Transformative Grants are focused on supporting the development and implementation of programs and activities that address the four programmatic focuses of the Gilead COMPASS Initiative® Coordinating Centers, including organizational capacity building; wellbeing, mental health, trauma-informed care, substance use, and telehealth; faith based advocacy; and HIV-related stigma reduction.
Donor Name: Gilead COMPASS Initiative
State: Selected States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/11/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
Funding Areas
- Funding Area: Building Organizational Capacity
- Lead Coordinating Center: Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
- This initiative will allow applicants to seek funding to support organizational capacity building activities in at least one of three focus areas: 1) Sustaining and Advancing Initiatives, 2) Organizational Mentoring and Twining and/or 3) Community/System Level Interventions.
- Funding Area: Wellbeing, Mental Health, Trauma-Informed Care, Substance Use and Telehealth
- Lead Coordinating Center: University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work
- This initiative will focus on organizational change in trauma informed care, to include but not limited to, wellness, mental health, substance use (especially opioid use), and telehealth and its intersection with HIV in the Southern United States.
- Funding Area: Reducing HIV-Related Stigma Reduction
- Lead Coordinating Center: Southern AIDS Coalition
- This initiative will focus on supporting the design, implementation, and evaluation of interventions to reduce HIV-related stigma.
- Funding Area: Faith-Based Advocacy & Spiritually Integrated Capacity Building
- Lead Coordinating Center: Wake Forest University School of Divinity
- This initiative will focus on building the capacity of faith leaders’ understanding of and engagement with their communities’ health challenges and opportunities, and equipping them to co-create with key community partners new holistic strategies for addressing HIV/AIDS and related health concerns.
Funding Information
The maximum amount an applicant can request is $100,000 (including overhead).
Grant Period
Applicants must be able to complete work proposed within a 15-month period beginning in June 2024 and ending in December 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants may submit ONE completed Transformative Grant application for consideration for ONE COMPASS Coordinating Center content area. Only applications that meet the following eligibility criteria will be considered for funding:
- Geographic Location
- Applicants must be located in and doing work in one of the following twelve (12) Southern states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and/or Texas.
- Non-Profit Status
- Applicants 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.
For more information, visit Gilead COMPASS Initiative.
