Innovation Grant Program provides funding for innovative, new projects to improve the health and wellbeing of Louisianians.
Donor Name: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation
State: Louisiana
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/01/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation (Louisiana Blue Foundation) recognizes the need to foster innovation as a means of improving health and wellbeing in Louisiana. Through this program, they hope to encourage a research based and scientific approach to philanthropy through testing ideas and seeing what works. The first step in that process is challenging the status quo with new ideas.
The goal is to find exciting, emerging ideas and social startup initiatives that have the potential to disrupt negative trends in health, education and other issues that directly impact quality of life for Louisianians. A successful Innovation grant project may be a new pilot intervention, plan or approach.
Funding Information
Grants are generally less than $25,000 in support of projects that take less than one year to complete.
Eligibility Criteria
Per the Board of Directors, foundation does not fund the following in any circumstances:
- Organizations that discriminate in their provision of goods and services based on race, color, religion, national origin, disability, sex, age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or marital status
- Organizations that do not have a 501(c)3 or appropriate non-profit designation and/ or are not in good standing with the Louisiana Secretary of State
- Research and development of medicines and medical devices, including trials and therapeutic related efforts
- Individual or individual fundraisers, athletic teams, pageants, profit making enterprises or other efforts where the aim is not specifically and explicitly working to improve the health and lives of the people of Louisiana
- General operating/programmatic requests from existing non-profits, recognizing that the grants are designed to be short-term in nature.
For more information, visit BCBSLF.
