Grants

2022 Applications Closed

Transformative Grants are focused on supporting the development and implementation of programs and activities that address the four programmatic focuses of the Gilead COMPASS Initiative® Coordinating Centers, including organizational capacity building; wellbeing, mental health, trauma-informed care, substance use, and telehealth; faith based advocacy; and HIV-related stigma reduction. The maximum amount an applicant can request is $100,000 (including overhead).

A brief description of the four Transformative Grant funding areas is listed below. For more details about the funding areas and award, please review the Request for Proposals (RFP) application (click on the funding areas below for the content specific RFP).

Funding Area: Building Organizational Capacity
Lead Coordinating Center: Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
This initiative will allow applicants to seek funding to support organizational capacity building activities in at least one of two focus areas: 1) Organizational level interventions or 2) Community-level or Systems-level interventions. 

Funding Area: Wellbeing, Mental Health, Trauma-Informed Care, Substance Use and Telehealth
Lead Coordinating Center: University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work
This initiative will focus on trauma informed organizational change to include but not limited to, wellness, mental health, substance use (especially opioid use), and telehealth and its intersection with HIV in the Southern United States. 

Funding Area: Reducing HIV-Related Stigma Reduction
Lead Coordinating Center: Southern AIDS Coalition
This initiative will focus on supporting the design, implementation, and evaluation of interventions to reduce HIV-related stigma in the South. 

Funding Area: Faith-Based Advocacy & Spiritually Integrated Capacity Building
Lead Coordinating Center: Wake Forest University School of Divinity
This initiative will focus on building the capacity of faith leaders’ understanding of and engagement with their communities’ health challenges and opportunities, and equipping them to co-create with key community partners new holistic strategies for addressing HIV/AIDS and related health concerns. 

Eligibility

Watch the 2022 Transformative Grant Informational Webinar.

For questions related the to the Transformative Grant email info@gileadcompass.com

2023 Applications Open Now to May 8, 2023!

Faith Organizational Resiliency Grants will provide funding for up to two organizations at $100,000 for 12 month programs to provide resources for faith-based organizations and/or nonprofit organizations to develop and scale programs and initiatives or conduct research to enhance communications, trauma informed care, health ministries, and other programs that promote positive and transformative faith and health outcomes throughout the Southern region of the United States, specifically in the area of HIV.

Example of funded activities in this focus area might include:

• Focus groups, online surveys, or other formative research with PLHIV, people affected by HIV/AIDS, and/or those providing social or emotional support to people affected by HIV/AIDS, with a particular focus on faith-based approaches to engaging these groups (conducted on a statewide or national level);
• Formalizing an existing program that has been well-received in state or national faith based organizations and communities;
• Trainings for faith leaders and lay audiences in faith communities to build their capacity to develop content and/or facilitate the intervention on a statewide or national level
• Develop an app or other online intervention to enhance faith leader training and sustainable programming on a statewide or national level
• Establishing partnerships across interfaith, medical, and/or academic sectors on a statewide or national level
• Expanding existing partnerships across interfaith (Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, traditional African spirituality, etc.) perspectives and/or medical and academic sectors on a statewide or national level
• Bridging HIV, faith and advocacy work in local, state, or national legislatures
• Addressing inequities in housing, economic justice, food insecurity as it overlaps with HIV and faith
• Faith leader care (mental health, bereavement, burn out) and ministering to people living with HIV on a statewide or national level
• Programs to engage Black women on stigma, HIV prevention and/or HIV treatment

Register for Information Sessions: 
Thursday, March 2, 2023 at 2 PM EST
Thursday, March 16, 2023 at 2 PM EST

Learn more information and eligibility requirements here.

Application deadline is Monday, May 8, 2023 at 11:59 PM EST. Any incomplete and late submission WILL NOT BE REVIEWED or CONSIDERED for participation. 

2023 Capacity Building grants applications are closed. 

The Emory University COMPASS Coordinating Center offers Capacity Building Grants of up to $25,000, to support activities which focus on growing organizations to their next level of operational, programmatic, financial, or organizational maturity. Funding requests must be related to building organizational capacity in one of the following areas:

1.  Governance and leadership
2.  Mission, values, and strategy
3.  Finance and administration
4.  Resource development
5.  Strategic relationships/coalition building
6.  Communications
7.  Internal management and operations
8.  Service delivery and impact

Priority will be given to grant proposals in the following focus areas: Organizing and mobilizing, Internal management and operations, and Communications. 

