The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation is accepting Letters of Intent for its Healthcare Workforce Collective Impact Grants.
Donor Name: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation
State: Louisiana
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/01/2022
Size of the Grant:$250,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
These grants are made to organizations working to implement targeted and comprehensive educational, recruitment, retention and related programs to meet pressing needs in Louisiana’s healthcare workforce.
Purpose
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation is committed to improving the health and wellbeing of Louisianians. In many Louisiana communities, there are critical shortages in the healthcare workforce (general practitioners, dentists, specialists, nurses, mental health providers and other allied health professionals).
These gaps compound Louisiana’s health disparities, limiting the efficacy of healthcare interventions in those areas of the state where it is needed the most. As such, the Blue Cross Foundation is issuing a challenge to communities across the state to help address this major public health concern. They are seeking community-level proposals that build sustainable and lasting solutions for Louisiana’s healthcare workforce shortage.
Potential Project Components
Project components should be tailored to an applicant community’s needs, driven by evidence and best practices. Applicants may want to consider:
- Educational efforts that attempt to prepare future generations of Louisianans to meet the identified gap
- Recruitment efforts that attempt to sustainably close the gap in healthcare workforce
- Retention efforts that slow or stop the loss in healthcare workforce
- Related efforts that aid in one of the above and/ or improve the healthcare workforce issue identified
Healthcare Workforce Gaps
While different communities in Louisiana have different healthcare workforce gaps and this RFP can apply to any well documented and meaningful healthcare workforce gap, the following are some widely evident gaps that communities might consider:
- General practitioners, nurses and nurse practitioners, particularly those serving and living in low-income and rural communities
- Mental healthcare providers, particularly counselors, Psychologists and Psychiatrists
- Dentists and other dental health professionals
Funding Information
Amount – Grants range from $250,000 to $1 million over three years (full awards will be made in one-third increments per each year of the project upon meeting annual performance benchmarks).
Blue Cross Foundation staff will evaluate full proposals based on a number of criteria with assistance from a panel of experts. This information will be presented to the Foundation’s Board of Directors. Funding for Collective Impact grants is at the sole discretion of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation’s Board of Directors. The ideal Collective Impact project is:
- Based on a clear challenge to a community’s health
- Backed by theory or research
- Comprehensive and systemic, addressing root challenges of public health issues
- Properly staffed by an organization with capacity to complete the project, and backed by a community coalition substantial enough to achieve desired outcomes
- Scalable and, if successful, able to replicated in other places
For more information, visit Healthcare Workforce Collective Impact Grants.
