Deadline: 29-Sep-21
The Rhode Island Foundation is offering Fund for Healthy Rhode Island (FHRI) Grants to support place-based collaborations and innovative cross-sector initiatives.
Visions
The Health in Rhode Island vision includes four main priorities.
- Provide the most appropriate care for people in the most appropriate setting.
- Focus upstream on root causes and invest in affordable housing, food security, and transportation to address underlying inequities and influencers of health disparities.
- Improve behavioral health outcomes by focusing on access to care, coordination of care, and prevention.
- Reduce wasteful spending in order to redirect those resources to social determinants and improve affordability.
Categories
- Place-based collaborations addressing the effects of COVID-19 on the behavioral health of children and adolescents.
- The impacts of COVID-19 on children and adolescent mental health has both short- and long-term effects on wellbeing and overall health. A range of social and economic stressors, including prolonged social isolation, lack of predictability and stability related to pandemic mitigation strategies, has disproportionately impacted vulnerable populations including those with pre-existing behavioral health needs and those in underserved communities.
- Priorities
- Support continued and expanded collaborations. Funding can be used in support of existing collaborations that seek to continue and/or expand to include additional partners. Partnership with a local school district is preferred (though not required), and partners should have a demonstrated history of focus on behavioral health prevention.
- A focus on equity. Collaborations are expected to serve communities that are disproportionately impacted by behavioral health issues and underserved by behavioral health supports.
- Meaningful participation from the population served. Applicants must actively engage and incorporate the perspective of the population they are serving (e.g., children and adolescents, and their families).
- Responsiveness to a specific behavioral health need with a focus on root causes. Applicants need to identify and validate the specific needs they will be working to address, including how it has been exacerbated by the impacts of COVID-19, and should focus on the strategies targeted at the social, environmental, and economic determinants of behavioral health.
- Commitment to measurement and data sharing between partners. Partnerships are expected to use and share data to understand the effectiveness of interventions and their contributions to change.
- Funding Information
- Proposals may be for projects that are one or two years in duration, and up to $125,000 per year. Approximately three to four grants are expected to be awarded.
- Year 1 (Jan 2022 – Dec 2022)
- Year 2 (Jan 2023 – Dec 2023)
- Proposals may be for projects that are one or two years in duration, and up to $125,000 per year. Approximately three to four grants are expected to be awarded.
- New housing-focused partnerships that improve health outcomes for older populations and adults with disabilities, with particular focus on addressing behavioral health needs.
- The Foundation welcomes proposals that seek to build and strengthen cross-sector partnerships focused on implementing emerging housing and service models to better serve Rhode Island’s older populations and adults with disabilities, with a focus on integrating behavioral health services into those models.
- Priorities
- Directly and flexibly support new partnerships. The primary goal is to provide an incentive for new partnerships that have the ability to propose and implement approaches by breaking down barriers that have prevented these partnerships from coalescing in the past.
- Support collective impact and accountability between partners. Partners will identify shared goals and outcomes as a means to increase adoption of evidence-based models that can serve Rhode Island’s older populations.
- Identify of innovative pilots and proven models, both within Rhode Island and elsewhere. They are seeking promising partnerships that have the capacity to implement pilots and models, with a focus on efforts that leverage and coordinate resources across disciplines, remove barriers to the use of these resources and document outcomes of new models for resource allocation.
- Initiatives that empower community. Respond to the needs and priorities of residents impacted by the plan by ensuring resident voice is part of the planning process. It is important that there is familiarity, trust, and engagement with the population targeted through the proposed initiatives.
- Ability to identify and prioritize shared outcomes and data. Linking the role of housing to health equity encompasses a broad and diverse set of outcomes, and partners should identify outcomes and impact associated with proposed programming to understand long term changes.
- Funding Information
- Proposals may be for projects one or two years in duration, and up to $75,000 per year. Approximately three to four grants are expected to be awarded. Funding and reporting periods will be structured as follows:
- Year 1 (Jan 2022 – Dec 2022)
- Year 2 (Jan 2023 – Dec 2023)
- Proposals may be for projects one or two years in duration, and up to $75,000 per year. Approximately three to four grants are expected to be awarded. Funding and reporting periods will be structured as follows:
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofit, 501(c) organizations located in the state of Rhode Island are eligible to apply.
- The FHRI does not fund individuals, scholarships or research, endowment efforts, or fundraising events.
- Grants may support faith-based organizations for secular programs or projects.
- Research as part of a program evaluation is permitted, however, Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval or exemption must be obtained where human subjects are involved.
- The Rhode Island Foundation believes that the community can best be served by charitable organizations that both reflect and serve the diversity of the community. They do not award grants to applicants or for programs that have a policy that discriminates against any person or group in any way that is either unlawful or inconsistent with the mission or values of the Foundation.
- Organizations that are awarded a grant from the FHRI ARE eligible to apply to the Rhode Island Foundation for other grant support.
- Please note: Applications will not be considered from organizations with overdue Rhode Island Foundation grant reports.
For more information, visit https://rifoundation.org/grant/fund-for-healthy-rhode-island-grants