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Funding by Topic: Occupational health and safety

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

Pesticides Health Care Initiative: National and Community Based Health Care Provider Training for Pesticide Illness Inactive
Funding for eligible applicants through a cooperative agreement to improve healthcare providers' ability to prevent, recognize, treat, manage, and report pesticide-related illness. The EPA also aims to ensure that healthcare providers consider the social determinants of health, cultural context, and vulnerabilities of patients at high risk of pesticide-related illness.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Letter of Intent (Optional): Oct 31, 2024
Application Deadline: Dec 19, 2024
Sponsor: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Grants Technical Assistance for Pesticide Safety Programs: Technical Assistance in Support of the Health Care Initiative and the Farmworker Training and Education Program Inactive
Grant funding for eligible applicants to offer technical assistance for 2 pesticide safety-related training and education programs.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Letter of Intent (Optional): Oct 31, 2024
Application Deadline: Dec 5, 2024
Sponsor: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Iowa Farm Bureau Sponsorship Program Inactive
Sponsorship support for events and fundraisers in Iowa. Giving priorities include health and wellness, agriculture, farm families and their communities, and youth education/leadership.
Geographic coverage: Iowa
Application Deadline: Nov 21, 2024
Sponsor: Iowa Farm Bureau
Appalachian Region Business Builder Subawards Inactive
Grants to support projects focused on meeting regional needs and increasing capacity among food and farm businesses working toward expansion in local and regional food markets in the Appalachian region. Eligible projects include planning, implementation, and expansion in the areas of food safety, worker safety improvements, infrastructure, food access, and business development.
Geographic coverage: All of Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee and parts of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland
Application Deadline: Nov 1, 2024
Sponsor: Appalachian Regional Food Business Center
Centers for Agricultural Safety and Health (U54) Inactive
Funding for Centers for Agricultural Safety and Health (Ag Centers) to conduct high quality research and subsequently disseminate their findings and recommendations. Projects should result in audience appropriate products that contribute to improving the safety and health of agriculture, forestry, and fishing workers.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide and U.S. Territories
Letter of Intent (Optional): Sep 22, 2023
Application Deadline: Oct 22, 2024
Sponsors: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
CHS Seeds for Stewardship Grants Inactive
Matching grants to cooperatives for programs to strengthen hometown communities, with priority given to projects that enhance agriculture safety, farmer well-being, agriculture education, and rural community vitality.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Oct 15, 2024
Sponsor: CHS Community Investment
Central States Center for Agricultural Health and Safety Pilot/Feasibility Program (CS-CASH) Inactive
Funds agricultural safety and health feasibility projects in the central states region that have the potential to lead to the development of new and creative research, prevention, intervention, outreach, education, evaluation, or translation findings and outcomes.
Geographic coverage: North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri
Letter of Intent (Required): Oct 1, 2024
Application Deadline: Nov 4, 2024
Sponsor: Central States Center for Agricultural Safety and Health
USDA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) - Phase I Inactive
Funding for research that focuses on the development of new technologies that address important problems affecting people, institutions, and communities in rural America, including health, agriculture, rural development, and the environment.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Sep 17, 2024
Sponsors: National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Brookwood-Sago Mine Safety Grants Inactive
Grants for education and training programs to help identify, avoid, and prevent unsafe working conditions in and around mines. Special emphasis is given to programs and materials that target smaller mines and underserved mines and miners in the mining industry, and prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide and U.S. territories
Application Deadline: Sep 9, 2024
Sponsors: Mine Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor
Mine Health and Safety Grants Inactive
Grants to prevent fatalities, disease, and injury from mining and secure safe and healthy working conditions for miners through laws, regulations, safety improvements, education, and training.
Geographic coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Aug 20, 2024
Sponsors: Mine Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor