The Colorado Health Foundation is seeking applications to fund short-term advocacy initiatives (three-to-nine months in length) that ensure Coloradans’ interests and priorities are front and center in shaping policy decisions that will have long-term impacts on creating health equity in Colorado.
Donor Name: The Colorado Health Foundation
State: Colorado
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): Ongoing
Size of the Grant: $15,000 – $75,000
Details:
They evaluate grant applications that fit within or across their four focus areas: Maintain Healthy Bodies, Nurture Healthy Minds, Strengthen Community Health, and Champion Health Equity.
Their Rapid Response funding focuses on advocacy work that reflects the following priorities:
- Creating equity in access to and use of high-quality, comprehensive primary care
- Supporting children to move their bodies safely and conveniently on a daily basis
- Enhancing services and supports that foster social-emotional development and resiliency of young children
- Ensuring teens and young adults have access to the resources they need to support healthy minds
- Ensuring adults have access to local recovery resources that promote healthy minds and productive lives
- Ensuring Coloradans have enough affordable, nutritious food
- Supporting access to affordable, safe, and high-quality housing options
Funding Information
Grants typically range from $15,000 to $75,000.
Who Can Apply
Generally, they make grants to the following types of organizations:
- Colorado organizations classified as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3)
- Colorado public agencies, including state and local governments
Eligibility
The Foundation may provide Advocacy Rapid Response Funding to eligible organizations who are conducting time-sensitive advocacy projects, such as:
- Coalition building, management, and facilitation
- Grassroots organizing
- Litigation and legal advocacy
- Media relations and media advocacy
- Policy and legal analysis
- Policymaker education
- Public education
- Influencer education
- Public opinion research
- Messaging development and testing
- Regulatory advocacy
For more information, visit Rapid Response Funding.
