PROGRAM

Beyond Barriers

In 2024, Beyond Type 1 supported partner organizations with $100,000 in grant funding. Apply now and secure funding from the 2025 Innovation Grants program.

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Innovation Grants 2025 Meet our 2024 Grantees Disparities in Health Care About Beyond Barriers Resources Sponsors

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.

Many people do not receive an accurate and timely diabetes diagnosis.

Many people who are diagnosed never receive vital management education, connection or encouragement.

2025 Innovation Grants: Going Mobile

Beyond Type 1 is committed for equal access to care and education for all. That’s why Innovation Grants in 2025 will support organizations that work in mobile health.

From apps and wearable devices, to remote monitoring and mobile health clinics, we want to fund meaningful work in your community.

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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

Applicants must operate in the following cities to be eligible for grant funding: Tampa, Miami, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., New York (inc. NJ metro), Denver, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit or Dallas.

What initiatives will the 2025 grants support?

Expanding mobile health services or mobile clinics.
Scaling tele-health solutions for diabetes management.
Community outreach programs focusing on diabetes prevention and care.
On-site early detection events and educational workshops in underrepresented areas.
Proposals benefiting individuals with type 1 or type 2 diabetes in underrepresented populations.

Meet our 2024 Grantees

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Chi Eta Phi

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Corewell Health

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Friendship Baptist Church of Chicago

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Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital

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Lawndale Christian Health Center

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PrimeCareHealth Community Health Centers

Significant disparities exist in access to care and health outcomes

Diabetes Self-Management Courses are greatly underutilized and often inaccessible

45%

Percentage of people with diabetes in underrepresented communities do not visit a diabetes clinic within 1 year of their diagnosis

<5%

Percentage of US Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes that have used Diabetes Self Management Education and Support services

6.8%

Percentage of privately insured people with diabetes that have used Diabetes Self Management Education and Support services

2X

How much larger the burden of diabetes and its complications is for racial/ethnic minority groups, low-income individuals and rural residents.

About 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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To live a full and healthy life, people with diabetes in underserved communities must have fair and equal opportunity—and access

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