Syringe Services and Community-Based Harm Reduction Grants

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The Comer Family Foundation will provide funding for syringe services and community-based harm reduction activities. Grants may be used for free sterile syringes, safer smoking and snorting kits, education, and community wraparound services to reduce opioid overdoses and the transmission of HIV and viral hepatitis.

Funding priorities:

• Organizations led by a majority of people who use drugs
• Organizations led by a majority of Black, Indigenous, and people of color and/or others disproportionately impacted by the criminalization of drug use (Including those with a history of incarceration, sex work, and immigration)
• Geographic areas in which limited funding is available for syringes and safer smoking supplies
• Areas in which limited to no other programs exist within 100 miles
• Areas where policy improvements can have local, state, and/or national impact
• Areas with higher HIV and HCV prevalence, injection drug use prevalence, and/or overdose incidence
• Statewide strategic partnerships
• Organizations offering innovative services at a regional or national level

Eligible applicants include 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, tribal governments, and organizations that require a fiscal sponsor. Applicants may be from the 50 U.S. states, District of Columbia, Native American reservations, tribal lands, and Puerto Rico.

Eligibility criteria:

• Organizations with total organizational budgets less than $600,000
• Organizations grounded in harm reduction principle and practice providing access to sterile syringes, safer smoking, and snorting kits, through syringe services and community-based harm reduction
• Syringe services and community-based harm reduction programs must be in operation for one full year

Award ceiling: $20,000
Award floor: $2,500
Project period: 1 year

Funding may be used for general operating, harm reduction supplies, or both.

A link to the online application portal is available on the program website.