Opportunity Information: Apply for HRSA 20 062
The Increasing Organ Donation Awareness Program (HRSA-20-062) is a discretionary grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), designed to help close the persistent gap between the number of people who need organ transplants and the number of organs available through donation. For the FY 2020 cycle, HRSA is looking to fund research-driven projects that test practical, real-world strategies to increase organ donor registration, expand public education around living donation, and improve awareness and acceptance of vascularized composite allograft (VCA) donation, such as hand or face transplants. The emphasis is not just on running outreach activities, but on building evidence about what actually works, measuring results in a credible way, and producing findings that can be used broadly across the donation and transplantation community.
The opportunity is organized around four main objectives. First, applicants are expected to identify effective ways to increase registration for deceased organ donation using traditional portals, especially common points of decision like Departments of Motor Vehicles and established online donor registries. Second, HRSA wants applicants to explore non-traditional registration portals, meaning alternative places or systems where people might be invited to register as donors, and then directly compare how well these approaches perform relative to standard DMV and registry pathways. Third, the program seeks strategies that raise awareness and understanding of living organ donation, with clear education about both the opportunities and the real risks and benefits involved. Fourth, it supports efforts focused on VCA donation, aiming to increase public knowledge about VCA transplants and strengthen willingness either to become a VCA donor after death or to authorize VCA donation for a deceased family member.
A central requirement is that funded projects must be structured as research studies with a strong methodology and a quantitative evaluation component capable of demonstrating whether an intervention is effective. Qualitative methods can be included, but the core expectation is measurable outcomes that can show verifiable change. HRSA uses the concept of "model interventions," meaning approaches that can prove impact on the program goals and are replicable, transferable, and feasible to implement in real settings. Proposals should align their project narrative, work plan, budget, and timeline to reflect rigorous study design rather than general awareness campaigning. If a project uses multiple strategies at once, the evaluation has to separate out the independent effect of each strategy and also look at how strategies interact, so the field can learn which components are driving results.
Applicants can propose either pilot projects or extension projects. Pilot projects are meant to implement and test interventions that have not previously been evaluated for usefulness and effectiveness in the organ donation field. Extension projects build on prior pilot findings or existing strategies, modifying them or adding new elements to strengthen the approach and test whether the upgraded version produces better outcomes. HRSA also encourages novel ideas that are cost-effective, as well as thoughtful adaptation of strategies that have worked in other public health areas, as long as applicants test and evaluate them for organ donation settings. There is flexibility in how an intervention is designed, including where it takes place, which populations it targets, and the geographic areas involved, provided it clearly maps to the program objectives.
Impact and scalability are major review considerations. HRSA indicates that study designs will be assessed for whether the intervention could realistically be replicated after the grant period, either with similar populations or in different regions of the country. Applicants can strengthen the potential usefulness of their findings by including more than one target population, oversampling particular populations of interest, or running the intervention across multiple geographic locations. For living donation-focused projects, HRSA is explicit that the intervention must be designed to increase knowledge about living donation opportunities and clarify risks and benefits, and the outcomes must measure changes in awareness, knowledge, and/or willingness or readiness to consider becoming a living donor. For VCA-focused projects, interventions may center on increasing awareness and knowledge and/or improving willingness to donate or authorize donation of VCA tissues, with an emphasis on educating the public about the availability, need, and success of these transplants and increasing willingness to donate hands or face for transplantation.
In terms of basic grant details, this is a grant funding instrument under the health category (CFDA 93.134). Eligible applicants include a wide range of public and nonprofit entities, such as state, county, and city or township governments; special district governments; independent school districts; Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments); and nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education), along with other eligible entities as described in the full eligibility text. The opportunity was posted on October 23, 2019, with an original application deadline of January 17, 2020, and HRSA anticipated making approximately five awards. The listing shows an award ceiling of 0, which typically signals that applicants must rely on the full NOFO for the specific funding limits or that the ceiling was not stated in the summary field.Apply for HRSA 20 062
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Increasing Organ Donation Awareness Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.134.
- This funding opportunity was created on Oct 23, 2019.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jan 17, 2020. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 5 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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