Rural Northern Border Region Network Planning Program
Grant Opportunity Analysis
The Health Resources and Services Administration is offering the Rural Northern Border Region Network Planning Program to provide grant funding for planning and network development in rural health care. The program is intended to help build new or strengthen existing healthcare networks that link rural stakeholders and improve access and quality of care in Northern Border Region communities. It provides one-year funding for domestic public, private, nonprofit, for-profit, tribal, and health care provider applicants that have experience serving underserved rural populations in Maine, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont. The opportunity offers up to $100,000 per award, with an estimated 18 awards and $1.8 million in total program funding, and electronically submitted applications are due by June 30, 2026.
Eligible Applicants
Eligible applicants include domestic public or private, non-profit or for-profit entities including domestic faith-based and community-based organizations, tribes and tribal organizations located in the Northern Border Region and serving qualifying HRSA-designated rural areas within the four Northern Border Regional Commission member States: Maine, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont. The applicant organization must have demonstrated experience serving, or capacity to serve, underserved populations in rural areas. Eligible applicants also include Federal Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and Community Health Centers, Rural Health Clinics (RHCs), Hospitals and Rural Emergency Hospitals.For the purposes of the notice,"Domestic" means the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau.