The Elevance Health Foundation is currently accepting applications to create equity in maternal healthcare by addressing racial disparities, biases, barriers to care, and health-related social needs.
Donor Name: Elevance Health Foundation
States: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/31/2023
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
The programs should drive specific, measurable maternal/child health outcomes.
Grant Program Goals
- Reduce pre-term birth rate
- Reduce maternal morbidity and mortality
- Reduce primary c-section rate
Types of Programs
- Elevance Health will consider proposals from qualified organizations across the U.S. However, at this time they are placing an emphasis on:
- National programs promoting scalable and sustainable systemic change.
- Local programs in California, Georgia, Indiana, New York, Ohio, and Virginia that support socially vulnerable populations with relevant interventions.
Process and/or Outcome Measures
- Include one or more of the areas:
- Health Equity
- Address implicit bias
- Support women of color
- Support vulnerable individuals
- Provide culturally/individually relevant interventions
- Promote accessibility (doulas/midwives, CBOs, CHWs)
- Whole-person Care
- Mental health (including domestic violence and substance abuse)
- Understanding of health-related social needs of population being served
- Interventions that are relevant to population being served
- Builds trust through programming that considers unique needs of women being served
- Collaborations that focus on meeting the needs of the local community.
- Health Equity
Project Period
1–3 years based on need.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must meet all of the following eligibility criteria for consideration:
- Show proof of status as a registered 501(c)3 charitable organization within one of the following subsections of the Internal Revenue Code:
- 170(B)(1)(a)(vi)—Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public
- 509(A)(2)—Organization that normally receives no more than one-third of its support from gross investment income and unrelated business income and at the same time more than one-third of its support from contributions, fees, and gross receipts related to exempt purposes
- 509(A)(3)—Organizations operated solely for the benefit of and in conjunction with other exempt organizations, typically other public charities
- 509(a)(3)—Type I
- 509(a)(3)—Type II
- 509(a)(3)—Type III functionally integrated
- Clearly define key measures and accountability standard, including key milestones; and
- Track and record long-term outcomes of program effectiveness and sustainable change.
For more information, visit Elevance Health Foundation.
