The Syringe Services & Community-Based Harm Reduction program provides free sterile syringes, safer smoking and snorting kits, education, and community wraparound services to reduce opioid overdoses and the transmission of HIV and viral hepatitis.
Donor Name: Comer Family Foundation
State: Selected States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/01/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The Comer Family Foundation supports syringe services programs and community-based harm reduction programs that improve the health and wellness of people who use drugs.
Types of Funding
- General operating funds including harm reduction supplies.
- Harm reduction supplies only.
Funding Priorities
- Organizations led by a majority of people who use drugs
- Organizations led by a majority of Black, Indigenous, and people of color and/or others disproportionately impacted by the criminalization of drug use (Including those with a history of incarceration, sex work, immigration, etc.)
- Organizations in geographic areas in which limited funding is available for syringes and safer smoking supplies
- Organizations serving areas in which limited to no other programs exist within 100 miles
- Organizations serving areas in which policy improvements can have local, state, and/or national impact
- Organizations serving areas with higher HIV/AIDS and HCV prevalence, injection drug use prevalence, overdose incidence
- Statewide strategic partnerships
- Organizations offering innovative services at a regional or national level.
Funding Information
Average single-year grants range from $2,500 to $20,000.
Geographic Focus
The 50 States, District of Columbia, Native American Reservations/Tribal Land, and Puerto Rico.
Eligibility Requirements
The Comer Family Foundation will make grants to organizations that are exempt from federal tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that are not classified as private foundations under section 509(a) of the code. They welcome applications from tribal governments and organizations that require a fiscal sponsor.
- Organizations with total organizational budgets less than $600,000
- Organizations grounded in harm reduction principle and practice providing access to sterile syringes, safer smoking, and snorting kits, through syringe services and community-based harm reduction (SSPs)
- Syringe services and community-based harm reduction programs must be in operation for one full year.
For more information, visit Comer Family Foundation.
