The New York Health Foundation (NYHealth) is launching a statewide Request for Proposals (RFP) to support projects that advance maternal health equity for Black New Yorkers and other New Yorkers of color.
Donor Name: New York Health Foundation
State: New York
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/10/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
Funded projects will address racial disparities through high-quality primary care, preventive care, and/or community linkages to care. They will meaningfully engage communities and patients.
This RFP will support projects that advance maternal health equity for Black New Yorkers and other New Yorkers of color through high-quality primary care, preventive care, and/or community linkages to care. Funded projects will meaningfully engage communities and patients.
The funding opportunity will support projects that identify racial disparities in maternal health care and outcomes, use primary and preventive care to reduce those disparities, and measure progress to improve racial health equity. Project activities can occur before, during, and/or up to one year after pregnancy.
Applicants should identify a specific maternal health disparity in the community or clinical setting that will be addressed through the project. Examples of projects that NYHealth may support include, but are not limited to:
- Integrating postpartum check-ups into pediatric visits.
- Improving communications about substance use disorder screening to reduce stigma and family separation fears.
- Using telehealth or remote patient monitoring to supplement in-person prenatal and postpartum care.
- Creating or strengthening clinical partnerships with maternal home visiting programs.
- Activating neighborhood, faith-based, and grassroots networks to help women and birthing people access and navigate primary and preventive care services.
- Conducting technical assistance or advocacy to connect community-based doulas with primary care and help them bill for doula services.
- Testing new models of interprofessional consultation on perinatal mood disorders.
- Developing linguistically appropriate clinical, outreach, or advocacy services.
Funding Information
NYHealth anticipates awarding approximately $1 million across 5–8 proposals, with individual projects funded up to $200,000.
Grant Period
Projects will range from 12–24 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Organizations: Organizations must operate and be based in New York State. Applicants may partner with non-New York-based organizations if they bring essential resources or expertise.
- Eligible entities include nonprofits, for-profit organizations, government agencies, and academic institutions. Organizations may conduct clinical care, community-based services, patient advocacy, policy analysis, public health services, or research. Both past NYHealth grantees and new organizations are welcome to apply. Individuals are not eligible.
- Both clinical providers and CBOs are eligible to apply. In clinical-CBO partnerships, competitive projects will include project team leadership from both CBOs and health care providers, demonstrated buy-in from both institutions, a history of collaboration, and financial support provided to CBOs (if CBOs are not the lead applicant).
Selection Criteria
Projects must:
- Address racial/ethnic maternal health inequities and serve predominantly communities of color, with a focus on the communities, regions, and neighborhoods with the greatest disparities.
- Provide or enhance primary care, preventive care, and/or community linkages to care.
- Meaningfully engage communities and patients.
For more information, visit NYHealth.
