As a RISE SDoH Community member, you have access to our exclusive resource list of funding opportunities. RISE will update this comprehensive guide quarterly to keep you in the know of new funding efforts that target SDoH.
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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