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  • Preventing Opioid Misuse in Pregnant Women & New Moms Challenge (HRSA) (Deadline: 09/30/2019)
    The Preventing Opioid Misuse in Pregnant Women & New Moms Challenge will award $375,000 in prizes to support tech innovations to improve access to quality health care, including substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, recovery, and support services for pregnant women with opioid use disorders (OUD), their infants, and families, especially those in rural and geographically isolated areas. The competition consists of three phases, and will award grants at every phase. The phases will examine design, development and small-scale testing, and scaling.  Funding »
  • Remote Pregnancy Monitoring Challenge (HRSA) (Deadline: 09/30/2019)
    The Remote Pregnancy Monitoring Challenge will award $375,000 in prizes to support the creation of tech innovations to help prenatal care providers remotely monitor the health and wellbeing of pregnant women, as well as place health data into the hands of pregnant women themselves as a tool to monitor their own health and make informed decisions about care. Solutions would especially benefit women who live in rural and medically underserved areas who have limited access to on-site prenatal care. The challenge will proceed in three phases: design, development and small-scale testing, and scaling.  Funding »
  • Community Catalyst Grants (Deadline: 09/01/2019)
    The Wisconsin Partnership Program’s Community Catalyst Grants fund creative health equity approaches designed with the goal of actively reducing gaps in access, outcomes or opportunities.  Grants are intended to support projects in the early stages of development and will be awarded up to $50,000 for two years.   Funding »
  • Alliant Energy Hometown Safety Grants (Deadline: 08/01/2019)
    Alliant Energy will award Hometown Safety Grants in communities they serve.  Grants up to $2,000 will be awarded for the purchase of life-saving and other protective equipment such as Jaws of Life, defibrillators, community emergency alert systems, and personal protective equipment for service providers.  A 1 to 1 match is required.  These grants are offered throughout the year.  See website for exact deadlines.  Funding »
  • Wisconsin Community Grant Programs (Deadline: 09/01/2019)
    The Wisconsin Partnership Program is seeking applicants for the 2019 Community Catalyst Grant Program, which provides funding to support creative health equity approaches designed to actively reduce gaps in access, outcomes, or opportunities. Catalyst Grants support early-stage projects with innovative, community-driven plans to reduce health inequities. The grant program provides up to $50,000 in funding over two years.  Funding »
  • Behavioral & Social Research Networks in Alzheimer's Disease and Dementias (Federal) (Deadline: 02/01/2020)
    This funding opportunity from the National Institutes for Health (NIH) invites applications to provide infrastructure support for advancing development of specific high priority areas of behavioral and social research of relevance to Alzheimers disease and related dementias. The infrastructure support will facilitate research networks through meetings, conferences, small scale pilots, short term educational opportunities (such as intensive workshops, summer institutes, or visiting scholar programs), and dissemination to encourage growth and development of specified priority areas and build resources for advancing aging-relevant research in the field at large. Eligible applicants are: Native American tribal organizations, federally-recognized Native American tribal governments, nonprofits with or without a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, small businesses, county governments, for-profit organizations other than small businesses, private or public or  state controlled institutions of higher education, city or township governments, special district governments, independent school districts, state governments, public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, and others (see "eligibility" section). Award Ceiling:    $250,000. Funding »
  • Compeer Financial’s Emergency Response Equipment Grant Program (Deadline: 08/31/2019)
    Compeer Financial’s Emergency Response Equipment Grant Program supports rural communities in their service area by funding emergency response equipment for volunteer fire, rescue and ambulance departments.   Funding is available up to $3,000 for emergency response equipment.  The application period is August 1 through 31. Funding »
  • Walmart Community Grant Program (Deadline: 12/31/2019)
     The Walmart Foundation is accepting applications through its Community Grant Program.  They will award grants up to $5,000 to support local nonprofit organizations within the service area of individual Walmart stores in the areas of hunger relief and healthy eating, medical screening, treatment, social services, and public safety equipment, among other topics.  Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until December 31. Funding »
  • Alliant Energy’s Hometown Challenge Grant (Deadline: 09/01/2019)
    Alliant Energy’s Hometown Challenge Grant awards matching grants up to $2,000 for one-time, safety-related purchases for communities served by Alliant. Eligible purchases include equipment and tools for first responders, including EMS, such as Jaws of Life and PPE.  This opportunity is offered several times throughout the year. Funding »
  • Mary Kay Foundation Domestic Violence Shelter Grant Program (Deadline: 04/30/2019)
    The Mary Kay Foundation awards grants to emergency women's domestic violence shelters. The funds may be used for the operating expenses. The Foundation will award a grant to at least one shelter in every state that applies, and many grants have gone to rural areas.  Funding »
  • Funding for Rural Water and Waste Disposal Projects (Ongoing) (Deadline: 04/30/2019)
