Deadline: 11 May 2020
The Office of Minority Health (OMH) is offering a funding opportunity to support the development and coordination of a national-state/territorial/tribal-local network of public and community-based organizations that will disseminate COVID-19-related information; disseminate effective response, recovery and resilience strategies; and ensure service linkages for racial and ethnic minority, rural and disadvantaged communities hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Expectations
OMH expects the recipient to:
- Develop and coordinate a national strategic information dissemination network of national, state/territorial/tribal and local organizations.
- Identify state, territories and tribes with highly impacted geographic areas of racial and ethnic minority, rural and/or socially vulnerable individuals at substantially greater risk for COVID-19 infection and adverse outcomes.
- Develop and disseminate culturally and linguistically diverse multimedia outreach and education.
- Partner with community-based organizations (CBOs) to disseminate information and ensure CBOs link at-risk individuals to testing, vaccination, other healthcare, and social services, in particular in highly impacted geographic areas.
- Identify and disseminate successful state, tribal, territorial and local strategies addressing immediate response, recovery and resilience; and implement risk reduction strategies for vulnerable populations in highly impacted geographic areas.
- Develop and implement a Monitoring, Evaluation and Quality Improvement plan.
- Document and disseminate lessons learned, successes, challenges and other project knowledge and findings.
Funding Information
- Estimated Federal Funds Available: $40,000,000 over three years
- Anticipated Number of Awards: 1
- Award Ceiling (Federal Funds including indirect costs): $22,000,000 in year 1
- Award Floor (Federal Funds including indirect costs): $10,000,000 in year 1
- Anticipated Start Date: June 15, 2020
- Estimated Period of Performance: Not to exceed 3 years
- Anticipated Initial Budget Period Length: 12 months
Eligibility Criteria
All entities are eligible except for-profit institutions of higher education and for-profit organizations including small businesses. Eligible applicants includes the U.S. territories and private non-profit institutions of higher education.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=326613