Funding Resources

Grant Matrix - This is a good resource for finding possible grant opportunities. Updated 12/9/2008.

Empire Health Foundation

Grant for HWFI

Senator Murray's office announced [Feb. 12, 2010] a $5 million grant award to the Washington State Workforce Training and Education Board to train health care workers. See press release. The Health Work Force Institute, along with SEIU Healthcare 1199NW Multi-Employer Fund and SEIU Healthcare Training Partnership collaborated with the state Workforce Board to develop this state-wide proposal for grant funds authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and awarded nationwide by the U. S. Department of Labor. The grant will provide training for 550 low-wage Washington health care workers, helping move them into higher-paying, high-demand health care professions with established career pathways. The grant also will create 350 entry-level health care jobs, with opportunities for advancement.

There will be three areas of emphasis:

  1. Advancing entry-level workers along the nursing pathway, beginning with Certified Nursing Assistants and Medical Assistants through Licensed Practical Nurses and, ultimately, reaching Registered Nurses. The grant promises to move hundreds of workers up this high-demand career ladder by recruiting, supporting and training them in a health care setting.
  2. Providing jobs in long-term care and creating career transitions to acute care by recruiting and training job seekers in the advanced home care aide apprenticeship, and providing a seamless pathway to acute, hospital health care.
  3. Expanding the state’s health care educational capacity through workplace learning opportunities, online classes and recruiting more clinical instructors.
This grant, which will be administered by the state's Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board in conjunction with the Health Work Force Institute, SEIU Healthcare 1199NW Multi-Employer Fund, and SEIU Healthcare NW Training Partnership, breaks new ground in pioneering career tracks that move low-wage health care workers into better paying, higher-demand professions. The partnership overseeing the grant money is called the Washington Health Care Worker Training Coalition. The training will be delivered through a combination of online and workplace learning. The state's community and technical colleges will be able to expand the capacity of their health care programs to reach these new, first-rung workers. For more information contact Jaime Garcia, Executive Director, Health Work Force Institute.

Expanded Availability of Loan Repayment Awards: See the flyer for more information. Posted 1/27/2010

Grant assistance program available for EMS projects

Ridgefield, NJ-based emergency communications and telemedicine systems provider General Devices has initiated a grant assistance program for those in emergency medicine trying to locate grants, write a successful grant proposal, and manage grant-funded projects. According to General Devices Sales Director Rhea Lazarus, the service is free to those seeking grant funding for such activities as improving communications, disaster response, improving patient outcomes, telemedicine, and training and delivery of prehospital and emergency healthcare. In addition to working with a leading grant research team to locate applicable grants, General Devices has also teamed up with emsgrantshelp.com, a leading grant specialist in EMS and emergency medicine. The company will refer those in need of grant writers and grant managers to experts with experience in EMS and emergency medicine. For more information, visit www.general-devices.com or www.emsgrantshelp.com, or call Lazarus at (201) 313-7075. Posted 1/27/2010

Rural Emergency Responders Initiative
Application deadline: Ongoing
The Rural Development, through its community facilities program, provides funding for the Rural Emergency Responders Initiative to specifically strengthen the ability of rural communities to respond to local emergencies. The community facilities program funds are used to support rural emergency responder efforts by financing needed equipment and services.

For more Rural Assistance Center funding opportunities, visit their website and search the funding database.