    This program helps very small, financially distressed rural communities with predevelopment feasibility studies, design and technical assistance on proposed water and waste disposal projects. Most state and local governmental entities, nonprofits, and federally recognized tribes may apply. Applications for this program are accepted year round through Wisconsin's Rural Development office. Email inquiries to RD.BCP.SO@wi.usda.gov.  Funding »
  • Alliant Energy Partnership Programs (Deadline: 09/30/2019)
    Alliant Energy Partnership Programs award funding to communities in Iowa and Wisconsin in certain priority areas, which include professional development, workforce development, community development, and retention marketing and recruitment. Applicants must be located in or provide services to populations in Alliant Energy's service area. Funding »
  • Partnership Programs – Alliant Energy (Deadline: 09/30/2019)
    The Programs include: Professional development; Workforce development; Retention, marketing and recruitment; Building and site development; Community development. Applications accepted on a yearly basis.  Funding »
  • Smart Rural Community Showcase Awards - NTCA (Deadline: 06/01/2019)
    These annual awards are presented to NTCA members to recognize their extraordinary achievements in promoting rural broadband networks and their broadband-enabled applications in rural communities. Telcos are awarded based on their ability to demonstrate the use of these technologies through innovative economic development, education, health care, government services, safety and security, and more efficient energy distribution and use. Check website for exact application deadline.  Funding »
  • Workplace Wellness Grant Program – Wisconsin DHS (Deadline: 12/31/2019)
    Wisconsin Act 137 was enacted to provide grants to small businesses with 50 or fewer employees who create workplace wellness programs. A work place can only apply once for a grant which will provide 30% of wellness program costs for one year, up to $15,000. Grants may be awarded for expenses in the following categories: personnel/staff time, health risk assessment, education programs, behavior change programs, equipment, incentives (cash, prizes, etc.), and contracted services. Funding »
  • ecoSTEM Resource Kits - Captain Planet Foundation (Deadline: 07/15/2019)
    Captain Planet Foundation has supported over 2,500 projects around the world has reviewed thousands more project proposals. Over the years, specific types of environmental stewardship projects that teachers and kids are interested in emerge again and again. Captain Planet Foundation has developed four ecoSTEM Resource Kits, which are perfect for educators getting started with project-based learning. A limited number of ecoSTEM Kits are granted out during each grant cycle, due January 15th and July 15th each year. Funding »
  • ecoSTEM Resource Kits - Captain Planet Foundation (Deadline: 01/15/2020)
    Captain Planet Foundation has supported over 2,500 projects around the world has reviewed thousands more project proposals. Over the years, specific types of environmental stewardship projects that teachers and kids are interested in emerge again and again. Captain Planet Foundation has developed four ecoSTEM Resource Kits, which are perfect for educators getting started with project-based learning. A limited number of ecoSTEM Kits are granted out during each grant cycle, due January 15th and July 15th each year. Funding »
  • Stand Down Grants – DOL, Veterans Employment and Training Service (Deadline: 12/31/2020)
    Awards will help fund events that offer homeless veteran populations a variety of social services designed to help them to reintegrate into their communities, such as housing, healthcare, and employment opportunities.  Funding »
  • Emergency Response Equipment Grant - Compeer Financial (Deadline: 08/31/2019)
    Emergency response departments in rural areas are struggling on shoestring budgets, and many lack adequate and up-to-date equipment. Even though many of these departments have the essentials, they can't always afford new technologies to upgrade or replace old equipment. The mission is to support rural communities in our service area by funding emergency response equipment for volunteer fire, rescue or ambulance departments. Applications are accepted on an annual basis.  Funding »
  • Building Resilience in Indigenous Communities Initiative - Honor the Earth (Deadline: 12/31/2020)
    Funding will help grassroots Indigenous organizations focused on creating food security utilizing Indigenous varieties and organic production as well as Indigenous groups and projects implementing energy efficiency and renewable energy strategies at an appropriate scale to support dignity in the community. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.  Funding »
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Physical Event
Wisconsin Organization of Nurse Leaders Annual Convention
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2019-04-24 to 2019-04-26
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The convention will open with a focus on the role of nursing leadership in the current and future health care environment. Hear about the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) strategic plan and regional nursing leadership, as well as workforce trends and policies facing Wisconsin hospitals, health systems and health care organizations. Event »
Physical Event
Wisconsin Rural Summit
(
2019-04-24 to 2019-04-25
)
This two-day summit from Wisconsin Rural Partners will bring together people from across the state, in all types of professions and positions, to identify the top issues facing rural Wisconsin. The event uses facilitated panel sessions for the participants to identify top issues, address their strategies, share experiences and success stories. Location:  Indianhead Technical College  1900 College Drive Rice Lake, WI 54868 Event »
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