This section hosts the live state and local opioid settlement funding and input opportunities I discover in my weekly Google Alerts tracking. It’s intended to exist as a companion to the above map, which I launched with the Legal Action Center to report on the status of states’ and localities’ opioid settlement-funded grant-making.

Last updated November 17, 2024. See, e.g., Colorado, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Kentucky, Michigan, Baltimore County.

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Upcoming grant application deadlines:

• Eaton County, Michigan — application info. (DUE 11/18)

• Michigan — MDHHS application info. “for recovery support services” (DUE 11/21)

• Michigan — MDHHS application info. “for substance use disorder treatment and recovery transportation services” (DUE 11/26)

• Sumter County, Tennessee - application info. (DUE 11/29)

• Lawrence County, Tennessee — application info. (DUE 12/2)

• Alameda County, California — application info. (DUE 12/10)

• Colorado — application info. for “Funding Opportunity: Infrastructure Share (Round 3)” (notice of intent DUE 12/10; Q&A form for “clarifying questions” here)

  • Ed. note: I found Colorado’s application info. page for this opportunity very thoughtfully laid out and rich with resources (opportunity-specific Q&A form, glossary of terms, pre-application webinars and office hours, etc.). The commitment to transparency and accessibility comes through in spades.

• Pennsylvania — DDAP application info. for “Community-Based Prevention Services to Prevent Opioid Use” (DUE 12/13)

• Tennessee — OAC application info. for “Opioid Abatement Council Community Grants Cycle 2” (DUE 12/13)

• Middletown, Connecticut — application info. (DUE 12/17)

• Pennsylvania — DDAP application info. for “Harm Reduction Services” (DUE 12/20)

• Cass County, Michigan — application info. (DUE 12/31)

• Montgomery County, Pennsylvania — application info. (DUE 12/31)

• South Dakota — DSS application info. “Opioid Settlement Fund Community Grant Program” (DUE 1/10/2025)

• Lake County, Illinois — application info. (DUE 1/10/2025; recommended workshop 12/3)

• Kentucky — KYOAAC application portal for “Prevention” and “Treatment and Recovery Support” (DUE 1/17/25)

• Putnam County, Indiana — application info. (DUE 2/5/2025)

Live input opportunities:

• Colorado — Settlement Distributions Site Feedback Survey

• Delaware — Prescription Opioid Settlement Distribution Commission: Listening Tour Survey

• Florida — Pinellas County input survey

• Kansas — Saline County input survey

• Kentucky — request for information to solicit “information and recommendations … from the interested and/or impacted parties relating to ways in which the Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission could use its resources and authorities to support the development and dissemination of new or innovative interventions through Collaborative Research Agreements” (requires vendor portal navigation) (CLOSES 12/2)

• Maryland — Opioid Restitution Fund Priorities Survey

• Massachusetts — Hampshire County survey, West Springfield Opioid Settlement Community Feedback Form

• Michigan — Opioid Advisory Commission: Community Impact Survey

• Minnesota — Hubbard County Opioid Funding Survey

• New York — North Country Community College Addiction Professionals Scholarship Program

• North Carolina — Cumberland County feedback survey, Nash County Community Conversation survey, Pender County input survey, Rowan County input survey

• Ohio — HEAL Ohio’s Deal Us In (a unique deck of solutions to guide opioid settlement spending)

• Pennsylvania — Allegheny County survey

• Virginia — Virginia Opioid Abatement Community Needs Assessment Survey

• Wisconsin — Eau Claire County: Opioid Funding Prioritization survey

Events and vacancies:

• Maryland — Baltimore City Restitution Advisory Board Application

• Minnesota — Wright County Health & Human Services Advisory Council/Task Force Application

• New Mexico — Albuquerque & Bernalillo County opioid settlement consultant RFA

• Oregon — Opioid Settlement Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Board Member Application

• Virginia — Current Online Abatement Academy Workshops (several dates through 2024)

• Wisconsin — Rock County town halls (IN-PERSON 11/19, 11/26)

This section reports on states’ and localities’ opioid settlement-funded grant-making.

For a list of live opportunities with upcoming deadlines, see NOTABLE LIVE OPPORTUNITIES.

Last updated November 17, 2024.

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LAC and OST have jointly launched the above map and this spreadsheet on Juneteenth 2024 to provide a snapshot in time of states’ and localities’ opioid settlement grant-making opportunities.

