Funding Opportunities

The SAMHSA SOAR TA Center is available to help you strategically and thoughtfully plan ways to fund your SOAR activities. This consultation includes helping you identify funding opportunities that are specific to your community’s unique needs. The available options include federal, state, and local funding, as well as foundations and corporate giving. Please contact us at soar@prainc.com.

 

You can also visit our Funding Tools and Resources Page.

 

An article in the February 2019 issue of Health Affairs journal highlighted several foundations that have and/or are currently providing funding for homelessness, housing, and healthcare-related causes. A number of these foundations sought to fund community projects and initiatives with goals to integrate various systems of care such as funding a project whose goal it was to link the most medically vulnerable individuals experiencing homelessness from hospitals to recuperative care and then to permanent support housing (UniHealth Foundation). Additionally, The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation has focused funding resources with a three-pronged approach: 1. Facilitate systems change by urging stakeholders to invest resources and improve efficiencies in both housing and service provision; 2. Examine how people become chronically homeless, examine the emerging consensus on the prevention of homelessness, and support creation of new permanent supportive housing; 3. Promote continuous learning from other parts of the U.S. about effective practices. 

 

The following foundations were featured in the article:

 

Additionally, New York State Health Foundation, Kresge Foundation, Ford Foundation, Oak Foundation, Melville Charitable Trust, Boston Foundation, Pierce Family Foundation, Bezos Day One Fund, and Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland were also featured in the article.  

 

For more detailed information about these foundations please contact Dan Coladonato, Project Associate at the SAMHSA SOAR TA Center, at dcoladonato@prainc.com.

 

Grants for Expansion and Sustainability of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2018 Grants to Establish and Expand Assertive Community Treatment (Short Title: ACT).

 

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Prize recognizes communities that have placed a priority on health, and are creating powerful partnerships and deep commitments to make change. Each of the 10 winning communities that will be honored in 2016 will receive a $25,000 cash prize and the opportunity to share their accomplishments across the nation to spark local change. The Call for Applications for the 2016 Culture of Health Prize is open until November 12, 2015.

 

SAMHSA Announces $10.39 Million in Treatment Assistance for Homeless Individuals

2016 Cooperative Agreements to Benefit Homeless Individuals (CABHI) Grant