Telligen Community Initiative (TCI) funding for 2025 will continue to focus on improving the health of communities within specific funding priority areas.
Donor Name: Telligen Community Initiative (TCI)
State: Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Oklahoma
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/03/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
These priority areas were identified to define TCI’s community responsive grant programming more thoroughly in efforts to produce more specific themes and enhance the portability and replication potential of similar themed projects across Colorado, Illinois, lowa and Oklahoma communities.
TCI continues to believe in multiple funding mechanisms that strive to meet applicants where they are in their work and evolution. Additionally, TCI wants to contribute to the success of your organization and advancement of your mission. Please consider the following themes or forms of support when developing your proposal:
- First-dollar, programmatic or seed funding to nonprofit organizations or governmental entities is a powerful contribution TCI can make to positively impact health status.
- This funding can also be positioned to provide support for the critical work of an organization in strong alignment with the funding priorities.
- Grants may support expansion or spread of an organization’s impactful and successful approaches to other populations or geographic areas.
TCI will prioritize its philanthropic support completely within the sub-priorities offered and discussed within this RFP. In 2025, the funding emphasis will encompass the following approaches:
- All four (4) TCI states are eligible for project support within this Request for Proposals through two funding deadlines, which are grouped by states.
- There will not be a Health Workforce Development-based funding opportunity in 2025. TCI is providing a greater focus on the social drivers of health and the ways the funding could be deployed. The sub-priorities that follow were developed from aggregating the most successful projects over the past two years. This is intended to offer a tighter set of desired projects under the funding priority.
- TCI is maintaining the Social Determinants of Health funding interests around emphasizing the integration of childhood, family and community health in new ways. TCI wants to resource efforts that advance optimal physical, mental and social health and well-being for families, children and youth in the four states TCI supports. Community work and projects TCI seeks to support will be the only types of projects considered.
- In efforts to achieve greater impacts, TCI is increasing the funding dose and duration of the support for the second time in three years. TCI will now entertain funding requests up to $150,000 cumulatively across a 24-month funding period. The initial payout of grant support will be made at the start of the funding period. The remainder will be paid in month 13 of the 24-month period, provided the project work is proceeding as planned based on grantee interaction and reporting.
Strengthening Families and Communities Priority Areas
- Pre-pregnancy and pregnancy (healthy births)
- Prenatal care is the health care that a pregnant woman or woman contemplating a pregnancy receives. The funding is predicated around the necessity of accessing and receiving high quality, culturally appropriate early prenatal care as well as overall skill and capacity building around reproductive health.
- Parenting resiliency and adverse childhood experiences protective factors
- Parents and caregivers give their children a good start in life by nurturing, protecting and guiding them. Parenting is a process, as delivered by a parent or trusted caregiver/ other family member, that prepares children for indepence. As children grow, there are many things that parents and caregivers do to help them socialize and develop. TCI wants to help advance best practices in parenting skill development and efforts to positively support families and their journeys – all while building protective factors to prevent or mitigate Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).
Eligibility Criteria
- Another viable option is to position grant applications from a targeted population standpoint – not geographic. TCI wants to meet you where you are, so encourage you to choose what works best for your organization and project.
- To request a grant, your organization must be recognized as a federally tax-exempt section 501(c)(3) charitable organization, an accredited school, or a public/ governmental agency located in one of the states to which this support extends, including Colorado, Illinois, Iowa or Oklahoma.
- Note: a public agency is an organization established and primarily funded by a unit of government. Examples could include a public school, public library, local public health department or state governmental agency. Note that TCI does not fund organizations with a pending 501(c)(3) status.
Deadlines
- Illinois-based and Oklahoma-based project applications are due by March 3, 2025.
- Colorado- based and lowa-based project applications are due by October 15, 2025.
For more information, visit Telligen Community Initiative.
