Community Health Center Special Projects Grant
In an effort to stabilize the current primary care provider workforce in community health centers, and to cultivate the next generation of primary care leaders, the League manages the Community Health Center Special Projects Grant for primary care clinicians who wish to pursue career development opportunities.
The CHC Special Projects Grant was developed to assist health centers to enhance the retention of providers at community health centers by providing funding to support qualified and approved projects that match the clinical or career interest of selected providers and the programmatic needs of the health center. This year, the funding made available by this grant will assist community health centers in offering paid designated employment time for a primary care provider to undertake the special projects, mini-fellowships or international health experiences. These providers would commit to return to their community health center to use their new skills and continue to practice primary care medicine.
Under this Request for Proposals, the League is inviting applications from health center providers and their respective community health center employers. The grant maximum is $40,000 and may be used for salary, fringe benefits and tax expenses, and other direct costs of the projects as defined in the RFP. The grant period will be one year and projects, fellowships, and international health experiences need to be initiated and completed during the year (July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011). Applications will be accepted until March 1, 2010. There will be a maximum of six grants made in 2010.
Application materials for the CHC Special Projects Grant are below:- Request for Proposal Coversheet
- Request for Proposal
- Executive Director Support
- Medical Director Support
We encourage you to disseminate this information to your primary care providers. Please forward questions about the RFP to Leslie Bailey.