Deadline: 20-Sep-20
The Voices for Healthy Kids is seeking applications for its Policy Campaign Opportunity grant program to support, drive and inform local, state, and tribal policy change efforts that will dramatically improve the health of children who are Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, American Indian and Alaskan Native or from families who have low income through campaigns, partnerships/networks, research, and communications.
The Policy Campaign Grant is designed to support strategic issue advocacy campaigns supporting Voices for Healthy Kids policy priorities with a focus on health equity. They believe campaigns are most successful through collaboration between community organizations, advocacy groups, coalitions, and others.
Funding Information
- Applications can be submitted for $50,000 – $200,000 for a duration of up to 18 months and can support non-lobbying and lobbying activities.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under the Internal Revenue Code and are not a private foundation or non-functionally integrated Type III supporting organizations (no government agencies, including public schools).
- Applications must be specific to an individual campaign for public policy change in one state, local, or tribal geographic location supporting Voices for Healthy Kids policy priorities.
- Grant requirements include the ability to conduct lobbying activities as defined by the IRS code.
- They value authentic community engagement and equity-building strategies in all aspects of supported campaigns and requires at least one of the organizations in the joint proposal to be representative of or serve the listed priority populations (children who are Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, American Indian, and Alaskan Native and children living in families with low-income).
About Voices for Healthy Kids
- The Voices for Healthy Kids’ mission is to support, drive and inform local, state, and tribal policy change efforts that will dramatically improve the health of children who are Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, American Indian, and Alaskan Native or from families who have low income through campaigns, partnerships/networks, research, and communications.
- Over the past few generations, their communities have changed dramatically. They’ve engineered physical activity out of their daily lives and, to a large extent, removed it from their schools. Unhealthy food is cheap, while it remains difficult for many families to afford the healthy food they need. Communities already burdened by years of disinvestment and bad policy are experiencing widening gaps in health equity.
- Public policy has led to current conditions and impactful policy change must be part of the solution. Together, Voices for Healthy Kids can make a positive impact
For more information, visit https://voicesforhealthykids.org/campaign-resources/grants