Grant Opportunities

NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR NURSING Grant Opportunities

With the crush of the holiday season behind us, it’s time to look toward the future — of nursing education! Applications are open for NLN research grants to fund your work advancing the science of nursing education and ensuring a strong, diverse nursing workforce for years to come. Don’t wait! Apply by February 1 for the opportunity to further your research and make an impact on the future of nursing education. 
NLN Research in Nursing Education Grants — Maximum grant up to $30,000 
Mary Anne Rizzolo Doctoral Research Award — $2,500 award for doctoral students 
Edmund J.Y. Pajarillo Health Informatics and Innovation Collaborative Research Award — $2,500 award for graduate students 
Eastern Nursing Research Society/NLN Doctoral Research Award — $2,500 award for doctoral students 
Southern Nursing Research Society/NLN Doctoral Research Award — $5,000 award for doctoral students 
Sigma Foundation for Nursing/NLN Research Award — $5,000 award 
Western Institute of Nursing/NLN Research Award — $5,000 award 
Find Your Grant

NINR-led Funding Opportunities

  • NOT-NR-24-003: Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity for Clinical-Community Linkages to Address Unmet Social Needs and Adverse Social Determinants of Health to Advance Health Equity among Populations Experiencing Health Disparities (R01) seeks to inform the research community that NINR intends to publish a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO), Clinical-Community Linkages to Address Unmet Social Needs and Adverse Social Determinants of Health to Advance Health Equity among Populations Experiencing Health Disparities: The Bridge-to-Care Initiative (R01 Clinical Trial Optional).
    • Estimated NOFO Publication Date: Early Winter 2024
    • First Estimated Application Due Date: Late Winter 2024
  • PAR-24-061: Nursing Research Education Program in Firearm Injury Prevention Research: Short Courses (R25 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed) will support the development and implementation of short courses to prepare nurse scientists, and scientists in aligned fields, to conduct firearm injury prevention research in support of the NINR Strategic Plan. First Application Due Date: January 25, 2024
  • RFA-NR-24-002: Short Courses in Social Determinants of Health for Research Education in Nursing Research (R25 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed) will support educational activities focused on developing and implementing a program to prepare nurse scientists, and scientists in aligned fields, to conduct research on the social determinants of health in alignment with the NINR Strategic Plan. First Application Due Date: January 12, 2024
  • NOT-NR-23-012: Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Addressing Organizational Factors to Prevent or Mitigate Nurse Burnout seeks research studies to develop and evaluate novel organizational interventions to prevent and mitigate nurse burnout which will build new knowledge and the evidence base for implementation in places where nurses practice: in hospitals and clinics, in schools and workplaces, in homes and long-term care facilities, in justice settings, and throughout communities. Next Application Due Date: February 5, 2024
  • RFA-NR-24-001: Firearm Injury Prevention in Community Healthcare Settings (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) seeks to advance research that reduces firearm injury and disparities through the development and evaluation of firearm injury primary prevention interventions leveraging community healthcare settings. Next Application Due Date: July 26, 2024

NINR Areas of Emphasis for Research to Optimize Health and Advance Health Equity 

  • PAR-22-230:(R01 Clinical Trial Optional) solicits R01 grant applications that propose independent research projects that are consistent with the scientific framework detailed in the NINR Strategic Plan. Next Application Due Date: February 5, 2024
    • Please see Notice of Clarification NOT-NR-23-006 regarding Non-Responsive Applications. Updates shown in bold italics.
  • PAR-22-231:(R21 Clinical Trial Optional) solicits R21 grant applications that propose exploratory/developmental research projects that are consistent with the research framework detailed in the NINR Strategic Plan. Next Application Due Date: February 16, 2024
    • Please see Notice of Clarification NOT-NR-23-007 regarding Non-Responsive Applications. Updates shown in bold italics.

This research will be rooted in nursing’s holistic, contextualized approach to understanding people and their health, address the nation’s most pressing and persistent health challenges with a solutions orientation, and employ innovative and rigorous study designs to inform practice and policy.

