**UPDATE | October 8 2024** Deadline Extended until Early 2025 for NC Overdose Prevention RFP
We have been processing the devastating impacts of Hurricane Helene on the western part of the state and have decided to extend the deadline for applications until late January/early February 2025 (specific date TBD). While we don’t have all of the details worked out yet, here is what we do know:
- The application portal will remain open through the new deadline so that people who have applications in draft form can continue to work on them, and people who have not yet started an application can begin one when they are ready.
- If you have already submitted your application, we will reopen it so that you can make edits and revisions, if desired. For example, your community's needs and project activities may look different in early 2025.
We aim to provide a more detailed update and timeline by the end of November. Please look out for an email from us around that time and check out the RFP website. In the meantime, continue to explore the following RFP resources:
Wishing strength, peace, and a swift recovery for everyone who has been impacted by the hurricane. As always, feel free to reach out to Brandon Williams (bwilliams@frontlinesol.com)
if you have any questions. **
Vital Strategies is partnering with Frontline Solutions to request proposals from organizations led and powered by Black, Indigenous, and Latine communities in North Carolina that are seeking to adopt or deepen the use of harm reduction principles to reduce the incidence of negative health effects and the number of fatal overdoses among Black, Indigenous, and Latine people who use drugs (PWUD). This funding initiative will award grants of $25,000 and $50,000, with total funding available set at $500,000. Funding will be for one year, with projects starting in January 2025. Organizations can only apply for one grant funding amount.