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.
This initiative seeks projects to provide accurate, useful, usable, and understandable health information to populations that experience health disparities and their health care providers. As of March 31, 2025, this funding opportunity was updated to align with agency priorities. Please reread the full announcement to ensure a compliant proposal.
Applications are due May 25, 2025.
This Robert Wood Johnson Foundation call for proposals (CFP) will provide funding for a new cohort of community-led pilot studies to produce new, actionable evidence about how to help medical, social, and public health systems work together to address forms of systemic racism. Priority is placed on systems alignment intervention that have broad replicability. A community-based organization must be the applicant.
Applications are due June 4, 2025.
This program of the William T. Grant Foundation supports research to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5-25 in the United States.
Applications are due May 7 and August 6, 2025.
This Spencer Foundation program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets ranging from $125,000 to $500,000 for projects ranging from one to five years.
Full proposals are due June 17, 2025.
Bank of America accepts grant applications focused on community housing needs from May 19–June 30, 2025. Grants range from $5,000 to $50,000. See the Bank of America website for more details.
This call for proposals seeks projects that seed new and unconventional ideas within the Health Science Knowledge System— including wisdom generated and shared by communities and those traditionally ignored or undervalued.
Applications accepted on a rolling basis until October 15, 2025.
The Foundation makes grants to organizations in New York City and Northern New Jersey, with an emphasis on Newark and Monmouth County. Among the six focus areas are education, employment, health, and public policy. The application process begins by submitting a letter of inquiry to: application@achelisbodman.org. Inquiries are accepted at any time.
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