Grant Guidelines

The North Carolina Community AIDS Fund will be releasing a request for proposals (RFP) in March 2010 for the period of December 1, 2010 through June 30, 2012. Applications will be accepted for HIV prevention and care programs.

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Approximately 75% of the funds will be allocated for prevention programs and 25% will be allocated for care programs.

The North Carolina Community AIDS Fund takes a broad view of prevention, including:

• HIV awareness and education;
• promotion of HIV testing;
•  targeted prevention programs;
• prevention for positives programs;
• treatment adherence; and
• programs whose outcomes are reasonably expected to enhance engagement in care. 

Prioritized care services may include but are not limited to those that emphasize community collaborations, support networks of care, address co-occurring diagnoses, and/or serve a currently underserved population.

Examples of care projects may include:

• addressing the barriers to underutilization of mental health and substance abuse services;
• clinical and medical treatment adherence; and
• providing health education to promote access to dental care, nutritional services, or other co-occurring diseases that are not traditionally addressed within the HIV setting.

Agencies may be funded to expand an existing program, initiate a new program, or help agencies adapt current programming to the field of HIV.

The North Carolina Community AIDS Fund will support both programmatic costs and reasonable administrative costs. Indirect costs are not allowed, however this is a programmatic RFP. Applicants are encouraged to apply only for the amount of funding needed and not to rely upon the NC-CAF entirely for the support of the proposed project. The NC-CAF reserves the right to fund projects in full or part and will negotiate with funded agencies when such adjustments are made.

NCCAF seeks to increase the capacity of communities across North Carolina to respond to the HIV epidemic, thus a concerted effort will be made to fund agencies representing diversity in size, geography, service populations, and experience.