2024 Long COVID Network & Capacity Building Grants: Request for Proposals
The application period has closed. Applicants will receive notice of award or non-award in May 2024. The grant period begins July 1, 2024, or when individual grant agreements are fully executed. whichever is later.
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) Long COVID Program requested proposals for eligible organizations to plan, create, and share equitable resources and information about long COVID and related conditions. Activities will increase understanding of the impacts of long COVID and related conditions, raise awareness, reduce stigma, address disparities, and improve care and support for those most impacted. Grantees will also participate in a grantee network to increase coordination and enhance the scope of care and support for people with long COVID and related conditions.
Recipients or audiences of these efforts could include, but are not limited to, people living with long COVID and related conditions, caregivers, health care providers, ancillary health care workers, workplaces, schools, communities, and local and Tribal public health.
To address inequities and disparities related to long COVID, Minnesota law states that MDH will award the grants to organizations that serve communities disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, long COVID, and related conditions. This includes, but is not limited to, rural and low-income areas, Black and African Americans, African immigrants, American Indians, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Hispanic/Latino(a) communities, LGBTQ+ communities, and persons living with disabilities. Organizations may also address intersectionality within these groups.
Full funding details and application instructions are in the 2024 Long COVID Network & Capacity Building Grants Request for Proposals (PDF). Applicants were encouraged to review the scoring criteria included with the RFP.
Funding, project dates, and process
The grant period will be approximately July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2027. Up to 10 awards will be given, totaling an estimated $900,000 annually. Awards are estimated to range from $75,000 - $150,000 annually. Annual grant funding is contingent upon availability and satisfactory grantee performance.
Funding will be allocated through a competitive process. If selected, grantees may only incur eligible expenditures once the grant agreement is fully executed.
Questions
Please refer to the 2024 Long COVID Grants: RFP Questions and Answers page for a complete list of answers to questions that were submitted.
Information session
MDH hosted a virtual one-hour webinar on March 12, 2024. The recording and slides are below.
Watch the recording: 2024 Long COVID Network and Capacity Building Grants: RFP Information Session
View Long COVID RFP Information Session slides (PDF).
Application materials
Full instructions and scoring criteria can be found in the 2024 Long COVID Network and Capacity Building Grants Request for Proposals (PDF).
Applicants needed to submit all of the following materials by the deadline for the application to be considered complete: