Deadline: 16-Aug-2024
The CommonSpirit Health is inviting applications for the Community Health Improvement Grants Program to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable and underserved populations in the communities they serve.
The grant program helps to improve community health and health equity, and enhance local service systems, via restricted charitable contributions for defined projects. Collaborating 501(c)3 non-profit organizations apply to receive grant funds from the hospitals to address significant issues in community health needs assessments.
Through the Community Health Improvement Grants program, CommonSpirit Health hospitals annually fund programs and services delivered by collaborating 501(c)3 non-profit organizations, to address one or more significant needs in the hospitals’ community health needs assessments and implementation strategies. Community Health Improvement Grants help to improve community health and enhance local service systems via restricted charitable contributions for defined projects.
Funding Information
- Grant awards have minimum and maximum amounts that vary by hospital, within the categories of small grants (up to $19,500) and standard grants (from $20,000 to as much as $150,000)
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be IRS 501(c)3 non-profit organizations, or have a fiscal agent that is a 501(c)3 organization and capable of administering grant project funds. Applicants must provide an IRS Determination Letter documenting 501(c)3 status and be in good standing.
- Applicants and partners must have a philosophy and services not inconsistent with the mission and vision of CommonSpirit Health.
- Proposals are for projects that address one or more significant health needs in the hospital’s most recent community health needs assessment (CHNA) or implementation strategy, with sustained project activity over a period of between 9 and 12 months. Prospective applicants should review the CHNA report for the hospital to which they intend to apply. Links to these reports will be posted on the grant website before the application period opens.
- The program is intended both to support the delivery of services and to strengthen collaborative service systems. Consistent with this aim, proposals for grant projects of $20,000 or more must include collaborating partner organizations other than the granting hospital with distinct, complementary and substantive project roles. Collaborating partner organizations (“partners”) can be non-profit, public or private organizations.
- People and communities to be served are within the hospital’s service area and include identified underserved or vulnerable populations, to help address health inequities.
- People to be served can include members of the community at-large, patients of CommonSpirit Health entities or both. (If any patient Protected Health Information is to be shared in the course of proposed activities, appropriate patient consent procedures and/or Business Associate Agreements may be required of grant recipients to ensure compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).)
- Proposals convey how their proposed projects reflect one or more of the following principles: focus on disproportionate unmet health-related needs (advancing health equity); emphasize prevention, including activities that address social determinants of health; contribute to a seamless continuum of care; build community capacity; and demonstrate collaboration.
- Proposals are for one year periods only. Applicants can apply in subsequent years for similar scopes of work or to conduct different projects, but projects will not be funded for more than four consecutive years.
- Proposal budgets can include equipment purchases of up to $5,000 and computer equipment up to $2,500, with the total not to exceed 50% of funds requested.
- Indirect costs of no greater than 10 percent of the total request are allowable. Indirect costs include items such as rent, utilities, telecommunications, insurance, clerical and managerial salaries and benefits.
- Ineligible proposals include those for unrestricted general operating support, event sponsorships and activities less than 9 months in duration.
- The grant program does not fund capital projects (e.g., buildings, renovations), lobbying or political campaigns.
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