Deadline: 01-Aug-21
The Omaha Community Foundation is offering Building Healthy Futures Fund Grant Program to support learning for school-age youth by improving access to quality healthcare.
Childhood healthcare can play a major role in overall health, academic achievement, and economic stability throughout their lifetime.
Focus Areas
This grant program supports the following focus areas:
- Health Access: Programming and advocacy efforts that ensure every child has access to needed and adequate primary, vision, dental, and hearing care.
- Mental Health: Programming that promotes protective factors around mental health risks, ensures equitable access to mental health treatment services, and supports the normalization of self-care and mental health care.
Priorities
Investment decisions are made for organizations or projects with the following considerations:
- Innovative efforts to provide health support for school-age youth who have limited access
- Connection to a health need or gap in service for school-age youth
- Addresses a healthcare issue at a systems level
- Thoughtful collaboration with partners to realize impact
Funding Information
Award Size: $50,000 minimum for programmatic support.
Eligibility Criteria
- Public, tax-exempt organization as defined by Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, OR working with a 501(c)(3) fiscal agent who can receive funds on your behalf
- Must provide services to Omaha Public Schools students and/or their families. Services do not necessarily need to occur within Omaha Public Schools’ buildings.
- Applicants’ policies and practices must be in alignment with the following non-discrimination clause: The applicant organization does not discriminate in hiring practices or service provision to clients and/or customers based on race, ethnicity, religious preference, age, [mental, emotional, or physical] ability/disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, military service, or gender.
For more information, visit https://omahafoundation.org/nonprofits/building-healthy-futures-fund/