Participating Funding Opportunities

  • PAR-24-070: Career Enhancement Award to Advance Research on Firearm Injury and Mortality Prevention (K18 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed) seeks to enhance research workforce capacity by supporting a program that will help experienced investigators in related or complementary fields to gain research expertise in the field of firearm injury and mortality prevention. Application Due Date: March 15, 2024
  • PAR-24-073: Career Enhancement Award to Advance Research on Firearm Injury and Mortality Prevention (K18 Independent Clinical Trial Required) seeks to enhance research workforce capacity by supporting a program that will help experienced investigators in related or complementary fields to gain research expertise in the field of firearm injury and mortality prevention. Application Due Date: March 15, 2024
  • NOT-HL-23-110: Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Data Informed, Place-Based Community-Engaged Research to Advance Health Equity seeks to stimulate community-engaged research that leverages geospatial data to probe the influence of geographic factors on disease development and health outcomes. First Application Due Date: February 5, 2024
  • NOT-OD-24-032: Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Research on the Health of Women of Understudied, Underrepresented and Underreported (U3) Populations (Admin Supp Clinical Trial Optional) announces the availability of administrative supplements to support research highlighting health inequities among women in the United States who are understudied, underrepresented and underreported in biomedical research. Application Due Date: January 31, 2024
  • PAR-24-038: Assessment of Climate at Institutions (ACt) Award (RC2 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed) solicits applications to conduct institutional climate assessments using validated survey instruments and to develop action plans for positive change in the recruitment, hiring, retention, and advancement of faculty, including those from groups underrepresented in biomedical and behavioral research. First Application Due Date: July 01, 2024
  • NOT-NR-24-002: Notice of NINR’s Scientific Interests for PAR-23-137, “NIH Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) (R25 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)” informs applicants that NINR is updating PAR-23-137 to add the NINR Scientific Interests. Next Application Due Date: June 7, 2024
  • PAR-24-053: Multi-sectoral Preventive Interventions that Address Social Determinants of Health in Populations that Experience Health Disparities (UG3/UH3, Clinical Trial Required) supports projects to test prospective multi-sectoral preventive interventions that address social determinants of health in populations that experience health disparities. Application Due Date: August 5, 2024
  • NOT-AI-23-070: Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) solicits applications proposing research that is grounded in implementation science and can address the goals of the Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. (EHE) initiative. The overall objective of EHE is to address the ongoing public health crisis with goals of first reducing the number of incident infections in the U.S. by 75% by 2025, and at least 90% by 2030, compared to the baseline infection rate in 2017. First Application Due Date: January 7, 2024
  • PAR-23-309: Health and Health Care Disparities Among Persons Living with Disabilities (R01 – Clinical Trials Optional) will support novel and innovative research that examines and/or intervenes on the underlying and multilevel causes, pathways, and factors adversely impacting the health and well-being of persons with disabilities at the intersections of race and ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. First Application Due Date: February 5, 2024
  • PAR-23-303: Unveiling Health and Healthcare Disparities in Non-Communicable and Chronic Diseases in Latin America: Setting the Stage for Better Health Outcomes Across the Hemisphere (R01 – Clinical Trials Not Allowed) will support innovative, collaborative, and interdisciplinary research focused on clinical epidemiology, evaluation of public and/or health care policies, and validation of measurements that address health and healthcare disparities related to non-communicable and chronic diseases with the highest disease burden and mortality in Latin America and among U.S. Hispanics/Latinos. First Application Due Date: February 5, 2024
  • PAR-23-304: Interventions on Health and Healthcare Disparities on Non-Communicable and Chronic Diseases in Latin America: Improving Health Outcomes Across the Hemisphere (R01 – Clinical Trial Required) will support innovative and interdisciplinary team research focused on clinical, health services, and/or community-based interventions that address health and healthcare disparities related to non-communicable and chronic diseases with the highest disease burden and mortality in Latin America and among U.S. Hispanics/Latinos. First Application Due Date: February 5, 2024
  • PAR-24-059: Understanding the Impact of Healthcare System and Clinician Factors on Disparities in Maternal Morbidity and Mortality (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional) will support multidisciplinary and innovative intervention research to understand and address maternal morbidity and mortality in the U.S., particularly but not exclusively among racial and ethnic minority, socioeconomically disadvantaged, and underserved rural populations, with a focus on understudied healthcare factors. First Application Due Date: February 5, 2024
  • NOT-OD-24-001: NOSI: Administrative Supplements to Recognize Excellence in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Mentorship invites applications to support administrative supplements to existing NIH awards to support scientists who have demonstrated compelling commitments and contributions to mentorship and enhancing DEIA in the biomedical sciences. Funds will support ongoing and future efforts. Application Due Date: February 16, 2024
  • PAR-23-285: Intervention Research to Improve Native American Health (R34 Clinical Trial Optional) will support planning and development, including pilot or feasibility research, to improve health in Native American populations. Proposed research may address health promotion, disease prevention, treatment, recovery, or services research to inform intervention implementation and dissemination. First Application Due Date: October 21, 2024
  • PAR-23-298: Intervention Research to Improve Native American Health (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) will support research on interventions to improve health in Native American populations. This includes 1) etiologic research that will directly inform intervention development or adaptations, 2) research that develops, adapts, or tests interventions for health promotion, prevention, treatment, or recovery, and 3) where a sufficient body of knowledge on intervention efficacy exists, research on dissemination and implementation that develops and tests strategies to overcome barriers to the adoption, integration, scale-up, and sustainability of effective interventions. First Application Due Date: October 21, 2024
  • PAR-23-299: Intervention Research to Improve Native American Health (R21 Clinical Trials Optional) will support developmental/exploratory research to improve health in Native American populations. This includes 1) etiologic research that will directly inform intervention development or adaptations, 2) research that develops, adapts, or tests interventions for health promotion, prevention, treatment, or recovery, and 3) where a sufficient body of knowledge on intervention efficacy exists, research on strategies to overcome barriers to the adoption, integration, scale-up, and sustainability of effective interventions. First Application Due Date: October 21, 2024
  • NOT-OD-23-170: NOSI: Research Supplements to Promote Re-Entry, Re-integration into, and Re-training in Health-Related Research Careers (Admin Supp – Clinical Trial Not Allowed) will fund administrative supplements to provide full or part-time mentored research training experiences for individuals with high potential to re-enter, re-integrate into, or re-train in an active research career after an interruption for family responsibilities or other qualifying circumstances as described in the NOSI. NINR accepts administrative supplements on a rolling basis.
  • NOT-AG-23-050: Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Consortium for Palliative Care Research Across the Lifespan (U54 Clinical Trial Required) informs the research community that NIH intends to promote a new initiative to advance palliative care research by publishing a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) that will invite applications proposing the development of a specialized center (i.e., “Consortium.”) The aim of the Consortium will be to provide resources, expertise, and coordination to advance innovative, high-quality research on palliative care for those living with serious illnesses across the lifespan. Estimated Publication Date: December 14, 2023

Events

NIH Informational Webinar: Intervention Research to Improve Native American Health (IRINAH) Funding Opportunities

On January 25, 2024 at 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. (ET), join NIH for a webinar about funding opportunities PAR-23-298, PAR-23-299, and PAR-23-285. The purpose of the webinar is to explain the goals and objectives of the NOFOs, highlight what’s new with the IRINAH program, and answer questions from attendees. Register