Opportunity Information: Apply for CDC RFA DP21 2108
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), within the Department of Health and Human Services and specifically through NCCDPHP, announced a discretionary funding opportunity titled "Strengthening Breastfeeding Support by Coordinating National Efforts and Building Capacity of Breastfeeding Coalitions" (Funding Opportunity Number: CDC RFA DP21 2108; CFDA: 93.945). The award mechanism is a Cooperative Agreement, meaning CDC anticipates an active partnership role with the recipient over the life of the project rather than a hands-off grant. CDC planned to make a single award (Expected Awards: 1) for a five-year project period, with the intent to provide up to $5 million to $10 million in total CDC funding across those five years, subject to appropriations and agency discretion. The posted award ceiling in the listing is $1,000,000, but the narrative makes clear the overall intent is a multi-year investment totaling $5 million to $10 million. The original application deadline was March 15, 2021, with electronic submissions due by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time.
The central aim of the opportunity is to improve breastfeeding outcomes nationwide while directly addressing persistent inequities. CDC frames the problem as a health equity issue: gaps in breastfeeding initiation, duration, and exclusivity are associated with differences in income, education, race and ethnicity, and geography. The funded work is intended to complement existing CDC breastfeeding efforts, build on previous national experiences and successes, and introduce newer, sustainable approaches that expand access to high-quality breastfeeding support. A key emphasis is reducing racial and ethnic disparities in breastfeeding by coordinating a national approach that meaningfully engages state-level breastfeeding coalitions across all states and, where applicable, U.S. territories.
Eligibility is described as unrestricted (open to any type of entity), with an important practical requirement embedded in the program description: applicants must have documented affiliations with state-level breastfeeding coalitions in all states (or U.S. territories). In other words, while many entity types could apply, CDC is looking for a national backbone organization or coordinating entity that already has credible, established relationships that reach into every state or territory coalition. This requirement aligns with the program design, which depends on a unified national structure capable of supporting, aligning, and accelerating coalition work across diverse local contexts.
The funded recipient is expected to lead five major streams of work. First, the recipient must coordinate and develop a five-year action and implementation plan focused on policy, systems, and environmental changes that can reduce breastfeeding inequities and increase access to support. This is about more than education campaigns; it is aimed at changing the conditions around families, such as healthcare practices, workplace supports, community systems, and institutional policies that affect whether breastfeeding is feasible and supported. Second, the recipient must enhance collaboration among state-level breastfeeding coalitions by creating stronger opportunities to work together on shared priorities, learn from one another, and coordinate activities so states are not operating in isolation or duplicating work unnecessarily.
Third, the program calls for developing and disseminating recommendations and resources related to infant and young child feeding in emergencies, as well as addressing common barriers to breastfeeding that prevent mothers from reaching their feeding goals. This reflects the reality that emergencies and disruptions (for example, natural disasters, public health crises, and other events that interrupt access to routine services) can sharply affect infant feeding decisions and safety. The fourth expectation is to support partnerships with governmental agencies, medical organizations, and other national organizations that influence breastfeeding support through investments, guidance, standards, or programmatic work. The intent is to align messaging and strategies across influential institutions so that breastfeeding support is consistent, evidence-informed, and equity-centered.
Fifth, CDC specifically highlights clinical practice change: increasing clinicians' adoption and use of maternity practices supportive of breastfeeding, along with CDC guidance related to continuity of care in breastfeeding. This includes improving how hospitals, birth centers, and outpatient providers support breastfeeding from the prenatal period through delivery and into postpartum follow-up, so families experience fewer gaps when moving between settings. Overall, the opportunity is structured to create a coordinated national infrastructure that strengthens state coalitions, advances policy and system changes, improves emergency readiness for infant feeding, deepens partnerships with major stakeholders, and accelerates clinical adoption of breastfeeding-supportive practices, all with the explicit goal of improving breastfeeding outcomes and reducing inequities across populations and locations.Apply for CDC RFA DP21 2108
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control - NCCDPHP in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Strengthening Breastfeeding Support by Coordinating National Efforts and Building Capacity of Breastfeeding Coalitions" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.945.
- This funding opportunity was created on Nov 30, 2020.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Mar 15, 2021 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 1159 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.
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