| 04-17-2025
| The purpose of this Rural Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) Planning and Development program is to improve health care in rural areas, including expanding access to medical care and long-term services, for rural aging populations by expanding PACE programs into rural areas.
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| 03-07-2025
| Connecting Kids to Coverage Outreach and Enrollment grants will provide funding to organizations that help families with children and pregnant individuals enroll in health coverage opportunities, including Medicaid, CHIP, and insurance affordability programs.
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| 02-13-2025
| National Council on Aging is offering funds to cultivate the development and enhancement of state falls prevention coalitions' collaborative efforts to reduce falls and/or the risk of falls among older adults, adults with disabilities, and their families and caregivers.
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| Ongoing
| The Jail-based MAT Mentor Site Initiative offers a peer-to-peer learning opportunity for jails interested in providing or enhancing medication-assisted treatment (MAT) services for individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs).
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| Letter of Intent (Required): Feb 18, 2025
| The Hillman Emergent Innovation: Serious Illness and End of Life Program provides funding for creative, early stage nursing-driven innovations that target serious illness and end of life care for vulnerable populations, including: People who are economically disadvantaged; Racial and ethnic minorities; People who identify as LGBTQ+; Individuals who are homeless; Rural populations; Immigrants and refugee populations; and Other groups that encounter barriers to accessing healthcare services.
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| 04-10-2025
| The purpose of the Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) program is to improve and expand access to health care in rural areas by developing new sustainable rural residency programs, including rural track programs (RTPs). These residency programs must achieve accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Newly created rural residency programs will increase the number of future physicians training in rural areas, and ultimately the number of physicians practicing in rural areas with the goal of addressing the physician workforce shortages in rural communities. The RRPD program provides start-up funding to create new rural residency programs in qualifying medical specialties that will be sustainable long-term through viable and stable funding mechanisms, such as Medicare, Medicaid, and other public or private funding sources. Qualifying medical specialties are family medicine, internal medicine, preventive medicine, psychiatry, general surgery, and obstetrics and gynecology. For this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO), rural residency programs: •Are accredited physician residency programs. •Train residents in clinical training sites that are physically located in a rural area as defined by HRSA’s Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) [1] for greater than 50 percent of their total time in residency. •Focus on producing physicians who will practice in rural communities.
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| 03-13-2025
| The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is offering funding to public health systems to protect people and communities from vaccine-preventable diseases by equitably increasing access, confidence, and demand for vaccines.
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| 01-21-2025
| The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) is seeking initiatives and programs designed to increase awareness about chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as a serious lung disease and a leading cause of death and disability in the United States.
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| 03-06-2025
| The Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) Program provides grants to help rural communities use advanced telecommunications technology to connect to each other (and the world) overcoming the effects of remoteness and low population density. Projects that promote equity and economic opportunity in rural America are encouraged.
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| 01-21-2025
| The purpose of this program is to train doctoral health service psychology students, interns, and postdoctoral residents in integrated, interdisciplinary behavioral health, with significant focus on trauma-informed care and substance use disorder prevention and treatment services. The program will prepare trainees for practice in community-based primary care settings in high need and high demand areas. To support trainees, the program will also focus on developing health service psychology faculty. |
| 01-21-2025
| The purpose of the Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training (BHWET) Program for Professionals is to increase the supply of behavioral health professionals and improve the distribution of a well-trained behavioral health workforce. The program has a specific focus on understanding the needs of children, adolescents, and young adults at risk for mental health, trauma, and behavioral health disorders. The BHWET Program for Professionals prepares the workforce by emphasizing interprofessional team-based models of care, integrating behavioral health training in primary care settings and recruiting a diverse workforce interested in serving high need and high demand areas. The program also invests increasing the number and training of clinical supervisors. |
| 04-03-2025 4:59PM ET
| The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) released a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the Rural and Tribal Assistance Pilot Program, created by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The NOFO offers $27 million in technical assistance grants to rural and tribal communities for the planning and design phase development of transportation projects. There is no local funding match required to participate in this program. Up to $10 million is designated for Tribal applicants. Applications will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis beginning Tuesday, March 4, 2025, at 2 PM ET. Please join a free webinar on Tuesday, January 14, 2025, at 3 PM ET about the application process and what activities can be funded through the program.
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| 03-18-2025
| The Nursing Workforce Diversity Program provides funding to assist students from disadvantaged backgrounds in becoming registered nurses using evidence-based strategies to support nursing students from enrollment through graduation. The approach should include an assessment of the social determinants that impede the educational success of students from disadvantaged backgrounds, identification of the needs of these students, and implementation of tailored, evidence-based strategies to address their identified social determinants and multi-faceted needs. The purpose is to expand and support a workforce to provide quality, culturally-aligned care to rural and underserved communities in need.
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| 03-18-2025
| Postdoctoral Training in General, Pediatric, and Public Health Dentistry grants provide funds to plan, develop, operate, or participate in, postdoctoral training programs in the fields of general dentistry, pediatric dentistry, and dental public health. Programs should prepare postdoctoral trained dentists to improve access to and delivery of oral healthcare delivery to underserved, health disparity, and rural populations.
