Atlas State Grant Intelligence
Verified Illinois healthcare and education-health grant intelligence covering rural workforce, community colleges, nursing education, healthcare access, and related funding opportunities.
Tracked fundersIllinois Board of Higher Education · Illinois Community College Board
Illinois Priority Desk
Illinois currently has two large Rural Health Initiative opportunities for qualifying rural community colleges, alongside a separate FY27 Nursing School Grant for accredited nursing programs. Atlas keeps these lanes distinct so rural workforce programs are not confused with statewide nursing-school funding.
Illinois Community College Board
REACH provides approximately $9.3 million to strengthen professional clinical and allied-health workforce pipelines at Illinois community colleges that meet the HRSA rural definition. The program supports expansion and enhancement of high-need healthcare training capacity and employer-linked rural workforce pathways.
Illinois Community College Board
ROOTS provides approximately $7.4 million to expand healthcare support-worker training at rural Illinois community colleges, with particular emphasis on maternal care and substance-use related workforce needs.
Illinois Board of Higher Education
Eligible Illinois nursing schools can seek competitive funding to hire faculty and staff, expand instructional programs and academic supports, secure clinical sites, improve classrooms and laboratories, and purchase equipment or instructional materials.
Illinois Community College Board
Illinois funding to expand rural clinical and allied-health workforce pipelines through community colleges, instructional capacity, student supports, partnerships, and innovative delivery models.
Illinois Community College Board
Illinois funding to expand rural healthcare support-worker training, with particular emphasis on maternal care, substance use, instructional capacity, student supports, and workforce partnerships.
Illinois Board of Higher Education
Illinois competitive grants for eligible nursing schools to expand or improve nursing programs, faculty capacity, clinical partnerships, classrooms, labs, equipment, student supports, and evidence-based instructional strategies.
Illinois Board of Higher Education
Illinois fellowship funding to retain well-qualified nursing faculty through salary supplements at eligible institutions with approved and accredited nursing programs.
