide economic support through the creation of employment and business opportunities for individuals and families with low income. Bonus points will be given to projects that create jobs in rural communities and counties of persistent poverty. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub)
Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub - June 28, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: funding
Workforce Opportunity for Rural Communities (WORC): Grant Initiative for the Appalachian and Delta Regions
Grants for projects in the Appalachian region and Lower Mississippi Delta region that will provide career, training, and support services to eligible individuals in counties and parishes and/or areas currently underserved by other resources. Grants will support workforce development activities that prepare dislocated workers, new entrants to the workforce, and incumbent workers for good jobs in high-demand occupations aligned with a regional or community economic development strategy. High demand industries include manufacturing, IT, healthcare, and energy. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- Employment and Training Adminis...
Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub - May 29, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: funding
Healthy Food Financing Initiative Targeted Small Grants Program
Financial assistance to support projects that improve access to healthy foods in underserved areas, create and preserve quality jobs, and revitalize low income communities. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- Reinvestment Fund, U.S. Department of Agriculture (Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub)
Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub - December 28, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: funding
American Voices Project Research Fellowships
A paid fellowship that provides intensive training in public policy, qualitative interviewing, and ethnographic/survey methods. Fellows will then spend a year conducting in-person interviews with families across America to learn about their lives, relationships, jobs, health, and well-being. Areas of interest include rural, tribal, and communities affected by opioids. Geographic coverage: Nationwide -- Princeton University Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, The American Institutes for Research. (Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub)
Source: Funding opportunities via the Rural Health Information Hub - December 13, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: funding
