The Sisters Health Foundation is seeking applications for its Basic Needs/Direct Service Grants Program to assist organizations in providing direct material aid to populations and communities that are under-resourced in the foundation’s service area.
Donor Name: Sisters Health Foundation
State: Ohio, West Virginia
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/17/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
For example, grants may be awarded to organizations to provide food, clothing, personal care items, and/or emergency assistance for utility and rent payments for individuals in need.
The Basic Needs/Direct Service Grants Program may be a fit for your organization if you need funds to provide direct material aid; if, instead, you need funds for general operating support, equipment, or needs other than direct material aid.
Healthy Eating, Active Living
- Foundation support projects and strategies that prevent or manage chronic health conditions by promoting healthy eating and active living through one or more of the following:
- Education about the health benefits of a healthy weight, good nutrition, and physical activity
- Efforts that encourage and support behavior change
- Environmental changes that make healthy choices the easy choices
- Increased access and distribution of healthy foods
- Promotion and provision of opportunities for increased physical activity
- Coalition and cross-sector collaboration that promotes healthy eating and active living through policy or programmatic change.
Thriving Neighborhoods
- Foundation support projects and strategies that address improving neighborhood conditions where people live, learn, work, and play so that everyone has the ability to achieve their full health potential by:
- Improving the accessibility, affordability, and quality of health and health care
- Improving access to reliable transportation options so people can reach needed health and social services
- Improving access to stable and safe housing to foster a healthy living environment
- Supporting efforts to increase connections to community resources and to one another to foster an environment of social connectedness and belonging
- Improving access to high-quality early childhood programs including in-home programs designed to improve maternal and child health, parenting skills, and child development as well as programs supporting the health and well-being of the preK-12 student population
- Supporting coalition and cross-sector collaboration that improves neighborhood conditions and advances policy or programmatic change
Mental Health and Addiction
- Foundation support projects and strategies that address mental health and/or addiction. Related to mental health, they are interested in the area of health promotion and prevention. Related to addiction, they are interested in the areas of prevention, early intervention, and recovery support. They are especially interested in evidence-based programs focused on:
- Prevention activities such as education and stigma reduction of mental health and substance use disorders; trauma-informed care practices and supportive environments in schools, churches, workplaces, and other community settings; and provision of mental health services in schools and school-based health clinics
- Early intervention activities such as identifying and reducing individual risk factors for substance use, improving connections to needed services across various systems, and harm reduction efforts to reduce the number of deaths and the spread of disease
- Building the behavioral health workforce, including peer support specialists/peer recovery supporters, supporting high school and college pipeline programming, and encouraging careers in behavioral health
- Supporting people in recovery with positive supports such as housing, connections to employment, and transportation
- Coalition and cross-sector collaboration that advances policy or programmatic change
Funding Information
Grants range from $500 to a maximum of $5,000.
Eligibility Criteria
Your organization is eligible if all of the following are true:
- Your organization is a tax-exempt nonprofit under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or a public institution.
- Your organization has been in operation and has provided direct material aid for at least one year.
- Your efforts to respond to the basic needs of populations and communities that are under-resourced is already a demonstrated and integral part of the mission and activities of your organization.
- Your project will positively impact residents in one or more of the counties in service area
- West Virginia– Calhoun, Jackson, Pleasants, Ritchie, Roane, Tyler, Wirt, Wood
- Ohio- Athens, Meigs, Washington
For more information, visit Sisters Health Foundation.
