This webinar provided information and instructions for applying for funding from the Colorado Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Competitive Grants Program. Key details included a three-year funding period from October 2012 to June 2015, about $9 million available for the initial year, eligibility requirements, exclusions, and priority funding areas. The application requirements and process were outlined, including submitting a project narrative, work plan, evaluation plan and budget through the new Colorado Grants Management System by June 29, 2012. Questions would be answered and posted on the CCPD website by June 8th.

1. Request for Applications
Applicant Webinar
May 30, 2012

2. Housekeeping
• Livestream
• Submit questions using chat function
• Breaks throughout for questions
• Recorded and archived to be available
following today’s presentation
• Presenters
• All questions and answers will be posted on
June 8, 2012

3. During the webinar be sure to have both
RFA guidance documents:
http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/pp/ccpd/grantprogram/ApplyForFunding.html

4. Agenda
9:00AM-12:00PM: CCPD RFA
Application Guidelines and Q&A
• Funding Period • Application Requirements
• Purpose – Project Narrative Questions
• Funding Availability – Project Work Plan
• Eligibility – Project Evaluation Plan
• Exclusions • Proposed Project Budget
– Budget Guidance by Category
• Funding Areas/Requirements
• Application Review Process &
• Recipient Activities Evaluation Criteria
• How to Apply – Application Evaluation
• Application Timeline Criteria
• Application TA • Resources for Evidence-
• Post-Award Requirements Based Interventions
• Definitions

5. Funding Period
Year One: Oct. 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013
Year Two: July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014
Year Three: July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015

6. Purpose
• CCPD Competitive Grants Program purpose:
Reduce chronic disease in Colorado by building a
cohesive, comprehensive approach that focuses
on prevention, early detection, and treatment for
cancer, cardiovascular disease, and pulmonary
disease
• Amendment 35: voter approved tax increase on
cigarettes and other tobacco products – allocates
funds to tobacco education, prevention, and
cessation programming and prevention, early
detection, and treatment of cancer, cardiovascular
disease, and pulmonary disease

7. Purpose (cont.)
• Goals of CCPD Competitive Grants Program:
1. Reduce the number of new cancer cases as well as
illness, disability, and death caused by cancer.
2. Reduce cardiovascular disease and related risk
factors.
3. Reduce pulmonary disease and related risk factors.
• CCPD also assists in the implementation of the
state’s strategic plans for reductions of chronic
disease

8. Funding Availability
• $9 million for the period of October 1, 2012
through June 30, 2013
• Number and amount of grant awards will vary
• Renewal funding for FY 14 and FY 15 is
contingent upon grantee performance,
assessment based on upcoming Chronic
Disease State Plan, and appropriation by
Colorado General Assembly

9. Eligibility
• Eligible organizations: nonprofit orgs, health
care orgs, governmental entities, educational
institutions, for-profit private sector
organizations, federally-recognized Native
American Tribes in Colorado
• Applicants encouraged to submit a multi-
agency application that designates one agency
as lead agency

10. Exclusions
1. Proposals solely focused on research are not appropriate for
this RFA
2. Proposals focused on population-based tobacco prevention
and cessation will be considered by a separate RFA related
by the Colorado Tobacco Education, Prevention, and
Cessation Grants Program and therefore will not be
considered by the CCPD Competitive Grants Program.
3. Proposals focused on breast and cervical cancer screening
and treatment are solicited by the Women’s Wellness
Connection at the Colorado Department of Public Health
and Environment (CDPHE) and therefore are not
appropriate for this RFA.
4. Building renovations, capital projects, and medical scanning
equipment (CT, PET, MRI)

11. Exclusions (cont.)
5. Electronic medical records technology that is eligible for
incentive payments under the Health Information
Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act
6. Internal and external defibrillators (AEDs)
7. Programs that supplant existing funding for services
8. Research projects
9. Spirometry screening for asymptomatic smokers
10. Prostate screening
11. Screening programs that do not link people to diagnostic
services

12. Questions?
• Please submit your questions using the chat
function
• All questions and answers will be posted on
June 8, 2012

