The CDC Foundation is issuing a request for proposals for community-based organizations and local health departments to provide feedback on the ease of collecting data for overdose prevention indicators in the communities they serve.
Donor Name: CDC Foundation
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: American Samoa, Guam, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/04/2023
Size of the Grant: Up to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
The CDC Foundation will award four to eight applicants with funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies. CDC will provide technical assistance. Awards will be issued under one of the following configurations:
- Project initiated and led by CBOs including but not limited to drug overdose/harm reduction coalitions/organizations, faith-based organizations, organizations focused on health equity, unhoused, veterans and/or others that are working in collaboration with a local and/or state health department or are willing to build a collaborative data sharing relationship.
- Project led by an intermediary organization or other nonprofit that collaborates with CBOs and local health departments but may include other partners, e.g., CBOs, health care/clinical services, public safety, unhoused, veterans and/or others.
- Project initiated and led by a local health department but may include other partners, e.g., CBOs, health care/clinical services, public safety, unhoused, veterans and/or others.
The CDC Foundation will fund strategies and activities to address the Challenge Statement and tasks outlined in the evaluation criteria. They seek proposals for projects that:
- Share resources and equitably distribute resources among partners.
- Build an increased capacity to evaluate and implement overdose prevention indicators at the local level that can lead to equitable decreases in overdoses.
- Are modest in scale, specific, innovative and achievable by August 31, 2024.
- Complete activities that promote mutually beneficial relationships and collaborations between public health partners and community-based organizations and leaders.
- Will be able to demonstrate how associated activities and outputs impact the tracking and evaluation of overdose prevention strategies and approaches equitably.
Funding Information
- Applicants can receive awards of up to $100,000. This award will support participation in a year-long pilot to help inform refinement of overdose prevention indicators and the development of tools for a web-based toolkit.
- Grant must be used for the purposes described in the grantee’s application and must be expended or committed between September 1, 2023 – August 31, 2024.
Eligibility Criteria
To apply, an organization must be a CBO, intermediary organization or nonprofit that has a history of partnering with CBOs or a local health department, that performs overdose evaluation or prevention work and can track/report on a specific set of indicators selected by partners. Applicants must be based in the US (states, territories and commonwealths).
Community-based organization is defined as a public/private non-profit organization of demonstrated effectiveness that is:
- Representative of a community or significant segments of a community; and
- Provides healthcare, educational, social services or related services to individuals in the community.
Intermediary organization is defined as a mission-driven organization that aims to link donors (individuals, foundations and corporations) more effectively with organizations and individuals delivering charitable services.
Local health department is defined as the designated health entity in a city or county that works with healthcare and community partners to prevent and target disease or public health issues and determines the appropriate response by collecting, tracking and analyzing data.
Further, applicant organizations must:
- Have sustainable operations, be in good financial standing and have a proven record of program effectiveness; and
- Be an equal opportunity employer with all-inclusive membership that does not discriminate on the basis of gender, race/ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, country of national origin or nationality, age, religion, intellectual or physical disabilities and military or veteran status in its activities or operations.
For more information, visit CDC Foundation.
