This funding opportunity is intended to help address disparities and ensure healthy birth outcomes for all families.
Donor Name: Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust
State: North Carolina
County: Forsyth County (NC)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/13/2022
Details:
Every expectant family in Forsyth County deserves a healthy birth outcome for their newborn– regardless of their race or economic status. That’s how children begin to thrive, right from the start. But too often, there are disparities in birth and maternal outcomes. At the state level, Black children are more than twice as likely as white children to die in their first year of life. In Forsyth County, Black and Hispanic infant mortality rates are higher than infant mortality rates for whites. This funding opportunity is intended to help address disparities and ensure healthy birth outcomes for all families.
The aim of the Great Expectations initiative is to ensure that children in Forsyth County enter kindergarten ready to learn and leave set for success in school and life. To achieve these aims it is critical to support healthy births and birth justice. The Trust works with partners statewide to promote Medicaid expansion and enrollment in Affordable Care Act insurance policies. They know that mothers gaining access to insurance before pregnancy improves birth outcomes. Studies show that Medicaid expansion states are better able to close disparities in infant mortality rates.
The purpose of this funding is to help grassroots nonprofits and networks develop sustainable organizations adept at skills such as action planning, communications, and data literacy to advance systems and policy change efforts that improve equitable health outcomes in identified regions. These efforts should also provide opportunities for grassroots organizations to lend community voice to state level initiatives, task forces, and advisory councils. The goal is to improve local systems, especially for systemically marginalized people and communities of color, and to create ongoing feedback loops between state and local health improvement efforts.
Eligibility Criteria
- Before applying, consider the following questions and requirements:
- Is your organization or work a good fit with the Trust?
- Are you located or operating in North Carolina?
- Does your work focus on improving quality of life and health for North Carolinians with low incomes?
- Do you primarily support populations experiencing poverty?
- These populations include: individuals living at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level; the uninsured; and those eligible for Medicaid and/or the free/reduced school lunch program.
- Are your clients (or focus population) residents of North Carolina? If yes, then you may fit their geographic criteria.
- Organizations the Trust WILL fund:
- Nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations
- Governmental entities
- Organizations the Trust WILL NOT fund:
- Individuals
- Faith-based organizations without 501(c)(3)
- Type III supporting organizations
- Organizations providing pass-through funds to an ineligible organization.
For more information, visit KBRCT.
