Small Grants Program
Promoting Community-Academic Partnerships to Address Health Disparities
Both New Mexico and Washington have a yearly grant-writing workshop to teach community members to write a grant application. The Outreach Core will then invite community groups to submit their applications for new projects that will decrease the risk of getting cancer. The best applications will receive money to do their projects.
Timeline
New dates for the Small Grants Program coming soon!| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| TBD | Small Grants Program orientation meeting for community agencies |
| TBD | RSVPs to attend Grant Writing Workshop are due |
| TBD | Grant Writing Workshop |
| TBD | Grant applications are due |
| TBD | Grants sent for review |
| TBD | Grant reviews due |
| TBD | Notify recipients |
Community Agencies Previously Funded
Agency: St. Luke's Health Care Clinic Inc. (Las Cruces)
Funding Period: 9/1/15 to 8/31/16
Community Partner: Pamela Angell, PI, St. Luke's
Academic Partners: Rebecca Palacios and Karoline Sondgeroth, PHS Department, NMSU
Purpose: This was a research project aimed at encouraging homeless and indigent people to get colorectal cancer (CRC) screening. The study examined best methods for improving patient health through the prevention and treatment of CRC. As part of the project, participants received CRC prevention education and Fecal Occult Blood Test kits (FOBT) for screening.
Agency: Alliance of Border Collaboratives Inc. (El Paso)
Funding Period: 9/1/15 to 8/31/16
Community Partners: Rosalba Ruiz, PI, ABC Inc.
Academic Partners: Rebecca Palacios and Karoline Sondgeroth, PHS Department, NMSU
Purpose: To test a brief intervention based on Principals of Lactation management from the Texas DSHS and the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection. The project goal was to increase intent to breastfeed in 25 Hispanic women living in housing projects in El Paso, Texas.
Agency: City of El Paso Department of Public Health (El Paso)
Funding Period: 9/1/16 to 8/31/17
Community Partner: Claudia Lozano & Alex Simental PI, CEPDOPH
Academic Partners: Rebecca Palacios and Karoline Sondgeroth, PHS Department, NMSU
Purpose: To use a mobile app designed to increase 1) knowledge of colorectal cancer (CRC) risk factors, 2) rates of CRC screening, and 3) follow-up (linkage to educational and/or care) among Hispanic men and women 50 years and older. All participants receive a voucher for a free CRC screening.
Agency: Dona Ana Communities United (Las Cruces)
Funding Period: 9/1/16 to 8/31/17
Community Partner: Kari Bachman, PI, DACU
Academic Partners: Julie Rice, Sociology Department, NMSU
Purpose: To evaluate the effect of time bank participation on adults with limited incomes.
Agency: YMCA of El Paso (El Paso)
Funding Period: 9/1/17 to 8/31/18
Community Partner: Mollie Lighthall, PI, YMCA of El Paso
Academic Partners: Rebecca Palacios and Karoline Sondgeroth, PHS Department, NMSU
Purpose: The YMCA's Farm-to-Fitness program research will study the effect of mediated access to fruits and vegetables combined with an integrative community program designed to positively change and sustain behavior with respect to the intake of fresh fruits and vegetables of a low income Hispanic /Latino community.
Agency: Ben Archer Health Center (Las Cruces)
Funding Period: 9/1/17 to 8/31/18
Community Partner: Jude Betancourt, Health Educator
Academic Partners: Joe Tomaka, PhD, PHS Department, NMSU
Purpose: The primary goal of this project is to test whether the dual interventions of providing vegetable tastings to expand participant's cultural and customary experience with vegetables, and providing instruction on growing some of their own produce will increase fruit and vegetable consumption in areas where access to fresh produce is limited. The intervention is expected to improve vegetable consumption.
Isela Garcia, Community Health Educator, Program Manager for the Outreach Core
Phone: 575-646-5065
Email: iselag@nmsu.edu
