Want extra $$$ to innovate and accelerate your community-based solutions to diabetes care?

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Apply by May 10, 2024 for a chance to receive a $20,000 Clinical-Partner Grant* or $10,000 Community-Based Organization and/or NPO Innovation Grant*.

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It's Time to Go Beyond!

Together, we can meet diabetes-community members where they live, work, play, pray and learn.

We can elevate solutions to address critical problems that need to be solved.

  1. Many people do not receive an accurate and timely diabetes diagnosis.
  2. Many people who are diagnosed never receive vital management education, connection or encouragement.

For people with diabetes, significant disparities exist in access to care and health outcomes.

Diabetes Self-Management Courses are greatly underutilized and often inaccessible.

In the U.S.,
less than 5%

of Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes and 6.8% of privately insured people with diagnosed diabetes have used Diabetes Self Management Education and Support services.

The burden of diabetes and its complications is

disproportionately larger

for racial/ethnic minority groups, low-income individuals and rural residents.

45% of the people with diabetes

in underserved communities do not visit a diabetes clinic within 1 year of their diagnosis.

Beyond Barriers

Beyond Barriers is Beyond Type 1’s diabetes health-equity program. Beyond Barriers brings resources, education and programs to underserved and minority communities.

Beyond Barriers elevates innovation through:

  • Investment in partner organizations who are working to improve outcomes for the diabetes community in innovative ways that improve access to care, support and resources needed to thrive with diabetes.
  • Beyond Barriers will provide our partners financial support, educational resources and technical support to increase early diabetes diagnosis through warning-sign awareness and screening, improve access to care and enhance community education.
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Through Beyond Barriers, we can help your org:

  • Accelerate and expand innovative community-based solutions to improve diabetes health outcomes
  • Promote early diabetes diagnosis and support
  • Prevent unnecessary complications and death
  • Increase access to peer support and community-based resources to thrive with diabetes

What does the community get?

  • Increased awareness and resources so that people are screened and diagnosed earlier, unnecessary deaths are avoided and people live better with their diabetes

What does the partner get?

  • Funding to elevate innovation in communities and improve health outcomes for those living with diabetes
  • Access to Beyond Type 1’s programs, resources and community to support your diabetes goals and objectives
  • Community-tailored events and conversations to elevate the lived experience of those living with diabetes and educating on critical topics within the community
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To live a full and healthy life, people with diabetes in underserved communities must have fair and equal opportunity—and access.

A diabetes diagnosis doesn’t always lead to optimal education, resources, programs, connection and encouragement.

Break down barriers and transform healthcare equity in your community!

Applications open on March 29, 2024, and
will be accepted until 11:59 PM UTC on May 10, 2024.

After this deadline, all eligible applications will undergo evaluation.

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Who is the grant designed for?

  • Federally qualified health centers (FQHC)
  • FQHC look-alike clinics
  • Safety-net clinics
  • School-based clinics
  • Faith-based organizations
  • Food pantries
  • Community centers
  • School districts
  • Sororities & fraternities that employ innovative approaches to help people with diabetes
Beyond Barriers, a Beyond Type 1 program, is supported by the following sponsors:
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* Eligible entities include NGOs or charitable organizations with a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor serving low- or middle-income communities. Partners sought include Federally Qualified Health Centers, FQHC Look-Alike Clinics, Safety Net Clinics and School-Based Clinics. The goal is to facilitate access to supportive services, self-management programs, digital health, telehealth and innovative technology.

** Eligible entities include NGOs or charitable organizations with a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor, serving communities such as faith-based organizations, food pantries, community centers, school districts, sororities and fraternities. The aim is to conduct health-education outreach, implement diabetes self-management programs and explore innovative community-based solutions.

Priority locations: Chicago, Miami, Detroit