Deadline: 8-Aug-22
The Denver Foundation is pleased to launch a call for proposals for The Comprecare Fund.
The Fund has adopted a broad definition of optimal wellness, and any project that addresses wellness will be considered. Each individual community can decide its focus for wellness. Preference will be given to returning grantees.
Proposals should include the following:
- Engagement of community residents, programs, agencies, and key stakeholders who can increase access to wellness and strive to improve outcomes for seniors.
- Demonstrated need(s) of seniors in their community via quantitative and qualitative data.
- Provide evidence that your organization is collectively prepared to tackle wellness with evidence-based interventions.
- Provide mechanisms to demonstrate measurable outcomes and an increase to accessing treatment.
Details
- Seniors. Ages 65+ Priority will be given to projects that seek to serve hard-to-reach seniors, i.e., those seniors who are low-income, isolated and/or have a chronic illness or functional impairment. These seniors face the greatest barriers to accessing the components of healthy living—physical activity, good nutrition and management of chronic health problems.
- Evidence-based programming Interventions, treatments, or programs that that have been proven effective through outcome evaluations. Those interventions will likely be effective in changing target behavior if implemented with integrity to the model.
Funding Information
Awards will range from $7,500 to $20,000. Applicants that can combine funds from other sources toward a common outcome/issue are strongly encouraged. Diversified funding speaks to the sustainability of programming, which is a best practice. Approximately half of awardees will come from rurual communities.
Types Of Support
- Types Of Support The Comprecare Fund is pleased to offer two types of flexible funding support to meet the varying needs across the communities in Colorado.
- Project & Program Support The onus is on the applicant to use both existing quantitative and qualitative data to demonstrate the need(s) and opportunities in their community that they wish to address. The applicant may apply for funds for evidence-based programming.
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General Operating Support The Comprecare Fund will consider providing grants for general operating support to organizations when:
- The majority of population(s) served by all of the organizations’ programs and services are a strong fit with the Fund’s target population (i.e., Colorado seniors who are older, low-income, isolated, have a chronically illness and/or are underserved).
- There is a clear strategic agreement between the applicant and the Fund on outcome objectives that align with the intent of the Fund that focuses on optimal wellness of seniors. In other words, 80%-100% of the applicant’s everyday work must be focused on senior wellness and care.
- Applicants are already doing exemplary behavioral health care work (i.e., organizations are well established) in their communities and can demonstrate their successes.
- If all the applicants’ programs and services are not a strong fit for both the target population and focus areas of the Fund, please consider applying for a program grant for those programs that are a strong fit.
Eligibility Criteria
- Grants will be awarded primarily to nonprofit organizations. Grants may be awarded to government agencies if they collaborate with a nonprofit and can demonstrate the community outcomes for seniors in the areas of physical health, good nutrition, and management of chronic health conditions.
- Applicants that can combine funds from other sources toward a common health care outcome/issue are encouraged. This speaks to sustainability and the diversification of funding sources, which is a best practice.
- Eligible area This is a statewide fund and organizations in rural and urban areas are encouraged to apply.
Criteria
Before you apply:
- Learn about their new online grant application portal, TDF Grant Manager.
- Create an account on TDF Grant Manager.
- Review the guidelines for the funding opportunity you are interested in.
- Please note: Registration takes approximately one business day to process.
For more information, visit The Comprecare Fund.
For more information, visit https://denverfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The-Comprecare-Fund-2022.pdf