The Healthy Births, Healthy Communities funding opportunity seeks to increase regional capacity in Central Texas to provide culturally responsive, community-informed perinatal health support within and beyond clinics to improve maternal health and birth outcomes.
Donor Name: St. David’s Foundation
State: Texas
County: Bastrop County (TX), Caldwell County (TX), Hays County (TX), Travis County (TX), Williamson County (TX)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/18/2025
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
Foundation aims to resource trusted, community-based organizations and networks that are advancing culturally relevant, community-led solutions that serve pregnant women, especially pregnant women of color, who face systemic barriers to quality care and healthy birth outcomes.
Regional capacity means that Central Texas has the infrastructure and resources needed to support mothers facing the greatest health needs during the perinatal period. Building regional capacity requires strong, committed organizations working together across diverse roles—including direct services, advocacy and policy, community organizing, and systems coordination. This funding opportunity is designed to strengthen trust, foster collaboration, and support cross-sector partnerships among community-based organizations, healthcare providers, advocacy and policy organizations, and individuals with lived experience.
Foundation is interested in supporting organizations that:
- Focus on pregnant and postpartum women, especially women of color, in our five-county area, particularly those in the highest need zip codes based on Health Equity Zone data.
- Work within a specific area or areas in the maternal health ecosystem — including direct services — either clinical or community-based, advocacy and policy change, community organizing, and systems coordination and integration.
- Are community-led or community-rooted; meaning that decisions and actions of the organization are driven by the needs, voices, and interests of community members who are most impacted by maternal health and birth inequities.
- Work in collaboration with other partners to improve the maternal health ecosystem — including clinical and non-clinical care — based on the awareness that an interconnected web of systems and factors in Central Texas influence a woman’s health during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period.
- Work with cultural competence to address the health needs and non-medical drivers of health that impact disparities in maternal and birth equity.
- Use both quantitative data and lived experience to help inform and measure its approach to addressing disparities in birth and maternal health outcomes.
Funding Information
The Foundation expects to award up to a total of $7M for this open call.
Grant Period
Each awardee will receive a flexible, one-time, 24-month grant.
Eligibility Criteria
Foundation encourage applications from a wide range of organizations that are rooted in and trusted by the communities they serve. This includes organizations that are:
- Operating in one or more of the following Central Texas counties: Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis, or Williamson.
- A tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (with a valid determination at the time of LOI submission), a public or government entity (county, municipality, health department, public university, public school), or using a fiscal sponsor that is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization.
- Serving historically marginalized pregnant and postpartum women, especially women of color, in Central Texas.
- Demonstrating a practice of working in collaboration with partners to improve the maternal health ecosystem — including clinical and/or non-clinical care partners.
For more information, visit St. David’s Foundation.
