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Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students (SDS)

ID: HRSA-16-069 • Type: Posted

Description

This announcement solicits applications for the FY 2016 Bureau of Health Workforce (BHW) Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students (SDS) program. This program promotes diversity among the health professions and nursing workforce by providing awards to eligible health professions and nursing schools for use in awarding scholarships to students from disadvantaged backgrounds who have a demonstrated financial need and are enrolled full-time in health professions and nursing programs. 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 $30,000).

Overview

Category of Funding
Health
Funding Instruments
Grant
Grant Category
Discretionary
Cost Sharing / Matching Requirement
False
Source
On 11/25/15 Health Resources and Services Administration posted grant opportunity HRSA-16-069 for Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students (SDS) with funding of $43.7 million. The grant will be issued under grant program 93.925 Scholarships for Health Professions Students from Disadvantaged Backgrounds. It is expected that 99 total grants will be made.

Timing

Posted Date
Nov. 25, 2015, 12:00 a.m. EST
Closing Date
Jan. 25, 2016, 12:00 a.m. EST Past Due
Version
1
Archive Date
Feb. 12, 2016

Eligibility

Eligible Applicants
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Info
Eligible applicants are public or non-profit private accredited schools of medicine, osteopathic medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, podiatric medicine, optometry, veterinary medicine, public health, chiropractic, allied health, a school offering a graduate program in behavioral and mental health practice, or an entity providing programs for the training of physician assistants.  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 are required are as follows:

Award Sizing

Ceiling
Not Listed
Floor
Not Listed
Estimated Program Funding
$43,687,000
Estimated Number of Grants
99

Contacts

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

Documents

Posted documents for HRSA-16-069

Grant Awards

Grants awarded through HRSA-16-069

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