The Santa Barbara Foundation is inviting applicants for its Tri-Counties Blood Bank Fund Grant.
Donor Name: Santa Barbara Foundation
State: California
County:
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/08/2023
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
In August 1997, Tri-Counties Blood Bank (TCBB), a nonprofit public benefit corporation, sold all of its assets to Haemonetics Corporation, a Massachusetts for-profit corporation. In accordance with the California Corporation Code, after payment of liabilities and expenses, the remaining TCBB funds were transferred to the Santa Barbara Foundation, the San Luis Obispo Community Health Foundation, and the Monterey Community Foundation.
Through an annual Request for Proposal (RFP) process, the Foundation will distribute the income generated from the Fund to qualified nonprofit organizations. The Fund is restricted to activities that support blood and blood-related products and services in accordance with the plan of disposition.
The plan of disposition is divided into three distinct sections. This RFP covers the implementation of Indigent Care Grants, Education Grants, and Scholarships as prescribed by the plan.
Types of Support
This RFP covers the implementation of Indigent Care Grants, Education Grants, and Scholarships as prescribed by the plan and described as follows:
Indigent Care Grants
To reimburse “qualified hospitals” for “un-reimbursed costs” directly related to providing blood or blood products to “qualified patients” within Santa Barbara County.
- Qualified patient” is a patient in a qualified hospital who is not covered by any form of private or government insurance whose income is 200% or less of the federal poverty line.
- “Unreimbursed costs ”are the qualified hospital’s direct cost of obtaining blood and blood products from a blood bank (i.e., the amount the qualified hospital actually pays to the blood bank for the blood or blood products), without regard to what the hospital charges its patients or their insurers for blood or blood products, and without regard to any expenses of the qualified hospital, including storage, handling, administrative fees, testing, etc.
Education Grants and Scholarships
Education grants are intended for:
- Advanced education in medical technology or nursing related to blood banking
- This supports any relevant training that could improve blood banking or the ability of hospital staff to work with the National Blood Foundation. It covers the full range of continuing education options, including in-service training.
- Physician education on techniques and development of transfusion medicine
- This covers the full range of enrichment and continuing education options including in-service training.
- Community education on blood and blood diseases
- This covers continuing education of medical practitioners as well as broad-based education targeting the general population. For example, community education might include the following: educating school-age children about blood and blood-borne diseases; conducting broad-based educational programs to reach the community-at-large in the event of a critical shortage of blood; the dissemination of new information to the community concerning a blood-borne disease.
Scholarships are intended for
- Post-doctoral education in a non-medical discipline related to blood and blood banking
- This program is only available to post-doctoral candidates enrolled at UCSB in departments such as, but not limited to, Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology; Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.
- Medical education in the specialties of hematology/oncology.
Project Period
The grant period is up to one year from the award date. A final report is required and due within 13 months of the grant award, preferably no later than 30 days following the project completion.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizations must be certified as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or use a fiscal sponsor with 501(c)(3) tax status. Applications that do not contain a valid EIN (tax ID) number will not be considered. Organizations using a fiscal sponsor must include a one-page letter signed by the fiscal sponsor’s executive director signifying the intent to serve as such and describing the relationship between the fiscal sponsor and the sponsored organization.
- Hospitals operated by the federal government (i.e., veterans administration hospitals) and facilities operated by the State of California (i.e., hospitals operated by the Department of Corrections) are not eligible to apply.
- The geographic service area for the Fund is Santa Barbara County.
- Qualified applicants may apply for an Indigent Care Grant, Education Grant, and/or Scholarship. If you are applying in more than one category, separate applications are required for each.
For more information, visit Santa Barbara Foundation.
