The Rising Tide Foundation Grant: Removing Barriers to Cancer Care supports projects that expand patient choice and improve access to treatment, supportive care and survivorship services. It is the first joint funding call from Rising Tide’s Clinical Cancer Research and Freedom in Practice programmes.
The call focuses on legal, regulatory, institutional and economic barriers that limit patients’ options or slow the adoption of promising innovations. Proposals may focus on changing a policy, removing an institutional obstacle or advocating for faster access to better options. Cancer research and clinical trials are outside the scope of this call.
Eligibility Criteria
- Patient advocacy organisations, research institutions, think tanks, foundations, alliances and other qualified organisations may apply.
- Projects must address barriers affecting people with cancer, including barriers to treatment, supportive care or survivorship services.
- Proposals may aim to remove legal, regulatory or institutional barriers.
- Projects may also advocate for innovation in cancer care or help patients gain faster access to better options.
- Cross-disciplinary collaborations are particularly encouraged.
- Cancer research and clinical trials are ineligible, even when a research institution is the applicant.
Funding Details
- Scope: Projects that expand patient choice and address barriers to access or innovation in cancer care.
- Award amount and duration: Not specified in the launch announcement.
- Application process: Submit a letter of intent. Selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal.
Deadline
- Letter of intent: March 1, 2027.
- Final funding decisions: Expected in August 2027.