2024 The AIDS Institute's Women Informing Now (WIN) Micro-Grant and Innovator Leaders' Funding Opportunity

Women Informing Now (WIN) Micro Grant and Innovator Leaders'

Funding Opportunity - 2024

Request for Proposal: Released November 1, 2023

Application Deadline Date: November 30, 2023 (8:00 PM, EST)

General Information

The AIDS Institute's Women Informing Now (WIN) Micro-Grant and Innovator Leaders’ Program is designed to support community-based organizations and emerging cis and transgender women leaders conducting innovative approaches that breakdown isolation and stigma for women of color with HIV across the gender spectrum. Funding will be provided through two categories: WIN Micro-Grants and Innovator Leaders’ Awards in the amount of $3,000 to $7,500 for the period of 12 months.

• Micro-Grant applicants must be non-profit, tax-exempt organizations as set forth in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Applicants that do not hold 501(c)(3) status must have a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor and a letter/agreement from the fiscal sponsor agreeing to manage funds if awarded.

• The Innovator Leaders’ Award is a unique category of WIN funding for individuals or emerging leaders who may or may not be affiliated with a 501(c)(3) organization and are doing unique and innovative work.

TAI will provide organizational development and technical assistance, as needed, to the micro-grantees and innovator leaders over the course of the funding period.

The timeline or project period is 12 months (January 1-December 31, 2024).

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Number of Awards

Up to 20 Micro-Grants and 5 Innovator Leaders' Awards will be funded. Priority will be given to areas across the country with the highest burden of HIV as highlighted in the Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America. To ensure adequate representation, The AIDS Institute (TAI) intends to fund proposals in each of the following geographical areas:

Northeast: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

Midwest: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

South: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, DC, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.

West: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming.

Amount of Awards

Range: $3,000.00 up to $7,500.00

per Micro-Grant or Innovator

Leaders' Award for the 12-month period.

Application Submission Deadline

All Micro-Grant and Innovator Leaders' applications must be submitted on:

November 30, 2023,

prior to 8:00 (PM) EST.

Incomplete applications and applications submitted after the deadline date will NOT be considered for funding.

If more than one application or version of an application is submitted, the last application/version sent prior to the deadline will be considered the final version submitted.

Application Submission Details

You must apply using the online application in the grant portal. Click the “Submit WIN Application Here” at the bottom of this page to access the portal. Mailed or emailed applications will not be accepted. Your application will not be considered submitted until you click the SUBMIT button on the bottom of the last page of the application.

The preferred language for submission of the application is English, and it is strongly suggested that applicants type responses to the questions using a word processor and then copy and paste responses into the online application.

Please contact Scott Wilson at SWilson@taimail.org if you need help getting into the portal, need assistance with the portal while submitting your application, require reasonable non-English language accommodations for completing the application, or if you have any questions. Please include ‘Portal Support’ in the subject line of your email when contacting Scott Wilson.

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