The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas (BCBSTX) is seeking applications for its 2023-2024 Blue Impact Grant Program.
Donor Name: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas (BCBSTX)
State: Texas
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/03/2023
Details:
Focus Areas
This year, they are realigning their community investments into five newly redesigned areas of focus to help better support its umbrella mission of expanding access to care. The new community support focus areas more directly target the social determinants of health (SDOH). The areas of focus are:
- Economic Opportunity and Stability: Addressing issues such as poverty, removing barriers to employment, providing good jobs, and upskilling.
- Nutrition: Supporting efforts to decrease hunger and increase access to nutritional food.
- Neighborhood and Built Environment: Focusing on affordable healthy housing, access to transportation, and access to physical activity.
- Locally Defined Health Solutions: Addressing hyperlocal health and human service needs.
- Optimal Health Outcomes: Helping close gaps in care, specifically around six priority areas: immunizations; diabetes care; cardiovascular care; behavioral health; early detection cancer screening and maternal & infant health.
Eligibility Criteria
The criteria required for review of all grant proposals include:
- The community lead organization must be a nonprofit, tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization.
- The community lead organization must have the financial capacity and qualified staff to oversee and manage the project. For this request for proposal (RFP), “financial capacity” is defined as organizations operating a current annual budget of $2 million or more.
- The program must be measurable and demonstrate how the goals will be met as defined in the grant proposal.
For more information, visit BCBSTX.
