2025 Cancer and Environment Mini-Grants: Building Community Capacity to Address Unusual Patterns of Cancer and Environmental Concerns

THIS FUNDING OPPORTUNITY IS NOW OPEN. THE APPLICATION WINDOW CLOSES JANUARY 13, 2025, AT 11:59 P.M. ET. APPLY HERE.

To help communities build capacity and advance scientific understanding of unusual patterns of cancer or efforts to understand potential relationships with environmental hazards, the National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) and the Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN) invite communities to apply for a bundled award of financial and technical support over six months that includes access to technical assistance from a network of national experts, opportunities to engage in peer learning, and a $25,000 grant that may provide funding for unique needs specific to a community or its members when addressing unusual patterns of cancer and environmental concerns.

Cancer incidence rates have increased over the past several decades. Cancer rates for people younger than 20 have risen 41% since the 1970s. For communities concerned about unusual patterns of cancer, it can be hard to connect with or get help from researchers, health professionals, or other officials to investigate and address environmental contamination and/or environmental hazards. The health and economic burden of cancer is high, especially for disproportionately impacted low-wealth communities and communities of color. Supporting communities in their efforts to investigate and address potential environmental contributions to cancer can help to ease the burdens on individuals and families impacted by cancer and better address concerns they may have about the possible connection between cancer and environmental contamination in their communities.

We are offering these mini-grants to support communities that have concerns about unusual patterns of cancer. Communities will be able to build capacity, make connections with experts who can evaluate cancer data, review existing or new data on environmental hazards, and develop sustainable workplans to facilitate the investigation of cancer and environmental hazards. Grantees will also have opportunities to connect with other communities that have similar concerns.

CDC/ATSDR now uses the term unusual patterns of cancer to recognize that some cancers may be similar etiologically (in terms of risk factors, causes, or origin) and presents the revised definition of a cancer cluster as “a greater than expected number of the same or etiologically related cancer cases that occurs within a group of people in a geographic area over a defined period of time.”

It is possible that not every unusual pattern will meet the definition of a cluster as described above; however, unusual patterns that meet some of the criteria (included in the 2022 CDC/ATSDR guidelines) and also have plausible environmental concerns still warrant further evaluation or assessment. For example, many of the same cancer cases may be present but may be dependent upon a factor such as a water distribution system rather than a traditional boundary like a census tract or county.

Eligibility Requirements

Who is eligible?
Local, regional, U.S. territorial, tribal, or state nonprofit and/or community-based groups or organizations are eligible to apply for this grant opportunity.

Note that groups do not need to be a registered nonprofit or 501(c)(3) to apply. Organizations must be based in the United States. For-profit organizations are not eligible to apply.

Applicants will be asked to identify their proposal as being in the development or implementation phase, but their status will not affect scoring or final selection. Communities should clearly state their questions related to unusual patterns of cancer and/or environmental concerns. If a proposed approach has been identified, they should state that in their proposal.

• Development phase: Communities should identify their proposal as being in the development phase if they need assistance in identifying or prioritizing promising strategies (e.g. obtaining technical assistance for help obtaining, analyzing, or understanding cancer statistics or environmental data), convening stakeholders to spark collaboration and dialogue, and/or they are in the early stages of the proposed work.
• Implementation phase: Communities should identify their proposal as being in the implementation phase if they have defined priorities (e.g., specific environmental exposure concerns or goals or activities around understanding or engaging with health risk policy or practice) and objectives and/or they have some infrastructure in place to build on to achieve the proposed work.

How many communities will be selected?
We anticipate selecting a minimum of six communities. The National Center for Healthy Housing and the Children’s Environmental Health Network are leading this competitive solicitation, but funding is made possible through a cooperative agreement with the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

What is the project period, and what are some of the key dates?
For the project timeline, see Table 1 below.

Table 1: Project Timeline

Date	Action
January 13, 2025	Applications are due no later than 11:59 p.m. ET.
Early February 2025	Applicants will be notified of their status by early February.
February 2025	New grantees are assigned to their core coaching teams and will complete their intake coaching calls.
February 2025	A kickoff webinar for new grantees will occur in mid-February.
March – July 2025	Monthly coaching calls with core team and other coaching activities will occur as needed.
July 2025	Final reports are due to NCHH.
July – August 2025	Finalists will participate in the virtual grantee final convening.

