Strengthening Public Health Systems and Services through National Partnerships to Improve and Protect the Nation’s Health | CDC RFA PW 24 00800101SUPP24

Opportunity Information: Apply for CDC RFA PW 24 00800101SUPP24

This grant opportunity is a supplemental funding announcement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under a cooperative agreement mechanism. It is not an open, general competition. Instead, it is specifically designed for organizations that already received an award under Funding Strategy 1 of the earlier NOFO, CDC-RFA-PW-24-0080, titled "Strengthening Public Health Systems and Services through National Partnerships to Improve and Protect the Nation's Health." The supplemental funding being offered corresponds to what the original NOFO called "Funding Strategy 2 Project Plans," meaning recipients are being invited to take on additional, clearly defined capacity-building work tied to CDC-developed project plan priorities for FY24.

The core requirement is alignment with the recipient's original award category and population of focus. Eligible applicants are only those FY24 CDC-RFA-PW-24-0080 Funding Strategy 1 recipients, and any new application must match the same Population of Focus Category (A, B, or C) and the same Population of Focus Description that appeared in the recipient's original Notice of Award. The supplemental application must include a "Work Plan in Response to Project Plans" plus a budget that directly supports that approved population of focus. Applications that propose work outside the original population of focus are considered non-responsive and will not be reviewed or funded, so the primary compliance issue is staying tightly within the scope of the initial award authorization.

The purpose of the supplemental funds is to enable recipients to deliver capacity-building assistance (CBA) based on the CIO Project Plans attached to the supplemental publication. In this context, CBA is defined broadly as activities that strengthen and sustain the infrastructure, skills, systems, and resources needed for public health organizations and communities to function effectively over time. The NOFO describes CBA as being delivered through technical assistance, training, information sharing, technology transfer, or materials development. The underlying emphasis is on practical support that improves how public health entities operate, rather than direct service delivery alone. CDC is looking to fund organizations with demonstrated capability, subject-matter expertise, adequate resources, and national reach to support public health infrastructure and workforce needs at scale.

Recipients funded through this supplement are expected to implement CBA activities in one or more strategic areas tied to the cooperative agreement. These priority areas include organizational capacity and performance improvement, workforce development, data modernization, informatics and information technology, partnership development and engagement, and policy and programs. The intent is to strengthen the overall public health system by improving organizational effectiveness, modernizing data and IT capabilities, building and sustaining the workforce, expanding and coordinating partnerships, and supporting evidence-informed policies and programs. Even though recipients can select among these strategic areas, every funded activity must still be designed to build capacity for the specific population of focus approved under the original Funding Strategy 1 award.

Administratively, the opportunity is listed as discretionary funding and uses a cooperative agreement funding instrument, signaling that CDC will likely have substantial programmatic involvement, guidance, or collaboration during implementation (as is typical for cooperative agreements). The CFDA number provided is 93.421, and the issuing agency is the CDC (listed as Centers for Disease Control-PHIC). The posting indicates an expected 48 awards. The "Award Ceiling" is shown as 0, which usually means a specific ceiling is not provided in the public listing and applicants must rely on the NOFO details, the attached project plans, or CDC guidance for budgeting expectations.

While this supplemental competition is limited to prior recipients, the broader eligibility list shown in the source data reflects the types of entities that can participate in CDC programming generally, including state, county, city/township governments, public and private institutions of higher education, federally recognized tribal governments, other tribal organizations, and nonprofit organizations (including both 501(c)(3) entities and nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status). The description also notes that 501(c)(6) nonprofits are eligible as well. The listed original closing date for this supplemental opportunity is August 26, 2024, and the creation date is July 26, 2024.

Overall, this supplement is best understood as a targeted expansion of previously funded national partnership work: CDC is providing additional FY24 resources so existing awardees can respond to specific CIO project plan priorities and deliver structured capacity-building assistance that strengthens public health infrastructure, workforce capability, and modernization efforts, all while remaining tightly aligned to the awardee's originally approved population of focus.

• The Centers for Disease Control-PHIC in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Strengthening Public Health Systems and Services through National Partnerships to Improve and Protect the Nation’s Health" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.421.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-07-26.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-08-26. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 48 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Others.

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