Best Start for Kids (BSK) Public Health – Seattle & King County (PHSKC) is pleased to release this Request for Proposal (RFP) for Environmental Supports: Lead and Toxics with funding from Best Starts for Kids.
Donor Name: Best Start for Kids
State: Washington
County: King County (WA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/17/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The purpose of this RFP is to support the work of community-based organizations who serve communities most impacted by toxics to address exposure sources harming families and young children in King County.
Types of Projects Eligible for Funding
This RFP seeks to support projects that fall into one of four categories:
- Project Category A: Community Organization Coalition Building to Address Toxics Exposures through Policy and Systems Changes. Create opportunities for community coalition-building, skill-building, and cross-sector partnerships with the aim of informing systems-level policies and programs to reduce toxics exposures.
- Project Category B: Community Based-Participatory Science or Citizen Science. Support community-based participatory research or citizen science projects that create opportunities to better understand and address toxics exposures in priority communities.
- Project Category C: Workforce Development in Healthcare. Create workforce development opportunities in healthcare to prevent and address toxics exposures in youth and children.
- Project Category D: Workforce Development in Housing, Construction, and Other High-Risk Industries. Create workforce development opportunities or focused programs in industries that put children and families at risk for take-home exposures.
Funding Information
- Approximately $750,000 is available for up to three years through Best Starts for Kids to support the work described in this RFP. The contract exhibit expected start date is July 1, 2024 with an end date no later than June 30, 2027. Between one to three applicants will be selected to receive funding.
- The maximum award amount applicants may request is $250,000 per year or $750,000 total for three years. The funding amount requested should be aligned with proposed strategies outlined in the application.
Focus Populations
All proposals for this RFP should also prioritize serving one or more of the focus communities most impacted by toxics. These communicates include:
- Families with lower income,
- BIPOC communities,
- Children eligible for Medicaid (Apple Health),
- Families living in subsidized or low-income housing,
- Families living unhoused or with unstable housing,
- Immigrants, refugees, and people who are undocumented or living in mixed immigration-status households,
- Families with parents/caregivers working in industries with high risk for toxics exposures,
- Other communities that live in areas with legacy pollution.
Eligibility Criteria
Ideal applicants will:
- Uphold and center community needs, strengths, and interests in all decisions and recommendations.
- Seek to build relationships with other organizations and individuals from the focus communities they are serving.
- Intentionally design programming and projects to be reflective of the communities they are serving. This includes considering language and other access needs, as well as including community members throughout the design of the project to ensure it is culturally informed and appropriate.
- Recognize and seek to address the historical and current systemic racism and structural violence that puts communities of color and other focus communities at increased risk of toxic exposures.
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