Healthy Lakewood Foundation Systems-Change Grants provide funding to identify, learn, and address upstream conditions that impact health outcomes and create disparities for Lakewood residents.
Donor Name: Healthy Lakewood Foundation
State: Ohio
City: Lakewood
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/30/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
Simply put, systems-change proposals seek to change the status quo by utilizing data, coalitions/collaborations, policy proposals, community input, and/or evidence-based methods to improve a social determinant(s) of health.
Funding opportunities are available for those organizations that prioritize advancing health equity and working with populations that are marginalized in Lakewood. Applicants may request funding to support the following initiatives:
- Strengthening local collaborations
- Research
- Advocacy (within IRS guidelines for 501(c)(3) organizations)
- Policy reforms
- Voter/community education
- Improving caretaking systems for vulnerable populations
- Community engagement efforts to inform public decision-making
- Capacity building
Systems-Change Grant funding supports programming that addresses one or more of these specific social determinants of health:
- Food security and access to affordable high-quality food.
- Social support and community engagement networks.
- Access to early childhood education programs and services.
- Affordable and safe housing, access to transportation, and safety in and access to public spaces within Lakewood.
The following populations are prioritized for this funding:
- Low-income families with an emphasis on single-parent heads of households
- Children (ages 0-5)
- Youth (ages 6-18)
- Low-income older adults (ages 60 and over)
- Immigrants and refugees
Funding Information
Funding will vary between $10,000 and $75,000. Funding may be requested for up to two years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible grant seeking organizations do not need to be headquartered in Lakewood. However, HLF will only support programs in which Lakewood residents or Lakewood-based institutions are either key beneficiaries or directly served.
- HLF will not ask for an accounting of each individual served but rather assumes that the applicant’s proposed program seeks to specifically serve certain identified populations in Lakewood while recognizing that a range of people may be served generally.
- Applications must be submitted by a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that is in good standing with the IRS. Projects initiated by groups without 501(c)(3) status may be supported through a fiscal sponsor.
Certain criteria will guide HLF’s review of the proposals:
- Promotes Equity: Efforts will mitigate disparities (ex. health, economic, racial, gender, etc.)
- Leadership/Organizational Capacity: There is current capacity or expanded capacity written into the proposal for the effort.
- Immediacy: The effort can be realistically initiated or progressed (within the next year).
- Stakeholder Support: There is public/stakeholder support for the effort.
- Investment: The funding request is reasonable for the work proposed.
- Complimentary: There are partners or existing efforts to engage on this issue.
- Impact: There is community benefit from the effort.
For more information, visit HLF.
