The Minnesota Department of Health is seeking applications for Indian Health Grant Program to provide assistance to eligible applicants to furnish clinical health services for American Indians who live off reservations.
Donor Name: Minnesota Department of Health
State: Minnesota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 10/27/2022
Grant Size: $100,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
Priorities
Health Equity Priorities
It is the policy of the State of Minnesota to ensure fairness, precision, equity and consistency in competitive grant awards. This includes implementing diversity and inclusion in grant-making. The Policy on Rating Criteria for Competitive Grant Review establishes the expectation that grant programs intentionally identify how the grant serves diverse populations, especially populations experiencing inequities and/or disparities.
This grant will serve:
- American Indian people that do not live within the jurisdiction of a Tribal Nation with preventative, medical, dental and mental health care. Clinics may provide one or more of these services and are not required to provide all.
Grant outcomes will include:
- Improving outreach and access to culturally comfortable medical, dental, and/or mental health care to American Indian people living off reservation.
Funding Information
- Estimated Annual Amount to Grant $394,000
- Estimated Number of Awards 4-5
- Estimated Annual Award Maximum $100,000
- January 1, 2023-December 31, 2024.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible entities include nonprofit organizations, governmental or tribal entities providing clinical health services to American Indian people that do not live within the jurisdiction of a Tribal Nation. For purposes of this program, the following definitions apply:
- “Clinical health services” means outpatient or ambulatory services for the diagnosis or treatment of illness or injury or the maintenance of health. Clinics may be stationary or mobile and must not be solely for the purpose of urgent nor emergent care. Eligible health services include preventative, medical, dental and mental health. Clinics may provide one or more of these services and are not required to provide all.
- “Resides off reservation” means persons not living on Indian land who are members of an organized tribe, band or other group of aboriginal people of the United States, having a treaty relationship with the federal government and who are regarded as American Indians by the group in which they claim membership.
For more information, visit Minnesota Department of Health.
