Faith Capacity Building Grants will provide funding of up to $200,000 to provide resources for faith-based organizations and/or nonprofit organizations to develop and scale programs and initiatives or conduct research to enhance communications, trauma-informed care, health ministries, and other programs that promote positive and transformative faith and health outcomes throughout the Southern region of the United States, specifically in the area of HIV.
Donor Name: Gilead COMPASS Initiative®
States: Selected States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/02/2022
Size of the Grant: $200,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
Focus Areas
- Focus groups, online surveys, or other formative research with PLHIV, people affected by HIV/AIDS, and/or those providing social or emotional support to people affected by HIV/AIDS, with a particular focus on faith-based approaches to engaging these groups (conducted on a statewide or national level);
- Formalizing an existing program that has been well-received in the state or national faith-based organizations and communities;
- Training for faith leaders and lay audiences in faith communities to build their capacity to develop content and/or facilitate the intervention on a statewide or national level
- Develop an app or other online intervention to enhance faith leader training and sustainable programming on a statewide or national level
- Establishing partnerships across interfaith, medical, and/or academic sectors on a statewide or national level
- Expanding existing partnerships across interfaith (Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, traditional African spirituality, etc.) perspectives and/or medical and academic sectors on a statewide or national level
- Bridging HIV, faith, and advocacy work in local, state, or national legislatures
- Addressing inequities in housing, economic justice, food insecurity as it overlaps with HIV and faith
- Faith leader care (mental health, bereavement, burnout) and ministering to people living with HIV on a statewide or national level
Funding Information
- The maximum amount an applicant can request is $200,000 (including overhead).
Grant Period
Applicants must be able to complete the work proposed within a 12-month period beginning on July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2023. Funds must be expended by June 30, 2023.
Geographic Areas
Applicants must be located in and doing work in the following 12 Southern states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, or Texas.
Eligibility Criteria
Applications must be non-profit, tax-exempt organizations as set forth in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Applicants that do not hold 501(c)(3) status must have a fiscal sponsor to apply.
For more information, visit Faith Capacity Building Grants.
