Deadline: 1-Dec-21
The Louisiana Foundation is seeking applications for its New Horizons Grants Program to support innovative approaches that either solve or more effectively address existing issues related to health, education, or wellbeing.
The Foundation recognizes the need to foster innovation as means of improving health and wellbeing in Louisiana. Through this program, they hope to encourage a research based and scientific approach to philanthropy through testing ideas and seeing what works. The first step in that process is challenging the status quo with new ideas.
The goal is to find exciting, emerging ideas and social startups that have the potential to disrupt negative trends in health, education and other issues that directly impact quality of life for Louisianians. A successful New Horizons project may make changes in policies, norms practices and social supports; it may also be a new pilot intervention, plan or approach.
A New Horizons Grant project could include, but is not limited to:
- Creating a resource that doesn’t currently exist;
- Creating and/or piloting a service that doesn’t currently exist;
- Taking an existing resource or service that isn’t currently effective and implementing it in a new way or field; or
- Conducting research that has not been conducted to date.
Focus Areas
- Healthy Eating: Programs that increase access to, knowledge about and use of healthy food and healthy eating
- Physical activity: Programs that increase access to, knowledge about and engagement with daily, natural physical activity. Incentive and reward-based programs (virtuous cycles)
- Community health: Community Level commitments to tackling health and quality of life issues
- Early childhood intervention: Early childhood interventions that help set children, particularly low-income and high-needs children, on a good path educationally, socially-emotionally, health-wise etc.
- School-based health: Having schools or educational institutions make improving health outcomes a top priority
- Family stability: Programs that support stronger families and family units, providing particularly for low-income kids stability and support
Funding Information
- Grants are less than $25,000 in support of projects that take less than one year to complete.
- The maximum amount awarded per grant will be $25,000.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for a grant from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation, you must meet the following requirements:
- Be designated a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization by the IRS.
- The Foundation only gives to nonprofit organizations working for charitable, religious, scientific, literary and other organizations under Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3).
- Be registered and in good standing with the Louisiana Secretary of State.
- All organizations must be up-to-date on their filings with the Louisiana Secretary of State.
- Must be working in Louisiana
- They only make gifts to organizations working in Louisiana and working for the welfare of Louisianians.
Ineligible
The Foundation does not make grants to the following under any circumstances:
- Organizations that are not tax-exempt
- Political campaigns, candidates, parties or partisan activities
- Sectarian, denominational or religious organizations for support of theological functions
- Athletes or athletic teams
- Beauty pageants
- Direct funding of labor, fraternal or veterans’ organizations
- Students raising funds for travel to an out-of-state competition
- Parent-teacher organizations
- Organizations or causes that do not complement their goals for corporate social responsibility.
For more information, visit http://bcbslafoundation.org/grant-programs/grants/newhorizons/
