Delta Dental of Colorado Foundation’s 2020 Responsive Community Relief Grant Program

Deadline: 31-Aug-20

The 2020 Responsive Community Relief Funding opportunity is open to Colorado nonprofits that facilitate support services connecting people most significantly stressed by the effects of COVID-19.

• Access to care: All individuals have affordable, accessible and comprehensive health care.
• Prevention: Effective and innovative programs are available to support preventive and basic healthcare needs.
• Health Connections: People are able to balance supporting their basic needs and their ability to afford and access healthcare.

• Community-identified solutions that increase access to basic needs and help stabilize and strengthen individuals so they can thrive. These solutions will be led by equity-driven organizations that have been responding and adapting to social and economic hardships due to COVID-19. They reach disproportionately underserved communities and their efforts include (but are not limited to):
  • Providing holistic, wrap-around services that directly address focus populations and connect them to health care benefits, care delivery and resources.
  • Participating in community outreach, education and collaborations that create new or strengthened medical and dental homes for focus populations.
  • Enrolling people in health and dental benefits and providing navigation support of the system.
• Preference will be given to requests from organizations that meet more than one of the following criteria:
  • Demonstrated existence and ability to foster trusting relationships with communities.
  • Connections to racially and ethnically diverse minorities; specifically, immigrant and undocumented communities.
  • Located in and serving rural communities.
  • Ability to deliver services to historically or suddenly uninsured individuals.
  • Reaching low socio-economic communities.

• Hospitals and health care clinics, including dental/oral health services* (contact DDCOF if you have questions).
• Organizations whose primary purpose is food banks or food distribution services.
• Public policy and advocacy work focused on statewide and/or systems-level legislation, rules and regulations.
• Requests from individuals for financial support or assistance. Funding is only available to eligible organizations.
• Debt retirement.
• Building construction and renovations.
• Membership campaigns.
• Grants for medical, scientific or academic research, research briefs and/or white papers.
• Financial support for political candidates.
• Lobbying efforts.
• Legal services.
• Scholarships.
• For profit entities.
• Fundraising campaigns.
• Water filling stations.
• Advertising or public awareness campaigns.
• Mobile health care delivery vehicles.

• Applications must demonstrate strong impact via specific goals, objectives and deliverables to be carried out within the grant period. Delta Dental of Colorado Foundation anticipates this will be a highly competitive process demonstrating significant need.
• Limited grant funds are available for this opportunity.
• All grants will be one year in general operating support.
• Applicants may request grants between $10,000 to $50,000.
• Only one application per organization can be submitted.
• Grantees awarded funding will be asked to participate in additional evaluation activities.

• Colorado organizations classified as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4).
• Publicly funded Colorado organizations including state or local governments.
• New or emerging organizations without 501(c)(3) status that apply through a tax-exempt organization acting as fiscal sponsor. These organizations must provide written documentation of the relationship with the fiscal sponsor.

For more information, visit https://www.deltadentalcofoundation.org/funding/apply-for-a-grant/