Browse by Category - HHS Grants Forecast

Major Categories of HHS Forecasted Grant Opportunities:

• Community Development
• Education
• Employment, Labor, and Training
• Environment Quality
• Health
• Income Security and Social Services

Browse Instructions:

Click on the link above or in the descriptions below, or select a category on the left to browse the list of potential funding opportunities in a category.

Category Descriptions:

Community Development

HHS Community Development category grants provide assistance to states and local communities to plan and develop a broad range of activities to improve the health and well-being of their communities.  Examples of funded activities are to:

• reduce poverty and empower low-income families and individuals to become self-sufficient;
• support operation of rural health research centers and analysis of full range of rural health services issues;
• provide technical assistance and services for research on healthcare costs, quality and outcomes;
• ensure community health care delivery;
• support the independence, productivity, and integration and inclusion into the community of individuals with developmental disabilities; and
• support community-based programs for women's health.

Education

HHS Education category grants provide:

• services and support for the disabled to enable integration and independence;
• support social and cognitive development of low-income children (Head Start);
• provide access to health education, including for abstinence, family planning, and mental health; and
• support professional health career specialties, such as student loans, dental health care residency, and nursing work force.

Employment, Labor and Training

HHS Employment, Labor, and Training category grants provide:

• job training and employment, including mental health services and AIDS clinical training;  
• occupational safety and health training;
• support Native American Programs to develop and implement social and economic strategies that promote self-sufficiency; and
• community services to state and local communities.

Environment Quality

HHS Environment Quality category grants:

• support research concerning environmental health;
• provide Hazardous Waste Worker Health and Safety Training;
• address Tribal public health issues and impacts due to environment;
• regulate Tribal health environmental quality; and
• support resource and manpower development in the Environmental Health Sciences.

HHS Health category grants support a broad range of issues related to health including:

• disease prevention, research, and treatment;
• pharmaceutical development;
• occupational health and safety;
• health facilities development;
• sustained research pertaining to alcohol, drug abuse, prevention and treatment; and
• support for mental health initiatives.

Income Security and Social Services

HHS Income Security and Social Services category grants:

• promote delivery of supportive services, including nutrition services to older Americans;
• provide Medicare hospital insurance and Medicare supplementary medical insurance;
• expand protection and advocacy for individuals with mental illness;
• provide services for the disabled to enable integration and independence;
• provide grants to states, territories, or tribes to assist needy families with children so that children can be cared for in their own homes;
• reduce dependency by promoting job preparation, work, and marriage;
• reduce and prevent out-of-wedlock pregnancies; and encourage the formation and maintenance of two-parent families.