The Episcopal Health Foundation provides grants to support community-based clinics and community-based organizations to embrace the importance of early childhood brain development and to prioritize primary prevention work with low-income families beginning before or at the birth of their children.
Donor Name: Episcopal Health Foundation
State: Texas
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/20/2023
Details:
Goal
Build the foundation for a healthy life by investing in early childhood brain development.
Grant Strategies
- Building Brain Development-Providers: Support early childhood brain development
- Building Brain Development-Community Organizations: Community-based organizations.
Grant Priorities
Whether in the clinic or community setting, the Foundation prioritizes work that:
- Provides or connects expectant people and primary caregivers of children in the first three years of life to programs and resources that support “serve and return” knowledge and skills and other practices that lead to safe, stable, and nurturing relationships between caregiver and child
- Identifies instances of perinatal mood disorder or other behavioral health concerns such as substance use disorders in expectant people and primary caregivers of infants and toddlers and provides direct support or effective referrals to equitably address these concerns
- Uses evidence-based or promising screening and/or evaluation tools to observe or measure the health of the caregiver and child relationship
- Advances policy or other systems-change efforts that seek to scale and sustain early childhood brain development interventions or supports, including public health programs for families who are pregnant or parenting infants and toddlers, to ultimately achieve greater health equity across generations
As EHF continues work in this area, they are mindful of the many systems that impact families and their young children. While there is excellent and essential work taking place in the pre-K, formal and informal group childcare/early education, and child protection settings, EHF is not currently investing in those systems.
Outcome
Health systems and families implement best practices for early childhood brain development during pregnancy and the first 1,000 days of life.
Uses of funds
EHF funds can be used for technical assistance, planning, demonstration projects, matching funds (as long as the purpose of the match aligns with EHF’s goals and strategies), program evaluation, and general operating. All grants funded by EHF must be implemented within the 57-county service area of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas.
Eligibility Criteria
- EHF makes grants to nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations whose work relates directly to EHF’s vision, goals and strategies. To be eligible, an organization must have received an Internal Revenue Service Determination Letter indicating that it is an organization described in Section 501(c)(3) or 170(c) and is not a private foundation within the meaning of Section 509(a) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service Code
- All grants funded by EHF must be implemented within the 57-county service area of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas.
The Foundation does not Fund
- Grants to individuals
- Grants for school-based intervention except for school-based clinics providing comprehensive primary care
- Grants for capital projects except by invitation from EHF
- Grants for scholarships
- Grants for religious purposes
- Grants to public agencies for routine service provision
- Grants to retire operating deficits or debt
- Grants for parks, playgrounds, or camps
- Grants to provide services restricted to individuals living in a specific residential facility
- Grants for acute care, inpatient care or long-term care institutions
- Grants for emergency assistance organizations for routine service provision
- Grants for biomedical research
- Grants for child care, early education or after-school programs for routine service provision
- Grants to schools for core educational purposes
- Grants for disease- or condition-specific organizations for program, research or advocacy work
- Grants to underwrite conferences, luncheons, galas or fundraisers, or special events such as health fairs
- Direct or indirect support for candidates, political parties, 501(c)(4) organizations or Political Action Committees.
For more information, visit EHF.
