Modern HIV prevention and education grant-funded programs

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Astute healthcare-related nonprofit and public agency managers who follow grant opportunities have probably noticed how many of those grant opportunities use specific, somewhat coded language to express whatever it is that they want (read a lot, and you’ll start to see patterns in RFP verbiage). We’ve written many modern HIV prevention and education grant-funded programs, and, consequently, we’ve gotten very good at designing how those programs should be pitched to funders—the most common being the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Still, HRSA Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFOs) are often opaque about how exactly the applicant is supposed to provide services and what precisely the applicant should do. The purpose of being opaque may be so that applicants can signal their underlying competence and knowledge. Click here to continue reading.