The RIZE Massachusetts Foundation is inviting applicants to share their ideas to end the stigma associated with addiction, keep people safe from overdose, and ensure that anyone who wants it has access to quality care no matter who they are or where they live.
Donor Name: RIZE Massachusetts Foundation
State: Massachusetts
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/05/2022
Size of the Grant: up to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
RIZE Massachusetts Foundation (RIZE) is the only public-private partnership solely dedicated to fund solutions to end the overdose crisis. Guided by those with lived experience and unafraid of new ideas, RIZE partners with organizations across the Commonwealth to build networks, design programming, and support novel approaches to prevent overdose. Created in 2017, RIZE has been on a mission to solve the overdose crisis, follow the evidence, and take big risks along with its partners to reach zero stigma and zero deaths. Through Together We RIZE, they hope to continue their fierce and unwavering commitment to their partners by funding bold, community-driven projects and initiatives that have the potential to bend the curve of this crisis. Working together, they can meet the urgency of the moment and put this tragic period behind them.
The five lessons below are what fuel them and will undoubtedly be helpful as they mark their fifth anniversary with their partners through Together We RIZE:
- People closest to the problem often have the best solutions. They’re often farthest away from where decisions are made too. RIZE is working to change that. They include people with lived experience in their decision making, on their teams, and in their partnerships, and they compensate them for their knowledge.
- Treatment is not one size fits all. It should be guided by science and delivered with compassion and respect for the dignity and autonomy of the individual. Everyone should be offered immediate access to a range of treatments, including all types of medication for opioid use disorder (OUD), psychosocial interventions, and recovery supports.
- The drug overdose crisis in Massachusetts continues to evolve. Although fentanyl is a main driver of deaths, most overdose deaths now co-occur with a non-opioid drug. Understanding the causes and developing solutions to increase the availability of harm reduction services and treatment for polysubstance use is a priority.
- Harm reduction is an important part of the treatment continuum. Harm reduction focuses on keeping people who use drugs alive and as safe as possible, regardless of whether their goal is recovery
- The social determinants of health must be addressed. Other aspects of life — poverty, racism, classism, social isolation, sexual exploitation, and other social inequities — must be considered in order to treat the whole patient and reduce overdose.
Funding Information
- Together We RIZE will make funding available for five one-year grants of up to $100,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- RIZE encourages applications from individual non-profit organizations as well as from partnerships that already have an existing relationship or that are newly coming together to end the overdose crisis.
For more information, visit RIZE Massachusetts Foundation.
