The Con Alma Health Foundation (CAHF) provides grants to eligible nonprofits working to improve health and advance health equity for people who live in New Mexico.
Donor Name: Con Alma Health Foundation
State: New Mexico
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/16/2023
Size of the Grant: $25,000
Grant Duration: 12 months
Details:
The aim of the Foundation is to ensure that New Mexico’s diverse communities have fair opportunities to lead healthy lives.
Six Priority Areas
Con Alma prioritizes efforts that will impact many individuals within a network, community, or communities – rather than focusing on 1:1 direct services to individuals.
- Access
- CAHF supports proposals that focus on access to health and healthcare as well as improving the health status and quality of life for the uninsured and medically underserved in New Mexico.
- Culturally Appropriate Services
- CAHF supports efforts that aim to reduce health disparities, particularly for rural and tribal communities, immigrant families, and people of color. They support traditional and community-based approaches to health and efforts that support the hardest to reach individuals and communities in New Mexico.
- Evaluation/Research
- CAHF supports new solutions to old problems and efforts that have the courage to risk failure. This may include data analysis, support of policy and advocacy, and/or the creation of new knowledge.
- Health Promotion
- CAHF supports efforts that define health broadly and emphasize education, prevention, and personal empowerment.
- Policy
- CAHF supports consumer participation in health policy formation and advocacy efforts to improve the health and well-being of people who live in New Mexico.
- Workforce Development
- CAHF supports the development of professionals who reflect the cultural and linguistic diversity of communities in New Mexico. This includes individuals who are participating in traditional as well as non-traditional training and educational opportunities.
Funding Information
- Request Amounts Applicants may request $15,000, $20,000 or $25,000 for one year of support. The Foundation anticipates funding up to $650,000 total (or approximately 22-26 grants).
- Grant Implementation Period January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024
Proposals Will be Reviewed Strong proposals will communicate the following:
- A sense of urgency
- The proposed work is timely and necessary in the respective community or communities in which the work will take place.
- Health needs and gaps
- The proposed work addresses challenges that disproportionately impact historically underserved populations in New Mexico (e.g., low-income, uninsured, underinsured, rural, immigrants, tribal, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+, elders and seniors, etc).
- Clear goals and objectives
- The proposed work has realistic outcomes, is results oriented, and accomplishment is feasible during the 12-month grant period.
- Community led solutions
- The proposed work includes community voices and community-led solutions and is not solely a top-down approach.
- A focus on systems change
- The application considers root causes within systems and institutions that inhibit success for some communities or individuals. Proposed solutions incorporate an equity and social justice lens to ensure New Mexico’s diverse communities have equitable opportunities to lead healthy lives.
Eligibility Criteria
- Grants are awarded to tax-exempt, nonprofit organizations under Section 501(c)(3) Code of the Internal Revenue Service or to Fiscal Sponsors with a 501(c)(3) designation.
- This opportunity is open to all eligible applicants including current and past grant recipients of Con Alma Health Foundation.
- Work funded by the grant must benefit people living in New Mexico.
- Priority communities in New Mexico:
- Communities historically marginalized or traumatized because of race, language, gender, sexual orientation, or spiritual beliefs
- Immigrant, rural, and border communities
- Low-income and economically disempowered communities
- People with disabilities and people suffering from chronic health conditions and traumarelated health inequities
- People who are uninsured, underinsured, and/or medically underserved
- The foundation funds requests that have the potential to benefit many members in a system, network, or community (vs. individual needs). Small, grassroots, and medium-sized organizations are especially encouraged to apply.
For more information, visit CAHF.
