The National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) and the Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN) invites applicants to apply for the 2025 Cancer and Environment Mini-Grants.
Donor Name: National Center for Healthy Housing
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/13/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Details:
To help communities build capacity and advance scientific understanding of unusual patterns of cancer or efforts to understand potential relationships with environmental hazards, the National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) and the Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN) invite communities to apply for a bundled award of financial and technical support over six months that includes access to technical assistance from a network of national experts, opportunities to engage in peer learning, and a $25,000 grant that may provide funding for unique needs specific to a community or its members when addressing unusual patterns of cancer and environmental concerns.
Benefits
The selected communities will receive support to advance their local investigations of unusual patterns of cancer and response efforts. These benefits include but may not be limited to the following:
- Coaching and support: Six months of direct support and technical assistance (TA) from the Children’s Environmental Health Network, the National Center for Healthy Housing, and other national experts/SMEs who will be invited based on the needs and concerns expressed by the selected communities.
- Peer learning: Opportunities to interact with and learn from other communities tackling similar issues with shared goals to investigate unusual patterns of cancer and to share successes and challenges.
Funding Information
A $25,000 grant award to support project activities.
Eligibility Criteria
- Local, regional, U.S. territorial, tribal, or state nonprofit and/or community-based groups or organizations are eligible to apply for this grant opportunity.
- Note that groups do not need to be a registered nonprofit or 501(c)(3) to apply. Organizations must be based in the United States. For-profit organizations are not eligible to apply.
- Applicants will be asked to identify their proposal as being in the development or implementation phase, but their status will not affect scoring or final selection. Communities should clearly state their questions related to unusual patterns of cancer and/or environmental concerns. If a proposed approach has been identified, they should state that in their proposal.
- Development phase: Communities should identify their proposal as being in the development phase if they need assistance in identifying or prioritizing promising strategies (e.g. obtaining technical assistance for help obtaining, analyzing, or understanding cancer statistics or environmental data), convening stakeholders to spark collaboration and dialogue, and/or they are in the early stages of the proposed work.
- Implementation phase: Communities should identify their proposal as being in the implementation phase if they have defined priorities (e.g., specific environmental exposure concerns or goals or activities around understanding or engaging with health risk policy or practice) and objectives and/or they have some infrastructure in place to build on to achieve the proposed work.
For more information, visit NCHH.
