A Guide to Fiscal Year 1991 Federal Funding for HIV Disease: How Dollars are Spent How to Access Them

This guide was designed to provide rapid access
to Federal funding and non-financial resources for
community-based organizations (CBOs), people living with AIDS or HIV, and others with a significant
interest in this issue. It assumes the reader is unfamiliar with the Federal bureaucracy, and consequently
contains an extensive glossary of terms and detailed
indices.
The best place to begin understanding the complexity of the Federal response to AIDS and HIV is
here. This short description of the document will save
you a great deal of time in accessing all the information listed. It will also allow you to decide how much
of this guide is relevant to your needs today, and what
you may need to study in more detail later.
If you are using this guide solely to find funding
opportunities, the quickest way is to turn to Index
A or B. There you will find either the topic area you
are interested in (research, care, education, treatment, prevention, policy, etc.) or the specific community you serve under the population headings
(families, women, veterans, health care professionals,
etc.). Each will contain references to sections in this
guide which fund those areas.
If, however, you want a better understanding of
how monies are allocated by the Federal Government, what agencies and departments get them, and
how they are distributed and spent, then you will
want to keep reading from here to the end. To make
it easier for you, you may first want to turn to the
glossary of terms in Appendix B which explains such
things as block grants and cooperative agreements,
and Appendix A which gives meaning to the many
government acronyms like ADAMHA (Alcohol,
Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration) and
HRSA (pronounced her-sah, for Health Resources
and Services Administration).
Because the primary purpose of this guide is to
allow CBOs to access resources (both financial and

non-financial), it devotes extensive space to grantgiving agencies-with their extramural expenditures-and much less time to programs which are
self-supportive - only having intramural expenditures. For example, the Department of Veterans
Affairs which spends more than one quarter of a
billion dollars on HIV is given only slight mention
because virtually all of its funding is done internally
(intramurally). Agencies that spend far less will
receive greater mention because they allocate a portion of their dollars for public use through grants or
contracts (extramural funding). We have also chosen
to focus our attention primarily on grants rather than
contracts, since emerging AIDS/HIV organizations
will generally have much greater access to grants.
In addition to the 14 cabinet-level departments,
there are more than 70 government agencies and
independent commissions and offices. Not all will be
listed because not all expend money on HIV. Some
reference to agencies or departments with programs
which partially address HIV but do not specify HIV
funding, will be listed whenever possible.
Since a significant amount of Federal and other
resources have already been spent on education
materials, research, care and treatment, projects you
conduct and feel are worthy of funding may be
similar to some already completed. Consequently, it
is important to learn if produced materials or studies
are available in your topic of interest. This can be
most easily done by contacting the National AIDS
Clearinghouse at 1-800-458-5231. See Appendix C for
other resources of materials.
Lastly, if you are unable to find the exact information you need from this guide, then at the very least
it will be helpful in identifying those who can answer
your specific questions and address your concerns.
The best suggestion would be to find the name and
telephone number of an individual listed whose area
of grantmaking or specialty is closest to your interest.

~1991 ASAP

Reproduction By Permission Only

~1991 ASAP Reproduction By Permission Only