North Carolina Opioid Settlement Funds — Local Government Spending Route
North Carolina is receiving $1.6 billion in national opioid settlement funds, and the state's Memorandum of Agreement routes the overwhelming majority directly to counties and municipalities rather than to a statewide competitive grant program. There is no central research or evaluation solicitation to apply to: local governments choose strategies from the MOA's allowed-uses lists, then report annually through the state's Local Government Reporting Hub and Annual Reporting Portals, which are open at the time of writing. For a social work researcher this is a county-by-county access route — fun
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No award amounts are published because there is no competitive grant program. The site states North Carolina is receiving $1.6 billion in national opioid settlement funds; the amount available in any given place is that county's or municipality's own allocation, visible through the site's allocation
- Timing
- Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.No application deadlines exist — county spending decisions and the resulting contracts happen on each local government's own budget calendar. The site notes that Annual Reporting Portals are open; those reports are the best published signal of which counties have committed or uncommitted funds.
- Who can apply
- Any faculty rank, Practitioner, Community organisation, Mid-career & senior
- Eligibility
- Funds are held by North Carolina counties and municipalities under the state Memorandum of Agreement; there is no statewide application open to universities, nonprofits or individual researchers. The partner-to-grantee route is a contract or subaward from a county or municipal government spending its own settlement allocation, so eligibility is set locally by each county's procurement and budget rules rather than by a published NOFO. Spending must fall within the MOA's authorized opioid remediation strategies.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- opioid settlement funds · local government allocation · memorandum of agreement · annual reporting · north carolina
- Apply at
- https://ncopioidsettlement.org/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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