The Community Champions for Disability Health Challenge seeks to engage community groups and support their initiatives to improve health equity for people with disabilities.
Donor Name: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Awards and Prizes
Deadline: 11/02/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Administration for Community Living (ACL) are working to reduce health disparities experienced by people with disabilities. In September 2023, NIH officially designated people with disabilities as a health disparities population, which both drew attention to the topic and opened funding opportunities for academic research. NIH is addressing health disparities caused by ableism (the belief that people with disabilities are inferior or inadequate leading to discrimination and social prejudice) in healthcare and clinical research through a variety of traditional academic research projects. This prize competition seeks to complement these efforts by engaging with and directly supporting initiatives to improve health equity for disabled people conducted by community groups.
This Challenge calls upon community groups with experience serving those with disabilities to lead the way in proposing solutions that can transform health outcomes. Community organizations are essential to developing and disseminating interventions that are both effective and sustainable in reducing health disparities for disabled people. This competition is about taking actionable steps to ensure health equity for all. The National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research, at the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) is leveraging this prize competition to support community-led solutions.
Funding Information
The Challenge is offering a total prize purse of $485,000 which will be distributed across multiple phases of the competition and awarded to organizations who successfully complete the objectives and requirements.
Eligibility Criteria
This challenge is open to all 501(c)3 organizations that are not institutions of higher learning. Examples of eligible organizations include: advocacy, local community, faith-based, and other similar groups. Additionally, you must have a primary place of business in the United States. Your organization may choose to partner with other groups, but the lead organization submitting to this challenge must be non-academic, non-profit, and not a primary recipient of NIH funding (i.e., you may be a partner organization on a grant award or contract but your organization is not the primary recipient). You may add or change partners as you move through the different phases of the challenge.
For more information, visit NIH.
