The Home Visiting Research, Improvement, Sustainability and Evaluation Center (HV-RISE)

The Home Visiting Research, Improvement, Sustainability and Evaluation Center, or HV-RISE, is a forecasted federal cooperative agreement opportunity from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration. The opportunity number is HRSA-27-023, and the associated Assistance Listing is 93.870, Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Grant. The funding activity category identified by Grants.gov is Health. HRSA expects to make one award under this opportunity, with estimated total program funding of $5,000,000. The opportunity is currently a forecast rather than a posted funding announcement, so the available information may be updated when the full notice is released. The purpose of the HV-RISE Center is to improve the quality of home visiting services and outcomes for families. The Center is intended to help home visiting programs use research to improve practice, test small scale improvements, and expand approaches that work. The source therefore establishes a research, improvement, sustainability, and evaluation focus tied directly to home visiting programs and family outcomes. The forecast does not provide detailed allowable and unallowable cost categories, indirect cost limitations, subaward restrictions, required activities beyond the stated program purpose, or a detailed period of performance. Those matters cannot be determined from the forecast information provided and should be verified when HRSA publishes the complete funding opportunity. HRSA estimates total program funding of $5,000,000 and expects one award. Both the stated award floor and award ceiling are $5,000,000, indicating a single anticipated award at that amount based on the current forecast. No cost sharing or matching requirement is identified. The funding instrument will be a cooperative agreement. The forecast does not state whether the $5,000,000 award represents a single budget period, a multi-year project total, or another funding structure, so no additional award-period calculation can be made from the available information. Eligible applicants include public and state controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, state governments, county governments, city or township governments, special district governments, independent school districts, federally recognized Native American tribal governments, Native American tribal organizations other than federally recognized tribal governments, small businesses, other for profit organizations, nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status other than institutions of higher education, and nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status other than institutions of higher education. The listing also includes an "Others" category, although no additional applicant type is identified beyond the eligibility clarification provided. For this opportunity, "Domestic" encompasses the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. The opportunity was forecast on August 10, 2026 and was last updated on August 10, 2026. HRSA estimates that the funding opportunity will be posted on November 17, 2026. The estimated application deadline is February 23, 2027, and electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m. ET on that date. The source does not identify a letter of intent, concept paper, pre-proposal, notice of intent, or other pre-application gating requirement. It also does not provide application questions, required attachments, evaluation criteria, scoring factors, or detailed submission steps beyond stating that applications are to be submitted electronically. These details should therefore be confirmed in the full notice when it becomes available. The estimated award date is July 2, 2027, and the estimated project start date is August 1, 2027. The Grants.gov archive date is September 1, 2028. No annual, biennial, quarterly, or other recurring application schedule is stated, so recurrence cannot be established from the forecast. Questions concerning the opportunity may be directed to the HV-RISE Program at HomeVisiting@hrsa.gov or 301-443-2170. Because the opportunity remains forecasted, applicants should rely on the subsequently posted HRSA notice for final application requirements, evaluation criteria, submission instructions, funding conditions, and confirmed dates.

Align the proposed approach with the stated HV-RISE purpose of helping home visiting programs use research to improve practice, test small scale improvements, and expand what works in order to improve service quality and outcomes for families.