The CARESTAR Foundation has announced an open call for the Leighton Memorial Award to demonstrate success in improving emergency and prehospital care with a focus on improving racial equity.
Donor Name: CARESTAR Foundation
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Award
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 07/22/2022
Award Size: Up to $100,000
Details:
Established in 2018, the Leighton Memorial Award furthers the legacy of Jeff Leighton, a key advisor to the CARESTAR Foundation during its launch. An expert in the areas of non-profit foundation development, operations, finance, and investment management, Leighton was instrumental in helping CARESTAR incorporate as an organization. His illness and subsequent passing during this period led the board of directors to establish this honor to recognize Leighton’s outstanding contributions to the CARESTAR Foundation and help support the rural areas of California Jeff loved so much.
The award is intended to specifically recognize multi-agency coalitions/collaboratives that:
- serve a population/community that experiences racial health disparities or inequitable healthcare;
- are reflective and inclusive of the communities they serve; and
- seek to impact broader systems change to emergency and prehospital care (e.g. organizational practice or policy changes).
Award Information
Up to $100,000 available.
Eligibility Criteria
- Location: Coalition/collaborative must work in a rural, frontier or tribal area in California as defined by:
- Rural – community/city with less than 50,000 residents.
- Frontier – no more than 7 residents per square mile.
- Tribal – one of the 109 federally recognized Indian tribes in California or in the process of petitioning for federal recognition through the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
- Coalition or Collaborative: Must be an existing group of three or more organizations with at least one of the organizations physically located in the rural, frontier, or tribal area being served.
- Population Served: Population/community experiences racial health disparities or inequitable emergency and pre-hospital care.
- Timeframe: The work of the coalition/collaborative must have taken place within the last full calendar year (2021).
For more information, visit CARESTAR Foundation.
