Deadline: 11-Apr-24
The Transformative Grant provides direct and indirect funding to organizations working in the Southern United States to support the development of programs and activities that align with programmatic focus areas of the compass Initiative and builds the overall capacity of organizations across the U.S. South.
The Transformative Grants provide HIV-serving organizations and faith-based organizations with funding and resources to enhance their capacity, such as provision and sustainability of high quality and accessible HIV education and care. Capacity building is an ongoing effort that aims to build knowledge and improve the skills of organizational staff to positively change an organization’s structures and systems in order to better serve communities. Capacity building is an investment that ultimately strengthens an organization’s mission, improves effectiveness and future sustainability, and most importantly, improves services for communities. This includes strengthening organizational infrastructure; creating upstream (structural) interventions planning like housing or transportation initiatives; developing grassroots, evidence-based, and/or anti-stigma interventions to enhance community mental health and wellness; and building brave and inclusive narrative spaces for LGBTQ+ persons to seek healing in community; and exploring faith and spirituality.
This funding opportunity aims to support the:
- Creation or enhancement of systems and protocols;
- Strategic planning to adopt upstream (structural) public health interventions in HIV-care;
- Development of culturally appropriate, stigma-free interventions;
- Integration of mental health screenings, creation of trauma-informed and affirmative environments for communities; and/or
- Creation of inclusive faith spaces (virtual and/or in-person) for LGBTQ+ persons and people living with and affected by HIV that provide opportunities for physical, emotional, and financial wellness.
- The purpose of this capacity building grant is to help organizations improve internal organizational operations to better serve people living with and/or impacted by HIV in the US South by strengthening leadership, adaptability to organizational, programmatic and environmental changes, resource management, improving systems and skills, and supporting cultural values and norms.
Focus Areas
- Building Organizational Capacity (Emory University Rollins School of Public Health)
- Focus Areas:
- Sustaining and Advancing Initiatives
- Organizational Mentoring and Twinning
- Community/Systems Level Interventions
- Focus Areas:
- Wellbeing, Mental Health, Substance Use, Trauma-Informed Care, and Telehealth (University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work)
- Focus Areas:
- Wellbeing,
- Mental Health,
- Substance Use,
- Trauma-Informed Care,
- Telehealth, and
- Approach Matters: Trauma-Informed Care Organizational Change Initiative
- Focus Areas:
- HIV-Related Stigma Reduction (Southern AIDS Coalition)
- Focus Areas:
- Development or adaptation of an intervention to meet specific community needs.
- Implementation of an intervention that the applicant has previously developed or adapted to meet specific community needs.
- Focus Areas:
- Faith-Based HIV Stigma Reduction (Wake Forest University Faith Coordinating Center)
- Focus Areas:
- Development or adaptation of an intervention to meet specific faith-based community needs.
- Implementation of an intervention that the applicant has previously developed or adapted to meet specific faith-based community needs.
- Focus Areas:
Funding Information
- Building Organizational Capacity (Emory University Rollins School of Public Health)
- Budgets submitted with proposals should include any costs for consultation services and/or training for staff and leadership to address the focus area, any equipment that is needed to build the required capacity, staff time to implement the required changes within the organization, and any other items specific to the project being proposed. Requests should not exceed $100,000.
- Wellbeing, Mental Health, Substance Use, Trauma-Informed Care, and Telehealth (University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work)
- The total budget will be $130,000 in direct funding
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants may submit one completed Transformative Grant application for consideration for ONE COMPASS Coordinating Center content area. Only applications that meet the following eligibility criteria will be considered for funding:
- Geographic Location
- Applicants must be located in and doing work in one of the following twelve (12) Southern states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and/or Texas.
- Non-Profit Status
- Applicants must be non-profit, tax-exempt organizations as set forth in section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code. Applicants that do not hold 501(c)(3) status must have a fiscal sponsor.
- Grant Period
- Applicants must be able to complete work proposed within a 15-month period beginning in June 2024 and ending in September 2025.
- Geographic Location
For more information, visit COMPASS Initiative.