Grants

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®, 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 detail about the funding areas and award, please review the Request for Proposals (RFP) application.

Funding Area: Building Organizational Capacity
Lead Coordinating Center: Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
This grant will allow applicants to seek funding to support organizational capacity building activities focused on infrastructure development and coalition and network building with non-traditional partners.

Funding Area: Wellbeing, Mental Health, Trauma-Informed Care, Substance Use and Telehealth
Lead Coordinating Center: University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work
This grant will focus on enhancing service provision around wellness, mental health, trauma-informed care, substance use (especially opioid use), and telehealth and its intersection with HIV in the Southern United States.

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

Funding Area: Faith-Based Advocacy
Lead Coordinating Center: Wake Forest University
This grant will allow applicants to seek funding to focus on sustainable programs that address the intersection between faith and social determinants of health.

Eligibility

How to Apply

Transformative Grant applications are currently closed. Please check back in May 2021.

Now accepting Letters of Intent (LOI). 

Faith Capacity Building Grants focus on infrastructure development and coalition and network building between faith communities and non-traditional partners. Especially during the time of COVID-19, we understand the particular challenges that faith communities have faced with engaging with members at physical distance and online. The Wake Forest School of Divinity Coordinating Center will support the establishment of infrastructures to enhance communications, trauma informed care, health ministries, and other programs to respond to the HIV crisis in the South and promote healing and life-enhancing possibilities for those impacted by HIV/AIDS. The aim is to collaborate with Christian and interfaith partners; create inclusive faith spaces (virtual and/or in-person) for LGBTQ persons and people living with HIV; create opportunities for physical, emotional, and financial wellness; and educate emerging faith leaders and faith communities who will impact how communities respond to HIV/AIDS in the future.

Eligibility

Only organizations who submit a letter of intent to apply to the Faith Capacity Building Grant will be invited to submit a full application. The deadline for the Letter of Intent is March 15, 2021, 11:59pm EST.

LOI  (2 pages max, Arial 11pt font) require the following:

• A brief summary of project
• A clear statement of how the project will build capacity for addressing HIV stigma in faith communities and engage underrepresented minority communities
• A list of study team members for the proposed project including roles and home institutions

Organizations will receive notification of an invitation to submit a full application or that they were not selected for this round via e-mail by 04/01/21. 

Applications available March 2022.

About Capacity Building Grants: These grants provide funding support, up to $25,000 per organization, to create sustainable change in leaders, organizations, and communities by supporting capacity building strategies that strengthen the infrastructure of organizations serving persons living with HIV, and projects that promote sustainability. Funding requests cannot already be covered by your organization’s existing funding sources and must be related to building organizational capacity in the following areas: governance and leadership; mission, values, and strategy; finance and administration; resource development; strategic relationships and coalition building; communications; internal management and operations; and service delivery and impact. These grants are funded through the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health Coordinating Center.

Eligibility

Requests must have the support of the applicant organization’s leadership.

Continue to check back for more information on when applications are available.

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, we are currently accepting proposals to address both HIV-related stigma, as well as isolation and loneliness. SPARK! will provide funding of up to $20,000 to support programs in one of two tracks:

Track One:  SPARK! Connections supports programs that combat social isolation and loneliness through virtual programming.

Track Two:  SPARK! Change supports community-level education addressing HIV-related stigma.

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 del COVID-19, actualmente estamos aceptando propuestas para abordar el estigma relacionado con el VIH, así como el aislamiento y la soledad. SPARK! proporcionará fondos de hasta $20,000 para apoyar programas en una de las dos siguientes vías:

Via Uno: SPARK! Conexión apoya programas que combaten el aislamiento social y la soledad a través de la programación virtual.

Via Dos: SPARK! Cambio apoya la educación a nivel comunitario para abordar el estigma relacionado con el VIH.

Grants will be made on a rolling basis as funds are available.

Los fondos (subsidio) se harán en forma sucesiva a medida que los fondos estén disponibles.

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!

Applications for ACTION will be available March 2021. Please check back for more information.

