Grant Programs

Recordings and transcripts of the technical assistance telephone calls are available below.

Social and Behavioral Interventions to Increase Solid Organ Donation funds research projects to implement and evaluate promising strategies and approaches for increasing organ and tissue donation. Strong research protocols are required. Public and nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply. Consortia of at least two types of organizations, a transplantation/donation-related organization and a research-related organization, are encouraged. The 2012 competition is closed.

> Project Summaries (PDF - 195 KB)

> 2012 Funding Opportunity Announcement and Program Details (HRSA-12-034)

> Technical assistance telephone session, September 27, 2011.

    Listen to the Audio (MP3 - 75 Minutes) | Read the Transcript (PDF - 155 KB)

Public Education Efforts to Increase Organ and Tissue Donation funds the replication of successful strategies or models for increasing organ and tissue donation. The 2012 competition is closed.

> Project Summaries (PDF - 121 KB)

> 2012 Funding Opportunity Announcement and Program Details (HRSA-12-032)

> Technical assistance telephone session, September 20, 2011.

    Listen to the Audio (MP3 - 72 Minutes) | Read the Transcript (PDF - 153 KB)

Clinical Interventions to Increase Organ Procurement funds highly promising research into improvements in clinical management of deceased organ donors. This program has provided support for the implementation and evaluation of highly promising strategies and approaches serving as model interventions for identifying appropriate organ donor candidates, evaluating donated organs, maintaining donor clinical stability and optimizing methods for organ procurement. This grant program was not funded for FY 2012.

> Project Summaries

Reimbursement of Travel and Subsistence Expenses Toward Living Organ Donation Program supports a national program to provide reimbursement of travel and subsistence expenses to individuals making living donations of their organs. In September 2006, HRSA awarded a 4-year cooperative agreement to the Regents of the University of Michigan (UM) for this purpose. The University of Michigan in collaboration with The American Society of Transplant Surgeons establishes the National Living Donor Assistance Center to carry out the Program’s purpose.  The cooperative agreement with UM was renewed for another four years in September 2010. For more information about the program, visit www.livingdonorassistance.org . 

State Donor Registry Support Program funded states to develop or enhance a donor registry in which residents enter their consent to be a donor. This grant program is no longer offered.

> Project Summaries

Media-Based Grassroots Efforts to Increase Minority Solid Organ Donation funded projects to promote organ and tissue donation in minority populations through combined media and grassroots campaigns. Projects were required to spend a minimum of 75 percent of their budget on television and radio advertising. This grant program is no longer offered.

> Project Summaries

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