Immunization Grants and Vaccines for Children Program
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Application Deadline: August 14, 2007

The purpose of this grant program is to support efforts to plan, develop, and maintain a public health infrastructure that helps assure high immunization coverage levels and low incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases. As a part of this effort, the purpose of the VFC program is to increase access to vaccines for eligible children by supplying federal government-purchased pediatric vaccines to public and private health care providers registered with the program. Eligible children include newborns through 18 years of age who are Medicaid-eligible, not insured, American Indian/Alaska Natives, and children who are uninsured with respect to the vaccine and who are served by a Federally Qualified Health Center or a Rural Health Clinic.

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Adult Viral Hepatitis Prevention Coordinator
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Application Deadline: August 31, 2007

The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to improve the delivery of viral hepatitis prevention services in health-care settings and public health programs that serve adults at risk for viral hepatitis. The primary goals of these activities are to decrease the incidence of new infections of hepatitis A virus (HAV), hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) (primary prevention) and to decrease risks for chronic liver disease, including cirrhosis and liver cancer, in persons with chronic HBV infection or chronic HCV infection (secondary prevention).

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Rural Health Network Development Planning Grant Program
Health Resources and Services Administration
Application Deadline: Oct 05, 2007 8:00 PM ET

Purpose: To provide support to entities that need assistance to plan, organize and develop a health care network because they do not have a significant history of collaboration and are not sufficiently evolved to apply for a three year Rural Health Network Development Grant. This support may be sufficient to jumpstart a network into becoming operational and developing strategies for becoming sustainable. The grant program supports one year of planning to develop and operationalize health care networks, consisting of at least three health care providers, in rural areas.

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Maternal and Child Health Research Program
Health Resources and Services Administration
Application Deadline: Sep 14, 2007 8:00 PM ET

The Maternal and Child Health Research Program will award grants for the following purpose: Extramural MCH Research Program to support applied research relating to maternal and child health services, which show promise of substantial contribution to the advancement of current knowledge pool. Findings of this research should result in health and health services improvements in States and communities. Research proposals should address critical MCH questions relating to public health systems and infrastructure, health disparities, quality of care, and promoting the health of MCH populations. HRSA priority issues such as oral health, the health of MCH populations on the US-Mexican border, and the use of Health Information Technology are also of critical relevance.

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Rural Health Network Development Program
Health Resources and Services Administration
Application Deadline: Oct 15, 2007 8:00 PM ET

To support the development of rural health networks, whose purpose is to increase access to care by overcoming the fragmentation and vulnerability of providers in rural areas. Grant funds are used to support activities that strenghten capabilities of these networks.

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Rural Health and Safety Education
United States Department of Agriculture
Application Deadline: Aug 01, 2007

For FY 2007, the Rural Heath and Safety Education Programs will focus on issues related to aging in one or more of three areas: 1) population aging in rural areas; 2) eldercare and its impact on rural and farm families; and/or 3) related issues of rural health care access to provide individuals and families with: (1) information concerning the value of good health in an era of population aging; (2) information to increase the older adult individual or family’s motivation to take more responsibility for their own health; (3) access for older adults to health promotion activities; (4) the aging rural population and senior services required to care for the population; and (5) training for volunteers and health services providers concerning health promotion and health care services for rural older adult populations, in cooperation with the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Blue Shield of California Foundation Project Grants
Blue Shield of California Foundation
Application Deadline: August 24, 2007 (Letter of Intent)

Each year, Blue Shield of California Foundation awards approximately $30 million in grants, which are distributed through our three Program Areas: Health Care and Coverage, Health and Technology, and Blue Shield Against Violence. The Foundation awards grants for project support and provides limited general operating support grants through an invitation-only initiative process. Before submitting a Letter of Intent, please complete on online questionnaire here,

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Advancing Recovery: State and Provider Partnerships for Quality Addiction Care
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Application Deadline: Aug 16, 2007
Advancing Recovery is an $11-million national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation designed for innovative partnerships between provider organizations and single state agencies (SSAs) to promote the use of evidence-based practices (EBPs) by making "system" changes to regulatory, clinical and administrative practices.

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Consumer Voices for Coverage: Strengthening State Advocacy Networks to Expand Health Coverage
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Application Deadline: Sep 18, 2007
Consumer Voices for Coverage: Strengthening State Advocacy Networks to Expand Health Coverage seeks to strengthen advocacy efforts to promote health care policies that will expand health insurance coverage.

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Community Connect Broadband Grant Program
United States Department of Agriculture
Application Deadline: Aug 20, 2007

The Community-Oriented Connectivity Broadband Grant Program is designed to provide financial assistance to furnish broadband service in rural, economically-challenged communities where such service does not currently exist. Grant funds may be utilized to deploy broadband transmission service to critical community facilities, rural residents, and rural businesses and to construct, acquire, or expand, equip, and operate a community center that provides free access to broadband services to community residents for at least two years. Grants will be awarded, on a competitive basis, to entities serving communities of up to 20,000 inhabitants to ensure rural consumers enjoy the same quality and range of telecommunications service as are available in urban and suburban communities.

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