The Minnesota Department of Health is inviting funding proposals from nonprofit community-based organizations, Tribal health departments, public health departments, and community health boards that will connect, strengthen, and amplify health equity efforts.
Donor Name: Minnesota Department of Health
State: Minnesota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/28/2022
Size of the Grant: $150,000
Grant Duration: 5 months
Details:
The purpose of this RFP is to strengthen regional and community partnerships that advance health equity. It is a component of the Regional Health Equity Network Project. The RFP will fund activities and projects that shift conditions that hold inequities in place and open pathways to advancing health equity. All funded projects must intentionally build relationships that are foundational for successful public health partnerships.
Project Categories
There are three funding categories (applicants may choose more than one category). Funding categories and example activities are listed below. Applicants are encouraged to link their activities to one or more of the conditions of systems change.
- Funding Category 1 – Connect: Building and initiating new relationships among local public health, Tribal public health, community organizations, and/or others advancing health equity. Example activities include, but are not limited to:
- Connecting and building relationships with regional equity partners
- Building inclusion of populations being served in planning efforts & keeping in mind how to sustain such inclusion efforts
- Incorporation/utilization of diverse media outlets for public health efforts
- Cross sectoral relationship building within a county, Tribe, and/or region
- Support the development of a program by building relationships with communities most impacted by health inequities and key partners
- Funding Category 2 – Strengthen: Strengthen organizational and community capacity to advance health equity through cross-sector training, technical assistance, and skills development. Example activities include, but are not limited to:
- Increase understanding of health inequities experienced in rural communities as a means to strengthen work to advance health equity in rural settings
- Conduct a Health Equity Organizational Assessment
- Adopt and implement a Health Equity Policy Review process
- Promote diverse workforce representative of the communities being served
- Provide implicit bias training for staff from two or more organizations
- Implement indigenous evaluation methods
- Funding Category 3 – Amplify: Amplify existing relationships and the interconnected work of communities and public health systems to prioritize community solutions that advance health equity. Example activities include, but are not limited to:
- Embed a Community Coach or individuals/elders from a community to support equity practices Extend funding for an existing Community Health Worker position
- Build on COVID-19 partnerships that reached communities most impacted by health inequities to address other public health improvement efforts
- Broaden the use of cultural practices to support health outcomes
Population Serve
The populations this is intended to serve includes, but is not limited to:
- American Indian, non-Hispanic
- Asian, non-Hispanic
- Black or African American, nonHispanic
- Hispanic, Latino or Latinx
- Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders, non-Hispanic
- White, non-Hispanic
- Multiple race, non-Hispanic
- Unknown race
- Migrant Communities
- Immigrant Communities
- Aging Populations
- LGBTQIA+
- People living in rural areas
- People experiencing homelessness
- People with disabilities
Funding Information
- Estimated amount to grant: $5,000,000
- Estimated award maximum: $150,000
- Estimated award minimum: $20,000
- The first round of grants is anticipated to start December 1, 2022. The anticipated end date for all projects is May 31, 2023.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants include nonprofit community-based organizations, Tribal governments, public health departments, and community health boards advancing health equity in their communities or within their region within the state of Minnesota. Eligible applicants must be registered with the Minnesota Secretary of State and not suspended or debarred by the State or the Federal Government. Eligible applicants can apply in each round. Nonprofit community-based organizations applicants must partner with either a Tribal health partner or a community health board partner on their application and must be prepared to provide written verification that the Tribal health partner or community health board partner is a project partner, as requested, during the grant agreement process. These types of partnerships will strengthen the foundational capabilities of health equity and community partnerships that must be carried out by governmental public health. No grants will be awarded to individuals or informal groups of individuals.
- MDH recognizes the sovereignty of Tribal Nations. They will only fund non-Tribal-led projects in Tribal communities if the applicant has full support of the Tribal government. If a non-Tribal applicant proposes to work with a Tribal government or Tribal community, the applicant must provide written verification that the Tribal government approves of the project before a grant award is offered.
For more information, visit MDH.
