ViiV Healthcare Request for Proposals: 2018 Positive Action Community Grants

Deadline: 1 June 2018

ViiV Healthcare is seeking proposals for its 2018 Positive Action Community Grants to support community organizations in the U.S. that address HIV/AIDS disparities and close gaps in care for those most affected by HIV/AIDS.

In 2017, ViiV Healthcare supported over 80 organizations in the U.S. and committed over $5 million as part of the U.S. Positive Action Community Grants program.

Priorities

• Advance new insights and work that elevates the voices of people living with HIV/AIDS;
• Put the perspectives of the HIV community at the center of HIV education, prevention, and care design and decision-making;
• Connect people and strengthen networks through community events, conferences, workshops and formal collaborations;
• Provide direct, high-quality, culturally competent and accessible support services in communities disproportionately impacted by HIV/AIDS;
• Reach people not currently benefiting from existing support services or programs;
• Use an innovative approach or model that may be replicable.
• Organizations may apply for general operating support, project support and special event support.

Eligibility Criteria

At minimum, eligible nonprofit organizations must meet all of the following criteria:

• Be a 501(c)(3) Internal Revenue Service (IRS)-designated nonprofit organization;
• Be located in the U.S. or Puerto Rico;
• Provide programs and support primarily to those persons or communities impacted by or affected by HIV in the U.S.;
• Received no more than 25 percent of your total operating budget (total annual revenue) in 2017 from ViiV Healthcare and anticipate the same for 2018;
• Organizations applying for the grant must be the same organization receiving the funds, and must be responsible for the implementation and management of the project.

Funding Restrictions

• ViiV Healthcare funding cannot support:
  • Organizations who operate as a “Group Practice,” defined as a group of two (2) or more Customers (whether as employees or as direct or indirect owners) legally organized as a single legal entity (e.g., partnership, professional corporation, foundation, not-for-profit corporation, faculty practice plan, or similar association) who:
    • Provide a full range of patient care services that the individual Customer routinely furnishes through the joint use of shared office space, facilities, equipment, and personnel;
    • Provide and bill 75% or more of patient care services under a billing number assigned to the Group Practice; and
    • Conduct 75% or more of the physician-patient meetings or encounters provided by the Group Practice.
  • Direct building expenses, endowments, or other capital expenditures;
  • Support for advertising for local athletics and/or other extracurricular activities (including trips, tours, etc.);
  • Support for brand advertising;
  • Religious groups or other societiesthat do not serve the general public on a nondenominational basis;
  • Patient education materials for a program/activity that will include ViiV Healthcare staff input on the content (if for a publication, no more than 5 percent of ViiV Healthcare funds to be used to support the publication costs);
  • Product donations;
  • Matching gifts;
  • Patient assistance programs;
  • Certified medical education;
  • Purchasing of any medications;
• In addition, as a charitable contribution, ViiV Healthcare cannot support projects that will provide a benefit to ViiV Healthcare. Specifically, the ViiV Healthcare Positive Action Community Grants program cannot consider requests that:
  • Promote a specific ViiV Healthcare product or line of business;
  • Provide more than an “incidental or tenuous” benefit to ViiV Healthcare (generally defined as goodwill and publicity);
  • Involve lobbying or political activity;
  • Create an appearance of impropriety

How to Apply

Applicants can apply online via given website.

For more information, please visit Positive Action Community Grants.