Rural Health
Funding by Topic: Hospice and palliative care

Daniels Fund Grants
Grants for nonprofit organizations in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming working in the areas of aging, drug and alcohol addiction, amateur sports, youth development, disabilities, homelessness, and education.

Healthy Alaska Natives Foundation Grants
Grants for projects that directly impact the health and well-being of Alaska Native people and communities, with preference given to the areas of access to care, children, behavioral health, and rural healthcare.

Project Talk Initiative Host Site Applications
Partnerships with community-based organization host sites to evaluate the impact of several approaches to promote advance care planning in underserved populations including those from ethnic and racial minority backgrounds, rural communities and low-income areas. Host sites will be provided tools and trained in facilitating community conversations.

Rural Physician Associate Program Inactive
A 9-month, community-based educational experience for third-year medical students at the University of Minnesota that allows them to live and train in rural communities across Minnesota and western Wisconsin.

Technology-Enabled Collaborative Learning Program Inactive
Funding to evaluate, develop, and, expand the use of technology-enabled collaborative learning and capacity building models for healthcare providers and other professionals. The program is designed to improve retention of healthcare providers and increase access to health care services in rural areas, frontier areas, health professional shortage areas, or medically underserved areas and for medically underserved populations or native Americans.

Circle of Life Award: Celebrating Innovation in Palliative and End-of-Life Care Inactive
Award program that honors innovative programs and organizations that care for patients with serious or life-limiting illness and provide best practices and models for the field. Rural organizations have received the award in the past.

Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) Operational Readiness Grant Inactive
Funding to qualified organizations in Georgia to offset costs associated with meeting Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) organization operational requirements. Applicants must verify a firm commitment and intent to complete and submit the full PACE application required by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) prior to the end of the funding period.

Hillman Emergent Innovation: Serious Illness and End of Life Program Inactive
Grants for early stage nursing-driven interventions that target serious illness and end of life needs faced by vulnerable populations, including economically disadvantaged, rural, and other populations that encounter barriers to accessing services.

Steele-Reese Foundation Idaho and Montana Grant Program Inactive
Grants to nonprofit organizations in Idaho and Montana working in the areas of rural health, human and social services, education, conservation and preservation, arts and humanities, and native communities.