Stephen Lieberman

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Mental Health

Mental health services, treatment, prevention, suicide, and psychiatric care.

145 opportunities · 113 traditional · 32 nontraditional

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Grants to address the overdose crisisRapid-response fundFoundation for Opioid Response EffortsA funder created specifically for the overdose crisis, moving faster than federal cycles on treatment access, harm reduction and recovery supports, and funding evaluation alongside services.$100k–$500k · Periodic calls
Grants to prevent and end homelessnessFoundation grantMelville Charitable TrustThe largest US foundation devoted solely to homelessness, funding housing solutions, systems change, and the research and narrative work that supports them.$50k–$500k · By invitation
Grants for veterans, service members and their familiesFoundation grantBob Woodruff FoundationFunds community programmes serving veterans and military families and, unusually, pays for the evaluation capacity those programmes need to show whether they work.$25k–$500k · Annual cycle
Federal prize competitions and challengesPrize or challengeU.S. federal agencies (Challenge.gov)Agencies post cash prizes for solutions to defined problems — including behavioural health, caregiving and child welfare challenges. You are paid for the result, so there is no grant to administer.$5k–$500k · Rolling / open
Federal and state evaluation contracts (SAM.gov)Evaluation contractU.S. federal and state agenciesAgencies buy evaluation as a service through procurement, not as a grant. Deliverable-driven and less prestigious than a grant, but it is steady applied research money most academics never look at.$50k–$5M · Rolling / open
Transition to Scale and innovation fundingPrize or challengeGrand Challenges CanadaStage-gated funding for bold ideas in global health and development — including mental health and humanitarian innovation — where evidence generation is a condition of moving to the next stage.$100k–$1M · Periodic calls
Direct Action Visionary GrantsFoundation grantAmerican Psychological FoundationGrants of up to $60,000 for community interventions delivering an evidence-based psychological intervention or resource in real-world settings, aligned to priorities including serving marginalized communities, ending prejudice and stigma, and preventing violence.up to $60k · Several times a year · Jan, Mar, Apr, Jul, Sep, Oct
Youth Advisory Council Grants — Northeast MichiganParticipatory grantmakingCommunity Foundation for Northeast MichiganStudent members of county Youth Advisory Councils allocate grants of up to $2,500 by consensus, with no staff vote, to youth-serving programs in four northeast Michigan counties.up to $3k · Several times a year · Jan, Oct
El Camino Healthcare District Community Benefit Grant ProgramParticipatory grantmakingEl Camino Healthcare DistrictA public healthcare district re-grants community benefit dollars each year to programs addressing the five health needs selected through the 2025 Community Health Needs Assessment, for residents of Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Sunnyvale and part of Cupertino.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Dec, Jan, Feb
MarinHealth Community Benefit Grant ProgramParticipatory grantmakingMarinHealth Medical CenterA single-hospital community benefit fund for programs serving Marin County residents, organised around four health priorities drawn from the hospital's community health needs assessment. Proposals that measure outcomes through evaluation methods are explicitly prioritised.Amount not published · Periodic calls · Aug
El Camino Health Community Benefit Grant ProgramParticipatory grantmakingEl Camino HealthThe hospital-side companion to the healthcare district fund: annual community benefit grants for programs addressing the five priorities of the 2025 Community Health Needs Assessment in the cities served by El Camino Health's hospitals.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Dec, Jan, Feb
Youth Participatory Grantmaking ProgramParticipatory grantmakingCarlson Family FoundationA cohort of 4-8 young people aged 13-24 is trained in philanthropy, then individually scores applications and decides by group discussion which Twin Cities youth-serving nonprofits receive microgrants, with staff facilitating rather than directing.up to $5k · Annual cycle · Apr
Farm Aid grant programFoundation grantFarm AidGrants to organizations serving family farmers, explicitly including farm advocates, legal support, mental health services, hotlines, and emergency assistance — a rare direct source for rural agricultural behavioural health work.$5k–$10k · By invitation · Nov, Dec
OneOhio Recovery Foundation Regional Grant Cycle #2Participatory grantmakingOneOhio Recovery FoundationOhio's statewide opioid settlement foundation distributes 55% of the state's national opioid settlement dollars through regionally-governed competitive cycles. Regional Grant Cycle #2 makes $45,780,885 available across 19 Ohio regions, allocated by the settlement formula plus Cycle 1 carryover. Awards support prevention, treatment, recovery and community-resilience work for people with substance use disorder (including co-occurring mental health conditions) and family members affected by another person's SUD. The RFP released 2025-12-10; a required Funding Inquiry stage opened 2026-01-14 and cAmount not published · Periodic calls · Dec, Jan, Feb
Boston Children's Hospital Collaboration for Community HealthParticipatory grantmakingBoston Children's HospitalA multi-year community investment stream tied to the Massachusetts Determination of Need / Community Health Initiative, funding partner-led work on mental and behavioral health workforce, youth engagement, food access and housing, with published evaluation reports on each area.Amount not published · By invitation
Hogg Foundation for Mental Health grant programsParticipatory grantmakingHogg Foundation for Mental Health (University of Texas at Austin)A Texas mental health funder running competitive RFPs on community-driven themes: rural and border community mental health, libraries as mental health infrastructure, flexible funding for under-resourced organisations, policy fellows, and arts-and-humanities research grants for early career faculty.Amount not published · Periodic calls
