The Comer Family Foundation is accepting applications for its Syringe Service Grant Program to improve the health and wellness of people who use drugs.
Donor Name: Comer Family Foundation
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: American Samoa, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/01/2022
Size of Grant: $2,500-$20,000
Details:
The grant program provides free sterile syringes, education, and community wraparound services to reduce opioid overdose and the transmission of HIV and viral hepatitis.
Funding Information
Average single-year grants range from $2,500 to $20,000.
Funding Priorities
- Organizations in geographic areas in which access to sterile syringes can be dramatically improved.
- 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.
- Organizations led by and for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.
- Organizations led by people who use drugs.
- Organizations with limited funding available for harm reduction.
- Organizations actively developing local and community financial support.
- Statewide strategic partnerships.
Eligibility Criteria
- 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.
- Applications from organizations that require a fiscal sponsor are also accepted.
- 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 comprehensive harm reduction syringe service programs (SSPs)
- Harm reduction syringe service programs in operation for one full year.
For more information, visit Comer Family Foundation.
