Federal grant programs / Department of Health and Human Services

Activities to Support State, Tribal, Local and Territorial (STLT) Health Department Response to Public Health or Healthcare Crises (93.391)

Also known as CDC Partner Crisis Response NOFO

• Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$2.2 billion
• Grant awards295
• Typical award$50,000
• Awarded in FY 2025$0
• Size rank145 of 1,823
• Type of assistanceCooperative agreements

Key findings

• It is the 145th largest of 1,823 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
• The 20 largest recipients received 36% of the money.
• Awards went to recipients in 58 states and territories.

What the program funds

CDC will strengthen the U.S. public health system’s response to public health or healthcare crises by providing specialized support to State, Tribal, Local and Territorial health departments (STLTs) when engaged in a response. Because STLTs vary widely in capacity and expertise - as well as in the demographics and disease burdens of the populations they serve - an emergency in any location is likely to reveal areas in which they need assistance to launch and sustain effective response activities. The purpose of this program is (1) to establish a pool of organizations capable of rapidly providing essential expertise to governmental public health entities involved in a response, and (2) to fund select awardees to provide that support, when required, based on CDC’s determination of need. The role of the recipient will be to function as a rapid provider of information and/or resources, as well as a coordinator of the project management components involved. Recipients will primarily support public health departments, but may be engaged to support CDC programs also involved in the response.

From the federal Assistance Listing. Read the full listing on SAM.gov.

Open opportunities

No opportunity under this program is open or forecast on Grants.gov right now. Programs often post once a year, so the funding history below shows what to expect.

Rules from the program listing

Who can apply

Eligible applicants are limited to the following: 1. Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(6) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education. 2. Public and private institutions of higher education. 3. Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally-recognized tribal governments).

What the money can and cannot pay for

Project funds will be used by non-governmental organizations (501c3s, 501c6s, public and private institutions of higher learning, and Native American tribal organizations) to provide emergency response assistance to State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial public health agencies and other components of the public health system. For the purposes of this program, “other components of the public health system” refers to specific professional constituencies (i.e., epidemiologists, community health nurses, health education and promotion specialists tribal health leaders, chronic disease directors, health information specialists, Medicaid/Medicare Directors, state/local public health financial officials, etc.) or key components of the public health system (i.e., community and neighborhood health centers, public health and primary care delivery systems, community and faith-based organizations, public health and accreditation boards, public health institutes, primary care residency programs, health insurance consortia, family/social services programs, maternal/child health associations, etc.). Recipients may only expend funds for reasonable program purposes, including personnel, travel, supplies (including training materials), and services, such as contractual. Applicants will be required to participate, comply, and cooperate with CDC for any reporting requirements stipulated by, or mandated for, the receipt of funding.;

Matching requirements

This program has no statutory formula. Matching requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing. MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

Deadlines

Check www.grants.gov for any relevant NOFO information regarding processes for applying for assistance.

Award range and average, in the agency's words

Program is no longer making new awards under AL# 93.391, but funded projects are still in progress and awaiting closeout. Due to the nature of the issues that would trigger CDC to fund these programs, it is difficult to project the total funding amount that would be made available. When and if CDC activates these programs, it is expected to be only for the time necessary to respond to the emergency at hand, and that long-term recovery needs (and/or emergencies that shift from an epidemic to an endemic nature) would be addressed by other NOFOs as appropriate.

Quoted from the program's federal Assistance Listing. The notice of funding opportunity is the official source for each competition's rules.

Who usually wins

State and local governments received 85% of the money, nonprofits 3.1% and tribes less than 0.1%.

By state

54 states have a page for this program: those that received at least $1 million or 10 awards.

Award amounts are federal obligations reported to USAspending.gov for fiscal 2021 to 2025; see how our data works.