Deadline: 05-Aug-20
The Nantahala Health Foundation has announced a call for grant proposals directed at regional nonprofits and governmental agencies with immediate needs, especially those magnified by the COVID-19 global pandemic.
The Nantahala Health Foundation was created from a capacity-building grant dispersed by Mission Health System. The grant was funded initially by an investment from the Mission Health-HCA transaction proceeds. Future funding will be determined by the progress the foundation makes in its inaugural year through a diverse array of initiatives that are currently in development.
After receiving community input through meetings, surveys, and interviews to inform the priorities and decision making, the following priorities were established:
- Education
- Career Technical Education: Specifically, innovative projects that prepare individuals for the workforce, particularly by teaching job-readiness and retention skills other than technical skills for all ages.
- Early Childhood Education initiatives:
- Assisting expansion of the availability of childcare facilities
- Increasing childcare affordability (such as scholarships for low-income families on the waiting list for voucher support)
- Increasing the availability of summer camps and after school programs
- Access to health care
- Increasing access to health care, behavioral health services, medication assistance, and dental care.
- Poverty
- Alleviating Poverty
- Ending food insecurity for older adults
- Providing or increasing emergency housing shelters
- Quality of housing
- Increasing the provision of home repair or rehabilitation for people in need
- Providing access to mold remediation services
Categories
- Transportation. Transportation has been identified as a primary need in the region, one which impacts all social determinants of health. They seek to fund initiatives with either unique solutions and/or current efforts to provide transportation, especially those with collaborative efforts among human service or medical providers.
- COVID-19 Impact and Recovery. For organizations working in the priority areas listed above, they know that the COVID-19 pandemic has created additional challenges to fulfilling their mission. Nantahala Health Foundation has set aside a portion of grantmaking for 2020 and 2021 to specifically address the impact and recovery efforts in the region.
Funding Information
Leaders of nonprofit service providers and government agencies are invited to apply for Needs Immediately Met grants of up to $10,000.
Criteria
Nantahala Health Foundation, a public 501(c)(3) nonprofit, was created to advance the efforts of improving the health and wellness in the lives of those living in the six-county, westernmost region of North Carolina. This area includes Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Jackson, Macon, and Swain counties, as well as the Qualla Boundary.
For more information, visit https://nantahalahealthfoundation.org/grantmaking-in-2020/