Movember is seeking Respondents to submit a proposal to its Prostate Cancer Health Equity Initiative.
Donor Name: Movember
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/16/2023
Size of the Grant: $100k – $300k
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
The Movember Prostate Cancer Health Equity Initiative aims to fund projects that build or strengthen the evidence base of promising approaches that contribute to health equity, promoting the inclusion and improved outcomes of marginalised and traditionally underrepresented populations of men at risk of or diagnosed and living with prostate cancer.
The purpose of this Initiative is to reduce disparities in prostate cancer outcomes through:
- Generating new knowledge, or
- Strengthening evidence by accelerating adoption and implementation of that knowledge into practice.
Initiative Priorities
Areas of focus prioritized in this Initiative are those that:
- Strengthen health literacy and help seeking behavior of Priority Populations through culturally appropriate mechanisms and practices.
- Improve the understanding of lived experiences of Priority Populations to inform and enable more culturally appropriate treatment or care.
- Provide an improved understanding and application of the systems and models of care supporting and enabling equitable health outcomes of Priority Populations.
- Identify critical gaps in existing population level data for Priority Populations and develop approaches to close these gaps.
- Utilize and improve artificial intelligence or machine learning models to optimize treatment or care for Priority Populations.
- Increase advocacy capacity and capability within communities to drive system level change in health outcomes for Priority Populations.
Funding Information
- National grants being made available to support this Initiative over the next 24-36 months will range between $100k – $300k per grant:
- The total number of grants supported under this Initiative over 3 years will be dependent on the individual amounts requested by project teams.
- Additionally, seed funding up to $10,000 USD may be available to projects that have been invited to submit full proposals and who may need assistance with resource capacity to complete a full application.
Priority Populations
This Initiative seeks engagement with marginalized and traditionally underrepresented communities. They recognize that the scale, scope, and evidence base of these disparities varies across these populations. The initial Priority Populations include:
- Black/African American Men/Men of African and Caribbean descent
- Hispanic and Latino Men
- American Indian/Native American/Alaska Native/Indigenous American Men
- Men living in rural or remote areas
- Minority populations based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity.
Funding Eligibility
- Movember is committed to capacity building and strengthening Priority Populations through this Initiative. It is strongly encouraged that the lead applicant be part of the Prioritized Population represented in the Application or have a strong track record in serving, representing, and collaborating with the community.
- It is expected that this Initiative will appeal to collaborative groups and teams:
- Health care institutions, organizations or departments providing prostate cancer care delivery and/or research.
- Public Health or community health agencies and/or organizations supporting prostate cancer services and improving equity of health outcomes.
- Community or patient centered organizations.
- Prostate cancer outcomes networks, registries, or organizations.
- Transdisciplinary early career investigators from Universities/Research Institutes that have experience in partnering with Priority Populations.
- Public/private sector organizations engaged in advocacy work focused on addressing the social determinants of health, social justice, and health equity to decrease health disparities.
Eligibility Criteria
- Be based in the United States. The lead applicant would ideally be part of or represent and serve the Prioritized Population.
- Be legally able to accept grant funds within the United States.
- Participate in the program evaluation and agree to ensure roll-out/delivery of controlled evaluation with Movember’s evaluation partner.
- Be implementing an existing program with an underlying evidence base OR proposing a new area of research that is aligned with the funding goals.
- Be willing to report back on findings and be willing to share results with the Movember community and stakeholders, and to participate in a Knowledge Community.
- Provide annual updates on deliverables, project progress and grant fund expenditures.
For more information, visit Movember.
