Current Funding Opportunities

2025-2026 Diabetes Call for Letters of Intent

Release Date: December 5, 2024

The Paso del Norte Health Foundation (Health Foundation) seeks Letters of Intent (LOIs) from eligible organizations to provide or support diabetes prevention, early detection, and management programs. Programs may be related to pre-diabetes, type 1, type 2, or gestational diabetes. Population, systems, and individual-level strategies will be considered. The following categories are of particular interest.

• Diabetes Education and Awareness
• Development of Curriculum for cooking class for individuals living with diabetes
• Capacity and Systems Improvements
• Public Awareness

More detailed information about the categories of particular interest can be found by applying online.

Current Diabetes Grantees: Current diabetes grantees should submit an LOI if they intend to apply for diabetes program funding in the 2025-26 grant cycle. Applicants may choose to submit more than one LOI.

What We Will Fund

See the Grant Center on the Paso del Norte Health Foundation website www.pdnhf.org for more information about grant guidelines.

Please note the Health Foundation does not fund research, medical services, devices, or medication. Diabetes screening or monitoring may be funded as an essential part of a diabetes education and support program, but not medical services. Grants are not intended to fund medical care of any kind.

Key Dates

Deadlines & Schedule

• Letters of intent due via the Health Foundation’s on-line application system: January 30, 2025
• Invitations for full proposals announced: February 24, 2025
• Invited applicants may meet with a program officer before submitting the full proposal
• Full proposals due: April 25, 2025
• Notice of grant award: July 30, 2025
• Funding cycle starts: September 1, 2025, but other dates may be proposed; most grants will be for one year but renewed annually. Multi-year grants may be considered.

Eligibility And Selection Criteria

Eligible applicants include nonprofit tax-exempt organizations, including churches and units of government, located in the Paso del Norte region. See the Grant Center on the Paso del Norte Health Foundation website www.pdnhf.org for more information about grant guidelines.

Service Region

The Paso del Norte Health Foundation operates in a unique binational environment, which stretches across two countries and three states. This region serves the 2.4 million people living in El Paso and Hudspeth Counties in far west Texas, Doña Ana, Luna, and Otero Counties in southern New Mexico, and the municipality of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico.