Deadline: 19-Nov-21
Duke University in partnership with the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is serving as the Coordination and Data Collection Center (CDCC) for the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-supported Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics-Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) program.
The goal of the program is to improve access to and uptake of diagnostic COVID-19 testing in underserved, COVID-19 medically, geographically, and socially vulnerable populations.
The CDCC is pleased to solicit applications for itsCommunity Collaboration Mini-Grant Program. The CDCC Community Collaboration Mini-Grant Program seeks to support community partners to help advance capacity, training, support, and community experience with COVID-19 testing initiatives.
Purposes
- The CDCC’s Community Collaboration Mini-Grant Program seeks to support the inclusion of additional community partners and stakeholder groups who are not currently part of the RADx-UP program through CDCC subawards.
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These CDCC mini-grant funds can be used to support personnel costs, contracted service costs (e.g., participant transportation, translation, and interpretation, etc.), and non-personnel costs (e.g., other participant incentives, information and technology equipment) to:
- remove barriers to COVID-19 communication and outreach, COVID-19 testing and diagnosis, and COVID-19 data collection and dissemination testing;
- develop communities of practice between community collaboration CDCC mini-grant sub-awardees and current RADx-UP awardees which will extend communication and outreach, expand testing availability, and enhance data collection and dissemination capacities; and
- evaluate strategies for the communication of test results and follow-up measures to underserved and vulnerable populations;
- provide training and education for community members around COVID-19 testing topics of interest to the community;
- provide funding to increase capacity for COVID-19 testing activities in the community;
- generate communication materials related to COVID-19 testing;
- provide funding for community personnel training on specific aspects of COVID-19 related research including informatics, data collection methods, standardized survey administration, and others.
- collaborate with CEAL programs on activities such as understanding attitudes about testing and vaccines.
Funding Information
Amount: Up to $50000 per Award
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 currentlyengaged 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.
- Individuals serving as Principal Investigators (PI) must have sufficient skill and experience to complete the work.
For more information, visit RADx-UP CDCC.
For more information, visit https://radx-up.org/apply-for-grant/?open=grant