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Funding by Topic: Culture and cultural competency

Summaries of funding programs are provided by RHIhub for your convenience. Please contact the funder directly for the most complete and current information.

Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Awards Inactive
Honorary awards that recognize hospitals and health systems that have made exceptional efforts to advance equity of care to all patients and spread lessons learned and progress toward diversity, inclusion, and health equity.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Nov 17, 2023
Sponsors: American Hospital Association, Institute for Diversity and Health Equity
Native Collective Research Effort to Enhance Wellness (N CREW) Program: Addressing Overdose, Substance Use, Mental Health, and Pain Inactive
Funding for community-led research to enhance culturally grounded, strengths-based, effective, and sustainable interventions addressing overdose, substance use, mental health, and pain in Native communities.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Letter of Intent (Optional): Sep 1, 2023
Application Deadline: Nov 1, 2023
Sponsors: National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health
California Health Professions Pathways Program (HPPP) Inactive
Funding to support and encourage underrepresented individuals in California to pursue health careers. The goal is to develop a more culturally and linguistically competent healthcare workforce. Priority goes to applications that propose services in rural and frontier areas of the state.
Geographic coverage: California
Application Deadline: Oct 31, 2023
Sponsor: California Department of Health Care Access and Information
California Justice-System Involvement Youth: Behavioral Health Pipeline Inactive
Funding for organizations to support and encourage economically disadvantaged, educationally/environmentally disadvantaged, and justice-system involved youth in California to pursue behavioral health careers. The goal is to develop a more culturally and linguistically competent behavioral healthcare workforce, including providing comprehensive wrap-around supports. Applicants should conduct outreach and recruitment in rural and medically underserved areas; for educationally and/or economically disadvantaged students; and to former foster youth, veterans, immigrants, refugees, and adult/non-traditional learners.
Geographic coverage: California
Application Deadline: Oct 31, 2023
Sponsor: California Department of Health Care Access and Information
Community Relations and Innovation Fund Inactive
Grants to organizations and individuals in Native communities serving their communities in areas such as youth work, community building, arts and culture, language and education/advocacy.
Geographic coverage: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana
Application Deadline: Oct 31, 2023
Sponsor: Potlatch Fund
New York Healthy Food, Healthy Lives: Supporting a More Equitable Food System Inactive
Funding to advance racial health equity in New York by promoting "Food Is Medicine" interventions and supporting healthier, culturally responsive food purchasing. Indigenous communities are a program priority.
Geographic coverage: New York
Letter of Intent (Required): Oct 23, 2023
Application Deadline: Jan 17, 2024
Sponsor: New York Health Foundation
Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative: Early Childhood Wraparound Services Inactive
Funding for early childhood wraparound services to support relevant skill building among adults who work with infants, young children, expectant parents, new parents, and caregivers. Funding will focus on home visiting services and child-specific clinical consultation services for adults that work closely with infants and children with emotional and behavioral health needs on an individual basis. Rural communities and other disparity populations are a program priority.
Geographic coverage: California
Application Deadline: Oct 6, 2023
Sponsor: California Department of Health Care Services
California Local Aging and Disability Action Planning (LADAP) Grant Inactive
Grants to communities in California to plan and develop local age and disability-friendly action plans. Plans should work to improve a community's livability and address the current, emerging, and future needs of California's older adults, people with disabilities, and caregivers through cross-sector collaboration and transformational systems change. Rural, tribal, and frontier communities are a focus.
Geographic coverage: California
Application Deadline: Oct 2, 2023
Sponsor: California Department of Aging
NBCC Minority Fellowship Program for Mental Health Counselors (Masters and Doctoral) Inactive
Fellowships for master's and doctoral degree-level mental health counseling students from minority backgrounds. For the purpose of this program, minorities include racial, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender, sexual orientation, rural, and military groups.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide and U.S. territories
Application Deadline: Sep 30, 2023
Sponsor: National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) Foundation
Bush Fellowship Program Inactive
Flexible grants to individuals in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota that can be used to pursue education and learning experiences to become more effective community leaders.
Geographic coverage: Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, or one of the 23 Native nations that shares the same geographic area.
Application Deadline: Sep 21, 2023
Sponsor: Bush Foundation