Deadline: 23-Dec-22
The Coordination and Data Collection Center (CDCC) is seeking applications for its Community Collaboration Mini-Grant Program to support the inclusion of additional community partners and stakeholder groups who are not currently part of the RADx-UP program through CDCC subawards.
The RADx-UP CDCC Community Collaboration Mini-Grant Program provides $50,000 for direct costs to support community partners to help advance capacity, training, support, and community experience with COVID-19 testing initiatives. It is open to community serving organizations, faith-based organizations, and tribal nations and organizations.
Awardees use funding to remove barriers to COVID-19 communication and outreach, COVID-19 testing and diagnosis, and COVID-19 data collection and dissemination testing. They may provide training and education for community members around COVID-19 testing topics of interest or generate communication materials related to COVID-19 testing.
Funding Information
- The mini-grant budget covers expenditures of up to $50,000 in direct costs for a 12-month period. The budget period will begin after the initiation of the project, or if applicable, when other approvals are received
Eligibility Criteria
The following organizations are eligible to apply:
- Community serving organizations, faith-based organizations, community-based clinics, and tribal nations and organizations.
- They are particularly interested in receiving proposals to work with underserved and vulnerable communities not currently engaged with existing RADx-UP awardees;
- The awardees of the NIH Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities program; and from organizations with a track record of outreach and service to underserved and vulnerable populations.
- Though not required, They also encourage partnerships with existing RADx-UP and CEAL awardees who may be able to collaborate with mini-grant sub-awardees on their outreach and communication, testing, and data collection and dissemination strategies.
- Eligible organizations may also include in their applications, collaborations (eg, consultations and in-kind services) with academic institutions, clinical practices, and others.
- Applicants should propose a process to evaluate the results of their community engagement activities.
For more information, visit CDCC.
For more information, visit https://radx-up.org/grants/community-collaboration/