Deadline: 15-Jun-21
The Telligen Community Initiative (TCI) is seeking applications for its 2021 grant program to enhance the portability and replication potential of similarly themed projects across Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, and Oklahoma communities.
TCI wants to fund programs and nonprofits that address social determinants that impact health and enhance equity, that are making healthcare education more accessible, and that are fostering innovation.
TCI seeks to support projects that are at the intersection of and connect clinical and community-based work; build on collaborations to address underserved populations and recognize the role of the social determinants of health within the design of project plans and proposal development.
Priorities
- Social determinants of Health / Health Equity: The social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age. The social determinants of health can be most responsible for resulting health inequities.
- Coordination Care: Can take the form of any health condition prevention and/or management, place-based care management, and/or other approaches to target populations/locations for primary care and behavioral health interventions.
- Housing/Health Intersection: Stages funding support to strengthen housing equity/affordability, supportive housing tailored to vulnerable populations, tenant/resident advocacy, and/or any other solutions to the current housing crisis.
- COVID-19 Response to Food Insecurity: Could include COVID-19 created options around mobile clinics, food delivery or increased food resource needs due to expected unemployment growth.
- Health Innovation: This area is encouraged to think creatively and differently regarding issues and opportunities that can bring innovation to the way they all envision to achieve and advance health.
- Telehealth/data for health interventions: Potentially include longer term/ongoing solutions to permanently embrace telehealth, evaluate the clinical and organizational impacts of telehealth deployments to justify ongoing resource allocations (organizational and payers), and/or further adaptation of IT tool for safety net organization/ specific organization types that might need additional resources to maximize telehealth potential (prioritizing Federally-Qualified Health Centers, School-based Health Centers, free and charitable clinics, and/or rural health clinics).
- Innovative Care Management: Targeted and innovative case management approaches with certain target populations or condition-specific acumen. Could also encompass using different community resources/venues for health promotion and delivery (i.e. a library) or data sharing/cross organizational work/community referral capabilities that could benefit the ability to serve clients on a more permanent basis via dedicated resources.
- COVID-19 response to nonprofit organizational capacity: Funding may strengthen organizational adaptivity to sustain in this challenging COVID environment, such as supporting the ability to assess, respond, and/ or monitor the current climate while creating needed internal or external changes to preserve ongoing operations.
- Healthcare Workforce Development: TCI believes the challenges of health workforce shortages and an aging population (health workforce and general public) will require progressive and a fundamental reshaping of the way in which patient care is delivered, especially for primary care. TCI also envisions change in the point of care and the roles of the interdisciplinary direct care team of providers needing to be factored into the needs of the future healthcare workforce.
- Para-professional development: Efforts to assist with elevation of current roles to consider how/if they could do more within their field (dental hygienists, speech language pathology assistants, medical assistants). This could also include more formalized field development and definition of community health workers, health navigators, and/or other emerging fields/disciplines.
- Youth health career exploration/ student assistance: Work in this area focuses on STEM and health career exploration work with youth, particularly aimed at underserved or first-generation populations making this pursuit as part of a livable wage/ two-generational approach to poverty reduction. May also take the form of student assistance programming to support at-risk student success programming and/or targeted assistance to avoid drop-outs at key points in an educational program pursuit.
- COVID-19 response to health workforce: This priority could support emerging contact tracing needs, training, equipment, or employee relief/ mental health support to strengthen workforce resiliency or any workforce preservation/sustainability throughout the evolving phases of the pandemic.
TCI continues to believe in multiple funding mechanisms that try to meet applicants where they are in their work and evolution. This could encompass multiple themes or forms of support:
- First-dollar, programmatic, or seed funding to nonprofit organizations or governmental entities is a powerful contribution TCI can make to positively impact health status.
- This funding can also be positioned to provide enhancing core support for critical work of an organization in strong alignment with the funding priorities.
- Expansion or spread of already impactful and successful approaches you are doing to other populations or geography.
- This funding could also be evaluated by a potential applicant to support meaningful capacity building of an organization to better deliver its work or mission that strongly aligns with TCI funding priorities.
Funding Information
- Applications from all four (4) states will function with a per grant request maximum of $50,000.
Geographic Focus
- TCI funding encompasses support within Iowa, Illinois, Oklahoma, and Colorado. These four (4) states represent the desired capacity for the foreseeable future.
Eligibility Criteria
- To request a grant, your organization must be a recognized as a federally tax-exempt section 501(c) (3) charitable organization, an accredited school, or a public/ governmental agency located in the states of Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, or Oklahoma.
- Note: a public agency is an organization established and primarily funded by a unit of government. Examples could include a public school, public library, local public health department, or state governmental agency. Note that TCI does not fund organizations with a pending 501(c)(3) status.
For more information, visit http://telligenci.org/grants/