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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.

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.

Local Data for Equitable Communities

The Urban Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will select 30 nonprofits to each receive a $50,000 grant to use data to improve local conditions and help residents live their healthiest lives. Projects should propose the use of data to catalyze local action and address inequities in housing, transportation, community safety, climate and environment, the built environment, and other local conditions.

Applications are due March 18, 2025.

Minority Research Grant Program 

The purpose of this Office of Minority Health opportunity is to test promising solutions in existing Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) programs, policies, or practices that affect social determinants of health (SDOH) and to learn how changes in SDOH achieve health equity. The program encourages innovative health services research that can directly and demonstrably contribute to improving health outcomes for people from all minority populations.

Applications are due April 1, 2025.

Systems for Action: Community-Led Systems Research to Address Systemic Racism 

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.

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