The CDC Foundation invites proposals from Tribes, Tribal Serving Organizations (TSOs), and Urban Indian Organizations (UIOs) [T/TSOs/UIOs] to implement and evaluate the updated Healthy Native Babies Project (HNBP) materials within their service areas.
Donor Name: CDC Foundation
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/02/2026
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Less than 1 Year
Details:
This initiative aims to strengthen culturally relevant infant safe-sleep education, increase community awareness, and support Native families in reducing sleep-related infant deaths. Selected T/TSOs/UIOs will adapt, disseminate, and assess the use of HNBP materials in ways that reflect the cultural, linguistic, and community-specific needs of the Native populations they serve.
This project is a rapid turnaround project to support T/TSOs/UIOs in:
- Implementing HNBP materials in clinical, community, and family setting
- Training staff and community partners
- Evaluating reach, effectiveness, and community feedback
- Identifying barriers, facilitators, lessons learned, and best practices for future replication
Funding Information
Grants Up to $100,000.
Grant Period
April 20, 2026 to September 29, 2026.
Project Activities
- Implementation and Sustainability Efforts
- Integrate HNBP materials into existing maternal and child health programs, which could include home visiting, WIC, public health nursing, community outreach, or clinical care settings.
- Customize materials for local cultural context ensuring adaptations remain aligned with core HNBP messages.
- Conduct targeted outreach to caregivers, families, extended kinship networks, Elders, and/or community partners to increase awareness and reinforce safe infant sleep practices.
- Provide staff training and technical assistance on safe sleep messaging, culturally respectful communication, and effective delivery of HNBP materials across diverse settings.
- Build sustainability capacity, including:
- Developing simple tools, job aids, and/or integration plans that allow T/ TSOs UIOs to continue HNBP activities beyond the contract period.
- Supporting identification of local HNBP champions, possibly using training-of trainers (TOT) approaches to maintain local expertise.
- Identifying areas to embed HNBP implementation practices into routine workflows, policies, and onboarding processes.
Eligibility Criteria
All applicants must meet the following criteria:
- Be a federally recognized Tribe, a Tribal-Serving Organization, or an Urban Indian Organization operating in the United States.
- Must be legally registered and authorized to operate in the United States.
- Must demonstrate experience serving American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations within their Tribal, Tribal-serving, or urban service areas.
- Must demonstrate experience in public health program implementation and basic evaluation activities, including the ability to collect, interpret, and report qualitative and/or quantitative data.
- Must have adequate staffing capacity in place at the time of award to support implementation, training participation, sustainability planning, community engagement, and evaluation activities.
- Must demonstrate cultural competency or experience working within culturally grounded public health programs serving AI/AN communities.
- Must commit to participating in sustainability planning, including identifying sustainability options and needs, engaging Tribal leaders and/or champions, and considering long-term approaches such as embedding HNBP practices into local protocols, websites, or onboarding processes.
For more information, visit CDC Foundation.
