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Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students

ID: HRSA-20-006 • Type: Posted
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Description

This program promotes diversity among the health professions by providing awards to eligible health professions and nursing schools, for schools to provide scholarships to students from disadvantaged backgrounds who have a demonstrated financial need and are enrolled full-time in a health profession program or nursing program. Participating schools are responsible for selecting scholarship recipients, making reasonable determinations of need, and providing scholarships that do not exceed the allowable costs (i.e., tuition, reasonable educational expenses and reasonable living expenses with a cap for the total scholarship award of $ 40,000).

Overview

Category of Funding
Health
Funding Instruments
Grant
Grant Category
Discretionary
Cost Sharing / Matching Requirement
False
Source
On 1/3/20 Health Resources and Services Administration posted grant opportunity HRSA-20-006 for Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students with funding of $48.2 million. The grant will be issued under grant program 93.925 Scholarships for Health Professions Students from Disadvantaged Backgrounds. It is expected that 79 total grants will be made.

Timing

Posted Date
Jan. 3, 2020, 12:00 a.m. EST
Closing Date
March 3, 2020, 12:00 a.m. EST Past Due
Last Updated
Jan. 8, 2020, 10:30 a.m. EST
Version
2
Archive Date
May 2, 2020

Eligibility

Eligible Applicants
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Info
For-profit nursing and physician assistant schools are eligible to apply under the SDS Program. All other applicants must be public or non-profit private schools. Domestic faith-based and community-based organizations, tribes, and tribal organizations are eligible to apply if all other eligibility requirements are met. A listing of the eligible program disciplines for which individual separate applications can be found in the NOFO

Award Sizing

Ceiling
$650,000
Floor
Not Listed
Estimated Program Funding
$48,200,000
Estimated Number of Grants
79

Contacts

Contact
Health Resources and Services Administration
Contact Email
Email Description
Contact Denise Sorrell at (301)443-2909 or email SDSProgram@hrsa.gov
Contact Phone
(301) 443-7432

Documents

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