The shift to Medicaid managed care and new value-based care arrangements in the state could improve health outcomes for financially vulnerable residents or widen already steep racial and geographic disparities. To ensure that families with low incomes are not harmed as payment models change, the Trust is seeking applications to support efforts to educate residents and promote beneficiary feedback and information sharing among stakeholders.
Donor Name: Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust
State: North Carolina
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/13/2022
Details:
Organizations engaging directly with underserved populations can inform them about their rights and options, as well as identify barriers faced by patients as new payment models are implemented. To inform systemic improvements it is important that patient experiences are shared regularly with stakeholders such as health care providers, insurers, state agencies, and nonprofits. These connections should form a robust feedback network where people are informed of changes in Medicaid and stakeholders hear about the challenges faced by enrollees accessing care. This feedback loop can spur fixes that facilitate health improvement for residents with low incomes.
The Trust may support several approaches to meeting this goal. Applicants could include, but are not limited to, advocacy or legal service organizations, groups with experience convening or organizing Medicaid beneficiaries, or other nonprofits with expertise in Medicaid and patient engagement. The purpose of this opportunity is to directly engage the families most impacted by Medicaid transformation.
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.
Goal
Leverage payment reforms and value-based care implementation to narrow systemic racial and ethnic inequities in health outcomes.
Strategy
- Influence state-level policies that impact residents with low-incomes. This may include centering the voices and needs of residents and communities that have been historically marginalized.
- Conduct broad-based communications, community education, and advocacy efforts that advance goals.
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.
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