CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – Application cycle is now OPEN!
2025 Application Portal: https://webportalapp.com/sp/c4communitygrants2025
C4 is initiating its annual grant process for fiscal year 2025. California organizations are encouraged to apply for grants that are in alignment with C4’s Purpose: Everyone deserves a life free from the burden of colorectal cancer (CRC). C4 is committed to ensuring that all Californians have the awareness, education, and access needed to prevent, detect, and treat this disease. Applications that align with C4’s goals listed above are encouraged.
Awards are limited to a maximum of $15,000 for 12-months of funding.
Information on competitive applications from previous years can be reviewed here. (Note that BCCSIP is a different program with different funding mechanisms, priorities, and qualifications of the applicant organizations.)
2025 Priority Areas
Applications that propose projects related to C4’s 2025 Community Grants Priority Areas related to CRC are strongly encouraged:
- Primary CRC prevention and screening – Reducing screening barriers through evidence-based interventions
- Improving screening rates in California populations with CRC screening rates and stage of diagnosis that are out of sync with population trends in California (e.g., American Indians, Alaskan Natives, certain southeast Asian populations, rural populations, those with minimal access to health care services, early onset CRC cases falling below 45y).
- Improving completion rates and documentation within the EHR for colonoscopies either as primary screening or following an abnormal result from non-colonoscopic screening modalities
- Improving assessment of family cancer history to identify high risk patients prior to screening
- Survivorship for CRC patients – enhancing the quality of life for cancer patients with medical homes at CA Community Health Centers (CHC)/Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC)
- Timely work up of potential red flag signs and symptoms of CRC in individuals, including those under age 45, and documentation of the care continuum within the EHR.
- Improvement in processes associated with provision of the care continuum following a diagnosis of CRC.
Types of Projects:
For the purpose of C4 Community Grants, we currently fund projects within four major categories: Health System Quality Improvement, Research, Community Engagement, and CRC Care Continuum CA-specific policies.
- Health System Quality Improvement: health system access to the care continuum – beginning with CRC screening rate improvements
- Research: as in requiring Institutional Review Board (IRB) – Human Subjects approval and documented compliance with federal standards for human subjects’ research
- Community Engagement SEPARATE from health system efforts: examples (not comprehensive) include raising awareness, addressing resource limitations, one-to-one coaching, or health fairs
- CRC Health Policies: support/development of systemic policy changes to improve access to the CRC care continuum for all Californians
Link to recorded training session on May 28, 2025. Please note that this recording link may only be open through June 27, 2025.