Applications for this funding program are open.
Duke Health, along with Duke University School of Medicine and Duke CTSI, announce a third round of Rapid Response funding for the Community Initiative to Advance Health Equity Together Through Education and Outreach Grant Program.
Community-serving organizations are encouraged to apply for funding to enhance capacity for health-promoting activities geared towards historically and currently marginalized communities. This initiative helps communities to address a wide range of preventable and treatable chronic diseases such as obesity, hypertension, diabetes, kidney disease, and heart disease, as well as communicable diseases such as influenza and COVID-19.
In addition, this initiative supports activities that provide access to accurate, timely, and trustworthy information and/or services for healthy nutrition related to the prevention and management of chronic diseases.
Eight community-based organizations (CBOs) will each receive a $7,000 award. Program activities must be implemented between January and June 2025.
Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. Dec. 16.
For questions, please email ctsi.eir@duke.edu.
Goals
This funding program aims to enhance access to accurate, culturally relevant information on chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension, COVID-19, and influenza among historically marginalized communities, particularly Black and Latine populations.
The focus of the initiative for this funding cycle will promote healthier nutrition habits, early detection, and better management of chronic or communicable diseases.
It will also foster partnerships to improve access to educational resources and community services, encourage lifestyle changes through activities like community gardening, cooking classes, food boxes, and walking clubs, and expand the "food as medicine" approach. Solutions and recommendations will be community-driven, based on lived experiences, to address health equity and broader socioeconomic determinants of health in Durham and the surrounding region.
Eligibility
The applicant organization can be a CBO, non-profit, faith-based, or other organization.
Planned activities must reach African American/Black and/or Latine communities in Durham, Wake, Orange and its surrounding rural communities.
Proposed strategies are expected to reflect critical needs and opportunities as of the time the grant is written. If these needs and opportunities should change in important ways during the grant period, adjustments to activities can be made with funder approval.
Collaboration with other groups and organizations that utilize community health workers is encouraged (but not required) to maximize the impact of the reach in the community.
Projects can focus on obesity, and underlying medical conditions such as diabetes and hypertension, COVID-19, and influenza that are associated with a higher risk for severe illness, hospitalization, and death.
Organizations should utilize data to identify areas in Durham county and surrounding communities that have higher rates of unvaccinated residents for COVID-19, flu, obesity, food insecurity, other underlying chronic conditions, which increasing risk for severe illness and death.
Timeline
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November 1, 2024 |
RFA opens for application |
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November 15, 2024 |
Virtual RFA information session |
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December 16, 2024 |
Deadline for submission 11:59 p.m. |
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January 17, 2025 |
Notification of award |
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Third week of January 2025 |
In-person award ceremony |
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January 30, 2025 - June 30, 2025 |
Project activities |
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July 30, 2025 |
Deadline for submission of final progress report |