Who can apply:
Eligible applicants include domestic public or private, non-profit or for-profit entities, including faith-based, community-based, tribes, and tribal organizations. The applicant organization may be located in a rural or urban area, but must have demonstrated experience serving, or the capacity to serve, rural underserved populations. The applicant organization should describe in detail their experience and/or capacity to serve rural populations in the Project Abstract section of the application.
The applicant organization must represent a network composed of members that include three or more health care providers. For the purposes of this funding opportunity, the terms “consortium” and “network” are used interchangeably. The applicant organization may not previously have received an award under 42 U.S.C. 254c(e) from the HRSA Federal Office of Rural Health Policy for the same or a similar project unless the applicant is proposing to expand the scope of the project or the area that will be served through the project.