Deadline: 22-Apr-22
Submit applications for the Simon Bolivar Foundation’s Integral Maternal, Neonatal and Childhood Healthcare Grant Program.
To bring support, the Foundation has approved up to $1,000,000 in funds to be allocated for Humanitarian Health Mid / Large grants in the Foundation’s 2022 Annual Work Program and Budget to support primary health care in Venezuela. The main objective is to provide direct support of projects and programs that address the immediate health needs of the vulnerable population in conditions impacted by the humanitarian crisis.
Purpose of the Integral Maternal, Neonatal and Childhood Health Care Program:
The Foundation has considered the complex humanitarian crisis in Venezuela and the information gathered by Johns Hopkins University.
Johns Hopkins University’s recommendations on funding strategies for the Foundation include:
- Investing in health to address both the population’s urgent and widespread health needs and to mitigate the impacts of the ongoing crisis on the health system in Venezuela.
- To the extent possible, donors should support health system investments that facilitate access to primary health healthcare and services in communities. While much attention is given to hospitals, investing in primary level services is typically more cost-effective and allows larger populations to be reached.
- In the case of Venezuela, where basic health services and medications are largely unavailable, a priority focus on primary health care is likely to best meet the needs of vulnerable populations and achieve the greatest reductions in morbidity and mortality.
Objectives
The Foundation’s main Objectives:
- Access – Increase access to medicine, nutrition, and healthcare for low-income and vulnerable individuals and communities.
- Capacity – Enhance the ability of medical professionals and caregivers to serve and treat patients through education and support.
- Empowerment – Increase the effectiveness of community organizations and actors by empowering them to serve the health needs of the most vulnerable individuals in their communities, particularly children and mothers.
Focus Areas
- Health: ensuring access to health services and supplies to mothers and children in need and providing training to health professionals and/or social workers in Venezuela to promote maternal and early childhood health. This may include: donations of supplies, medicines, nutritional supplements, meals, information campaigns and webinars, and training for health providers and social workers.
- Food security: understood as having reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable and nutritious food.
- Nutrition: programs designed to provide nutritious meals and supplements to the vulnerable population in Venezuela and the diaspora communities, emphasizing children under age 5, and pregnant and lactating women. Nutrition plans must adhere to the WHO definition of a healthy and balanced diet.
Funding Information
The Foundation estimates to award up to a total of $1,000,000 through the Integral Maternal, Neonatal and Childhood Health Care Program, in grants between $200,000 to $250,000 each.
Eligibility Criteria
- Certify tax-exempt status under Section 501(c) (3), Title 26 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code. If the organization that wishes to apply for a grant is not registered and recognized as a 501(c)(3) public charity in the U.S., it MUST apply for the grant through a U.S. 501(c) (3) public charity acting as fiscal sponsor of the sponsored organization.
- Alternatively, the organization may provide all information needed for an equivalency review to be performed by the Foundation, demonstrating that the organization is the foreign equivalent of a domestic public charity. Please note an equivalency review could significantly affect the timeline of grant awarding for projects.
- Can demonstrate at least two years of operations.
- Can demonstrate development and implementation of projects in the Areas of the Charitable Program, managing projects in the range of $150,000 – $250,000.
- Can demonstrate expertise in the country covered by the Charitable Program.
- Provide copies of the organization’s governing documents and current Directors and Officers.
- Provide documents such as Annual Reports, financial statements, and tax filings for at least the last two years and such other documents or information as the Foundation may reasonably request to properly qualify the applicant organization.
- Meet the compliance requirements and any other requirements of the Foundation to be awarded a grant.
- Not discriminate based on race, religion, creed, national origin, disability, handicap, age, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
For more information, visit https://www.simonbolivarfoundation.org/presentations/IMNC-SBF-Program.pdf