Community or Outreach Programs

Institutionally Coordinated // Limit: 1 // PI: R. Sorensen (Community Engagement, Family and Community Medicine)

Only one proposal per organization will be accepted in this grants cycle.

Delta Dental of Arizona Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2024 competitive grant cycle. Programs must benefit underserved, uninsured populations (all ages) and applicants must be an Arizona-based 501(c)3 non-profit, government agency, school or charitable program with a fiscal agent. 

Grants ranging $5,000 to $30,000 are available to support the following areas:

• Dental disease prevention
• Oral health education
• Dental treatment
• Medical-dental integration
• Food insecurity and access programs, nutritional programs

Limit: 1  // PI:  N.E. Ruiz ( Cooperative Extension, Santa Cruz County - Nogales, 4-H Youth Development)

The South32 Hermosa Community Fund, a fund of the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona and its geographic affiliate, the Santa Cruz Community Foundation, supports nonprofit organizations based in Santa Cruz County.  Supported areas include education and leadership, economic participation, good health and social well-being, and natural resource resilience.

South32 is a globally diversified mining and metals company.  The South32 Hermosa Project is located in Southern Arizona in the Patagonia Mountains in Santa Cruz County.  The project is approximately six miles south of the town of Patagonia, 50 miles southeast of Tucson, and 15 miles northeast of Nogales, Arizona. The company’s purpose is to make a difference by developing natural resources and improving people’s lives now and for generations to come.

Since its inception, the South32 Hermosa Community Fund has awarded 95 grants totaling $801,950.

Up to $80,000 will be available each cycle; requests up to $10,000 will be considered.

Y. Shirai (Family and Community Medicine)

The Administrators are seeking proposals for innovative local models in which volunteers assist family caregivers or directly assist older adults or adults with disabilities with nonmedical care in order to maintain their independence Administrators are offering two proposal options. Applicants will select one of the following:

Option One: Funds are awarded to local organizations nationwide to establish, enhance, or grow model volunteer programs in home or community-based settings. Community Care Corps volunteers perform nonmedical tasks, provide companionship, and support family caregivers.

Option Two: Funds are awarded to local organizations across the country capable of building a network of screened and trained volunteer chaperones to accompany older adults and adults with disabilities in need to and from non-emergency medical appointments and outpatient procedures. The administrators seek applications that reflect the needs of their community, deliver services door through door, assist with needs pre- and post- appointments, and include appropriate stakeholders. Door through door assistance addresses care recipient expectations and needs before and after non-emergency medical appointments and outpatient procedures.

E. Orr (School of Government and Public Policy)

Uarizona may submit one application to this funding program. 

The Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBCS or the Agency), a Rural Development (RD) agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), invites applications for grants under the Rural Cooperative Development Grant (RCDG) program for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023. This notice is being issued to allow applicants sufficient time to leverage financing, prepare and submit applications, and give the Agency time to process applications within FY 2023. Funding of $5.8 million will be available for FY 2023. Successful applications will be selected by the Agency for funding and subsequently awarded. All applicants are responsible for any expenses incurred in developing their applications.

A. Waller (College of Architecture, Planning & Landscape Architecture )
J. J. Barrios (Public & Applied Humanities)

UArizona may submit two proposals to this funding program.

Through Our Town, the NEA is proud to support creative placemaking projects that integrate arts, culture, and design into local efforts that strengthen communities over the long-term. The program demonstrates the ways in which artists, culture bearers, and designers can help to: 

• Bring new attention to or elevate key community assets and issues, voices of residents, local history, or civic infrastructure;
• Inject new or additional energy, resources, activity, people, or enthusiasm into a place, community issue, or local economy;
• Envision new possibilities for a community or place—a new future, a way of approaching a new opportunity, overcoming a challenge, or problem-solving;
• Connect communities, people, places, and economic opportunity through physical spaces or new partnerships and relationships; or
• Honor traditions shaped by the lived experience of a community’s residents, such as music, dance, design, crafts, fashion, cuisine, and oral expression.

Our Town projects engage a wide range of local stakeholders in efforts to advance local economic, physical, or social outcomes in communities. Competitive projects are responsive to unique local conditions, authentically engage communities, advance artful lives, and lay the groundwork for long-term systems change. (Systems changes can include, for example: establishment of new and sustained cross-sector partnerships; shifts in institutional structure, practices or policies; replication or scaling of innovative project models; or establishment of training programs).