13. Funding Areas/Requirements
• CCPD Review Committee adopted a funding
framework that aligns with the Health Impact
Pyramid, specifically focusing on interventions
with the greatest impact such as interventions
that change the context to make individuals’
default decisions healthy, clinical interventions
that require limited contact but confer long-
term protection, and ongoing direct clinical
care

14. Funding Areas/Requirements (cont.)
• CCPD Competitive Grants Program will prioritize
comprehensive approaches for chronic disease
prevention and risk factor reduction and seeks to
concentrate resources in the following public health
domains:
1. Evidence-based practices and environmental change:
population-based interventions that transform
communities to support health and make healthy
behaviors easier and more convenient for people
2. Health systems change: interventions that improve
the use of quality clinical services to prevent
disease, detect disease early, and manage risk factors

15. Funding Areas/Requirements (cont.)
Public Health Domains continued
3. Community-clinical linkages: interventions that
ensure those with and at-risk for chronic disease
have access to quality community resources to
best manage their conditions and prevent
disease onset
4. Surveillance and epidemiology: activities to
gather, analyze, interpret, and disseminate data
and conclusions about disease (Please note:
applicants of this RFA will not apply for these
activities.)

16. Recipient Activities
• RFA solicits applications from eligible entities
to apply for competitive funding for year one
of a three-year grant cycle
• Applicants encouraged to collaborate with
other agencies and submit a multi-agency
application that designates one agency as lead
agency
• Coordination of services and collaboration
with LPHAs in proposed project is expected

17. Recipient Activities (cont.)
• Grants applications shall address at least one of
following program criteria (described in statute)
– Translating evidence-based strategies into practical
application in health care, workplace, and community
settings
– Providing appropriate diagnosis and treatment
services for anyone who has abnormalities discovered
in screening and early detection programs
– Implementing education programs regarding
prevention, early detection, and treatment of CCPD
– Providing evidence-based strategies to overcome
health disparities in prevention and early detection of
CCPD

18. Recipient Activities (cont.)
• Applicants will propose activities for one of two
categories:
1. Community-level approaches for chronic
disease prevention
2. Statewide approaches for chronic disease
prevention
• Proposed strategies and activities are to meet
one or more of CCPD Competitive Grants
Program goals

19. Recipient Activities (cont.)
• Applicants are expected to focus work around
public health domains and propose strategies
that meet one or more of following domains to
implement a comprehensive approach for
chronic disease prevention:
1. Evidence-based practices and environmental
change
2. Health systems change
3. Community-clinical linkages

20. Recipient Activities (cont.)
• Community-level approaches for chronic
disease prevention: intent is to implement
evidence-based practices and environmental
changes that comprehensively prevent chronic
disease within a selected geographic area in
Colorado
– Applicants for community-level approaches that are
not LPHAs are required to obtain letters of
collaboration/support from the LPHA located within
the targeted geographic area(s) specified in the
proposal

21. Recipient Activities (cont.)
• Statewide approaches for chronic disease
prevention: intent is to implement evidence-
based practices that comprehensively prevent
chronic disease and provide services
throughout the state of Colorado

22. Questions?
• Please submit your questions using the chat
function
• All questions and answers will be posted on
June 8, 2012

23. How to Apply
• New! Colorado Grants Management System
(COGMS)
– Register by June 15, 2012
– Instructions and TA available on funding
opportunity page on CCPD website
• Submit applications electronically by 5:00PM
on Friday, June 29, 2012

24. Application Timeline
Release of Request for Applications May 18, 2012
Deadline for submission of questions regarding application guidelines via email June 1, 2012
Applicants’ webinar May 30, 2012, 9AM-noon
Responses to all questions received via email and at applicants’ conference posted June 8, 2012
http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/pp/ccpd/grantprogram/ApplyForFunding.html
Deadline for Registration in Colorado Grants Management System (required for June 15, 2012
application submission)
Deadline for Application submission June 29, 2012 5:00PM
Review of applications June 30-July 20, 2012
Funding recommendations determined by CCPD Grant Program Review Committee Date TBD, July 2012
(check CCPD website for updates)
Presentation of funding recommendations to Colorado Board of Health August 15, 2012
Funding recommendations posted August 16, 2012
Contract award process August 17-Sept. 30, 2012
Anticipated award start date October 1, 2012

