Grant Opportunities

Minority Health Month RFP - The fiscal year 21 application Round 4 is now open. 

· provide crucial information to allow individuals to practice disease prevention;
· promote healthy lifestyles;
· showcase the providers of grassroots healthcare resources and information;
· highlight the disparate health conditions between Ohio’s minority and non minority populations; and
· to gain additional support for on-going efforts to improve minority health year round. 

Please Note: All Commission funded programs and activities must be free and open to the public.

Background - PLEASE NOTE THE NEW ELECTRONIC APPLICATION PROCESS

The Minority Health Grants Management System (MHGM), the Commission's new online, electronic grant application system has launched, effective April 22, 2019. All applicants must use the system to apply for Commission funding. No paper hand delivered, faxed, emailed or US/FedEx/UPS Mailed applications will be accepted. 

Additionally, if awarded, all grantees will use MHGM to submit all program and fiscal reports. 

Grant Background and Guidelines

The Commission funds Miscellaneous Supplemental Grants based on the availability of funding each year.  At present, the amount available is up to $15,000. This fund is designed to sponsor health related activities, that raise the visibility of the Commission and increase the focus of minority health disparities and or chronic diseases such as, but not limited to cancer, diabetes, substance abuse, violence, lupus, infant mortality, or cardiovascular disease. These activities must reach and impact Ohioans from no less than two counties, and have a focus on racial and ethnic populations. This source of funding is not designed to support ongoing, long term programming. 

Please note, funding requests must be submitted in MHGM at least 60 days prior to the date of your event.

Funding levels vary from year to year and will be based on the amount of funds available within each fiscal year (FY).

NEW GRANT SUBMISSION PROCESS

Eligibility 

To receive consideration for funding, applicants must: 

·      Demonstrate that at least 20% of project funds are received from sources other than grants awarded by the Commission on Minority          Health;

·      Be a public or private organization which has a 501 (c)(3) at the time of application submission;

·      Provide services in close proximity to minority communities or include minority communities in their stated service area;

·      Applicants must meet all licensure and certification requirements of the State of Ohio; and

·     Applicants must comply with all current and applicable laws, regulations, rules, and administrative guidelines of
      the Ohio Commission on Minority Health.

Proposed Activity

Eligible applicants must provide an overview of the proposed activity and address each bullet below, within MHGM. Application questions in MHGM will include but not be limited to:

• A brief introduction of the agency, the population it serves, and an introduction of the proposed event to include the date, time and location (if known)
• A detailed descriptiom of the health promotion and education activities proposed which must impact minority health disparities
• A descriptiom of the targeted racial and ethnic population(s) and the expected number of individuals to be served
• A two (2) county impact area to include an *overview of past program attendance from targeted counties (*if previously funded by the Commission)
• An overview of the marketing plan to reach at least two (2) counties
• An overview of the demographic data collection process for each county and each population to be served
• The inclusion of liability insurance and a description of the plan for reporting screening results and follow up on abnormal screens, If invasive health screening activities are planned
• The requested amount of sponsorship - to include a list of line items that would be covered by Commission funds in the budget form provided in MHGM
• Please note: If applying for a community event sponsorship, all activities must be free and open to the public. If providing health screenings, all funds must support screening and related costs. 
• Please note: If applying for a conference sponsorship, all funds must support conference registration scholarships and conference costs. Applicant must discuss how they will publicize the availability of scholarships and how they will receive and distribute scholarship requests. Applicant must also break down sponsorship costs in the project budget.
• Please note: You must upload and submit a copy of your CURRENT IRS 501(c) (3) Determination Letter with your application in the MHGM system.

Proposal Review

Proposals will be reviewed to determine if they meet the aforementioned eligibility criteria.  Those that meet the criteria are then reviewed to determine if they move forward to the Grants Committee for review. If proposals are approved by the grants committee, the proposal then moves to the full Board for review. 

If funded, Miscellaneous Supplemental Grantees will be expected to complete the following and include the data in the final report:

• Collect and report on demographics of event participants to include race, ethnicity, gender, age, county and zip code.
• Collect and summarize the participant event satisfaction survey results
• Summarize event activities in detail to include screening demographics (if screenings provided), implemented marketing strategies and their outcome, estimated number in attendance, counties served, challenges, and program successes.

Demonstration:  The fiscal year 20-21 application, is now closed. 

Due to a system glitch, some areas of the Demonstration Grant application were unavailable. Please be aware that this restricted selection has been corrected and now you should be able to see the following areas that can be applied for: 1. Cancer Prevention Education and Behavior Change 2. Cardiovascular Disease and Hypertension Prevention Education and Behavior Change 3. Diabetes Prevention Education and Behavior Change 4. Infant Mortality Prevention 5. Substance Abuse Prevention Education and Behavior Change 6. Violence Prevention Education and Behavior Change Please accept our apologies for this inconvenience. Please send an email to www.minhealth.ohio.gov if you have any trouble accessing any of these program areas.

Lupus: The fiscal year 20-21 application period is closed at this time. 

Description: This program provides grants for lupus programs for patient, public and professional education which are funded up to $28,000 for a two-year period. In addition, Lupus grants can be used to encourage and develop local centers on lupus information gathering and screening and to provide outreach to women of color.  
 

Please click the following link for, Current funded agencies.  
Please click HERE for project abstracts. (Abstract document is being revised) 

As was recently shared by Governor DeWine, state agencies were instructed to reduce expenditures during FY20  by twenty percent due to the  current economic situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.  To this end, Ohio state government agencies began implementing several immediate measures to reduce expenditures by state agencies, boards, and commissions to preserve our ability to continue to provide services to Ohioans. 

In compliance with this directive, the Ohio Commission on Minority Health reduced operational and subsidy planned expenditures and eliminated the release of the Infant Mortality HUB Round 5 Request for Proposal.

Please click, HERE for an Infant Mortality HUB Overview.
 

HUB Model Background - For reference only. 
The HUB Model is an evidence based community care coordination approached that has demonstrated effectiveness within racial and ethnic populations. The Pathways Community HUB Model has been endorsed by several federal agencies such as: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Resources and Services Administration, National Institute of Medicine and others.

HUB Certification
The Kresge Foundation funded the creation of the Pathways HUB Certification Process. All Commission funded grantees must be certified and/or maintain certification to retain funding. This Certification Process will be overseen by the Pathways Community HUB institute. The HUB Certification Prerequisites and HUB Certification Standards can be located at Pathways Community HUB Institute, pchi-hub.com.  

More Information
For more information, please visit the Pathways Community HUB Institute, pchi-hub.com. 

Please Note: All Commission funded programs and activities must be free and open to the public.