Deadline: 22-Jul-22
The CARESTAR Foundation has announced an open call for the Leighton Memorial Award to demonstrate success in improving emergency and prehospital care with a focus on improving racial equity.
Established in 2018, the Leighton Memorial Award furthers the legacy of Jeff Leighton, a key advisor to the CARESTAR Foundation during its launch. An expert in the areas of non-profit foundation development, operations, finance, and investment management, Leighton was instrumental in helping CARESTAR incorporate as an organization. His illness and subsequent passing during this period led the board of directors to establish this honor to recognize Leighton’s outstanding contributions to the CARESTAR Foundation and help support the rural areas of California Jeff loved so much.
The award is intended to specifically recognize multi-agency coalitions/collaboratives that:
- serve a population/community that experiences racial health disparities or inequitable healthcare;
- are reflective and inclusive of the communities they serve; and
- seek to impact broader systems change to emergency and prehospital care (e.g. organizational practice or policy changes).
Award Information
Up to $100,000 available.
Eligibility Criteria
- Location: Coalition/collaborative must work in a rural, frontier or tribal area in California as defined by:
- Rural – community/city with less than 50,000 residents.
- Frontier – no more than 7 residents per square mile.
- Tribal – one of the 109 federally recognized Indian tribes in California or in the process of petitioning for federal recognition through the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
- Coalition or Collaborative: Must be an existing group of three or more organizations with at least one of the organizations physically located in the rural, frontier, or tribal area being served.
- Population Served: Population/community experiences racial health disparities or inequitable emergency and pre-hospital care.
- Timeframe: The work of the coalition/collaborative must have taken place within the last full calendar year (2021).
Evaluation Criteria
Once a coalition/collaborative meets the eligibility criteria, their application will be assessed by an advisory committee on its own merit, against the current pool of applicants, and against the following evaluation criteria to gauge each coalition/collaborative’s effectiveness and impact to determine the winner.
- Location with preference given to collaboratives with a strong physical presence in the community served, is serving an area with a “Medically Underserved Area” designation, and/or is geographically isolated (distance or terrain).
- Composition of the coalition/collaborative with preference given to those that are BIPOC-led (Black, Indigenous and/or populations of color) and include small agencies, nonprofit organizations, critical access hospitals, rural health clinics, federally qualified health centers, local EMS providers, a public health department/agency, and community-based agencies.
- Population served with preference given to those that are serving communities that are experiencing significant racial health disparities or inequitable healthcare based on race, are a “Medically Underserved Population”, and where such disparities are informed by data.
- Focus on racial equity with a preference for collaboratives working on addressing health disparities and bringing equitable outcomes to emergency and prehospital care for Black, Indigenous and/or populations of color.
- Community engagement is a key part of the collaborative’s approach. Community members and/or people with lived experiences related to the issue being addressed are involved in leading, advising or directing (either directly or indirectly) the collaborative’s work.
- Focus on systems change where the work of the collaborative has impacted, or laid the groundwork for, broader change to emergency and prehospital care (e.g. organizational practice or policy changes).
- Collaborative sustainability with preference given to groups that have ongoing plans to continue their work together in the future.
For more information, visit https://sites.google.com/view/carestarfoundation-leighton/home