Grant Seeking Essentials Certificate
Grants are one of the best ways for NGOs and nonprofits to fund their programs. But for most people, the grant-seeking process is not straightforward.
In this free online certificate program from DisasterReady, you will learn how to:
- Find the right grants for your organization
- Write excellent grant proposals
- Develop strong relationships with your grantors so you can count on funding for years to come
Over 25,000 people have earned their free Grant Seeking Essentials Certificate. Start earning your certificate today and learn how to win grant funding for your organization.
This certificate is available in English, Arabic, French, and Spanish.
The Wyoming Office of Rural Health Facilitates a Peer-to-Peer Grant Writers Collaborative. This group meets quarterly and if you are interested please email Sharon.Weber@wyo.gov
DuResources for Writing Grants
Finding a Grant
US Grants – Wyoming Department of Health
WY Dept of Health, Community Living
Cynthis Lummis, Funding Opportunities
WYGAP – Wyoming Grant Assistance Program
Available Grants
- HRSA Nursing Workforce Diversity Program– March 18.HRSA’s Bureau of Health Workforce will award approximately $22.2 million to up to 40 grantees to increase nursing education opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Eligible applicants include, but are not limited to: academic health centers, accredited schools of nursing, nursing centers, state and local governments, and tribal organizations.
- VA Supportive Services for Veteran Families Program– March 3. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) estimates 200 awards with total funding of $799 million, with priority given to rural and tribal communities and U.S. territories. The program provides grants to nonprofit organizations and consumer cooperatives to provide supportive services for very low-income veterans and their families residing in or transitioning to permanent housing.
- ACL Advancing Strategies to Deliver and Sustain Evidence-Based Chronic Disease Self-Management Education Programs to Support Older Adult Behavioral Health– February 19. The Administration for Community Living (ACL) aims for grantees to develop and implement multi-faceted strategies for evidence-based chronic disease self-management education programs for adults age 60 and older. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, rural residents are more likely than urban residents to die prematurely from five of the leading causes of death: heart disease, cancer, stroke, unintentional injuries, and chronic lower respiratory disease.
- New Funding Available: HRSA Rural Residency Planning and Development Program– Apply by April 10.As we announced earlier this week, applications are being accepted for 15 awards for the planning and development of new and sustainable residency programs to train physicians in rural areas. A technical assistance webinar via Zoom will be held for applicants on Thursday, Jan 23 at 2:00 pm Eastern.(Not Wednesday, as indicated in the Special Announcement.)Applicants may also benefit from the resources and tools available in the Rural GME Development Portal at RuralGME.org.
- New Funding: HRSA Rural Communities Opioid Response Program – Pathways– Apply by April 14.As part of HRSA’s targeted efforts to address the opioid epidemic in rural communities, the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program – Pathways (RCORP-Pathways) is a new initiative designed to tackle behavioral health care challenges amongst rural youth while building career pathways in the behavioral health workforce. The initiative will support community networks in developing and expanding opportunities for youth in the behavioral health care field through engagement and training. The goals of this funding opportunity include the creation of innovative, youth-focused, peer-driven behavioral healthcare support programs and the development of career pathways to bolster the rural workforce. HRSA plans to make up to 12 awards and recipients can receive up to $400,000 per year over a three-year period of performance. Check this space for more information about a technical assistance webinar for applicants in the coming weeks.
- Regional Telehealth Resource Center (RTRC) Program – Due April 14, 2025. A four-year period of performance (September 1, 2025, to August 31, 2029). HRSA will make up to 12 RTRC Program awards. RTRCs provide expert technical assistance in the development of telehealth services and are geographically located to facilitate activities and distribute resources at the local level.
- National Telehealth Resource Center (NTRC) Program – Due April 14, 2025. A four-year period of performance (September 1, 2025, to August 31, 2029). Up to 2 NTRC Program awards, each up to $325,000 per year, to provide expert and customized telehealth technical assistance across the country. NTRCs provide telehealth support and technical assistance to organizations that receive funding as a regional center and support health care providers across the country. One award will focus on telehealth policy and the other will focus on telehealth technology.
- USDA Rural Utilities Service High Energy Cost Grants – Due February 28. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announces a notice of funding opportunity, subject to appropriation, of up to $10 million in competitive grants to assist communities with extremely high energy costs. The grant funds may be used to acquire, construct, or improve energy generation, transmission, or distribution facilities serving communities where the average annual residential expenditure for home energy exceeds 275 percent of the national average. Eligible projects also include on-grid and off-grid renewable energy projects and the implementation of energy efficiency and energy conservation projects for eligible communities. Projects cannot be for the primary benefit of a single household or business.
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Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program – Due March 17, 2025 – 5-year awards at $75,000/year. Six (6) awards will be made.
The Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program (HTPCP) supports Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program (HTPCP) community-based projects that promote access to preventive clinical and public health services for underserved children.
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 businesses; State, county, city, township, and special district governments, including the District of Columbia, domestic territories, and the freely associated states; Independent school districts; Native American tribal governments. Native American tribal organizations.
- Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program –Apply by January 27. This community-based grant program aims to support organizations to promote rural healthcare services outreach by improving and expanding the delivery of healthcarehealthcare services outreach by improving and expanding the delivery of healthcare 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 healthcare providers, each community can develop innovative approaches to solve their own unique challenges and factors underlying rural health disparities.
- Physicians of Tomorrow Scholarship Program – Due February 17, 2025. The Physicians of Tomorrow Scholarship Program offers scholarships for medical students approaching their final year of medical school. Scholarship awards are made under 12 categories, including scholarships for students underrepresented in medicine (such as Native Americans/Native Hawaiians/Alaska Natives) and students committed to addressing health equity for underserved populations and economically disadvantaged areas. Additional information for each scholarship category is available on the program website.
- Rural Community Hospital Demonstration – Due March 1, 2025. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is now accepting new applications for the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration. The demonstration tests cost-based reimbursement for Medicare inpatient services for small rural hospitals with fewer than 51 beds that are not eligible to be Critical Access Hospitals.
- RCORPS – Overdose Response and apply by March 10. The Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) – Overdose Response is a one-year program supporting improved health care in rural areas by addressing their immediate and short-term needs related to the provision of substance use disorder services. RCORP – Overdose Response aims to reduce and prevent the risk of overdoses in rural areas. HRSA will make approximately 20 awards of up to $300,000 each. FORHP will hold a webinar for applicants on Thursday, January 30, 2025, at 3:00 pm Eastern. Click here to register
- Community Microgrid Assistance Partnership (C-MAP) – Due January 31, 2025. grantees will receive technical support and/or funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) to design or deploy a microgrid that aligns with community-defined priorities or to improve performance of an existing microgrid technology. Microgrids that generate power from renewable energy reduce the dependency on imported fuels, contributing to community self-sufficiency and resilience.
- Rural Health Network Development Planning Program – Apply by February 19, 2025. HRSA expects to make 35 awards, each up to $100,000, to support the development and planning of rural integrated health care networks. Over the one-year performance period, networks will conduct planning activities to achieve greater collective capacity to overcome local challenges, expand access and improve the quality of care in the rural communities these organizations serve.
- Black Lung Clinics Program – Apply by February 11, 2025. FORHP’s Community Based Division will make up to 15 awards to support clinics in reducing the morbidity and mortality associated with occupation related coal mine dust lung disease through the provision of quality medical, outreach, educational, and benefits counseling services for active, inactive, retired, and disabled coal miners. FORHP will hold a technical assistance webinar for applicants on Thursday, December 19 at 1:00 pm Eastern. A separate opportunity,
- Get Help With Your Application to the Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program. HRSA will invest $13 million for up to 50 awards to expand the delivery of health care services in rural communities. We expect to make 40 awards under the program’s regular track to support rural community-identified healthcare needs. We’re setting aside 10 awards for a special track to address the underlying factors that drive rural health disparities related to heart disease, cancer, unintentional injury/substance use, chronic lower respiratory disease, stroke, and maternal health. You can access the program guidance by going to the Notice of Funding Opportunity on Grants.gov and then:
- Click the blue tab labeled “Package”
- Click the blue hyperlink labeled “Preview”
- Click on the gray box labeled “Download Instruction
- Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) Planning and Implementation Grants (due Jan 21, 2025)
- Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training Program for Professionals (HRSA-25-068)
- Due by 11:59 pm ET, January 21, 2025
- The purpose is to increase the supply of behavioral health professionals and improve the distribution of a quality behavioral health workforce. The program aims to increase access to behavioral health services for children, adolescents, and young adults
- HRSA will award approximately $59.6 million to up to 101 grantees over a period of four years through this funding opportunity
- Graduate Psychology Education Program (HRSA-25-067)
- Due by January 21, 2025
- The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released a new Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to increase access to behavioral health services in high need and high demand areas.
- Provides training to doctoral health service psychology students, interns, and postdoctoral residents in integrated, interdisciplinary behavioral health. The program will prepare trainees to provide behavioral health services in community-based primary care settings. The program also supports faculty development in health service psychology.
- HRSA will award approximately $22.8 million to up to 50 grantees over a period of three years through this funding opportunity
- Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Funding: Improving Mental and Behavioral Health (LOI due Jan 14, application due May 6)
- Agricultural Health and Safety Emerging Issues Grant Program
- Grants for short-term projects for emerging agricultural health and safety issues that are defined as health risks that are new or have a rapidly expanding impact in the immediate or near future.
- Geographic coverage: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis
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- Daniels Fund Grants
- Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sources for Data and Background
AHRQ’s Interactive Data Visualization
CDC Rural Public Health At-a-Glance
Economic Analysis Division (WY)
National Association of Rural Health Clinics
National Rural Health Association (NRHA)
Relevant datasets with rural variables on RHIhub
Rural Health Information Hub (RHIhub): Repository of information pertaining to rural America
Rural Health Resources, including the Rural Health Mapping Tool
Rural Health Research Gateway: Research regarding rural health
This website is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of awards to the State Office of Rural Health, the Wyomlng Primary Care Office (PCO), the Medicare Flexibility (Flex) Program and the Small Rural Hospital Improvement Program (SHIP). The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit HRSA.gov.