Deadline: 1-Mar-22
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation has announced the 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.
Funding Information
- Amount – Up to $25,000
- Length – One year
Eligibility Criteria
To be considered for any Foundation Grant, your organization must:
- 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.
- Be domiciled in Louisiana
- The Foundation only makes gifts to organizations who are based in Louisiana and working for the welfare of Louisianians.
For more information, visit http://bcbslafoundation.org/grant-programs/grants/newhorizons/