National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Inc.

The National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC Foundation) is an independent nonprofit that was created by Congress to mobilize philanthropic and private-sector resources to support the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) health protection work. Over the past 40 years, the CDC Foundation has launched more than 1,200 health protection programs aimed at keeping people healthy, safe, and secure in the United States and in more than 140 countries worldwide. The CDC Foundation provides micro-grants to community-based organizations (CBOs) to educate and facilitate vaccine delivery within communities that have been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Through multi-sector partnership and a human-centered design approach, the CDC Foundation also works with five communities throughout the country to tackle systemic, longstanding racial and economic inequities. This award enables the CDC Foundation to provide CBOs and health departments throughout the United States with grant funding to support localized approaches to tackling vaccine hesitancy and build a stronger community health infrastructure.

To support a training institute and fellowship program on international violent injury surveillance (over two years).