About ACTION in the South Grants: The ACTION (Act with Communities To Increase Opportunities and address Needs in the South) Grant is SUSTAIN’s funding opportunity that supports action-oriented projects in the US Deep South to build or enhance mental health and trauma informed approaches, promote wellness, and strengthen harm reduction approaches in organizations, coalitions, collectives, and groups. The proposed project should be grounded in Meaningful Involvement of People living with HIV (MIPA) principles, Transgender and Gender Non-conforming inclusive, anti-racist/classist/ableist, multi-lingual (if applicable) and accessible to communities disproportionately impacted by HIV.

Sobre el financiamiento de ACTION in the South: El financiamiento/otorgamiento ACTION (Actuar con Comunidades para Aumentar las Oportunidades y abordar las Necesidades en el Sur) es una oportunidad de financiamiento/otorgamiento de SUSTAIN que apoya proyectos orientados a la acción en el sur del país, que construye o mejoran la salud mental y los enfoques informados de trauma, promueven el bienestar y fortalecen los enfoques de reducción de daños en la provisión de servicios en organizaciones, coaliciones, colectivas y grupos. El proyecto propuesto debe de ser basado en los principios de Una Participación Significativa de Las Personas que viven con el VIH (Meaningful Involvement of People living with HIV, MIPA), e inclusivo a personas transgénero y genero no conforme, antirracista, anti clasista, antidiscriminatorio a personas discapacitadas, y multilingüe (si es aplicable) y accesible a las comunidades afectadas desproporcionadamente por el VIH.

We have been listening and thus for this round of ACTION grants we are centering the following issues and/or communities:

• ACTION-TGNC – Supports organizations led by individuals whose gender is different than assigned coercively at birth, including but not limited to transgender, gender queer, non-binary, indigenous, and gender non-conforming (TGNC) genders to create funds, build movements, and increase access to TGNC affirming services.
• ACTION-HBCU-Mental Health-HIV – Supports Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) to develop campaigns and awareness programs/events or increase staff capacity to enhance services for students around mental health, substance misuse, sexual health, and HIV.
• ACTION-DECOR – Supports organizations to enhance their physical environments to be more trauma-informed and healing centered.
• ACTION-Latinx – Supports organizations to build or enhance services to be more trauma informed, promote wellness, and strengthen harm reduction approaches for Latinx led organizations or those organizations that predominantly serve Latinx communities.

Hemos estado poniendo atención y por lo tanto para esta ronda de financiamiento/otorgamientos ACTION se está enfocando en los siguientes temas y/o comunidades:

• ACTION-TGNC – Apoya a las organizaciones dirigidas por personas cuyo género es diferente del asignado al nacer, incluyendo, pero no limitado a géneros transgénero, género queer, no binario, indígena, y géneros no conformes (TGNC) para crear fondos, construir movimientos, y aumentar el acceso a servicios de afirmación de géneros TGNC.

• ACTION-HBCU– Salud Mental-VIH (ACTION-HBCU-Mental Health-HIV) – Apoya a Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) para desarrollar campañas y programas/eventos de concienciación o aumentar la capacidad personal para mejorar los servicios para los estudiantes acerca de la salud mental, el uso indebido de sustancias, la salud sexual y el VIH.
• ACTION- DECORACIÓN (ACTION-DÉCOR) – Apoya a las organizaciones a mejorar sus lugares físicos, para que sean más centrados en la sanación e informados sobre el trauma.
• ACTION-Latinx – Apoya a organizaciones a construir o mejorar servicios que sean informados sobre el trauma, promuevan el bienestar y fortalecen los enfoques de reducción de daños para organizaciones dirigidas por Latinx y/o organizaciones que predominantemente dan servicio a la comunidad Latinx.

Eligibility/Elegibilidad

You are eligible to apply to multiple ACTIONs but will be selected to receive one ACTION.

Son elegibles para aplicar a varios financiamientos/otorgamientos de ACTION, pero será seleccionado para recibir solo un financiamiento/otorgamiento de ACTION.

Evaluation/Evaluación

We want to support you to share the impact your project has in your community through a process of data-driven storytelling. Our evaluator will serve as a thought partner in finding creative ways to gather information about your project’s impact, organize the information, reflect on its meaning, and shape your story.

Queremos apoyarlos a compartir el impacto que su proyecto tiene en la comunidad a través de un proceso basado en datos de narración de historias. Nuestro evaluador servirá como un socio en encontrar maneras creativas de recolectar información sobre el impacto de su proyecto, organizar la información, reflexionar sobre su significado y dar forma a su historia.

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

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