Rural Health
Funding by Topic: Veterans

San Manuel Cares Grants Inactive
Funding for tribal governments and tribal nonprofit organizations in the areas of community services, healthy/resilient communities, and preserving cultural traditions.

The Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program - Produce Prescription Program Inactive
Funding to support projects that demonstrate and evaluate the impact of prescribing fresh fruits and vegetables on the improvement of dietary health through increased consumption of fruits and vegetables, the reduction of individual and household food insecurity, and the reduction in healthcare use and associated costs. Projects that serve tribal, rural, remote, and insular communities are a funding priority.

Supportive Services for Veteran Families Program Inactive
Grants to private nonprofit organizations and consumer cooperatives that provide supportive services for very low-income veterans and their families residing in or transitioning to permanent housing. Supportive services grants will be equitably distributed across geographic regions, including rural communities and tribal lands.

Affordable Housing for Rural Veterans Initiative Inactive
Funding for "bricks and mortar" projects that assist low‐income, elderly, and disabled veterans with home repair needs, support homeless veterans, help veterans become homeowners, and/or secure affordable rental housing in rural areas of the United States.

AmeriCorps State and National Public Health AmeriCorps Grants Inactive
Funding to support the recruitment, training, and development of public health leaders able to provide service in response to the public health needs of urban and rural communities.

NIH Build UP Trust Challenge Inactive
A challenge designed to find new ways to improve engagement with underserved populations. The focus is on building trust and adopting community-based strategies that increase the detection, treatment, and management of health conditions.

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.

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.

NCOA Grants for New Benefits Enrollment Centers Inactive
Grants to community-based nonprofits to serve as Benefits Enrollment Centers that work to find and enroll eligible adults in 5 core federal benefit programs. Focuses on serving certain target population groups, including people living in rural areas.

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.