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What are the benefits of being selected?
The selected communities will receive support to advance their local investigations of unusual patterns of cancer and response efforts. These benefits include but may not be limited to the following:

• Coaching and support: Six months of direct support and technical assistance (TA) from the Children’s Environmental Health Network, the National Center for Healthy Housing, and other national experts/SMEs who will be invited based on the needs and concerns expressed by the selected communities.
• Peer learning: Opportunities to interact with and learn from other communities tackling similar issues with shared goals to investigate unusual patterns of cancer and to share successes and challenges.
• Grant award: A $25,000 grant award to support project activities.

What is the coaching and support, and are there related grantee expectations to note?
Grantees will receive coaching and support remotely during the project period (February – July 2025). Grantees will have access to on-demand and structured feedback, mentoring, and advice from national experts, including regarding conducting analyses and identifying potential environmental services for investigations. Grantees are required to…

• Participate in a project kickoff webinar.
• Participate in monthly coaching calls with applicable national partners (e.g., SMEs that can help analyze cancer and/or environmental data).
• Submit final project reporting documentation.

There will also be optional participation in other activities as needed (e.g., other topic-specific, capacity building webinars or coaching calls with peer mentors).

The coaching, support, and SME service activities will be customized to community needs, interests, and capacity. CEHN and NCHH coaches will help communities identify the types of strategies they are interested in pursuing and then help communities assess opportunities and develop paths to action. Examples of strategies or actions may include receiving direct services from an expert (such as obtaining and/or analyzing cancer or environmental data and providing an opinion of health risk), data-sharing initiatives, advocacy efforts, partnership with the healthcare, planning, school, and other sectors, and collaboration with academia. Coaches from ASTHO will also be able to support grantees with any coordination/outreach they may want with state health EH contacts.

Note: An example of outcomes from a previous grantee cohort in one of NCHH’s longer responsive, technical support initiatives can be seen here.)

Can a community submit more than one application?
A community may submit more than one application; however, a maximum of one application per community will be selected.

What types of activities can be supported?
Funding should be used to build capacity within a community to address cancer and environmental concerns. For this funding opportunity, activities should focus on identifying needs, developing workplans and strategies, and engaging relevant stakeholders and experts to address environmental hazards and unusual patterns of cancer.

We expect that some applicants may be just getting started with this work. They may propose activities such as obtaining the services of SMEs or convening health and medical officials and academia to begin dialogue about conducting environmental hazard assessments and tracking cancer incidence. Other applicants may have been working in this space for a while; they may propose activities that show commitment to ongoing action, such as formation of a coalition representing multiple sectors, sources, and settings or efforts to engage community members in understanding scientific issues. Other applicants may propose work that results in ongoing interventions or sustained systems change, such as adoption of the ATSDR Choose Safe Places for Early Care and Education safe siting guidance for childcare facilities. NCHH and CEHN anticipate considering and funding communities that are at varying levels of needs, capacity, and readiness. There are no specific activities that every applicant must include.

Communities may plan to use funding for an initiative that is already underway if they can show how this added funding will enhance the impact or reach of the work.

Funding may NOT be used to support attempts to influence legislation through direct or grassroots lobbying. For example, funds cannot be used for signage that endorses pending legislation or an elected official.

Also, funding is not intended to support direct costs of environmental hazard reduction or risk management; however, instances of these activities that are linked to policy, practice, or systems change, with a justification of how the activities further project goals, may be included as part of a proposal. 

Note that the awards will be provided in two installments: $20,000 upon contract execution and $5,000 upon receipt of final reporting requirements (which will be due on July 31, 2025) after six months of direct SME support and/or technical assistance.

What outcomes will successful applicants be expected to demonstrate? 
Given the short project period (six months), we expect each applicant to articulate a long-term goal and measure progress towards that goal, even if the community won’t reach the end goal during the project period. A limited number of examples of long-term goals and short-term outcomes that a community might achieve during the project period are included ​​in the FAQ section. This is not meant to be an exhaustive list, and reviewers are not looking for applications containing only these specific goals/outcomes.

During the project period, communities will develop implementation plans and take initial actions to progress toward having these long-term goals in place.

