Deadline: 03-Dec-21
Great Rochester Health foundation is seeking application for Responsive Grants. Through issuing this Call, they are looking to advance their efforts in innovative, partnered work that re imagines systems, programs, and services to disrupt inequities and rebuild stronger, healthier communities.
Their central focus is to respond, to community needs and inequities central to or worsened by the twin pandemics and supports the path to rebuilding and reimagining systems in more equitable ways.
Focus Areas
- Respond to community needs and inequities central to or worsened by the twin pandemics and support the path to rebuilding and reimagining systems in more equitable ways.
- Elevate and address intersectionality, meaning the ways that oppression and marginalization associated with multiple identities combine and compound. Supporting those who experience inequity in its most harmful form to ensure access and opportunity for all is key.
- Support communities to address their self-identified priority health needs and implement co-created solutions that address health-inequities through changes in systems, practices, and services.
- Ensure client/consumer/resident voices are part of the identification of the need or opportunity, potential solution or approach, project design and decision-making process (meeting a need vs. a program in search of clients).
- Support innovative ideas and projects that are intentional about learning from the work and share what they and their partners are learning to inform the field and community.
Funding Information
They are open to requests of all sizes (e.g., $5k, $75k, $150k, $300k+) ranging from a one to a year period.
Funding Criteria
They will fund projects, programs/services, advocacy efforts, and general operational needs to support people and communities that have been historically marginalized and are impacted by health inequities, such as: Communities of color/indigenous communities, children and adults impacted by poverty, persons with disabilities, LGBTQIA+ persons, rural communities, refugees/New Americans, and older adults.
Ineligible Funding
They do not fund projects solely focused on capital improvements
Geographical Focus
Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans, Seneca, Wayne, Wyoming, and Yates.
Eligibility Criteria
- They are committed to partnering with non-profit organizations/entities of all sizes and types including health/human service or government agencies, faith communities, educational institutions, and civic organizations.
- Applicants must be a non-profit located (or providing service) in one of the nine counties within our area of service. Current and past grantees are eligible to apply; however, they are committed to an equitable disbursement of investment dollars. If they have recently funded your organization, it is unlikely that they will be able to fund you during this opportunity.
For more information, visit https://thegrhf.org/grants/responsive-grants/