# Local Community-Based Workforce to Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Access

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/hrsa-21-140-local-community-based-workforce-to-increase-covid-19/  
Official notice: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/333701

> Health Resources and Services Administration offered grants to the applicants described in the notice. It expected to make about 121 awards worth $121 million in total. Applications closed on June 9, 2021.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Opportunity number | HRSA-21-140 |
| Agency | Health Resources and Services Administration |
| Status | Forecast |
| Deadline | June 9, 2021 |
| Award ceiling | not stated |
| Award floor | not stated |
| Expected awards | 121 |
| Total funding | $121 million |
| Cost sharing | not required |
| Assistance Listings | 93.011 |

## Who can apply

- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Eligible applicants include nonprofit private or public organizations, including local and/or regional community-based organizations (CBOs), with demonstrated experience in implementing public health programs, particularly in medically underserved areas. This includes Tribes and Tribal organizations. Applicants may engage as individual organizations or create a partnership of organizations with the capacity to complete program activities (i.e. one award recipient with one or multiple subrecipient organizations). Program activities include hiring community outreach workers from the vulnerable and medically underserved communities they will serve and reaching out to these communities; specifically the areas or populations with low vaccination rates to date. Applicants should use recent, relevant data sources to identify counties and target populations of need (see Section IV.7).

## What the grant funds

The purpose of the program is to establish, expand, and sustain a public health workforce to prevent, prepare for, and respond to COVID-19. This includes mobilizing community outreach workers, which includes community health workers, patient navigators, and social support specialists, to educate and assist individuals in accessing and receiving COVID-19 vaccinations. This includes activities such as conducting face-to-face outreach and reaching out directly to community members to educate them about the vaccine, assisting individuals in making a vaccine appointment, providing resources to find convenient vaccine locations, assisting individuals with transportation or other needs to get to a vaccination site. The program intends to address persistent health disparities by offering support and resources to vulnerable and medically underserved communities, including racial and ethnic minority groups and individuals living in areas of high social vulnerability. HRSA will fund recipients that have demonstrated experience and expertise in implementing public health programs, particularly in medically underserved areas. Award recipients will need to clearly describe how the funding will directly serve and impact vulnerable communities; and demonstrate how they will prioritize hiring individuals from the communities they will serve by providing outreach, education and assistance related to the COVID-19 vaccine. This program will focus on providing resources to local and/or regional community-based organizations (CBOs). CBO applicants may engage as individual organizations or create a network of multiple eligible organizations partnering together to complete program activities (i.e. one award recipient with multiple subrecipient organizations). Partnering organizations may include entities such as: • Community-based organizations (including faith-based organizations, social service organizations) • Local chapters of national associations • Local health departments • Health centers and other community-based health providers • Minority-serving organizations or institutions • Tribes and Tribal organizations • Philanthropic organizations • Local municipal entities, such as fire and EMS departments • Social service providers (e.g.

## Questions people ask

### Is HRSA-21-140 still open?

No. It closed on June 9, 2021.

### Who can apply for Local Community-Based Workforce to Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Access?

Health Resources and Services Administration accepted applications from the applicants described in the notice. The notice adds further conditions, so read its eligibility section.

### What is the deadline for Local Community-Based Workforce to Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Access?

Closed June 9, 2021. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.

### How much funding is available?

About $121 million in total across about 121 awards.

### Who has won National Organizations for State and Local Officials grants before?

The largest recipients over five fiscal years were Public Health Institute, Association of Asian/Pacific Community Health Organizations, Altamed Health Services Corporation. The program made 167 awards worth $389 million in that time.