The Faith Organizational Resiliency Grant is 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
State: Selected States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/08/2023
Size of the Grant: up to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
Wake Forest University School of Divinity is seeking to fund Organizational Resiliency activities that focus on infrastructure development and coalition and network building between faith communities and non-traditional partners. Especially during the time of COVID-19, they understand the particular challenges that faith communities have faced with engaging with members at a physical distance and online. Organizational Resiliency grants will support the establishment of infrastructures to enhance communications, trauma informed care, health ministries, and other programs to respond to the HIV crisis in the South and promote healing and life-enhancing possibilities for those impacted by HIV/AIDS.
Example of funded activities in this focus area might include:
- 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 state or national faith based organizations and communities;
- Trainings 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, fonomic jusrity as it overlaps with HIV and faith
- Faith leader care (mental health, bereavement, burn out) and ministering to people living with HIV on a statewide or national level
- Programs to engage Black women on stigma, HIV prevention and/or HIV treatment
Award Amount
Awards are up to $100,000. The amount of your request should reflect the scope of your project and related expenses.
Grant cycle
July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2024
Eligibility
- Currently, 501(c)(3) organizations (or organizations with a fiscal sponsor) operating in any of the twelve (12) Deep South states (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, OK, SC, TN, TX) are eligible to apply for support of programs focused on participants in said states. Individuals are not eligible for grant awards.
- If your organization is considering multiple grant opportunities from the Faith Coordinating Center or other Gilead COMPASS Coordinating Centers (Houston, Emory, Southern AIDS Coalition), please take the time to research each opportunity to assess them for appropriateness and capacity of your organization to achieve the deliverables. Each Coordinating Center requires funded partners to participate in extensive, required training opportunities and deliverables in addition to the proposed project, which may overextend small organizations. They want you to be successful in your projects, so please only propose projects that can be feasibly completed based on your organizational capacity.
For more information, visit Faith Organizational Resiliency Grants.
