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            Health services funding opportunities via the Rural Assistance Center
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    Health services funding opportunities, with information provided via the Rural Assistance Center
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				<copyright>Copyright 2010 Rural Assistance Center</copyright>
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<title>Medicare Incentive Payments in Health Professional Shortage Areas and Physician Scarcity Areas</title>
<description>Medicare bonus payments to physicians in geographic HPSAs and PSAs. Geographic coverage:  Nationwide  -- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=214 </link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:21:27 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Local Initiative Funding Partners Program 2010-2011</title>
<description>Funding for  promising, original projects that can significantly improve the health of vulnerable people in their communities. Geographic coverage:  Nationwide  -- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=4 </link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:04:13 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Model State-Supported Area Health Education Centers</title>
<description>Grants to improve the distribution, diversity, and quality of health personnel in the health services delivery system by encouraging the regional organization of health professions schools. Geographic coverage:  Nationwide  -- Bureau of Health Professions </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=2347 </link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:19:34 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Basic/Core Area Health Education Centers</title>
<description>Funding to improve the distribution, diversity, and quality of health personnel in the health services delivery system by encouraging the regional organization of health professions schools. Geographic coverage:  Nationwide  -- Bureau of Health Professions </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=2346 </link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:19:00 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Komen Foundation Patient Services Grants</title>
<description>Funds to assist not-for-profit institutions and providers of breast cancer care to maintain the continuum of services to breast cancer patients and breast cancer survivors impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and/or Rita. Geographic coverage:  Nationwide  -- Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=1010 </link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:30:39 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO)</title>
<description>Supports policy analysis, research, evaluation and demonstration projects on health care policy and financing issues. Geographic coverage:  Nationwide  -- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=239 </link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:19:28 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Andersons Fund Supporting Organization Grants</title>
<description>Grants to Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan organizations with programs in the areas of education, social services, physical and mental health, neighborhood and urban affairs, natural resources and the arts. Geographic coverage:  Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan  --  </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=1684 </link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:25:30 CST</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=1684 </guid>

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<title>Medica Foundation Cycle 1 Funding Priorities</title>
<description>Grants designed to develop capabilities or change processes related to behavioral health care and empowerment and self management of chronic disease. Geographic coverage:  Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin  -- Medica </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=790 </link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:16:58 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Medica Foundation Cycle 2 Funding Priorities</title>
<description>Grants designed to improve health care disparities in the areas of prevention and health care literacy. Geographic coverage:  Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota  -- Medica </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=788 </link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:15:13 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Delta States Rural Development Network Program Grant Program</title>
<description>Grant to fund organizations located in the eight Delta States which address unmet local health care needs and prevalent health disparities through the development of new and innovative projects. Geographic coverage:  Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee  -- Office of Rural Health Policy </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=378 </link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:30:49 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Service Area Competitions-Additional Areas (SAC-AA)</title>
<description>Grants to continue to support comprehensive primary and preventive health care service delivery to areas where the existing section 330 grantee's continuation application was not approved. Geographic coverage:  West Virginia  -- Bureau of Primary Health Care </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=1968 </link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:47:54 CST</pubDate>
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<title>AHRQ Health Services Research Projects (R01)</title>
<description>Funding for Large Research (R01) Projects, and expresses AHRQ portfolio priority areas of interest for ongoing extramural health services research, demonstration, dissemination, and evaluation grants. Geographic coverage:  Nationwide  -- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=2059 </link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:56:39 CST</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=2059 </guid>

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<title>Regional Community Health Grants Program</title>
<description>This program provides funding focused on reducing disparities in health care among racial and ethnic populations in eligible geographic areas. Geographic coverage:  Nationwide  -- Aetna Foundation </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=777 </link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:58:39 CST</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=777 </guid>

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<title>Proposal Development Award</title>
<description>Grants to help Michigan-based nonprofit community organizations that deliver health services get the resources they need to develop grant proposals. Geographic coverage:  Michigan  -- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=771 </link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:33:42 CST</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=771 </guid>

