The Field Work initiative seeks to uncover innovative ideas that improve mental health in rural communities.
Donor Name: LOR Foundation
State: Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Wyoming
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/06/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Field Work is LOR’s search for innovative answers to persistent problems that plague rural communities. The goal with each Field Work research initiative is to get money quickly into the hands of the people on the ground—in communities where LOR works or in other rural parts of the region—who have innovative ideas. This year, LOR is focusing on mental health.
Funding Information
LOR invites people with creative ideas about how to improve mental health and social well-being in rural places to apply for between $1,000 and $25,000 in funding.
Grant Period
Projects must be completed within a year of funding and must include a commitment and plan for reporting learnings.
Eligible Projects
- LOR is looking for innovative projects that improve mental health and/or social well-being, using an innovative approach, in at least one of the three areas:
- Preventing and responding to mental health concerns
- Increasing access to and/or awareness of mental health and social well-being services
- Deepening meaningful social connections for the specific purpose of improving mental health outcomes in a community.
- Each project must accomplish the following:
- Be designed as a discrete learning project that answers a specific question about what is preventing good mental health in the community or what will improve it.
- Spark local change in a rural place. Projects must identify how the project will improve mental health and/or the social well-being of members of their community.
- Be innovative. LOR seeks novel projects that introduce creative approaches to improving rural mental health and social well-being.
- Produce a measurable result in one year. Projects should be designed with measurements that allow project leaders to understand whether the project was successful.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants include individuals, local governments, hospitals, nonprofits, for-profit organizations, chambers of commerce, libraries, schools, and other organizations in Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, or Wyoming. Mental health practitioners are welcome to apply as are service-minded community members who have innovative solutions. Applicants should submit only one project proposal; multiple proposals from a single applicant will not be accepted.
- Organizations awaiting a 501(c)(3) determination letter and not-for-profit organizations that are not 501(c)(3)s, including 501(c)(4), 501(c)(5), 501(c)(6), 501(c)(7), 501(c) (19) are eligible for funding. These entities include social clubs, associations, business leagues, social welfare groups engaged in lobbying, and chambers of commerce.
For more information, visit LOR.