How will the communities be selected?
This is a competitive grant award. Applicants will be evaluated based on need, clarity of plan, readiness, potential impact, community partnerships, commitment to equity and justice, and potential for sustained change. Applications must demonstrate and will be scored on the following:

• Demonstrated need as shown by available cancer and/or environmental data, including lived experience and qualitative data, including demonstration of attempts (successful or unsuccessful) to receive cancer data from health officials, or interest in obtaining data (up to 10 points).
• Clear outcomes for the work and a thoughtful plan for achieving them (up to 5 points).
• Demonstrated potential for significant short- and long- term impacts (up to 5 points).
• A demonstrated commitment to advancing equity and justice (up to 5 points).
• A strong, effective plan for meaningfully involving multisector stakeholders, including community members and community-based organizations, private sector interests, policymakers, and other relevant agencies and groups (up to 5 points).

We will seek to produce a geographically balanced cohort. Proposals will be reviewed primarily using the criteria listed above.

Applications will likely be reviewed by a selection committee comprised of staff from the National Center for Healthy Housing, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, the Children’s Environmental Health Network, and a community member who is either a cancer patient, survivor, or family member or who represents a community with expressed concerns about unusual patterns of cancer and environmental concerns. This community member would not be eligible to apply for this funding.

What information do I need to ​apply?
NCHH accepts grant applications ONLY through online submission; it does NOT accept the application in PDF format. Applicants can preview all of the application questions here (PDF copy of full application).

We recommend preparing your application responses in advance, as the online application must be completed and submitted entirely in one session. We recommend using the PDF copy of the full application (available here) to work offline with your team to pick your answer selections and write your responses to the questions. Developing full text responses in a Word document for the open response sections of the application will allow you to draft, edit, and save your responses as needed, as well as check character counts, before copying/pasting your final responses into the application on the SurveyMonkey platform. NCHH also recommends printing a copy of the completed application before submitting it.

If you know that you will NOT be able to submit your application via SurveyMonkey, please contact sgoodwin@nchh.org no later than January 10, 2025, and we will provide you with a way to send us an application as a Word document.

When are applications due? 
We will accept applications on a rolling basis, but all must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m. ET on Monday, January 13, 2025.

When will the grants be announced? 
We expect that successful applicants will be notified in early February.

Where can I get more information?
Contact Sarah Goodwin (sgoodwin@nchh.org) or Ashely Williams (awilliams@nchh.org) with any questions or visit the application page for more information. Answers to other submitted questions will also be posted on that webpage. All questions must be received by Friday, January 3, 2025.

Join the funding opportunity interest form to be notified of new developments (e.g., newly posted FAQs) for this grant opportunity.

Frequently Asked Questions 

What is an “unusual pattern of cancer”?
CDC/ATSDR now uses the term unusual patterns of cancer to recognize that some cancers may be similar etiologically (in terms of risk factors, causes, or origin), and present the revised definition of a cancer cluster as “a greater than expected number of the same or etiologically related cancer cases that occurs within a group of people in a geographic area over a defined period of time.”

This definition can be further understood as follows:

• A greater than expected number: When the number of observed cases is greater than typically observed in a similar setting.
• Of the same or etiologically related cancer cases: Cases are of the same type, are within a family of tumors (e.g., Ewing’s family of tumors), or have a known or suggested link to the same specific environmental or chemical exposures. It is possible to consider multiple cancer types when such a known exposure (e.g., radiation or a specific chemical) is linked to more than one cancer type or when more than one contaminant or exposure type has been identified.
• Within a group of people: The population in which the cancer cases are occurring is defined by its demographic factors (e.g., race, ethnicity, age, and sex).
• In a geographic area: The geographic area may be based upon pre-existing geopolitical boundaries (e.g., census tract, county, or ZIP code/ZIP code tabulation area). It may be defined according to the nature and extent of potential exposures that may cross multiple or partial boundaries. For example, air pollution from a hazardous waste incinerator which may cross multiple counties or census tracts. These geographic boundaries are used to determine the number of cancer cases as they relate to the total population in this predefined area. It is possible to create or obscure a cluster inadvertently by modifying the area of interest.
• Over a period of time: The time frame used to establish the beginning and end dates for analysis. The period chosen for analysis will affect both the total cases observed and the calculation of the expected incidence of cancer in the population.

When will you announce the grant awards? 
We expect to announce the grant awards in early February 2025.

Do I need to submit a letter of intent?
No. If you are interested in applying for this grant opportunity, you can fill out this form to let us know you’re interested. This means that we will send you updates on any news about the opportunity and any changes to the FAQs. This is an optional step; you do not have to do this to apply for the grant.

Can I just send you my application as a PDF? 
No, the grant submission is online only. We cannot accept your application in PDF format. You can fill out the application here. There’s a button at the bottom of that SurveyMonkey page to begin your application. 

If you know that you will NOT be able to submit your application via SurveyMonkey, contact sgoodwin@nchh.org no later than January 10, 2025. We will give you a way to send us your application as a Word document.

I’m having trouble filling in the survey boxes. What should I do?
For issues with SurveyMonkey, review the help page for taking surveys. Most issues seem to be related to a network or firewall that may be blocking some SurveyMonkey domains. You can add SurveyMonkey domains and subdomains to your whitelist so that they aren’t blocked. 

How long should the responses to the applications questions be?
Each question has a character limit indicated in the grant application. You can write as much or as little as you need to, up to the character limit. If you want to see approximately how long those character limits are in words/paragraphs, you can look at this sample text.

Question 17 asks to describe how we would use the $25,000. We have reviewed the types of activities the funding can support. In our response, are you asking us to summarize the cost of the proposed activities and not to provide a detailed line-item budget?
Yes. Summarize the cost of the activity(ies) and how you will use the grant. If it makes sense for your project, you can include budget categories such as labor, indirect costs, and other direct costs for materials, space rental, training/trainers, software, or other items. The budget does not need to be itemized, but it should be detailed enough to show that the costs are reasonable and justified.

Can any of the grant funds be used toward staff salaries for an event or activity? 
Yes, funding can be used for staff salaries to support eligible grant activities if they relate to understanding unusual patterns of cancer and environmental concerns.

What are the terms and conditions for the grant award?
The selected recipients of this grant opportunity will receive a subrecipient agreement from NCHH. You can review NCHH’s standard terms and conditions here. The final agreement for recipients may include additional provisions.

How will the applications be reviewed and scored? Will the reviewers read and score the entire application, or will the reviewers only score certain questions and not look at other questions? Furthermore, should we refer to information in an answer to another question or repeat information when needed for each question? 
Applications will be reviewed and scored in their entirety. This means that each individual reviewer will read and score the full submission of every application that they evaluate. Multiple individuals will review each application. Feel free to refer to another question in one of your answers if you wish to avoid redundancy. 

Is there an advantage to picking one “phase” over the other? How does an applicant know which of the two application “phases” they should select? 
There is no advantage to self-identifying as being in one phase over the other. This opportunity was designed to (1) encourage applicants from all levels of engagement in their community’s unusual patterns of cancer and environmental work and (2) provide a level basis by which to evaluate various levels of existing and/or potential capacity. NCHH anticipates funding successful applicants from both phases. 

If you are just getting started, you are in the first stages of your proposed work, or you need help identifying or prioritizing promising strategies, you should consider selecting the “development phase.” If you have defined priorities and goals and/or have some infrastructure in place to build on to achieve the proposed work, you should consider selecting the “implementation phase.”

How are the grantees expected to show progress or success in their status updates? 
We will ask grantees to submit two reports. Grantees will receive a reporting template and work with their coaching teams to complete reports at the beginning and end of the project period. This template is designed to help grantees show progress over the course of the award period and show how funding was used to build capacity within their community with a strong emphasis on policy/systems change. Communities that are earlier in the process do not have to achieve full implementation or may not achieve full systems change during the project period but should still demonstrate a plan and commitment to laying the groundwork for future work. The reports have three parts:

1. Reporting on one or more metric related to one or more goal areas defined by the grantee. In this section, grantees will define their own goals and metrics, including a baseline and target for each as part of the first report. For an idea of the types of long-term goals and short-term outcomes that grantees could outline in the application and report on during the grant, see the table in the FAQ section. In the second and final report, grantees will simply update a column with their progress toward that goal.
2. Self-rating of grantee capacity (these are checkboxes like question 11 on the application). Grantees will do this as part of both reports.
3. A brief narrative section. For the first report, grantees may take language from their grant application to describe their planned work. For the final report, grantees are asked to report on progress noting any successes, barriers met, and solutions deployed. This can be as short as a couple of paragraphs or longer—it’s up to you.

Past grantees have shared that the reporting is not burdensome, and NCHH staff are available to collaborate with awarded communities in developing goals/metrics and with questions about reporting.

