Grants for Independent school districts - Health

The Montgomery County Office of Grants Management is offering its 2025 School-Based Food Assistance Grant Program. This program aims to bolster food security for students and their families by funding initiatives co-located at Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) sites. The overarching goal is to address critical gaps in healthy food access for children and families and to foster innovative approaches to integrate food assistance directly within school communities. The program aligns with a strategic priority to support projects that effectively tackle food insecurity and leverage school sites for broader community benefit, demonstrating a theory of change focused on direct, accessible, and community-embedded food support. The target beneficiaries of this grant program are students and families in Montgomery County who rely on school meals or face barriers to food access, such as transportation challenges. The impact goals are to increase nutrition security and provide convenient access to essential food resources. Successful programs are expected to demonstrate past experience in operating school-based food assistance programs with MCPS, propose quickly actionable program models for new schools, and identify potential zip codes, capacity, resource needs, and expansion formats. The program prioritizes projects that address significant needs in healthy food access for children and families and/or offer innovative models for co-locating food assistance at MCPS school sites. The Office of Food and Special Programs (OFSR) is collaborating with MCPS to identify priority school sites based on community need and the anticipated impact of new or expanded programming. This strategic focus ensures that funding is directed where it can have the most profound effect on alleviating food insecurity. The expected outcomes include the establishment or expansion of diverse food assistance models, such as choice pantries offering culturally relevant and healthy foods, pre-packed box/bag distributions with locally sourced produce, medically or preference-tailored prepared meal deliveries, and grocery gift card distributions to address transportation and other barriers. The total grant funding available is $1,250,000, with individual awards ranging from $40,000 to $300,000, and a performance period from approximately August 15, 2024, to June 30, 2025. This financial commitment and flexible programming range are designed to generate measurable results in terms of increased access to nutritious food and improved food security for the target population.

The "Precision Mental Health: Develop Tools to Inform Treatment Selection in Depression" grant aims to fund the development and early testing of predictive tools or biomarkers that can help determine the most effective treatment for individual patients suffering from depression.

This funding opportunity provides financial support for researchers and innovators to develop advanced technologies and platforms that improve the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of heart, lung, blood, and sleep-related health issues.

This funding opportunity supports the development of essential research resources for organizations working on allergy, immunology, and infectious diseases, benefiting the broader scientific community.

This funding opportunity supports researchers exploring urgent issues in substance use, such as sudden spikes in drug overdoses or emerging trends in marijuana policy, requiring quick responses to inform public health and policy decisions.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to organizations working in Sierra Leone to improve access to HIV prevention, care, and treatment services, particularly for vulnerable populations, in order to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

This funding opportunity supports innovative research projects aimed at developing new drugs and therapies for mental health, substance use, and age-related neurological disorders.

The "Chronic Pancreatitis Clinical Research Consortium (CPCRC)- Clinical Centers (CPCRC-CCs)" grant aims to fund ongoing studies on chronic pancreatitis and related conditions, with a focus on understanding the risk factors for pancreatic cancer in patients with chronic pancreatitis and newly diagnosed diabetes, by supporting a consortium of clinical centers and a data management center.

The purpose of this 3-year NOFO is to fund up to 6 applicants to increase awareness related to a single proposed chronic disease for public health practitioners, healthcare providers, patients, and the public. Recipients will focus on conducting data dissemination and educational activities to increase and expand awareness about that proposed chronic condition to support effective, evidenced-based clinical and population-level approaches. 2020, Congress recognized CDC’s work with stakeholders to expand public health education and awareness activities that help improve surveillance, diagnosis, and proper treatment for chronic diseases. Congress charged CDC with establishing a new competitive grant program to expand and advance work with stakeholders on education, outreach, and public awareness activities for a variety of chronic diseases for which there is a clear disparity in public and professional awareness and that are not currently funded through a direct FY21 CDC appropriations line. This approach would strengthen the science base for prevention, education, and public health awareness for a variety of chronic diseases that do not currently have dedicated resources that would lead to meaningful patient outcomes. This 3 year competitive grant will complement or fill gaps in CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion’s (NCCDPHP) current priorities by supporting recipients for the following activities: 1) Data dissemination activities that support awareness for public health professionals; 2) Develop data collection tools to fill surveillance gaps; 3) Educational activities supporting public awareness; and 4) Educational activities supporting health professional screening, referral, and/or management. Collecting and disseminating reliable information on the impacts of chronic diseases (including social, behavioral, environmental, and quality of life aspects) is necessary to shape effective evidence-based clinical and population-level approaches for public health impact and health equity.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to various organizations working with the Zambian government to improve and sustain digital health information systems for monitoring HIV programs and patient outcomes.

This funding opportunity supports Oregon-based organizations in developing programs that help at-risk youth aged 6 to 19 achieve educational success, improve mental and physical wellness, and engage with their communities.

This funding opportunity supports innovative research aimed at improving the health and well-being of individuals with disabilities, particularly those from racial and ethnic minority groups and economically disadvantaged backgrounds, by addressing the complex factors that contribute to health disparities.

This grant provides funding to establish a coordination center that will support research collaborations focused on Alzheimer's Disease and related dementias in low- and middle-income countries.

This funding opportunity supports researchers in developing advanced imaging agents for studying brain disorders and enhancing drug discovery, particularly in collaboration with the pharmaceutical industry.

This grant provides funding to strengthen global public health laboratory systems, improve workforce capabilities, enhance bio risk management, and boost diagnostic and genomic sequencing capacities to effectively respond to health threats.

This funding opportunity provides financial support for organizations to develop and implement strategies that ensure immediate access to HIV and STI prevention resources for high-risk communities, particularly focusing on Black and Hispanic gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals.

This grant invites researchers to utilize existing biospecimens to generate and share comprehensive genomic and multi-omics data related to Down syndrome, with a focus on enhancing understanding of associated health conditions.

This grant provides funding to research teams for planning clinical trials focused on innovative regenerative medicine approaches to restore vision, including developing protocols and addressing regulatory requirements.

The "Research Collaboration Network in Structural Racism Measurement and Modeling" grant aims to fund interdisciplinary collaborations that develop new methods to measure and analyze the impact of structural racism on aging and Alzheimer's disease, with activities including creating a public data repository, organizing educational events, and conducting pilot research projects, with a budget of up to $1,000,000 per year for up to five years.

**HEAL Initiative: INTERACT INTEgRAtive Back Pain Longitudinal Cohort Teams (UC2 Clinical Trial Optional)** aims to fund research teams to enhance the understanding and treatment of chronic low back pain through longitudinal data collection, interdisciplinary approaches, and collaboration with existing HEAL projects, while promoting inclusivity and diverse perspectives in the research process.