The Colorado Springs Health Foundation is accepting applications for its Fostering Collaboration Grant Program.
Donor Name: Colorado Springs Health Foundation
State: Colorado
County: El Paso County (CO), Teller County (CO)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: All Time
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
CSHF defines collaboration as: Multiple organizations, perspectives and disciplines formed and working together in pursuit of a common goal that could not be achieved individually. Collaboration is bigger than partnerships; it is more than a memorandum of understanding.
Collaboration is best used to address complex problems through systems change. It is difficult, resource-intensive, and time-consuming. As such, it is an approach that should be pursued sparingly and thoughtfully, only when the challenge warrants this level of investment. Principles of collective impact, when applied, have been shown to improve a collaboration’s ability to achieve real and measurable progress.
Focus Areas
Colorado Springs Health Foundation has identified six funding focus areas. These areas align with the Foundation’s mission, community need, community and stakeholder input, and the population health framework described above. Colorado Springs Health Foundation prioritizes high-need and underresourced populations.
- Healthcare access
- Suicide prevention
- Trauma prevention or healing
- Food
- Physical activity
- Transitional or affordable housing.
Grant Period
Three years.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicant organizations must be one of the following:
- Tax-exempt (501(c)3)
- Operating under the fiscal agency of a tax-exempt organization
- Tax-supported like a school or local/state government
- Applicant organizations must serve either El Paso and/or Teller Counties, Colorado.
- Grant requests must align with Colorado Springs Health Foundation’s mission and its funding focus areas, described below.
- In general, Colorado Springs Health Foundation will consider all types of grant requests (general operating, program, capital, capacity-building, etc.).
- Grant size (amount approved) varies significantly. Colorado Springs Health Foundation prefers not to provide sole, majority and/or continuous funding for a request.
- An organization with a current, open general operating, program/project or capital grant award may submit another general operating, program/project or capital grant request only after it has spent down its current general operating, program/project or capital grant, submitted its final grant report and the report has been approved.
- An organization may be awarded no more than one general operating, program/project or capital grant request per calendar year assuming it has no current general operating, program/project or capital grant open.
Ineligibility
Colorado Springs Health Foundation does not support:
- For-profit organizations
- Individuals
- Requests for annual appeals, membership drives, fundraising events, political candidates or lobbying efforts
- Requests from re-granting organizations for their own grantmaking activities. Note, this does not apply to collaborative funding efforts among funders.
For more information, visit CSHF.