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| 03-20-2025
| This opportunity, PCTE-RTSM, offers funding to enhance training in street medicine for residents enrolled in accredited primary care residency programs.
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| 03-01-2025
| The Rural Community Hospital Demonstration is a demonstration program designed to test the feasibility and advisability of cost-based reimbursement for small rural hospitals that are too large to be Critical Access Hospitals. There will be an intensive evaluation of the demonstration, assessing the financial impact on participating hospitals, as well as the effect on health care for the populations served.
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| 02-28-2025
| The Addiction Medicine Fellowship (AMF) Program provides grants to expand the number of fellows at accredited Addiction Medicine Fellowship and Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship programs trained as addiction medicine specialists who work in underserved, community-based settings that integrate primary care with mental health disorders and substance use disorder (SUD) prevention and treatment services.
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| 02-19-2025
| The Rural Health Network Development Planning Program supports the planning and development of rural integrated health care networks with specific focus on collaboration of entities to establish or improve local capacity and care coordination in underserved communities. Specifically, the program uses the concept of developing networks as a strategy for linking rural health care network participants together to achieve greater collective capacity to overcome local challenges, expand access and improve the quality of care in the rural communities these organizations serve.
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| 03-10-2025
| The Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) - Overdose Response program will provide grants to to establish and/or expand substance use disorder (SUD) prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery services in targeted rural service areas. Applicants must select from the list of allowable activities provided in the Program Requirements and Expectations section of the application instructions. |
| 02-19-2025
| The Rural Health Network Development Planning Program provides grants to promote the planning and development of integrated rural healthcare networks. The major focus of the Network Planning Grant is to support multiple (at least 3) rural healthcare entities that have not previously collaborated in a formal manner, but want to work together and form a healthcare network. The grant program supports one year of planning to develop and assist healthcare networks in becoming operational.
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| 03-17-2025
| The Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program (HTPCP) will support community-based projects that promote access to preventive clinical and public health services for children in rural and underserved communities. This program is sponsored by the Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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| 01-27-2025
| The application is open for the program’s 4-year period of performance (May 1, 2025-April 30, 2029). HRSA will make up to 50 awards to support rural communities to expand the delivery of health care services. These awards include: An estimated 40 awards, each up to $250,000 per year, under the program’s regular track to support healthcare needs identified by the rural community applicant; Up to 10 awards, each up to $300,000 per year, under the program’s special track to address the underlying factors that drive rural health disparities related to heart disease, cancer, unintentional injury/substance use, chronic lower respiratory disease, stroke, and maternal health.
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| 02-05-2025
| The Rural Veterans Health Access Program provides funding for current state Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program award recipients to work with providers and other partners to improve access to needed healthcare services and to improve the coordination of care for veterans living in rural areas.
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| The National Rural Health Association provides a rural hospital leadership and certification program for rural hospital Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs).
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| The National Rural Health Association provides a certification program for rural hospital Board Trustees. The program is a combination of self-guided and group learning, with a time commitment of 1-1.5 hours per week.
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| The National Rural Health Association provides a leadership and certification program for current rural nurses.
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| 02-19-2025
| The Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students (SDS) program promotes diversity among health profession students and practitioners by providing scholarships to full-time students with financial need from disadvantaged backgrounds enrolled in health professions and nursing programs.
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| 03-01-2025
| The SAMHSA Psychiatry Minority Fellowship is a fellowship for psychiatry students who are interested in addressing minority psychiatric mental health issues and committed to a career providing culturally sensitive psychiatric services for minority underserved populations.
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| 03-31-2025
| The American Nurses Association and SAMHSA offer fellowships to help ethnic and racial minority students attain masters or doctoral degrees in nursing with certification in mental health and substance use. Fellows are required to commit to a minimum of 2 years of service in mental health and/or substance use after graduation.
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| In partnership with the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC), Google is offering eligible rural healthcare organizations access to technology, consulting and support services, and security training resources at a discount or no cost.
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| The Cybersecurity Program for Rural Hospitals offers assistance to help rural hospitals keep their health services safe and secure with affordable access to Microsoft security solutions and building cybersecurity capacity.
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| The American Association of Birth Centers (AABC) Foundation provides grants to assist birth center applicants with fees that are due to the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers (CABC), including accreditation fees and annual fees.
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| Primary Care Development Corporation (PCDC) is a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that provides loan products, training, resources, and technical assistance/business development services for healthcare providers in under-resourced communities with the goal of transforming and expanding primary care. Rural providers are encouraged to apply.
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| 01-27-2025
| The purpose of the CoE in MCH Program is to strengthen and expand the MCH workforce by training graduate and post-graduate public health students in MCH, and advance MCH science, research, practice, and policy through a well-trained MCH public health workforce.
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| 01-23-2025
| The purpose of this program is to recruit and train diverse graduate students in MCH public health; expand MCH curriculum and degree offerings within schools and programs of public health where there is currently a lack of, or limited, MCH offerings; and build MCH faculty capacity within schools and programs of public health. You must select only one of the two Catalyst Program tracks for your application, either: Track 1: MCH Curriculum Start-Up
Track 2: MCH Curriculum Expansion
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| 04-01-2025
| The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) New Board Chair Leadership Program is a 5-part virtual leadership training program for new health center board chairs or those about to step into the board chair role. Training addresses the role of the board chair, board chair-CEO partnership, board meeting facilitation, navigating conflict, and board chair succession planning.
