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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. 

Brady Education Foundation

The Foundation is currently accepting proposals for projects that will use data to inform how to address disparities in educational opportunities associated with race, ethnicity, and family income. Proposers may submit an Existing Program Evaluation or a Research Project proposal for funding periods up to three years. Applications are accepted throughout the year in two stages; the next due date for a Stage 1 proposal is December 1, 2024. 

Advancing Health Equity through Interventions to Prevent and Address Housing Instability (RFA-NR-25-001) R01, Clinical Trial Optional

The National Institute of Nursing Research solicits research that advances health equity through development, testing, and evaluation of interventions that prevent and address housing instability. NINR is interested in projects that focus on social determinants of health interventions that modify housing opportunities and/or interventions that address housing instability as a social risk. Proposals are due by December 13, 2024.

Information Resource Grants to Reduce Health Disparities and Promote Health Equity  

The National Library of Medicine solicits resource grant applications for projects that will provide accurate, useful, usable, and understandable health information to populations that experience health disparities and their health care providers. This NOFO supports the development of resources that can be used to improve health and well-being and that lead to reductions in health disparities.

Applications are due December 13, 2024.

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.

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