Rural Spotlight

December 19, 2024

Funding Opportunity: Rural Health Network Development Planning Program, HRSA-25-037, Apply by February 19

The Rural Health Network Development Planning Program supports the planning and development of rural integrated health care networks with specific focus on collaboration of entities to establish or improve local capacity and care coordination in underserved communities. Specifically, the program uses the concept of developing networks as a strategy for linking rural health care network participants together to achieve greater collective capacity to overcome local challenges, expand access and improve the quality of care in the rural communities these organizations serve.

The program helps network participants work together on three legislative aims:

• Achieve efficiencies
• Expand access to, coordinate, and improve the quality of basic health care services and associated health outcomes
• Strengthen the rural health care system as a whole

The intent is that rural health networks will do the following:

• Expand access to care,
• increase the use of health information technology,
• explore alternative health care delivery models, and
• continue to achieve quality health care across the continuum of care.

Examples of previously funded projects under this program can be found online at the Rural Health Information Hub.

Eligible Applicants

• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• City or township governments
• Private institutions of higher education
• For profit organizations other than small businesses
• Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
• State governments
• Independent school districts
• Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments)
• Special district governments
• County governments
• Public and State controlled institutions of higher education

Click Here to See Examples of Previously Funded Projects

Click Here to Access Evidence-Based Toolkits for Rural Community Health

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December 19, 2024

Funding Opportunity: Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program (HTPCP) HRSA-25-019, Apply by March 17

The purpose of the Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program  (HTPCP) HRSA-25-019, is to support community-based projects that promote access to preventive clinical and public health services for underserved children.

HTPCP projects must align with at least one of these child health topics:

• Children’s behavioral health screenings and referrals
• Children’s immunizations
• Adolescents’ well-visits

Eligible Applicants

• County governments
• Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• Special district governments
• State governments
• City or township governments
• Private institutions of higher education
• Independent school districts
• Small businesses
• For profit organizations other than small businesses
• Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education

Other Eligible Applicants

These types of domestic organizations may apply:

• Public institutions of higher education
• Private institutions of higher education
• Nonprofits with or without a 501(c)(3) IRS status
• For profit organizations, including small business
• State, county, city, township, and special district governments
• Independent school districts
• Native American tribal governments
• Native American tribal organizations

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December 17, 2024

Open Funding Opportunity: Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program, HRSA-25-038, Apply by January 27

The Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program is a community-based grant program that aims to support organizations to promote rural health care services outreach by improving and expanding the delivery of health care services to include new and enhanced services in rural areas.

To achieve this purpose, the program also aims to strengthen local resources and capacity in rural communities. Through collaborative consortiums that include three or more health care providers, each community can develop innovative approaches to solve their own unique challenges and factors underlying rural health disparities.

Eligible Applicants

• City or township governments
• Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
• Special district governments
• Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• Others (see below)
• Private institutions of higher education
• For profit organizations other than small businesses
• Independent school districts
• Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
• County governments
• Small businesses
• State governments

Other Eligible Applicants

• All domestic public or private, non-profit and for-profit entities

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