Connecticut Health Foundation: Diverse Advocacy and Consumer Engagement in Health Reform

Deadline: 10 July 2017

The Connecticut Health Foundation (CT Health) is currently seeking proposals for its program entitled “Diverse Advocacy and Consumer Engagement in Health Reform”.

CT Health is one of the largest independent health philanthropy dedicated to improving lives by changing health systems.

CT Health seeks to support PoC led nonprofits that work on advocacy and consumer engagement strategies to ensure health reform benefits populations of color. This is an opportunity to help deepen and/or expand your organization’s consumer advocacy efforts and to partner with CT Health and a growing network of groups involved in advocacy and consumer engagement strategies in health reform.

Funds Available

CT Health anticipates funding 2-4 grant requests ranging in size from $25,000 to $50,000.

Program Objectives

In their proposals, applicants must meet at least one (1) of the following objectives that support the foundation’s strategic goal to leverage opportunities to advance health equity in reforming health care:

Advocate for health insurance coverage and navigation support systems that will maintain and increase coverage, and improve access to care
Advocate for increased and improved collection, stratification, reporting, and use of race, ethnicity and language (REL) data from existing commercial and public data systems (e.g. All Payers Claims Database, Access Health Connecticut, Medicaid, commercial carriers, state agencies, etc.) to identify and address inequities.
Commission high quality, credible policy analysis and use findings to do two or more of the following:
- Increase the knowledge base about a health issue amenable to policy solutions
- Evaluate outcomes or impact of current or future health policy
- Stimulate public debate about a health policy issue to raise its profile on the public agenda
- Equip advocates
- Provide decision support to decision-makers

Eligibility Criteria

CT Health defines a person of color (PoC) as someone who identifies as being from one or more of the following racial and ethnic backgrounds:
- African-American/Black
- Hispanic/Latino
- Asian or Pacific Islander
- Native American
An organization must meet two or more of the following criteria to be eligible to apply for this funding:
- Nonprofit is led (e.g., executive director, CEO) by a person of color; and/or
- Nonprofit is governed by a board composed of a majority (51%+) of people of color; and/or
- Nonprofit serves populations/communities of color
Organizations must also be:
- 501(c)(3) organizations to be eligible for this funding
- Willing and able to receive technical assistance and capacity-building support