Diabetes Free SC (DFSC) is an initiative of BlueCross® BlueShield® of South Carolina and the BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation is seeking proposals from eligible applicant organizations to improve the health of women who have or are at risk for, diabetes.
Donor Name: Diabetes Free SC
State: South Carolina
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 02/09/2022
Size of the Grant: $1,000,000
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
Proposals must address access to care for low-income women. Eligible organizations must have the capacity to implement a team approach to prevent, detect, and improve clinical care for women with diabetes, including pre-diabetes, gestational diabetes, pre-pregnancy counseling, and post-/inter-partum care. More generally, the programs should empower women with diabetes to take control of their health, to have healthier pregnancies and healthier children, to become agents for change within families and communities. By improving women’s health, it is expected these programs will yield multigenerational benefits, reducing the impact of diabetes and its complications.
Purpose
In keeping with (a) DFSC’s strategic direction to prevent diabetes and its complications among adults and (b) DFSC’s guiding principle to intervene early in life and to address disparities, the purposes of this program are:
- To promote wellness among women with, or at risk for, diabetes, and to mitigate income and racial disparities in the quality of, and access to, healthcare.
- To improve screening, diabetes prevention, and diabetes education for women.
- To prepare young women with or at risk for diabetes for possible or planned future pregnancy.
- To improve post-partum management of women who had gestational diabetes.
- To align with, complement, and support the other strategic directions of DFSC (multidisciplinary care during pregnancy and reduction of risk for future diabetes in schoolchildren).
- Through the influence of women, to benefit multigenerational family members and entire communities.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Amount per award: $1,000,000 over the entire grant period amount must be justifiable for scope and scale of the project.
- Duration: 3 years.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must be a nonprofit organization that has a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status as determined by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS); or must be a governmental, educational, or research institution with tax-exempt status. An organization may only submit one proposal.
Applicant organizations should have the capacity to develop coordinated, team-based initiatives to prevent diabetes and its complications in reproductive-age women, facilitating the connection of community, clinical, and public health components. Examples of team members to be supported are:
- Community: diabetes-trained Community Health Workers, Doulas, Patient Navigators.
- Clinical: diabetes educators, nutritionists, endocrinologists, family physicians, obstetricians, maternal-fetal medicine specialists
- Public health leaders
For more information, visit Request for Proposals.