25. Application Technical Assistance
• Questions via email due June 1, 2012
– Email: CCPDGrantProgramRFA@gmail.com
• FAQ document—posted by June 8, 2012
• COGMS Assistance—available through June
29, 2012 for application submission
– Email: A35COGMSTechnicalAssistance@gmail.com
– Call: 303-692-2524

26. Post-Award Requirements
• Certification of non-acceptance of tobacco
industry funds and resources
• Data collection
• Insurance requirements
• Lawful presence
• Lobbying restrictions
• Reimbursement
• Reporting

27. Questions?
• Please submit your questions using the chat
function
• All questions and answers will be posted on
June 8, 2012

28. Application Requirements
• Applicants will compete against each other for
grant awards
• CCPD Review Committee reserves the right to
negotiate budgets and work plans with
selected eligible applicants depending on the
number of eligible applicants, which many
impact award start date

29. Application Requirements (cont.)
• Minimum of 10% of available funds reserved
for rural areas
• Minimum of 10% of available funds shall be
directed to each of the following three disease
areas:
– Cancer
– Cardiovascular Disease
– Pulmonary Disease

30. Application Requirements (cont.)
• Project Narrative Questions
– Needs Statement
– Program Narrative
• Program Infrastructure
• Selection of Strategies
• Collaboration
– Letters of support/collaboration

31. Application Requirements (cont.)
• Project Work Plan (for year one of three-year grant
cycle)
– SMART outcome objectives
• Each objective should address one or more public health domains
– Select delivery strategy type (from drop down list) that will
be employed to meet objective
• Direct delivery strategies or Indirect delivery strategies
– Describe anticipated outcomes
– Describe intended target population
– List up to 10 activities for the objective
– Designate start and end dates of implementation
timeframe
– Describe measures or data that will show reach (for direct
delivery strategies only), effectiveness, and
implementation

32. Application Requirements (cont.)
• Project Evaluation Plan
– Summarize evaluation plan of activities proposed
in work plan
– Criteria:
• Reach: how will you assess whether or not the
proposed project reached your target population and
to what degree?
• Implementation: how will you implement project
activities as planned and with fidelity?
• Effectiveness: how will the proposed outcome
objectives achieve the desired outcome and to what
degree?

33. Application Requirements (cont.)
• Proposed Project Budget
– Consistent with proposed work plan
– Budget and justification for initial 9-month
funding period only
– Evaluation activities should not exceed 10% of
your proposed operating budget
– Review of Budget Guidance by Category
– Matching Costs
– Financial Assessment Questionnaire

34. Questions?
• Please submit your questions using the chat
function
• All questions and answers will be posted on
June 8, 2012

35. Application Review Process &
Evaluation Criteria
• Applications will be scored on a 100-point
scale:
– Needs Statement (10 points)
– Project Narrative (30 points)
– Work Plan (30 points)
– Evaluation (10 points)
– Budget (20 points)
• Minimum score of 70 points is required to be
considered for funding

36. Application Review Process &
Evaluation Criteria (cont.)
• CCPD Review Committee will convene in late
July 23rd and 24th to arrive at final funding
recommendations
• CCPD Review Committee will present award
recommendations to Colorado Board of
Health for final approval on
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
– Award decisions by the Board of Health are not
subject to appeal

37. Application Review Process &
Evaluation Criteria (cont.)
• CCPD Review Committee adopted following
principles to consider when prioritizing
applicants to fund:
– Data driven
– Evidence-based
– Evaluation
– Greatest reach/impact
– Coordination across the chronic disease spectrum
– Risk factor reduction

38. Resources for
Evidence-Based Interventions
• List of resources provided in application
guidelines
• Other resources may be available

39. Definitions
• List of definitions provided in application
guidelines

40. Questions?
• Please submit your questions using the chat
function
• All questions and answers will be posted on
June 8, 2012