Current Healthcare Workforce Funding Opportunities
Current healthcare workforce funding opportunities are grants and/or programs that are currently accepting applications for funding. These grants and programs are aimed at addressing healthcare workforce challenges, improving training, promoting diversity, and aligning with emerging healthcare trends to ensure the delivery of high-quality healthcare services.
Vitalyst offers technical assistance to nonprofits focused on any of the Elements of a Healthy Community, and financial assistance may be offered to those working to advance issues included in Vitalyst’s Public Policy Agenda.
The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona Foundation for Community & Health Advancement partners with organizations that are transforming health in Arizona to amplify their impact.
Grant opportunities are available for Arizona-based organizations that are seeking funding related to the Foundation’s focus areas. The Foundation offers grant opportunities for programs and applied research projects and supports a select number of charitable events each year.
The Future Leaders Program provides field placements, faculty-student collaborative projects, and a community of practice for current public health students in the Western Region of the U.S. A focus is on rural and medically underserved communities.
The State of Arizona Grant Program for Preceptors of Healthcare Graduate Students is a program for preceptors of graduate students attending Arizona universities. The program aims to incentivize volunteer preceptors to continue to precept graduate students and provide key learning experiences to these students.
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is seeking to fund high-quality, comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) projects that focus on different approaches to incorporating access to and use of telehealth to optimize the management of multiple chronic conditions in primary care, particularly among vulnerable populations.
The L'Aiglon Foundation Grant targets funding in the areas of education, environment, and cultural arts. Grant recipients should have concrete objectives and measurable results.
The Community Foundation Grant Program consists of separate funds created by individual donors who establish specific criteria for the administration of their grants and is consistent with overall Community Foundation policy. Grants are made year-round. They include Donor Advised Funds, whose advisor recommend grants based on their interests as well as several competitive funding opportunities offered by the Foundation.
Closed Funding Opportunities
The Vitalyst Spark program provides one year grants to support collaborations in the journey to address systemic change in Arizona.
The Arizona AHEC Scholars Program is a multidisciplinary certificate program for certain health professions students that offers opportunities for hands-on training, experience in rural and underserved communities, and networking with other students and professionals.
Awards to U.S. health systems and hospitals to recognize their commitment to advancing health. The purpose of the awards program is to acknowledge efforts to enhance the quality, accessibility, and affordability of healthcare for communities and individuals.
The Health Center Program supports domestic public or private, nonprofit community-based, and patient-directed organizations that provide primary health care services to the nation’s medically underserved populations.
The Physicians Foundation’s Leadership Award Program honors the next generation of physician leaders by recognizing new and early-career physicians for extraordinary actions in their practice or community.
The Anna Lalor Burdick (ALB) grant supports programs that offer sexual and reproductive health education to women. ALB is interested in programs serving women who are disadvantaged by poverty, discrimination, geographic isolation, lack of comprehensive sex education, hostile public policy, or other factors leading to inadequate sexual and reproductive health.
The fourth round of Strengthening Community Colleges Training Grants (SCC4) will increase the capacity and responsiveness of community colleges to meet the skill development needs of employers and equitably support students in obtaining good jobs in in-demand industries.
The Physicians Foundation’s Fellowship Program is aimed at advancing physicians’ leadership skills, improving physician wellbeing, and addressing drivers of health (DOH).
This program will support the establishment of approved graduate medical and dental residency training programs for physicians and dentists. This program aims to increase primary care physician and dental residency training in community-based patient care settings by providing funds to support the development of new programs in these settings, which are often underserved areas where resources may not be easily attainable.