Deadline: 31-May-23
AstraZeneca’s Foundation has launched Together for CHANGE (Changing Health Access for Next Generation Equity), a new signature program to advance health equity and improve access to quality healthcare in their communities.
The intent of the grants is to provide general operating support for organizations working in innovative, collaborative ways at the community level to help improve access to quality healthcare in their community during the grant year and beyond. The aim is for funded organizations to maximize the benefit to community members and community-based organizations and to work toward continuing their services beyond potential AstraZeneca Foundation funding.
Priorities
- Organizations must demonstrate a commitment to health equity by working to improve access to quality healthcare for people experiencing disadvantages due to their race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, income, socioeconomic status, ability, citizenship status, limited English proficiency, literacy, housing status, geographic location or any other barriers to accessing healthcare.
- Additional preference will be given to organizations that provide services in areas of low income and/or remote/rural areas.
Focus Areas/Services
- Organizations must provide culturally responsive services to help improve access to quality healthcare while considering the social determinants of health that impact community members. This may include but is not limited to:
- Providing access to care services (e.g., screenings, wellness and prevention services) and coordination of care (e.g., via case managers, health coaches, promotores)
- Mitigating barriers that impact access to care services (e.g., transportation, affordability)
- Improving cultural responsiveness of organizations (e.g., physical accessibility, culturally and linguistically appropriate health information, cultural competency training, translation services, plain language materials)
- Additional preference will be given to grant applications that:
- Offer innovative, community-engaged approaches to improving access to quality healthcare
- Focus on promoting screenings, early detection, treatment and/or continuity of care for cardiovascular, renal, respiratory or immunologic diseases and/or cancers
- Include collaboration with other community-based organizations in their approach
- Create a new partnership and/or coalition or expand existing partnerships with other institutions similarly committed to health equity to breakdown pre-existing silos and maximize benefit to the community through collaboration
- Reflect the communities they serve through their staff and leadership/executive board
- Engage with their local communities/populations served to help guide decisions around services and accelerate local change
- Conduct community-based outreach specifically intended to foster equitable access to quality healthcare and equitable outcomes
- Have the capacity to measure their overall impact on community health through evaluation activities
- Demonstrate robust plans to sustain their access to quality healthcare efforts (via fundraisers, grants, partnerships, reimbursable services etc.)
Funding Criteria
- The Foundation will fund requests between $200,000 and $250,000 for the first year, which may be renewed on an annual basis for up to two additional years.
Eligibility Criteria
- To qualify for a Foundation grant, an organization is required to be a U.S.-based, nonprofit organization with a 501(c) designation or a public school, government entity or municipal institution that is eligible to accept tax-deductible, charitable contributions. Organizations that are a 501(c)(3) and also have an IRS designation as a 509(a)(3) are ineligible for funding.
- After submitting the application, organizations cannot make substantive changes to their tax status. Once selected for a grant award, organizations cannot reassign, transfer or credit their grant to another entity, including any related entity, without prior written approval by the Foundation. Any changes in an organization’s tax status after submitting the application or being selected for a grant award must be reported immediately and may impact the organization’s eligibility to receive the grant.
- The organization must be based in the United States or its territories and serve communities in at least one of the following locations: Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania or Washington DC.
- The organization must have a minimum of three years prior programming/services helping to improve access to quality healthcare.
- If applying with fewer than three years’ experience, specific emphasis must be placed on why this innovation should be tested and funded in the absence of significant experience.
- The nonprofit organization must meet the following key criteria:
- Demonstrate a commitment to health equity by working to improve access to quality healthcare for people experiencing disadvantages due to the race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status and/or more.
- Provide culturally responsive services to help improve access to quality healthcare including but not limited to
- providing access to care services and coordination of care,
- mitigating barriers that impact access to care services and/or
- improving cultural responsiveness of organizations
Ineligibility Criteria
- The Foundation does not fund applications that focus exclusively on the following:
- Capital investments and unsolicited capital campaigns
- Medical education and/or training (i.e., training necessary to obtain a degree or license) for healthcare professionals that is more than incidental and that is the primary focus of the grant’s activities
- Research or clinical trials
- Healthcare provider salaries
- Faith-based programs that are not open to the community-at-large
- The Foundation does not support:
- Initiatives outside the United States or its territories
- Individuals
- For-profit organizations
- Endowments
- Journals or advertising
- Political causes, lobbying, fraternal or social organizations
- Religious organizations whose activities are not open to the general public
- Nonprofit organizations that discriminate on the basis of age, race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, military service, veteran status or disability
For more information, visit AstraZeneca’s Foundation.