Eligibility

Applicants must have the support of the organization’s leadership.

2022 Spark applications are closed.  

Despite numerous studies, we still have much to learn about HIV-related stigma. Nonetheless, we know that stigma often results from ignorance, fear-based myths, and a general lack of awareness in our communities. Stigma can also result in social isolation.  An individual’s risk of becoming socially isolated is influenced by several factors including health problems, disability, gender discrimination, loss of loved ones, living alone, reduced social networks, poverty, and aging (Bhatti and Haq, 2017). ^®

A pesar de numerosos estudios, todavía tenemos mucho que aprender sobre el estigma relacionado con el VIH. Sin embargo, sabemos que el estigma a menudo es el resultado de la ignorancia, los mitos basados en el miedo y la falta general de conciencia en nuestras comunidades. El estigma también puede resultar en aislamiento social. El riesgo de un individuo de volverse socialmente aislado está influenciado por varios factores, incluyendo problemas de salud, discapacidades, discriminación de género, pérdida de seres queridos, vivir solo, reducción de redes sociales, pobreza y envejecimiento (Bhatti and Haq, 2017).

Southern AIDS Coalition initially launched SPARK! (Southerners Promoting Awareness, Resources & Knowledge) in 2018 to fund community-led campaigns and education initiatives across the Deep South to address HIV-related stigma. In light of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, for the most recent SPARK! funding cycle, we supported grantees that either addressed HIV-related stigma or addressed isolation and loneliness. For the 2022-2023 grant cycle, we will once again support those types of projects in addition to the community-led campaigns and education initiatives.

Southern AIDS Coalition inicialmente lanzo (Coalicion del SIDA en el Sur) SPARK! (Southerners Promoting Awareness, Resources & Knowledge/Personas del Sur Promoviendo Conciencia, Recursos Y Conocimiento) en el 2018 para financiar campañas comunitarias e iniciativas educativas en todo el Sur del país (Deep South), para abordar el estigma relacionado con el VIH. A la luz del impacto de la pandemia de COVID-19, el más reciente ciclo de financiación de SPARK!, apoyamos a los beneficiarios que abordaron el estigma relacionado con el VIH o abordaron el aislamiento y la soledad. Para el ciclo de subvención 2022-2023, apoyaremos una vez más ese tipo de proyectos, además de las campañas lideradas por la comunidad y las iniciativas de educación.

SPARK! will provide funding and capacity building support totaling $25,000 per grantee to support programs.

SPARK! proporcionará subvención (fondos) y apoyo para el desarrollo de capacidades por un total de $25,000 por concesionario para apoyar programas.

This grant cycle, in addition to grant funds that will support projects under the two tracks outlined below, SPARK! grant applications may request capacity building support and grant budgets may include line items for capacity building support. Capacity building support can range from direct technical assistance from Southern AIDS Coalition or its partners to allocation in the grant to support the organization’s capacity, including supporting the organization hiring a consultant to assist with that growth. Below are a list of possible areas for capacity building and their associated budget line items. This list is not exclusive but provides examples of the type of capacity building a grantee may seek support for and how that shows up in the budget request.

Para este ciclo de subvención, además de los fondos que apoyarán proyectos bajo las dos vías que se describen a continuación, SPARK! las solicitudes de subvención pueden solicitar apoyo para la creación de capacidad y los presupuestos pueden incluir artículos para este apoyo. El apoyo a la creación de capacidad puede abarcar desde la asistencia técnica directa de Southern AIDS Coalition o sus asociados hasta la asignación del subvención para apoyar la capacidad de la organización, incluido el apoyo a la organización para contrata a un consultor para que ayude con ese crecimiento. A continuación, se muestra una lista de posibles áreas para la creación de capacidad y sus artículos presupuestarios asociados. Esta lista no es exclusiva, pero proporciona ejemplos del tipo de creación de capacidad para la que un concesionario puede solicitar apoyo y cómo se muestra en la solicitud de presupuesto.

For this cycle, we are prioritizing those projects focused on reaching people in rural communities and requiring the applicant organization be located in a rural community. We use a combination of the U.S. Census Bureau’s definition of “rural” along with the Stigma Services Deser  map and data (found here) to define “rural.” For the purposes of this grant cycle, the organization must be located outside of an Urbanized Area (defined as having a population of 50,000 or more) or in a “service desert” (shown on the map) or both.

