The Serve Idaho is seeking applications for its 2023 AmeriCorps State and National Public Health AmeriCorps Grant.
Donor Name: Serve Idaho
State: Idaho
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/26/2022
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
Public Health AmeriCorps has two main goals:
- Help meet public health needs of local communities by providing needed capacity and support in state and local public health settings and advancing more equitable health outcomes for communities who are currently or historically underserved.
- Provide pathways to good, quality public health-related careers by providing exposure through onsite experience, training, and more, with a focus on recruiting AmeriCorps members who reflect the communities in which they will serve.
AmeriCorps’ priorities for this funding opportunity are:
- Efforts to help local communities respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Applicants may propose programming to aid communities in their efforts to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, including public health challenges that have been exacerbated by the pandemic, such as mental health and substance abuse.
- Programs creating pathways to good-quality public health-related careers through onsite experience and training (including pre-apprenticeship or registered apprenticeship programs, work experience and job training programs, and other workforce training and development programs),
- Organizations leading service in communities with concentrated poverty, rural communities, tribal communities, and those organizations serving historically underrepresented and underserved individuals, including but not limited to communities of color, immigrants and refugees, people with disabilities, people who identify as part of the LGBTQIA+ community, people with arrest and/or conviction records, and religious minorities.
Grant Period
AmeriCorps anticipates making two-year grant awards.
Eligibility Criteria
The following non-Federal entities (all of which are defined in 2 CFR 200.1) are eligible to apply:
- Indian Tribes
- institutions of higher education
- local governments
- public health departments
- nonprofit organizations
- state service commissions.
For more information, visit Serve Idaho.