Funding Opportunities

To submit a funding opportunity for considered posting, please e-mail iowapha@gmail.com.

To access funding opportunities available through the Iowa Department of Public Health, visit IDPH's Grants, Bids and Proposals.

Iowa Smart Planning Initiative Makes $1 Million Grant Pool Available for Counties and Cities in 2008 Presidentially Declared Disaster Areas
 
Eligible applicants include any of the 85 counties that were presidentially declared disaster areas as a result of the storms of 2008, as well as any city government within those counties.  Up to $50,000 per participating governmental entity may be requested.  Applicants must provide a one-to-one match.  Multi-jurisdictional plans are encouraged.
 
These grants are intended to support development and adoption of forward-thinking comprehensive plans that will guide long-term recovery efforts and subsequent decisions that reduce existing or future development in flood-risk areas.  Application guidelines, as well as the application form, can be found at  http://www.rio.iowa.gov/smart_planning/index.html.  The deadline to apply is Sept. 30.
 
The Rebuild Iowa Office is coordinating the program’s application process and the Iowa Department of Economic Development is administering the contracting and reimbursement process.
 
The program is based on the Iowa Smart Planning Principles and local comprehensive planning guidance contained in Senate File 2389, which was signed into law on April 26.  Smart Planning is meant to improve community resiliency following the storms of 2008 in ways that increase economic opportunity, protect environmental resources, and improve quality of life.
 
Funding source:  Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Who is eligible? Applicants must meet the following requirements:

• The proposed project must take place in one of the fifty states or Washington, D.C.
• The applicant must be a teacher or service-learning coordinator at a public, private, faith-based, or charter school; or 
• an instructor or service-learning coordinator at an institution of higher education; or
• student(s) in the health professions; or
• staff at a community-based non-profit organization.

Visit www.YSA.org/HEROES to apply. Applications must be submitted online by midnight ET on Oct. 22, 2010.  Click here to access a program brochure.

Rural Health Network Development Grant Program (RHND)

Announcement Number HRSA-11-089, CFDA Number 93.912. This is a program to assist health oriented networks in developing and maintaining sustainable networks with self-generating revenue streams.  These networks should provide activities that benefit both network partners and the community served by the network to increase access and quality of rural health care and ultimately, improve the health status of rural residents. Networks should have a significant history of organizational collaboration and must have a memorandum of understanding (MOU) prior to applying to this program.  This program is a three year grant program with individual grant awards limited to a maximum of $180,000 per year.  There will be a Technical Assistance Call on Thursday, October 7, 2010 at 2PM EST to assist applicants in preparing their applications.  The toll-free number to call in is 888-603-9752. The Passcode is Network.  The Technical Assistance call will be recorded and available for playback within one hour of the end of the call and will be available until November 12, 2010. The phone number to hear the recorded call is 1-800-944-3317.

The application due date is November 12, 2011.
 
To download this funding opportunity, please visit: www.grants.gov Once you are on this website, please click on Find Grant Opportunities, Basic Search where you can type in the announcement number (HRSA-11-089) or CFDA number (93.912). All applications are required to be submitted electronically- no paper applications will be accepted this year. ORHP strongly encourages applicants submit their applications ahead of the due date to avoid any technical problems.
 
As you will read in the Network Development guidance under Executive Summary, it is anticipated that there will be a similar one-time funding opportunity in fiscal year 2011 called the Rural Health Information Technology Network Program.  The primary objective of this program is to support organizations that wish to further ongoing collaborative relationships among healthcare organizations to integrate health information technological systems.  The Rural Health Information Technology Network program is a three year grant program with an equipment purchase limit of 60% each year and individual grant awards will be limited to a maximum of $300,000 per year.  Note: Applicants cannot apply to the Rural Health Network Development Grant Program and the Rural Health Information Technology Network Program in the same fiscal year. ORHP does not currently have any additional information on the new Rural HIT program. Once ORHP has developed the program details, information will be sent out.
 
For further information on the Rural Health Network Development Grant Program (RHND), please contact Leticia Manning, lmanning@hrsa.gov or 301-443-8335.