Deadline: 1-Mar-22
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation is accepting applications for the Healthcare Workforce/Collective Impact Grants Program to implement targeted and comprehensive educational, recruitment, retention and related programs to meet pressing needs in Louisiana’s healthcare workforce.
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation is committed to improving the health and wellbeing of Louisianians. In many Louisiana communities, there are critical shortages in the healthcare workforce (general practitioners, dentists, specialists, nurses, mental health providers and other allied health professionals).
Components
Project components should be tailored to an applicant community’s needs, driven by evidence and best practices. Applicants may want to consider:
- Educational efforts that attempt to prepare future generations of Louisianans to meet the identified gap
- Recruitment efforts that attempt to sustainably close the gap in healthcare workforce
- Retention efforts that slow or stop the loss in healthcare workforce
- Related efforts that aid in one of the above and / or improve the healthcare workforce issue identified
Funding information
Amount – Grants range from $ 250,000 to $ 1 million over three years (full awards will be made in one-third increments per each year of the project upon meeting annual performance benchmarks).
Criteria
The ideal Collective Impact project is:
- Based on a clear challenge to a community’s health
- Backed by theory or research
- Comprehensive and systemic, addressing root challenges of public health issues
- Properly staffed by an organization with capacity to complete the project, and backed by a community coalition substantial enough to achieve desired outcomes
- Scalable and, if successful, able to replicated in other places
For more information, visit http://bcbslafoundation.org/grant-programs/grants/collectiveimpact/healthcare-workforce-development/