Since then, I have continued to independently track states’ opioid settlement community grant portals using the “Opioid Settlement Community Grant Tracker (v1.0)” spreadsheet below. I encourage all states and localities to email me with additional funding opportunities you’d like to see mentioned.

• Has my state announced a public grant-making program funded by opioid settlements? → map (above) and tracker (below)

• Are community organizations within my state eligible to apply for funding, and if so, from which share? → tracker (below)

• Are other sources of funding available from the other shares in this state, e.g., the local share? → tracker (below)

A note about affiliations. The Legal Action Center (LAC) and the founder of this website, Christine Minhee, J.D., contracted for her to create the Opioid Settlement Community Grants Tracker spreadsheet, which LAC’s design team used to create its summary map.

Christine sought to answer three questions with this project:

1. Have each of the states announced a public grant-making program funded by opioid settlements? → answers available in both LAC’s map and OST’s spreadsheet

2. Are community organizations within those states eligible to apply for funding, and if so, from which share of funds? → answers available only in OST’s spreadsheet

3. Are other sources of funding available from the other shares in this state? → answers available only in OST’s spreadsheet

Sources for the above information. Christine has read every single Google Alert containing the word “opioid” and “settlement” since 2019 and has independently collected states’ and localities’ opioid-settlement funded grant-making opportunities since early 2024. Some of those findings were published in an informal capacity in the “Opioid Settlement Funding Opportunities” section of her State/Local Plans page, which Christine has moved over to this page as of June 19, 2024.

Christine used her research on states’ opioid settlement spending rules to identify each state’s intrastate allocation share. She then used her expenditure report tracker to determine whether states had been grant-making at all. She then relied on her years and years of opioid settlement spending tracking data to determine and fill any gaps.

Spreadsheet rules. Here are the categorization rules Christine used to color-code her Community Grant Tracker spreadsheet above, which powers the summary of data in the Legal Action Center’s Community Grant Portal map.

• HAS THIS STATE ESTABLISHED AN OPIOID SETTLEMENT GRANT-MAKING PROGRAM?

  • This question is answered for each of the states in both LAC’s Community Grant Portals map and the first color-coded column of my Community Grant Tracker spreadsheet.

  • YES. This means that this state has either (a) launched either a website (“portal”) that hosts opioid settlement-funded grant opportunities OR (b) has published and publicized at least one opioid settlement-funded request for proposal (“RFP”).

  • TBD. This means that the state has either (a) promised in writing to eventually establish an opioid settlement-funded grant-making program OR (b) launched a website to eventually host future opioid settlement-funded grant opportunities.

  • NO. This means that this state’s binding opioid settlement plans (contracts and legislation) either (a) neglect to address opioid settlement-funded grant-making entirely OR (b) refer to grant-making as a “may” (optional power) versus a “must” (requirement) of its opioid settlement spending scheme.

• HAVE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS BEEN ELIGIBLE TO APPLY?

  • This question is answered for each of the states in the second color-coded column of my Community Grant Tracker spreadsheet.

  • YES. This means that the state’s opioid-settlement funded portals and RFPs contain explicit language describing non-profit organizations’ ability to apply for at least one of the state’s publicized opioid-settlement funded grant opportunities.

  • TBD. This means that the state has either (a) anticipated the participation of non-profit organizations in its grant-making scheme in writing OR (b) has yet to launch its promised grant-making program, let alone announce details as to eligible recipients.

  • NO. This means that the state has gone out of its way to grant its opioid settlements to entities other than non-profit organizations OR (b) has yet to engage in opioid settlement-funded grant-making at all.

• FROM WHAT SIZE SHARE? 

  • This question is answered for each of the states in percentage (%) number column of my Community Grant Tracker spreadsheet.

  • The percentage (%) numbers in this column describe what percentage share of funds in the state’s intrastate allocation scheme is doing the grant-making.

• ARE OTHER SHARES DISTRIBUTED AS GRANTS?

  • This question is answered for each of the states in the third color-coded column of my Community Grant Tracker spreadsheet.

  • YES. This means that there is evidence of the state’s other intrastate shares being doled out as grants. For instance, if 50% is listed under “FROM WHAT SIZE SHARE,” this column would describe and link to grant-making opportunities made possible by that “other” 50% of settlement funds within the state.

  • TBD. This means that there is nothing prohibiting the state’s other intrastate shares from being doled out as grants, but no such evidence that they will be.

  • NO. Only in one state, Virginia, are localities explicitly discouraged from distributing their collective 30% share as grants.