The Greater Washington Community Foundation is seeking applications for its Health Equity Fund to support new and established community practices, networks & structures that foster economic mobility.
Donor Name: Greater Washington Community Foundation
State: District of Columbia
City: Washington D.C.
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 07/25/2022
Grant Size: $150,000 to $200,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
The Health Equity Fund is administered by the Greater Washington Community Foundation. The grant-making through the Health Equity Fund is happening within the context of The Community Foundation’s new strategic plan grounded in the values of Racial Equity and Inclusion with a focus on closing the racial wealth gap in the region’s most underinvested neighborhoods.
They believe that changing the prospects for how Black and Brown people in the community generate, sustain, and share wealth will ultimately improve the quality of life for everyone who lives, works, and raises a family in this region. They invite applicants to speak boldly and honestly about their efforts to address systems and policies that contribute to disproportionate negative quality of life outcomes for BIPOC people and communities. To this end, they are also actively looking for opportunities to support BIPOC-led organizations and the places where they do their work.
The Health Equity Fund’s first grant round will invest in community practices and infrastructures that improve the prospects for economic mobility for Black, Latinx, Indigenous, people of color and other marginalized populations and the communities where they live in the District of Columbia. While the committee expects to field applications that align with traditional approaches for improving health outcomes and advancing economic mobility, they are especially interested in projects that break from the status quo and embody the spirit of innovation, creativity, and collective work that Black, Latinx, Indigenous, people of color and other marginalized populations continue to model in the context of their families and neighborhoods. With this grant round the Health Equity Committee also seeks to learn from, support, and grow the field of leaders, practitioners, and organizations working to improve economic mobility. We would like to grow the body of local evidence that links economic progress to improved health outcomes for Black, Latinx, Indigenous, people of color and other marginalized populations who live in the District of Columbia. This could put the city on a trajectory to ensure equitable health outcomes for all people in Washington, DC.
Opportunity Statement
- Recognizing the determinants of health are twenty percent (20%) clinical care and eighty percent (80%) nonclinical, the economic, social and health systems that influence the well-being are failing all of them. These systems often create and reinforce persistent health inequities in the city. Black, Latinx and other people of color are suffering the brunt of these failures and inequities.
- Using the social and structural determinants of health as the guiding frameworks, the Health Equity Committee will deploy the full resources of the Health Equity Fund to invest in innovative and system-changing projects that disrupt the ‘business as usual’ posture of social change that impacts the well-being of people in the city.
- While the Health Equity Committee is committed to addressing the broad spectrum of social and social determinants of health, they will be keenly focused on five catalytic opportunities for change over the next five (5) years:
- Supporting new and established community practices and structures that foster economic mobility
- Advancing policy advocacy and systems change initiatives that address the social and structural determinants of health.
- Seeding disruptive and innovative projects that model and trend toward health equity
- Establishing and sustaining community and anchor partnerships with hospitals and health systems.
- Resourcing mental health and trauma-informed care.
Funding Information
- This specific opportunity for change will provide two-year general operating grants to nonprofits or fiscally sponsored entities that are doing one or more of the following:
- Implementing economic mobility models that increase income and build wealth
- Implementing innovative enterprise development and ownership models
- Organizations with operating budgets of $750,000 and eligible for grants ranging from $50,000- $100,000 and organizations with operating budgets $750,000 are eligible for grants ranging from $150,000 to $200,000.
Eligibility Criteria
Grants will be awarded to select organizations that meet the following minimum eligibility criteria:
- The applicant (defined as the agency that will receive the grant agreement and funds, if awarded) must have current status as a 501(c)(3) public charity designation. Organizations that have not yet received a 501(c)(3) designation must have a fiscal sponsor to serve as the applicant who meets all eligibility requirements at the time of submission.
- The organization must not be listed on the Office of Foreign Assets Control Specially Designated Nationals or the Southern Poverty Law Center Hate Group lists.
- Organizations must be both based in and primarily implementing in the District of Columbia.
- Organizations working towards health equity in areas of the District that exhibit the greatest health disparities, or primarily serving communities experiencing the greatest inequities.
- Organizations that address social, economic, contextual issues that influence health disparities and contribute to health equity specifically, the social and structural determinants of health.
- If previous funding has been received from The Community Foundation, the applicant must be current in reporting to The Community Foundation as specified in the grant agreement.
For more information, visit Greater Washington Community Foundation.
