Partnership Opportunities

COMMUNITY BASED PARTNERSHIPS

The Asian Health Coalition (AHC) is a regional hub for comprehensive clinical and community-based research and evaluation of the spectrum of health topics, issues, and needs of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander (AANHPI), immigrant, and other underserved communities. Its focus is centered on health disparities that disproportionately affect Asian and African immigrant communities.

AHC partners with community-based organizations, health systems, and regional health departments, serving Chicago’s southside and rural, suburban, and urban communities throughout Illinois. The center adopts a multidisciplinary, collaborative approach to expand partner capacity and drive greater health outcomes in the following program areas: cancer screening and prevention; chronic and infectious disease prevention; behavioral health; and precision medicine.

We believe partnering with and learning from organizations that share our vision and are embedded within our communities is a powerful way to catalyze sustainable impact. The following opportunities extend financial support to nonprofit community-based organizations to provide health-related services and programming within target communities.

Current Opportunities

Breast & Cervical cancer screening

Description / Eligibility:
The SCREEN - Screening for Cancer, Reducing inequity, and Engaging our Asian Neighborhoods campaign aims to reduce disparities in breast and cervical cancer rates among Filipina, Chinese, and Korean women within Chicago/Chicagoland. Through this program, we will increase breast and cervical cancer education, awareness, screening, and linkage-to-care opportunities for these at-risk communities at risk for breast and cervical cancer. The selected community partners will provide community health worker-led education about breast and cervical cancer to motivate Filipina, Chinese, and Korean women to learn their risk and connect with healthcare in their communities. Utilizing Community Health Workers, SCREEN will work to eliminate this disparity through the creation of culturally and linguistically tailored outreach and education materials for the target populations. In addition to increasing awareness and knowledge, we will create community-clinic linkages utilizing and expanding the Illinois Care Continuum Portal (ICCP) that streamlines the linkage to care and referral processes for primary and specialty care, facilitates linkage between systems, and ensures timely completion of screening tests among vulnerable populations.

Application Deadline: Closed

Official RFA: LEARN MORE

RFA Link: Closed

Vaccine Confidence

Description / Eligibility:
The V-PROTECT: Vaccinate to Protect Yourself, Your Family, and Your Community (V-PROTECT) program aims to address vaccine hesitancy and increase vaccination coverage among Asian refugee and immigrant communities in the Chicagoland area, prioritizing the entire family including both adults and children. We will do this by identifying ethnically and culturally tailored interventions to increase confidence in vaccine products, vaccine providers, and vaccine policy. Asian RIM communities experience barriers to healthcare access with contributing factors to heightened vaccine hesitancy and low uptake rates. We will focus on outreach and education which will cover basic vaccine literacy with a focus on hesitancies and misinformation, as well as connect our community-partners with vaccine providers. Utilizing a train-the-trainer model, we will have existing influential messengers train others to become influential messengers themselves, and ultimately reach more of the population. The Asian Health Coalition will strategically partner with local community-based organizations in the Chicagoland area to assess, develop, and disseminate culturally and linguistically tailored interventions to improve vaccine confidence and uptake. Selected partners will demonstrate an ability to reach Asian RIM groups within Chicagoland.

Application Deadline: September 27, 2024; 5pm CDT

Official RFA: LEARN MORE

RFA Link: APPLY HERE

Hepatitis B Campaign

Description / Eligibility:
The Don’t Let Hepatitis B Win campaign is a collaboration that brings together Asian and African immigrant and refugee communities, health care systems, policymakers, and the public to increase hepatitis B awareness within Chicago’s immigrant communities. This program will increase hepatitis B education, awareness, screening, and linkage-to-care opportunities for Asian and African immigrant and refugee communities at risk for hepatitis B. The selected community partners will provide community health worker-led education about viral hepatitis to motivate Asian, African, and other immigrant groups to learn their hepatitis B status and connect with healthcare in their communities. These targeted educational programs around viral hepatitis will be followed by referrals to community screenings, navigation to primary care, and collaborative programming with federally qualified health centers, clinics, and hospitals.

Application Deadline: Closed

Official RFA: Closed

RFA Link: Closed

Review Process

All proposal submissions are reviewed by independent reviewers and internal staff. The review process generally takes 2 weeks from the application deadline date, however there may be slight fluctuations depending on the program.

Review teams are made up of both practitioners and content experts familiar with the field of public health programming and research. The following elements are among those considered in the review process:

Suitability of the Partnership:

How well the partnership meets the aims and deliverables of the program as described in the RFA.

Focus and Nature of Activities: 

The overall quality and alignment of the partnership activities in contributing both to local outcomes and the broader community.

Development and Sustainability: 

The potential of the partnership to develop during the grant and sustain or advance itself beyond the proposed timeline of the program.

Budget and Timeline: 

The adequacy of the budget and timeline.

Project Team: 

The potential of the key personnel to do the work of the partnership as described in the proposal.

Recent Partners

AFRICAN HEALTH COALITION
Don’t Let Hepatitis Win Campaign

ASIAN MEDIA ACCESS
All of Us Research Program

ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN MEDICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION
All of Us Research Program

ASIANS FOR MIRACLE MARROW MATCHES
All of Us Research Program

ASIAN WOMEN FOR HEALTH
All of Us Research Program

CAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS
Don’t Let Hepatitis Win Campaign; Chicago Asian Health Survey

CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE
Don’t Let Hepatitis Win Campaign; Substance Abuse Prevention

COALITION FOR A BETTER CHINESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY
Substance Abuse Prevention

GREATER BOSTON CHINESE GOLDEN AGE CENTER
All of Us Research Program

HANA CENTER
Don’t Let Hepatitis Win Campaign

HANUL FAMILY ALLIANCE
Don’t Let Hepatitis Win Campaign; Chicago Asian Health Survey

HEALTHY WASHINGTON HEIGHTS
Don’t Let Hepatitis Win Campaign

HEPATITIS B FOUNDATION
All of Us Research Program

INDIA HOME INC
All of Us Research Program

KOREAN COMMUNITY SERIVCE CENTER FOR GREATER WASHINGTON
All of Us Research Program

LAO AMERICAN ORGANIZATION OF ELGIN
Don’t Let Hepatitis Win Campaign; Chicago Asian Health Survey

LIGHT AND SALT ASSOCIATION
All of Us Research Program

OCA SOUTH FLORIDA
All of Us Research Program

PUI TAK CENTER
Cardiovascular Health Awareness; Substance Abuse Prevention

SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN POLICY & RESEARCH INSTITUTE
All of Us Research Program

SOUTH-EAST ASIA CENTER
Chicago Asian Health Survey

XILIN ASSOCIATION
Cardiovascular Health Awareness; All of Us Research Program