With funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Urban Institute is pleased to announce that a second year of funding and technical assistance will be made available to up to 20 community-based organizations (CBOs) working to increase vaccine confidence and uptake for adults of color.
Donor Name: Urban Institute
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 05/20/2022
Grant Size: up to $80,000
Grant Duration: 10 months
Details:
The goal of this program is to select and support up to 20 CBOs in their efforts to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in adult COVID-19 and/or influenza immunization by expanding vaccine coverage, confidence, and access. CBOs will develop and implement health communication and community engagement strategies designed to increase COVID-19 vaccine confidence and acceptance among adults of color.
Funding Information
Awarded CBOs will receive up to $80,000 each to implement projects over a 10-month period of performance.
Eligible Projects
Eligible projects are those that:
- focus on unvaccinated adults (18+) of color;
- focus on vaccination for COVID-19, influenza, or both;
- address documented barriers to vaccine confidence and access; and
- use a community-based approach that emphasizes engagement and appropriately tailors activities and materials to the focus population and context.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants are organizations that are
- based and operating in the United States;
- nonprofit and tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code except for Colleges, universities, hospitals, health systems, or their fiscal sponsors;
- not currently receiving funding through the IP21-2108 funding mechanism of the CDC’s Partnering for Vaccine Equity program.
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