Technology-enabled Collaborative Learning Program
Cooperative agreements for entities that provide or support health care services in rural, frontier, shortage, medically underserved, or Native communities to use technology-enabled collaborative learning to improve provider retention and access to care.
⚑ Eligibility is limited to entities that provide or support health care services in rural, frontier, HPSA, medically underserved areas/populations, or to Native Americans, including Indian Tribes, Tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations. · Cooperative agreement mechanism. · Focus is service/training via technology-enabled collaborative learning, not research. · Award ceiling is $475,000.
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| IPPRA | 40 partial | portfolio topic: public_health (primary); signature methods: community engaged; social/behavioral work is minor; funds training education, not research (capped); capped at 40 (non-research funding) |
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 40 partial | technical depth: substantial; funds training education (capped) |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 10 none | deep-tech content; no commercialization signal |
Description
The Technology-enabled Collaborative Learning Program will support the use of technology-enabled collaborative learning to improve retention of health care providers and increase access to health care services in rural and underserved areas and populations.
Eligibility
To be eligible, an entity must provide, or support the provision of, health care services in rural areas, frontier areas, health professional shortage areas, or medically underserved areas, or to medically underserved populations or Native Americans, including Indian Tribes, Tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations.
Apply
View on Grants.gov → CONTACT: Health Resources and Services Administration <mwilliams1@hrsa.gov>
Proposal brief SEE AN EXAMPLE →
A one-page internal memo: fit assessment, submission requirements, document scaffold, and next steps dated back from the deadline — tailored to your project idea if you add one.
Proposal shell · HHS services agencies (SAMHSA / HRSA / CDC / ACF) conventions SEE AN HHS EXAMPLE →
Funder-faithful document skeletons — HHS services agencies (SAMHSA / HRSA / CDC / ACF)'s document set with section headings, page limits, reviewer guidance, and writing prompts; add a project idea to get [DRAFT] starter bullets. Download as .md for Word or Overleaf.
Legacy IPPRA LLM assessment (v2.0, for comparison)
18/100 · gpt-5.4-mini · 2026-07-06
This is primarily a health workforce/service-delivery cooperative agreement focused on retaining providers and expanding access in rural and underserved areas, not a research or evaluation solicitation. IPPRA’s strongest fit would be limited to a possible behavioral or implementation-evaluation angle, but the opportunity is not framed around social science research. Eligibility also appears restricted to entities that provide or support health care services, so a public research university would likely be ineligible unless it directly operates/supports such services.
Legacy scoring history
| 2026-07-06 | 18 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is primarily a health workforce/service-delivery cooperative agreement focused on retaining providers and expanding access in rural and underserved areas, not a research or evaluation solicitation. IPPRA’s strongest fit would be limited to a possible behavioral or implementation-evaluation angle, but the opportunity is not framed around social science research. Eligibility also appears restricted to entities that provide or support health care services, so a public research university would likely be ineligible unless it directly operates/supports such services. |
| 2026-07-06 | 22 | gpt-5.4-mini | This opportunity is in rural health workforce retention and access to care, which is adjacent to IPPRA’s public health and community resilience interests, but it is primarily a health-services delivery/technical assistance program rather than a research or policy-focused funding call. The cooperative agreement eligibility appears limited to entities that provide or support health care services in underserved areas, so a public university would only be eligible if it directly supports such services; otherwise, fit and eligibility are weak. |