Para este ciclo, estamos priorizando aquellos proyectos enfocados en llegar a las personas en las comunidades rurales y exigir que la organización solicitante esté ubicada en una comunidad rural. Usamos una combinación de la definición de “rural” de la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos junto con el mapa y los datos del Stigma Services Desert (que se encuentran aquí) para definir “rural”. Para los propósitos de este ciclo de subvención, la organización debe estar ubicada fuera de un Área Urbanizada (definida como tener una población de 50,000 o más) o en un “desierto de servicio” (que se muestra en el mapa) o ambos. 

Track One:  SPARK! Connections supports programs that combat social isolation and loneliness through virtual programming.  Organizations are invited to apply for support to cover costs related to implementing virtual groups, 1:1 support, social media outreach, texting programs, and other means of engagement serving persons living with and impacted by HIV.

Via Uno: SPARK! Connections (SPARK! Conexión) apoya programas que combaten el aislamiento social y la soledad a través de la programación virtual. Se invita a las organizaciones a solicitar apoyo para cubrir los costos relacionados con la implementación de grupos virtuales, apoyo 1:1, divulgación en las redes sociales, programas de mensajes de texto y otros medios de participación que sirvan a las personas que viven con o son impactadas por el VIH.

Track Two:  SPARK! Change supports community-level education addressing HIV-related stigma.  Successful funded projects have ranged from media campaigns to community conversations. The common thread across successful projects has been the commitment to centering the voices of those living with and impacted by HIV in all aspects of project design and implementation.

Via Dos: SPARK! Change (SPARK! Cambio) apoya la educación a nivel comunitario para abordar el estigma relacionado con el VIH. Los proyectos financiados exitosamente han variado de campañas en los medios de comunicación hasta conversaciones comunitarias. El hilo común de los proyectos exitosos ha sido el compromiso de centrar las voces de las personas que viven con e son impactados por el VIH en todos aspectos del diseño y la implementación del proyecto.

Eligibility/Elegibilidad

Click the link below to learn more and apply to one of the SPARK! grants.

Haga clic en el enlace de abajo para obtener más información y aplicar a uno de los financiamientos/otorgamientos de SPARK!

2023 ACTION applications are open now through May 10, 2023!

ACTION Trauma-Informed Spaces Funding Opportunity Physical space is an integral factor to providing care and meeting the needs of individuals, staff, and communities. Healing, supportive, and affirming spaces can reduce stress, keep individuals engaged in care, and improve wellbeing in communities. A workspace focusing on healing and wellness for its staff can boost morale, decrease work-related stress, and promote self-care practices. However, we know that it is difficult to find resources to transform spaces. That’s why we (SUSTAIN Center) developed ACTION (Act with Communities To Increase Opportunities and address Needs in the South) Trauma-Informed Spaces (TIS).

ACTION Trauma-Informed Spaces is a grant of up to $10,000 that supports Southern HIV service organizations to change their spaces to be more trauma-informed and healing-centered by creating physical and supportive settings. The space can be anywhere your organization works, such as offices, mobile units, indoors and outdoors. Organizations will create a healing-centered space by applying the six principles of trauma-informed care.

Learn more information about this opportunity and eligibility requirements here.

How To Apply

Applications will be available online. Interested organizations should submit a completed application online by Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 at 11:59pm EST to be eligible for participation.

2023 Applications Open Now to May 8, 2023!

Faith Action Grants will provide awards ranging between $25,000 to $50,000 to provide resources for nonprofit organizations for action-oriented projects centered around faith to help reduce stigma, engage in spiritually integrated trauma-informed care, and aid in changing the perception of HIV/AIDS in the south. We are seeking to fund organizations committed to the creation of inclusive faith spaces (virtual and/or in-person) for LGBTQ persons and people living with and affected by HIV that provide opportunities for physical, emotional, and financial wellness. If you are applying for $50,000, you need to make the case that your organization has the infrastructure (e.g., employees, accountant, etc.) and reach (e.g., statewide or regional engagement) to be competitive for that amount.

Register for Information Sessions: 
Thursday, March 2, 2023 at 2 PM EST
Thursday, March 16, 2023 at 2 PM EST

Learn more information and eligibility requirements here.

Application deadline is Monday, May 8, 2023 at 11:59 PM EST. Any incomplete and late submission WILL NOT BE REVIEWED or CONSIDERED for participation.