Deadline: 1-Aug-22
The Partnership for Better Health is seeking applications for its Traditional Grants Program.
The Partnership for Better Health provides funding for grants and initiatives that improve individual health status and community health capacity through the use of evidence-based strategies and best practices
Grantmaking funds are designed to reflect the foundation's health framework to:
- Build healthy communities, by supporting projects that advance decisions, conditions, policies and systems that enable people to live healthier lives in their schools, workplaces, homes and neighborhoods. Priority is given to groups working collaboratively to create systemic changes. Systems change strategies create more unified, coordinated and adaptable systems to better address an often complex social issue.
- Ensure access to affordable health care , by investing in grants and initiatives that increase access to medical, dental and behavioral health services for individuals throughout their region, especially those who are most vulnerable to poor health.
- Strengthen health capacities, by advancing the ability of organizations and partners to engage in comprehensive strategies that improve health. Funds may be used to build the capacity of social service providers to develop strategic plans and adopt best practices. They may also be used to mobilize coalitions to address shared health goals.
Funding Priorities
The Partnership for Better Health is particularly interested in projects that improve the heal th ofindividuals and communities by focusing on social determinants of health and health equity. The foundation seeks partners with the capacity to address them through their work.
- Social determinants of health are the structural factors and conditions that affect everyone's health. People's homes, schools, jobs and neighborhoods significantly influence health outcomes. Social determinants of health include socioeconomic status, the environment, neighborhood safety, social support networks, and access to resources to meet daily needs, such as safe housing and healthy foods. Where people live, learn, work and play significantly affects health. Recognizing that place matters, the Partnership seeks to create strong social and physical environments that promote health for all.
- Health equity means ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to attain their highest level of health. Health disparities arise as a result of differences in race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, income, education, disability and geographic region. By addressing inequities created within society's different systems and environments, their goal is to ensure that everyone has the chance to live a healthy life.
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For every endeavor that the Partnership for Better Health undertakes, they will seek to learn:
- How will this effort address structural determinants and conditions that affect the health of people whose life circumstances make them vulnerable to poor health?
- How will this effort advance health equity and address barriers that create inequities in systems and in society?
Funding Categories
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Healthy Communities Fund: Fund organizations and projects that support decisions, conditions, policies and systems that enable people to live healthier lives in their schools, workplaces, homes and neighborhoods.
- Grant size: $10,000 – $100,000/year Duration: 1-year grants and RFPs for first-time applicants; prior grant recipients invited to apply for up to 3-year grants (maximum = 4 years).
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Access For All Fund: Ensure equitable access to health services by supporting direct services and capacity building.
- Grant Size: $10,000 – $100,000/year; Duration: One-year grants and RFPs for first-time applicants; prior grant recipients invited to apply for 3-year grants (maximum = 4 years).
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Strengthening Health Capacities Fund : Build the ability of organizations and collaborative partners to engage in comprehensive strategies that improve health (particularly in non-traditional health settings like schools, workplaces, agencies and in collaborations).
- Grant size: $10,000 – $75,000/year; Duration: 1-year grants and RFPs for first-time applicants; prior grant recipients invited to apply for 2-year grants (maxi mum = 3 years).
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Mini-Grants
- Grant size: $1,000 – $5,000/year; Duration: 1 year grants, with possibility of 2-year renewals ( maximum = 3 years)
Eligibility Criteria
- Only 501(c) 3 organizations are eligible for grants from the Partnership.
- No grants are made to individuals.
- Additionally, school districts are eligible to apply for mini-grants of up to $5,000.
- Organizations must provide services that benefit residents of their specific geographic area. The partnership region includes all of Perry County, Western and Central Cumberland County, Northern Adams County and Greater Shippensburg.
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For more information, visit https://forbetterhealthpa.org/what-we-do/what-we-fund/