The CDCC is pleased to solicit applications for its Community Collaboration Mini-Grant Program.
Donor Name: Coordination and Data Collection Center (CDCC)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/26/2022
Size of the Grant: $50,000
Details:
Duke University in partnership with the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is serving as the Coordination and Data Collection Center (CDCC) for the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-supported Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics-Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) program. The goal of the program is to improve access to and uptake of diagnostic COVID-19 testing in underserved, COVID-19 medically, geographically, and socially vulnerable populations (referred to as underserved and vulnerable elsewhere in this RFA).
The CDCC’s Community Collaboration Mini-Grant Program seeks to support the inclusion of additional community partners and stakeholder groups who are not currently part of the RADx-UP program through CDCC subawards.
Engagement in the evaluation and adoption of established and new diagnostic tests by the communities adversely affected by COVID-19 is critical to reducing the disease burden in the United States. This program will provide CDCC subawards (hereinafter referred to as “mini-grants”) to increase the capacity for COVID-19 testing expertise within the community. Increasing training, education, communication, information dissemination, and capacity building related to COVID-19 testing, isolation, contact tracing,among others, in communities will increase their ability to decrease COVID-19 transmission and save lives.
These CDCC mini-grant funds can be used to support personnel costs, contracted service costs (e.g., participant transportation, translation, and interpretation, etc.), and non-personnel costs (e.g., other participant incentives, information and technology equipment) to:
- remove barriers to COVID-19 communication and outreach, COVID-19 testing and diagnosis, and COVID-19 data collection and dissemination testing;
- develop communities of practice between community collaboration CDCC mini-grant sub-awardees and current RADx-UP awardees which will extend communication and outreach, expand testing availability, and enhance data collection and dissemination capacities; and
- evaluate strategies for the communication of test results and follow-up measures to underserved and vulnerable populations;
- provide training and education for community members around COVID-19 testing topics of interest to the community;
- provide funding to increase capacity for COVID-19 testing activities in the community;
- generate communication materials related to COVID-19 testing;
- provide funding for community personnel training on specific aspects of COVID-19 related research including informatics, data collection methods, standardized survey administration, and others.
- collaborate with CEAL programs on activities such as understanding attitudes about testing and vaccines
Funding Information
The RADx-UP CDCC Community Collaboration Mini-Grant Program provides $50,000 for direct costs to support community partners to help advance capacity, training, support, and community experience with COVID-19 testing initiatives.
Eligibility Criteria
- The following organizations are eligible to apply: community serving organizations, faith-based organizations, community-based clinics, and tribal nations and organizations. They are particularly interested in receiving proposals to work with underserved and vulnerable communities not currently engaged with existing RADx-UP awardees; the awardees of the NIH Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities program; and from organizations with a track record of outreach and service to underserved and vulnerable populations. Though not required, they also encourage partnerships with existing RADx-UP and CEAL awardees who may be able to collaborate with mini-grant sub-awardees on their outreach and communication, testing, and data collection and dissemination strategies. Eligible organizations may also include in their applications, collaborations (e.g., consultations and in-kind services) with academic institutions, clinical practices, and others.
- Applicants should propose a process to evaluate the results of their community engagement activities.
For more information, visit Coordination and Data Collection Center (CDCC).
