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HRSA-21-106: Rural Northern Border Region Planning Program

Closed Closed June 14, 2021 Opportunity HRSA-21-106 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is forecast: Rural Maternity and Obstetrics Management Strategies Program (HRSA-27-047). Status: Expected deadline April 20, 2027. It is in our archive of Health Resources and Services Administration notices from 2021.

• Award ceiling$190,000
• Total funding$760,000
• Expected awards4
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeGrant

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to nonprofits, colleges and universities, state and local governments, tribes, small businesses and businesses.

Eligible applicants are located in the following NBRC-designated service areas: Maine: Androscoggin*, Aroostook, Franklin, Hancock, Kennebec, Knox, Oxford, Penobscot*, Piscataquis, Somerset, Waldo, and Washington counties New Hampshire: Belknap, Carroll, Cheshire, Coos, Grafton, and Sullivan counties New York: Cayuga, Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Genesee, Greene, Hamilton, Herkimer*, Jefferson*, Lewis, Livingston*, Madison*, Montgomery, Niagara*, Oneida*, Orleans*, Oswego*, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Seneca, St. Lawrence, Sullivan, Washington*, Warren*, Wayne*, and Yates* counties Vermont: Addison, Bennington, Caledonia, Chittenden, Essex, Franklin*, Grand Isle, Lamoille, Orange, Orleans, Rutland, Washington, Windham, and Windsor counties *Indicates partially rural counties located in the NBRC service area. All other counties are fully rural with the exception of the following non-rural counties: Rensselaer, Saratoga, and Schenectady County in New York, and Chittenden and Grand Isle County in Vermont.

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Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Rural Healthcare Services Programs awards averaged $487,643; this notice allows up to $190,000 per award.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

This notice announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Rural Northern Border Region Planning Program. The purpose of the Rural Northern Border Region Planning Program is to assist in the planning and identifying of key rural health issues in the rural Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC) service area1. The program supports planning activities to identify key rural health issues, assess rural health challenges, and engage in strategic planning activities to inform rural health plans across the northern border region. The ultimate goal of the program is to help underserved rural communities identify and better address their health care needs. Projects may include planning activities that address challenges related to access to care and health care workforce or assist small rural hospitals improve their financial and operational performance. Applicants should build upon existing policy and academic reports so that products resulting from this award further existing efforts, where applicable. Rural Northern Border Region Planning Program funds will support 18 months of planning activities. For the purposes of this award, planning activities are those that prepare a community to provide direct services.

Category: Health.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, HRSA-27-047, which is forecast.

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