Can we submit letters of support from other partners? 
We do not encourage applicants to include letters of support; however, you may say that they’re available upon request in your application if you would like the review committee to know that they exist. 

Are national organizations eligible for this grant opportunity?
The purpose of this RFP is to support community-level work. National organizations are not specifically ineligible, but all applications should show how the proposed work will support impact at the community level.

Our organization is not eligible for this specific opportunity, but we are interested in this type of support. Do you know of any other opportunities that we should know about? 
At this time, NCHH and CEHN do not have any other open grant opportunities; however, many of our partners periodically offer grant and/or technical assistance awards that could be of interest to you. We strongly suggest that you visit the websites of some of our key partners, such as the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative, and the National Association of County and City Health Officials to learn more about possible initiatives. We also suggest that you visit https://nchh.org/build-the-movement/listservs/ to join two listservs (Leadnet and Healthyhomesnet) sponsored by NCHH that sometimes have postings related to potential funding and support opportunities offered by both NCHH and many of our partners. You can also visit https://cehn.org/subscribe/ to subscribe to CEHN’s e-newsletters that share funding opportunities and other news that may be of interest.

Must we have 501(c)(3) status to apply for a mini-grant? 
No. Nonprofit, community-based, and tribal organizations may apply if they are based in the United States. If it’s not possible to have a fiscal agent with 501(c)(3) status (e.g., an organization with 501[c][3] status that can pass through the funds to the organization without 501[c][3] status), other organizations that aren’t for-profit are also welcome to apply but will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. We will not grant funds to individuals or for-profit organizations. 

Is the $25,000 grant structured as an award, or will disbursement involve a cost reimbursement process? 
The $25,000 grant will be structured as an award and will not involve a cost reimbursement process. As currently proposed, the awards will be granted in two installments: an initial $20,000 upon contract execution and $5,000 upon receipt of final reporting requirements (e.g., July–August 2025) after six months of TA. 

While a detailed line-item budget is not necessary per question 17, we are asked to present a general description/estimate of how the $25,000 grant funding will be used. Will it be possible to submit budget amendments or modification requests for approval during the project period as the work progresses?
Yes. Although we expect that applicants will submit a budget that reflects as accurately as possible the support needed to advance the activities presented in their application, we also recognize that situations may arise where a reasonable modification to the proposed budget may be necessary at some time during the project period. Discussions of such modifications with awarded grantees will be held on a case-by-case basis as applicable.

Will this be offered more than once? We’re wondering whether it’s a recurring grant and about sustainability.
Future opportunities will be contingent upon available funding, but we do not plan to offer this opportunity again. Additionally, this funding can be used to either start new activities or support ongoing or existing activities but is not intended to be a long-term funding source. To be notified of other funding announcements from NCHH in the future, sign up for our general funding announcement listserv.

The RFP notes that only one application from a community will be selected. What happens if two (or more) applicants from the same area are targeting different communities? Could they both be selected?
More than one applicant from a similar geographic area may be selected if they are targeting different populations or communities; but note that if two different applications are focused on the same unusual pattern of cancer, only one will be selected.

NEW [December 19]: In the FAQ, it mentions that indirect costs are allowed in the budget. Can we use our federally negotiated rate then? If not, is there a cap or policy at NCHH?
There is no required indirect rate or cap on indirect rates/costs for these mini-grants. Applicants with federally negotiated rates are welcome to use that rate in their budget.

NEW [December 19]: I didn’t see any project dates in the FAQ or on the webpage; it just mentions that this is a six-month award. I wanted to make sure there was not a specific date by which that we have to start. Does the actual project start in March and then run through August?
Upon notice of award, grantees will be asked to participate in at least two events in February: a kick-off webinar and an intake call. Grantees will then participate in monthly calls from March through July 2025. Final reporting is due to NCHH on July 31, 2025. Applicants are welcome to outline their project timeline and structure within the February–July timeframe as best fits the specific activities and outcomes proposed. For example, it is ok if grantees have certain project activities they will be starting in March; however, all grantees will still be required to begin engaging with the TA team in February through the events listed previously (and will be required to continue engaging with the TA team through the project period). Given the short timeframe, applications describing activities that will take longer than six months will be considered, but applicants should be prepared to demonstrate progress within the six-month timeframe. Also, when budgeting for the work, note that applicants do not need to provide proof that the budget has been expended by the end of the grant period.

