Social and Behavioral Interventions to Increase Organ and Tissue Donation

This grant program is to increase solid organ donation and to improve understanding of how to increase solid organ donation. The goal of the grant program is to assist eligible entities in the evaluation of, or the implementation and evaluation of, highly promising strategies and approaches that can serve as model interventions for increasing solid organ donation. Projects may focus on community initiatives to increase individual commitment to donation and or to education and or hospital based efforts to increase family consent for donation when a death has occurred. Expected Number of Awards: 4 Estimated Total Program Funding: $1,250,000 Closing Date for Applications: Mar 31, 2009