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The California State Rural Health Association maintains a comprehensive list of timely grant opportunities based on notices received from a variety of granting organizations. All opportunities are specific to health and are open to the restrictions often present in rural areas. CSRHA continually updates this listing eliminating old opportunities as the due date expires. Please email CSRHA with new opportunities and we would be happy to post them. http://www.csrha.org/granting.html.

The California Endowment is a private philanthropic organization whose mission is to expand access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities, through a community-based approach for its grant-making activities. The California Endowment is located online at http://www.calendow.org.

California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) is a private, independent philanthropy, whose grantmaking is statewide and focuses initially on five program areas: managed care and special populations, California's uninsured, California health policy, health care quality, and public health. The CHCF funding section is located online at http://www.chcf.org/grantinfo/index.cfm.

California Rural Health Policy Council (CRHPC), established by California's Health and Welfare Agency, has grant programs of its own and a clearinghouse with a listing of OSHPD and other state, federal, and private grant programs. CRHPC website's funding section is located at http://www.ruralhealth.ca.gov/funding.htm.

California Telehealth and Telemedicine Center is a private organization that works to promote the use of information and communication technologies and offers funding opportunities for telehealth projects and networks. CTTC is located at http://www.cttonline.org.

The California Wellness Foundation (TCWF) is a private organization that offers funding programs in several areas, including community health, population health improvement, teen pregnancy prevention, violence prevention, and work and health. TCWF is located online at http://www.tcwf.org/.

The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Programs (CFDA) is a government-wide compendium of all 1,499 Federal programs, projects, services, and activities that provide assistance or benefits to the American public. These programs provide grants, loans, loan guarantees, services, information, scholarships, training, insurance, etc., to millions of Americans every day at http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/cfda/index.htm.

Chronicle of Philanthropy is a bi-monthly newspaper dedicated to philanthropic news and opportunities. The Chronicle's website contains back issues of the newsletter and fully searchable grant listings. The Chronicle is located online at http://www.philanthropy.com/.

eGrants.org is a funding organization founded by the Tides Foundation (see below) that supports innovative and activist nonprofit groups in the United States and abroad working for human rights, justice, and a sustainable environment. eGrants is located online at http://www.egrants.org/.

Federal Commons is an Internet grants management portal serving the grantee organization community at http://www.cfda.gov/federalcommons/index.html.

Foundation Center is a website dedicated to fostering public understanding of the foundation field by collecting, organizing, analyzing, and disseminating information on foundations, corporate giving, and related subjects. The Foundation Center is located online at http://www.foundationcenter.org/

Grant Station Insider quickly and easily links nonprofits to all current sources of grant money, while also teaching these organizations how to secure available funding. Developed and tested by fundraising professionals, it is the only tool on the market that is based on in-depth and ongoing research. GrantStation is located online at this website.

James Irvine Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation dedicated to enhancing the social, economic, and physical quality of life throughout California, with funding areas including workforce development, sustainable communities, and others. The Foundation is located online at http://www.irvine.org/home.html.

The National Institute of Health offers leads to information about NIH grant and fellowship programs, applying for a grant or fellowship, policy changes, administrative responsibilities of awardees, peer review policies and procedures, and the numbers and characteristics of awards made by the NIH at http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/index.cfm.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is a national organization dedicated to improving health and healthcare for all Americans. The RWJF website offers detailed information on funding opportunities, grant guidelines, Call for Proposal details, and issues of its quarterly newletter, Advances. RWJF is located online at http://www.rwjf.org/.

Tides Foundation is a private organization that makes grants on the recommendation of its donor clients to non-profit organizations only in areas including Economic Development, Environment, HIV/AIDS, Native American Communities, Women's Issues/Reproductive Health, and Youth Programs. Tides grant information is located online at http://www.tides.org/index_tds.cfm

US Department of Health and Human Services is the largest grant-making agency in the federal government, providing some 60,000 grants per year. HHS' Medicare program is the nation's largest health insurer, handling more than 900 million claims per year. at http://www.hhs.gov.