External Research Partner RosterEvaluation contractColorado Evaluation and Action LabColorado's state-facing evaluation lab keeps a standing pool of outside researchers it draws on for paid project work, rather than running open grant competitions. You join by questionnaire and are contacted when a fitting project appears.Amount not published · Rolling / open
DHCF Procurement OpportunitiesEvaluation contractDistrict of Columbia Department of Health Care Finance (DC Medicaid)DC's Medicaid agency directs prospective bidders to the District's central contracting portal for all open DHCF solicitations, including analytic and evaluation work. This page is the agency's standing entry point and names the contract compliance contact.Amount not published · Rolling / open
Illinois Judicial Branch Procurement OpportunitiesEvaluation contractOffice of the Illinois Courts / Administrative Office of the Illinois CourtsThe Illinois judiciary lists its own solicitations here, and they regularly include research-shaped work — most notably a comprehensive validation of the state's Adult and Juvenile Risk Assessment instruments and strategic planning consulting for the Judicial Conference.Amount not published · Rolling / open
Elrha funding calls (R2HC research and Humanitarian Innovation Fund)Rapid-response fundElrhaThe single portal where Elrha posts its humanitarian research and innovation calls, including crisis-triggered R2HC calls for research responding to current or anticipated humanitarian health emergencies.Amount not published · Periodic calls
DBHDS Procurement (Behavioral Health Solicitations via eVA)Evaluation contractVirginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS)Virginia's behavioral health and developmental services authority competes its service, analytic and study contracts through eVA, the Commonwealth's eProcurement marketplace. This page sets out the rules, registration route and term-contract postings.Amount not published · Rolling / open
OMH Requests for Proposals and Requests for InformationEvaluation contractNew York State Office of Mental HealthNew York's state mental health authority posts its RFPs and RFIs on this page, including data-collection and reporting work such as the National Outcome Measures project. A tentative forward procurement schedule is also published so bidders can plan.Amount not published · Rolling / open
Medicaid Evaluation and Research Solicitations via eVA (DMAS Procurement)Evaluation contractVirginia Department of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS)Virginia's state Medicaid agency buys evaluation, analytic and study work through competitive solicitations posted on the eVA procurement portal rather than through grant announcements. The DMAS procurement page explains how to find and bid on them.Amount not published · Rolling / open
Community Fund for Immigrant WellnessParticipatory grantmakingScattergood Foundation (with the Philadelphia Foundation, City of Philadelphia DBHIDS, and Paul D. Schurgot Foundation)A participatory fund for immigrant and refugee behavioral health in Greater Philadelphia, where a Community Advisory Board of immigrant-serving organizations writes the strategy and RFP and nominates the Decision Making Group that selects awardees.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Mar, Apr
Add Health Restricted-Use Data ContractsIn-kind resourceCarolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillContractual access to the restricted-use files of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, covering four decades of one cohort's development, available either through a secure research workspace or a home-institution contract.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
AHCCCS Solicitations and Contracts (Open Solicitations and Bidders Library)Evaluation contractArizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS)Arizona's Medicaid agency posts its open solicitations, closed solicitations, contract amendments and a bidders library here. This is the route by which analytic, monitoring and evaluation work for Arizona Medicaid is competed.Amount not published · Rolling / open
Global Genes RARE Patient Impact GrantsParticipatory grantmakingGlobal GenesA grant stream that puts money directly into rare disease patient advocacy organizations rather than into universities. Past cycles funded educational tools and resources to improve health equity in underserved and underrepresented rare disease populations, in-person convenings and community building, and programs addressing the health and mental wellbeing of the rare disease community, naming children, siblings, caregivers and care partners, and people who are grieving. That sibling-and-bereavement framing is rare in condition-foundation funding and maps directly onto family-systems social woAmount not published · Varies by programme
Mother Cabrini Health Foundation grants - Mental and Behavioral HealthFoundation grantMother Cabrini Health FoundationLarge New York State health funder with a standing Mental and Behavioral Health funding area, including access to mental health counselling, alongside healthcare access, workforce, and basic needs. Two-stage LOI then invited full proposal.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Mar, Apr
Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health JournalismFellowshipThe Carter CenterStipends and training for journalists reporting on mental health, caregiving, and substance use. A documentation route rather than a research grant, and one of the few funded ways to spend a year on a single mental health story.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jan, Feb
Youth Grants (Youth Advisory Council)Participatory grantmakingCapital Region Community FoundationA council of high school students runs its own triennial youth needs assessment, sets the funding priorities from it, and reviews applications from programs serving teens in Michigan's tri-county capital region.Not a cash award · Annual cycle
Nuestro FuturoParticipatory grantmakingThe Chicago Community TrustA Latine donor affinity fund at The Chicago Community Trust whose volunteer steering committee, led by two co-chairs, runs the yearly grantmaking to Chicago-area organisations serving Latine communities.Amount not published · Annual cycle
VA Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) contracting pathwayEvaluation contractU.S. Department of Veterans AffairsVA's route for small businesses, especially veteran-owned ones, to win VA contracts, including the studies and evaluation work relevant to veteran mental health, homelessness and family services.Amount not published · Rolling / open

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