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Minnesota Department of Health
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The Cultural, Faith, and Disability Communities COVID-19 Update is being sent to the following three MDH mailing lists to reduce duplication:
- Cultural, Faith, and Disability Communities COVID-19 Updates
- MN Immigrant and Refugee Health Announcements
- The Center for Health Equity
The Minnesota Department of Health released two Requests for Proposals on October 7 for contracts related to COVID-19 diverse media messaging and community engagement around COVID-19 vaccines, including information about booster doses, COVID-19 variants, ongoing vaccine hesitancy, and vaccines for ages 12 and younger. The proposal submission deadline for both funding opportunities is October 28, 2021.
- Community-based Organizations and Tribes for COVID-19 Outreach and Engagement
This Request for Proposals asks community-based organizations and Tribes to propose a plan for culturally relevant, linguistically appropriate, and timely community engagement activities to aid the state in learning about community needs related to COVID-19 vaccines. Activities may include outreach and engagement to address ongoing vaccine hesitancy, to encourage booster doses, and to promote vaccines for youth including ages 12 and younger. Organizations and Tribes will be asked to learn about community questions and needs related to COVID-19 vaccines; work with the State and its partners to address those community needs; and connect communities to vaccination. The primary audience(s) for community engagement must include people of color, American Indians, LGBTQ communities, and/or disability communities in Minnesota.
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Funding: $1,200,000 available for multiple contracts from January 2022 – December 2022.
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Target Audience of Request for Proposals: Community-based organizations and Tribes; priority will be given to entities that are led by people of color, American Indians, LGBTQ individuals, and/or disability communities.
- Diverse Media Vendors for COVID-19 Communications
This Request for Proposals asks vendors to propose a plan for media services to help MDH in getting culturally relevant, linguistically appropriate, accurate, and timely messages related to COVID-19 vaccines to communities of color, American Indian communities, LGBTQ communities, and disability communities in Minnesota. This may include, but is not limited to, addressing ongoing vaccine hesitancy, booster doses, and vaccines for youth including ages 12 and younger. Media services may include formats such as online and social media, radio, television, and print. Vendors are encouraged to use methods that are adaptable to quickly changing information.
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Funding: $1,200,000 available for multiple contracts from January 2022 – December 2022.
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Target Audience of Request for Proposals: Media vendors; priority will be given to media vendors who are owned/led/operated by people of color, American Indians, LGBTQ individuals, and/or disability communities.
MDH will make final selections of contractors based on a competitive review of proposals, while also ensuring that the final cohort of selected contractors covers a range of racial, ethnic and cultural communities and geographic areas in Minnesota. Current contractors of MDH will be eligible to apply. Please note that organizations funded by MDH or DEED through the COVID Community Coordinators initiative for 2022 are not eligible to respond to this Request for Proposals.
Please visit the COVID-19 Contracts for Diverse Media Messaging and Community Outreach page for more information.
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