Grant funding sources
- Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health
- Commonwealth Fund
- Partners
- Rural Health Information Hub
Individual funding entities
- Aetna Foundation: Grants to improve access to and quality of care
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Grant announcements to support research to improve the quality, effectiveness, accessibility, and cost-effectiveness of health care
- AstraZeneca Healthcare Foundation: Promotes public awareness of health care issues, public education of medical knowledge, and to support or contribute to charitable and qualified exempt organizations consistent with its charitable purpose
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: Funding to address pressing problems that gain little attention
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Main Portal and Prevention and Public Health Portal: Funding targeted for public health, health equity, and quality of care
- First Nations: Strengthens American Indian economies to support health in Native communities
- Foundation for Rural Service's Community Grant Program: Offers support to community efforts to provide high quality life in rural America
- Grantmakers in Health: Promotes programs that address health equity
- Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation: Sponsors scholarly research on violence, aggression, and dominance
- Health Resources & Services Administration's COVID-19 Claims Reimbursement to Health Care Providers and Facilities for Testing, Treatment, and Vaccine Administration for the Uninsured: Provides claims reimbursement for COVID testing, treatment, and vaccinations; and the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy's funding opportunities to improve rural health.
- Hogg Foundation for Mental Health: Invests in programs, policy analysis, research and education through grants, scholarships, and fellowships to transform how communities promote mental health in everyday life
- Indian Health Service: Federal Health Program for American Indians and Alaska Natives
- Kaiser Permanente: Addresses quality of and access to care in California
- Kresge Foundation: Expands opportunities in US cities through grantmaking and social investing in arts and culture, education, environment, health, human services, and community development
- Medline Community Impact Grants: Invests crucial financial and human resources to help stimulate health equity and improve population health
- National Aging and Disability Transportation Center: Promotes transportation accessibility and availability to better meet needs of older adults, individuals with disabilities, and caregivers
- National Reentry Resource Center's The Second Change Act Funding opportunities: The nation’s primary source of information and guidance in reentry from incarceration
- National Institutes of Mental Health: Expansive funding options for mental health
- National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities: Funding on health disparities
- New York Community Trust: A grantmaking foundation dedicated to improving the lives of residents of New York City and its suburbs
- Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute: Focuses on patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) projects
- Pfizer: Health literacy and clear communication funding
- Pollination Project: Seed grants to inspire social change around the world
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Funding for program and policy initiatives in areas critical to health equity
- Seeds of Native Health’s Healthy Children Healthy Nations Fund: Funding initiatives targeting early childhood development and nutrition programs in Minnesota’s native communities
- Sierra Health Foundation Responsive Grants Program: Improves health and quality of life (30 percent to projects for rural regions)
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: Funding focused on substance use, abuse, and mental health
- Telligen Community Initiative Grants: Funding opportunities for health innovation, health equity, and health care workforce development
- The Tower Foundation: Funding programs and services in the areas of intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, mental health and substance use disorders
- US Department of Agriculture's Community Food Projects Competitive Grant Program and Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive (FINI) Grant Program: Funding focused on food insecurity; The Reconnect Loan and Grant Program: A rural broadband reconnection program to provide funds for broadband service in eligible areas; and an Emergency Rural Health Care Grant Program: Funding to broaden access to COVID-19 testing and vaccines, rural health care services, and food assistance.
- US Department of Health and Human Services' Main Portal and Grants and Contracts Portal: A range of grant programs across populations and issues
- US Department of Housing and Urban Development's HOPE program: Assists the development and implementation of homeownership programs
- Wells Fargo Community Giving Programs: Creates solutions for stronger, more resilient communities
- William T. Grant Foundation: Reduces inequality through research
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation: Offer grants to address a variety of SDoH among children, families, and communities
Adapted from Fink-Samnick, E. (2019). Chapter 8, Successful Programs, Box 8.19, in The Social Determinants of Health: Case Management’s Next Frontier; HCPro. Save 20 percent off your purchase by entering code: SocialHealth2019! Also sold on Amazon.
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