COVID 19 Therapeutics Accelerator - $150 million: The funding will help strengthen detection, isolation and treatment efforts; protect at-risk populations; and develop vaccines, treatments and diagnostics. The R&D efforts are focused on developing new drugs, as well as exploring the possibilities to repurpose existing medicines. This work will leverage the power of partnership to develop, manufacture, and distribute effective treatments—and quickly. The COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator will not be conducting a traditional funding call.

Carlos Slim Foundation allocates 1bn pesos US ($41 million) for Covid-19 prevention and treatment in Mexico. The donation will go toward the purchase of medical equipment and public health educational resources

One of the 23 NYC Foundations taking part in the NYC Covid-19 Response and Impact Fund, a philanthropic partnership to aid New York nonprofit service providers struggling with the health and economic effects of the pandemic. Nonprofits addressing healthcare and food insecurity as well as arts and culture will be given priority.

Because of the effects of COVID-19 on all facets of American life, the Russell Sage Foundation is changing its immediate priorities for letters of inquiry for the May 21, 2020, deadline. For this deadline, RSF will only consider LOIs that satisfy at least one of the following criteria:
(a) The research is so timely and time-sensitive that the project must start before April 1, 2021;
or,
(b) the research analyzes social, political, economic, or psychological disruptions resulting from the coronavirus crisis that affect social and living conditions in the United States.

The CoVent-19 Challenge is an open innovation 8-week Grand Challenge for engineers, innovators, designers, and makers. We will be launching the Challenge on the GrabCAD Challenges platform on April 1, 2020. We welcome all who are interested to join a two round challenge that aims to create CAD assemblies by May 1, 2020 (Round 1: General Admission) and functional prototypes demonstrating acceptable performance by June 1, 2020 (Round 2: Invitation Only).

The Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC) is excited to post this pre-announcement for a Request for Project Proposals (RPP) to rapidly develop and deploy the National Emergency Telecritical Care Network (NETCCN) – a cloud-based, low-resource, stand-alone health information management system for the creation and coordination of flexible and extendable “virtual critical care wards.” These high acuity, virtual wards would bring high-quality critical care capability to nearly every bedside, be it healthcare facility, field hospital, or gymnasium.

This list is specifically designed to serve freelance artists, and those interested in supporting the independent artist community. This includes, but is not limited to, actors, designers, producers, technicians, stage managers, musicians, composers, choreographers, visual artists, filmmakers, craft artists, teaching artists, dancers, writers & playwrights, photographers, etc.

This emergency funding opportunity is designed to fund federally recognized tribes that contract or compact with the Indian Health Service under Title I and Title V of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, or consortia of these tribes, or their bona fide agents. All federally recognized tribes, tribal organizations, consortia of federally recognized tribes, or their bona fide agents should apply for this announcement to be considered for future funding under this announcement.

News Release: CDC to Award Over $560M to State & Local Jurisdictions in Support of COVID-19 Response (see: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/03/11/cdc-to-award-over-560-million-...)

The Army has launched a new prize competition, the xTech COVID-19 Ventilator Challenge to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The Army is seeking out low-cost, readily manufacturable emergency ventilator to quickly augment ventilator capacity in the exigent COIVID-19 pandemic. The ventilator challenge is open to all US-based entities and is currently accepting applications. Submissions that are approved by the judging panel will receive an invitation to conduct a virtual pitch to a panel beginning on April 13, 2020.