Deadline: 28-May-21
Prime Heath Foundation (PHF) is seeking applications for its Annual Grants Program.
Focus Areas
- Prevention or early detection of diseases. E.g.,
- Projects that provide community-based health screenings
- Projects that provide routine dental exams
- Projects that make healthy foods and beverages affordable, available, and the desired choice
- Projects that increase physical activity and healthy exercise habits
- Improvements in the quality, availability and/or accessibility of health care services. E.g.,
- Projects that increase the reach and impact of critical physical and behavioral health services (note change in wording)
- Projects that reduce unnecessary and/or excessive health care costs
- Projects that provide consumers the information and tools they need to manage their care, and make smart health decisions for themselves and their families
- Projects that address distance/transportation barriers to health care
- Improvements in conditions that lead to, or outcomes that are the result of, health care disparities affecting young men of color, ages approximately 14 – 44.* E.g.,
- Projects in this category target the social, economic, and/or environmental factors that shape the health of young men of color, ages approximately 14 – 44. These include factors such as structural racism, employment, education, housing and neighborhood conditions. Requests for funding in this category should support a new project specifically designed to meet the needs of this population, rather than fund an existing project that already works with this population.
- Projects that offer trauma-informed services to address hopelessness and/or adverse childhood events
- Projects that aim to improve fathering skills, male development and/or job readiness
- Projects that remove legal barriers to healthy living
- Projects that improve health outcomes for young men of color
- Projects in this category target the social, economic, and/or environmental factors that shape the health of young men of color, ages approximately 14 – 44. These include factors such as structural racism, employment, education, housing and neighborhood conditions. Requests for funding in this category should support a new project specifically designed to meet the needs of this population, rather than fund an existing project that already works with this population.
In addition, to the extent that COVID-19 remains a major public health issue in the communities served by the Prime Health Foundation, programs in any of the Foundation’s three Focus Areas that address specific, COVID-related needs within those Focus Areas will be considered for funding. As was previously the case, Letters of Intent and subsequent full applications require an applicant to identify the Focus Area that best describes its project objectives, whether those objectives relate to COVID-19 or not.
Funding Information
- The average amount funded to grantees is approximately $16,000. Grantees requesting amounts significantly greater are likely to have their request reduced by the Board of Directors.
Funding Priorities
- In addition to falling within one of their three Focus Areas, all projects must:
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- Address a critical need in the community
- Demonstrate culturally responsive practices
- Target persons who are poor, uninsured, and/or underinsured, and
- Target persons who live in the seven-county area served by PHF: Jackson, Clay, Platte, Cass, and Ray counties in Missouri and Johnson and Wyandotte in Kansas
- Additional criteria to be used in project evaluation are whether the proposed project/applicant:
- Demonstrates organizational stability and the existence of staff expertise to execute on the project
- Offers the potential of sustainable solutions
- Operates under clearly articulated objectives and with measurable outcomes
- Collaborates with other community agencies (financial and programmatic)
- Is locally governed, operated and funded
- Develops or tests an innovative approach to service delivery
For more information, visit https://primehealthfoundation.org/grants/