Montgomery County’s Asian American Health Initiative (AAHI), which is part of the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, is now accepting applications for the 2024 Healthy Communities Fund grant program.
Donor Name: Asian American Health Initiative
State: Maryland
County:
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/31/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,500,000
Details:
The Asian American Health Initiative has determined that sustained funding is needed to facilitate community-based organizations (CBOs) and faith-based organizations (FBOs) providing linguistically and culturally appropriate services to the diverse Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in Montgomery County, Maryland. This Request for Proposal is to solicit applications from eligible organizations to provide health services to Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in Montgomery County Maryland. Services can include but are not limited to behavioral health, senior wellness, and health & social support services. A
Funding Categories
All proposed programs must address one of the funding categories and the corresponding outcome statements listed below.
- Organizations can select no more than 2 funding categories in their proposal.
- Funding categories are not ranked by order of importance and the number of funding categories selected by an applicant does not affect points.
- These funding categories are for the direct benefit of the AAPI communities and residents.
- Service examples are just examples. Thus, organizations are encouraged to propose services, within the described funding categories, that can best address the specific needs of the communities they serve.
Health & Social Support Services
- Outcome Statement
- Provide linguistically accessible and culturally appropriate services that improve health and/or enhance access to health or social support services
- Service Examples
- Chronic illness self-management programs.
- Culturally responsive food assistance efforts such as community food pantries, food distributions, or hot meals distributions
- Programs aimed at improving cultural responsiveness/awareness of healthcare professionals
Mental/Behavioral Health
- Outcome Statement
- Reduce stigma around seeking mental health services and encourage people to seek treatment
- Service Examples
- Programs aimed at diversifying the mental health workforce
- Providing counseling services in common Asian languages
- Programs that focus on youth suicide prevention
Senior Wellness
- The following types of services are not eligible for an award through Healthy Communities Fund:
- Social media programs – programs or services that operate on and/or primarily engage social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, WeChat, IMO, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat, LinkedIn, etc.
- Online content production and distribution – distribution can have an online component but not solely online.
- Religious events or celebrations – religious events can be used to provide services, but funding cannot be used to solely pay for religious events or celebrations.
- Cultural events or celebrations – cultural events can be used to provide services, but funding cannot be solely used to pay for cultural events or celebrations.
- Political events or celebrations.
- Services that do not capture and report the age, race, gender, and zip-code of clients served.
Award Categories
The Healthy Communities Fund seeks to ensure that the fund is equitable and accessible to all organizations regardless of size, capacity, and years of service. Applicants can apply for funding in one award category. Award categories are not ranked by order of importance, do not have maximum or minimum awards to be distributed, and will not be evaluated differently. The same proposal evaluation criteria will be used. However, due to the different levels of funding, the application requirements are different. Organizations are encouraged to select a category and request amounts that are best suited to the organizational capacity and fiscal capability.
- The budget submitted and the amount requested must exceed $50,000.
- The budget submitted and the amount requested must be $50,000 or less.
Funding Information
- Total Funding Available: $1,500,000
- Maximum Funding Available per Organization/Award: $150,000
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for a grant award under this program the applicant organization must:
- Be a nonprofit corporation with either 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) tax-exempt status.
- Provide services to Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) in Montgomery County, Maryland. Applicants may be located in other jurisdictions, but the proposed program(s) must serve residents of Montgomery County, Maryland only.
- Be registered and in good standing with the State of Maryland or adjacent jurisdiction. Have all appropriate licenses and insurance consistent with the Primary Care Coalition terms and conditions.
- Have been continuously delivering one or more culturally and linguistically competent services to ethnically and economically diverse AAPI communities in Montgomery County, Maryland since July 1, 2021.
- Have the ability and capacity to provide services throughout the term of the grant period which ends June 30, 2024.
- Have an established or the ability to establish a mechanism to collect and report on client data such as age, race, gender, zip code, and more.
NOTE: The programs and services provided under this grant must not be funded by another agency (county, state, federal, for-profit, or nonprofit).
For more information, visit AAHI.
