
Share On Social!
The Institute for Integration of Medicine & Science (IIMS) at UT Health San Antonio and the UTSA College for Health, Community, and Policy (HCaP) wants to fund a new batch of one-year Community Engagement Small Project Grants.
The grants aim to help promote, develop, and expand community and scholarly research partnerships that benefit science and clinicians, according to the 2025 funding announcement.
Last year’s grants enabled five teams of researchers to translate scientific findings to benefit public health in San Antonio.
These projects covered topics such as HIV/AIDS, faith’s impact on criminal rehabilitation, artistic influence on young brain development, and more.
Now your team could be the next ones to improve community health by applying for a one-year Community Engagement Small Project Grant.
To qualify, a project proposal must be submitted by March 17, 2025, and demonstrate meeting local needs through community-engaged research or assessment, education, and distributing research results or policy implications.
Proposal Topics and Areas of Interest
The grant committee is encouraging applicants to explore intersectionality.
“[Intersectionality] describe(s) the way social categorizations such as gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, and class create overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage,” the announcement explained.
To convey intersectionality in proposal writing, check out the following resources:
The award selection committee also expressed a strong interest in projects involving the needs of incarcerated or formerly incarcerated individuals and/or their families.
Selected topics should emphasize community-identified health problems, such as those identified in the Bexar County Health Collaborative’s Community Health Improvement Plan.
What’s more, proposals should reflect a mutually beneficial partnership between project and community partners.
This includes having a solid plan and implementation for each phase of the project.
To assist with this portion of the requirement check out these resources:
- Community Engagement Assessment Tool
- Principles of Community Engagement
- The Spectrum of Community Engagement to Ownership
Proposal Submission and Guidelines
To be eligible to participate, you must be part of a community-campus research partnership in South Texas with members (faculty and students) representing the following institutions:
- UT Health San Antonio
- UTHealth School of Public Health in San Antonio
- University of Texas at San Antonio
- South Texas Veterans Health Care System
- Texas Biomedical Research Institute
- Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC)
- UT Austin College of Pharmacy
- UT Austin Dell Medical School
- Other local universities
However, each group must have at least one UT Health San Antonio or UTSA investigator and one community co-investigator on the team.
Projects can also involve community partners, such as practice-based research networks, translational advisory boards, and other groups or agencies like community health centers, non-profits, schools, and more.
Submissions should include supporting application documents such as a proposed project plan, history of community academic partnership, community engagement plan, and a detailed budget.
Community grant proposals will be scored and chosen based on a variety of factors, including significance, novelty, and innovation, how the project expands a community-campus partnership, and potential for improving health outcomes.
There’s an estimated $35,000 available to fund seven or more proposals.
Awards are anticipated to arrive starting May 1, 2025, and can be used toward expenses, such as supplies, equipment, staff salaries, software, consulting, and more.
Applications are due on March 17, 2025.
Click here to apply!
Explore More:
Healthy Neighborhoods & CommunitiesBy The Numbers
1
Supermarket
for every Latino neighborhood, compared to 3 for every non-Latino neighborhood