The Community Health Improvement grants are made to community coalitions working together to address major public health concerns.
Donor Name: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation
State: Louisiana
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/01/2025
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation (Louisiana Blue Foundation) is committed to improving the health and wellbeing of Louisianans. They know that grassroots coalitions are the key to making long-term changes in the trends of Louisiana’s overall health. That’s why they’re challenging communities across Louisiana to build effective teams to tackle their most pressing health problems.
Each community’s top health challenges are different, and Community Health Improvement grant proposals may cover a wide range of issues in healthcare. In some places, addressing obesity, heart disease or diabetes may be the most pressing need in community health. In others, greater challenges may lie in mental health or disparities in access, quality or cost.
Community Health Improvement grants will help Louisiana communities reshape their environments to support healthy living and improve wellbeing for all.
Funding Information
Grants range from $250,000 to $1 million over three years (full awards will be made in one-third increments per each year of the project upon meeting annual performance benchmarks.
Eligibility Criteria
Per the Board of Directors, foundation does not fund the following in any circumstances:
- Organizations that discriminate in their provision of goods and services based on race, color, religion, national origin, disability, sex, age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or marital status
- Organizations that do not have a 501(c)3 or appropriate non-profit designation and/ or are not in good standing with the Louisiana Secretary of State
- Research and development of medicines and medical devices, including trials and therapeutic related efforts
- Individual or individual fundraisers, athletic teams, pageants, profit making enterprises or other efforts where the aim is not specifically and explicitly working to improve the health and lives of the people of Louisiana
- General operating/programmatic requests from existing non-profits, recognizing that the grants are designed to be short-term in nature.
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