Florida EMS Grants

Contacts

You may ask questions and obtain further information about any of the following grant sections by calling state EMS grants staff at (850) 245-4440 Exts. 2734, 2782,or 2773.

County Grant Information

For these county grants, provided under 401.113(2) (a), Florida Statutes, only the 67 Florida county governments are eligible.

Current Payments to Counties -- 2010-2011. Beginning July 20, 2011, we began accepting applications and documents on which counties can request the balance of their 2010-2011 county grant funds. We have a deadline of October 12, 2011, but will accommodate payment, as possible, to counties who justify an extension of this ending date, and who we approve for the extended date.

Next County Government Grant Cycle -- 2011-2012. This will be a one payment process to county governments based on 12 months of traffic fine surcharge collections, as stipulated by 401.113(1), Florida Statutes, for the 12 months July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012. The grant cycle will begin with a July, 2012, notification to the counties of the specific amounts for which they must apply.

We will provide additional details as we approach the beginning of this next grant cycle, or you may contact us at any time if you have any questions. We will adjust procedures as possible to assist individual counties.

County Grant Packet and Forms

Matching Grants

Beginning January 9, 2012, EMS organizations may submit matching grant applications to request grant funds. The Florida Bureau of EMS must have your application in hand by the Deadline, April 20, 2012, 4.00 p. m. Eastern Standard Time.

YOU CAN NOMINATE A REVIEWER TO EVALUATE REQUESTS FOR GRANT FUNDS. The Florida Bureau of EMS must receive your nomination no later than March 16, 2012. Include an outline of the nominee's experience and contact information. If we need additional reviewers, we will confer with nominees. Reviewers and their organizations may submit applications but they will not review these particular requests.

If rural applications are for improvement and expansion of EMS we will automatically review them for both a rural grant and general matching grant. Do not send two applications for the double review. If a rural organization wants solely to be reviewed for a rural grant, the applicant must write this at the top of the first application page.

The application form is in Word at the below two links: one has fields you can tab through and the other doesn't but both are identical. Use either form.
       Application Form with Fields          Application Form

Applicants should read the information at the following three links.
      Mandatory Criteria       Eligibility of Organizations and Projects
                               Scoring Tips

You may submit more than one application but each and its three copies must be separately distinguishable if sent in one package. Send your completed original paper application(s) plus three copies of each to one of the following addresses by the deadline.

The Department of Health, Bureau of EMS in the best interests of the state reserves the right to give awards for, and to reject, any and all applications, and to waive irregularities that the Bureau determines do not have an effect on an application's basic substance.

Contact state EMS if you have any questions or need assistance: telephone (850) 245-4440, extensions 2734, 2773, or 2782, or fax (850) 245-4378.

Two Types of Matching Grants: General and Rural.

The following links access a map that shows the rural and urban counties and a list of them.
Rural Map   Text Equivalent to Map                           Rural List  

Prior Awards Past Three years. For your information, the following link lists matching grant awards for the past three years. Awards Past 3 Years