TMA’s Be Wise – ImmunizeSM offers grants of up to $2,500 to fund vaccination events. County medical societies, TMA Alliance chapters, medical student chapters, and TMA member-physician practices/clinics can apply.
Grants can fund shot clinics to vaccinate underserved and uninsured children, adolescents, and adults. And, new in 2020, grants can be used for an event to educate about vaccinations.
During 2020, applicants who host events in areas of greatest need will receive priority funding. These include Texas counties with high exemption rates, low vaccination coverage rates, or both.
Apply for a Grant
Shot Clinic Action Plan: Use this worksheet to start planning your shot clinic.
Grant proposals (log-in required) are accepted on or before March 15 and July 1. Be Wise will award grants two times annually following these submission deadlines. TMAF should receive grant applications by a
submission deadline that is four to six months in advance of a shot clinic to
ensure adequate time to process funding before the event.
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For help planning a vaccination event, check out the Be Wise — Immunize Quick Start Manual: A Step-by-Step Vaccination Outreach Guide.
For more information, contact Tammy Wishard, TMA’s outreach coordinator, at (512) 370-1470.
Preparing for Your Event
Local Impact Grant Checklist: Follow this step-by-step guide to planning your event.
Sample Letters to Request Donations for Your Event:
Educational Materials/Merchandise Order Form (PDF): TMA’s one-stop shop to order your Be Wise promotional and educational materials, and giveaways for the kids, and to reserve our bee mascot costume.
Sample news release: Publicize your event using this sample news release.
Photo release forms: Children (English and Spanish), or adult (English and Spanish). Taking photos at your event is important. TMA can use these in our publications or you can send them to the newspaper for follow-up coverage of your event. Use this form to permission to photograph a child or adult. Without this form, a photograph cannot be reprinted.
Event Photography Tips: Use these tips to capture winning photos at your event.
Read What Others are Saying About the Local Impact Grants
2020 Local Impact Grants Awarded
The TMA Foundation
approved these Be Wise – Immunize Local Impact Grants this spring to help TMA
Family members host events to vaccinate Texans:
Bell
County Medical Society will vaccinate patients
at Body of Christ Community Clinic against flu. Uninsured residents from
Belton, Salado, Temple, and Troy are treated in the clinic.
Lata Joshi, MD, and Lone Star Family Health Center, Conroe, will provide
back-to-school vaccinations, along with a well-child visit, for at least 100 uninsured
kindergarteners through 12th graders in Montgomery County this
summer.
David Krusleski, MD, and Spring Branch Community Health
Center
will provide back-to-school vaccinations to Houston elementary and
middle-school students at its clinics in Cypress, Houston, and Katy.
Lubbock County Medical Society Alliance, along with the South
Plains Immunization Network, will give flu vaccinations in conjunction with two
local food pantries, one that serves homeless residents and another that serves
families who are food insecure in a multi-county area. Hepatitis A and pneumococcal
vaccinations also will be provided for the homeless residents.
University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort
Worth Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (TCOM) TMA
Chapter will work with Refugee Health Initiative, a student organization
at TCOM, to vaccinate residents against flu in two refugee communities.
UT Health San Antonio Long School of Medicine TMA Chapter will vaccinate women at
Alpha Home, a rehabilitation center, against flu. Most center residents are uninsured.
Pride Community Clinic (PCC) patients also will receive flu shots at a separate
event. PCC is a student-run clinic that provides medical care to local
uninsured adult LGBTQ+ patients.
See all the Be Wise – Immunize Local Impact Grant Recipients
2019 Grant Recipients
2018 Grant Recipients
2017 Grant Recipients
2016 Grant Recipients
2015 Grant Recipients
2014 Grant Recipients
2013 Grant Recipients
2012 Grant Recipients
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