Deadline: 23-Jul-21
The Episcopal Health Foundation is seeking applications for its Grant Program to build the foundation for a healthy life by investing in early childhood brain development.
Through its grant making EHF supports community-based clinics and community-based organizations to embrace the importance of early childhood brain development and prioritize primary prevention work with low-income families beginning before or at the birth of their children
They are interested in programmatic approaches that:
- Lead with brain building science and share that knowledge with caregivers
- Include maternal health and timely prenatal care, especially as it relates to building a foundation for optimal infant brain development
- Offer and/or support opportunities for caregivers to practice new brain-building skills with the child or children in their care
- Are consistently informed by and influenced by clients of the programs
- Take an asset-based approach when supporting and sharing learning with parents and caregivers
- Have evidence of or attempt to measure change in caregiver/child relationship and/or interaction
Priorities
EHF will prioritize funding to support:
- Practices and tools designed to help healthcare providers implement effective physical, social, and emotional developmental screening, referral to services, and follow-up as indicated
- Identifying and addressing instances of parental depression or other behavioral health issues
- Educating pregnant women and parents about early childhood brain development and connecting parents to programs and resources that build skills for and support “serve and return” practice within the parent/child relationship from infancy
Outcome
- Health systems and families implement best practices for early childhood brain development during pregnancy and the first 1,000 days of life.
Strategies
- Building Brain Development-Providers: Providers support early childhood brain development
- Building Brain Development-Community Organizations: Community-based organizations provide training to families for early childhood brain development beginning at or before birth
Eligibility Criteria
EHF makes grants to nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations whose work relates directly to EHF’s vision, goals and strategies. To be eligible, an organization must have received an Internal Revenue Service Determination Letter indicating that it is an organization described in Section 501(c)(3) or 170(c) and is not a private foundation within the meaning of Section 509(a) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service Code.
Ineligible
- Grants to individuals
- Grants for school-based intervention except for school-based clinics providing comprehensive primary care
- Grants for capital projects except by invitation from EHF
- Grants for scholarships
- Grants for religious purposes
- Grants to public agencies for routine service provision
- Grants to retire operating deficits or debt
- Grants for parks, playgrounds, or camps
- Grants to provide services restricted to individuals living in a specific residential facility
- Grants for acute care, inpatient care or long-term care institutions
- Grants for emergency assistance organizations for routine service provision
- Grants for biomedical research
- Grants for child care, early education or after-school programs for routine service provision
- Grants to schools for core educational purposes
- Grants for disease- or condition-specific organizations for program, research or advocacy work
- Grants to underwrite conferences, luncheons, galas or fundraisers, or special events such as health fairs
- Direct or indirect support for candidates, political parties, 501(c)(4) organizations or Political Action Committees
For more information, visit https://www.episcopalhealth.org/grantmaking/