The Caring For Colorado Foundation is seeking applications for its Protect and Expand Contraceptive Access Funding Opportunity for clinics and local health agencies with contraceptive care programs in Colorado that want to improve their care delivery, operational systems, and influence broader policy change for reproductive equity.
Donor Name: Caring for Colorado Foundation
State: Colorado
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/19/2023
Size of the Grant: Up to $250,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
Built on prior initiatives to increase access to person-centered contraceptive care (Colorado Contraceptive Access Change Project and S+RIVE) this funding opportunity is designed to acknowledge and work within limitations facing the health care and public health sectors to advance the critical work of reproductive equity. Specifically, it will support safety net clinics and local health agencies with funding for up to 24 months as they respond to the ongoing and urgent need for equitable access to contraceptive care. Support includes grant funding to address clinic and agency-specific gaps or barriers, technical assistance and coaching from a reproductive health care delivery expert, and a learning community of grantees to address common concerns and identify and solve for policy or regulatory barriers.
Clinics and agencies will identify and address barriers to contraceptive access faced by one or more of ReproCollab’s priority populations:
- Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people
- People in rural and frontier communities
- LGBTQIA people
- People who are undocumented, asylees and/or refugees
- People living on low incomes and facing financial barriers to care
- Young people
Funding Information
Up to $250,000 ($75,000-$100,000 on average) over two years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Colorado-based primary care safety net clinics are eligible to apply. This can include Federally Qualified Health Centers, independent safety net clinics, or school-based health centers. Clinics must serve 50% or more people on Medicaid and/or uninsured OR be in a contraceptive care desert.
- Local health agencies with existing contraceptive care programs, such as Title X, are eligible to apply.
- Clinics must currently provide contraceptive care and be interested in improving this service.
- Current Caring for Colorado grantees are eligible to apply.
- Past participants in the Colorado Contraceptive Access Change Project are eligible, as are first-time applicants to ReproCollab.
- Partnerships between primary care clinics and local health agencies are encouraged.
For more information, visit Protect and Expand Contraceptive Access.
