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Funding Opportunities 

Supporting the Work

The REACH team continually seeks avenues of support for the important work of its partner organizations. The opportunities listed here have been carefully curated with these partners in mind, and the list will be updated regularly to reflect the current funding landscape.  These public and private funders share a concern for equity, though they may have a particular interest in any one of REACH’s focus areas: education, employment, food access/security, housing, or population health.

Action for Women’s Health

This open call will fund organizations around the world that are improving women’s mental and physical health. Organizations should center equity and be prepared to scale their work. Each awardee will receive flexible funding between $1 million and $5 million USD. Interested organizations must register before 4 p.m. U.S. Central Time on December 3, 2024.

Applications are due Friday, January 10, 2025. 

Schumann Fund for New Jersey  

Program priorities include affordable homes, healthy communities, and youth education; only projects based in Essex County are eligible. Typical awards range between $25,000–$90,000, and applications are reviewed during four cycles annually.

The next deadline is January 15, 2025.

Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Effectiveness of Mobile Health Clinics to Advance Health Equity (R01)

The National Institute on Minority and Health Disparities seeks project proposals that investigate the effectiveness of Mobile Health Clinics (MHCs) in improving healthcare access and addressing the health care needs of populations that experience health disparities, and whether they result in improved health outcomes and increased health equity.

The first deadline for application is February 5, 2025.

The Role of Work in Health Disparities in the U.S. (NIH PAR-25-292) R01, Clinical Trial Optional

The purpose of this NIH program is to support innovative population-based research that can contribute to identifying and characterizing pathways and mechanisms through which work or occupation influences health outcomes and health status among populations with health and/or health care disparities, and how work functions as a social determinant of health.

Applications are due February 5, 2025. 

Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity (RFA-NR-25-003) U01, Clinical Trial Optional

The National Institute of Nursing Research solicits applications to support unusually innovative intervention research addressing social determinants of health (SDOH), which, if successful, would have a major impact on preventing, reducing, or eliminating health disparities and advancing health equity. See the NOFO for more details.

Proposals are due by February 28, 2025.

Additional opportunities?

If you have an opportunity you’d like to share with the REACH community, please let us know via email: contact.us@reach.rutgers.edu