NEW [December 19]: Can a public university apply for the funding on behalf of a community academic partnership? With subawards to community partners?
NCHH won’t comment on the eligibility of specific organizations, but local, regional, U.S. territorial, tribal, and state nonprofits and community-based groups and organizations are eligible to apply for this grant opportunity. We would expect nonprofit universities to be generally eligible. Applicants are welcome to outline plans for subawards in their proposed budget.

NEW [January 3]: I briefly reviewed the grant criteria and did not notice a definition of “community.” Could you provide feedback on the selection committee’s definition? 
There is no specific definition or criteria for a “community” that the selection committee will be using. We generally take an open approach to what constitutes a “community” or a target population. Applications will be considered responsive and scored according to the criteria outlined in the RFP if the applicant is an eligible entity and identifies the community they will be serving through the proposed activities.

NEW [January 6]: I live in a different state than the project will be located in. Do I need a physical address there to participate?
There is no requirement that the applicant organization and/or primary contact be located in the same state/community as the area that will be served by the proposed project. Note that Question 3 on the application offers an opportunity to elaborate on the community/ies that the grant will serve, especially if they are different than the location the applicant is based.

What are some examples of goals and outcomes?
Table 2 below lists examples of potential long-term goals and short-term outcomes for applicants.

Table 2: Examples of Long-Term Goals and Short-Term Outcomes

Potential Long-Term Goals	Potential Short-Term Outcomes
Long-term goal: A better understanding of cancer patterns, environmental exposure opportunities, and cancer risk factors.	Short-term outcomes: Obtaining the services of an SME to prepare requests for obtaining cancer data, analysis of cancer data, and/or the review of environmental data.
Long-term goal: Stronger partnerships or partnerships with new groups or sectors (e.g., as measured by new agreements, collaborative initiatives).	Short-term outcomes: Signing an MOU with partners, organizing a joint press event, holding the first meeting of a new coalition.
Long-term goal: Increased awareness in the community about cancer risks, prevention, local environmental health issues, and ongoing efforts to address issues.	Short-term outcomes: Developing digital communications strategies and campaigns, such as social media and community newsletters, offering training to residents on how to advocate for policy change, or hosting information sessions to educate residents on cancer and environmental exposure risks.
Long-term goal: Establishment of effective processes or entities for collective action.	Short-term outcomes: Organizing affected community members and engaged stakeholders into a community task force or coalition, developing a vision or mission, developing structure and strategic planning, developing a sustainability plan.
Long-term goal: Increased support for affected community members and their families.	Short-term outcome: Forming support groups for community members impacted by cancer.
Long-term goal: New, higher-quality, or more accessible data that can help fill research gaps, increase community engagement, or drive policy and systems change.	Short-term outcomes: Inventorying available data, creating a data-sharing agreement between partners.
Long-term goal: Increased involvement or leadership by affected residents.	Short-term outcomes: Forming new partnerships with local CBOs and other groups with strong ties in the community (e.g., faith-based organizations), holding focus groups, or surveying/interviewing residents.
Long-term goal: Increase in policymakers, practitioners, and/or advocates who have evidence-based information for decision-making or mindset shifts among these groups.	Short-term outcomes: Creating talking points about the impact of the issue on the community, meeting with policymakers about policy options, conducting a cost-benefit analysis of proposed policies.
Long-term goal: New or additional funding or financing with a particular focus on under-resourced communities.	Short-term outcomes: Applying for a new funding source.
Long-term goal: Increased capacity to seek further funding and/or expand services.	Short-term outcomes: Identifying partners to collaborate on future funding applications, drafting a concept paper to outline the vision for expanded services.
Long-term goal: Removed barriers to eligibility for services and streamlining of access to funding across programs.	Short-term outcomes: Inventorying current services available in the community and each program’s eligibility requirements, creating agreements for streamlined eligibility or referrals between partners.
Long-term goal: New or improved policies, services, or programs with a particular focus on under-resourced communities.	Short-term outcomes: Evaluating current programs or services, identifying new funding sources, analyzing local housing codes or other policies.
Long-term goal: Increase in equitable access to services or programs.	Short-term outcomes: Evaluating existing program data (understanding who is currently accessing services and who isn’t), working with community members to understand barriers to services.

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