Healing Across the Divides Grant Program – Israel and Palestine

Deadline: 15-Aug-2024

Healing Across the Divides is excited to announce a call for proposals for the three-year grant program! They’re offering grants for innovative community health projects in Israel and Palestine. They encourage applications that address health challenges within a community framework.

Healing Across the Divides supports projects that promote the health of Israelis and Palestinians while helping to forge inter-agency cooperation that furthers mutual understanding. Projects are chosen based on their ability to most efficiently impact health in the communities in which they operate and their potential to function independently following a period of support by Healing Across the Divides. The support comes in the form of financial, technical and organizational assistance.

Healing across the divides is interested in funding innovative community efforts to improve health within a community framework.

The challenge that they have as individuals or as community based organizations is to connect improvement in health status occurring at the community level to changes in the health care system. Examples include:

• Addressing chronic diseases such as obesity and diabetes by improving the availability and safety of physical activity environments (e.g., parks, sidewalks).
• Addressing violence, against women, by implementing prevention programs and practices for women,
• Addressing violence between Israelis and Palestinians by funding and providing technical advice to organizations that both seek to improve the health of the particular group they serve while simultaneously trying to reach across the divides and at least encouraging Palestinian groups to work with each other.

To be successful in improving health these social determinants of health must be addressed by them as individuals, by community based organizations and by the health care system.

Funding Information

• Available funds are a maximum of 30k (can be less and they welcome that) per year per CBO for three years.

Eligibility Criteria

• They are pleased to announce a new call for proposals for NGOs/ community based groups (CBOs) that seek to improve health of marginalized Israelis and Palestinians in any manner within a community framework in both Israel and Palestine.
• They encourage applications for joint proposals from two CBOs that serve two communities. Proposals must address health challenges, broadly defined, that are common in the community. They do not fund direct medical care at all. They fund CBOs to improve care within a community context; this often involves engagement with the medical care system of either Israel or Palestine.

For more information, visit Healing Across the Divides.