Deadline: 8-Jul-24
Nominations are now open for the Children’s Mental Health Innovation Awards that aims to fund transformative mental healthcare solutions for children across the U.S.
The program helps address the lack of investment in youth mental health, connect innovative ideas with capital, and build capacity for nonprofits.
The Innovation Awards program aims to help fill the funding gap in the under-resourced children’s mental health sector and provide runway for game-changing ideas. The goal is to connect nonprofits with funders, in order to match much-needed capital with innovative projects in the field of mental healthcare for children and youth. They also offer leadership learning opportunities to build capacity for nonprofits.
Funding Information
- Each winner receives $100,000 in seed funding.
- Five winners will receive grants to scale their innovative work. In addition, they will receive leadership training from industry experts, build powerful connections and raise their profile.
Eligible Projects
- They are looking for new or piloted projects from direct-service organizations that will help address the far-reaching challenge of stress, anxiety, depression or other mental health issues in children and young adults in the U.S. Projects must tackle specific issues and address unmet needs, with a goal of reducing stigma, increasing access to care, improving equity in mental health, enabling early identification/prevention or enhancing intervention, especially among disadvantaged and vulnerable populations.
Eligibility Criteria
- While all registered 501(c)(3) public charities based in the U.S. are eligible to apply to the program, it is focused primarily on those with an annual total revenue under $5 million. Applicants with an annual total revenue over $5 million must demonstrate why existing funds cannot be used to support the proposed initiative.
- Past applicants are welcome to apply again, especially with a new or enhanced proposal.
- One application may be submitted per organization, or per department for higher education institutions.
For more information, visit Morgan Stanley.