Deadline: 7-Dec-21
The Michigan Health Endowment Fund has launched 2022 Community Health Impact initiative to support health-focused, community-based organizations with bold ideas to address health challenges in any of the Health Fund’s focus areas.
Goals
The goals of the 2022 Community Health Impact initiative are:
- Increase or improve collaboration among providers, service agencies, the business community, and community-based organizations within a community to address health issues in a sustainable way.
- Provide resources to help empower communities to solve their most pressing health issues and successfully implement health-focused, community driven interventions.
Focus Areas
- Access to Healthy Food
- Behavioral Health Services
- Foodborne Illnesses Prevention
- Health Related Transportation Services
- Health Services for Foster and Adopted Children
- Infant Mortality
- Technology Enhancement
- Wellness and Fitness
Key Components
- Collaboration Planning:
- Cross-sectoral collaborations
- Responsive to both community needs and capacity of the collaborative
- Planning, discovery, and development of a collaborative
- New collaboratives or existing collaboratives looking to work together in new ways
- Focused population of interest or focused geography
- Data-informed
- Work should be related to the eight focus areas, health disparities, or social determinants of health
- Leads to sustainable collaboratives
- Community-Based Implementation
- Organization or collaborative
- Responsive to community needs
- Program implementation
- Implementation of a community-driven solution
- Narrowly focused population of interest or focused geography
- Data-informed
- Work should be related to the eight focus areas or health disparities
- Leads to sustainable community change
Funding Information
- Grant Range: $15,000 to $100,000
- Requests cannot exceed 20% of your organization’s operating budget
- Administrative/indirect costs cannot exceed 20% of proposal budget
- Grants can be one or two years in duration, but the total request is limited to $100,000
- Grassroots organizations, small, and medium size nonprofits are encouraged to apply
Eligibility Criteria
Nonprofits, local units of government, and the State of Michigan are eligible for grants. Applicants must:
- Be recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a nonprofit organization;
- Be based in Michigan;
- Have a current certified financial audit; and
- Have at least 1 FTE
For more information, visit https://mihealthfund.org/grantmaking/community-health-impact