Deadline: 1-Dec-21
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.
Core Funding Priorities
- The Partnership for Better Health is particularly interested in projects that improve the health of individuals and communities by focusing onsocial 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 peoplelive, 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, the goal is to ensure that everyone has the chance to live a healthy life.
Grant Funding Categories
All grants will be made through one of four funding categories:
- Healthy Communities Fund
- Goal: 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. Projects focusing on the following issues are especially encouraged:
- Access For All Fund
- Goal: Ensure equitable access to health services by supporting direct services and capacity building. Projects focusing on the following issues are especially encouraged:
- Medical, dental & behavioral health services
- Health insurance outreach and enrollment
- Improving cultural competence among service providers
- Language translation and interpretation services that increase access to health
- Training for frontline staff serving the Medicaid population
- Program evaluation & meaningful data collection to assess health outcomes and inform continuous program improvements
- Goal: Ensure equitable access to health services by supporting direct services and capacity building. Projects focusing on the following issues are especially encouraged:
- Strengthening Health Capacities Fund
- Goal: 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). Projects focusing on the following issues are especially encouraged:
- Promote the integration of behavioral health and primary care
- Build the capacity of social service providers to adopt trauma informed care Educate people in non-medical professions to integrate a health lens in their work, such as teachers’ abilities to address mental health issues with students
- Broadly: Mobilize coalitions and collective impact strategies to address shared health goals and outcomes, related to the health framework
- Goal: 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). Projects focusing on the following issues are especially encouraged:
- Mini Grants
- Criteria: Grants should fit within Partnership’s Broad Health Framework. Examples include:
- Distinct programs in schools or the community
- Meeting or training expenses
- Responses to a community health emergency
- Criteria: Grants should fit within Partnership’s Broad Health Framework. Examples include:
Funding Information
Organizations may also apply formini-grants of up to $5,000,in support of distinct health programs or services in schools and communities.
- Healthy Communities Fund – 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).
- Access For All Fund – 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).
- Strengthening Health Capacities Fund – Grant size: $10,000 – $75,000/year; Duration: 1-year grants and RFPs for first-time applicants; prior grant recipients invited to applyfor 2-year grants (maximum = 3 years).
- Mini Grants – Grant size: $1,000 – $5,000/year; Duration: 1 year grants, with possibilityof 2-year renewals (maximum = 3 years).
Eligibility Criteria
- Only 501(c) 3 organizationsare 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 the specific geographic area. The partnership region includes all of Perry County, Western and Central Cumberland County, Northern Adams County and Greater Shippensburg.
For more information, visit http://www.forbetterhealthpa.org/what-we-do/what-we-fund/