The March 2023 Call for Ideas funding opportunity will support activities up to 18-months in duration with request amounts ranging from $1,000 to $50,000.
Donor Name: Greater Rochester Health Foundation
State: New York
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/07/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,000 to $50,000
Grant Duration: 18 months
Details:
This grant opportunity is part of their Responsive Grantmaking investment area. Responsive Grantmaking takes an open and community-driven approach to improve health equity.
Centered in equity, the mission of the Greater Rochester Health Foundation is to pursue and invest in solutions that build a healthier region where all people can thrive. Their mission reflects their view of health as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”. To achieve justice and fairness in health resources and outcomes, they seek to disrupt and dismantle the conditions that result in racial and other health inequities in their nine-county region.
Purpose of the Program
- Respond to community needs and inequities caused or worsened by the twin pandemics and support the path to rebuilding and reimagining services and systems in more equitable ways.
- Elevate understanding and awareness of intersectionality — meaning the ways a person, group of people, or social problem are affected by overlapping discriminations and disadvantages. They seek to invest in ways that impact those who experience inequity in its most harmful form to ensure access and opportunity for all.
- Support communities to address their self-identified priority health needs, share power to implement cocreated solutions that address health-inequities through changes in systems, practices, and services.
- Ensure client/consumer/resident voices are centered as a part of the identification of the need or opportunity, potential solution or approach, project design and ongoing decision-making process (meeting a need vs. a program in search of clients).
- Support innovative ideas and projects that are intentional about learning from the work and share what they and their partners are learning to inform the field and community.
Funding Information
Foundation will fund health equity focused work for a duration of up to 18 months in amounts ranging from $1,000 to $50,000 in funding for projects, programs/services, advocacy efforts, and general operational needs to support people and communities that have been historically marginalized and are impacted by health inequities, such as:
- communities of color/indigenous communities, children and adults impacted by poverty, persons with disabilities, LGBTQIA+ persons, rural communities, refugees/new Americans, and older adults.
Eligible Applicants
Foundation is committed to partnering with non-profit organizations/entities of all sizes, grassroots and larger organizations of all types including health/human service or government agencies, faith communities, educational institutions, and civic organizations. Applicants must be a non-profit located in (or providing services within) one of the nine counties within their area of service: Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans, Seneca, Wayne, Wyoming, and Yates. Current and past grantees are eligible to apply; however, they are committed to an equitable disbursement of investment dollars.
For more information, visit GRHF.
