Application

The North Carolina Community AIDS Fund is seeking to fund innovative projects that utilize new means of addressing persistence challenges, build non traditional collaborative partnerships and develop programs that have the possibility of being maintained beyond the funding cycle through community integration, incorporating improvements into the current prevention or cure system, or the creation of replicable service models. Approximately 75% of the funds will be allocated for prevention programs and 25% will be allocated for care programs.

Prevention Funding

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

1.  HIV awareness and education;
2. Promotion of HIV testing;
3. Targeted prevention programs;
4. Prevention for positive programs;
5. Treatment adherence; and
6. Programs whose outcomes are reasonably expected to enhance engagement in care.

.   Care Funding

Proposed care projects should result in systemic changes in the delivery of coordinated care services, the development of innovative new tools that enhance the delivery of care and small grants that fund direct services. NCCAF will prioritize HIV care projects that fund not only the direct provision of services, but also take a multi dimensional approach to HIV care incorporating components of service delivery analysis, development, integration, improvement and delivery to increase the reach, utilization or efficiency of services.

Examples of this type of work may include but are not limited to:

1. Addressing the barriers to underutilization of mental health and substance abuse services
2. Clinical and medical treatment adherence and
3. 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.

These priorities are derived from the Statewide Coordinated Statement of Need and relate more directly to HIV care services. 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.

Applicants are encouraged to apply only for the amount of funding needed and to rely upon the NCCAF entirely for the support of the proposed project.  The NCCAF reserves the right to fund projects in full or part and will negotiate with funded agencies when such adjustments are made.