Deadline: 19-Jul-21
Applications are now open for the Opioid Crisis Innovation Challenge 2021 to convene and support partners advancing patient-centered, innovative, evidence-based solutions addressing this public health challenge.
Focus Areas
Currently, this opportunity will focus on projects in the following three areas which, based on discussions with experts in the field, are widely recognized challenges to adequately address the opioid crisis with few examples of how to approach differently to accelerate improvements in reducing overdoses, increasing access to treatment, and supporting longterm recovery:
- Professional Education and Training. Stigma towards those with addiction continues to be a barrier to evidence-based treatment, as well as to the resources and capital a person needs to sustain long-term recovery, such as employment.
- While there is an increase in available professional education on addiction and recovery among healthcare, education, legal, criminal justice, and other professionals, these are still not routinely taught.
- Projects in this focus area may include innovative new approaches to educating professionals and addressing stigma within these and other settings.
- Timely and Actionable Data. Real-time and actionable data is still severely lacking for all levels of government to appropriately respond to the crisis.
- The COVID-19 pandemic shined a light on how to utilize new emerging technologies to create new data systems for tracking public health crises in real-time.
- Projects in this focus area may include integrating new and untapped data sources across different sectors to generate a more in-depth understanding of the crisis, as well as applying new emerging technologies (such as machine learning and artificial intelligence) to aid in national, state, and local government responses.
- Supporting the Transition from Treatment to Recovery. While much focus has been put on access to treatment, there is a great need to aid those transitioning from treatment to recovery.
- As individuals facing transitions or life course changes are often at increased vulnerability, it is important that they “meet patients where they are.”
- Projects in this focus area may include novel uses of technology, such as digital and mobile apps, as well as other innovative ways to support those transitioning to long-term recovery.
Funding Information
- Applicants may apply for a grant of up to $300,000 a year for up to two years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Generally, FORE will consider grant requests for specific projects from U.S.-based public charities that are tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, as well as from nonprofit, tax-exempt universities.
- The Foundation will also consider grant requests from state, local, and Native American tribal government units or agencies for specific charitable projects.
Ineligible
- FORE will not provide grants to Section 509(a)(3) supporting organizations, congregational religious organizations, or private individuals.
- General purpose grants and payments to individual government employees or officials are not permitted.
- The Foundation will not consider grant requests for fundraising events, non-profit and school sponsored athletic-related events, political advocacy and related activities, and endowment funds.
For more information, visit https://forefdn.org/grants-and-funding/