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| 02-17-2025
| The Physicians of Tomorrow Scholarship Program offers scholarships for medical students approaching their final year of medical school. Scholarship awards are made under 12 categories, including scholarships for students underrepresented in medicine (such as Native Americans/Native Hawaiians/Alaska Natives) and students committed to addressing health equity for underserved populations and economically disadvantaged areas.
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AmeriCorps State and National Grants
| 01-23-2024
| AmeriCorps awards grants to organizations to implement programs that utilize AmeriCorps members to engage in evidence-based or evidence-informed interventions to strengthen rural and urban communities.
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Rural Community Development Program
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| The Rural Community Development Program provides technical assistance to help regional and tribal organizations manage safe water systems in rural communities.
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On-Farm Labor Housing Loans
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| On-Farm Labor Housing Loans provide affordable financing to develop or rehabilitate affordable rental housing for very-low to moderate income domestic, migrant, and seasonal farm laborers.
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Rural Health Care Outcomes Accelerator
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| The Rural Health Care Outcomes Accelerator is a 3-year initiative designed to eliminate rural health disparities by helping hospitals and clinicians provide high-quality evidence-based care.
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Zero Suicide Academy
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| The Zero Suicide Academy is a virtual or in-person training for healthcare and behavioral healthcare organizations that seek to dramatically reduce suicides among patients in their care. Participants learn how to incorporate best and promising practices into their organizations and processes to improve care and safety for individuals at risk.
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State Rural Transit Assistance Programs (RTAP)
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| The Rural Transit Assistance Program (RTAP) provides funding for state level programs that offer training and technical assistance to improve mobility for Americans living in communities with populations less than 50,000. State RTAP funds are often used to provide training for rural and tribal transit agency personnel and to fund scholarships to attend transit-related conferences and training.
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Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) Training and Mentoring
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| This program provides free training and mentoring services for eligible healthcare providers to effectively use buprenorphine and other medications to treat opioid use disorder (OUD) in high-need communities. Completion of the training will count toward meeting MATE Act training requirements for practitioners registering for or renewing a DEA license.
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Dispensary of Hope Dispensing Site Network
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| This opportunity is a national collaborative led by a nonprofit medication distributor, Dispensary of Hope, that sources donated medications to assist nonprofit health systems, hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies in serving their patient population, especially individuals experiencing poverty and those that are uninsured.
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Direct Relief Partnership Network
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| The Direct Relief Partnership Network extends medication access to patients who are unable to afford prescriptions, reduces procurement costs of medications and supplies, and leverages resources to foster healthier communities. Direct Relief's goal is to strengthen health systems that care for vulnerable populations, ensuring that healthcare professionals worldwide are able to maintain, expand, and improve health services for people regardless of their ability to pay.
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| CareQuest Institute for Oral Health offers funding for projects that address complex and upstream drivers of oral health disparities. Priority populations include racial and ethnic minorities, rural communities, people with disabilities, and older adults. Projects should demonstrate intent toward responding to the needs of historically marginalized communities.
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NRHA Rural Hospital HR Certification Program
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| The National Rural Health Association provides a rural hospital leadership and certification program for hospital human resource professionals. The program is a combination of self-guided and group learning.
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Certified Professional by the American Heart Association - Telehealth (CPAHA) program
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| The American Heart Association is offering a certification program for healthcare professionals interested in demonstrating a commitment to telehealth. The certification is designed to standardize training for healthcare providers in telehealth care delivery, increase skills and competencies in telehealth care delivery, and help to improve patient outcomes through the integration of telehealth.
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Rural Access to Anesthesia Care Scholarship
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| The Rural Access to Anesthesia Care Scholarship provides stipend scholarships for medical students to complete a rural rotation designed to teach future physicians about anesthesia in rural areas. Applicants will work with a mentor at a designated rural site.
Applicants must be third or fourth year medical students in an approved U.S. program and a medical student member of the American Society of Anethesiologists (ASA).
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Health Center Facility Loan Guarantee Program
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| The HRSA Health Center Facility Loan Guarantee Program facilitates access to capital funding and reduces financing costs for health centers by guaranteeing up to 80% of financing needed to support capital infrastructure projects. After approving a loan guarantee, HRSA monitors the loan repayment status and assesses the operational/financial viability of the health center during the life of the loan.Funding may be used for the construction, expansion, alteration, renovation, and modernization of health center medical facilities.
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Hearst Foundations Health Grants
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| The Hearst Foundations assist leading regional hospitals, medical centers and specialized medical institutions providing access to healthcare for high-need populations. In response to the shortage of healthcare professionals necessary to meet the country’s evolving healthcare demands, the Foundations also fund programs designed to enhance skills and increase the number of practitioners and educators across roles in healthcare. The Foundations also support public health, medical research and the development of young investigators to help create a broad and enduring impact on the nation’s health.
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