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.
This funding strategy aligns with the traditional approach to funding, yet extends beyond the oral health equity priority, to align current greater health concerns within three strategic focus areas:
- 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.
The Foundation will Fund:
- 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.
The Foundation will NOT Fund:
- 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.
Funding Information
- 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.
For current grant partners whose grant extends beyond March 2021, they greatly value their partnership. However, you are not eligible to apply in effort to more equitably allocate resources. Please contact the Foundation to further discuss if needed.
Eligibility Criteria
- 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/