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<title>Foster G. McGaw Prize for Excellence in Community Service</title>
<description>Honors health delivery organizations that have demonstrated exceptional commitment to community service. Geographic coverage:  Nationwide  -- American Hospital Association </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=422 </link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:28:44 CST</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=422 </guid>

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<title>Women Helping Others Foundation Offers Funding to Grassroots Charities Serving Women and Children</title>
<description>Funding to grassroots charities serving the overlooked needs of women and children in the United States and Puerto Rico. Geographic coverage:  Nationwide  -- Women Helping Others </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=109 </link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:04:05 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Surplus Real Property Available for Public Use</title>
<description>Disposal of surplus real property by lease, permits, sale, exchange, or donation. Geographic coverage:  Nationwide  -- U.S. General Services Administration </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=98 </link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:59:49 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Federal Surplus Personal Property Donation Program</title>
<description>Enables certain nonfederal organizations to obtain property that the federal government no longer needs. Geographic coverage:  Nationwide  -- U.S. General Services Administration </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=97 </link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:58:55 CST</pubDate>
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<title>RGK Foundation Grants</title>
<description>Grants that support projects in the broad areas of education, community, and medicine/health. Geographic coverage:  Nationwide  -- RGK Foundation </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=51 </link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:37:25 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Sunflower Foundation Capacity Building Grants</title>
<description>Funding for building the organizational capacity/improving the effectiveness of the health care safety net. Geographic coverage:  Kansas  -- Sunflower Foundation: Health Care for Kansans </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=1366 </link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:00:00 CST</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=1366 </guid>

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<title>Sunflower Foundation Bridge Grants</title>
<description>Funding to provide core transitional financial support for new or expanded medical, behavioral, dental and/or public health services that provide primary care or primary prevention services to the uninsured and the underinsured. Geographic coverage:  Kansas  -- Sunflower Foundation: Health Care for Kansans </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=1879 </link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:58:27 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program</title>
<description>Grants to improve  and sustain access to appropriate healthcare services of high quality in rural America by supporting conversion of small rural hospitals to critical access status, helping develop rural health care networks, and strengthening rural EMS. Geographic coverage:  Nationwide  -- Office of Rural Health Policy </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=1609 </link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:01:20 CST</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=1609 </guid>

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<title>Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement Grant Program (SHCPQI)</title>
<description>Grant program designed to assist rural providers with the implementation of quality improvement strategies, while improving patient care and chronic disease outcomes. Geographic coverage:  Nationwide  -- Office of Rural Health Policy </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=1222 </link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:52:42 CST</pubDate>
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<title>340B Drug Pricing Program</title>
<description>Allows certain facilities to purchase prescription and non-prescription medications at reduced cost Geographic coverage:  Nationwide  -- Bureau of Primary Health Care </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=369 </link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:11:36 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Blue and You Foundation for a Healthier Arkansas Grants</title>
<description>Provides grants that positively affect the health of Arkansans. Geographic coverage:  Arkansas  -- Blue and You Foundation for a Healthier Arkansas </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=812 </link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:03:21 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Wells Fargo Texas Grant Program</title>
<description>Wells Fargo makes grants in three primary areas: Human Services, Education and Community Development. Geographic coverage:  Texas  --  </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=1058 </link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:57:37 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Wells Fargo New Mexico Grant Program</title>
<description>Wells Fargo makes grants in three primary areas: Human Services, Education and Community Development. Geographic coverage:  New Mexico  --  </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=1057 </link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:56:57 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Wells Fargo Arizona Grant Program</title>
<description>Wells Fargo makes grants in three primary areas: Human Services, Education and Community Development. Geographic coverage:  Arizona  --  </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=1056 </link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:56:03 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Wells Fargo California Grant Program</title>
<description>Wells Fargo makes grants in three primary areas: Human Services, Education and Community Development. Geographic coverage:  California  --  </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=1055 </link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:54:48 CST</pubDate>
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<title>California Endowment Grant Programs</title>
<description>Grants to expand access to affordable, quality health care for the underserved and to improve the health status of all Californians. Geographic coverage:  California  -- California Endowment </description>
<link>http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=1051 </link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:53:00 CST</pubDate>
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