The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking applications for its Community-Partnered Nursing Research Centers Initiative.
Donor Name: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/26/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
The purpose of this initiative is to support the development of innovative research centers to foster nursing-led programs that promote community-partnered research to address persistent health challenges. Center applications developed in response to this NOFO should propose strategies to strengthen the research infrastructure by establishing or expanding centralized research resources in School or College of Nursing (SON/CON), developing and enhancing nurse-led interdisciplinary teams, and building expertise in community-partnered research through conducting pilot research that applies NINR’s research lenses. Center strategies should be informed by NINR’s mission and should meaningfully engage the community throughout all activities.
Nurses understand that improving health and well-being means addressing people’s needs in multiple settings, contexts, and over the life course. NINR-supported science uses nursing’s holistic patient and community-focused perspective and wide reach across clinical and community settings to improve individual and population health by addressing the conditions where people live, learn, work, and play: those factors that are at the root of the health challenges that see. NINR has a longstanding and continued commitment to developing the next generation of nurse scientists: those individuals and teams who will carry nursing research into the future.
Research Objectives
The P20 Exploratory Centers will aim to foster nursing-led programs that promote community-partnered research to address persistent health challenges. This will be accomplished by developing and enhancing capacity for interdisciplinary, community-partnered research that advances the NINR mission by:
- Establishing centralized research resources in SON/CON.
- Building the Center’s community-partnered research expertise.
- Developing nurse-led, interdisciplinary research teams that partner with the community in the development, implementation, and evaluation of research efforts.
The goal of the P20 Exploratory Centers is the development of sustainable research infrastructure to advance community-partnered research programs. Centers should foster collaborations between scientists within the SON/CON, and across other disciplines and institutions to promote a multifaceted approach toward the common goal of addressing persistent health challenges. The NINR P20 Exploratory Center must be an identifiable unit within a School or College of Nursing (SON/CON). The Center Director must demonstrate a proven track record of NIH or other funding at a similar scale (e.g., NIH R01, P01 or U-series awards or other significant peer-reviewed funding from Federal or private sources) to show the capacity for advising new and early-stage investigators and post-doctoral fellows.
The Center should be built on one or more existing community partnerships. A representative from the community (e.g., community organization) must serve as a co-investigator and key personnel of the Center overall. Each pilot must involve at least one academic investigator and one community investigator as a co-investigator and key personnel.
Funding Information
Application budgets are limited to less than $500,000 in direct costs per year and must reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.
Project Period
The maximum project period is 5 years.
Eligibility Criteria
Higher Education Institutions – Includes all types
- Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
- Private Institutions of Higher Education
Nonprofits Other Than Institutions of Higher Education
- Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
For-Profit Organizations
- Small Businesses
- For-Profit Organizations (Other than Small Businesses)
Local Governments
- State Governments
- County Governments
- City or Township Governments
- Special District Governments
- Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
- Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Other than Federally Recognized)
Federal Governments
- Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government
- U.S. Territory or Possession
Other
- Independent School Districts
- Public Housing Authorities/Indian Housing Authorities
- Native American Tribal Organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Faith-based or Community-based Organizations
- Regional Organizations
Foreign Organizations
- Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Organization) are not eligible to apply.
- Non-domestic (non-U.S.) components of U.S. Organizations are not eligible to apply.
- Foreign components, as defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, are not allowed.
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